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Monday, Janur, ^ioiulay. January 24, 2(KK) SPORTS THE BATTALION Page 11 gan’s mot s declinin 1INGTON (AP) Reagan’s da her f ather cam nd, because his j,, no longer ample jigsaw en Reagan s ask the condii has Alzheimer'* espouse is, ‘Ni ard to say that, beat o easy lor us, ‘sbei i Newsweek it’s still him. ue going.” lagan she an : the puzzles I eels, then 100 er the diagnosis ago that he ISC. rtunately, he can't! ' Ms. Reagan m tun, and he had ll : of accomplish* g them, he same with at it. enjoy le words out ioui suld recognize aphasia had roiWi to put his thoaA e wrote. Xphasusl it\ to use or unie nth. Mrs. Rcagana mere tew ipahlc ofhav makes bSU win only start of Watkins’ plan GUY ROGERS/Tmi: Bmtai ion &M men’s basketball coach Melvin Watkins applauds the crowd fter Saturday's 64-59 win over Oklahoma State University. M elvin Watkins came to A&M with a dream. He envisioned the Aggies giving the Big 12 powerhouses all they could handle in front of huge Reed Arena crowds, maybe even on na tional television. Watkins accom plished all of those things — in one week. Excuse the Aggies’ coach if he asks to be pinched. Alter a respectable showing against No. 8 Kansas last Monday — in front of 12,175 Reed Rowdies and a national tele vision audience — the Aggies stunned No. 12 Oklahoma State on Saturday, 64-59. "We hope that this is the beginning of what Aggie basketball will he about,” Watkins said. "That we won’t be so shocked when we do beat a ranked team.” You have to dig pretty far into the Ag gies’ record books to find their last victory over a ranked team. All the way back to 1987, to be exact, when A&M defeated No. 15 TCU in the first round of the SWC tournament. The eighth-seeded Aggies went on to win that tournament, but such glorious moments have come few and far between since then. The program floundered for most of the ’90s and was desperately in need of a change by the time Watkins ar rived last season. “A&M has made a decision to get bet ter,’’ OSU coach Eddie Sutton said. “They have a beautiful arena and many things to sell when they go recruiting. Their coach es are doing a great job.” A&M freshman point guard Jamaal Gilchrist said while the Aggies were thrilled to get a win over OSU, they re main focused on the big picture. "This is my first time beating a ranked opponent, and it feels good,” Gilchrist said. "But in the future, |we] want to he one of the ranked teams.” With one top-20 recruiting class in the fold and another on the way, Gilchrist’s wish may be fulfilled shortly. Watkins and his staff seem determined to build a strong team from the ground up, instead of going for the quick fix by loading the team with j unior-col I ege trans fers. As fans stormed the court in the wake of Saturday’s upset, Watkins stood apart from the mob, applauding those in the stands. It was his way of thanking the crowd and acknowledging its role in A&M becoming a school known for bas ketball as well as football. He’s doing his part, and the fans seem to be intent on holding up their end of the bargain. Watkins hurried out of his postgame news conference, explaining he had a long night of recruiting ahead of him. In stead of pausing even a minute to cele brate A&M's biggest victory in over a decade, he was concerned only with the next task at hand. In one week, Watkins saw his dream of A&M’s future become reality. The scary thing is, he’s just getting wanned up. A/ Lazarus is a senior journalism major aucus many caucus-gi i to be more coos.' i voters as a he why the to n at GOP camp!;.: irday. iaucr. who netfiS J place to bolsis.': anipaign. sugge- 1 '* < is a recent const’ ’Huskers continue Aggies’ losing streak, 74-71 BY REECE FLOOD The Battalion The Texas A&M women’s basketball team strug- led early in its lifih straight Big 12 Conference loss to the University of Nebraska, 74-71. A&M struggled with shooting and turnovers in the lirst half, but proved they could turn things around in the second half and compete with a good team, j Ilje first haj^saw A&M shoot 33 percent and turn the ball over 17 times. The game started with the Ag gies missing their first four shots, allowing Nebraska to take a 7-0 lead. But the Aggies appeared to come out as an entirely different team in the second half by holding on to the ball and shooting 52 percent. They even took their first lead of the game early in the half after senior forward Kera Alexander made a timely layup. The lead was traded back and forth between the two teams before Nebraska wenr>oo an 11-0 run late in the second half. Sophomore guard LaToya Rose and junior forward Jaynetta Saunders had key three-point plays to keep the Aggies in the game. Saunders led the game with 21 points, while senior forward Prissy Sharpe tallied 15. Rose grabbed 14 points, including four three-pointers. A&M's record is now 9-7, 1-5 in the Big 12, while Nebraska improved its record to 9-7, 3-2. The Aggies return home to play the University of Oklahoma in Reed Arena on Wednesday at 7 p.m. PATRIC SCHNEIDER/ I ni lUmUON The Texas A&M men’s and women’s swimming teams defeated the University of Kansas Saturday at the Student Rec Center Natatorium. Swim teams begin spring with victory BY BLAINE DIONNE The Battalion If getting to know an opponent is es sential to defeating them, then the Texas A&M men's and women’s swimming and diving teams should have no prob lem with the University of Kansas at the Big 12 Championship meet. That meeting will mark the third time the two schools will have locked boms this season, the second being Saturday at the Student Rec Center Natatorium, w ith the Aggie women defeating Kansas 163- 132 and the men winning 165-123. The victories pushed the Aggies’ sea son dual meet records to 6-1 and 5-1, re spectively. A&M women’s swimming coach Steve Bultman said he was very pleased w ith the way his swimmers performed. “The girls swam great,” Bultman said. “We had a lot of season-best times, we had a couple of lifetime-best times and we had one school record, so that was super." The school record Bultman men tioned was set by freshman Amy Osmun in the 200-yard backstroke. One of the pre-meet concerns Bult man had was the way his distance swim mers would respond to the continued ab sence of one of his team captains, senior Tracy Evans. "They (the A&M distance swim mers) swam, but Kansas was a little too strong for us there,” Bultman said. "But they swam season-best times, so we can’t complain about that.” Other first-place finishes for the Ag gie women were in the 200-yard medley, with freshman Sharise Blau, senior Mon ica Stroman and sophomores Clara I lo and Kelly Bolton bringing home the hardware. Senior Monica Williams took first in the 200-meter freestyle Osmun in the 100-meter backstroke, I lo in the 200- meter butterfly and Burton in the 50-me ter freestyle. The men were paced by the continued success of junior David Morrow and sophomore Riley Janes. See Swim on Page 12. -abortion moveraa ‘I’m not a Stew > that believed sob e years ago and lx cthing different I er said. liming his sights t-runner, the Wash i si said, “Governs impletely out of$8 virty he wants tola lush, like most Rep/ rs. is opposed tot) ic does not stressiti vaign trail, ic is looking ahem ral election, when! tends to alienate g voters. JATES plined Engineerin} 1 ill be on campus /Ve are looking to pecializing in: erview between nega ernity , and Servitf about!!! * ngs: aton 105 ngton 207\ iew Shock q-tlj Parents Night & iver ■ Blood Dr |vE bes Home a 694-2425 Intramurals Rec Fitness Aquatics Golf Course TAMU Outdoors Sport Clubs Intramurals Registration Pre-Season Basketball Jan. 24-Feb. 1 Basketball Jan. 24-Feb. 1 Outdoor Soccer Jan. 24-Feb. 1 Basketball/Outdoor Soccer Official Orientation Clinic— Jan. 24 7:00pm 281 Rec. 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