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Wednesday, October 9, 2002
Banahan retires from basketball team
HLE PHOTO • THE BATTALION
A&M women’s basketball senior Meg Banahan announced her retirement from the
team for health reasons. 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