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The Texas A&M Inline Hockey Club Team
can win a national championship, and no one
would know.
That is the problem encountered by the
Hockey Club as they prepare to travel to Las Ve
gas in search of anTnline Hockey Club Nation
al Championship today.
The USA Hockey Inline National Champi
onship Tournament begins Wednesday and
ends Saturday night.
This is the second time in as many years that
the A&M Hockey Club Team has gone to Las
egas. Last year, the Aggies finished seventh in
the inaugural tournament.
The Aggies will play University of California-
Davis in the first game. Then they will play UC-
Santa Barbara. The third game will be against
second-ranked Purdue.
This year the Aggies hope to give better than
they get.
Ryan Phillips, a senior defenseman on the
team, believes the Aggies have a shot at win
ning the title.
“If we play up to par, we should give them a
good game,” Phillips said.
Three other Texas teams are making the trip,
lub Hockey teams from Texas Tech Universi
ty, Sam Houston State University and South
west Texas State University will play in the
same pool as the Aggies.
Despite accolades, local recognition has
come slowly. The team did not even get a table
at the MSC Open House. This bothers Jamie
Stenson, a senior forward on the team.
“Financially, the university doesn’t cut us a
break,” Stenson said.
The Hockey Club has to drive all the way to
“I really enjoy seeing some guy
receive a massive head wound and
bleed from the scalp. That’s
Hockey. It’s not as much fun with
out that element.”
TYSON ARNOLD
HOCKEY TEAM MEMBER
the Mustang Athletic Club in the Woodlands,
north of Houston, to practice.
Kris Cravens, a senior forward and team
secretary, hopes contending for the national
championship will enlighten more people to
club hockey.
“Hopefully it’ll help. It’s a growing sport. It’s
an opportunity for more people to participate,”
Cravens said.
The future of the team is in good hands.
Several talented freshmen will join the team
next year.
There are several differences between ice
hockey and inline hockey.
The most noticeable difference being inline
hockey has only five players (including goalie)
as opposed to six in ice hockey. Of course, in
line hockey uses only rollerblades and not ice
skates. The team plays on a court the same size
as the indoor soccer courts at the Rec Center.
Also, there are no icing or offsides called, which
makes the inline game move faster. Finally,
much to the chagrin of hockey fans every
where, there is not as much contact and no
fighting.
This is a drawback to many fans.
Tyson Arnold, a junior International Stud
ies major, thinks that body-checking and fight
ing make ice hockey popular and unique.
“I really enjoy seeing some guy receive a
massive head wound and bleed from the scalp.
That’s hockey. It’s not as much fun to watch
without that element,” Arnold said.
And indeed more people will know of the
team, especially if the Aggies can manage to
come home from Las Vegas with their first na
tional championship.
DEREK DEMERE/The Battalion,
Senior Kris Cravens brings the puck up the floor for the Inline Hockey Team
Aggie Soccer beginning to gain some recognition
NOTEBOOK
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S unday’s victory over Nebraska marked more than
just the fifth conference victory for the Texas
A&M Soccer team, it marked one of the most sig
nificant victories in Texas A&M soccer history.
After losing two straight to the Huskers last sea
son, including the Big 12 championship game, the
Aggies finally found redemption Sunday after
noon. Although the team appeared intimidated at
the start, it eventually captured the rhythm, set the
tone and left the field victorious.
Storming out of the gates
The victory pushes the Aggies to 6-0, 5-0, their sec
ond-best start ever. Last season, A&M started out
with nine straight victories before falling victim to
eventual Big 12 champion Nebraska 1-0 in Lincoln.
Crowded house
The secret is out on the A&M soccer team. A
record crowd of 1,364 fans jammed themselves into
the Aggie Soccer Complex Sunday. This is the second
time the Aggies have drawn over 1,300 this season
and the second time the attendance record has been
broken. The Aggies are averaging 1,182 per game.
Men in white
Well, I can’t take all the credit for getting the yell
leaders to go out to the game, so I won’t take any.
Still, it was good to see them out there supporting
the team.
Soccer is a sport that doesn’t receive much fan
fare at Texas A&M. This season, armed with nearly
1,200 per game, the Aggies have their best chance
to win their first Big 12 championship.
What the Aggie Soccer Complex could really
use, though, is a more raucous crowd, not to
mention a press box.
Team leaders
Also of note and special attention is the bench.
Before every kickoff at the top of each half the play
ers on the bench lead themselves in a “Gig ‘em Ag
gies” yell. The show of support is unique to the soc
cer team and is praiseworthy. Maybe the football
team could follow their lead and join the crowd this
week before the opening kickoff.
I would also like to note that this will be the first
and last time I use the word “Gig’em” in a story.
Player of the week
Coach G. Guerrieri described her as “the best
keeper in the nation”. Senior All-America Bryn
Blalock says she is “incredible”. And now Battalion
Sports Writer Stephen Boudreau is calling her:
“The Player of the Week”.
Melanie Wilson recorded two shut outs this
weekend and made a series of incredible saves in
each game. By far she is one of the most incredible
athletes on the team and deserves much more
credit than she receives.
Thumbs up also go to the defense for keeping
her job to a minimal Friday night against Iowa St.
Wilson a wall
Wilson leads the Big 12 in Goals Against Average
(GAA) with an amazing 0.40 per game.
In six games, only 2 shots have slipped by her,
one of which was a penalty kick.
She has compiled 3.5 shoutouts in six games.
Read all about it
Blalack was named to the Soccer America team
of the week for her two-goal, game-winning hero
ics against sixteenth-ranked Stanford. The goals
were her first two of the season and were all the
Aggies needed to shut out the Cardinals 2-0.
Blalack, a senior forward, who is A&M’s all-time
leading scorer with 65, added her third goal of the
season last Friday against Iowa State.
Games of the week
This coming weekend the Aggies will take part
in the GTE Aggie Soccer Classic at the soccer com
plex. The team will face unranked opponents in
Utah and Oregon. Both games should spell victory
for the Aggies, but as the old adage goes — cham
pionships are built one game at a time.
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Women’s Golf Team
takes eighth at Rolex
The fifteenth-ranked A&M Women’s Golf
team finished eighth Sunday at the Rolex Fall
Preview in Verona, Wise. Of the 18 teams
competing for the championship, 15 were
ranked in the top 25 in the preseason Mas
terCard Collegiate Golf Rankings.
Despite several team members battling
sickness, the Aggies were able to place well
in individual standings.
Senior Isabelle Rosberg shot a 219 over
three rounds, just two strokes off the school
record she set last year, to finish tied for sixth
place. Sophomore Anna Becker and senior
Jamie Hullett both carded tournament totals
of 230 to tie for 31st place.
Freshman Amanda
Rayford carded a 247 to
place herself 76th, while
freshman Mimi Epps fin
ished the tournament
with a 256 shot total to
finish 83.
Coach Jeanne Suther
land was pleased with the
overall effort of the team
and sited the tournament
as a good first step to a
winning season.
“Overall I was
pleased with our play for the first tourna
ment of the year,” Sutherland said in a
press release. “This is a good starting
point and we’re only going to get better.”
Rosberg
The Aggie’s next contest will be at the Uni
versity of New Mexico-Dick McGuire Invita
tional Sept. 25-27 in Albuquerque, NM.
Men’s Cross Country
gets second victory
The Texas A&M Men’s Cross Country Team
picked up their second meet championship in
the last week by winning the prestigious Iowa
State Open in Ames, Iowa, this weekend.
The men placed five runners in the fields
top nine spots. They were lead by junior Scott
Lengefeld who finished third in the individual
standings.
Senior James Menze, junior Stephen Erath
and senior John Montgomery finished fifth,
sixth and seventh respectively. Junior Todd Fox
was ninth.
“It’s early in the year,” coach Greg Hen
ze said in a press release. “They have in
ternational runners; we have Americans. I
don’t want to make more of this than it is,
but it was a great confidence builder for the
guys and me personally.
“I think if we really build on this race
then later in the year when the races real
ly matter, people will have to consider us a
serious threat."
The women's team was fifth in the
meet. Senior Milli Andres was A&M’s top
finisher at 17th.
“The women have a way to go,” Henze said.
“After an encouraging start last week I think
we took a step backward today.”
Conference honors
week’s top players
DALLAS (AP) —-Two of this week’s three
Big 12 football players of the week suit up
for Kansas, which dumped Missouri 15-7
on Saturday.
Offensive player honors go to Kansas run
ning back Eric Vann. The defensive winner is
Jayhawks outside linebacker Ron Warner.
Vann had a career best 137 yards on 23
rushing attempts. Warner contributed four
tackles, four quarterback hurries and one
quarterback sack.
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cial-teams honor as Kansas State free safe
ty Lamar Chapman took the citation.
Chapman had 17 tackles for the Wildcats,
plus he tied the Big 12 punt-return distance
record with a 94-yarder.
Political
MSC Political Forum Presents:
Implications of the
Balanced Budget Agreement
September 17, 1997
7:00 PM
MSC 292 B
A panel discussion with:
Dr. James Anderson
Professor of Political Science,
The George Bush School of Government & Public Service
Dr. Donald Deere
Associate Director for Academic Programs, Bush School
Associate Professor of Economics
Dr. Thomas Saving
Director of the Private Enterprise Research Centerff
Montgomery Professor of Economics
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