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Women's basketball team hosts nationally televised game against Tec
By Philip W. Peter
Staff writer
Coming off of a 38-point loss is hardly
where a team wants to be when they are to go
up against the No.7 team in the nation. But
that is exactly where the Texas A&M Women’s
Basketball Team (6-15, 2-9) is coming into
Saturday’s nationally-televised game against
Texas Tech (17-4, 10-1).
Texas Tech is coming off of a 79-63 home
victory over Oklahoma in which Alicia Thomp
son, the conference’s leading scorer at 22
points per game, scored a game-high 34 points.
The 6-foot-1 post player averages 9 rebounds
and has been unstoppable in the paint.
Texas A&M Coach Candi Harvey knows that
Thompson will get on the boards but does not
want her to be able to have a career night.
“Nobody has matched up with Alicia Thomp
son for four years,” Harvey said. “But what you
have to shoot for there is not letting a player cre
ate more offense than they typically do.”
Harvey said she will use different defenses
to keep Thompson from getting into her game.
“Right now, were just trying
to get everyone contributing
and playing their best.”
Tracey Lange
Assistant Women's Coach
“You can’t let a great player get into a com
fort zone,” Harvey said. “You have to keep them
a little bit out of their rhythm by throwing dif
ferent things at them and not giving them the
same look every time. We haven’t been consis
tently smart enough to do that.”
“On paper, we don’t match up well, but we
need to make adjustments as a team during
the course of the game. That is what we need
to get better at. Some of that is just maturity
and learning how to maintain focus.”
Offensively, Assistant Coach Tracy Lange
said Texas A&M is concentrating on effort.
“We have a pretty balanced team,” Lange
said. “Right now, we’re just trying to get every
one contributing and playing their best.”
One factor Texas A&M is hoping for is a large
turn out for the game.
“We played against Texas (Saturday), a team
who had one more win in conference than we
had,” Harvey said. “They had 8,000 people in
there to our 1,200. We’re not talking about a
team that’s 9-3 in conference. We’re talking
about a team that was 3-7. You’re just wrong if
you think that’s not a factor.”
The game starts at 1 p.m. at G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
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The Aggies will be led by senior Carlos Tori when they face the Louisiana
State University Tigers in Baton Rouge today.
By Al Lazarus
Staff writer
The Texas A&M Men’s and
Women’s Tennis Teams will square
off with the Louisiana State Univer
sity Tigers today and Saturday in Ba
ton Rouge, a place with a reputation
for being tough on visiting teams.
The men’s team plays at 2 p.m. today,
and the women will be in action Sat
urday afternoon at 1 p.m.
LSU regularly draws more than a
thousand spectators to its home
matches.
A&M Women’s Team Coach Bob
by Kleinecke said the large crowds
do a good job of making their pres
ence known.
“They’ve had some great crowds
when we’ve played them before,” Klei
necke said. “The fans are up there
yelling and hollering at you, and I’ve
seen some matches turned around
when players lose their focus because
of the crowd.”
The 38th-ranked women’s team
(4-0) is coming off a 6-3 victory over
No. 31 University of Houston on
Wednesday.
The match at LSU will be the Ag
gies’ first road match of the spring.
Last year, they defeated LSU 6-3 when
the Tigers came to College Station.
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team heads into its match today
with a 2-0 record. Its victories came
against Abilene Christian and Rice,
who are both solid teams, but nei
ther comes close to LSU in terms of
talent and depth.
Men’s team Coach Tim Cass said
despite LSU’s high ranking (No. 6) and
strong fan base, he doesn’t expect his
young team to be intimidated.
“We know they (LSU) are a good
team with a strong tradition, but
we’re more concerned with taking
care of the things that we can control,
and giving ourselves the best chance
to go in there and win,” Cass said.
Shuon Madden, part of this stel
lar class, said that although he has
yet to play a college match in front
of a large opposing crowd, his past
experience might have prepared
him for this situation.
“My junior tennis gave me good
experience in playing in front of a
large crowd, so I don’t really get in
timidated,” Madden said.
Playing at LSU may prove to be a
tough test for the Aggies, but Madden
said the pressure is not just on them.
“Obviously it takes a good team
to be 6th-ranked, but I like our
chances,” he said. “There will be a
lot of pressure on their side, be
cause we have very little to lose and
a lot to win.”
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Men’s golf team
to play in Hawaii
The 25th-ranked Texas A&M Men’s
Golf Team will start the spring season
in style, as they go to Hawaii to com
pete in the Taylor Made/Big Island In
tercollegiate Tournament in Kona,
Hawaii. The Aggies will be represented
by senior All-America Miguel del Angel,
juniors Ty Cox and Ryan Palmer and
freshmen Ryan Tull and Casey Cronin.
Del Angel was the statistical
leader this fall with a 71.71 stroke
average. Cox had a 73.73 followed
by Tull at 75.75 and Palmer at
76.00. Cronin will be getting his feet
wet for the first time this weekend.
“We’re excited about getting our
spring season started,” said Coach
Bob Ellis.
The tournament will be a 54-hole
total, with the rounds on Friday and
Sunday played on the par 72
Waikaloa Kings Golf Course. Satur
day’s round will be played at Waikaloa
Beach Golf Course, a par 70 course.
“Miguel had an exceptional fall
but as a team we need to be more
consistent,” Ellis said. “This is a very
strong field and we will be playing on
a couple of tremendous golf cours
es. We need to play well and get
some momentum going early.”
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