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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
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> 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
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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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