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Soccer hosts “Quack-attack”
By Michael Taglienti
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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,
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Bmmage will give the team a
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. 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
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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
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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.
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and has done a good job as far as being a great
possession player and playmaker for us,” Guer
rieri said. “Michelle Remington, who is a red
shirt freshman, has done really well as far as be
coming a scoring threat for us. 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.
Basketball team
loses Houston
Junior guard Steve Houston was
dismissed from the Texas A&M
Men’s Basketball'
Team for violating!
team and University
regulations.
“It is unfortunate
that Steve will no!
i B| longer be part of our
NWJ basketball pro!
rfronr, ” COaClt
HOUSTON
gram,
Melvin Watkins
said. “We wish him
the best in the future.”
The 6’1” guard started in 25
games last year and averaged 9.5
points and 4.4 assists per game.;
Houston led the Big 12 Confen
ence in steals at 2.5 per game!
and was named to the Big 12 All-*
Defense Team.
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