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Sports
Page 7 • Tuesday, November 3, 1998
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A&M finally was able to play its game against
as on Wednesday after the game was resched-
d because of rain on two other occasions.
The game featured scattered showers, but
continued.
The Aggies’ game against the University of
lahoma scheduled for Sunday was canceled
:ause of rain.
Since OU was already mathematically elim-
ted from qualifying for the Big 12 Tourna-
nt and A&M had already locked up the
rd seed, it was decided the game would not
rescheduled.
ital Domination
With the win over the Longhorns, A&M
ped its all-time record in the series to 9-0. The
ies outshot the ‘Horns 24-6 and also led in
ner kicks 7-0.
|ln the series, A&M has outscored Texas 35-4.
e closest Texas came to defeating A&M was in
[94 when the Longhorns lost 2-1 in overtime.
a hot streak
With the win over OSU, the Aggies increased
ir winning streak to four games.
The Aggies won six of their last seven games,
eonly loss came at the hands of No. 2 Uni-
hity of Santa Clara.
|The four-game streak is the Aggies’ longest
nning streak of the season.
■ ironically, the Aggies rode a four-game win
ing streak into the conference tournament
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see Soccer on Page 8.
Reed this: Basketball begins
Women’s team kicks offseason with new coach, friendly confines
ROBERT MCKAY/The Battalion
Forward Kera Alexander turns to the
basket on forward Jennifer Burrows.
BY MICHAEL TAGLIENTI
The Battalion
Tonight marks a new era in Texas A&M
Women’s Basketball as a new coach and
a new arena will be introduced to the pub
lic when the A&M Women’s Basketball
Team takes on Almliesl Weis.
Almliesl Weis is a club team from Aus
tria that lost in the quarterfinals of the
Ronchetti Cup.
The Ronchetti Cup is to women’s bas
ketball in Europe what the WNBA playoffs
are to women’s basketball in America.
Peggie Gillom will coach her first game
as a head coach when she leads the Ag
gies into competition tonight.
Gillom spent the last season and a half
as an assistant under Van Chancellor with
the WNBA-champion Houston Comets.
Before her tenure in the WNBA, Gillom
spent 16 years as an assistant under Chan
cellor at the University of Mississippi.
Gillom said she hopes to see positive
change in the team during heir first ex
hibition match.
“I’m hoping to see improvement on
some of the things
we’ve worked on in
practice,” Gillom said.
“We just want to see
what we need to work
on and improve upon.
“Some of the things
that we’ve worked on
we think we are good at,
but we’ve been going
against each other so it
will be good to see what we will do
against another opponent.”
Gillom said she was pleasantly sur
prised by the play of some of the Aggies
in preseason practice.
“Kerrie Patterson is a better shooter
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than I thought she would be. Prissy
Sharpe is a rebounder and scorer and is
great at both ends of the court. Kera
Alexander plays hard, she gets everyone
else fired up and fires herself up.
“Amy Yates is a pure shooter and Kim
Tarkington can play 40 minutes a game.
We’ve got a lot of weapons we just have
to utilize them in a game.”
Junior guard Amy Yates said the new
coaches bring a positive attitude to the team.
“I think these coaches all bring some
thing really good to the game,” Yates
said. “They are positive, they know ex
actly what they are talking about, they
are good teachers, and we’re learning
every day from them.
“I think the things we do in practice
will benefit us in the game and help us out
tomorrow night.”
Tip off against Almliesl Weis will be at
7 p.m. at Reed Arena.
Junior Lisa Dingwall serves aces — and excitement
BY AL LAZARUS
The Battalion
A shrill voice breaks through the crisp
air on the Texas A&M campus.
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” it
yells, dripping with incredulity. “I don’t
believe this!”
The voice belongs to junior Lisa
Dingwall, and the Texas A&M
Women’s Tennis Team player makes
sure it is heard by everyone around as
she scolds herself after making an un
forced error during a match.
“She’s never dull,” A&M coach Bob
by Kleinecke said. “Good or bad, she’s
always going to make things happen,
and that’s why she’s a good competitor. ”
The Aggies’ No. 1 player earned a rep
utation during her first two years as a
fiery competitor who was not afraid to
show her emotions on the court.
Dingwall said her on-court demeanor
is no act.
“If it happens, me getting excited, it’s
just because my real emotions are com
ing out,” Dingwall said. “I’m not going
to do it because people expect me to.”
Dingwall said the crowd’s expecta
tions during her first two years with the
Aggies concerned her to the point where
her performance was adversely affected.
“My freshman year, I played more
for the fans, and my sophomore year
that kind of affected me because I
knew that’s what people expected,”
she said. “Now, I just try to go out and
play my game.”
Kleinecke said he has noticed Ding
wall’s new playing philosophy.
“Over the time she’s been here I’ve re
ally seen a maturity in her,” he said. “I’m
excited about her future because she’s a
little more in tune with herself now, and
I think it’s showing in her game.
“All along she’s had the ability to put
the ball away, but if her game was off,
it was a matter of whether she had the
confidence to stay out and work
through the points.”
see Dingwall on Page 8.
ROBERT MCKAY/The Battalion
Junior Lisa Dingwall said, while she plays a vocal game, her maturity has come around.
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