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THE BATTALION
Injury ends Jason Glenn’s Aggie career
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY STUART VILLENUEVA AND BRADLEY ATCHISON/The Battalion
Jason Glenn's A&M career ended prematurely only a playmaker, but was also the emotional
with a knee injury in Saturday's game against leader of the Wrecking Crew throughout the
No. 1 Oklahoma. The senior linebacker was not 2000 season.
By Jason Lincoln
The Battalion
The emotional leader of Texas A&M’s
Wrecking Crew defense will be forced to
watch the last two games of his Aggie ca
reer from the sideline.
Linebacker Jason Glenn will undergo
a season-ending surgery Thursday to re
pair a ruptured lateral tendon and a lateral
collateral ligament in his left knee.
“Losing Jason Glenn really hurts,” said
A&M coach R.C. Slocum. “He was a very
productive player in addition to being the
emotional leader of our defense.”
Glenn injured his knee early in the
fourth quarter in A&M’s near-upset of No.
1 Oklahoma Saturday. Before leaving the
game, Glenn had an interception and
broke up a pair of passes.
The A&M medical staff believed the
injury to be merely a sprain, leaving
Slocum hopeful that Glenn would return
before the Aggies’ post-Thanksgiving
matchup against Texas. An MRI adminis
tered Monday revealed the tendon and lig
ament were torn, not sprained.
This season Glenn leads the Aggies
with 15 tackles, for losses of 56 yards, and
five sacks. He also has two interceptions
and has broken up 13 passes.
The senior from Houston Nimitz High
School has never had a breakout season in
which he dominated the Wrecking Crew’s
defensive statistics, but he has always
been a playmaker and an emotional spark
plug for the Aggies.
His timely plays over his career, includ
ing upsets over three Top-10 opponents at
Kyle Field, were highlighted against No. 10
Kansas State earlier this season.
The outside linebacker lined up to blitz
and then backpedaled to intercept KSU’s
first pass of the game. Glenn went on an
end-zone-seeking run that spanned the
width of the field. He avoided one tackle,
broke out of another and hurdled a third
before being brought down just 4 yards
short of the goal line. The play turned the
momentum in A&M’s favor and propelled
the Aggies to a 26-10 win.
All through his career, he has been a
Kyle Field favorite, easily recognizable as
the maroon-clad No. 23, waving his arms
up and down from the middle of the field
and working the stadium into a frenzy.
Glenn may be unable to conclude his
season on the field, but he plans to finish
his career at A&M by continuing to pro
vide his flamboyant, hold-nothing-back
attitude from the sideline.
Aggie women’s first game mixes new and old
[y Jason Lincoln
The Battalion
1 Texas A&M women’s basketball kicked off
the 2000 season with an 88-77 exhibition win
over Delta Kosice-Slovakia in Reed Arena
Tuesday night.
I A&M claimed the early lead, jumping out
to a 14-4 lead and afterward never letting up
on the attack. To start the second half, the Ag
gies posted eight unanswered points-, giving
them a comfortable 52-38 lead to play with for
the remainder of the contest,
j ; A&M’s biggest weakness was defense asdt
allowed 18 offensive rebounds. The Aggies were
able to slightly better Delta Kosice’s perfor
mance on the board with 18 offensive rebounds
out of their 43 total boards, but coach Peggie
Gillom expected better defense from the team.
“We did not play great de
fense tonight,” Gillom said.
“I told (the team) if we did
not play great defense, we
would not win games. But if
we pick that up, I think we’ll
be all right.”
A&M’s offense was a
'complete contrast to the de
fense — the starters domi- williams
nated the floor.
Forward Jaynetta Saunders and post Lynn
Classen posted double-doubles, in addition to
guard Brandy Jones’ 26 points and point guard
Toccara Williams’ 17 assists.
Saunders scored 21 points with 10 re
bounds, and Classen had 17 points with 11
boards. LaToya Rose added 17 points from the
Aggies’ third guard position to make Williams
the only starter not scoring more than 10 points.
The Slovakian team was led by center
Hana Jendrichovska, with 37 points and 13
boards. She was one of just two members of
her team to score in double figures. Two of
the Slovakian starters fouled out early in the
second half.
Williams’ 17 assists and Jendrichovska’s 37
points surpassed the regular-season records in
Reed Arena but will not stand because the ex
hibition matcjh is considered unofficial.
William 5,|a true freshman, played 36 min
utes at pointjguard with four steals, a block
and five pc ints, in addition to her would-be
assists record.
“That’s vhat she’s shown us in practice,”
Gillom said. “She’s going to have to play those
kind of minutes, and she did that tonight.”
Twelve Aggies saw action Tuesday, but
true freshn an Latoshia Bailey was the only
nonstarter lo l^pre, with a pair of points and
three boards, i.
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Basketball
concludes
preseason
By Jason Lincoln
The Battalion
A&M coach Melvin Watkins has
just one more game to groom his
young roster into a winning team be
fore it counts for good.
The Aggies close their exhibition
season against a touring team from
Lithuania tonight at 7 in Reed Arena.
“The difficult part of playing ex
hibition games against these foreign
teams is that you never really know
who will show up to play for them as
far as personnel,” Watkins said. “But
we tend to focus more on what we’re
doing and our personnel, anyway.
We want to continue to work out the
bugs and improve on both ends of
the court and, in our case, get some
people healthy.”
At least three starters from 1999
will miss the game due to injuries,
but Watkins expects point guard Ja-
maal Gilchrist to return to the court.
A&M will launch its 30-plus
game season Saturday at George
Washington before returning to
Reed Arena to play North Texas on
Monday.
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