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ving team had a rough start to the
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JfcM swimming coach Mel Nash
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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
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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.
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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.
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