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passing attack? Is that
what that was? Not since
the daj r s of Kevin Murray
Orthodox stu<ioni()r«i Ipve so many footballs gone soar-
ig through the air at Kyle Field.
Corey Pullig continued to his
ame by game improvement that
|tarted at the beginning of last
eason. He enjoyed his finest day
it Kyle Field as an Aggie, complet-
ng 17 of 30 passes, hitting Rodney
Thomas and James McKeehan for
ouchdowns, while not throwing a
angle interception. The three
imes Pullig was sacked, it was
inly because he didn’t rush the
>all into a poor throw, more aware
the blitzing linebackers than of
he lurking safeties.
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til, was made by Pullig and the
•est of the team, breaking out of
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will he umng iiirirbi^ne that said they couldn’t beat
ational powerhouses.
It started in the 1992 Cotton
Bowl when Florida State slipped by
A&M 10-2 in a soggy Cotton Bowl,
and grew during A&M’s trashing
3y Notre Dame in the ‘93 Cotton
Bowl and by Oklahoma last year in
Morman. The Aggies gained a mod
icum of respect back in last year’s
game, playing the Fighting Irish
even nearly the whole game, before
<9 orchcek therpUWi(i*fi na ijy falling 24-21. That game
figured to gam the Aggies back at
least a little respect, but the focus
that day was on a national champi
onship between Florida State and
Nebraska, and A&M’s effort was
I largely overlooked.
I But come Saturday night, A&M
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“Wrecking Crew” pushed the Okla-
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Texas A&M avenges loss with 36-14 victory
Aggies convert three turnovers into 17 points
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By David Winder
The Battalion
Last week, the Texas A&M football team
kept talking about how revenge would not
be a factor in their upcoming game against
the University of Oklahoma.
After last year’s 44-14 trouncing in Nor
man though, the Aggies were still looking for
ward to meeting the Sooners in the rematch.
“It feels good,” linebacker Antonio Arm
strong said. “I’ve been waiting a whole year to
play this game. It’s great that we won, but it
still doesn’t erase the way we lost last year.”
Last year the A&M offense could never get
on track while Oklahoma made plays on both
sides of the ball. This year nothing went right
for the 14th-ranked Sooners as the 16th-
ranked Aggies rolled to a 36-14 victory Satur
day in front of a record non-conference crowd
of 72,577.
“It was the exact opposite of last year's
game, especially in the fourth,” Sooner head
coach Gary Gibbs said. “It looked like it
would be an exciting finish for us, but it just
became lopsided in the fourth (quarter).”
In the last quarter, the Aggies took advan
tage of three Sooner turnovers, turning them
into 17 points. After a Reggie Brown fumble
recovery, Corey Pullig found tight end James
McKeehan open in the end zone to give the
Aggies a 26-14 lead.
On the Sooners’ next possession, Aggie de
fensive end Brandon Mitchell recovered quar
terback Garrick McGee’s fumble. Three plays
later, place kicker Kyle Bryant made his
third field goal of the game for a 29-14 score.
Comerback Ray Mickens finished off the
scoring for A&M by picking off a McGee pass
and returning it 38 yards for a touchdown.
“They were doing a good job rotating
their backs in, keeping a fresh one in the
game at all times,” Brown said. “So we just
had to sit back and be patient. It worked
because we got three interceptions and two
fumble recoveries.”
Another thing that worked was the Aggie
offense, as it racked up 359 total yards. Last
year Pullig threw three interceptions while
passing for only 84 yards. This time around,
he threw for 191 yards and two touchdowns.
“I’m passing 50 percent better than I did
last year,” Pullig said. “In the back of our
minds we knew it was payback time. We
were too good to lose like that last year.”
After a Bryant 53-yard field goal, Pullig
found Rodney Thomas alone in the end zone
for a 12 yard touchdown pass to give the Ag
gies a 10-0 lead.
“This team will get better,” A&M head
coach R.C. Slocum said. “The more these
young guys get to play, the better they are
going to get.”
Stew Milne/THE Battalion
Cornerback Ray Mickens returns an interception for a touchdown.
Lady Aggies start volleyball season with impressive opener
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Stew Milne/THE Battalion
Jennifer Bronner blocks a spike during
the game against Arkansas
by Tom Day
The Battalion
With the University of Texas invad
ing G. Rollie White Coliseum on
Wednesday, the Lady Aggie volleyball
team sought to establish an intimidat
ing home-court presence in their home
opener last Friday.
Using a relentless barrage of kills to
accomplish its goal, A&M overpowered
Arkansas-Little Rock in four sets, 15-4,
15-2, 13-15, 15-10.
A&M, 3-2, came out rocking and
rolling in the first two sets, using sharp
passing to set up several kills to take
control of the match.
Setter Suzy Wente believes solid
teamwork was the key to the tune-up
victory.
“Tonight, we passed really well and
had a lot more eye contact and good
communication,” Wente said.
Head coach Laurie Corbelli used a
lineup primarily made up of freshmen
and reserves to finish off the Lady
Trojans.
Perhaps the most pleasant develop
ment was the play of sophomore middle
blocker Page White and freshman out
side hitter Kristie Smedsrud. White
posted a career-high 20 kills and had no
errors in 24 attempts in leading the fe
rocious A&M attack. Smedsrud blasted
19 kills in only her fifth collegiate
match. “I’m starting to get a feel for the
system we run. I felt real comfortable
tonight, so I was real excited,” Smed
srud said. “I love (the playing time) and
I’m having a great time here. Every
thing for me is a new experience.”
Head coach Laurie Corbelli was
excited about Smedsrud’s fierce play.
“She has great composure on the
court, she’s very hard to rattle, and
she’s our go to player right now,” she
said. “She has just earned herself the
number one outside hitter position and
we needed one bad on our team.”
Corbelli feels that the team is
ready to play Texas after getting a feel
of playing on its home court.
Aggie Fact
Texas A&M ranks 22nd
among the all-time
Division 1 winningest
football programs. Michigan
is first on the list.
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