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Bie Battalion PORTS Page 7 • Tuesday, March 2, 1999 ’ourney Time bmen’s Basketball Team set for Big 12 Tournament illionp appropi ine mo > duplic mpare BY TRAVIS HARSCH The Battalion ■ Maybe the tenth time will be the ■arm. ■ The Texas A&M Women’s Basketball Bam, which has come up short in nine Baight conference games, will face the Nebraska Cornhuskers in a first-round Bntest of the Big 12 Tournament Tuesday. B In their first meeting this season, the befo:;B>rnhuskers (19-10,8-8) came away with n therdap2-54 triumph at Reed Arena behind 20 rBints from Nicole Kubik. The Aggies (7- l4,2-14) were led by junior forward Kera ■j|||Hexander with 22 points and sophomore 1 forward Prissy Sharpe with 13. OS I Coach Peggie Gillom said the Feb. 17 BHme against the Buskers did not repre- fltior sei 1 eitlier team ’ s best effort. |^^^B “It was just an ugly game,” Gillom HfBid. “It could have gone either way. It rUC® 5 i ust one t hose games that you did- ' n t want to watch or even play in. Our de- jRise was pretty good, but we couldn’t get oi shots to go, and we turned the ball Ber too many times.” B Sharpe, who was named to the All-Big li second team this week, said despite her team’s low seeding, she expects the Buskers to be focused on the Aggies. I “Nobody looks past you,” Sharpe said. “Anything can happen in this tournament. Bid anything can happen in this league.” fl Gillom said A&M, which lost by 10 Biints or fewer in 13 of its 19 games, will ntvd to avoid turnovers to advance. ■ “We have been our own worst enemy ■ season,” Gillom said. “We have beat- Bi ourselves in each of our losses. I hope Bat we can overcome that and play well pbre at the championships.” I Gillom said effort is the key to an win. I “Our women have to be relaxed and Bst go out and play hard,” Gillom said. BVe’re going to do anything and every- Bing to win, but if our team does their fbest that’s all I can ask for” I Sharpe led A&M in both points and re bounds in the regular season, averaging 18.3 points and 9.0 boards. Kubik, also an . All-Big 12 selection, keys the Busker of- intiep<^f cnse yyjfa jg g p 0 i n t s anc j 5.9 assists per n\i,| on t e st, while Brooke Schwartz averages tBaghdal j rebounds a game I Last season, the Aggies defeated Texas, emiraq|8-74 in the first round of the Big 12 tour- in Iraq a| 'he othe; • M and a lay ah 1 ping 5 kev, of 1 no-fly i radar ; sites.: No da: ty of M lanes: throuj taliststi have! attack Is said, ol. Rici /hethe: a com a as ivei CARINO CASAS/Thh Battauon TOP: Senior Kim Tarkington drives the lane during Saturday’s game with Colorado. BELOW: Freshman Celeria Washington pulls up for a shot against the Buffaloes. Nebraska Points leader: Nicole Kubik (18.9) Rebound leader: Brooke Schwartz (6.1) Assists leader: Nicole Kubik (5.9) ney before falling to Iowa State Universi ty. The winner of today’s game will take on the fourth-seeded Longhorns. The game will follow the Kansas State University-University of Colorado contest and will tip off at 2:20 p.m. at the Munic ipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo. MIKE PUENTES/The Battalion The fourth-ranked Texas A&M Baseball Team travels to San Antonio on Tuesday to take on the University of Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners. A&M Baseball Team ready to face UTSA Roadrunners Aggie 5 carry nine-game win streak into weekday contest GUY ROGERS/The Battalion BY AARON COHAN The Battalion Coming off a three-game sweep of the Oklahoma State University Cowboys, the Texas A&M Baseball Team will try to keep its nine-game winning streak alive today against the University of Texas-San Antonio. The Aggies moved up three places in the latest polls and are now ranked fourth in the nation. The No. 4 ranking is the Aggies’ highest in more than three years. UTSA has won only five of 19 games this season, but the Roadrunners did beat No. 12 University of Texas. A&M coach Mark Johnson said the Ag gies should not overlook UTSA despite A&M’s come-from-behind win over Okla homa State University Sunday. “We have to focus on UTSA and play now,” Johnson said. “You have to put vic- JOHNSON tories and losses behind you. “Even the celebrated one’s like yesterday can’t get in the way of playing hard the next game. ” The Aggies will start freshman Khalid Ballouli, who earned his first win last Tues day in a late-inning effort against Sam Bous- ton State University. Johnson said Ballouli has impressed him so far. “Be is starting to place his fastball much better lately,” Johnson said. “I am really looking forward to him pitching.” Ballouli has only worked six innings this year, but they have been productive ones, as he has struck out nine batters and has not allowed any runs. Giving Ballouli run support will be a plethora of Aggie hitters. One of them is first baseman John Scheschuk, who mashed in a .444 batting average against some of OSU’s top pitchers, though it was down from his season average of .468. “We’re just going to keep hitting and scoring runs for our team,” Scheschuk said. “A lot of good things have fallen in place for us, and we have to just keep going after it.” GUESS? 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