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e Battalion Sports Page 7 • Friday, December 4, 1998 tatwncom : problem wascof Endeavour's thi ire units. Tin id just longenoujl. rm, then returned engineers were iblem but werecoi not reoccur. eavour's flight te because of a sia, one of NAS: .ling the internal . The one-day about $600,00( d overtime pay. ard Endeavom nation compo ■an-made conni iy named Unity vill use the sin capture the Rtn ach it to Unity alkers will hoof al connections! n the two cylim landrails and toe A&M faces KSU in high-stakes championship Ag women look for wins in NY tourney BY JEFF SCHMIDT The Battalion \ releai 7 watnl 1INGTON (AP)- tion Administrac; red airlines to fel ■r tanks on Boeirtl nga piece in theM ow off sparks wbl igency also ordt] MIKE FUENTES/The Battalion Quarterback Randy McCown dives for a touchdown pinst Texas. McCown will not play against KSU. Contrary to popular belief, Texas A&M’s 26-24 loss to the University of Texas last Fri day was not the end of the Aggies’ season. In fact, their season could end with a bang as the Aggies (10-2, 7- 1) travel to St. Louis to play the No. 2 Kansas State Uni versity (11-0, 8-0) Saturday. Kickoff is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. “Our season’s not over,” senior safety Rich Coady said after playing Texas. “We still have a chance to win the Big 12 Championship.” “We’re happy to have an other game,” coach R. C. Slocum said. “Plus, we’re playing the No. 1 team in the country according to the col lege head football coaches. That’s a challenge in itself. Another one is to win the con ference title outright. Another motivating factor is to go to a Bowl Championship Series bowl game. So there’s a bunch of motivating factors and it’s a high-stakes game.” The winner of the game automatically earns a spot in the BCS. Another A&M loss would likely send the Aggies to the Alamo Bowl. However, an A&M victory would prob ably receive a trip to New Or leans for the Sugar Bowl. “That’s what this is all about,” senior tight end Dan Campbell said. “The Alamo Bowl’s fine, but you want to be at the best bowl you can. ” Slocum said A&M needs to put aside the Texas loss and focus on K-State. “When you first see the team on Sunday, everybody still has the mullygrubs and (is) feeling sorry for themselves,” he said. “But I think it’s really positive that you can’t focus on that very long because you have a big game in front of you. “All the news accounts you read are about the game, so you have something else to focus on and I think with out a doubt that we will be able to do that. By the time we get to the game there will be a real excitement about playing this game. ” Kansas State enters the game needing a blowout vic tory to solidify a spot in the national championship game. The Wildcats, on the outside looking in, are cur rently ranked third in the BCS poll behind the University of Tennessee and UCLA. K-State dominated its competition this season, scoring an average of 49 points a game, good enough to lead the country. The Wildcats’ headliner is quarterback Michael Bishop, a product of Willis High School and Blinn College. see Football on Page 9. ggies take on Temple in NCAA first round BY ABBY LITTLE The Battalion [It’s go time. ■The 18th-ranked Texas A&M ing the 747-i Volleyball Team will play the Tem- with unique i: pie University Owls, marking i their wings, toiBm’s sixth-straight appearance in nk in the bast It NCAA tournament, and its 10th ail for the sameBpearance since the tournament’s investigators be! inc eption in 1981. i that downed IB It is Temple’s second appearance 96 was caused h in the NCAA Tournament. They lost pty center fuel:: to the University of Michigan in the quick to say thatiBst round last year. Temple is 0-1 not caused bfiBainst teams in the field, after los- a the order. ing to Georgetown University, 3-2, ders applyimr in their home opener. The Owls gistered 74's.Learned a spot in the tournament by ?s. Worldwide;''sweeping Virginia Tech to win the h jumbo jets. Iff' not apply to tL ign aviation 1 U.S. Atlantic 10 Conference tournament. Temple is led by Ahna Kovaci, a sophomore outside hitter from Al bania. She leads Temple with 3.16 kills and 3.49 digs per game. “They are usually very athletic,” said coach Laurie Corbelli. “And they have a very strong outside hit ter from Albania and a couple of other players who are internation al players. So it will be a kind of new look for us, but I think that given the schedule we’ve played, a nice tough schedule all season long, that we’ll be prepared to meet whatever they have to offer. ” The Aggies have never lost a first round match while Corbelli has coached. “We know that they are a top- ranked team with lots of seniors on their court,” Corbelli said. “They have four returning starters and have one of the top hitting per centages in the nation. However, we are playing really well at this time, our attack is really confident, our defense is improving and the girls have had some really great practices this week. ” The Aggies will be led in the tournament by Big 12 Freshman of the Year freshman setter Jenna Moscovic, and Big 12 first-team se lection senior outside hitter Stacy Sykora. Junior middle blocker Am ber Woolsey was selected to the second team, despite leading the Big 12 with 1.81 blocks per game. The Aggies are riding a season- high eight match winning streak. The Aggies are 7-7 against teams in the tournament, six of those losses from rival teams in the Big 12. The other loss was against Pacific. The Aggies have advanced to the Sweet Sixteen tournament twice, last year and in 1995. If the Aggies beat Temple they will play against the winner of the University of Southern California versus Maryland Baltimore County game on Saturday night in the final of the Regional. USC is the No. 4 seed in the East Regional and is 8- 4 against teams in the tournament field. They have missed the tour nament only twice. The Aggies play tonight in Los An geles at 5 p.m. at USC’s Lyon Center. BY MICHAEL TAGLIENTI The Battalion For most, the holiday season is a time of getting together with loved ones, eating lots of food and celebrating another year gone by. For basketball teams, the holi day season is a time for tourna ments that take place from New York to New Orleans. The Texas A&M Women’s Bas ketball Team will be competing in its second tournament when they travel to New York to compete in the Big Apple Classic. The Aggies will take on the University of Massachusetts Sat urday in the first round of the tournament. The winner of that game will take on the winner of the Manhat tan/Colgate game in the champi onship round of the tournament. The Aggies started off the sea son 0-2 but have won two of their last three games to improve their record to 2-5. Junior forward Prissy Sharpe is leading th^ Aggies with 22.8 points and 13.2 rebounds per game. She scored 20.7 points a game in the Cotton Bowl Classic last week leading the Aggies to a second place finish in the tournament and earning herself a spot on the All- Tournament Team. Sharpe said the team is starting to come together. “We’re starting to mold as a team, starting to get used to the coaching staff and what they want,” Sharpe said. Sharpe said the trip to New York will give the team a chance to get to know each other better. “It is just a chance to get to know all the new team members, and how they act and react with each other,” Sharpe said. Coach Peggi Gillom said after a week off, the team is ready for another game. “We are just ready for another game,” Gillom said. “The team is getting to know each other better and learning to do what we want them to do.” Gillom said while A&M will be facing two challenging teams, the Aggies’ goal for the weekend is a tournament championship. “We hope to come away 2-0, Gillom said. “These are both good teams we will be playing, but we are not looking for anything other than 2-0 and a tournament cham pionship. We hope to win this tour nament. This is a really big tourna ment for us to win and it will show people that we mean business.” From New York, the Aggies will travel to New Orleans to take on TUlane, Thesday at 7 p.m. MIKE FUENTES/The Battalion Prissy Sharpe, the current team scoring leader, shoots in a preseason game. Send 779 e, you car? ret. It’s the phone call. ■cess, step d to make ticipating i nd. And PrimeCo Introduces The Bonus Pack: Five Easy Steps To Better Wireless. 100/$24‘ 99 ANYTIME MINUTES" Get a 100% digital QCP-1920 phone. Get 200 Bonus Anytime Minutes! Get a car power charger, free. No long-term contract required. Take it all home in one box, only $99. 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