nesday, February 9, 2000
SPORTS
THE BATTALION
Page 9
Ags look to break streak against Baylor
BY REECE FLOOD
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One long-running streak will come to
end tonight, and the Texas A&M
men’s basketball team hopes their
tf;ik is the one.
The Aggies (9-10, 1-8 Big 12) will
e on Baylor University in a 7 p.m.
iwdown at Reed Arena and try to bring
end to their eight-game losing streak.
But Baylor (5-14, 0-9 Big 12) has a
:ak of its own it would like to shake.
: Lady Bears are in the midst of a nine-
ne losing streak which began Jan. 5
linst the Aggies.
A&M women’s basketball coach
igie Gillom said this will be a chal-
ging game because each team is anx-
s to get a victory.
“It’s a must-w in game, really for both
ms," Gillom said.
Senior forward Kera Alexander
nks the victory will go to the team that
nts it more.
“We both think it’s a game we can
lii ” Alexander said. "It's just a matter
■who can come out and produce.”
In their last meeting, A&M managed
ull off a 62-59 victory over the Lady
ars in Waco alter senior forward Pris-
sylSharpe made a three-point play w ith
^seconds remaining to clinch the w in.
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Sharpe led the way for the Aggies
with 14 points and nine rebounds, while
Baylor’s Monica Arnold tallied 17 points
and nine rebounds.
Even though A&M beat Baylor earli
er in the season, the Lady Bears do not
have much respect for the Aggies. But
that is something A&M hopes to change.
“They [ Baylor] even said in the paper
that it was a fluke that we beat them
there,” Gillom said. “These kids [Aggies]
have got something to prove.
Neither team has been able to earn a
victory since the game in Waco, but
Sharpe feels the Aggies have a good
chance of winning tonight.
“We really are capable of winning the
game,” Sharpe said. “It’s just a matter of
actually going out and doing it.”
A&M has four players who are aver
aging over 10 points per game. Junior
forward Jaynetta Saunders leads the team
with 15 points per game, with Sharpe
close behind with 12.9.
Alexander is averaging 11.4 points
per game, while junior guard Brandy
Jones is chipping in 10.6 a game.
Sharpe thinks there may be an advan
tage in having several talented players to
rely on.
“You don’t ever know which one of
our players is going to hurt you, that is al
ways an ad\ antage of ours,” Sharpe said.
SALLIE TURNER/Thk Battalion
A&M senior forward Kera Alexander pulls down a rebound against
Texas Tech University Jan. 29 at Reed Arena.
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its side, the players’ association on
Wednesday will attempt to overturn John
Rocker’s suspension for offensive com
ments against homosexuals, minorities
and foreigners.
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig
banned Rocker until May 1, saying the
Atlanta Braves’ top reliever “offended
practically every element of society”
with his comments in a December issue
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The players’ association quickly ap
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“We just have to be patient. I don’t
think we’re really pressing, we just have
to get it going. It’s kind of hard to get it
going when you’re only getting one or
two hits an inning. You have to get hit af
ter hit to establish something.”
The Aggies look to get back on the
winning side of things this weekend.
on Rocker’s behalf, and union head Don
ald Fehr is expected to testify on past sus
pensions.
Rocker will attend the hearing, but it
is unclear ifhe will be asked to testify. He
told Sports Illustrated in December that
he would never play for a New York
team because he did not wait to ride a
subway train “next to some queer with
AIDS.” He also mocked foreigners and
called a black teammate a “fat monkey.”
In 1981, St. Louis shortstop Garry
Templeton was suspended and lined
$5,000 after making a series of obscene
gestures toward heckling fans at Busch
Stadium. Two days later, an arbitrator
ruled the suspension should be lifted
when Templeton checked into a hospital
for treatment of depression.
A&M travels to Edinburg, Texas to take
on the University of Texas-Pan Ameri
can in a three-game series.
Heaney said the Aggies need to use
Tuesday’s loss as a stepping stone for this
weekend’s series.
“You never want to lose opening day
at home,” Heaney said, “but we just did
n't hit the ball. We can’t make any ex
cuses. We need to come out this week
end and start hitting the ball.”
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