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nents to the graduate;
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sities.
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Monday. June 26. 2000
Sports
THE BATTALION
Aggie recruits and Texans take on California
Matthew L. Thigpen
The Battalion
Texas and California declared war
on each other Saturday night in the
Shrine All-Star Football Classic.
The high school all-star football
players left everything on the field
until a last-second kick gave Texas its
sixth straight loss.
The final blow came from UCLA-
bound Chris Kluwe and a 53-yard
game-winning kick that gave Cali
fornia a 29-27 victory.
Texans and the Californians repre
sented their respective states on the
field and gave their future college
teams and fans a glimpse of what to
expect in the coming years.
Future Aggies Adam Black (de
fensive back — Cypress Falls), Geoff
Hangartner (offensive lineman —
New Braunfels), Cody Scates
(punter/place kicker — Tyler Lee),
Jonte Buhl (defensive back —
Pflugerville Connally) and Linnis
Smith (defensive lineman — Tyler
John Tyler) all played for the Texas
team.
The Texas team also featured a trio
of highly-talented receivers
who have one thing in com
mon: they will wear orange
and white in the fall when
they suit up for the Univer
sity of Texas Longhorns.
Wide receivers B. J.
Johnson, Roy Williams and
Sloan Thomas were expect
ed to dominate in the game,
but Williams was stopped
by injuries.
He sprained his ankle a
couple of days before the
game, but still returned the
opening kickoff.
Then, he separated his
shoulder on the opening
kickoff and did not return.
Thomas shone brightly
though, hauling in ’six re
ceptions for 121 yards and
one touchdown.
Texas' two quarterbacks,
both college bound, also en
countered trouble.
Aaron Karas and Hunter
Wall each threw two inter
ceptions, and Karas threw
one on the first play from
scrimmage.
Karas settled down in
the second half and im
proved his game. He fin
ished 18 of 29 for 274 yards
and three touchdowns.
Wall was 0-3 in passing.
Karas will attend Baylor
University, and Wall will play
for Oklahoma University.
The leading rusher of the
game was Texas' Vontez
Duff, who ran 25 times and
compiled 94 yards, includ
ing one touchdown. Duff is
headed for the Golden
Dome of Notre Dame.
The Texas team ap
peared to be dead in the wa
ter early in the third quarter
as California increased its
lead to 26-7 on a 63 yard
touchdown pass, but the
Texans fought back.
With 17.7 seconds left to
play, Karas found Shir-
donye Mitchell in the end
zone, and the additional
point gave Texas a 27-26 lead and an
apparent victory.
Almost before the celebration
started, the California team crippled
Texas' hopes. A 30-yard kick-off re
turn gave California good field posi
tion, and then Texas made a mistake.
Aggie recruit Adam Black forgot
that the WWF is not in charge of high
school football.
Black clothes lined a California re
ceiver on a streak-pass attempt.
California got closer to the red-
zone, and, after a six-yard pass,
Kluwe got his chance.
Kluwe had missed a 51-yard at
tempt earlier in the game and
shanked a extra-point attempt, but he
had hit field goals consistently from
60-yards out in practice.
Tliis time, Kluwe hit his mark,
splitting the uprights and snatcliing
the victory away from the Texas team.
Although Texas lost and the game
was hard-hitting, there is a silver lining.
The front row of the stadium pro
vided seats for the most deserving
fans — children from the Shriner's
Children's Hospital.
Aggies compete
at Junior nationals
Tracksters compete in Championships
Christina Ohaeri
The Battalion
Four Texas A&M track and field
I team members competed at the
USA Juniors Track and Field Cham
pionships last weekend at the Uni
versity of North Texas with the
hopes of making
the World Junior
National team.
On the men's
team, Tommy
Bonn and Jayme
D'Agnolo both
ran the 1500-me
ter run, placing
second and fourth
respectively.
"They both ran
smart races/' said
their coach Dave
Hartman. "Tom
my started out in
front by himself,
battling the wind,
and Jayme went
out strong and
held on."
Bonn will con-
tinue to compete
in meets before the World Junior team
is selected in late July, anH D'Agnolo
will represent the United States at
two track meets in Montreal, Canada.
They both
ran smart
races. Tommy
started out in
front by him
self battling
the wind, and
Jayme went
out strong and
held on.”
— David Hartman
coach
Sara Steadman and Kemi Nu-
rudeen represented the Aggie
women. Steadman ran the 1500-me-
ters, placing seventh, and the 3000-
meters, placing 10th. Nurudeen com
peted in both the heptathlon and the
long jump.
A damper was put
on Nurudeen's hep
tathlon when she
passed out during the
eighth and final event.
"1 took the 800 out
very fast. At the last
100 meters, my head
started to spin and I
fell," Nurudeen said.
Although Nu
rudeen did not finish
the last event of the
heptathlon, she still
managed 'to finish in
12th place.
"She wasn't used to
running in the middle
of the day, and that was
her first heptathlon on
the road," said Nu-
rudeen's coach Martha
Brennan. "1 think it was
a good experience for her. It was a
chance for her to compete against a
tough field, and it is only going to
make her a better competitor."
U.S. women’s soccer
team dominates in run
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — It was a different
opponent with a similar result. The U.S.
women's soccer team looks as dominant as
ever through two games in the Gold Cup.
Two days after routing Trinidad and Toba
go 11-0 in their tournament opener, the Amer
icans overpowered Costa Rica 8-0 Sunday at
Papa John's Cardinal Stadium.
Nikki Serlenga scored three goals and Susan
Bush had a goal and four assists for the United
States, which clinched a berth in the semifinals
of the eight-nation tournament.
The Americans dictated play from the
opening minutes, keeping the ball in the Cos
ta Rican half of the field for more than 90 per
cent of the first half. The U.S. team failed to
click on many early scoring runs but was nev
er threatened by its smaller, slower opponent.
Serlenga broke the scoreless be in the ninth
minute, beating Costa Rica goalkeeper Marie
Claire Herra with a shot from the top of the
penalty area.
Shannon MacMillan scored a minute later
and Bush made it 3-0 when she dashed into
the goal crease and sent home a long cross
from Parlow in the 22nd minute.
Chrishe Welsh scored off a cross from Bush
in tlie 47tli minute to make the score 4-0 and Ser
lenga sent a rocket past Herra from just outside
the crease in the 53rd minute for a 5-0 lead.
Serlenga scored in the 64th minute for her
first hat trick since joining the team. Welsh and
Sara Whalen added goals in the final 15 minutes.
World Cup veterans Mia Hamm, Kristine
Lilly,-Tiffany Milbrett and Kate Sobrero did
not play.
The stadium, which seats 42,000, was less
than one-quarter filled when the U.S. game
started, despite sunny skies and temperatures
in the 80s.
Sports in Brief
Inkster survives to win
LPGA championship
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Another
thrilling finish for Juli Inkster gave her anoth
er LPGA Championship. Despite a 4-over 75,
the highest closing score by an LPGA champi
on in at least 25 years, Inkster survived a long,
weary day at DuPont Country Club and beat
Stefania Croce of Italy with a par on the second
playoff hole.
"I struggled coming in, but I hit the shots
when I had to, and I'm proud of that,"
Inkster said.
Wendy Ward called a one-stroke penalty
when her ball moved as she stood over a par
putt on the 13th green. She finished one stroke
out of the playoff. ,
Inkster became the first player since Patty
Sheehan in 1983-84 to successfully defend in
the LPGA Championship:
This one might have aged her.
Croce was safely in at 281 after finishing off
a 2-under 69 nearly two hours earlier.
Inkster, who led by thfee strokes with five
holes to play, took an ugly double-bogey from
the trees on 14 and missed a 6-foot par putt on
18 to force the playoff. !
The only easy part for Inkster on a tough,
blustery afternoon was the nd.
Croce overshot the 10th green with a 9-iron
and had to chip from thick rough to a green that
sloped away from her.
Playbooks
Continued from Page 1
"[the playbooks] are not something we want out there, but we
weren't getting into a panic," Cassidy said.
Members of the Aggie football team were not happy to
discover that their playbooks might have been bought by
future opponents.
"I think it's fraud," said Jason Glenn, Senior Linebacker.
"Having [the playbooks] makes it a whole lot easier for the
other team to compete."
A&M threatened the Website with legal action. Asserting
tliat A&M's playbooks are University property and that a
trademark is implied, A&M forced the Website to suspend op
erations on May 19. According to Plonsky, the University of
Texas is currently considering taking similar action.
One question that remains unanswered is how the play
books of more than 20 programs across the country were ob
tained by SportsPIayBooks.com.
"We don't know how tliey got the books," said Nutt, "but
we don't want them circulating."
Plonsky agreed, saying that tliose who gave up the play
books and those who sold them on the Internet "can't have
the best interests of college football in mind."
While nobody is certain how the playbooks were obtained,
speculation centers on former or disgruntled current players.
"I doubt that we just left it around," said Glenn. "Tlie
coaches are really good about collecting those things."
While stressing that tliere is no concrete proof to prove tJfis,
one sports information employee from a school that had its
playbook offered for sale, speaking under the condition of
anonymity, said "they probably contacted former players and
offered to buy them." The owners of the Website — the
Austin-area high school coaches, according to Tlie Dallas
Morning News — were not available for comment.
For the time being, coaches across the country hope that
damage caused by the sale of their playbooks on the Internet
is minimal. The owners of SportsPlayBooks.com, however,
intend to return to business soon. A message on their Website
stated that "We will try to resolve any (legal) issues so we can
be up and running again sometime this summer."
Responding to the fact that Texas A&M's 1999 defensive
playbook was one of SportsPlayBooks.com's biggest sellers,
Tim Cassidy said, "It's a compliment — people from across
the country know the job that Coach (R.C.) Slocum has done
here with the 'Wrecking Crew'."
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