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Page 14 • Tuesday, September 8, 1998 s ports attalion Injured Aggies produce goals Williams receives hot ter f JL P> AI 1 A Q 1A Tiw-ie r..M ,aI -.11 rot i imind T he Texas A&M Soccer Team went 1-1 to open the season last week. The Aggies defeated the Universi ty of North Texas 5-1 Monday but came up short in a 1-0 overtime loss to the 4th- ranked Florida Gators Friday. Let s Hear it Soccer Notebook for the TYainers Both redshirt freshman forward Michelle Remington and junior de fender Ashley Fendley missed much of last season after suffering knee injuries. Both players made their presence felt against UNT as Remington scored two goals and Fendley added an assist to her stellar defensive play. teams. Including the game with the Gators, the Aggies will face No. 20 SMU, No. 10 Nebraska, No. 9 Hartford and No. 2 Santa Clara. The schedule reflects A&M soccer coach G. Guerrieri’s philosophy of testing his team against the best teams in the nation. precedent by graduating early from THnity Valley High School and joining this year’s squad. Murderer’s Row The Aggies are facing one of the toughest schedules in the nation this year. A&M has five top-20 opponents on its schedule, including four top-10 Youth Movement Guerrieri knew that with the loss of four seniors from last year’s team, this year’s squad would be a young one, but he did not realize how young. For the second year in a row, the Ag gies have been able to convince a re cruit to give up her senior year of high school to come to A&M. Sophomore forward Nicky Thrash er joined the team last year after grad uating a year early from El Paso Franklin High School. Amber Childers followed Thrasher’s Weekly MVP Writers have the Pulitzer Prize, hu manitarians have the Nobel Prize, col lege football players have the Heisman Tfophy and college soccer players now have the Battalion Weekly MVP Award. This week the award goes to junior goalkeeper Melanie Wilson. Wilson started off the season with 140 minutes of play without allowing a goal. An All-Big 12 Conference performer last year, Wilson showed fans at the Aggie Soccer Complex why she is one of the top goalies in the nation with spectacular saves against Florida. DALLAS (AP) — Texas run ning back Ricky Williams, Ok lahoma State linebacker Ttoy West and Colorado punt re turner Cedric Cormier have been named the Big 12's play ers of the week. Williams opened his senior season in grand fashion, set ting a school record with six touchdowns and 215 yards in the Longhorns’ 66-36 victory over New Mexico State. Williams also moved to sec ond pla returning tlr a touchdown His ■ 'Tell, it look / another b ' break for rv over Kai> “wired in” Cormie ts in general man. Drone (aloes' 42-H hdown Longhorns Michael Taglienti is a senior sports management major. Big 12 quarterbacks suffer injuries DALLAS (AP) — Oklahoma and Texas Tech went into this season excited about their new starting quarterbacks. By the second quarter of their season openers, both were out with injuries. In their place came a third-string walk-on who moved to second team when the guy ahead of him was suspended and a fifth-year se nior with one career completion. ~r •---«?» Both teams came ./ ^PatriclfFletcher of \ Oklahoma and Matt Tittle of Texas Tech weren’t the only backups taking cen ter stage Saturday. Nebraska second-string quarterback Eric Crouch started because of an injury to starter Bobby New- ,combe and he also led his team to victory. Fletcher was hailed as “a sparkplug for the whole team” by tailback De’Mond Parker after leading the Sooners to a 37-9 victory over North Texas. That’s quite a turnaround from a few months ago, when new defensive coordinator Rex Ryan called Fletcher “no Joe Namath” after he had a big day in a spring scrimmage. OU coach John Blake was hesitant to heap praise upon Fletcher, who completed all five of his passes for 84 yards and ran for 37 yards as the Sooners returned to their offen sive roots with an option-oriented system. ‘‘With our offense, ... you’ve got to have three or four quarterbacks ready because it is so physical,” Blake said Monday. “I think if you lose a starter in the offensive line that could be more key because of the continuity needed be tween those guys.” Starting quarterback Brandon Daniels went down with a left shoulder injury in the second quarter. Blake said Mon day that Daniels feels better, but is still sore. Doctors will re evaluate him early this week to determine whether he can start Saturday against Texas Christian. Tittle was forced into action in the second quarter of Texas Tech’s 35-3 victory over Texas-El Paso when starter Rob Peters finally bowed to the pain of a separated shoul der in the second quarter. He hurt it on the first series, but tried to keep playing. When Tittle came in, the score was 0-0. His first complete pass — a 45-yarder to Donnie Hart — gave the Red Raiders a 7-0 lead. He finished the game 10 of 18 for 172 yards. Tittle spent the last four years stuck behind Zebbie Lethridge and was slated to back up Peters, a junior, this year. He’ll end up getting his first career start on Saturday against North Texas. ‘‘Somebody asked me if I was surprised at how Matt Tit tle played. I said I was but I wasn’t. He really has been com peting hard for the job,” coach Spike Dykes said. Dykes said he hopes to have Peters back the following weekend against Fresno State. But, he’s also confident that Tittle would be ready for the challenge. ‘‘We don’t want a quarterback controversy before the season gets started,” Dykes said. ‘‘We’re just glad to have both of them.” Nebraska coach Frank Solich feels the same way about Newcombe and Crouch. He’s seen both of them in action and both have been victorious. Crouch completed 11 of 17 passes for 127 yards and a touchdown, and he ran seven times for 69 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Cornhuskers to a 38-7 victory over Alabama-Birmingham. He suffered early jitters and was slowed late by cramps, but he also showed good leadership and poise. ‘‘It was really no surprise to us,” Solich said. ‘‘We felt (Crouch) had the athletic ability ... and the mental makeup to do really well.” Contitntedfrom Page 11 "I heard 38-0, ahd I remember Cleve Bryant saying, ‘I’m sure that’s a mistake,’ ” Brown said. Bryant, an assistant with Brown at North Carolina who came with him to Texas, wasn’t hearing things. The Longhorns, who suffered seven sacks and eight turnovers that led to 42 UCLA points, recall it as one of the longest they've ever played. ‘‘It seemed like it would never end,” said quarterback Richard Walton, who made only his second start for Texas in that game and was, fair ly or not, stuck with much of the blame. Walton, who played well in a 66-36 season opening victory over New Mexico State Satur day'night, says he has nothing to prove in this year’s game. ‘‘It was a shock to me and to the whole team," Walton said. “We were not expecting to get blown out like that. But when you turn the ball over eight times and the other team doesn’t turn it over once, you are going to lose. We have to take better care of the ball this week. It's than: Saturday’s game will show; vorites in the Heisman T? Williams goes up againstUC Cade McNown. Williams led the nation u yards) and scoring (13.8 poin year, while McNown led the; efficiency (168.6). 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