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T he No. 7 Texas A&M Soccer Team
lost to the No. 20 Stanford Cardinal
3-0 on Sunday. A&M was supposed
to play two games last week, but their
Tuesday night game with the Texas Long
horns was canceled because of rain.
Tough Schedule
The game against the 20th-ranked
Cardinal marks the beginning of the
toughest stretch of the Aggies’ schedule.
Four of the next five teams A&M faces
are or were ranked in the national top
25. SMU was ranked in the top 20 in the
preseason but dropped out after a 3-1
loss to Baylor.
After facing SMU, the Aggies welcome
No. 17 Hartford to the Aggie Soccer
Complex. The Aggies then travel to Lin
coln, Neb., to face the llth-ranked Ne
braska Cornhuskers.
Next comes a game in Ames, Iowa,
against the Iowa State Cyclones then
back home to Aggieland to face the 20th-
ranked Baylor Bears. Baylor attained its
first top 25 ranking ever last week after
their defeat of SMU.
Shut Out
With the 3-0 loss to Stanford, the Ag
gies were shut out in the regular season
for the first time since Oct. 20, 1996
when the Aggies lost to the University of
North Carolina 3-0. At the time, UNC
was ranked No. 2 in the country and the
Tar Heels went on to win the national
championship.
The last time the Aggies were shut out
was in the first round of the NCAA play
offs, when A&M lost to SMU 1-0.
The loss to Stanford was the first
A&M loss by more than one goal since
a 5-3 loss to the University of San
Diego in the first round of the 1996
NCAA playoffs.
The three-goal margin ties with the
UNC game as the Aggies’ second worse
loss ever. The largest margin of defeat in an
A&M soccer game was in 1994 when the
Aggies lost to No. 1 North Carolina 4-0.
Preparing for the Ponies
Coach G. Guerrieri said the loss
against Stanford was more a case of
Stanford playing well than A&M playing
poorly.
“Stanford played like world beaters,”
Guerrieri said. “They played great and
just forced us to play our worst game in
years. Now we have to put that behind
us, go home and prepare for a tough
match against SMU next weekend, and
I’m very confident we can do that.”
The Aggies’ next game is Friday at 7
p.m. at the Aggie Soccer Complex
against SMU.
Michael Taglienti is a senior sports
management major.
Continued from Page 9
Even with all her personal achievement,
Elias said a major reason for her coming to
Texas A&M was because of her family ties to
the school. *
“My sister came here and I came to visit
her,” Elias said. “During my visit I just fell in
love with the school.”
Guerrieri said he was also impressed with
Elias when she came to visit.
“[She was] someone who we [the coach
es] fell in love with when we were going
through the recruiting phase with her back
in 1995. She’s come in and has always been
a positive standard for the team to follow.”
As soon as Elias set foot in Aggieland she
began making her presence known.
In only the fifth game of her freshman sea
son, she was inserted into the starting lineup,
a position she has never relinquished.
For her efforts made during her first year, she
received A&M’s Most Improved Player award.
Her play remained solid during her
sophomore and junior years when she start
ed every game.
Both years she was selected second-team
all-region.
Of all her personal and team achievements,
Elias said the highlight of her soccer career
GUERRIERI
came at the end of the 1997 season.
“Winning the Big 12 and beating Nebras
ka is definitely the best moment I’ve had in
soccer,” she said.
After the 1997 season, Elias was chosen
as the team captain for this
season, an honor she said
she looks upon with a great
deal of pride.
“It’s a leadership role
and I feel like I have to set
a good example for the oth
er girls on the team,” she
said. “It’s a real honor.”
Senior forward Rebecca
Stewart, who has played
with Elias throughout her career, said the
choice of Elias as captain was a great one.
“What sets her apart from everyone else
is her dedication and being a leader,” Stew
art said. “She stepped into the role of being
a captain this year and has done a great job.
“She does a good job of getting everyone
together, bringing their spirits up and trying
to get them focused.”
For her senior year, Elias said that she and
the team have set some goals for this season.
“We are definitely going to try and defend
our championship,” Elias said. “We are also
going to try and make it further into the play
offs and hopefully make it to the Final Four.”
Recruits
Continued from Page 9
“My prep-school coach
told me he was a good coach,
and so did everybody else I
talked to,” Wise said. “And
when I came here to watch a
practice, I liked the way he
coached, and 1 thought he
was a pretty cool guy.”
Since his recent arrival.
Wise said his positive feelings
about the team’s prospects
have continued.
“I think we have some
great players,” he said. “We
just need to work, and we’re
going to be pretty good.”
Despite his late arrival,
Wise said fitting in with the
team has proved an easy task.
“I get along with every
body,” he said. “Everybody
gets along with each other.
This is the first team I’ve ever
been on where I’ve seen that.”
very proud, not neces-
h the numbers the streak
?ry proud that my team-
nd my manager could
me.”
lat he’s finally taken a day
ext question is: Can any-
come close to duplicating
d run?
wouldn’t think so,” said
ees’ Joe Girardi. ‘‘That’s a
ars to go so long without
_ajured. I don’t see that
'er being broken.”
n isn’t so sure,
lid it someone else can do
’t see myself as superhu-
,e said after watching an
game from the dugout for
qime since May 29, 1982.
BSOrtS (Of Ilf ’s no telling how long Rip-
d have gone.
s streak ended when he
> longer cope with a rare
r disorder that later became
w w r24L s Lou Gehrig’s disease.
n was completely healthy.
•;ot tired of the controversy
ling the streak — more
• columnist called him self-
d decided that spring train-
99 might be more fun if he
lave to talk about playing
full season.
nthout tipping any of his
ytes except Brady Anderson,
friend on the Orioles, Rip-
Iked into manager Ray
ffice a half-hour before the
d asked to have his name
1 from the starting lineup.
l^Vas j shocked,” teammate
Alomar said.
dn’t expect the record to
t way. But there was a lot
ism of him and I think
hy he ended it. That’s sad,
people don’t know his
|hic.”
rson knew well in advance
l iken would be watching
,’s game instead of playing
tried to talk Ripken out of
quickly realized his effort
£l>e futile.
mhnflt' 80 muc h easier f°r me to
IhIDOmy keep the streak alive be-
m not the one who has to
Anderson said. ‘‘Playing
ame in one season is tough
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