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Mississippi Burning A&M expects difficult game from upset-minded USM Eagles Sports Page 5 • Friday, September 18, 1998 Greg McReynolds/Tiii Battalion ning back Eric Bernard runs to daylight in last Saturday’s win over Tech. Bernard finished the game with five carries for 27 yards. BY AL LAZARUS The Battalion They simmer, waiting patiently for their op ponent to come to town. They think about what happened two weeks ago at Penn State, how they lost not only the game, 34-6, but also the preseason respect they had earned from people across the country. They fell out of the polls and out of the minds of many, dismissed as just another small-time team that can not win a big-time game. The University of Southern Mississippi Foot ball Team has something to prove this week end, and it could not think of a better team to do it against than No. 17 Texas A&M. The Aggies (1-1) will be in Hattiesburg, Miss., at 2 p.m. Saturday to take on the Eagles (0-1). “These kids have been hearing all spring and all summer that A&M’s coming,” A&M coach R. C. Slocum said. “It’s probably going to be their largest crowd to ever see a game. ” Slocum said because of the atmosphere sur rounding the game, he expects the Eagles to come out strong. “The excitement in the air from the local peo ple and students just intensifies everything, so you end up having guys perform at a level that’s dif ferent from what they would in some other cir cumstance,” he said. “So you really have to play well and not turn the ball over early.” Saturday’s game has drawn comparison to the Aggies’ trip to Lafayette, La., two years ago to take on the University of Southwestern Louisiana. USL’s players treated the game as their version of a national championship game, upset ting the Aggies, 29-22. A&M tight end Daniel Campbell played that dis mal night in Lafayette, and said the Aggies have no plans to let something like it happen again. “This is going to be the game where they shock the nation by beating Texas A&M, and we’re not going to let them do that,” Campbell said. “We’ll be ready for them.” Campbell recalled the charged atmosphere that night, and he said he hopes for a similar sit uation in Hattiesburg. “I like it when other teams talk trash and SLOCUM their fans get crazy. It makes you want to go in there and play hard and show them what you got,” Campbell said. The Eagles have an eight-game home win ning streak over the last two seasons. Saturday’s game will mark just the fourth time this decade the Eagles have hosted a ranked team; they are winless in their first three attempts. Despite being blown out by Penn State in their first game of the year, Slocum said he feels South ern Miss gave the Nittany Lions a challenge. “The score was really misleading in [the Penn State] game,” he said. “There were some major problems they gave Penn State on both sides of the ball.” One concern of the Aggies’ is the Eagles’ con fusing defense and the problems it could pre sent to a young A&M offensive line. Campbell acknowledged the Eagles’ tricky defense but said the Aggies will not be intimi dated by it. “We’ve looked at some of their defenses, and they don’t have one defense that you can iden tify. They are going to be jumping around and doing all kinds of different things trying to con fuse us,” Campbell said. >ngs like "Di iedneck Bur nits of their; nnis teams begin fall schedule n ALLAZARUS '•Ui ’he Battalion Texas A&M Men’s Vomen’s Tennis vill kick off their edulls this week- the men’s team o Houston for the /Rational and the s team heads to Dsa, |Ala., for the a Invitational, members of the earn, Brent Horan on Madden, will be more, Md., to par- in the National Clay a leg of the colle- nnis Grand Slam, men’s team is com- a breakthrough sea- saw the Aggies fin- ,1 a No. 13 national j after starting the Mo. 63. mds was g? ictly what hi Ed Ttisgife Russian joi irubwormg d a Grubwc how to rero ’Grubwonr id that m; ver in their kmitzvy st dy musics chotic bli rers enjoy This weekend in Hous ton, the Aggies will face several solid teams in Rice, Tennessee and Notre Dame. The Rice Invitational marks the beginning of an unusu ally busy and challenging fall schedule for the Aggies. “We feel like we have an awesome fall schedule that’s going to give all our kids a good opportunity,” A&M coach Tim Cass said. “It’s a good mix of top na tional events and some real good regional tourna ments that will provide everybody a chance to prove themselves.” Horan, the Aggies’ lone se nior, and Madden, a sopho more, will play doubles in the national clay court tourna ment Saturday. Horan said he is excited about getting a chance to play in such a high-profile tournament. “I’m pretty excited about it,” Horan said. “It’s the first big tournament of the year, and I’m ready to play.” Madden, who posted an overall singles record of 16- 3 and was named to the All- Big 12 Team last season, said the tournament is a challenging way to begin the season. “It’s going to be a tough test to start off the year, but if we get a good start, then we know we can do pretty good things this year,” Madden said. The women’s team will face an equally challenging start to its season this week end in Alabama. A&M coach Bobby Klei- necke said there will be tough competition at the tournament. “I wouldn’t consider this a warmup tournament, be cause there is going to be some very good competi tion there,” Kleinecke said. “This is like jumping into the deep end.” Junior Lisa Dingwall, the Aggies’ No. 1 singles play er, said the team is in an unfamiliar position playing a tournament this early in the year. “We’re sort of uncertain about the tournament right now. We’re not sure how we are going to do because we just started up practice a couple of weeks ago,” Dingwall said. Sophomore Eva Marcial, the Big 12’s No. 6 singles champion last season, said the Aggies’ expectations are high. Young harriers look for practice BY TOM KENNEDY The Battalion The Texas A&M Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Teams will hold most of their upperclassmen out of com petition this weekend to fo cus on training for the next two weeks. Both teams have their toughest stretch of competi tion beginning Oct. 3, when they begin to face stronger teams, including national powerhouse Arkansas and men’s NCAA 1,500-meter champion Seneca Lassiter. Coach Dave Hartman is holding the more experienced runners out so they can be ready for the next few weeks of practice, when the runners will find themselves in the midst of the hard mid-season mileage that goes along with cross country. “They won’t actually be resting,” Hartman said. “They won’t race again until Oct. 3, so they’ll take a couple weeks of hard training.” The rest of the team will be heading to the Southern Mis sissippi Invitational this week end in Hattiesburg, Miss. Key runners for the men being held out are sophomore Jim Pat Darcey, A&M’s top runner last weekend, and ju nior Carl Stewart, who has been recovering from illness this week. “[Stewart] will take the next few weeks to do some strength training and get strong before he races again,” Hartman said. The women’s “B team” will be making the trip this weekend. Most of the women will be running the 5,000-meter dis tance competitively for the first time. Of the 10 women going, eight are freshmen. Two freshmen, Melissa Gulli and Sarah Doyle, will be held from the meet, along with the rest of the varsity squad. The men and women both will run the hilly 5,000- meter course, but with dif ferent objectives. The men, withholding less runners, will use the race as a hard workout. The women will be looking to give their younger runners more racing experience. “It’s difficult to say how we’re going to do,” Hartman said. “We’re going to be count ing on a lot of freshmen.” M, Yep. TMts fiow we feel, too. The similarities are kind of uncanny: strength, pride, respect. But as they say, when you're a leader, certain things just come with the territory. 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