e 13 • Thursday, February 4, 1999
Sports
The Battalion
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STAFF AND WIRE REPORT
It is hard to win a game when you can
not hold on to the ball.
The Texas A&M Men’s Basketball learned
that lesson the hard way Wednesday, as the
University of Texas used 30 Aggie turnovers
to rack up a 71-59 victory in Austin.
The Aggies (9-10, 2-7 Big 12) turned the
ball over nine times before scoring their
first bucket with four minutes gone by and
shot only 42.9 percent from the field in the
first half, but they trailed by only four
points at the break.
However, four points was as close as
A&M would get, as Texas (13-9, 8-1 Big 12)
used their defensive pressure to force bad
decisions from the Aggie ballhandlers and
produce fast-break buckets.
The Longhorns’ defensive attack was led
by junior guard Ivan Wagner, who tied BJ.
Tyler’s school record for steals in a game
with 10. Sophomore center Chris Mihm
pulled down 17 rebounds, 10 on the defen
sive end alone, and added 11 points for his
seventh consecutive double-double. Kris
Klack also scored in double digits with 12.
For the Aggies, junior guard Clifton Cook
led the way with 17 points and three assists
but was forced into 11 turnovers. Michael
Schmidt added 11 points and five rebounds.
Shanne Jones, A&M’s No. 2 scorer, pulled
down four rebounds but was held scoreless
in limited minutes because of foul trouble.
High scorer Gabe Muoneke, who fin
ished the game with 19 points, scored the
game’s first five points with a pair of
jumpers, one from three-point territory.
A&M Men's
Game Leaders
Points:
Clifton Cook (17)
Rebound:
Three players (5)
Assists:
Clifton Cook (3)
Jerald Brown (3)
Texas ran up an early 10-point lead in the
first half before hitting a cold spell that re
sulted in a three-minute scoreless stretch.
The Aggies used the opportunity to go in a
9-0 run to pull ahead, 18-17, on a jumper
by Cook. But Texas would recover and take
a four-point lead by halftime.
A&M outshot Texas for the game, 44.2
percent to 37.9 percent, but turnovers
turned out to be the difference. The Long
horns scored 30 points off turnovers and
used the Aggies’ miscues to outscore A&M,
12-0, on the fast break.
In addition, Jones’ limited minutes hurt
A&M’s low-post productivity as Texas
outscored A&M in the paint, 28-14, and
outrebounded them, 38-29.
A&M will next take the court Saturday
when they face the Sooners of Oklahoma
University at the Lloyd Noble Center in
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A&M coach Peggie Gillom
said her team did not play their
best game Wednesday night.
“Baylor played good de
fense, we really played lack
adaisical,” Gillom said. “We
didn’t really run the offense, we
didn’t do anything very well.”
Baylor jumped to an early
12-3 lead and led 38-18 at the
half. The play of freshman La
toya Rose, who scored 8 of her
10 points in a six-minute sec
ond half spurt that cut Baylor’s
lead to nine.
“Our bright spot tonight was
really Latoya,” Gillom said.
“She came on and played with
authority, she’s a great athlete,
we’re just working on the bas
ketball part of it, it’s taking time
for her to learn the offense.”
Prissy Sharpe led the A&M
offense with 15 points and 14
rebounds in the loss. Danielle
Crockrom, who had 13 points
for Baylor, said Sharpe made
the Bears focus defensively.
“We had to stay on her
(Sharpe), anywhere she went,
we needed to be there,” Crock
rom said. “She’s a shooter and
she’s been lighting it up, we
had to stay on her and play her
honest the whole game.”
Baylor guard Lara Webb
said her team had been prepar
ing for Sharpe and teammate
Kera Alexander, who, along
with Rose, were the only three
Aggies in double figures.
“We’d been working all week
on trying to stop Prissy and
Kera,” Webb said. “We felt they
had a very strong inside game,
we were going to try to stop it,
that was our game plan, and we
did a pretty good job of it.”
Both teams were trying to
snap losing streaks, as Baylor
did not have a conference vic
tory on the road, and the Ag
gies had not won a Big 12 game
in Reed Arena.
Baylor coach Sonja Hogg
said that in spite of the contin
uation of A&M’s streak, the Ag
gies will turn it around.
“They’re probably ready to
back to the old place (G. Rollie
White),” Hogg said. “But I
think they’re doing an excellent
job. They have a relatively
young team, and they’re going
to be just fine.”
A&M continues its three
game homestand Saturday
against the Oklahoma Sooners
at 5 p.m., in the second half of
a doubleheader with the
men’s team taking on Baylor
at 12:45.
MIKE FUENTES/Tiu: Battalion
Junior forward Prissy Sharpe goes in for a
layup against the Baylor Bears Wednesday
night at Reed Arena. The Aggies fell to the
Bears 72-55.
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