Mississippi Burning
A&M expects difficult game from upset-minded USM Eagles
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Page 5 • Friday, September 18, 1998
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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
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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.
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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.”
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