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THE BATTALION
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emission fr-MM head coach Melvin Watkins made the most of
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construct;-M over Texas A&M-Kingsville Monday night at
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■“He got on us,” said A&M junior guard Bernard
Kirg. “He came in and said it was time to play.
The intensity was high in the second half. We just
( really played.”
■A&M-Kingsville out-hustled the Aggies early in
the game, getting second chances on most of its shots
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guard Kendall Garland hit two consecutive three-
■nters, his second after two-straight Javelina offen-
■e rebounds, to give A&M-Kingsville a 12-11 lead.
■The Aggies kept the Javelinas within reach, and
with less than 2:00 in the half. King rifled a pass in
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layed the ball into the basket and was fouled by
freshman forward Richard Gonzalez. Brookhart
made the free throw, giving the Aggies a 31-30 lead.
The Javelinas jumped back on top to close the
first half, scoring three points in the final minute to
take a 33-31 lead into the locker room.
The Aggies came out confident, going on a 10-2
run that was all the spark they needed.
Four A&M-Kingsville turnovers started the half
and allowed the Aggies to pull away, capitalizing on
13 Javelina turnovers in the second half.
Junior forward Keith Bean led the Aggie charge in
the second half, scoring 17 points and going a perfect
eight-for-eight from the floor.
“I felt great,” Bean said. “I tried to score every
time or kick it out when they double-teamed me. I
felt like Bernard [King] a little bit.”
With 1 1:00 left in the game. Bean began his scor
ing streak, hitting a shot while being fouled. Bean
was unable to convert the free throw, but King came
down with the rebound and found Bean near the bas
ket. The 6-foot-8-inch Bean layed the ball in for his
fourth-straight point.
Bean’s streak was not complete and he was fouled
once again on a lay-up on the Aggies next possession
and this time, converted on the free throw to give the
Aggies a 59-48 lead.
After pulling down a defensive rebound. Bean
found his way under the basket again, where he
scored on a lay-up off an assist by King for his ninth-
See Dominate on page 10.
GUY ROGERS • THE BATTALION
Junior forward Keith Bean gets fouled going up for a shot during A&M’s 91-70 win over Texas A&M-
Kingsville Monday night at Reed Arena. Bean led the Aggies in scoring with 20 points.
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A&M volleyball earns host site for NCAA tournament
By Doug Fuentes
■ THE BATTALION
■ The No. 15 Texas A&M vol
leyball team received its ninth
consecutive at-large berth to the
NCAA Championship and will
st the first and second rounds,
icNCAA announced Monday.
The Aggies (23-5), seeded
1th in the 64-team field, face
ts. University of Texas-
Arlington (22-11) in first-round
action Friday, Nov. 30 at 7 p.m.
at G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Northeastern University (23-
10) and the University of Texas-
Austin (16-13) also have been
sent to College Station and will
meet at 5 p.m. Friday. The win
ners of the first-round matches
will square off Saturday at 7
p.m. at G. Rollie.
A&M, making its 13th overall
NCAA appearance, enters the
tournament riding a two-match
winning streak after sweeping
both Texas and Texas Tech last
week in College Station to finish
second place in the Big 12
Conference with a 16-4 mark.
The Aggies, who have never
lost an NCAA first-round
match under ninth-year head
coach Laurie Corbelli, sport a
13-12 all-time record in the
NCAA tournament.
A&M’s best finish in the
NCAAs was in 1999 when the
Aggies advanced to the Elite
Eight after sweeping both
Stephen F. Austin and North
Carolina in College Station and
then upsetting No. 3 Hawaii,
the top seed in the Mountain
Regional, in four games in
Honolulu.
The Aggies were eliminated
by No. 6 and Final Four-bound,
Long Beach State.
Last year, A&M was sent to
Stockton, Calif, where the Aggies
defeated Houston in the first
round and were eliminated by
host Pacific in the second round.
UTA, which received an
automatic berth by winning the
Southland Conference tourna
ment, is making its seventh
appearance in the NCAAs and
its first since 1990. The
Northeastern Huskies are head
ed to their first NCAA
Volleyball Championship after
receiving an automatic bid by
winning the America East
Conference tournament.
The winner of the second
round match will advance to
regional play, Dec. 6-9, at one
of four campus locations yet to
be determined.
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