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SPORTS
THE BATTALION Page 7
nofted Raiders down Aggies, 71-49
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BY DOUG SHILLING
The Battalion
in Sungcuh TTu Texas A&M women’s basketball
amiMi-i'k jnleame into Saturday’s mateh up
ongs in the A-ainsi the lOth-ranked Texas Tech Uni-
(SK} hoping to tn and find a \va\ to end
omi a spaiai six game losing streak,
lixmancein a T1k Red Raiders did not get the mes-
l* plavs ano r»e they used their defense and fast
pickup aflK ;aklo eniise to a 71 -49 win over the Ag-
.-ss oi sieve V ;s Stiturday at Reed Arena.
. ier. defer.J Tech was led by forward Keitha Dick-
v le, utters the .onKv ith 18 points and seven rebounds
ed. I mean Had guard Melinda Pharies with live
wish he'd >t inW and 13 assists.
ij^KM \s omen's basketball coach I’cg-
iresented SJjGlllom said the Red Raiders were Ux)
the SiffuL .. jehnor the Aggies.
In award m: “M\ hat's otf to Texas Tech,” Gillom
d. ‘[The came in here and outplayed us
every facet of the game.”
THc Aggies (9-9, 1-7 Big 12) stayed
til lie Red Raiders for the better part of
; first matching Tech bucket for bucket.
A^M pulled within 17-13 with
:39 left in the first halt on a three
■inter by freshman forward Meg Ba-
han It was the last time the Aggies
ruld be in die game all day.
The Red Raiders (16-2, 5-2 Big 12)
;nt bn a 12-0 run after Banahan’s bas-
■t holding A&M scoreless over the
xt 7:55 to go into halftime w ith a 36-
' lead and put the game out of reach.
Texas Tech women’s basketball coach
nued from}.
expertise ■»: arsha Sharp said the Red Raiders' run at
Cent! of the hall was the kc\ to the game,
the themeb_r “I thought the run we went on at the
t all tunes xc tgiiiiing of the game w as real impor-
ow tlx\ art ft iU,’|Sharp said. "It set the tone as much
er.s Da\;■ a >r us as it did for them. We really got
ved as ajixk: Jt and ran well and Melinda made
■ l.irshipl’.. imJ great passes over the top and we
ere able to knock those dow n and it got
In Alplta I c < off to a great start.”
duce a hir A&M was harassed all day by the
nd the payer ed Raiders' defense as Tech forced 26
ggie turnovers and held A&M to 32.3
Miss Black. creent shooting.
• LcRorc, tr A& M junior forw ard Jaynetta Saun-
.uxl ajuni(Xe crs arid senior forw aid kera Alexander
mium will bad 12 points to lead the team,
of the fratemi! Respite her 12 points, Sharpe had a
GUY ROGERS/Tm Battalion
A&M senior forward Kera Alexander is blocked by Texas Tech guard Amber Tarr during the Aggies’ 71-49 loss
to the Red Raiders Saturday at Reed Arena.
rough afternoon from the floor. She was
only l-of-10 from the floor and l-of-2
from the line.
“They did a great job,” Sharpe “I'll give
that to them. They played very, very hard
defense. 1 guess it wasn't my night. What
can you say when you shoot 1 -for-10.”
A&M’s next shot at breaking its
streak comes this Saturday when the
team travels to Austin to take on the Uni
versity of Texas Longhorns.
With their losing streak now at seven
games, senior forward Kera Alexander
said the important thing is for die team
not to get down on themselves.
“The hardest thing, and the most im
portant thing, is to keep everybody’s head
up,” Alexander said. “It’s easy to get down
or accept losing, but we cant get to where
losing doesn’t hurt. You have to keep it
where everyone still wants to win.”
A&M swim teams
post wins
BY BLAINE DIONNE
The Battalion
The Texas A&M men’s and
women’s swimming teams both took
away victories from their Friday meet
with Louisiana Sate University at the
Student Rec Center Natatorium.
The 15th-ranked Aggie men won
their match with the I9th-ranked
Tigers by a score of 129-114, while the
22th-ranked Aggie women defeated
24th-ranked LSU 129-106.
The meet began with a bang for the
Aggies, w ith both the men and women
taking 40()-yard medley relay gold.
The women's team of freshman
Amy Osmun, sophomores Clara Ho
and Kelly Bolton and senior Monica
Stroman finished with a time of 3:47.47
while the men's team of sophomores
Nik Tate and Riley Janes and seniors
Scott Taylor and Lrik Toth swam a
3:21.42 to take home their gold.
The women finished in the top four
slots in the 1000-yard freestyle, with
freshman Ginny Johnson taking first
place w ith a season-best time of 10:07.05.
The men performed well in the
1000-meter freestyle as well, with fresh
man Patrick Dideum and senior Tim
Campbell finishing first and second.
Bolton and freshman Sharissc Blau
took first and second in the 50-yard
freestyle for the women and on what
was her 23rd birthday, Stroman finished
first in the 200-yard individual medley
and second in the 200-yard breaststroke.
The men’s mateh came down to the
last leg of the last race of the meet, the
over LSU
400 relay. The relay team of sopho
mores Patrick Kennedy and Jason
Penberthy, Toth and junior David Mor
row took the race by one-hundredths
of a second to seal the team victory.
“We knew it would be close,” Mor
row said. “We had a lot of guys who
had to step up and those guys (Pen
berthy, Toth and Kennedy) swam just
phenomenally to put me in a position
to finish well.”
Swimming phenomenally w ill have
to become a habit for the Aggies, as
their next dual meet will be against ri
val, and current No. 1 team in the na
tion, the University of Texas.
A&M men's swim coach Mel Nash
said he is aware of Texas' strengths and
hopes the Aggies will be able to hang
in to get a good look at what will be in
store for them at the Big 12 meet.
“It’s a tough one, Texas is ranked
number one but we always take our
best run at them that we can,” Nash
said. “But we have some individual
races where we can be extremely com
petitive, w in some and set ourselves up
for the conference and NCAAs over
the next five weeks.”
In the women’s last home meet of the
season, seniors Dana Briggs, Tracy
Evans, Danielle Guameri, Monica Stro
man and Monica Williams were hon
ored for their accomplishments at A& M.
“I was really happy to have the se
niors and I really wished that they all
had a few more years of eligibility
left,” women’s head coach Steve Bult-
man said. “They are very strong and
have been very supportive.”
Sports in Brief
A&M men fall to
Missouri, 93-62
The Texas A&M men’s basketball
team fell to the University of Missouri
Tigers, 93-62, Saturday at the I learnes
Center in Columbia, Mo.
The Aggies (6-12, 2-5 Big 12) com
mitted a season-high 29 turnovers.
Freshman forward Tomas Ress led
the Aggies w ith a career-high 22 points.
Senior forward Aaron Jack also
added 12 points.
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