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Monday, January 22, 2001 SPORTS THE BATTALION Page 9 lies 5 lifyfor Wer, reailj it 776-593! Univewj Wa+IMMi •ml2bator ■1532, leas ♦bills, sona "pus. M, 5/mo. R|» wcsrpE wnt, Sfffc 14bdm/4j? e bath, te 2133 WD>«: Jayhawks continue Aggies’woes, 100-70 LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kirk Hinrich keeps finding Kansas’ shooters, and they keep pay ing him off with big numbers in his assists column. The sophomore point guard had 10 assists Sat urday, his fourth double-digit game of the season, and No. 5 Kansas shot 52 percent from the field in a 100-70 victory over Texas A&M. “Kirk pushes the ball up the court nonstop. He doesn’t get tired,’’ said forward Drew Gooden, who had 19 points and 10 rebounds for his team leading sixth double-double of the season. “He’s like a cross country runner out there, and he dis tributes the ball really well.” Gooden, whom Kansas coach Roy Williams has used in a sixth-man role for much of the sea son, had his double-double in just 19 minutes. “It really tells you something when players like Drew Gooden are not even starting,” Texas A&M men’s basketball coach Melvin Watkins said. “When you have McDonalds All-Americans, Burger King All-Americans and whatnot, you’ve always got a good player on the bench.” Nick Collison, Kansas’ other standout sopho more, also had 19 points on 9-for-11 shooting from the field. Gooden shot 7-for-l 1 as the Jayhawks went over 50 percent for the 12th time in 16 games. They shot 52 percent (36-for-69) overall on Sat urday and had five players score in double figures. The Jayhawks (15-1,4-0 Big 12) have won six straight against A&M (6-11,0-5). Jeff Boschee went 4-for-6 from 3-point range and scored 14 points for Kansas, off to its sixth straight 4-0 conference start and its first 15-1 open ing to a season since 1997-98. Kenny Gregory added 12 points, and Luke Ax- tell had 10. ''We just do not have the size or the bodies to 1; Jr? matchup with all of their big men. ” WATKINS “When you play a team with one or two big scorers, you can usually focus on shutting them down,” Collison said. “But if you have to play us straight up, it’s going to be Tough, because one- on-one, we’ve got a lot of good players.” Sophomore guard Bernard King led the Aggies with 18 points and six assists but shot 5-for-18 from the field — including 2-for-9 on 3-pointers — under heavy defensive pressure from Boschee. “We knew Bernard was going to get points be cause he is a good player, but 1 think Jeff really bothered Bernard,” Williams said. Boschee hit two quick 3-pointers as Kansas took an 11-2 lead, but the Aggies’ persistence on the offensive boards — they matched Kansas 11- 11 in rebounding at that end in the first half — helped A&M pull within two points three times. But after senior forward Carlton Brown’s fol low shot cut Kansas’ lead to 26-24 with 8:42 left in the half, the Jayhawks went on a 24-5 run — in cluding a 12-0 streak — to go up 50-29 with just under a minute left before the break. “Last year we'd let down a little bit and let a team claw their way back up,” Gooden said. “This year, we know how to compete better. Teams aren’t going to claw their way up that often.” Gregory and Gooden had six points each in that run, while Kansas held the Aggies without a field goal from the 6:44 mark until 57 seconds remained in the half. “We just do not have the size or the bodies to match up with all of their big men,” Watkins said. “We did our best on the offensive rebounds, but we just could not keep up.” An 18-5 run in the second half, capped by Boschee’s final 3-pointer with 5:05 left, gave the Jayhawks their biggest lead at 88-50. Texas A&M shot 33 percent (24-for-72) from the field for the game. Brown had 14 points, and sophomore guard Jamaal Gilchrist added 10. PeppetTss 10-0410, IS walk to i, savm « negoteN <1 S29Jw 28Smo 1V til includes* n/2bth apa' us-route. C* 46. w/d, tat s (UrweW a, 2-duiss eludes al it airs bdrmiba , bath, waif 5994, , laugh-a-tf -T(6pnv9p r inkoMme® Ice alloiKity nhouse sl«d Costilla, 515/ 6. ants. DayW 1 lorida desti* : lowest pa*' 1 Tracksters strike gold at RAMZY Wire Reports NORMAN, Okla. — The Texas A&M men’s and women’s track and field teams won four gold medals and set two meet records at the Ok lahoma Classic held in the Mosier Indoor Facility on the Oklahoma cam pus Saturday. The 12th- ranked Aggie men were led by the senior duo of Kris Allen and Bashir Ramzy at the team’s annual indoor sea- son-opener. There was no team scoring at the meet. Allen, a three-time All-Ameri can from San Antonio, blazed to a time of 7.83 seconds in the 60-me- ter hurdles to win going away. In the process, Allen recorded a new fa cility record, a new meet record and posted an NCAA provisional qual ifying mark. Ramzy, a two-time All-Ameri can from Dallas, skipped out to a meet record and provisional-quali fying mark of 52-9 1/4 to win the triple jump by more than a foot. Teammate Brandon Evans had held the old meet standard of 51 -4 1/2 set last year. Mike Hummel got his 2001 campaign started off with a bang, securing the silver in the men’s 3,000. The defending Big 12 Cham pion in the indoor 1,000 clocked an 8:38.74 in a slow, tactical race which saw Texas Tech’s Gezachz Yossef win by 16 seconds. Other top finishers for the men included freshman Anderson Smith placing third in the long jump with a leap of 23-8 3/4 and the 1,600-me ter relay team also grabbing bronze with a 3:17.78 clocking. Melissa Gulli picked up where she left off last November when she earned All-America accolades in cross country by winning the women’s 3,000. The junior from Spring, paced the field with a personal-best 9:47.95 for an indoor 3K, a time just .46 seconds off Melissa Weaver’s school record mark of 9:47.49. Gul li does own two school records out doors, including the 3,000 (9:34.59). OU Classic Terra Taylor pulled off a mild upset in the women’s 20-pound weight throw, beating teammate Meshell Trotter by just over eight inches for the gold. The junior from Llano, hurled the weight out to a 55-9 measure to better the senior All-American's 55-0 1/4, second- place effort. Senior Christina Ohaeri picked up a second-place finish in the 60 hurdles. Oklahoma's Alesha Peel clocked a meet record time of 8.33 to nip Ohaeri at the tape by just .04 seconds in an closely-contested final. Robyn Burkhardt also found silver, clearing 5-4 1/4 in the high jump, ohaeri while Jennifer Whatley took the bronze in the mile run, posting a time of 5:05.41, less than five seconds off the win ning pace. A&M will be back in action next Saturday as it travels to Hous ton to compete in the Southwest In door Classic. — Sports in Brief — Advance baseball tickets go on sale For the first time, general ad mission tickets for all Texas A&M home baseball games will be on sale for advance purchase. The general admission seating will be located in the right-field bleachers and are $6 for adults and $4 for youth. Student seating will remain in sections 201 through 207. Season tickets are still avail able. The cost for season tickets is $140 for adults and $70 for youth. Individual reserved-seat game tickets go on sale Monday for $8 and can be purchased in person at the Athletic Ticket Office locat- edin G. Rollie White. Tickets can also be purchased by calling (979) 845-2311 or 1- 888-99-AGGIE. The deadline for Aggie Alley ap plications is Jan. 31. Student spots are $50 while a non-student spot is $100. The Aggies open their season Feb. 9, when they host Arkansas State at Olsen Field. First pitch is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. r B M ■ ■ MB Phi Beta Chi n ■ Mon., Jan. 22: Informational Meeting 7:30 ■ ■ Koldus 1 1 1 B ■ Business Attire ■ Tues., Jan. 23: “Fun on the Farm” 7:30 ■ ■ Koldus 1 1 1 B ■ Casual Attire HI ■ (feel free to wear overalls) i ■ Thurs., Jan. 25: Bible Study 7:30 m ■ Stark Galleries in the MSC te ■ Church or Business Attire m ■ FH., Jan. 26: Bid Party! Ri ■ TBA By invitation only THE 12TH MAN FOUNDATION IS NOW HIRING FOR POSITIONS IN ITS 2001 TELEMARKETING CAMPAIGN ; ' . I . Earn $6.00 per Hour* Plus Bonuses Gain Valuable Work Experience Flexible Scheduling * after the first 30 days 7 To apply, visit the 12th Man Foundation Office at the North End of Kyle Field, or fill out an application online at: www. 12thmanfoundation.com/telemarketing MOST POP 1 / break. ROOUCTO: Upset y/PjMW [ton auibost •CHASJ ON u'ng Continued from Page 7 A&M capitalized on the Bears’ slop py play in the first half, scoring 24 points off 12 Baylor turnovers. In the second half, the Bears did all they could to get back into the game, and came as close as three points with three minutes left in the game. The Bears were forced to foul the ggies with time running out, and &M went 7-of-8 from the free- hrow line in the final minute of the ame to seal the 87-81 victory. “I put our players on the free- hrow line when they were dead tired at practice. I think it really played off for us today,” said Gillom. “We needed to win this game,” illom said. “Our team really needed the confidence.” Baylor was a two-person show on i Saturday as Lambert and Crockrom Recounted for 63 of Baylor’s 81 points. ! “We have to have a third and forth scorer, and we didn’t today, and that really hurt us,” said Baylor omen’s basketball coach Kim ulkey-Robertson. The Baylor squad mustered just four points from their bench players. The Aggies were helped out greatly by 22 points from their bench players, despite losing sophomore forward Meg Banahan to a knee injury on Wednesday in Oklahoma. ! The win was the first for the Ag- igies over a ranked opponent since 1996 when the Aggies defeated Texas and Texas Tech in the semifinals and finals of the Southwest Conference post-season tournament. €4dLu3iaAK Where it matters most. 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