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want to knock us off.”
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A&M freshman forward Heather Ragsdale moves the ball against Oklahoma State University Aug.
27 in College Station. The Aggies will host the GTE Soccer Classic this weekend.
A&M soccer coach G. Guerrieri said he will
use the same strategy he uses for every game.
“We’ll always try to outwork and outthink
and outperform,” Guerrieri'said. “Our strate
gy is to try to remain balanced in how we at
tack, how we defend and how we keep pos
session of the ball.”
Davidson said one new gameplan Aggie
fans may see this weekend is a more aggres
sive defense.
“The last two games, [in] our defense,
we’ve been kind of laying off teams,” she
said. “So this weekend we’re really concen
trating on making sure that our defense steps
up and we play more compact as a team.”
This new style of play should allow the Ag
gies to pressure their opponents as other
teams try to advance the ball down the field
and cut down on opponents’ shots on goal.
The Aggies hope playing at home will give
them an advantage this weekend.
Guerrieri said playing in Texas might have
an effect on the other teams.
“We’ll be playing against two teams from
north of the Mason-Dixon line, so I think cli
mate will be more to our comfort,” Guerrieri
said. “Playing in familiar surroundings is al
ways an advantage.”
see Soccer on Page 8.
Page 7 • Friday, September 10, 1999
Tennis visits Houston
for Rice Invitational
BY BETH MILLER
The Battalion
After spending the summer
playing against the pros, the
Texas A&M
Men’s Tennis
Team is back
and ready to
take on
Louisiana State
University, the
University of
North Carolina
and Rice Univer
sity this week
end at the Rice Invitational.
A&M assistant tennis coach
Scott Triebly said most of the
players earned points in profes
sional circuits in California, Mis
souri, Mexico and Spain this
June. He said he has been im
pressed with their performances
in practice this semester.
“They have come back pretty
fit,” he said. “They worked out a
lot this summer. I am really
pleased.”
TYiebly said the circuits pre
pare players for the competition
they will face both in college and
professional-level tennis and in
other career choices.
“In one way or another they
want to be pros, whether it is in
tennis or in life,” he said. “The
circuits put them around pros. It
puts them out on the circuit, liv
ing their own, traveling on their
own. It makes them appreciate
college.”
This weekend’s opponents
are top-35 teams. LSU, a top-four
team, won the Southeast Con
ference championship last year.
Juniors Shuon Madden and
Dumitru Caradima, who earned
All-America and All-Big 12 Con
ference honors and were named
the Intercollegiate Tennis Asso
ciation Doubles Team of the
Month for February and April
last season, will not play in the
invitational so they can prepare
for tournaments in the upcoming
weeks,Triebly said.
TYiebly said that while all
matches are of value to the team,
the invitational this weekend is
similar to football’s Kick-off
Classic.
It allows the team to get
match experience early in the
season and helping coaches to
evaluate team and individual
strengths and weaknesses.
Sophomore Keith From who
played in the California and Mis
souri circuits, said the experi
ence taught him independence.
“Traveling, in general, makes
you more dependent on your
self,” he said. “You learn more
about yourself and things that
you will use every day, like how
you react to different situations.”
From said this year’s season
will be challenging because the
Aggies will play eight of the na
tion’s top 15 teams and many of
the matches are away from Col
lege Station.
From said he is looking for
ward to the Aggies being No. 1
in the nation this year.
“Goalwise, I think it’s up to
us,” he said. “We have to decide
what we want. I don’t see why
we can’t be [in the] top five in
the country with a chance for a
national championship.”
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