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Page IB • Thursday, February 27, 2003
Aggies knocked off at home by OSU team
By Blake Kimzey
THE BATTALION
The Oklahoma State University
Cowgirls had to de-ice their plane
before it took off from Stillwater. Okla.
on Tuesday night, but the defrosted
flight to College Station was worth the
trip. On Wednesday night, the Texas
A&M women’s basketball team was
dominated by the OSU offense to the
tune of a 48-68 stomping in front of a
sparse crowd at the usually Aggie-
friendly Reed Arena.
The Aggies were hoping to beat OSU
for the first time at home since the 1997
campaign, but history repeated itself as
the Cowgirls neutralized the Aggie
defense with inspired play. OSU Head
Coach Julie Goodenough, in her first
season at the helm, was impressed by
her squad’s late season offensive execu
tion and ability to clean the offensive
and defensive glass.
“We’ve been saving that up,”
Goodenough said. “Our two keys to the
game were to come out and control the
boards and take care of the ball, and I
think our rebounding effort (+11) bal
anced out our (20) turnovers.”
Going into the half, down 28-23,
A&M needed the offensive production of
freshman guard Natasha Summerville to
keep the-game within reach, who came
off the bench to score eight quick points.
Aggie Head Coach Peggie Gillom tried
to implement a second half press to con
trol OSU, but the Cowgirls found a way
to easily navigate the outstretched arms
of the Aggie defense with crisp passing.
“We tried to use the press to get us
back in the game in the second half, but
we just couldn’t sustain it,” Gillom said.
“We kept telling our girls that this game
was still reachable, but right now we’re
just too banged up.”
In fact, despite the Aggie press, OSU
came out and hit seven of its first nine
shots of the half, including three triples
to stretch its lead to 16 within the first
five minutes.
OSU Head Coach Goodenough
praised her players ability to judicious
ly dissect the Aggie defense.
“Our girls did a good job making
decisions,” she said. “Patience has not
been our strong suit all year, but
tonight our girls pulled the ball out and
played smart.”
In the end, it was the Aggies contin
ued inability to convert on the offensive
end that cost them the game. The
Cowgirls held junior center Lynn
Classen, the Aggies second leading scor
er, to just three points for the game,
almost seven below her season average.
“We just didn't come out to play
tonight,” Gillom said. “We’ve been
having trouble scoring and we
haven’t found someone consistent
enough to go to.”
To the Aggies credit, their bench
managed to outscore the OSU bench by
a margin of 21 -0.
Up next for the Aggies will be their
final home game of the season against
Baylor University this Sunday at 2 p.m.
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A&M guard Toccara Williams drives past an Oklahoma State defender. The Aggies lost
Wednesday’s game 68-48 at Reed Arena. Williams scored 10 points in the A&M loss.
No. 22 A&M visits Austin
By Jeff Allen
THE BATTALION
The No. 22 Texas A&M women’s
swimming team will be looking to
rebound from last week’s Big 12
Championships held at the
University of Texas when it returns
to Austin to compete in the Bevo
Invitational this weekend.
After claiming a fourth consecu
tive runner-up finish in the confer
ence, the Aggies will head into the
event for one last chance at claiming
race times capable of propelling
themselves into the NCAA
Championships to be held on March
20-22 in Auburn, Ala.
In the Big 12 meet at the Lee and
Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center,
the Aggies finished second for the
fourth year in a row behind the
women from UT. The Longhorns
claimed their fifth straight Big 12 title.
In the process, the Aggies still
managed to make one of the best
showings in school history, claiming
three individual races for the first
time under current Head Coach
Steve Bultman.
“We’re excited about getting sec
ond,” Bultman said. “At this point it
is as good as we can do. We were
closer to them this year than we
were last year, and that is what we
See Swimming on page 3B
Archery team hosts Indoor Championships
By Marcus White
THE BATTALION
Archers from across Texas will
storm College Station this weekend as
the Texas A&M archery team hosts one
of nine events in the 34th National
Indoor Target Championships taking
place at indoor locations across the
United States. The contest will consist
of nine regional competitions, after
which National Archery Association
officials will compile scores and name
a winner in both the recurve and com
pound disciplines.
During the past several years, A&M
has quietly developed one of the pre
miere archery programs in the nation.
Head Coach Kathy Eissinger has led the
Aggies to seven consecutive National
Championships, including three since
the University granted the sport of
archery varsity status in 1999.
Eissinger has coached Aggie archers
to seven individual collegiate national
titles for the past three years, including
two-time indoor compound champion
junior Mary Zorn.
Zorn has raised the bar in indoor
competition. Last year, she shot a colle
giate record 1,171 at the national
indoor championships, besting the
1,156 mark she had set at the same
competition as a freshman.
Zorn’s only indoor rival is fellow
Aggie archer sophomore Amber
Dawson. Dawson, who finished the
2002 season ranked first in compound
shooting in the nation, was the first
archer to beat Zorn in collegiate compe
tition during last year’s Lone Star FITA
in Austin.
“I try not to think of it as competing
against Mary,” Dawson said. “But we
definitely push each other.”
As a freshman, Dawson was set to
compete in the World Target
Championships in Beijing, China, when
the Sept. 11 tragedy forced the closing
of American airports.
“We were on the tarmac in Dallas
waiting to leave for Chicago when the
captain came on and said there had been
a national security breach,” she said.
“We were all very frightened.”
In the Aggies’ last competition,
Dawson won her first-ever indoor colle
giate title, capturing the 2003 Texas
State Indoor Championship with a
1,153-1,121 victory over freshman
See Archery on page 3B
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