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Battalion Sports Page 5 • Friday, October 2, 1998 :las$rc of the said. Ilhere ams a; |U hosts Aggies pcCowfi leads me in first tig 12 road game BY AL LAZARUS The Battalion After nearly a year-long hiatus, e Texas A&M Football Team re ined its game of musical quar- backs last Saturday against UNT, d when the music stopped, ndy McCown ended up as the gies’ starter. ■ this weekend, at least. junior from Jacksonville, ■ will lead the Aggies (3-1, 0- iijto Memorial Stadium in (iBnce, Kan., Saturday at 11:30 n. lo take on the Kansas Jay- tvkl (2-2, 0-2). MoCown’s last start came last ison against Texas Tech, when he completed two of eight passes for seven yards before being re placed by Branndon Stewart. “I’m a lot more relaxed this year,” McCown said. “I’ve learned to just go out there and have fun.” Texas A&M offensive coordina tor Steve Kragthorpe said Mc Cown was in a difficult situation in last season’s game against the Red Raiders. “Randy felt like he had the weight of it all on his shoulders and had to have instantaneous success, and there were not exactly ideal weather conditions in Lubbock that day,” Kragthorpe said. Against UNT last Saturday, Mc Cown said he was relaxed when he replaced Stewart, and his num bers reflected that as he complet ed 11 of 13 passes for 167 yards and two touchdowns. “When they brought me in off the bench, the guys were looking to see how I reacted,” McCown Brandon Bollom/Thi Battalion Senior running back Sirr Parker gains yardage against the University of North Texas in last Saturday’s 28-9 A&M win. A&M plays Kansas Saturday. Women’s golf plays at Big 12 Fall Preview BY GRANT HAWKINS The Battalion said. “I came in calm and collect ed, and I think they thought, ‘Al right, this guy’s going to take us where we need to go.’” McCown is faced with the task of reviving an anemic Aggie of fense that has not scored more than 28 points in a game this season. see Football on Page 8. In the game of golf, the saying is, “You drive for show, and you putt for dough. ” For the Texas A&M Women’s Golf Team, last week’s inaugural tour nament backed up that statement. “We hit the ball good all three days,” A&M coach Jeanne Suther land said. “We just didn’t score with the putters until the third day.” The 12th-ranked Aggies finished 12th at the Jones Intercable/Dick McGuire Invitational last week in Albuquerque, N.M. They finished on a positive note, firing a final round score of 304. The Aggies hope that good finish will be a precedent of things to come this weekend as they compete in the Big 12 Fall Preview at the Cir cle C Ranch Golf Club in Austin. The Aggies finished second in Austin last year and were runners- up at the inaugural Big 12 Fall Pre view in 1996. Representing the Aggies in Austin will be junior Anna Becker, sophomore Mimi Epps, sophomore Marta Ostos, freshman Anna Jons- son and freshman Jennifer Cates. Becker finished third last year at the Big 12 Fall Preview after card ing a three-round total of 227. Cates is a redshirt freshman from Woodinville, Wash., who will be making her collegiate debut in Austin this weekend. The tournament will be a 54-hole event, consisting of 36 holes Satur day followed by 18 holes Sunday. The Aggies are joining a Big 12 field that includes No. 9 Texas and the defending champions. No. 13 Okla homa State. The Longhorns finished four strokes behind the Aggies last year at the Big 12 Championships. ioccer team travels to No. 19 Nebraska Harriers get first glimpse of Big 12 title contenders lsril , : | BY DOUG SHILLING The Battalion Th| only thing harder than get- g to the top is staying there. For the Texas A&M Soccer imi last season marked its ar- al at the summit. team not only claimed its ;t Big 12 Conference Champi- ihip, but the school’s first in l 1 -^' / sport. sow the Aggies have to fight to ioltflpt the position they have nil; cited. isfontfhe Aggies start defending their ,12 Conference title on the road an(lfc|apair of games this weekend. Wir ■ey kick things off Friday night ii/iifxHa game against the 19th- Haw Jted University of Nebraska Cornhuskers at 7 p.m. in Nebraska at the Abbott Sports Complex. A&M is coming off a tough part of its schedule with losses in two of their last three games, being outscored 5-2. Despite the mini-slump, A&M Soccer coach G. Guerrieri said he is pleased with the team’s perfor mance over this stretch. “I think the team has played very good,” Guerrieri said. “We are not losing to bad teams. We played two teams in the top 10 and one team that just tied the co-No. 1 team in the country. “The key is to not emphasize the losses. I could have set up an easier schedule, but that would not have been beneficial to the team. It has prepared us for the rest of the season.” The first game against Nebras ka should provide a stern test for the Aggies. The ‘Huskers enter the game rid ing a four-game winning streak and a 6-2-1 record, 1-0 in Big 12 play. En route to winning the Big 12 last year, the Aggies defeated the Cornhuskers twice, including the Big 12 Tournament Title Game. Despite this fact, Guerrieri said the Cornhuskers will give the Ag gies all they can handle. “Although they are basically the same team from last year, they are much bigger and faster than we are,” he said. “They are also a very phys ical, ball-winning team. see Soccer on Page 8. BY TOM KENNEDY The Battalion With only two meets left be fore the Big 12 Championships, the Texas A&M Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Teams still have a lot to prove. The third South Central Re gion Coaches’ Poll, released Wednesday, continues to be un kind to the Aggies even though they have fared well in every meet this season. The men moved up one spot to No. 11, and the women dropped to No. 9. Coach Dave Hartman said he feels the teams are not being slighted, but they are just being overlooked by regional coaches. “A lot of people are voting with out researching all the schools in the district,” Hartman said. Hartman also has the respon sibility of rounding out a seven man and seven woman team from a roster of 42 runners. The top five on each squad ap pear to be solidified, but the rest of the spots are up for grabs, espe cially on the women’s side. Hartman’s solution for giving his runners a shot at the varsity teams without having a weaker showing against strong competi tion is simple — run two meets. On Oct. 3, the varsity squads will be in Stillwater, Okla., facing nationally-ranked competition for the first time this season. On the men’s side, national ti tle contenders Arkansas and Okla homa State will fend for the team title along with Washington’s tra ditionally strong program. The Aggies will get their first glimpse of Big 12 individual-title contender Brian Young of Okla homa State and 1998 NCAA 1500-meter champion Seneca Lassiter of Arkansas. Hartman expects the national ly ranked competition to be an eye-opener for the men. “It’s a fast race, and I think it will be good experience since we have such a young team,” Hart man said. see Harriers on Page 8. WHAT: Co-op Career Fair WHEN: Monday, Oct. 5 Tuesday, Oct. 6 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Zachry Lobby Different Employers Each Day! Tuesday. Oct. 6 /lotorola Mobil Corporation fcion Carbide lelity Investments foyota Motor Mfg. JM Mars, Inc. lisonart Int’l. \BB Lummus Global iBB Vetco Gray, Inc. Alcatel Telecom Pervasive Software J.A. Jones Constr. 1 polar Turbines Texas Instruments pytheon Sys. Co. ational Instruments :B Grocery [)ndell-Citgo Ref. Co. 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