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attalion Sports Page 7 • Wednesday, December 1, 1999 Cruces look for win against ’Jacks RY Al I A7ARIIR RArnarH T^ino ranter AnH\/ Rlnmin * Ti i ninr fr>r\sr^rH Rnn Ranlrc ^nri c<^- judad# luarez Rii Grande •1 Te lad Juarez MEXICO BY AL LAZARUS Military 88 I The Battalion Reservation I With a group of freshmen and msfers ranked in the nation’s top 15 ||jBme recruiting publications, the • SPaso xas A&M Men’s Basketball Team ay well be in for a breakthrough sea- "^“■in the meantime, though, it has '7 Hthe Aggies’ opponents who have en breaking through. After losing its season opener to ev|ously-winless North Carolina ^Saturday at Reed Arena, A&M fell tht University of North Texas, 91-88, onpay night in Denton. It was UNT’s 1st victory this season and first over a ivhion I team since December 1996. 'The Aggies (0-2) will look for their st kin of the season tonight at 7 jaifist the Stephen F. Austin Lum- ?rjacks (2-2) at Reed Arena. A&M is not started a season 0-3 since 166 ! Wiih senior forward Jerald Brown 4With a fractured orbit bone near is right eye, the Aggies were forced fstart four freshmen against UNT londay: guards Jamaal Gilchrist and Mexico CityO Bernard King, center Andy Slocum and forward Larry Scott. “Some of the kids came in highly decorated, but this is a whole new ball game,” A&M men’s basketball coach Melvin Watkins said. “We do have kids that before this season is over with — and surely before their careers are over with — will be very talented players in the Big 12. We are experi encing those growing pains, but 1 wouldn’t have it any other way. “I really wanted to go with younger kids to build this program from a sol id foundation.” The encouraging news for the Ag gies is their newcomers already seem comfortable despite only two games of experience at the Division I level. Four of them — Gilchrist, King, Scott and junior-college transfer Carlton Brown — are averaging over 12 points a game. The Lumberjacks are coming off a 94-62 win over Texas College Monday in Nacogdoches. SFA is led by junior guard Aaron Radi, who is averaging 12.0 points a game and is 10 of 20 on three-point attempts this season. ias de blic art had it up and i hour,” he said. 9 U.S. Supreme jws holiday displ operty if they an cular setting ch as Santa, reindi “ Snowman, Turk 1 city decided tore! y scene in fronioi less. corations will be t with help froit| obson, of the Am Tties Union of "elocution 'was a ove for religious t did not ansnetai ns. d point out thati! te for the city >us scene or ” Jacobson said hi rights group take any action iless Jacobson re it. *Junior forward Ron Banks and se nior guard Terrance Lofton each are averaging 11.8 points for SFA. The Aggies lead their all-time series with the Lumberjacks, 13-3. A&M has won 10 consecutive against SFA, in cluding a 67-55 victory last season in Nacogdoches. Jerald Brown, who suffered the in jury when he collided with a team mate in practice Nov. 24, will not play in tonight’s game, but Watkins said he expects him to return to the Aggies’ lineup soon. “I’m waiting to hear the report from the doctors ... but hopefully he’ll be back soon,” he said. “It’s a painful injury, but he also has some vision problems, especially if he turns his head one way or the other.” Watkins said the Aggies have missed Brown for a variety of reasons. “Having a kid that’s been through it out there — someone our young kids can lean on — would be bene ficial,” he said. “And we haven’t re bounded very well, and Jerald would be a force in there for us on the boards.” LEFT: Texas A&M freshman point guard Jamaal Gilchrist tries to get by a North Carolina A&T defender Satur day night at Reed Arena in the Aggies’ season opener. Gilchrist is third on the Aggies in scor ing, averaging 15.5 points per game, first in rebounding, averaging 5.5 boards per game and first in assists with 5 per game. RIGHT: Texas A&M sophomore point guard Andy Leatherman drives past a North Caroli na A&T defender. SUSAN REDDING/Spkciai. to Thic Battalion Specialties at all entrees under 1 ! tmiture 'st Parkway & Text' — divery Available • Phone Orders Wfe — rjINNYBROl Jow located at iate Hair J 546-4455 20% discotf with this ail 4321 Welborn (Westgateft^ near Barracuda*; TEXAS Wk -LEES AT --MAST fOl iE AQQtES IOST IN VEIRETRMf Sincerely, The STAff of Strictly strictlytexas.com Congratulations to Stacy Kirkendall, a junior chemical engineering major from Victoria, Texas who has been selected as Eastmans most recent Chemical Engineering Scholar here at Texas A&M University. When Stacy is not studying, she does find other things to do. 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