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Sports
Page 7
THE BATTALION
Aggies ready to defend Kyle Field
Highlights:
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Home run sends U.S. looking for gold:
The U.S. men’s baseball team advanced to
the gold medal game after Doug Mien-
tkiewicz hit a game winning home run
against South Korea. The hit came just one
week after he hit a grand slam to defeat the
same team in pool play.
Spain ends soccer’s record run:
The U.S. men’s soccer team entered the
Sydney games never advancing past the
first round. Tuesday, Spain ended their
dreams of gold with a 3-1 win in the semifi
nals. The U.S. will play for the bronze
medal Friday night against Chile.
U.S. duo wins gold on beach:
Dain Blanton and Eric Fonoimoana upset
the third-seeded Brazilian team in the
men’s beach volleyball finals to win the
gold medal. With the win, the U.S. holds
the only two gold medals in Olympic
beach volleyball competition.
COURTESY TEXAS A&M SPORTS INFORMATION/Thk Battalion
Senior safety Michael Jameson returns to Kyle Field for
the first time this year to lead the A&M secondary.
The off week has come and gone
for the Texas A&M football team
and it is a little healthier than it was
after the UTEP game — and a lot
more ready to play. At the team’s
weekly media luncheon Tuesday, the
Aggies were talking about how ex
cited they are to get back on the field
to prepare for this week’s game.
“Last week was kind of boring,”
said quarterback Mark Farris.
“Practices on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday were the same. It got
pretty monotonous.”
Coach R.C. Slocum said the Ag
gies are not only ready to get back
on the field, but are especially ready
for rival Texas Tech.
“In the past, the media has ho-
hummed this game, the players
have ho-hummed this game and the
fans have ho-hummed this game,”
Slocum said. “But we’ve got to play
to win against Tech. If you don’t go
out and execute, like we did last
year, you’ve got no one to blame
but yourself.”
The Raiders have beaten the Ag
gies four of the last five years and
are the last team to beat A&M at
Kyle Field, with a 13-10 decision
NOTEBOOK
in 1996. Last year, the Aggies trav
eled to Lubbock as the No. 6 team
in the nation and came away with a
loss that sent them into a down
ward spiral.
One of the reasons the Aggies
have such a dismal record against
Tech recently is, as Slocum said,
their attitude toward their West
Texas brethren. The game has never
really mattered to A&M before.
It does this year. With a sold-out
Kyle Field, there was a tangible en
ergy in the air at the luncheon that
said the Aggies are not looking past
this game.
For the Aggie seniors, this is the
last chance to break even against
Tech, and, perhaps more important
ly, to extend the nation’s third-
longest home winning streak against
the last team to beat them at home.
Offensive lineman Chris Valletta
said the fact that he has not walked
off Kyle Field a loser is a source of
motivation for him.
“I’ve never really thought about
it that way, but you’re right,” Vallet
ta said when reminded of this fact.
“That’s amazing when you think
about it.”
• Injury Report
Senior Michael Jameson, the
only returning starter from last
year’s defensive backfield, will start
for the Aggies this Saturday. He has
missed the last two games with a
high ankle sprain.
Sophomore linebacker Jarrod
Penright will also be back in the
lineup this week.
Sophomore offensive lineman
Billy Yates practiced Sunday for the
first time since two-a-days and
could possibly play against Tech.
Junior offensive lineman Tango
McCauley and junior linebacker
Harold Robertson will be day-to-day
this week and might play Saturday.
• Ticket Watch
Texas A&M expects a crowd of
over 80,000 for Texas Tech. All tick
ets are sold except for remaining stu
dent tickets.
Schedule
TV Schedule: Wednesday
NBC (Prime time):
• 6 to 11 p.m. — Cycling, Track & Field,
Wrestling, Diving
• 11:41 p.m. to 2:11 a.m. — Basketball
MSNBC:
• 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Baseball (gold medal
game), Tennis, Equestrian, Volleyball
Hledal Ulatch
Tamporello’s three goals earn Big 12 recognition
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Total
USA
25
15
23
63
CHN
22
14
14
50
RUS
17
14
20
51
AUS
12
20
12
44
FRA
12
13
7
32
STAFF AND WIRE
Texas A&M forward Anne Tam-
porello stepped up her game in the Ag
gie soccer team’s first week of action
against conference opponents.
She scored three goals over the
weekend, earning the Big 12’s Offen
sive Player of the Week.
Tamporello’s success came at just the
right moment as the Aggies’ offense, de
pleted by injury, needed a new leader.
Tamporello filled that bill, scoring a
single goal against Texas Tech on Fri
day and then adding two more against
Colorado to give A&M a 2-0 start in
conference and protect their No. 10 na
tional ranking.
She now has four goals on the sea
son on only eleven shots.
Her only previous goal of the season
came against North Texas when the Ag
gies' rallied to an overtime victory.
“Anne has been a sparkplug the last
few games,” said A&M coach G. Guer-
rieri. “She has really made the most of
her playing time and deserves the
recognition.”
A&M defeated Texas Tech in the con
ference opener on Friday, 3-0. Sunday the
Aggies blew out Colorado, 6-1. A&M is
7-3 on the season, with its only losses
coming to No. 1 North Carolina, No. 18
Florida State and No. 8 Penn State.
The Aggies next match is Friday
when they host New Mexico at the Ag
gie Soccer Complex. Kickoff is sched
uled for 7 p.m.
STUART VILLENUEVA/The Battalion
Texas A&M forward Ann6 Tamporello lead the Aggie soccer team to a 2-0 start in Big
12 action last weekend, scoring three goals and earning Big 12 Player of the Week hon-
Eye on H6IH
How A&M athletes are farina in Svdnev:
Softball: Shortstop Jennifer McFalls and the
United States’ softball team rallied from
three straight losses to successfully defend
their gold medal from the 1996 Atlanta
games.
Volleyball: Stacy Sykora and the U.S. vol
leyball team defeated South Korea, 16-14 in
the fifth game to reach the semifinals.
U.S. softball team rallies to win gold medal after trio of losses
Former A&M player Jennifer McFalls scores game-winner in extra innings to seal second straight gold
BLACKTOWN, Australia (AP) — Do
you believe in voodoo? The U.S. softball
team sure does.
Beaten three times in a row before they
“washed away” their bad luck, the Amer
ican women completed a stunning come
back by edging Japan 2-1 Tuesday night in
extra innings to win their second straight
gold medal.
This time the luck was all on their side
when a fly ball by Laura Berg popped out
of the Japanese left fielder’s glove moments
before a downpour drenched the field.
With runners on first and second and one
out in the eighth inning, Berg looped one
over the head of Shiori Koseki, playing
shallow in the slick outfield in a light rain.
Koseki moved in a step, then
backpedaled desperately, snared the ball in
her glove then watched it fall out as she
somersaulted.
By the time she hurled a desperation
throw over the catcher’s head, pinch-run
ner Jennifer McFalls had scored the
game-winner.
“I saw her going back on it, and the
ball just went out of her glove,” Berg
said. “We’ve been very unlucky in this
whole tournament, but luck finally went
our way.”
The United States did not need luck
while compiling a 112-game winning
streak. But after losing an unprecedented
three consecutive games to reach the brink
of elimination, the players held a light
hearted “voodoo cleansing” in their ath
letes’ village shower to rid themselves of
their bad fortunes.
So powerful coming in, with 16 years
as the No. 1 team in the world, the Ameri
cans’ winning streak ended last week with
a 2-1 loss to Japan in 11 innings — a game
in which they stranded 20 batters. The
United States went on to lose the next two
games in extra innings as well.
But while losses showed the team was
vulnerable, they also made the tourna
ment more interesting and the Americans
more determined.
Once it became clear they would not
cruise to the title — as they have in every
major international tournament since
1983 — the other teams seemed ener
gized.
The United States won its last two
games of the round-robin to squeak into
the medal round. Then the Americans
avenged two of their three first-round loss
es, against China and Australia, to reach
the gold medal game.
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