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JOHN UVAS • THE BATTALION
4&M senior guard LaToya Rose guards Iowa State's Tracy
■ahan during the Aggies' 88-71 win over the No. 6 Cyclones.
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THE BATTALION
Monday, January 14, 2002
A&M’s Rose blooms
against No. 6 Cyclones
By True Brown
THE BATTALION
On Saturday afternoon, Reed Arena saw
something it has never seen before. Unfortu
nately. Reed Arena was about the only thing
that saw it.
A sparse crowd of 1,385 turned out to see the
Aggie women’s basketball team defeat a top 10
squad for the first time since 1995.
Senior guard LaToya Rose scored a career-
high 28 points to lead A&M (10-5, 2-1 Big 12) to
an 88-71 win over the No. 6 Iowa State Cyclones.
The win was the first for A&M over Iowa
State (13-3, 1-3) and upped the Aggies' home
record to 6-2.
“Rose was on today,” said A&M coach Peg
gie Gillom. “We knew she could do this. Some
times she gets her head down a little, but this
was one time where she didn't get her head
down. She felt it today.”
From the opening tip-off to the final whistle.
Rose lit up the Cyclones from behind the 3-point
arc, hitting three straight in the first half to give
A&M an early 11-4 lead.
Rose remained a threat all afternoon, hitting 8-
of-15 3-pointers and tying a seven-year-old
school record for 3-point field goals made.
“Rose killed us from the outside,” said ISU
coach Bill Fennelly. “That helped them out a
great deal and spread us out even more.”
When Rose was not burning the Cyclones, it
was sophomore guard Toccara Williams.
Williams finished with 12 points, 12 assists
and was two rebounds and two steals away from
a quadruple-double.
The Aggies forced 32 turnovers from ISU, the
most the Cyclones have given up this season.
“When you turn the ball over 32 times you
aren’t going to win,” Fennelly said. “The hustle
plays to all the loose balls and tipped balls were
won by them. They were ready to go.”
A&M opened up as much as a 21-point lead
in the second half, but the Cyclones found new
life behind center Angie Welle and guard Lind
sey Wilson.
Welle and Wilson combined for all of ISU’s
points during an 18-4 run by the Cyclones.
A&M’s lead shrunk to six before A&M pulled
away in the last six minutes.
Welle finished with 22 points and 13 rebounds
to lead the Cyclones, and Wilson, ISU’s leading
scorer, was held to only four field goals.
“They started making a few 3’s, and we lost a
little focus,” Williams said. “Then we came out
of a timeout and tried to refocus. Then our adren
aline came back and our momentum did too.”
Aggies blaze past Kansas, 187-108
By Troy Miller
THE BATTALION
■ Clara Ho’s record-setting time in
He 200-yard butterfly qualified her for
tlv: NCAA Championships as she led
the Texas A&M women's swimming
£(M diving team to a 187-108 win over
Big 12 opponent Kansas Sunday.
I Ho swam a time of 1:59.17, break-
iig the A&M record she set in the
I‘>98-99 season.
I “I’m very excited to have (the
record) early in the season.” said Ho,
a senior All-American. “It was a goal
of mine.”
She also won the 100-yard butter
fly with a time of 55.34.
The win lifted the Aggies to a 4-4
mark while the loss dropped the Jay-
hawks to 5-2.
“It’s a big win in that we won a
meet that was pretty much a toss up
coming in.” said A&M coach Steve
Bultman. “We talked about that this is
our pool, our house and we don’t want
somebody coming in, and we talked
about stepping up, and I was really, re
ally pleased.”
A&M captured first place in all but
three of the 16 events. Courtney Pat
terson, Kelsey Savage, Ho and
Danielle Townsend made up the first
place 400-yard medley relay team.
Those same four swimmers
mopped up in the individual races,
each claiming two first place finishes.
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STUART VILLANUEVA • THE BATTALION
Sophomore Laura Fry swims in the 1000-yard
freestyle during A&M's win against Kansas.
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Baseball opens
practice today
The Texas A&M baseball
team will start preparation
for the 2002 season today.
Last season, the Aggies ad
vanced to the championship
game at the Big 12 tourna
ment before losing to eventu
al College World Series partic
ipant Nebraska.
"It is always exciting to get
back on the field after a long
off-season," said A&M coach
Mark Johnson. "We had good
workouts in the fall and we
look forward to getting back
on the field to prepare for the
upcoming schedule."
Men’s squad
falls to Auburn
The No. 19 Texas A&M
swimming and diving team
suffered its first defeat of the
season Saturday after falling
by a score of 164-124 to the
Auburn Tigers.
A&M jumped to an early
lead after sophomore All-
American Matt Rose an
chored A&M's win in the 200-
yard medley relay. Rose also
won the 50- and 100-yard
freestyle races.
"I was real pleased with a
lot of our performances to
day," said A&M coach Mel
Nash. "We look encouraging
in several places. Rose is
placing himself as one of the
big boys nationally with the
way he has been swimming
recently."
A&M travels to Louisiana
State University Friday.
The Aggies' next home
meet will be Jan. 26 against
No. 2 Texas.
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