Wednesday, October 2ij , Wednesday, October 25, 2000 ;xas stice Sports Page 7 THE BATTALION Aggies mature in time for tough finish No. 10 Kansas State, No. 2 Oklahoma to close outA&M’s home schedule J STON (A P)—A juvenf ,\ stem that emphasizes!} guilty pleas from yout an providing them a use is giving Texas a sit' J rating in such legalm ew report shows. y poor teen-agers accuse: I patric schneider/ti tn Battalion ne do not see a lawyers Texas A&M senior Heather Marshall, pictured above in A&M's first-1 efore a court appearW:fver win in Austin against Texas, will lead the Aggies into Kansas. J /hich ranks last amongtt funding for legal aitfatl to the study to be release; | by an Austin-based i group studying crimk | ystems. report found that justicer :xas juvenile courts i ^motion carries Aggies on road trip MM III NOTEBOOK ayhawks look to beat 1A&M for first time ever en meet their appointed „ minutes before their Rl i 1 ,(>l 7 counsel recommendstk ;^ ^ atta ^ ou pleadguilty, thejudgea; 1 The No. 21 Texas A&M volley- plea and the defendant team will battle the Universi- i at his first court heariuly of Kansas tonight in Lawrence, n to the next case.” fpn., at the Family Center at 7 ranks second to Califef-m. The match will be telecast by icarcerating youths k| ox Sports Net and will air Friday much emphasis is place; ® 1 II a.m. g guilty pleas, accordicf The Aggies have won five of heir last six matches and are tied or second place in the Big 12 with lissouri and Kansas State, each olding 8-3 conference records. 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Rollie Yhite Coliseum to move its overall ecordto 13-5. “It was a really huge win for us, especially to show that we have the :onfidence to beat a team after they lave already beaten us,” said outside litter Erin Gibson. Kansas sits in seventh place in the Big 12 with a 3-8 league record and 112-8 overall mark. The Jayhawks lost to Colorado -3 Saturday night in Lawrence. The loss was Kansas’ fifth in six matches. A&M and Kansas met earlier this which frequently leak ith of crime. In Texas appening.” ort, “Selling Justice file Indigent Defense the first in a series of proup is preparing on ople are treated intlie ice system, irican Bar Associa- liversity of Houston , the National Juve- r Center, Northwest ity Legal Clinic and Poverty LawCentet ed in the study, dhiraldi, director of Policy Institute io D.C., and the Centef nd Criminal Justice, iks last in funding, ate is at the bottom in use there is no state firaldi said. “Thatis inties, which areal- pped.” /ith the Texas Youtii the Texas Associa- es and the Texas Dis- ity Attorneys Asso- :ld comment before lease. season, and the Aggies came out on top, 15-8, 15-13, 15-9, the Jayhawks their first loss of the season after starting the year 9-0. The Aggies hold a decisive 10-0 all-time record against Kansas. A&M swept the Jayhawks in both of their meetings last season. A contributing factor to A&M’s success is the way the team becomes emotionally involved in its matches. “We feed off emotion, and we get so excited when we do good things,” said outside hitter A.D. Achilefu. “That’s how we show each other that we have a lot of confi dence in each other.” Corbelli said the team relies on emo tion to help it focus on one match at a time. “They spend a lot of time trying to fire up, they spend a lot of time knowing that as a team they have to generate emotion on the court, and I think they’re all starting to feel more comfortable about how they show that emotion,” she said. Offensively, the team leads the Big 12 in kills per game (18.31) and assists per game (16.55). “We’ve been hitting really well, but offense can be on and it can be off,” Corbelli said. “We need to continue to improve our blocking and defense.” A&M also leads the conference in digs per game with 19.34, while Gib son leads the league individually with 4.25. The Aggies will be back at G. Rollie White Friday night when they host the University of Okla homa at 6 p.m. W ith more than half the conference sea son behind it, the Texas A&M foot ball team is finally coming around — and it could not have picked a better time. At 5-2 overall and 3-1 in conference play, the Aggies are staring one of the most brutal final four games in their history directly in the face. First up is Kansas State, the No. 10 team in the nation and one of the most dangerous offensive teams. After the game against the Wildcats, the Aggies hit the road to face the Oklahoma State Cowboys, a team that has never defeated the Aggies in Big 12 Conference play, but always play competitively. The following week, the current No. 2 team in the BCS rankings, the Oklahoma Sooners, comes to Kyle Field. This week, the Sooners play their old nemesis, the No. 1 Nebraska Corn- huskers, for national supremacy. If the Sooners take that game, the No. 1 team just might be vis iting Kyle Field in three weeks. The Aggies will conclude the season against Texas in Austin, in a game that could decide the Big 12 South if things go well for the Aggies. The Aggies’ game at Iowa State last week has made that idea possible. After a roller coaster first five games, the Aggies said they looked at the Iowa State game as a make-or-break situation. “There is some confidence that has come out of that game,” said A&M coach R.C. Slocum. “Every so often, you come out of a game and say, That was a team win.’ The defense played well, the offense played well, and we played well on special teams. That’s what you like to have going into a game that will be as challeng ing as this game is.” First thing first for the Aggies - Kansas State. The Wildcats lost to Oklahoma at home and had some trouble putting Texas Tech away last week, but that does not take away from the ’Cats’ obvious talent. Playing at Kyle Field may not intimidate them, either. For the Ags who are not old enough to remember, K-State came to College Station in 1996 and contributed to the Aggies’ worst home season (three losses at Kyle) in years. Also, Saturday marks the first time the two CODY WAGES/The Battalion The Aggie defense did an effective job of cutting down the threats posed by Iowa State's 12th- ranked offense. That is a trend it will look to continue for a tough finish to the season. teams have met since the Aggies’ landmark victo ry in the 1998 Big 12 Championship, that knocked KSU out of the national title hunt. The Aggies are not exactly helpless, though. Aside from the two blemishes on their record and their absence from the national polls, the Aggies say they are in good shape heading into this game. “Coming off a victory like that, we’re very, very motivated to play Kansas State right now,” said inside linebacker Jason Glenn. “Every guy is talking about the game. We’ve got guys watching film, even on Sunday. Right after the other game, we started on Kansas State, and that’s how it’s supposed to be. We can’t dwell on a great win; we’ve got to keep going. We’ve got a long road ahead of us.” The road the Aggies are taking will be long, but they can get a great start on it by taking out the Wildcats this weekend. Blaine Dionne is a senior journalism major. Mets defeat Yankees in game 3 of World Series NEW YOR K (AP) — Back in their raucous den, with its ear-splitting mu sic and jets roaring overhead, the New York Mets were right at home — and right back in this Subway Series. Benny Agbayani got Shea Stadium shaking with a go-ahead double in the eighth inning as the Mets handed Or lando Hernandez his first postseason defeat, beating the New York Yankees 4-2 Tuesday night to cut their World Series deficit to 2-1. A sellout crowd of 55,299 went crazy as Armando Benitez held on in the ninth inning this time, helping the Mets end the Yankees' record 14-game winning streak in the World Series. John Franco wound up with the win. Benitez, who blew a ninth-inning lead in Game 1, closed it out after giv ing up a leadoff single to pinch-hitter Chuck Knoblauch. There was nothing bizarre about this one, either. There were no pitchers throwing bats instead of balls, a stunt from Game'2 that cost Roger Clemenj. a $50,000 fine. Hernandez began the night with an 8-0 record and a 1.90 ERA in post season play, and set a Yankees' World Series record by striking out 12, breaking the mark of 11 set by Bob Turley in 1956. Still, in a ballpark where the Mets thrive on late-inning magic, it was not enough. Now, after two one-run defeats at Yankee. Stadium, the Mets get a chance to draw even. Bobby J. Jones will pitch Game 4 tonight against Den ny Neagle, and Bill Clinton is expect ed to become the first president in of fice to attend a Series game since Ronald Reagan in 1983. Hernandez, who struck out the first three hitters in the opening inning and took .advantage of a few extra inches on the outside corner of Jeff Kellogg’s strike zone, fanned Robin Ventura to start the eighth. But after Todd Zeile singled, Ag bayani doubled into the left-center field gap. Agbayani has hit in all 12 of the Mets’ postseason games this year, including a 13th-inning home run that beat San Francisco in the di vision series. Pinch-hitter Bubba Trammell added a sacrifice fly for insurance. ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH • GIRtS CLUB OF BRAZOS COUNTY BRAZOS Come w we w! 1/2 PRICE OPTION EVERY CURRENT SCHEDULE POORSOPtN 1ST .MON MMON LOWER PRICES NEW licsty SflIPM WntaUv 5:00PM Tkrak 5:OOPM Friitiy' 5J0PM SmWiy 5510PM Sontv' »PM MS PM NONE MS PM »PM MS PM MO PM 7:15PM MO PM MS PM MO PM MPM MPM ELECTRONIC MACHINES Non-SmokingArea ■ Door Prizes • Creat food • Security • Pull Tabs and Much More! 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