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A&M senior forward Prissy Sharpe struggles to keep the ball away from the Longhorn defense,
Saturday in Reed Arena.
Longhorns defeat Ags, 76-67
BY REECE FLOOD
The Battalion
The Texas A&M women’s bas
ketball team invested a great deal of
energy and emotion into defeating
the University of Texas on Saturday,
but the Aggies fell short of their goal,
losing 76-67 in Reed Arena.
The Aggies were close in the clos
ing minutes of the game but were un
able to pull out a victory over the
Longhorns.
The second half began with Texas
holdingontoaslim 39-37 lead. Both
teams traded baskets until A&M man
aged to tie the score at 46-46 nearly
live minutes into the half.
Tlie Aggies could not find a way
to take the lead but never fell behind
by more than six points.
With 2:08 left in the game, A&M
senior forward Kera Alexander cut tlie
Longhorn lead to three points at 70-67
when she nailed two free throws.
Alexander's performance from
the charity stripe would close out the
Aggies scoring for the remainder of
the contest.
The Aggies missed their next sev
en shots, while the Longhorns went
on to score six more points.
“At the end we were in the game,"
A&M coach Peggie Gillom said. “I
think that they made the plays at the
end, and we did not. They did a good
job of going in and getting it inside
and scoring on us, and at the end we
couldn't score.”
The game’s ending was similar to
its beginning. The Aggies struggled
as Texas jumped out to a 14-point
lead in the tirst half, but the Aggies
stepped up on defense and held the
Longhorns to only four points. Mean
while, the offense found its groove,
scoring 18 points and taking a 30-29
point lead with about two minutes
left in the tirst half.
A&M’s junior forward Jaynetta
Saunders scored a game-high 24
points. Saunders said she felt good
early in the game.
“I was kind of confident and just
try ing to go out there and play for the
team, so I was just ready to play,”
Saunders said. “We came out there;
we did what coach said. We got the
open shots. They looked for me when
I was hot, while I was shooting and
the ball was going in.”
The Longhorns were lead by Ld-
w ina Brown, w ho earned a double
double, w ith 16 points and 11 assists.
Both Saunders and Brown matched
up most of the game, never leaving the
court in the full 40 minutes.
This was the last time for the Ag
gie seniors to play in Reed Arena.
Two of the seniors, forward Amy
Yates and forward Jennifer Burrows
have been out of action for most of
the season with injuries. However,
forw ard Kera Alexander and forw ard
Prissy Sharpe each contributed to the
Aggies effort, scoring 14 and seven
points, respectively.
Sharpe was sad to play her last
home game at A&M, but said she
was pleased with the game.
“Well, it could have been a little
better because we could have w'on,”
Sharpe said. “But it w'as a good game.
It was all-around a good game for
everyone. It’s just sad somebody has
to lose because both teams played
very, very hard for 40 minutes.”
Aggies sweep Kansas State
GUY ROGERS/The Baitai.ion
A&M sophomore Ryan Wardinsky reaches for a ball in Saturday’s game against the
Kansas State University Wildcats at Olsen Field.
BY DOUG SHILLING
The Battalion
The Texas A&M baseball
team entered Big 12 Conference
play with many questions
rolling around in its head re
garding hitting.
The answers appeared this
weekend in tlie form of tlie Kansas
State University pitching staff
The Aggies jumped on the
Wildcats early and often en
route to a three-game sweep of
Kansas State.
A&M baseball coach Mark
Johnson said the Aggies’ perfor
mance this weekend helped clear
up some questions.
“We’ve been taking the field
with a lot of questions in our
mind,” Johnson said. “Certainly,
we don’t have them all an
swered, but I think some guys
were encouraged.
“It’s a lot better to start con
ference with some wdns rather
than losses. We don’t have an
easy road ahead of us, but I am
glad that we’re sitting with
three wins and no losses. Open
ing up conference with three
w ins is huge. It gives us a start."
The Aggies finished off the
sweep w ith a 9-4 victory on Sun
day. A&M junior catcher Jason
Gremminger capped off a stellar
series by going 3-for-4 with a
double and three RBI.
On the series, Gremminger
was 6-for-9 with three home runs
and 11 RBI.
A&M sophomore Khalid Bai-
louli pitched the win for the Ag
gies, pitching six innings and giv
ing up only four runs.
Gremminger said his big se
ries was hopefully a springboard
into Big 12 play.
“It was a real good weekend
for me. I’m glad to get off to a
good start," Gremminger said.
“Right now, it’s a beginning, but
we have a lot more conference
games, and, hopefully, I can
continue to do what I’ve been
doing, and we can enjoy the
success we’ve been having.”
Gremminger was the key
once again Saturday as the Ag
gies scored all their runs in the
first two innings, defeating the
Wildcats 9-4.
Gremminger went 2-for-5
with two home ains and 5 RBI.
A&M freshman pitcher Todd
Deininger got the win for the Ag
gies, going five innings and giv
ing up four runs.
Friday’s game saw Kansas
State jump on the Aggies early
with A&M getting the last laugh.
Tlie Wildcats jumped out to a
4-0 lead, but the Aggies scored six
and eight runs in the fifth and
sixth innings to cruise to a 19-5
victory in seven innings.
A&M sophomore left-fielder
Carlos Sepulveda led the Aggies,
going 4-for-5 with a home run
and 5 RBI.
Sophomore pitcher Grant
Gregg pitched seven innings and
gave up five runs in the victory for
the Aggies.
Kansas State coach Mike
Clark said he hoped that the Wild
cats would have been able to take
advantage of the Aggies' you(l> in
the series.
“A&M is a very talented half-
club,” Clark said. "They’re young
and inexperienced, but the talent
is there. We were hoping, playing
them early, that we would catch
them before they got in a little bit
of a roll.
“Because it’s just a matter of
time with the talent that they have
that they are going to get on a roll:
As they gain experience, they’re
going to get better and better.” *,
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Mar. 28
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