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THE BATTALION
ggies sweep Baylor
Jree Holz
I Battalion
fhe Baylor Bears seemingly for-
10 show up Wednesday night at G.
lie White Coliseum for their vol-
|»all match against Texas A&M, as
Aggies crushed Baylor, 15-3, 15-
5-4, in less than 80 minutes.
fThis was not the team we saw a
weeks ago," said A&M coach
|ric Corbelli. “1 was very proud of
iperformance tonight. We kept at-
cing and were rarely on the de
rive. We slowed down some of
|r key attackers, and they lost
|ie confidence."
The Aggies improved to 12-5 in
[Big 12, and Baylor fell to 7-11.
sits in fourth place in the con-
dice behind Nebraska, Kansas
|te and Missouri.
t&M began the first game by go
on an 11-0 run with kills from*
Iside hitters Michelle Cole, Erin
f)son and Christy Clark and mid
blockers Heather Marshall and
[a Pulaski.
The Bears scored their first two
points of the game on a kill and a
block, but the Aggies responded with
two consecutive blocks by Clark and
Marshall.
“This was not
the team we
saw a few weeks
ago. ... We kept
attacking and
were rarely on
the defensive.
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— Laurie Corbelli
A&M volleyball coach
After a Baylor timeout, A&M sur
vived 13 sideouts before posting two
more points on Baylor miscues.
The Bears scored their third point
on a block, but, after four game-point
opportunities, the Aggies ended the
game on a Baylor hitting error.
To start the second game, A&M
once again jumped to a dominating
lead. With A&M ahead, 8-0, Baylor
put two points on the board on a kill
and an A&M hitting error.
A Cole kill ended Baylor’s streak,
and the Aggies regained control of
the game. Blocks from Cole and
Marshall sealed the second game.
In game three, a block by Marshall
posted the Aggies’ first point, but the
Bears responded with two consecu
tive kills to tie the game, 1 -1.
The Aggies extended their lead
with a Marshall ace and consecutive
kills from Pulaski and Gibson.
Another Gibson kill put the Ag
gies ahead, 5-2, and A&M scored six
straight with more kills from Cole
and Gibson.
The Bears scored only two more
points on kills, and the Aggies ended
the game on another Baylor hitting
error.
CODY WAGES/The Battalion
See Volleyball on Page 2B.
Texas A&M middle blocker Heather Marshall returns against the Baylor Bears Wednesday night. The
Aggies dominated Baylor, sweeping the Bears to solidify their position in the Big 12 rankings.
A&M finishes preseason with victory
By Jason Lincoln
The Battalion
CODY WAGES/Tm. Battalion
[xas A&M guard Jamaal Gilchrist fights for possession against a Lithuanian player,
pe Aggies held the Europeans to their lowest point total on their 10-stop U.S. tour.
The Texas A&M men’s bas
ketball team opened up with a 17-
0 run and went nearly 11 miputes
before giving up its first field goal
in the final exhibition game of the
season in front of 2,637 fans at
Reed Arena Wednesday.
The Aggies’ defensive show
ing allowed them to work up a
27-point lead within the first
half over Lithuania’s Kraitene
Marijampole. The Aggies fin
ished the preseason with a 79-55
win, giving the Lithuanians their
lowest scoring total in their 10-
stop U.S. tour.
“We put an emphasis on de
fense,” said A&M coach Melvin
Watkins. “If you go back to the
first exhibition game, we were
not pleased with the defense,
lack of intensity and no effort.
The size and the making of a bas
ketball team is when you are not
pleased with something, you go
back and make it better, and I
was pleased with the fact that we
came out and started out the
game with intensity on defense.”
The intensity worked —
A&M held the Lithuanian team
to only 35 percent from the floor,
while the Aggies shot just shy of
50 percent. However, the Aggies
lacked the performance from the
charity stripe, shooting just 53
percent free throws to Kraitene
Marijampole’s 91 percent.
“Today we just tried to work
on our defense and make sure
were on the same side all the time
— get in there and get on the
boards,” said forward Keith Bean.
Spurred on by point guard Ja
maal Gilchrist’s return from in
jury, the A&M offense took on
new life as Gilchrist dished high
and low. All four of the other
starters scored in double figures.
Forwards Bean and Nick An
derson led the surge from down
low. Bean posted 17 points with
six rebounds and Anderson
scored 14 with eight boards.
Bernard King and Carlton
Brown rounded out the Aggies’
top scorers with 13 and. 10
points. Brown also posted nine
rebounds as the Aggies beat the
Lithuanian team on the glass by
a 42-34 margin.
No A&M player played more
than 30 minutes, and only one
healthy player was on the floor
for less than 10 minutes, as
Watkins made a concerted effort
to vary the lineup to get his en
tire roster some game time be
fore the season begins.
See Basketball on Page 2B.
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