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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.
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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
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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.”
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"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:
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