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BY REECE FLOOD
The Battalion
The Texas A&M women’s basket-
tall season has come to an end after
teing defeated by the University of
Texas 83-72 in the first round of the
3ig 12 Tournament.
The Aggies kept the score close in
he first half and went into halftime
down by just two points with a 34-32
Texas lead. The Aggies continued to
shoot the ball well in the second half
and managed to take a 44-43 lead with
16:30 left in the game.
But A&M was unable to stop the
longhorns, who scored the next 12
points and did not let the Aggies get
within 10 points the rest of the game.
Texas was on fire in the second half, hit
ting 57.7 percent of its shots.
Making the difference in the game
for Texas was Edwina Brown, who
earned a double-double. Brown made
19 of her game high 25 points in the
second half and tallied 11 rebounds in
the game.
Joining in the success for the
Longhorns were teammates Tracy
Cook with 16 points and JoRuth
Woods with 13 points.
Despite the loss, the Aggies had a
few standout players of their own. Se
nior forward Prissy Sharpe also
earned a double-double with 29 points
and 11 rebounds. She now holds the
record for most rebounds by an Aggie
with 920.
Also chipping in for the Aggies
were senior forward Kera Alexander
with 18 points and sophomore LaToya
Rose with 16 points.
Contributing to the Aggie’s loss
were their 23 turnovers, which resulted
directly in 21 points for the Longhorns.
The Aggies end the season with a
record of 11-16, 3-13 in Big 12. Texas
is now 19-11, 9-7 in Big 12 and ad
vances to the second round of the Big
12 Tournament to face the University
of Oklahoma.
The loss marks A&M’s third dur
ing the 1999-2000 season at the
hands of the Longhorns. Texas de
feated A&M in College Station Feb.
5 by a score of 82-54 and again Feb.
26 by a score of 76-67.
This is Texas’ first Big 12 Tourna
ment victory since the 1997 season.
The Aggies season was highlighted
by junior college transfer Jaynetta
Saunders. Saunders stepped in to con
tribute 15.7 points and 7 rebounds per
game during the regular season.
A&M baseball rebounds vs. No.5 Cougars
BY DOUG SHILLING
The Battalion
HOUSTON - The Texas A&M
baseball team limped into Tuesday’s
game against the 1 Oth-ranked Univer
sity of Houston Cougars with a 9-10.
A&M baseball coach Mark Johnson
had never had a team below .500 this
late into a season.
The Aggies took care of that, jump
ing out to an early lead then hanging on
for a 9-5 win over the Cougars in front
of 3,416 fans at Cougar Field.
A&M evened its record at 10-10
while the Cougars dropped to 12-7 on
the season.
“I was really pleased,” Johnson
said. “1 think Houston has an outstand
ing ballclub. We swung the bat all
right, and I thought our pitching fell
into place.”
The Aggies started out the game
with a spectacular defensive play.
With runners on first and second and
one out. Cougar center fielder Jason
Pekar sent a shot to deep center field,
freshman center fielder Eric Reed made
an over-the-shouider, backhand diving
catch to save two runs.
After Reed’s great defensive play,
the Aggies lit up the scoreboard in
the top of the third with something
they have not been getting lately - a
clutch hit.
With two outs and two men on,
A&M junior first baseman Jeff'Free
man hit a double down the left field line
to make it a 2-0 A&M lead.
The Aggies kept the pressure on in
the fourth inning.A&M junior catch
er Jason Gremminger reached on an
error by Cougar third baseman Kris
Wilken to start the inning. Reed fol
lowed by reaching on a bunt hit and
advancing to second base on another
error by Wilken.
A&M senior second baseman
Sean Heaney then stepped up and sent
a 3-1 pitch by U of H pitcher Robert
Dieudonne over the left field wall to
give the Aggies a 5-0 lead.
“It’s been a while since I hit a ball that
hard,” Heaney said. “I’ve been struggling
the past few games. I hit that one good,
and hopefully I can get on a roll.”
The Aggie bats stayed hot in the
fifth inning as Gremminger sent a
towering shot over the left-center
field wall with two men on to give the
Aggies an 8-1 lead.
The Cougars clawed back in the
bottom of the fifth, scoring three runs,
two of which came on a mammoth
CHAD ADAMS/The Battalion
Texas A&M freshman center fielder David Evans slides into second
base against the University of Houston in a 9-5 Aggie win.
home run by catcher Jarrod Bitter, to picked up the win for the Aggies.
cut the Aggie lead to 8-4.
It was as close as the Cougars
would get, as both teams traded runs in
the sixth to close out the scoring.
In a game that featured fourteen
pitchers between both teams, A&M
freshman pitcher Todd Deininger
“You have to like the composure of
this team,” Heaney said. “After this
past weekend, which was a pretty bad
weekend for us, coming out here, play
ing the 1 Oth-ranked team in the nation,
taking it to them and getting on them
early, it was a big win.”
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BY AL LAZARUS
The Battalion
Another top-five team will make
an appearance at the Varsity Tennis
enter Wednesday, hut this time the
A&M women’s team will have the
opportunity to pull off an upset.
The 37th-ranked women net-
:ers(4-5) will square off with No.
University of Georgia (9-1),
while the 18th-ranked Aggie men
3-3) — fresh off a monumental
upset of No. 4 Florida on Sunday
— will take on No. 51 University
of South Alabama (9-5). Both
matches will begin at 6 p.m.
The women’s team enters the
match after suffering two tough
road losses last week to Baylor
and TCU. The Aggies lost both
matches, 5-4.
Led by 85th-ranked freshman
Olivia Karlikova, the Aggies will
face a Lady Bulldog team that fea
tures three top-15 players. Geor
gia has defeated three top-25
teams on its current road trip, in
cluding No. 8 Texas.
After Sunday’s 5-2 victory over
the Gators, the Aggie men will look
to avoid a letdown against South
Alabama.
“Beating Florida just makes
teams hungrier to beat us,” A&M
men’s tennis coach Tim Cass said.
“But that’s part of life when you
want to be one of the best.”
A&M junior Shuon Madden
brings a No. 8 ranking into the
South Alabama match. Madden de
feated No. 7 Florida junior and de
fending NCAA singles champion
.left'Morrison on Sunday.
South Alabama, led by 72nd-
ranked sophomore Vincent Bau-
dat, took part in the HEB Tourna
ment in Corpus Christi this
weekend, finishing the tourna
ment 3-1 after falling to TCU in
the finals.
J.P. BEATO/The Battalion
Texas A&M women’s tennis player Olivia Karlikova
hits a forehand versus Missouri.
STAFF & WIRE
Texas A&M University men’s bas
ketball team guard Bernard King be
gan to rake in postseason honors
on Monday.
The freshman standout for the
Aggies has been made a third-team
All-Big 12 selection by The Associ
ated Press. King is the only fresh
man to be named to one of the
three All-Big 12 teams.
King was also named Big 12
Rookie of the Week after a 30-point,
10-rebound performance to lead the
Aggies over the University of Ne
braska on Saturday. The perfor
mance marked King’s third 30-point
game, a first by a Big 12 freshman.
The 6-3 guard closed out the
regular season averaging 17.3
points, 4.7 rebounds, 4.1 assists
and 1.6 steals per game.
This season King has set the Big
12 freshman scoring record with
468 points and the points per
game freshman record with 17.3.
King also tied the Big 12 fresh
man record for three pointers with
79, tying Jeff Boschee’s mark in
1998-99.
King concluded the 1999-2000
regular season as the only fresh
man in the country to average at
least 15 points, 4 rebounds and 4
assists per game.
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