The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 04, 1999, Image 11

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Aggies fall to Cyclones
in Big 12 Tournament
BY JASON LINCOLN
The Battalion
The Texas A&M Women’s Soc
cer Team discovered the downfall
of tournament competition last
night — it only takes one loss to
end the efforts of a whole season.
Seventh-seed Iowa State Uni
versity handed the No. 2 Aggies a
loss in the first round to eliminate
their hope for a second win at the
Big 12 Championships in San An
tonio.
The Cyclones have a three-year
history with A&M that is filled
with bad memories. Not only did
Iowa State have a 0-5 record
against A&M, but it had been
outscored 17-1 in the five-game
series.
Iowa State knew it would have
its work cut out for it to keep a lid
on the high-powered A&M of
fense.
The Cyclones surprised the Ag
gies by taking on a conservative
game highlighted by a defensive
posture that would only advance a
couple of forwards at a time.
The strategy not only worked
to keep A&M from scoring, but
gave Iowa State few looks toward
the net. The game would be
scoreless through 120 minutes
that featured two halves and two
“golden goal” overtime periods.
“They played very well,” A&M
soccer coach G. Guerrieri said.
“They laid a lot of numbers back
on defense and we had trouble
breaking through. It’s hard to get
through solid objects sometimes.”
The match was forced into
penalty kicks after the four peri
ods of scoreless action.
Iowa State proved to be more
accurate as it got five goals past
A&M’s senior goalkeeper Melanie
Wilson, opposed to A&M’s four
into the back of the net.
“Penalty kicks, some people
say, are an unfortunate abomina
tion of our game,” Guerrieri said.
Big 12 Conference action might
be over for A&M, bufthe team is
confident that its record will car
ry it onto the list for the NCAA
tournament to be announced on
Sunday.
“We played very well this sea
son. We think our record speaks
very well at 15-5,” Guerrieri said.
“We’re hopeful we get in, but we
have taken control out of our
hands.”
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be able to play in Dallas’
Monday night game at Min
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his helmet into
Aikman’s on a
sack early in the
fourth quarter
of the Colts’ 32-
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Sunday.
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out one series,
sniffed some
smelling salts, then returned.
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Sports
Page 11 •Thursday, November4, 1999
Clutch performer
A&M wide receiver Matt Bumgardner overcomes injuries
to consistently contribute to Aggies in crucial situations
BY BETH MILLER
The Battalion
JP BEATO/The Battalion
Texas A&M senior wide receiver Matt Bumgardner had a career-high five receptions and two
touchdowns Saturday in the Aggies’ 21-3 victory against Oklahoma State University at Kyle Field.
T he Texas A&M Football Team has what se
nior wide receiver Matt Bumgardner calls
“a great crop of talent” in its wide receiv
er corps — an athletic group featuring depth
and a wide variety of talent. And although Bum
gardner has been plagued by injuries through
out his career, he has consistently emerged from
the Aggies’ gifted receiver pool with moments
of greatness.
Perhaps the most memorable of those came
in the Big 12 Championship game last year.
Bumgardner made a 30-yard diving catch
against Kansas State University during the Ag
gies’ fourth-quarter, game-tying drive.
Bumgardner said the catch was one of the
most pivotal moments in his career.
“When Branndon [Stewart] threw [the ball],
I thought, ‘There is no way I’ll catch this,’ be
cause the ball was flying; but it was just one of
those catches,” he said. “It just stuck in my
hands. In my athletic career, that is definitely
something I look back on.”
Last weekend, Bumgardner had a career-high
five catches — two for touchdowns — in a 21-3
A&M win over Oklahoma State. But that wasn’t
the first time he had a big game against OSU.
In 1997, with the Aggies trailing the Cowboys
by 15 points in the fourth quarter at Kyle Field,
Bumgardner made a 25-yard catch on third and
12, a crucial play that seemed to spark the Ag
gies to come back and win in a game crucial to
their hopes of winning the Big 12 South.
Bumgardner spoke of his recent success
against OSU and recalled each step of one of his
catches.
“Randy threw it where only I could get to it;
it was wet, and I just tucked it into my body and
made sure I didn’t let go of it,” he said.
He said the reason most of his catches are
spectacular is because he is willing to dive for
the ball, even if thinks he will be unable to catch
it, whereas other receivers might not.
Bumgardner selflessly downplays his
memorable catches, instead opting to remind
people that he doesn’t have as many catches
as many would think.
“People might assume I have more catches
than I do just because they remember the few
that I do have,” he said.
Bumgardner does have one characteristic that
makes coaches nervous on the sidelines — his
history of injuries. In high school in Luling, Texas,
he tore his left hamstring, which he thinks may
have caused permanent vulnerability in it. Since
then, his career has been riddled with injuries in
cluding chronic hamstring pulls, a pulled quadri
ceps, hip flexor problems, at least one ankle in
jury, a slight back injury, a slight shoulder
separation and a bruised calf. Bumgardner said
see Bumgardner on Page 12.
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