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SPORTS Lady Aggies win Aggies even record, face Rice Thursday Swimming and diving team finishes fourth last game in style □ Joe Wilbert and Tony McGinnis The Texas A&M men’s swimming □ The women's team off the bench to score 14 points spark an 11-point rally past Baylor. and diving team just missed finishing in in just 17 minutes. Owens hit the top three this weekend at the faces Texas in the first four three-pointers in six at­ Staff and Wire Reports Southwest Conference Championships tempts for the Lady Aggies. in Austin. round of the SWC Senior Debbie Biermann, who The Texas A&M men’s basketball team, down The team finished two points tournament. was honored in a pregame cere­ 11 points at intermission, shot 58.1 percent from behind Texas Christian. The mony, matched her career-high the field in the second half to run by the Baylor University of Texas finished first, Staff and Wire Reports with two blocked shots. Bier­ Bears 87-78 in Saturday night’s Southwest Con­ followed by Southern Methodist. ference finale. Sophomore Wade Diederich mann also scored five points and finished sixth in the platform finals for The Texas A&M women’s bas­ collected four rebounds in 10 Senior forward Joe Wilbert, playing in his last A&M with a score of 423.90 ketball team used another ca­ minutes of play. regular season game as an Aggie, led all scorers Also placing high for the Aggies reer night by Bambi Ferguson The Lady Bears, who fin­ with 29 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in 30 were junior Scott DeWolf with a and a superb shooting perfor­ ished the season 13-13 overall minutes for A&M. The win gave the Aggies a 14- third-place finish in the 200-yard mance by the entire team to rout and 4-10 in the SWC, shot only 15 record overall for the season and evened their butterfly, sophomore Robb Pantano Baylor Saturday night, 99-65. 36 percent from the field and record at 7-7 in the SWC. The Bears dropped to 9- with a fourth-place finish in the 200- Ferguson, a junior guard from were outrebounded by the Lady 19 overall and 3-11 in the SWC. yard backstroke and freshman Kent Jayton, scored a career-high 20 Aggies 47-39. 1f|P- Senior forward Tony McGinnis contributed Willis, who took third in the 1650- , i mightily to the Aggies cause, making 11-13 shots yard freestyle. points, grabbed a team-high sev­ Forward Tonya Harris led en rebounds and dished out the Lady Bears in scoring with from the floor and scoring 27 points, just one off Baseball team drops three assists in just 23 minutes 14 points and guard Halley his career high. as the Lady Aggies finished up Bradley added 10. The Aggies shot just 37.5 percent in the first 1 series to Cal State their season 18-8 overall and 9-5 The game was never in ques- half and trailed Baylor 43-32 at the half. With the Cal State-Northridge exploded for in the Southwest Conference. tion as the Lady Aggies j limped University of Houston in a tight game with South­ eight runs on 14 hits to win Sunday A&M shot 52.2 percent from out to a 20 point lead at half ern Methodist Saturday night, the Aggies had to and take two out of three games from the field in the game including a time, shooting 20-40 from the win to assure themselves of being the fifth seed in the Texas A&M baseball team over blistering 17-27 (63 percent) in field including 6-11 on three the Dr. Pepper SWC Classic this coming week. the weekend. the second half. Sophomore for­ pointers. The Bears were led by guard Aundre Branch, The Aggies could manage only six ward Marianne Miller went 6-7 A&M, the third seed in the who scored 26 points. Center Brian Skinner hits and committed two errors in from the field and scored 17 conference tournament, will face added 21, but no other Bear scored in double dig­ falling to 9-7-1 on the season. points. Sophomore guard Lana the University of Texas in the its in the game. The Aggies were still very much in Freshman point guard Kyle Kessel dished out Tucker added 14 and junior first round of the Dr. Pepper Roger Hsieh/ The Battalion the game after eight innings, trailing 11 assists for A&M and senior forward Damon just 3-1. But Northridge scored five guard Lisa Branch had 12 points, SWC Classic on Wednesday at 2 runs in the top of the ninth to put the nine assists and five steals. p.m. at Moody Coliseum. Sophomore guard Lana Tucker eyes the loose Johnson added 12 rebounds to the Aggies’ cause. game on ice. First baseman John Curl Also turning in another out­ Baylor will face second seed ball as Baylor forward Tonya Harris is frozen in The Aggies outscored the Bears 55-35 in the second half in front of a crowd of 8,142 at the Fer­ had his hitting streak snapped at 12 standing effort was freshman Southern Methodist University her footsteps. games with a 0-4 day. guard Carey Owens who came in the first round. rell Center in Waco. The Aggies return to action on Tuesday when they host Mary Hardin- Baylor at Olsen Field at 7 p.m. Thomas honored at football banquet Harper worth more than Cowboys think he is Senior running back Rodney Thomas was named the 1995 ith March Madness still with the realiza­ agent bidding cently. People have complained Cowboys back to the Super recipient of the Aggie Heart Award at several weeks away and tion that he is go­ wars. that he never plays well in the Bowl and erased memories of the annual Texas A&M football baseball’s millionaire ing to have to Now the Cow­ big games and is not as strong the dreaded “catch” from Cow­ awards banquet at the College Wcrybabies still bickering makewith some big boys must turn or tough as fellow receiver boys fans’ minds forever. Station Hilton Saturday night. each other, the main focus of moves to topple their attention to . Receiver Kevin Williams is a Thomas was also named the this early part of spring has the champion San and However, Harper’s accom­ fine player and will make an ad­ Offensive Most Valuable Player and equate replacement, but no one the Offensive Team Captain for the been on the National Football Francisco 49ers Mark Stepnows- plishments have been numerous 1994 season. Thomas, a consensus League’s free agent comings and take the Cow­ ki. But one per­ and deserve to be recognized as will give the Cowboys the big AII-SWC running back led the team in and goings. boys back to their son the Cowboys the Cowboys climbed their way play threat that they enjoyed rushing with 868 yards and scoring While some teams are rightful place atop are overlooking back. with number 80 running that with 96 points. searching for the players who the NFL mountain. is the talented . Who can ever forget the way familiar route to the post. Also honored were senior Reggie will get them back to re­ The Pokes have managed to With Harper all but gone, the the man from Tennessee has While other Cowboy fans will Graham as Defensive MVP and spectability (the Houston Oilers retain the services of such im­ Cowboys will have to fill the tormented the 49ers in the play­ be glad that the team is parting Defensive Team Captain, sophomore come to mind), others are trying pact players such as Michael void of a great receiver who had offs over the last couple of with Harper, I think that it will Leeland McElroy as Special Teams to wheel and deal to get back to Irvin and . Howev­ the flair for making the athletic years. be a tremendous loss to lose a MVP, senior defensive back Billy er, they have already lost such catches. It was his 73-yard reception player of his caliber. Mitchell as Special Teams Captain the top. One such team is Amer­ and sophomore Kevin Caffey as 12th ica’s Team, the . mainstays as James Washing­ Harper’s contributions to the two years ago in the NFC cham­ So long. Harp. Your presence Man Most Valuable Player and 12th Owner is faced ton and to the free team have been downplayed re­ pionship game that got the will be missed. Man Team Captain.

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