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Aggies finish 19th
at NCAA finals
Staff & Wire
THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M men’s cross
country team posted its highest
national finish in more than 40
years witli a 19th place finish
with 447 points at the 2003
NCAA Cross Country
Championships Monday at the
cold and windy Irv Warren Golf
Course in Waterloo, Iowa.
It was the second-highest
team finish in school history
behind the Aggies’ 12th place
finish in 1961. Stanford won the
men’s team crown in dominat
ing fashion with 24 points while
placing five runners among the
top 12 finishers.
“One of the first goals we
established when we came
together as a team in August was
a top 20 finish at the NCAA
meet,” A&M head cross country
coach Dave Hartman said. “Their
performance is a credit to the hard
work this team put in this season
and during the summer. All that
hard work paid off with our high
est team finish since 1961.”
The Aggies, who were mak
ing their second straight appear
ance at the NCAA
Championships, were led by
All-America performances by
fifth-year seniors Tommy Bonn
and Andrew Cook. Bonn, a Big
12 Champion in track and field,
finished 39th overall while cov
ering the 10,000-meter loop in
30:14.8 to earn his first All-
America citation. Cook, who
came to Texas A&M as a non
scholarship athlete, finished
50th in a time of 30:24.1.
“Tommy and Andrew ran
extremely strong and smart
races,” Hartman said. “They got
out quickly with the front group
and then steadily moved up
throughout the race. They came
up with big-time performances
in the biggest race of the year,
which is what we had been
training for all year.”
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Zorn equals best
at UT tournament
Texas A&M senior Mary Zorn
captured her fourth consecu
tive Longhorn Invitational title
by equaling her lifetime-best
score indoors.
The reigning outdoor com
pound world champion won the
tournament with a score of
1,171 (out of 1,200). That mark
equals the score she shot at
indoor nationals in March 2002.
Zorn shot no less than 292 out
of 300 in any of her four rounds.
World championship finalist
Amber Dawson finished in sec
ond place with a near-lifetime-
best mark of 1,156. Freshman
Brenda Temperley jumped over
sophomore All-American
Amanda Raffaelli on the final
day for third place, 1,131 -1,127.
Freshman Corinne Yohann
won the first tournament of her
young Aggie career by unseat
ing three-time defending cham
pion Lorinda Cohen in the
recurve division. Yohann fired a
score of 1,106 for the title, her
first score over the 1,100 mark.
Sports
The Battalion
Aggies kick off season with a win
JP Beato III • THE BATTALION
Aggie sophomore forward Antoine Wright goes up for a layup against Arkansas Pine Bluff's Jarvis
Gunter in the first half of play Monday night. The Aggies won the season opener, 82-53.
By Troy Miller
THE BATTALION
For the first time in four years the Texas
A&M men’s basketball team took the floor
without Big 12 all-time leading scorer
Bernard King in the lineup in a 82-53 win
over Arkansas-Fine Bluff.
Sophomore guard/forward Antoine
Wright, the heir apparent to King, also
began the game out of the lineup. Wright,
along with senior center Andy Slocum,
another usual starter, started on the bench.
“They didn’t follow team policies,” said
A&M coach Melvin Watkins. “This year we
have enough depth that we have some
options.”
Slocum came off the bench and logged 14
minutes in which he scored four points and
pulled down seven rebounds. Wright had an
un-Wright performance, shooting 25 percent
from the field for seven points and just one
rebound in 22 minutes of playing time.
Even without the production from
Wright, the Aggies were able to rely on
their depth to catapult them to the comfort
able win.
Instead, the scoring came from senior
guard Kevin Turner who started in Wright’s
place. Turner scored the first nine points for
the Aggies (1-0) by going three-for-three
from behind the three-point arc and giving
the Aggies a 10-4 lead with 15:18 to go in
the first half.
Turner finished the game with 17 points
,including 15 from three-point range.
“Whenever the first shot goes in you
know it’s going to be a good night,” Turner
said. “Wfe’ve got a long bench that can put
points on the board if Antoine doesn’t carry
the load.”
Turner was supplemented by senior for
ward Jesse King, who collected his first-
career double-double by scoring 13 points
and pulling down a career-high 11
rebounds.
King, who has been hampered by a knee
injury suffered in his sophomore season,
looks as if the injury is behind him as he has
become more physical in the paint.
“1 believe Jesse has not shown his best
basketball yet,” Watkins said. “He will sure
ly be a weapon that will provide scoring us
some points.”
After giving up an average of 89 points
in the exhibition season, the defense held
the Golden Lions to just 17 points in the
first half and 36 in the second. The Aggies
also collected 27 turnovers on the night.
“I think we played pretty good defense,”
said senior guard Leandro Garcia-Morales.
“We had some mental lapses. I think we’re
going to learn from that and get better.”
Throughout the game, the Golden Lions
never had the personnel to stay with the
Aggies. Although the Aggies didn’t play to
the best of their abilities, Watkins said a win
is a win.
“No matter what the competition is we
need to play at a certain level,” Watkins
said. “We have to do that every night.”
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