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a-lot ount. .m.-9 p.m.), 2:30 p.m.) 25 Cash 117 uesday, September 26, 2000 Injury bug strikes again Torn ACL latest culprit in 2000 A&M soccer season By Jason Lincoln The Battalion 2000 was supposed to be the year it all came together for the Texas A&M soccer team and coach G. Guerrieri. A roster loaded with talent and strong senior leadership had the Aggies talking about join ing the nation’s elite teams. Then the injuries began. Sunday the Aggies took another hard loss due to injury when start ing midfielder Ashley Murray went down with a tom ACL in her right knee during pre-game warm-ups for A&M’s match against Col orado. The injury was the result of what appeared to be a harmless non-contact twist as Murray was running. Now she is sidelined for the remainder of the season. Murray is the fifth A&M player sidelined with the knee injury this season. Martha Moore, Michelle Remington, Jamie Marden and Jes sica Hamilton all key elements in the A&M lineup. Add Nicky Thrasher’s broken fibula and Laci Stephen son's foot injury and the roster is starting to become critically thin. “We’ve always talked about how this was the most talented team we've ever had,” Guerrieri said. “Not because we thought we had a talented group of starters, but be cause we thought we had about 15 players who could start. With the injuries, that's definitely being test ed now. But thank goodness for a deep roster.” Despite the injuries, the Aggies hold the No. 10 spot in the nation and opened the conference season 2-0 over the weekend outscoring their opponents 9-1, allowing less than five shots on goal. Sports THE BATTALION Bengals coach Coslet quits early Resignation comes after three consecutive losses in beginning of season CINCINNATI (AP) — Unable to win, the Cincinnati Bengals found themselves with a new coach Monday with the season all of three games old. Bruce Coslet quit as coach of the NFL’s worst team of the past decade and was replaced by defensive co ordinator Dick LeBeau in the first NFL coaching change this season. The resignation came a day after the Bengals lost their third game in a row and second straight without scor ing a point. They have been outscored 74-7 this season and have not made the playoffs since 1990, the league’s longest current streak. “He’s a good teacher... he’s good with players,” Bengals owner and president Mike Brown said of LeBeau. “I think he can step in now and get our situation back on course as quickly as anybody could.” LeBeau, a former star comerback for the Detroit Lions, becomes an NFL coach for the first time at 63. He has spent 28 years as an assistant on other coaches’ staffs. “There will be some changes,” LeBeau said at a news conference. “I think we have to look at everything.” Coslet coached the New York Jets from 1990-93 and became coach of the Bengals in 1996. Under Coslet, the Bengals were 7-9 in 1997, 3-13 in 1998 and 4-12 in 1999. LeBeau said he was stunned by Coslet’s decision. “I tried to talk him out of it,” he said. “He was not to be swayed.” Brown, too, was surprised. “It was hard for me because he’s a 4 7 tried to talk [Coslet] out of it. He was not to be swayed” — Dick LeBeau New Bengals head coach good man, a friend and a good coach,” Brown said. “That was his call and he made it. It's behind us now.” Brown questions whether the Ben gals gave Coslet the support needed. “I think we all wonder,” he said. “If we had better answers, maybe we would have had success.” Brown intends to continue to run the team as general manager rather than hire someone else. “I have no plans to make that change as I stand here today,” he said. The Bengals’ 37-0 loss on Sun day in Baltimore was further evi dence of their futility on offense. They had lost 13-0 the week before in Jacksonville after a 24-7 loss at home on Sept. 10. The Bengals are under pressure to win because taxpayers paid for the $453 million Paul Brown Stadi um in which the Bengals started play this season. Coslet, a former Bengals tight end, had done two tours as the Ben gals’ offensive coordinator before becoming head coach in 1996 when Dave Shula was fired. Coslet brought LeBeau back to the Bengals in 1997 for a second term as defen sive coordinator. LeBeau plans to have offensive coordinator Ken Anderson, a former Bengals quarterback, call the offen sive plays. LeBeau plans to run the defense with help from linebackers coach Mark Duffner. Defensive back Cory Hall said the players respect LeBeau. “Look at the defense we run,” Hall said. “He put that package to gether. I trust him 100 percent.” The Bengals set an NFL record by losing 107 games in the 1990s, 108 if the Jan. 2 loss in Jacksonville is included. Cincinnati’s total of seyen points in the first three games is the lowest for a three-game stretch since the 1978 team scored three points in three weeks during a 4-12 season. Sunday’s loss was the 28th in 35 games under Coslet. “That was about as thorough a beating as you’ll see,” Brown said af terwatching the Bengals rush for just four yards in the Baltimore game. The Bengals dipped into the free- agent market during the offseason, signing safety Darryl Williams and defensive linemen Tom Barndt and Vaughn Booker. The acquisitions have yet to produce any wins. Former Bengals wide receiver Carl Pickens criticized the team for retaining Coslet as the 1999 season ended. The Bengals released Pick ens, their all-time leading receiver, who now plays for Tennessee. LeBeau has worked on the coaching staffs of the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers. He was defensive coordinator under Sam Wyche when Cincinnati ad vanced to the Super Bowl following the 1988 season. aGIES [tem Schedule 5-3433 S • 696-1448 v\on-Sat prices Stripped of gold medal: Romania’s 16-year-old Andreea Raducan was stripped of her all-around gymnastics gold medal after testing positive for a banned substance. Radu can tested positive for pseudoephedrine, a drug found in cold medicines. USA softball back on track: After losing three straight games to take it to the brink of elimination, the U.S. soft- ball team is now in the gold medal game against Japan. Japan was one of the teams to beat the Americans dur ing their losing streak. 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