^ The Battalion
Sports
Page 9 • Thursday, December 2, 1999
ggies beat SFA Lumberjacks,
0-65, for first win of season
BY AL LAZARUS
The Battalion
J Four freshmen started for the
N ^ Zi Texas A&M Men’s Basketball Team
Wednesday night at Reed Arena.
[ Twenty-three turnovers later, the
|;gies had defeated the Stephen F.
noiccooewowc Austin State University Lumber
jacks, 70-65, for their first win of
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jiDNAcrni.oi,hacks, 40-27. SFA stayed close,
though, scoring 20 points off the Ag-
I;' ’ 11 ' g' es ’ 23 giveaways.
I “I have to give credit to SFA —
him. they came in and played hard,”
men’s basketball coach
Melvin Watkins said. “As you can
see, we’ve got a lot of work to do;
| Be just have to figure out where to
■art.”
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Freshman forward Larry Scott
led the Aggies with 14 points, 12 of
those off four first-half three-point
ers. Freshman guard Bernard King
and senior forward Aaron Jack
chipped in 13 and 11 points, re
spectively.
“Bernard King has a chance to be
a superstar at the national level,”
SFA men’s basketball coach Derek
Allister said, “and Larry Scott is like
a professional shooter.”
The Aggies helped themselves
throughout the game with strong re
bounding, but the ’Jacks stayed
close because of repeated mental
lapses on A&M’s part.
In one 10-second span early in
the second half, the Aggies threw
two careless passes, both of which
were picked off and taken in for
dunks by SFA.
“We just made so many mental
errors — way, way too many mis-
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takes,” Watkins said. “There’s no
shortcut; we just have to keep prac
ticing and get better.”
The Aggies were without the
services of senior forward Jerald
Brown, who suffered a broken or
bit bone near his right eye after col
liding with a teammate in practice
last week.
Brown has missed all three of the
Aggies’ regular-season games but is
expected back in the lineup soon.
“Not having Jerald in there, we
are playing some people out of posi
tion,” Watkins said. “We had [junior
forward Carlton Brown] inside, and
he hasn’t gotten any work at that.”
Though admittedly bitter after
losing a game he said the ’Jacks
should have won, Allister had noth
ing but praise for A&M.
“Texas A&M’s got good players,”
Allister said. “They are young, but
they’re going to be superb.”
LEFT: A&M fresh
man point guard
Jamaal Gilchrist
looks for a teammate
downcourt in the
first half of the Ag
gies’ game against
Stehen F. Austin
State University last
night at Reed Are
na. The Aggies de
feated the Lumber
jacks, 70-65, for
their first win of the
season.
RIGHT: A&M senior
forward Aaron Jack
drives to the basket
after stealing the
ball from SFA junior
center Emanuel
Jackson in the sec
ond half last night
at Reed Arena.
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