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^ J22 1S S 8;Sept.— ackl order fow, attalion Sports Page 11 • Tuesday, September 8, 1998 lison Peters pulls off hat trick, Volleyball team heads to SWT :xas A&M beats New Mexico 7-0 BY DOUG SHILLING The Battalion e started tow;:: ■ but madetw. to descend art wissair officii, dn't have n:; ch to HalitT > ao high and w, his of fuel. Th: lies out of Hi id have net- ning off of a heartbreaking ‘ a direct lane, .riday night to 4th-ranked lanVVolk.dl a, the Texas A&M Soccer > lawyer, <; looked to bounce back with n Ill’s pile: ti, should ha ? team bounced back in a 'gency dexe- iy, posting a resounding 7-0 I he MD-ll . y over the University of cd ovenve:; Texico at the Aggie Soccer Wolk v lex Monday night, ted from a;: vas really proud of the way that the on ook off a really tough set ■ back,” A&M soc le quio Mak | cer coach G. tut landinr Guerrieri said. “It’s always nice to come back from a loss with a 'OK Of- L I w hi. It was a ■ w I " GL really well-round ed victory rrieri tonight. If you decide whets' look at our team, lomvrdinagr probably the strength of our ididate. If th that we have a lot of n s choice a ms and a lot of players who ep up and do it.” 'Olve parkin i by a hat trick from Alison ms withintb.-;, the sixth player in A&M "MU has bee: y history to record one, and cnmgovemr- r goalkeeper Rebecca Stew- ht Chernonr'ho had two goals, the Ag- liiminMani )osted the most goals in a • to win conr i since an 8-2 win over Texas nlc time to dev n October of 1996. miccnsissm&'shman Michelle Remington iviet Union, i the scoring for A&M in the ninute with a blistering shot 75 yards out. ers then added two of her I U- R at 8 oa ' s in the 16th and 17th rfr, J_mii es . pj er tW(;) g 0a } s j n j ; io i s /"/Qrrjfccond-fastest time between j ,'for a player in Aggie history. Advem ers diverted attention away uer accomplishments on the and Ifocused more on the BY GRANT HAWKINS The Battalion ■ s ''' With two returning starters and one lone senior, the young, inexperienced Texas A&M Volleyball Team got its feet wet over the weekend and now is ready to dive into competition. The Aggies are returning from the Pacific Tourna ment in which they defeated Creighton University and Georgia Tech University before falling to the host team. University of Pacific, in the championship game. The 2-1 Aggies travel to San Marcos Tuesday, to face Southwest Texas State University. The match begins at 7 p.m. Last year, the Aggies defeated Southwest Texas in their home opener in three games. This year. Southwest Texas has six returning starters from last year’s 15-16 team that went 11-7 in the Southland Conference. The Bobcats are led by seniors Nicky Rose and Makeda Smith. A&M enters the game ranked 19th in the nation, and is led by senior outside hitter Stacy Sykora and junior, middle blocker Amber Woolsey. Sykora and Woolsey; were named to the All-Tournament- Team last weekend. A&M leads the? all-time series with SWT 16-3. Tuesday’s match kicks off a bee-? tic week for the Aggies that will end • with a trip to Ann Arbor, Mich., for' the Michigan Tournament on Friday. - The Aggies join a stellar field! that includes Bowling Green Uni-i veristy, Louisiana State University,; University of North Carolina and; the University of Michigan. The Aggies play North Carolina Friday at 11:30 a.m. and LSU at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at 11 a.m., the Aggies will face Michigan in. a rematch of last year’s NCAA Tournament second-round ■ contest in which A&M eliminated the Wolverines on its ‘ way to the Sweet 16. The Aggies open their home sched-; ule on Sept. 15 against the Houston Cougars at 7 p.m. SYKORA Mike Fuentes/The Battalion Freshman midfielder Michelle Royal (No. 4, pictured) dribbles past a New Mexico defender during Monday night’s game. “We did really well tonight,” Peters said. “We came back well and really showed that we’re go ing on with the rest of the season. I’m just glad that we were able to score so many goals.” Varsity Soccer Tryouts •Where;. Aggfcs Soccer Complex •When; Wcdnesdm •Time: 4:30 p.m. • C All 862 8 369 for more into. • Eai) _ Afford: s performance. • Effect Nicky Thrasher added the next Aggie goal in the 25th minute. Af ter receiving a pass from Shannon Pickering, Thrasher left New Mex ico goalie Shelly Hammock stand ing in her tracks as she put the ball in the open net. Stewart added her first goal in the 33rd minute of play, putting in For informal 845-0! a pass from Cameron Chorn. Pe ters added her third goal of the night on a pass from Amber Childers in the 56th minute. Guerrieri said Childers made a great feed to Peters for the goal. “It was a brilliant pass,” he said. “She seemed to have anoth er gear she put it into. I was real ly proud of her. [It was] the first assist of her college career.” Stewart capped off the scoring for the Aggies with her second goal in the 66th minute. “The fact that [Rebecca] Stewart who has been a goal keeper the last three years scored two really nice goals, I think it shows the depth of this team,” Guerreri said. The next games for the Aggies is a trip to Madison, Wis., to play a pair of games with the Universi ty of Wisconsin and Arizona State University. Texas Football Massacre Memories of 66-3 loss haunt UT football players AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas linebacker Aaron Babino didn’t pick up a newspaper, didn’t watch the news or answer his phone. He didn’t want to go to class on the following Monday for fear of having to face questions about THE loss. The massacre at Royal- Memorial Stadium. Rout 66. Whatever you want to call it. “A lot of people just looked at you like ... what happened?”’ Babi no said Monday. ‘‘It was horrible.” Other Longhorns dealt with last year’s record-setting 66-3 defeat against UCLA by rubbing their own noses in it as a reminder never to let it happen again. They posted articles about the debacle on their walls. ‘‘I just tried to forget about it,” said running back Ricky Williams. New Texas strength coach Jeff ‘‘Mad Dog” Madden made sure the Longhorns didn’t forget about it. though. When players began drag ging during conditioning drills in the spring and summer, he would yell, ‘‘Sixty-six to three. Is that how you want to be remembered?” He usually got some extra effort. On Saturday, the 23rd-ranked Longhorns (1-0) will go to the Rose Bowl and face a more experi enced, higher ranked and possi bly more confi dent group of Bruins than they faced last year. No matter how good sixth-ranked UCLA is, howev er, Texas players vow they will nev er be embarrassed like that again. ‘‘When we lost 66-3, it hurt the pride of a lot of players,” Babino said. ‘‘No one on this team had ever lost that bad, in high school or BROWN liliil ever. After that game, our season' went south. That shouldn’t happen to the University of Texas.” UCLA, which will be playing its • season opener Saturday, has be- ‘ come a four-letter word to most - Longhorns faithful. The Bruins pinned Texas with ■ its worst-ever home loss and the! second worst loss in the history of; the program. The Longhorns,. ranked 11th and full of high hopes; going into the UCLA game in - week two last year, stumbled to a; 4-7 season that cost coach John. Mackovic his job. It was 38-0 after two quarters. ■ Even Texas coach Mack Brown re- members being startled by the halftime score when it was broad- ’ cast during a game his North Car olina Tar Heels were playing against Stanford. see Longhorns on Page 14. 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