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Hie Battallie Battalion Sports Page 7 • Tuesday, November 3, 1998 uccessftggies riding inning streak lecture Si otonly his persoi ifessional choi o his success his company 1c ployees. ?l Whittington, marketing forMS] Lecture Series, will have one :his semester as ivoto three next the No. 25 Texas A&M Soccer Team went 2-0 last week with wins over the Univer sity of kas and llahoma |te Uni- rsity. IM de led the ion ‘dnesday said they are pis nghorns attiring the CEOt t Airlines He: ind CEO of Disitj Aggie jsner. ccer Complex. A&M traveled to Stillwater, igton said lecture ' a - 011 Friday and defeated the Cowboys 5- st about an ho. dl 16 Agg' es are now 12-6 on the season and llowed by a recel 1 in the Big 12. give students I, speak one-on-c:l' n ' ra ' n ’ 8° awa V oeaker. is Library 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 tyear. 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 YATES 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. 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