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lay, March 2, 2000 &M men’s swimming emains No. 2 in Big 12 Sports Page 5 THE BATTALION h a zontal to the jpside milia- I asci- •al As- rts. a Texas 'y flying aVs why super- ?eopJe r Jbrimy Brown gpatta//on The Aggie swimmers showed just W tired they were Thursday as the o. 4 Texas A&M swimming and ving team had a rough start to the ig 12 championships. JfcM swimming coach Mel Nash - lid the top Aggie swimmers would 2t rest for the Big 12 championships they could train longer for the CA A championships. |$\&M remained in second with 223 oints but fell further behind No. 1 exas. The Longhorns dominated the irstday by winning all five events and xtended their leading total to 441. I Nebraska remained in third place yith 171 points.With 157 points, Missouri took the fourth spot from owa State, which has 153. Kansas is ast with 80 points. ^Pr&M's best performance of the tighi belonged to its 400-yard medley •ela>, which placed second with a CAA consideration time of3:15.20. Texas won the event with an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 3:07.69. Despite having the fastest time going into the Big 12 championship, the A&M 200-yard freestyle relay finished third with a consideration time of 1:19.40. Texas won the event with a auto matic time of 1:18.27,' while Iowa State finished in second with a con sideration time of 1:18.77. In the 500-yard freestyle, A&M sophomore Patrick Dideum placed seventh, while freshman 'Scott Hansen, who had the sixth fastest time going into the meet, did not qualify for the top heat and took 12th place. Before the Big 12 championships, three of the four fastest 50-yard freestyle times in the Big 12 be longed to A&M, but none of the three swimmers who swam those times made the top eight. A&M senior Michael Colligan and freshman Matt Rose placed seventh and eighth in the event, both in consideration times. In the 200-yard individual medley, A&M freshman Scott Mueller swam a consideration time of 1:50.13 but placed 10th. Sports in Brief lag Olsen hosts 2001 Baseball Classic I The Texas A&M baseball squad will host the 2001 Continental Ex press Aggie Baseball Classic this weekend at Olsen Field. The Aggies (5-7) will take on the Indiana State Sycamores, the Penn State Nittany Lions, and the UNLV Rebels this weekend. All three squads are trying to rebound from a slow start this season. I The Nittany Lions come in from Happy Valley with a 2-5 record, UNLV comes to Aggieland with a 6- 9 mark, and the Sycamores have a 0-1 record on the season. ; The Aggies come into the tour nament on the heels of the team’s thrilling come-from-behind 7-6 victory over the Houston Cougars on Tuesday. Sophomore designated hitter Tim Petru led the Aggies by going 4-5 from the plate with three RBIs. A&M will open the tournament on Friday night when it takes on the Nittany Lions. First pitch is set for 7 p.m. The Aggies will play a double-header against Indiana State and UNLV on Saturday,with game times slated for 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. A&M will take on Sycamore again Sunday at 7 p.m. and close out the tournament with a double-header on Monday night against the Rebels and the Lions at 5 and 8 p.m. '7? % & Aggies head to Waco look for Baylor sweep FILE PHOTO/The Battalion The Texas A&M men's basketball team fights for the 11th seed in the Big 12 as it faces Baylor Saturday. By Jason Lincoln The Battalion The Texas A&M men’s basket ball team looks to complete its sec ond sweep of the season and move out of last place in Big 12 standings Saturday when it travels to Baylor. A&M. won the first meeting be tween the two teams, 73-69, ending a nine-game losing streak and kick ing off three wins in a row. The Aggies (10-18, 3-12 Big 12) are coming off a 97-69 loss to Ne braska. Baylor (16-10, 5-10) dropped a 71 -68 decision to Okla homa State Wednesday. Nick Anderson led the Aggies with 14 points in that game, and the team shot 47 percent. A&M was out- rebounded 45-34, but five Aggie players posted double-digit scoring performances to hold on for the win. Jesse King scored 13, Bernard King scored 11, and Andy Leatherman and Nolan Butterfras each posted 10. Baylor’s four double-digit scor ers were led by Terry Black with 21 points. Black combined with Greg Davis, Demarcus Minor and Wen dell Greenleaf to score 63 of the Bear’s 69 points. * “We did a pretty good job ,c>ii Black last time,” Watkins said. “We still will have to play one of our bet ter games to win up there.” *. Both Minor and Anderson are coming off successful games de spite not being able to grab the wini Anderson led A&M in Nebraska with 19 points, and Minor posted a game-high 23 points for the Bears in Stillwater, Okla. “ *; Anderson and King teamed up for much of the year to lead A&M’s of fense. Since Dec. 29, when A&M played Manhattan in Hawaii, one of the two has been the Aggies’ leading scorer every game. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. Saturday at the Ferrell Center in Waco. Both teams are vying for seeding in the final game before the Big 12 tournament. Baylor will either fin ish eighth or ninth, while the Aggies could finish in any one of the bot tom three spots. An A&M win would secure at least the 11th seed in the Big 12. The Big 12 tournament will begin at noon Thursday. Ags host softball tournament at the Complex By Amad Owidi The Battalion The Aggie Softball Complex will host the Ver izon Aggie Invitational this weekend, as the Texas A&M softball team defends its home field against three teams that are all hungry for victo ry. The Aggies’ competition this weekend in cludes the ranked University of Iowa Hawkeyes, Syracuse University Orangewomen and the Illi nois State University Redbirds. The Iowa Hawkeyes come into College Sta tion flying high with a 4-1 record. The Hawkeyes’ lone loss was to Illinois State, which also will compete in the tournament. The Hawkeyes’ trip to Texas marks the return of na tive Texan junior pitcher Kristi Hanks from San ta Fe, Texas. She leads the Hawkeyes’ pitchers with a 2-0 record. Hanks leads the team with a .71 earned run average. The Illinois State Redbirds swoop into Ag gieland with a 5-5 record. Two Redbirds also return to their home state this weekend — freshman infielder Jessica Har- beck from McKinney and sophomore pitcher Corey Harris from Dickinson. After a three-week hibernation, the Syracuse Orangewomen will return to action in the invita tional with a 1-4 record. The Aggies enter the invitational ranked 12th in the nation and riding a six game winning streak. The Aggies will look to keep things going the same way and change a few in the process. “Tournaments are good because a lot of peo ple get chances to play,” said A&M softball coach Jo Evans. “A lot of games in a few days is good for us.” The Aggies will play six games in three days See Invitational on Page 8. Engineers' Council http://sec, tomu. edu