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Banahan led the team in several categories last season. By Gary Livingston THE BATTALION The Texas A&M women’s basketball team was dealt a blow Monday when senior for ward Meg Banahan decided to retire due to continuing problems with an injury. Banahan had a career year last season, earning Honorable Mention All-Big 12 as she led the Aggies in many statistical categories, including a team best 1 1.2 points per game and scoring the most total amount of points with 325. Last season she scored double-digits in 16 games. She would have been one of the four returning starters on this season’s club. “We will definitely miss Meg,” said A&M head coach Peggie Gillom. “She was one of those players who played even when she was not 100 percent healthy. We are going to miss her as a team leader both on and off the court.” Along with leading the team in scoring and scoring average, Banahan was also the team leader in shooting percentage and 3- point percentage. She led the Aggies in free throw shooting last season hitting 79 percent from the charity stripe, ending her career ranked No. 5 all-time at A&M in career free throw shooting at 74.8 percent. “In looking to my future, I still wanted to be able to walk,” Banahan said. “More importantly, I don’t want any more surgeries. This is a tough decision and it didn’t come easy.” While the Aggies will miss Banahan’s scoring ability, they will also miss her dura bility. Last season Banahan started in 28 of A&M’s 29 games and averaged close to 25 minutes of playing time. In the season open er last season, Banahan played 40 minutes of a double-overtime game against Portland State. In that game she scored a career-high 29 points and hauled in 10 rebounds. Banahan is set to graduate in May with a degree in journalism. Until then, she says she plans to help out the team in any way possible. “It’s going to be extremely hard tor me to sit on the sidelines and watch my team play this season,” Banahan said. “I will still be there supporting the team and I’ve volun teered to help coach if they need me.” Banahan was a two-time selection to the First Team Academic All-Big 12 team, something Gillom says makes her very proud. “Meg is on time to graduate and will do it in four years,” Gillom said. “I know that is important to her and it means a lot to me as academics are a very important part of our program.” The A&M women’s basketball team will try to move forward from last season’s 13-16 overall and 5-11 conference records. Twins, Angels unlikely opponents in baseball’s ALCS MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Anaheim was given little chance of making the playoffs. Minnesota was worried about lasting until the start of spring training. They are unlikely contenders in the AL champi onship series, which opens Tuesday night in the boister ous Metrodome, the most unpredictable ballpark in the major leagues. Until now, the Angels have been known mostly for their past playoff failures. The Twins were a prime exhib it of a small-market team unable to compete, a franchise unwanted by its owner and designated for execution just last November. “The country wants to see the poor teams win and play."Minnesota outfielder Torii Hunter said. “I was root ing for the Angels. It’s going to be low-budget LCS. We all make minimum wage out there.” Not quite. Anaheim began the season with baseball’s 15th-highest payroll at $61.7 million. The Twins, 27th at$40.2 million, still paid their players an average of $1.2 million. Forfans, those are big bucks. But in baseball, it’s bar gain basement. Before this year, the teams in the top half of payroll standings won 219 of 224 postseason games since 1995. They’ve done a masterful job. There’s no question about that,” commissioner Bud Selig said Monday from his Milwaukee office. “The question is how long can they keep those players? The very teams we are talking about are the ones worrying about that.” Still, the only numbers that matter in the end are runs and wins, not dollars and cents. “I think both clubs play the game at a very high pace. They’re very, very aggressive on the bases,” Angels man ager Mike Scioscia said. “I think there’s a lot of parallels you can draw between the clubs.” Minnesota was, perhaps, a bit too aggressive in cele brating its 5-4 victory Sunday at Oakland, which put the Twins in the AL championship for the first time since they won the 1991 World Series. Denny Hocking caught the final out, wound up at the bottom of the celebration and split a fingernail when a teammate — he thinks it was Jacque Jones — stepped on his right hand. Hocking was replaced on the roster Monday by infield er David Lamb. Minnesota also added right-hander Bob Wells to the roster in place of Tony Fiore. Anaheim stayed with the same 25 who ousted the four-time defending AL cham pion New York Yankees in four games and advanced the wild-card Angels to their first championship series since 1986. Kevin Appier, a week ago the only Angel with post season experience, starts the opener against Joe Mays. Remembering the crowds that watched the Twins go 8- 0 in the Dome during the World Series in 1987 and 1991, Appier expects “probably the loudest game I’ve pitched in.” Minnesota was 54-27 at home during the regular sea son and just 40-40 on the road, so the Twins are pleased they will have the home-field advantage — and would in the World Series, too. It’s been a special season for the Twins, who didn’t - know they’d exist for sure until Feb. 5 — nine days before the start of spring training. Selig and owners voted last Nov. 6 to fold the franchise along with the Montreal Expos, but were blocked by courts from interfering with Minnesota's Metrodome lease. Baseball’s attempt to eliminate the Twins, who finished second in the AL Central to Cleveland a year ago, might have helped produce the successful season. “Once a group goes through some troubled times together, they become a tighter-knit group,” said Twins team president Jerry Bell. “That’s true in families, and it’s true in sports. I think it’s human nature.” Anaheim and Minnesota, teams with exciting young stars who haven’t before received national attention, are the first new pair of teams in the ALCS since 1996. They knocked off the winningest teams in the major leagues, who had 103 victories each. The Angels, who haven't played in a World Series since becoming an expansion team in 1961, think this is the special season that eluded founding owner Gene Autry, who died in 1998. Anaheim, owned by The Walt Disney Co., set a franchise record with 99 wins even after a 6-14 start, and is 16-9 at the Metrodome in the past five years. “We are very much alike,” shortstop David Eckstein said. “They’ve got speed. They do the little things. And it's the same with us.” The Society of Mcxican-American Engineers and Scientists would like to invite you to our Third'Meeting Thursday, October 10 lh ' i/ Cw 7:00 pm r - TTT RICH 108 Join us for Tortas* *The original Mexican sub Everyone is welcomed Bring a friend! http://www.maes.tamu.edu ACC IE ALCOHOL AWARENESS WEEK 2002 We, the students of Texas A&M University, do hereby support Aggie Alcohol Awareness Week and encourage our fellow students to make responsible decisions. Zac Coventry Student Body President Jennifer Partridge President, Eppright Hall Ben Dixon Chair, Transfer Ags Caroline Griffin President, Alpha Chi Omega Becky Morgan President, Philosophy Club Chris MahafYey President, Hobby Hall Nicole Mitchell President, Legett Halt Chris Durham President, Class ol 2003 Roger Lasater President, Delta Sigma Phi Debbie Westbrook President, Best Buddies Erin Bennett President, Class of 2004 Lisa Parrish President, Zeta Tau Alpha kami Lesher President, Delta Gamma April Martinez Chair, GUIDE Blake Berend Chair, MSC Hospitality Lauren Carruth President, Howdy Ags Tim Nutter President, Aggie Men’s Club Faith Stringer President, Neeley Hall Crystal Jordan President, Kappa Delta Emily Martin President, Psychology Club Mandy Rogillio President, Krueger Hall Cole Mackey President, Kappa Alpha Order Meredith Stallings President, Delta Delta Delta Ryan Summers President, Alpha Tau Omega Mary Lee Hackedorn resident, Kappa Alpha Theta Pete Burks President, Pi Kappa Phi Jessica Frasier President, NETWORKS Brian O’Neal President, Century Singers Clayton Roby President, Aggies In Mission Sarah Payne President, Chi Omega Suzanne Hill Spence Kiest Hall Council Brittany Denton President, Alpha Delta Pi Jonathan Lee President, Phi Beta Lambda Wendy Alexander President, Delta Zeta Scott A. Beimer Commander, B-Company Candice Brinkmeyer President, Festival Singers Ca rl Raetzsch President, Off Campus Aggies Stephen Bolline President, Lambda Chi Alpha Curt Steinhorst President, Class of 2005 Brian Prehn President, Kappa Sigma Brian “Smitty” Smith Secretary , Freudian Slip Greg Kay President, Sigm Phi Epsilon Terra Phillips esident. Biomedical Science Association John Stewart President, Interfraternity Council Julie Eagle Chair, The Lupe Medina Program Lori McLain Director, The Big Event Matt Vinson President, Alpha Gamma Rho Spence Pennington Corps Commander, Corps of Cadets J «hn Parrish Commanding Officer, squadron 17 Liz Wang President, Asian American Association Keltn Zimmer President, Kappa Kappa Gamma Tate Rosenbusch President, Farmhouse Fraternity Liz Schroeder Executive Chair, Whoopstock Council Jill Hoelscher President, COALS Student Council Michael Moffitt resident. Responsible Aggie Ue cisions Megan Dominguez President, The Wildlife Society Ashley Tull President, Health Physics Society Jennifer Otto Director of Affairs, Residence Hall Association / Jonathan Todd President, Alternative Spring Break Alicia Blasingame President, Student Council for Exceptional Children p el| ey Bowman ‘’resident, Nu Delta Alpha ance Honor Society Alexander Quiros President, Hispanic Graduate Student Council Victoria Springer President, Anthropological Society Michelle Hallmark President, Society for Human Resource Management Michelle Wildie President, Aggime (Anime Appreciation Society) Keli Bottles President, Collegiate Panhellenic Council ? rac ie Arenas r ector. Freshmen Leaders In “rogress Sloan Youngblood Executive Chair, Aggie REACH Turner Roach Chair, MSC Aggie Leaders of Tomorrow Avni Shah President, Delta Kappa Delta Soroity Jennifer Jones President, Lady Aggies In Spirit & Trust Tyler Dunman Chairman, Young Conservatives of Texas A&M C °dy Welch resident, Texas A&M American Society of Agricultural Engineers Atanacio Hinojosa Student Coordinator, Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar Chapter Josh Robinson President, Brotherhood of Christian Aggies Christopher Fields President, Texas A&M Associated General Contractors of America Malaky Ruiz President, Bilingual Education Student Organization Pablo Rodriguez Vice President of Diversity, Student Government Association Marco Valadez Executive Director, Aggie Orientation Leader Program Jennifer Kramer President, Department of Agricultural Education Aggie Reps Sophie Olyniec, Co-Director of Programs, MSC Abbott Family Leadership Conference
