The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 01, 2001, Image 9

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    February |
Index: Section B
iports 2B; Classified 4B; Opinion 5B
Hthursday, February 1,2001
Sports
Page IB
THE BATTALION
Sooners down Aggies, 93-70
By Brian Ruff
The Battalion
The Texas A&M women’s basketball
team fell short of knocking off two
straight ranked opponents at home last
night as the lOth-ranked Oklahoma
Sooners defeated the Aggies, 93-70, at
Reed Arena.
The Aggies upset the No. 25 Baylor
Bears on Jan. 20, the last time the Aggies
were at home.
The loss was the Aggies’ sixth straight
loss to the Sooners (16-4, 7-1 in Big 12)
and the largest home defeat A&M has suf
fered this season.
In the first half of play, the Aggies
looked sluggish, committing 18 turnovers.
The Sooners capitalized on the Aggie rhis-
cues, tallying 12 points off those
turnovers.
With eight minutes left in the half, ju-
■ nior guard Latoya Rose broke a three-
■ minute scoring drought by both teams
CfMwhen she drained a 3-pointer to give the
lHlf® Aggies their first and only lead of the
ame, 21-20.
The Sooners would slowly regain their
s ™h lead and looked to take a comfortable
5 nine-point lead into halftime.
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half, looked to find her groove when A&M
senior guard Brandy Jones found the
streaking Saunders moving down court.
Saunders lazed the ball into the basket
and was fouled in the process. Saunders
added the free throw to cut the Sooner lead
to three points. It would be the closest the
Aggies would get to regaining the leacl for
the remainder of the contest.
At the opening of the second half the
Aggies settled into a three-minute scoring
slump while the Sooners increased their
lead to 12 points.
OU continued to pull away from the
Aggies and ruin A&M’s upset hopes.
The Oklahoma squad added to its lead
with solid free-throw shooting in the sec
ond half of play.
The Sooners went 22-of-26 from the
line in the second half, including a 10-of-
10 performance by OU’s leading scorer,
junior guard LaNeishea Caufield.
The Sooners continued to add to their
lead later in the half and ended the game
with a 23-point lead, their largest of the
game.
The Aggies were led in the game by
freshman guard Toccara Williams, who
had a season-high 20 points.
Saunders had 19 points and eight re
bounds, but shot only 6-of-22 from the
floor.
“I have to give them credit; they played
really good defense, but I think I beat my
self,” Saunders said.
“Jaynetta is a terrific offensive player,”
said Oklahoma women’s basketball coach
Sherri Coale. “You can be guarding her
perfectly, and she’ll jump over you and
shoot it anyway.”
Caufield led the Sooners with. 26
points. The Sooners also had three other
players in double digits. Sophomore for
ward Caton Hill pulled down 12 rebounds
for the Sooners and added 21 points to the
OU cause.
“This team plays hard,” said A&M
women’s basketball coach Peggie Gillom.
“We fouled them like we did the last time.”
The last time the Aggies took on the
Sooners, A&M sent OU players to the
line a record 44 times. The Sooners took
35 trips to the free-throw line in Wednes
day’s game.
“They scored 27 points from the free
throw line, and that is entirely too much,”
Gillom said.
The Aggies (12-6, 2-6) will travel to
Lubbock this weekend to take on the
Texas Tech Lady Raiders. Tip off is set for
7 p.m. on Saturday.
A&M freshman forward Janae Derrick and
Oklahoma guard Stacy Dales fight for a
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Five members of the Texas A&M men's and women's tennis team's will
compete in the Rolex Indoor Intercollegiate Championships in Dallas.
Tennis teams set for indoor championships
By True Brown
The Battalion
Texas A&M will be well repre
sented today as five Aggies take the
court at the Rolex Indoor Intercolle
giate Championships in Dallas.
The tournament, which is the third
leg of the Intercollegiate Tennis Asso
ciation (ITA) grand slam, will feature
one of the strongest fields of the year.
The 32-player men’s singles field
has eight of the top 10 players in the
nation, including No. 1 Genius
Chidzikwe from Southern Methodist
University and defending NCAA
champion Alex Kim from Stanford.
The men’s doubles bracket will be
highlighted by the top three teams in
the nation while the women’s draw
will feature two of the top three.
For the Aggies, junior Jarin Skube
and seniors Cody Hubbell and Shuon
Madden will compete.
Madden will be in the singles
draw while Hubbell and Skube will
team up in the doubles event. The
duo qualified after winning the ITA
Regionals in October.
Madden, who teamed with senior
Dumitru Caradima two years ago to
win the doubles draw, will make his
third appearance in as many years.
This year will mark the first
time he has not been involved in
both doubles and singles play.
Madden said he plans to use that to
his advantage.
“This year, with me just being in
singles, I’ll only have one thing to
concentrate on,” Madden said. “It’s
.going to be a tough tournament, but
I feel confideht with the way I’m
playing right now.”
Unlike Madden, this will be
Hubbell’s and Skube’s f(fst appear
ance at the tournament.
“I feel like we don’t really have
anything to lose,” Hubbell said.
“Even though we have never been
there before we have a lot of confi
dence right now and we are ready to
lay it all on the line.”
Hubbell and Skube are currently
ranked No. 10 in the Wingspan-
bank.com rankings, the first time t
they have achieved a national rank
ing in doubles.
The pair has compiled a 12-3
record so far this season but has not
seen action together this spring.
“This is a great treat and honor for
them all,” said A&M men’s tennis
See Indoor on Page 2B.
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