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oils with wh^over Saint Mary’s
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Stephen
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he talented twosome of se
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[standing'! Blalack and freshman Ali
son Peters struck again this
1 withal weekend as the Texas A&M Soc-
ogramk cei Team got back in the win col-
icoCitv. umn with a 1-0 shutout over
uitureisi Saint Mary’s College in Maraga,
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■ that ailtirl • minute of the first
half, Blalack scored the only goal
/ and sc °f t ^ ie g ame a pass from Peters,
gh Inter ‘B ^ ie score marks the 13th goal of
the 1 season for Blalack and the 7th
md want assist for Peters. Both lead the team
hich hel 'he respective categories,
he has MB The victory moves the Aggies
to 13-2-0 and marks the end of a
four-week, seven-game road trip.
St. Mary’s drops to 4-10-0.
f ‘‘(The win) gets us back on the
h will In w ' lin mg track and now we can fo-
I a m tQ ciis on being at home again,”
or for the ■ H eac i Soccer Coach G. Guerrieri
eting in sa ' c i- Tt has been a challenge for
lesandu our players to be on the road for
ies spoil' seven games. We look forward to
ciation. b^ing back in College Station.”
ChandlfB Sophomore goal keeper Melanie
jeted Teii' Wilson had one save while record-
ns to hau ifg i ler 7th shutout of the season.
■ _ an( ] jj; B The Aggies outshot St. Mary’s
Drop in Polls
After last week
end’s controver
sial overtime
loss to Bay- I
lor, the Ag-
gies fell
several
places in each
of the four soc
cer polls.
Texas A&M
dropped to
No. 6 in the
NSCAA/Um-
bro and Soc
cer News
polls, No. 7 in
Soccer Buzz
and No. 8 in Soccer
America.
Previously, the
Aggies had held
the No. 3 spot in all
four, the highest
ranking in the histo
ry of the program.
A&M is still await
ing a decision by the Big
12 Conference on their
appeal of the Baylor deci
sion. There is no timeline
on when a decision will be
handed down.
IB-3.
Game of the Week
Sunday afternoon the Col
orado Buffaloes will rumble
into the Aggie Soccer Complex,
looking to trample the Aggies’
hopes of winning their first Big 12
Championship.
If A&M comes out with a victo
ry, the championship will be
theirs outright. If the Aggies lose,
they will tie for the championship
with rival Nebraska.
The Aggies defeated Nebraska
1 -0 earlier this season in College
Station .
The Buffaloes will be led by
Donna Holyman, who leads
the 5-9 Buffaloes with 5 goals
and two assists. Despite a losing
record, all five of Colorado’s wins
J have come against Big 12 oppo
nents, including a 3-2 victory over
Baylor.
This will be the second en
counter between the two teams,
the Aggies steamrolling the Buffs
last season 3-0 in Boulder.
Other Notes
■ Peters and
Blalack have ac
counted for 20 of
r the Aggies’ 38
goals and 15 of the
last 21.
■ This sea
son, the Aggies
have outscored
opponents 20-6 in the first half
and 18-5 in the second half.
■ The Aggies are 12-0 when
they score first. The only games
when they were not the first to
^ strike were in the matches
fjMBlll against Baylor, North Carolina
and Texas Tech, losing two of
those three.
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Texas
Mackovic defends team’s play
calling after loss to Missouri
AUSTIN (AP) —Texas coach John Mackovic, tired
of being asked why he did not call more plays for Big
12 rushing leader Ricky Williams in the Longhorns’
37-29 loss to Missouri, said Monday his play-calling
should not be questioned.
“If you’re asking a question about calling plays,
just save all of your time,” Mackovic told his weekly
news conference.
“Don’t question the play calling. Play callers call
plays. I think Ricky had a generous number of runs
based upon the number of plays we had.”
Williams ran 23 times for 235 yards against Mis
souri, an average of 10.2 yards per carry. The Long
horns threw the" ball 40 times, completing just 15
passes for 149 yards. Last week, Williams ran 40
times for 223 yards in a 27-24 vic
tory over Oklahoma.
“When we fell behind and had
to throw the ball, we threw a lot
more passes,” Mackovic said. “A
lot of those passes were called
trying to make something hap
pen at the very end of the game.
But I thought Ricky had the ball a
good amount of the time.”
Six games into the season, the
Longhorns say they still have no
idea why they’ve stumbled to a 3-3
start and given one team after another reasons to tear
down goalposts.
After the Longhorns’ first loss to Missouri in 10
meetings — dating to 1916 — fans in Columbia, Mo.,
took just a few seconds to rip down their goalposts.
Two weeks earlier, Oklahoma State fans mobbed
their goalposts after a 42-16 triumph over Texas.
“We’ve got to change attitudes, wills and desires,”
Texas quarterback James Brown, who took blame for
the team’s recent troubles, said.
“As I go, so goes the team,” Brown said. “Com
pleting 15 of 40 passes is just awful.”
The Longhorns, 1-2 in the Big 12, face Colorado
Williams
(3-3,1-2) at home Saturday.
Last year, Texas opened 3-3 and then lost to Col
orado before winning five straight games and going on
to defeat Nebraska for the Big 12 championship.
This year, players say the team’s confidence is
not the same.
“Last year, we would play a great game and maybe
lose by a field goal,” tight end Steve Bradley said.
“This year, we’re not playing well in our losses. There’s
just not much fire in us. It seems like we’re just trying
to get through the games.”
On Saturday, kicker Phil Dawson, perhaps the
team’s most dependable player, missed a point after
touchdown, had another PAT blocked and failed on
field goal attempts of 43 and 48 yards.
Dawson, who has been nagged by hamstring,
groin and hip flexor injuries, blamed his misses on
a poorly sodded field. Mackovic said Dawson
would undergo an evaluation to see if the injuries
have worsened.
Players say they have not given up on the season
and hope to turn things around.
“We could go 8-3 and still end up in San Anto
nio (for the Big 12 title game),” center Ryan Fiebiger
said. “We know some people are unhappy, but
we’re not giving up.”
Before the season, many had projected the Texas-
Colorado game to impact the Big 12 title race and
possibly the national championship.
“Now it’s a battle for improvement and trying to
get seasons turned around,” Mackovic said.
Texas fans have expressed outrage about the
Longhorns’ season, and many have called for
Mackovic’s job in letters to the editor and in calls to
radio shows. The Colorado game will mark the
team’s first home appearance since a 66-3 drub
bing by UCLA on Sept. 13.
“I hope our fans can respond to the team,” Mack
ovic said. “I know a lot of people are unhappy that
we’re not undefeated and in the driver’s seat, but this
team still belongs to the school and to our fans.”
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