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Lady Ags sweep tournament in Plano Montana
Sportswriter
“It’s 3rd down and 10 on the 46-
yard line. The Aggies must con
vert to stay alive. The ball’s
snapped and Pullig drops back to
pass ... he’s looking ... looking ...
fires over the middle and complete
to Mitchell at the 28! He breaks a
tackle ... still on his feet ... he
breaks free to the 20 ... he’s to the
ten ... the five ... TOUCHDOWN,
AGGIES!!!!!”
These are the thrilling sounds
and emotions of a new season that
sports fans from around the coun
try live to feel and experience at
this time of year.
With the end of the sweltering
dog days of August comes the dawn
of a new fall season. The start of
classes, cooler temperatures and
Aggie Yell Practices replace vaca
tions and days at the beach. Base
ball pennant races and the start of
the college and pro football seasons
replace two-a-days and boring pre
season games. These days are easi
ly the most exciting time of the
year for the average sports fan.
However, this fall promises to be
a different story for Aggie sports
fans. Between the current Major
League Baseball strike and the tele
vision ban on Aggie football games,
the fall sports season might not
pack the punch of previous years.
If you’re optimistic and think
that there is still baseball to be
played, you might want to reconsid
er your thinking. On Friday acting
baseball commissioner, Bud Selig,
shredded the hopes of fans every
where by threatening to cancel the
season. Unless the owners and
players reach an agreement within
a week, he announced, the season
will be officially over. Based on the
proceedings thus far, an agreement
is not likely.
Selig’s words pour salt on the
wounds of baseball fanatics such as
Please see Day, Page 8
Talent, not youth, took
over as Texas A&M’s women’s
soccer team started the sea
son with a two-game sweep in
their Labor Day Weekend
Tournament in Plano.
The Aggies proved to be
overpowering in their two
wins over Centenary and the
University of New Mexico,
dominating the statistical
columns in both games. The
Aggies rolled through the
two games, outscoring their
opponents by a combined
score of 7-1 and outshooting
their opponents 26-11.
The attack came quickly in
Saturday’s 4-1 win over Cen
tenary as A&M scored three
times in the first 12 minutes,
two coming from Junior mid
fielder Corie Hammers.
“I was really impressed
with the way the team came
out,” head coach Gerald Guer-
rieri said. “The intensity that
our girls showed in the first
15 minutes of the game was
as good as we’ve shown in any
of our training sessions.”
Sunday’s 3-0 win over
New Mexico showed the fire
power again as sophomore
midfielder Kristen Koop
scored twice in the last five
minutes to seal the win.
“Kristen Koop showed a
little bit of the explosiveness
of her game,” Guerrieri said.
“She showed that she has the
ability to break the game
open in the snap of a finger.”
The Aggies also won the
battles away from the net,
allowing them to keep the
ball in their opponents’ half
of the field. On the sloppy
playing fields drenched by
heavy North Texas’ showers,
A&M’s physical game shut
down and roughed up Cente
nary and New Mexico. This
aggressiveness, exemplified
by A&M's 40 fouls in the two
games, allowed them to con
trol the tempo of the game.
“We’re an aggressive,
hard-hitting team,” Guerri
eri said. “Most fouls com
mitted were due to our play
ers playing hard and going
in hard for balls.”
The Aggies, playing in
their second year at the
NCAA level, hope to build-
from their inaugural season
where the team went 15-3-1.
The building process is
starting with a strong influx
of young, talented players.
Sophomore forward Tina
Robinson and freshman
midfielder Sonia Ibanez
combined with Koop to score
four of the Aggies seven
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Please see Lady Ags, Page 8 Sophomore midfielder Kim Duda attempts a corner kick.
Unseeded Agassi heads for quarterfinals
Defeats No. 6 Chang in U.S. Open
NEW YORK (AP) — This was the
Andre Agassi who won Wimbledon, the
one who once threatened to rule tennis,
the one U.S. Open fans have been wait
ing to see ever since Pete Sampras blew
him out in the final here four years ago.
For one nearly perfect set at the
start, another at the end, and three gru
eling sets in the middle, Agassi put on a
show Monday that rivaled the best
matches of his career as he beat No. 6
Michael Chang 6-1, 6-7 (3-7), 6-3, 3-6, 6-
1 to reach the quarterfinals.
Agassi, unseeded at the Open for the
first time since 1987, knew he was play
ing well before this match but realized
“you don’t really know that for sure un
til you are pushed” the way he was
against Chang.
“And to get through it is everything
tb me,” he said. “It allows me to believe
that I can win the tournament.”
He said his new approach to the
game was paying off.
“This is the best I have ever hit the
tennis ball, absolutely,” he said. “I have
hit the ball pretty good before, but it
was not balanced with that competitive
spirit, not balanced with that focused
concentration.”
Another unseeded player, Bemd Kar-
bacher, also made the quarters with a 6-
2, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Gianluca
Pozzi.
Reaching the quarters in the wom
en’s draw were No. 1 Steffi Graf, No. 4
Mary Pierce, No. 7 Jana Novotna and
No. 11 Amanda Coetzer.
Graf had the toughest opponent but
an easy time beating Zina Garrison-
Jackson 6-1, 6-2 to set up a match
against Coetzer, a 6-3, 6-0 winner
against Mana Endo.
“I felt happy to be able to play like
that, really,” Graf said. “It is not the
easiest conditions out there with the
wind, and to be able to adjust perfectly
to it, I think that is all I wanted.”
Pierce beat Iva Majoli 6-1, 6-2 and
will next play Novotna, a 6-0, 6-4 victory
over Magdalena Maleeva.
prepares to
face 49ers
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Sorry
Joe, we just don’t believe you.
This isn’t just another game on
Sunday, no matter how much of a
Montana protest you put up.
Montana, who looked as sharp as
he ever has in passing for 315 yards
in the Kansas City Chiefs’ opening
victory at New Orleans on Sunday,
next plays the team he took to the
Super Bowl four times.
The 49ers, who played on Monday
night, are coming to Arrowhead Sta
dium on Sunday.
“I don’t know about any buildup,”
Montana said Monday as the Chiefs
made him available to the national
media.
The conference call was designed
to protect Montana from a week of
questions for what is, after all, just
another game.
“Being realistic about it, of course
I want to win the game as bad as
they want to win it,” Montana said
as he was pressed to say how much
he wanted to beat his old team.
“(Coach) Marty (Schottenheimer) has
put it in perspective. It’s one of 16
games on the schedule. I haven’t
seen a team in a long time go unde
feated and win the Super Bowl.”
Maybe J.J. Birden, who has devel
oped into one of Montana’s favorite
receivers, can offer a little perspec
tive. Birden was getting himself so
pumped up about the 49ers game
that he had to sit down and talk to
Please see Montana, Page 8
AGGIE FACT
THE 1993 SENIORS
NEVER LOST A GAME ON
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RECORD OF 23-0-1. THE
ONLY BLEMISH WAS A 20-
20 TIE WITH BAYLOR IN
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September 7 th 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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