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BY BETH MILLER
The Battalion
I Warning; Contents under pres-
slre. May explode upon opening.
I The sixth-ranked Texas A&M
Football Team, after being bottled
uf in the confines of an offseason
full of hot and humid two-a-days,
will surge across the Sabine River
into Shreveport, La. for its debut
Brformance against the Louisiana
Tech Bulldogs.
I A&M coach R.C. Slocum said
H feels confident heading into the
1199 season and into the Aggies’
first game with the current roster.
I “I’m anxious to see the offense,”
Slocum said. “I think this offense
has more capabilities than we’ve
eler had.”
I Slocum said he has been im-
pfessed with what he has seen in
pluctice as far as the kicking game
gfces, and he is anxious to watch
the offense with starting quarter
back Randy McCown and fullbacks
D’Andre “Tiki” Hardeman and Ja’-
Mar Toombs. He also said he is
confident about the Aggies’ wide
receivers this year.
However, Slocum said the team
has a disadvantage in playing
Louisiana Tech this weekend since
the A&M opponent already has a
game under its belt, and since it
will be a home game for the Bull
dogs.
In last year’s game, the Aggies
shut down star quarterback Tim
Rattay, the nation’s top returning
quarterback who has broken
Louisiana Tech career and single
game records and who leads in
touchdown passes and total offense.
Rattay threw 239 yards against
the Aggies, which was 320 yards
below his average in Tech’s first
two games against the University
of Nebraska and the University of
Central Florida. A&M also rushed
210 yards against the Bulldogs,
Senior cornerback Jason Webster
Texas Tech University,
while holding them to 84.
Junior linebacker Cornelius An
thony, in looking toward the rest of
the season, said this weekend’s
game may not be one of the team’s
major battles, but it impacts the
Aggies’ record as much as all the
other games, so he considers it of
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the same importance.
“A lot can be done with your
first game,” Anthony said. “You
can gain momentum, and as one of
[our] goals of winning the Big 12,
[we] have to take every game on
see Football on Page 11.
Kitchens offers Ags
dose of consistency
BY AL LAZARUS
The Battalion
As Terence Kitchens prepared
for the Texas A&M Football
Team’s 1998 spring drills, the red-
shirt freshman
place-kicker
couldn’t help
but feel confi
dent about his
situation.
After spend
ing the 1997 sea
son as backup to
senior Kyle KITCHENS
Bryant, the posi
tion would be open in the fall and
was seemingly Kitchens’ for the
taking.
Then one day, shortly before
the Aggies were set to begin
spring practices, an innocent little
“pop” in his right hip sent
Kitchens back to square one.
While maxing out on squats.
he pulled his right hip flexor, an
injury that left the right-footed
Kitchens unable to kick for four
months.
By the time July rolled around,
with practice only a month away.
Kitchens was finally able to start
kicking again. But as he would
soon learn, the long road back
was just beginning.
“It was like learning all over
again,” Kitchens, now a junior,
said “My leg just wasn’t fully
ready. ”
He was forced to take a back
seat once again in 1998, this time
to sophomore Russell Bynum. It
was not an easy pill for Kitchens
to swallow.
“It was hard at first to sit back
and be the No. 2 guy,” he said.
“And at the time, I thought that
was my one chance, so that also
added to the heartache of last
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Aggie soccer team visits SMU Mustangs
BY REECE FLOOD
The Battalion
The Texas A&M Women’s Soccer
Team will play its first road game of
the season in Dallas tonight at 7:30
against Southern Methodist Universi
ty. Both the Lady Aggies and Lady
Mustangs are 2-0 this season.
A&M coach G. Guerrieri said he
thinks this game will be very chal
lenging for the Aggies.
“I’m expecting this to be the hard
est game of the season, so far,” Guer
rieri said.
A&M comes into tonight’s game
with two shutout victories under its
belt. The Aggies beat Oklahoma State
University 4-0 Friday and added a 5-0
victory over the University of Okla
homa Sunday.
SMU also comes into tonight’s
match after enjoying a victorious
weekend. The Lady Mustangs defeat
ed the University of North Texas, 3-0,
and the University of Houston, 3-0,
last weekend in their first two games
of the season.
Guerrieri said the Aggies might see
some similarities between SMU and
Oklahoma, but is worried the Lady
Mustangs will be better prepared for
the game.
“I’m really concerned that they
have a lot of speed,” he said. “They’ll
play a similar system to what we just
saw this weekend against Oklahoma,
but the personnel is probably much
better. ”
Sophomore midfielder Cameron
Chom, who was named to Soccer
America’s Team of the Week after
earning three assists against Okla
homa, tying the A&M record, said
while tonight’s game will be difficult,
she is confident that her team will be
successful.
“We have a really strong team, a
strong bench,” Chorn said. “I think we
can go out there and beat them and
play hard.”
Guerrieri said the Aggies have been
see Soccer on Page 11.
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Volleyball begins
season in Michigan
The Texas A&M Volleyball Team
kicks off its regular season today at
the L&L/Michigan State Volleyball
Classic in East Lansing, Michigan.
The Aggies take on Clemson Uni
versity and Michigan State Univer
sity in their first round matches.
The Tigers return all six starters
from last season’s team that fin
ished 22-11 and advanced to the
second round of the NCAA tourna
ment.
The Aggies will also battle East
ern Kentucky University and Cleve
land State University in their second-
round matches Saturday.
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