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Homeward bound? Soccer signs recruit
Ability to find home abandoned the Aggies in Omaha
Texas!
■ome — according
to Dorothy, there’s
.no place like it.
timor has it home is
wliere the heart is, and
■ere is also something
Bmewhere about it be-
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I For a baseball team,
wme is the most impor-
Doug
SHILLING
in alor;
! com t an t place for it to go — it is where a baseball
, he ^' player’s journey starts and if he is successful,
^■illend.
I For the Texas A&M Baseball Team, home
luse T‘ ; - Bas a place that it knew well this season. Only
- •’ioi e other team in A&M history visited home
►rofes$.Mj 0re times than this year’s team. And when it
>erstar:* 1 m e to getting home in one shot, this year’s
jel0[F - J&M team was the best.
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So, when A&M made it to Omaha, the goal
was to win it all. Not only were the Aggies one
of the best teams in the nation at getting their
players home, but with last year being a record
setting one at the College World Series for
home runs and runs scored, the path to home
seemed easier than ever.
But a funny thing happened to the Aggies
between College Station and Omaha. Some
how, they forgot how to get home. For a team
that was ranked No. 1 for part of the season
and tabbed by some as the team to beat in Om
aha, this was a huge factor to forget, but leave
it to a bunch of guys to refuse to stop and ask
for directions.
But maybe the Aggies did not forget how to
get home after all, but instead the players de
cided to return back to the days of high school
when it was cool to break curfew, not come
home and then blame it on your friends. Only
in the case of the Aggie players, it really was
their friends’ fault they stayed out too late.
Against FSU, Daylon Holt, John
Scheschuck and Steven Truitt were all ready
to come home, but their good pals Sean
Heaney, Greg Porter and Dell Lindsey left
them high and dry without a ride. And when
Chad Hudson stiffed his friends on a ride
home against Cal-State Fullerton, which
would have been the tying runs, it was, as
Florida State coach Mike Martin said, “0-and-
2 and barbecue for the Aggies. ”
In the end, though, it does not matter
what the reason was the Aggies could not
get its men home. The cruel and ironic truth
about the situation is that for its inability to
find home in Omaha, the Aggies get a trip
to — that’s right — home.
Doug Shilling is a junior journalism major.
BY REECE FLOOD
The Battalion
Texas A&M soccer coach G. Guer-
rieri is already off to a strong start to
the 1999 fall season with the recruit
ment of another solid freshman class
this summer.
The most recent addition to the
team is Canyon native Laci Stephen
son. The 5’8” recruit gained experi
ence on both sides of the ball at
Canyon High School under the direc
tion of Tammi Stephenson, her moth
er and coach, and played sweeper for
the “Lone Stars” club team.
Guerrieri said Stephenson has the
physical tools to make her presence felt
for the Aggies.
“Laci is someone who comes in and
gives us an added degree of athleti
cism, speed and height to our multi
faceted system of play,” Guerrieri said.
The A&M Soccer Team has a histo
ry of bringing in some of the nation’s
top recruiting classes.
“Every year at Texas A&M we set
out to give our state’s most talented fe
male soccer players a place where they
can continue to develop while com
peting for a national championship,”
Guerrieri said.
“Our recruiting classes have consis
tently been rated among the nation’s
Top 10. In 1997 and ‘98, our freshman
classes were rated in the national top
seven. Hopefully, we can put it all to
gether on the field this fall and move
in closer to No.l.”
Stephenson is the fifth recruit to
sign with the Aggies this year, follow
ing midfielders Jessica Martin of Den
ton and Andrea Starns of Arlington,
defender Martha Moore of Spring and
forward Heather Ragsdale of Arling
ton. Ragsdale and Starns were team
mates on the “Texas Image” club team.
These new recruits will join an Aggie
soccer team that already has enjoyed its
share of success. A&M finished the 1998
season ranked fourth in the nation with
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Goaltender Melanie Wilson and the
Texas A&M Soccer Team finished last
season ranked No. 4 in the nation.
a 14-8 record, finishing third in the Big
12 behind Baylor University and the
University of Nebraska with a confer
ence record of 6-2.
The soccer team will host a presea
son game Aug. 21 against Klein Chal
lenge ‘82. The Aggies’ season official
ly begins Aug. 27 at home against Big
12 Conference rival Oklahoma State
University.
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