Monday, January 22, 2001
Sports
THE BATTALION
Women’s swim team
splits pair of meets
By Jeremy Brown
The Battalion
The Texas A&M women’s
swimming and diving team fell
one race short of a sweep of the
University of Houston and the
University of
Nebraska in
dual meets this
weekend at the
Student Recre
ation Center
Natatorium.
After domi
nating Houston
on Friday 170- HO
120, A&M lost
the dual meet to Nebraska on Sat
urday, 152-147.
“A couple of times [Nebraska]
got first and we got second, third
and fourth, but if we would have
gotten a couple of more first
places in there it would have
made a huge difference,” said
A&M women’s swimming coach
Steve Bultman. “Actually, just
one more would have made a
huge difference.”
The Aggies made it close de
spite winning only five of the 16
events. A&M’s depth allowed it to
have three swimmers score points
in almost every event.
The dominance of the A&M
divers also played a big part in
keeping the meet close.
Junior Meghan Zack won the
one-meter and three-meter spring
board diving events, making her
the only A&M woman to win two
individual events against Nebras
ka. She had a career-best score in
the three-meter springboard.
The rest of the A&M divers had
a good meet as well, allowing Ne
braska to only get one diver in the
top five in each diving event.
Sophomore Sharisse Blau in the
200-yard freestyle and junior Clara
Ho in the 100-yard butterfly were
the only other Aggie swimmers to
win individual events.
Ho was competing for the first
time since contracting pneumonia
earlier this winter.
“It has been hard for me to deal
*with being away from the team,”
Ho said, “It’s good to be back with
everyone.”
Freshman Michelle Bird, junior
Michelle Riggins, sophomore
Monica Nichols and Blau gave
A&M its only other win by barely
edging out Nebraska in the 400-
yard freestyle relay.
While the meet against Nebras
ka was close, the Houston meet
was a blowout.
By winning 12 of the first 13
events, A&M jumped out to a large
lead over Houston, making the fi
nal three swims exhibitions.
Some of the A&M swimmers
accumulated points despite com
peting in events they do not nor
mally compete in.
“I thought it would be closer
than that but the girls really
stepped up,” Bultman said. “We
had a lot of season-best times.”
The A&M women have one dual
meet left against Rice on Thursday
at the Rec Center Natatorium.
After the Rice matchup, the
women will begin preparing for
the Big 12 Championships on Feb.
15-17 in Austin.
“Basically, most of the hard
work is done,” Bultman said,
“Now we start sharpening up and
doing a little more focus on speed
and base things, let them rest a lit
tle bit, and go to conference.”
Saunders leads Aggies over Bears
SUSAN REDDING/The Battalion
Texas A&M senior forward Jaynetta Saunders goes up for a shot over Baylor's Danielle
Crockrom in the Aggies' 87-81 victory over the Bears on Saturday at Reed Arena.
A&M women defeat
Top 25 opponent for
first time since 1996
By Brian Ruff
The Battalion
The Texas A&M women’s basketball team
overcame a 41 -point performance by Baylor’s
Danielle Crockrom to send the 25th-ranked
Baylor Bears packing, 87-81, at Reed Arena
on Saturday.
The game featured the Big 12 conference’s
top three scorers, and they did not disappoint, ac
counting for more than half of the matchup’s
scoring.
Senior forward Jaynetta Saunders had her
best offensive performance at home this season,
scoring 34 points and hauling in 11 rebounds.
Defensively, Saunders also had four blocks and
two steals on the afternoon.
“Jaynetta needed to hit those shots, and she
did,” said A&M women’s basketball coach Peg
gie Gillom.
Baylor (13-3, 2-3 in Big 12) had two offen
sive standouts in the game. Junior point guard
Sheila Lambert, the nation’s third leading scor
er, had 22 points and 12 assists on the day.
Crockrom was the leading scorer in the con
test with a career-high 41 points and 22 re
bounds. Her 22 rebounds were the most by a
player at Reed Arena.
In the first half of play the Aggies (12-5, 2-
4) battled back and forth down the floor with
Baylor.
With just under 13 minutes left in the half and
the Aggies trailing by three points, A&M went
on its biggest scoring run of the game.
Saunders, along with junior guard LaToya
Rose lifted the Aggies to a 13-point lead over the
Bears, their largest of the game.
Rose accounted for 10 of the Aggies’ points
during the 16-0 run, including two 3-pointers.
With two minutes left in the half, the Bears
cut the Aggie lead - down to two points, but A&M
would make one more run.
After Saunders missed her second free throw,
senior guard Brandy Jones fought for the re
bound and hit the layup to increase the Aggie
lead to six.
With just seconds left, freshman guard Toc-
cara Williams took the ball into the lane and got
a shot to fall that looked to end the half.
An errant Baylor inbound play landed the
ball in Williams-’ hands again, and the hot-hand
ed guard fired a pass back towards the basket,
where Saunders caught the pass in midair and
put the ball off the glass just as the buzzer
sounded.
The series of plays gave the Aggies a 10-point
lead and a mountain of momentum going inta
halftime.
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