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Sports
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THE BATTALION
Page 7
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Aggies up and rolling
3-0 team finds success early this season y
signs another prep star for 2002-2003
AGGIE
GUY ROGERS • THE BATTALION
[Junior quarterback Mark Fanis tries to escape an Iowa State defender
Dct. 27. Farris and the Aggies have lost three-consecutive games.
caching not only
roblem with Ags
TRUE
BROWN
ar just a
moment,
o rg e t
about R.C.
Slocum,
offensive
coordinator
Dino Babers
and the high
er-ups that are taking the heat for
re Aggies’ horrid finish to the
igular season.
After entertaining thoughts
>f a Big 12 South title just a
ronth ago, A&M fell off the
lace of the college football
/odd thanks to finishing the
ronth of November with an 0-
record, including a 12-0
imbarrassment on the road
[gainst Texas Tech.
Slocum, Babers and Co.
[annot be put solely at fault for
l&M’s trials and tribulations.
Lackluster performances by
rnior quarterback Mark Farris
lave contributed to each mark in
i&M's loss column this season.
And it is not a new trend.
This year has been the contin
uation of what was started
last season. To compete with
the elite teams of the nation
every year (like A&M
should), the Aggies must have
a big-game quarterback.
And a big-game quarter
back Farris is not.
While it should be noted
that Farris did something no
other Aggie quarterback has
ever done when he surpassed
the 2,500-yard mark last sea
son, it has been showings like
Friday’s 16-for-37 perform
ance that have cost A&M wins
in must-have games.
The rundown of Farris’s
big-game performances in
2000 and 2001:
• Nov. 11, 2000 against No.
1 Oklahoma: The Aggies lead
the eventual national champi
ons for most of the contest.
Ahead by three points with
See Farris on page 10.
DOUG FUENTES
The Texas A&M men’s bas
ketball team improved to 3-0 on
the season with a 91-70 victory
over Texas A&M-Kingsville
Monday at Reed Arena. The
Aggies will play games two and
three of a five-game homestand
this weekend when they host
Long Beach State on Friday at 8
p.m. and Loyola-Marymount
Sunday at 2 p.m.
Scoring in Bunches
The Aggies scored 60 points
in the second half against
A&M-Kingsville on Monday,
tying for the ninth most in a
half in school history. It was the
most points in a half since a 99-
96 victory over Long Island
during the 1989-1990 season.
Also against Kingsville, for
the second time this season, 12
A&M players scored. Prior to
this season, the last time A&M
had 12 players score in a game
was a 114-90 victory over
Florida International during
the 1989-1990 season. Nine
players scored in the Lamar
game Saturday.
Bean on a Roll
A&M forward Keith Bean
lead the Aggies’ second half
charge against A&M-Kingsville
on Monday, scoring a career-
high 20 points (17 in the second
half) on 8-of-8. Fourteen of
those points came in a three-
minute span of the second half
A&M basketball coach Melvin
Watkins was looking for some
thing in his halftime speech to
fire his team up after its lacklus
ter first half performance, and he
might have found the way to
press Bean’s button.
“I threatened to take all their
meal money,” Watkins said.
“That must have gotten across to
Keith (Bean) in particular.”
The 6-8, 260-pound Bean is
known for his appetite. When
he transferred to A&M two
years ago from North Carolina
State, he tipped the scales at
300 pounds. He made a pact
with his equally overweight
father, Fabian Bean, to lose
weight and fell to 240 last sea
son (his dad also lost more than
50 pounds). Bean bulked back
up last summer, this time in the
weight room but still has a
healthy appetite.
Signing the Future
Monday, the Aggies rounded
out their 2002 recruiting class
when Luis Clemente of Maine
Central Institute in Pittsfield,
Maine, signed a national letter-
of-intent to play for the Aggies.
Ranked as the 17th best fifth-
year prep school player in the
country by Hoop Scoop and
Basketball Times, the 6-foot-8,
225-pound Clemente is a native
of Puerto Rico.
“Luis is a little bit unknown
See Aggies on page 10.
GUY ROGERS • THE BATTALION
Junior forward Keith Bean hangs on the rim after dunking the ball Nov.
14. Bean exploded for 20 points against Texas A&M-Kingsville Monday.
eneurship
lost
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