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r a sut 'gills: The Battalion % orts Page 11 • Wednesday, August 26, 1998 Soccer hosts “Quack-attack” By Michael Taglienti The Battalion p ) 'AbJ ls t Texas la,r el *vvater 7 ‘ s drainiJ a spring be considj^f h 0 Texas A&M Women’s Soccer team will me Court t 3 ^’ 011 1^ 6 Oregon Ducks in a scrimmage at 7 hichsche P' nL Thursday at the Aggie Soccer Complex, dov. ]9 The Aggies, ranked No. 11 in the preseason Soc- idowners cer America poll, will see their first action of the ncept or season i n the scrimmage, water st' M-' oac h O- Guerrieri said the Bmmage will give the team a e owners! c h ance t0 i m P r o ve their timing II "p er j;, and get ready for the regular sea- uch r 8011 ‘ n order to defend their Big 'vnersoik| z ' T 0 . nferenceTitle - i. theOzav ; H The game a 80inst Oregon is rCo a chance to play against a qual- • ak j ity collegiate opponent from a . qi tlity conference and work out | s sc ne of our timing,” Guerrieri said. “It will give 3 “has ' J a c h ance to work on our rhythm and doing iiTmothljl ne problem solving for whatever they might ^Jd ea J ow at us - Basically, it gives a game-speed , oa Mllenge to get us ready for the regular season ? S® the defense of our tiUe." hoi^Mu i)B^ uerr ' er ' sa *d die game will answer some , , 0U V J "‘ questions the coaches and players have about .ho«ld«* team GUERRIERI “Right now on a lot of fronts we are doing re ally well while on other fronts, we still have a ways to go,” Guerrieri said. “That is what a game against a quality opponent like Oregon is going to do. It is going to give us a chance to an swer some questions that we have about our selves, and also, pose some new challenges for us to overcome prior to our next game.” A&M will field a very young team this year with nine freshman and eight sophomores on the roster. Despite the team’s youth, Guerrieri said the team has already developed a good chemistry and is improving their speed of play. “Right now this team is closer than we thought we would be at this point in time,” Guerrieri said. “Our speed of play has really come a long way since the first couple days of two-a-days.” Guerrieri recruited one of the top classes in the nation, and a few of the freshman have already made a positive impression on the head coach. “Amber Childers, who is kind of an interest ing story because she passed up her senior year in high school and is only 17, has really im pressed and done a great job to step into our midfield,” Guerrieri said. “Michelle Royal has picked up our system ! ootball team looks to add another player By Jeff Schmidt The Battalion )f tl v- ui.: 1 'urbusine.'i dustry, to c dghbor’s auren Caigi erson le above ani!l )f the law: | nga state-™ Former John Tyler High School and Trinity Valley Community College ven-dav ifootball player Mickey Jones may be joining the Texas A&M Football Team, to ensure 1 Jones’ father James said his son is in College Station awaiting enroll- uld havenoi njient into A&M. Jones was recently cleared by the NCAA Clearinghouse spring otor to begin playing football. s before stt I Trinity Valley Coach Scotty Conley said Jones picked up his Trinity Val- ;hesaid, [ley transcript and left Monday morning for College Station. Conley said ■dged antic J° n es and his family had been in conversation with Coach Tam Holling- hat opera: shead regarding Jones joining the team. ed ifsciei: f; The 5’10”, 1751b. Jones was a member of the 1994 State Champion John nything t» I Tyler Lions. He started at quarterback for the Lions in 1995 and 96, leading the team to the playoffs. Jones used his 4.4 speed as a junior to throw for 968 yards and three touchdowns while rushing for 576 yards. His play made him one of the top recruits in the state. Jones originally signed with Baylor but was forced to attend Trinity Val ley after failing to complete all his academic requirements. Jones played wide receiver for the national champion Trinity Valley Cardinals. A source told Tyler radio talk-show host David Smoak that Jones will wear No. 29, assuming he does join the team. A&M Sports Information Director Alan Cannon said he knew nothing about Jones joining the team but said it has been a recent rumor. RED WING BOOTS THE BOOTS THAT BUILD BONFIRE. •• 10% OFF BOOTS WITH A VAUD STUDENTID. RED WING SHOE STORE Located 1 mi. North of TAMU on Texas Ave. 846-3813 WORK HARD TEXAS A&M FOOTBALL 12TH MAN/WALK-ON Organizational Meeting DATE TIME: i||: : Tv : :, ; M ,m k WHERE: Kyle Field - Football Locker Room * MUST HAVE STARTED COLLEGE IN THE FALL OF ‘96 OR AFTER * MUST BE ENROLLED IN A MINIMUM OF 12 HRS. * ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY WOMEN TAMU MIXED /REVELERS/ JAZZ Come Sing with Us! 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All the rest of the freshman are pretty much on pace or ahead of pace for only being here for two weeks.” The scrimmage will feature a different time format from a normal soccer match in order to allow more problem solving and coaching. “The game Thursday night is going to have a different type of setup in that instead of hav ing two 45-minute halves. Coach Bill Steffen and I have worked out an agreement that we are going to play four 25-minute periods, which will allow us to do more problem solving and a lit tle more coaching by breaking the game up a lit tle more,” Guerrieri said. “I think it will be a lit tle more conducive to a real positive learning environment for our young teams.” Guerrieri said he was happy with the teams preseason ranking. “We’re fla-ttered that we can lose four starters and the people who are running these polls still classify us as one of the top 11 teams in the country,” Guerrieri said. “It gives us a standard that we have to live up to in our training right now. A&M receives NCAA certification Texas A&M University has been notified that its athletic program has been formally certified by the National Collegiate Athletic Associ ation as part of the newly mandat ed process affecting all NCAA Divi sion I member institutions. The certification was issued by a governing NCAA committee follow ing an assessment by a peer review team that visited Texas A&M in Feb ruary. As part of the overall process, a broad-based Texas A&M task force spent more than a year work ing on a self-study similar to the one that the University conducts every 10 years as part of the academic re-accreditation process. Texas A&M President Ray M. Bowen, who appointed the task force members, said he was “pleased but not surprised to learn of the NCAA notification.” A&M volleyball team ranked 19th The Texas A&M Volleyball Team is ranked 19th in the USA Today/AVCA Coaches’ Top 25 Pre season Poll. “The ranking is a good starting point for us,” sixth-year Coach Lau rie Corbelli said. T’m excited about it because it shows respect for our program and gives us instant con fidence. At the same time, the rank ing motivates us to do better, es pecially since the usual top Big 12 teams are ranked ahead of us.” Nebraska is ranked fifth and Texas is ranked ninth, with each re ceiving one first-place vote, and Colorado is ranked 12th. Penn State, Long Beach State, USC and Stanford round out the top five. NGUYEN Two A&M players named to list The Downtown Athletic Club an nounced its preliminary list of 68 candidates for the annual Jim Butkus Award given to the best linebacker in col lege football. The list will be cut to 10 semi-finalists Oct. 15 and three fi nalists Nov. 12. The winner will be announced on Dec. 11 at the Butkus Award Gala at Universal Stu dios, Florida. Candidates from the Big 12 in clude: Travis Ochs, Jeff Kelly and Mark Simoneau, Kansas State; Warrick Holdman and Dat Nguyen, Texas A&M; Hannibal Navies, Colorado; Jay Foreman, Nebraska. 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