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    Page 7 • Tuesday, October 13, 1998
I Battalion
ed River Classic finals face Ags
BY GRANT HAWKINS
The Battalion
final-round score of 72 propelled senior Texas
[Men’s golfer Ryan Palmer to a two-round total
13, placing him eighth last week at the Windon
tonal Classic at Northshore Country Club in
Jiview, Ill.
[he Amarillo native leads the Aggies with a 73.6
ke average for the first two tournaments of the
Reason.
Ryan is really playing well,” A&M coach Bob Ellis
“He played really solid in Illinois.”
[aimer’s stellar play has been one of the few pos-
for the Aggies this fall.
^ the supporting cast has not found the consisten-
Illis said is needed for A&M to succeed during
■season.
“We need to have good play from our seniors,” El
lis said, “and other younger players need to play well
also. We are struggling right now.”
The Aggies will try to put that slow start behind
them as they compete in the Taylor-
jpr Made Red River Classic at the Dallas
jg Athletic Club in Dallas,
il® The tournament began Monday
and consists of 36 holes yesterday
followed by 18 holes today.
“The Dallas Athletic Club is a
great course,” Ellis said. “It is a Jack
Nicklaus re-designed course and it
hosted the 1963 PGA Championship
that Nicklaus won himself.”
The par-72 course will play host to a 15 team field
that includes 12 ranked teams, including No.l Okla
homa State, No. 14 Texas and No.16 Oklahoma.
ELLIS
ai l&M draws record crowd against Baylor
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Team went 1-1 last week.The
Aggies will travel to Boulder,
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ic Buffaloes, before returning
^leto play the No. 3 University
pnta Clara Broncos on Sunday
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off ourm support soccer. A record
i eitherpi?l/d of 1,741 fans attended the
sick clifyior game.
Is said. Ihat broke the attendance
air ofJafilrdof 1,649 set earlier this sea-
iM hasalftn a game against Southern
the Maiftodist University. For the sea-
lising eSBfie average attendance at the
tadets'aieSoccer complex is 1,189. A
student; ■
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said.
total of 8,325 fans have attended
games so far this year.
Showing Us Some New Moves
The Aggies continued to show
their creativity by introducing a
new post-goal celebration during
the game against Texas Tech.
Senior forward Sharon Picker
ing opened the scoring in the
Tech game in the 33rd minute as
she blasted a shot on a pass from
Cameron Chorn over the Tech
goalkeeper’s head for a 1-0 lead.
The team then gathered in a
circle in front of the goal, laid on
the ground and did the “swim.”
Sophomore forward Nicky
Thrasher said each player did a
different swim stroke as part of
the celebration of the goal.
“We did the swim,” Thrasher
said. “Some people did the breast
stroke and some did freestyle. Claire
(Elliot) was doing the butterfly.”
The Right Stuff
In junior Melanie Wilson, the
Aggies have one of the top five
goalkeepers in the nation.
You can never have too much
depth, and freshman goalkeeper
Angela Barker has received some
playing time this season in an at
tempt to gather some experience.
Barker has responded well, allow
ing only one goal in 162 minutes
for a 0.56 goals against average.
Focusing on the Big 12 Tourney
Coach G. Guerrieri said he was
pleased with the win over Tech and
that the team is focusing on getting
into the Big 12 Tournament.
“We’re pleased right now,”
Guerrieri said. “If we get another
win against Colorado up in the
mountains on Friday, then we are
in very good position to get back
into the Big 12 Tournament, and
that is our focus right now.”
You Can Only Hope To Contain Me
The Player Of the Week is Pick
ering.The senior started the Aggies
offensive explosion against Tech
with a goal in the 33rd minute.
Pickering had two goals in the
game, giving her six for the season.
Michael Taglienti is a senior
sports management major.
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THIS OCTOBER
Breakout
Senior Warrick Holdman steps out of Nguyen’s shadow
BRANDON BOLLOIVI/The Battalion
Warrick Holdman is averaging seven tackles a game this season.
BY JASON LINCOLN
The Battalion
W atch out, Dat Nguyen. War
rick Holdman is on the prowl.
After an inspired defensive per
formance on Saturday in which the
Aggies held the University of Ne
braska to 114 yards on the ground,
Holdman, a senior linebacker, up
staged Butkus Award-candidate
Nguyen and grabbed Big 12 Con
ference Player of the Week honors.
Holdman recorded eight total
tackles (five unassisted), a sack, two
tackles for losses of five yards, one
pass breakup, a fumble recovery for
a touchdown and one huge upset of
the No. 2 team in the nation.
“Hopefully they fear the whole
defense,” Holdman said, “but if it’s
just me they’re looking at, I hope
they’re thinking that they need to
block me. That tells me I’m doing
something right.”
Holdman is a dominant pres
ence in the outside linebacker po
sition for the Aggies.
As the team’s second-highest
tackier heading into the 1998 sea
son, Holdman averaged six tackles
a game through the end of last sea
son and finished with an 11-tackle
performance in the Cotton Bowl.
Inside linebacker Dat Nguyen
said Holdman does not get noticed
for his contributions to the team,
as much as he deserves.
“He’s pretty much a guy in the
shadow,” said Nguyen. “He does
everything right and doesn’t get
enough credit.”
Even though he may not get
the credit he deserves for his per
formance, Holdman said he does
not worry because there is going
to be someone who knows he is
doing his job.
“I just know that if I play hard and
do my job,” he said, “somebody’s
going to know I’m doing well.
“I want to lead the team in tack
les and finish strong, but mostly I
want to be remembered as some
one who upheld the linebacker tra
dition that A&M linebackers play
hard and aggressive all the time.” •
Holdman uses his speed and
strength to get on top of the play
and make his presence known.
see Holdman on Page 8.
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