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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1999)
a# the Battalion s PORTS ^Pa^e^^^Ionda^October^J^QOy roni t o inlet ility It cost ll we ball, own just you red J got the e’ve me- ides ond sti ungga Ags n larries, ?r cam ning b e loss ie lean hing t ?re |to t exec rustrati ■0 Ims viil tn s. Boil their i ivelin tore it Aggies split games with ISU, Nebraska INTERN ^TRAVEL ABROAD BY BETH MILLER The Battalion I Biis weekend marked Texas \&M’s 25th anniversary of voiren’s sports, but the Texas Soccer Team was forced to lijthe celebration between a loss t$e University of Nebraska Fri- iayland a win against Iowa State Jniyersity yesterday. I.Bouncing back from Friday’s oss A&M beat Iowa State, 4-1, yes- erday, with junior midfielder leaker Wiebe, sophomore mid- ielder Cameron Chorn, freshman brward Heather Ragsdale and ju- lior forward Nicky Thrasher scor- ng goals for the Aggies. ®he lone Iowa State goal was iiade by Erica Florez, who wubced a ball off the left goal post )ast senior goalkeeper Melanie Wilson. ■ [Florez] caught me moving, nit I thought the ball was wide,” iVilson said. “When I saw it going o]Ward the post, I set up to grab it Arhen it bounced off. I don’t un- ierstand how it went in the goal, )«ause the ball hit the dead cen- :er of the post. I’m still not sure tow it went in. ” ■he Aggies’ silver-anniversary jpener against Nebraska Friday did tot produce the results they were loping for as A&M lost 1-0. woth teams entered the game 5trc ng and aggressive, but the de fenses allowed only seven shots- oa-goal for the Aggies and nine for the Cornhuskers. Wilson compiled eight saves in the game. The Corn huskers’ only goal was on a penal ty kick in the first period by Jenny Benson. After a fierce first period, A&M defender Martha Moore was in jured when a Nebraska player stepped on her left knee. Officials said the injury was a deep bruise. A&M soccer coach G. Guerrieri said injuries will force the team to focus on offense. “We will basically be looking to control the pace of the remainder of the games by really playing our style, which is strong, attacking soccer,” he said. “Our best defense will be in our attack the rest of the way out.” Junior defender Amber Reynolds said the loss to Nebraska was difficult because of the teams’ rivalry. She said losing the game could hurt the team if it does not win the rest of its conference games. How ever, she said the Aggies are posi tive and will put the loss behind them. “The Big 12 championship is al ways between us and Nebraska, and this game is always a prelude to the Big 12 tournament,” Reynolds said. “We know that we needed to win this game to win the Big 12 Conference regular season title. “We need to win all the games now. We need to go out and kill all the other teams and make sure we get the recognition we need.” Germany MSC L T. Jordan Institute for International Awareness IntomiaiionaLs 29 7XX> pm R«dN2*f 4iQ Ovtatmt * naopm HudOm 404 Oetotom f cx> pm ewkfcar 401 Odot>#c 13 5:30 pm 402 Oc*co#r 28 8 30 pm Rytfd*' 402 COM'S# MM» y* t*mu <&. (mmm m* #m .t*#**' m ***>*r?* ™ CODY WAGES/The Battalion A&M junior midfielder Heather Wiebe gets her shirt pulled by a University of Nebraska defender during Friday night’s match. stros win Central division, buy more time at Astrodome ■HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Astros Blight themselves at least one more game in p -tlu 1 building that brought the world AstroTurf, " l ' : but the team and the fans still said goodbye to ^ |es thu Astrodome yesterday. leason.ajxhe Astros finished their 35th and final sea- was gw Bn in the dome with an 9-4 victory over the Los ; natior Angeles Dodgers. wm evil, in doing so, Houston clinched its third straight anga t NL Central title and a playoff berth. They will - the ^play either the Cincinnati Reds or the New York lal title ®els for the first two games of a best-of-5 series, icker roojand then return to the Dome for Game 3 on Fri- Tckudijday and a fourth game later, if necessary. jarely i ; befoi; i withal r Midiig ; betwefl ar’s, tto ?s in Li ,vas clt seaso of coots since tl / want e each -ed pbr 3 loss c plenty e out; uch as 3ggiC to Ted Big j conti as TeXi Yesterday’s crucial game was sandwiched be tween celebrations honoring the more than three decades of indoor Astros baseball. Astros manager Larry Dierker, who was an 18- year-old rising prospect with Houston when the sta dium opened, threw out the ceremonial first pitch to thunderous applause from 52,033 fans, a club- record fifth straight game with 50,000 or more fans. “Immediately afterward, I don’t think it hits you. But as the evening progresses, I think it rose on you,” Dierker said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if 1 don’t shed a tear before the night is over.” Country singer Charley Pride delivered a low- key rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and then the Astros turned to the business of keeping their season — and baseball in the As trodome — alive for another day. “Everything here was just memorable, and I’m going to miss it,” Joel Manjarris, a Hous tonian who attended his first game at the As trodome in the inaugural season, said. Manjar ris said he will be back for the playoffs. Closer Jay Powell withstood hundreds of flashbulbs through two batters as he tried to get the final out. 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