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SPORTS IN BRIEF
A&M men fall to
Cowboys, 66-51
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) -
The 12th-ranked Oklahoma
State Cowboys outscored
Texas A&M 16-1 in the final
7:01 of the game to top the
Aggies 66-51 Saturday night
at Gallagher-lba Arena.
After lead
ing by 16 in
the first half
and by 10 in
the second,
OSD strug
gled to hand
the Aggies
their ninth
straight loss. king
Melvin
Sanders tied his career high
with 18 points, and Victor
Williams scored 17 for
Oklahoma State (23-7, 10-6
Big 12).
A&M sophomore forward
Jesse King had a career-high
17 for Texas A&M (9-21, 3-
13). Bernard King, defended
by Sanders most of the night,
had 12 points on 5-of-17
shooting.
The Aggies missed their final
eight shots — including three
straight from in close on one
possession when the score
was 55-51 — and they turned
the ball over four times.
"I thought our kids played
hard, but they cannot make
the mental mistakes they did
down the stretch," coach
Melvin Watkins said. "At the
end of the game, with the
possessions we had, we just
didn't make the plays."
The Cowboys got points
from six players in an 18-3 run
that gave them a 23-7 lead
midway through the first half.
Texas A&M committed seven
turnovers during that stretch,
including six in a row, and
managed only a 3-pointer by
Bernard King.
But Oklahoma State went
cold after that, making one
field goal in the final 9:20 as
the Aggies rallied. While the
Cowboys got away from the
inside game that helped them
build the lead, A&M succeed
ed in the paint and got to 27-
24 at halftime.
Ags place five on
All-Academic team
The Texas A&M men's bas
ketball team placed more stu
dent-athletes on the 2002
Academic All-Big 12 Team
than in the previous five years
the league has existed with
five players earning the honor.
First-team members from
A&M are sophomore forward
Jesse King (general studies),
sophomore center Andy
Slocum (agricultural business)
and sophomore guard Dylan
Leal (general studies).
Second team members are
senior guard Andy Leatherman
(speech communications) and
junior forward Brian Brookhart
(agricultural economics).
The most any school has
placed on an academic all
league team was Iowa State
with seven in 1996-97. The
Big 12 Conference named a
total of 26 student-athletes to
the 2002 all-academic team.
Oklahoma
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Jonzen is
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team.
Other repeat honorees
include Kansas junior Nick
Collison and Kansas State
senior Ivan Sulic. Nominated
by each institution's director of
student-athlete support ser
vices and the media relations
offices, the men's basketball
academic all-league squad
consisted of 15 combined
first-team members with 11
on the second team.
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Men’s tennis survives
cold, wins two matches
By Kevin Espenlaub
THE BATTALION
As the members of the No. 24
Texas A&M men’s tennis team
bundled up on the bleachers of
the Bryan Tennis Center and
watched their teammates com
pete against Abilene Christian
University Saturday morning,
two things became clear.
The first was that Abilene
Christian was no match for the
Aggies. A&M (7-2) swept three
doubles matches from ACU (4-
7) before adding singles victo
ries on courts No. 4, 5 and 6 to
clinch the match victory, 4-0.
Victories in singles went to
senior Jarin Skube and freshmen
Derrick Bauer and Hunter
Emmott.
And second, the weather was
not tennis friendly and the final
three matches of the team con
test were called off due to tem
peratures in the mid-30s.
The weather sent the Aggies
scrambling to find a location for
their afternoon matchup against
No. 69 Boise State University.
They would end up playing
indoors at The Woodlands
Tennis Center near Houston.
The coaches decided not to play
doubles matches and only play
the six singles matches.
Junior Ryan Newport, No. 36
in the country, continued to
struggle leading the Aggies, los
ing 6-2, 7-6, against Boise
State’s Marcus Berntson on
court No. 1. Newport sat out of
competition during the first
match in Bryan.
The Aggies swept courts 2
through 6, however, claiming
the 5-1 victory and improving to
8-2 for the spring season.
Court 2 saw a struggle by No.
63 freshman Lester Cook, who
won a doubles match with
Emmott earlier against ACU, as
he claimed a hard-fought three-
set match against Guillaume
Bouvier (7-5, 6-7, 7-6).
The other four Aggies
cruised to victories, including
sophomore Khaled El Dorry,
who recorded his seventh
straight singles victory on
court 6, and senior Keith From,
who broke a four-match sin
gles losing streak with a (7-5,
6-1) victory on court 4.
Skube, No. 80 in the nation,
was the only Aggie to complete
singles matches against both
opponents in the doubleheader,
scoring two victories.
The Aggies now begin prepa
ration to visit one of their biggest
non-conference rivals, the No.
15 Louisiana State University
Tigers on Wednesday at 4 p.m.
No. 23 Aggies win two at
weather-shortened tourney
Staff and Wire Reports
The No. 23 Texas A&M softball team went 2-0
on the only day of the Verizon Aggie Invitational II
on Friday at the Aggie Softball Complex.
The rest of the tournament was called off due to
cold and inclement weather.
In the opener, A&M held off Illinois State 2-1,
and then came from behind to upset No. 19
Louisiana-Lafayette 3-2, as Cheryl Fowler scored
the game winner in the bottom of the seventh
inning.
The Aggies (16-4) broke a scoreless tie against
the Redbirds in th6 top of the fifth inning when
senior second baseman Lisa Klam led off with a
triple to right field.
Freshman right fielder Adrian Gregory plated
Klam with a one-out single through the left side.
A&M went up 2-0, when Fowler, batting in the
seventh hole, hit a one-out home run over the left
field fence in the sixth inning.
Senior first baseman Kelly Ferguson broke out
of a 5-for-52 slump at the plate, going 2-for-2 with
a two-run home run, and sophomore pitcher
Jessica Slapater gave up only two hits while strik
ing out eleven to lead A&M to victory over the
No. 19 Lady Cajuns of ULL.
The score was 2-2 going into the bottom of the
seventh inning when Fowler reached base on a
fielder’s choice and stole second. Jennifer Davis
then ripped a single to left field to avdance Fowler
to third. ULL left fielder Crystal George hobbled
the sharply hit ball, and Fowler beat George’s
throw to the plate to give the Aggies the win.
Slapater improved to 8-2 as the Aggies snapped
ULL’s nine-game winning streak.
The Aggies resume play this Wednesday with a
doubleheader at Stephen F. Austin.
Ags face Tech in Big 12 first round
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)
— No. 1 Kansas, the only mem
ber of a major conference to go
unbeaten in league play this
year, draws the top seed and a
first-round bye in the Big 12
tournament this week.
Also getting byes in the first
round are No. 5 Oklahoma, Texas
and No. 12 Oklahoma State, who
all finished 2-3-4 behind the
Jayhawks in the regular season,
which ended Sunday with Kansas
beating Missouri 95-92
Opening the tournament at
noon Thursday will be eighth-
seeded Nebraska (13-14, 6-10)
vs. No. 9 seed Colorado (14-13,
5-11).
At 2:20, No. 5 seed Texas
Tech (21-7, 10-6) meets No. 12
Texas A&M (9-21, 3-13).
At 6 p.m.. No. 7 seed Kansas
State (12-15, 6-10) meets No. 10
Baylor (14-15, 4-12). At 8:20 it
will be No. 6 seed Missouri (20-
10, 9-7) against No. 11 Iowa
State (12-18, 4-12).
On Friday, the Nebraska-
Colorado winner meets Kansas
(27-2, 16-0) at noon. At 2:20,
Oklahoma State (23-7, 10-6)
meets the Texas Tech-Texas
A&M winner.
In the evening games, it’s
Oklahoma (24-4, 13-3) vs. the
Kansas State-Baylor winner, and
Texas (19-10, 10-6) vs.
Missouri-Iowa State winner.
In the semifinals on Saturday,
The winner of Friday’s Kansas
game plays the winner of the
Friday’s Oklahoma State game
at 1 p.m. At 3:20, the winner of
the Oklahoma game meets the
winner of the Texas game.
The championship game is 2
p.m. Sunday.
Victory
Continued from page 7
up to the plate I had a good feel
ing, especially with Matt
Alexander getting on base. It
just added to the excitement
when Travis got hit. I can’t get
any RBIs without guys on so
they did a great job. Then, when
I got up to the plate, it was just a
good feeling, probably some of
that Olsen magic.”
Stephenson would score on a
wild pitch by Chad Ertel, who
had replaced Gooch, to make it a
4-1 game.
Before the Aggies’ outburst
in the eighth inning, the game
was shaping up to be a pitching
duel between Gooch and A&M
sophomore Ryan Warpinski.
Gooch gave up a RBI double
to Mavroulis in the third, but
only allowed A&M three more
hits until the eighth inning.
Warpinski matched Gooch
pitch for pitch, making the most
of his first weekend start.
Warpinski gave up one hit, a
double to Tech's Willie Durazo
in the fourth inning, through his
first six innings of work.
Durazo would get to
Warpinski again in the seventh,
this time sending a driving shot
through the wind and over the
right field wall to tie the game
at one.
Warpinski would get through
the inning and give way to
A&M sophomore Matt Farnum
(3-1), who pitched a perfect 1
1/3 innings to close out the
game and pick up his second
victory of the series.
“You had a couple of pitch
ers pitch well,” said Texas Tech
head coach Larry Hays. “We
had some chances that we didn’t
take advantage of and they took
advantage of the chances they
had. We just didn’t make a cou
ple of plays. We didn’t do any
thing to help ourselves the
whole series.”
Warpinski pitched 7 2/3
innings, allowing only one run
on three hits and striking out 10.
Gooch (2-1) took the loss for
the Red Raiders (14-7, 0-3), giv
ing up four runs in 7 1/3 innings
pitched, striking out six and
walking one.
The sweep over Tech helped
keep a couple of streaks alive
for the Aggies.
It was the first time since
1993 that A&M had swept the
Red Raiders and kept the
Raiders winless in a series at
Olsen Field since 1973.
“I think it helps us a bunch,”
Johnson said. “It’s only three
games but I don’t think a lot of
people are going to - sweep Texas
Tech. I think we caught them at
the right time. Everything fell our
way. I feel fortunate. When
you’re at home, you have to get
some of those wins and if you can
get a sweep, it’s a major plus.”
The Aggies return to action
Tuesday as they host the
University of Texas-Arlington
Mavericks at 7 p.m. at Olsen
Field.
Freezes
Continued from page 7
Karlikova, who played much of last season as
a top A&M seed, has slowly worked her way
back into the top of the lineup and looked strong
Friday as she dominated Arizona’s Perrine
Pernin 6-1, 6-3.
The Aggies had a chance to win as senior
Leah Killen and sophomore Roberta Spencer
had opportunities to win their matches that
would have given A&M the match 4-3.
It was not meant to be though, as Arizona
escaped the frozen tundra of College Station
with its first win against a ranked opponent this
season.
The match was moved to covered facilities in
Bryan due to inclement weather and Arizona did
not seem to mind. It followed its doubles victo
ry by winning on courts No. 1 and 2.
“I think they played better than us indoors,”
said A&M head coach Bobby Kleinecke.
“Would it have been different outdoors? I don’t
know but they played better than we did tonight.
“[Arizona] played very well. I don’t think we
played bad. I think at times we played really
well, they just played better.”
The Aggies have a chance to rebound from
the loss to Arizona on Tuesday as they have
their second doubleheader of the season against
Abilene Christian University and Steven F.
Austin at the Varsity Tennis Center.
Game time for SFA is noon with Abilene
Christian slated for 6 p.m.