lex: Section B
issified 2B; Sports 3B; Opinion SB
Iday, October 26, 2000
Sports
Page IB
THE BATTALION
howdown at sunset
&M, UT play for second place at 7 p.m.
[Brian Ruff
■ Battalion
The Texas Aggie soc-
|team (13-5, 7-2) will
to close out its 2000
12 regular season
a win when the
cas Longhorns (12-5,
l) visit the Aggie Soc-
I Complex tonight at 7
i. Texas is in the midst
its best season in
|ool history.
The Aggies hold a four-
rie win streak, with their
loss on Oct. 8 to Ne-
Iska in Lincoln. The
in is also ranked No. 9
he nation and holds a 7-
tiark at home.
The game will decide
I) will take second
Ice in the Big 12 he
ld the Nebraska Com
akers, who clinched
Big 12 title earlier in
[week. The matchup’s
nner will also be given
second seed in next
lek’s Big 12 tourna
ment.
Texas will hope to re
bound from a 2-0 loss to
the Oklahoma Sooners
on Sunday. The loss
handed the Longhorns
their second loss in Big
12 play and a tie with
A&M for second in the
conference.
“They [the Longhorns]
put the ball on the ground
and move it around,” said
A&M coach G. Guerrieri.
“They look for a lot of
combinations, and defen
sively, they’ve been pretty
stingy all year.”
The Aggies are com
ing off two road victories
in Oklahoma against the
Sooners and the OSU
Cowgirls last weekend.
The 2000 Longhorn's
are led by midfielder Kati
McBain, who has tallied
28 points on the season.
Forward Kylee Wosnuk
is second on the team
with 26 points.
v V
The Aggies have de
feated the Longhorn-s
eight straight times since
the series began in 1993.
They have outscored
Texas by a combined
score of 29-3 in the all-
time series, including a 5-
0 thumping of the Long
horns last year in Austin.
“With Wosnuk up
front, they can take you
on one vs. one, and
change the game all by
themselves,” said Guexri-
eri. “They’re confident,
and this is a team that be
lieves in themselves.”
Texas has not finished
better than fourth in the
Big 12 standings at sea
son’s end. The Long
horns are guaranteed at
least a third-place finish
in 2000.
“[Texas] is making a
big commitment to the
program, and now they
are seeing some results,”
said Guerrieri.
In only her second
season with the Aggie
squad, forward Heather
Ragsdale leads the team
in points (31), goals (12),
assists (seven) and shots
(63).
She also leads the
team in game-winning
goals with three on the
season. Goalkeeper Es
ther Thompson is also
providing the Aggies
with strong backstop
ping, with a 10-1 record
and a 0.91 goals against
average.
If the Aggies defeat
the Longhorns, it will be
the second straight year
the Aggies claimed the
second-place spot in the
final Big 12 standings.
The Big 12 tourna
ment will be held at the
Blossom Soccer Com
plex in San Antonio
starting Nov. 1. The
championship match
will be held on Nov. 4.
BERNARDO GARZA/The Battalion
The Texas A&M soccer team takes on its archnemesis, Texas, tonight at 7 at the Aggie Soccer Complex.
■
Aggie swimmers get two-for-one at Kansas
Texas A&M swimming and diving taking on Jayhawks, Big 12
m
STUART VILLANUEVA/The Battalion
he Aggie swim teams continue their seasons in Lawrence, Kan. today.
By Jeremy Brown
The Battalion
The Texas A&M swimming and
diving teams begin conference com
petition with two meets in two days
at the University of Kansas this
Thursday.
After a dual meet with Kansas, the
teams will stay in Lawrence to com
pete in the Big 12 Relays.
“We really like racing on consec
utive days because the conference
meet and the NCAAs are spread over
three days,” said assistant men’s
coach Jay Holmes. “One-day dual
meets do not give us a chance to
(practice) that.”
Both the men’s and women’s
teams are 1-0 after defeating un
ranked TCU in a dual meet last Fri
day. The 17th-ranked men won by a
score of J 71-94 while the 25th-
ranked women won by 166-106.
Kansas has not competed in any
dual meets this season but did win its
traditional Lake Race against South
ern Illinois.
In the race, Kansas swept the indi
vidual and team races, with Brian So
ria winning the men’s race and Gwen
Haley winning the women’s.
In its 1999-00 dual meet, A&M
swept Kansas in both the men’s and
women’s competition.
The Kansas men are unranked and
in the midst of rebuilding. They have
a new head coach after Gary Kempf,
the head coach for 20 years, was giv
en an administrative position.
The new coach is Doug Dickin
son, a 12-time All-American swim
mer from Texas who helped lead the
Longhorns to NCAA titles in 1990
and 1991.
“We respect Doug (Dickinson),”
Holmes said. “He is one of the up-
and-coming coaches.”
Last season, the Kansas men fin
ished fifth in the Big 12 Champi
onship and none of its swimmers ad
vanced to the NCAA championships.
The Kansas women are also un
ranked and led by a young coach,
Cathy Burgess, who is in her third
year. Last year, they finished fourth in
the Big 12 and sent two swimmers to
the NCAA Championships: Lyndsay
DeVaney in the 1500-meter freestyle
and Carolyn Grevers in the 100-me-
ter breaststroke. Both women return
for this season.
The A&M divers might have a little
more work cut out for them against KU.
The six Kansas divers who quali
fied for the NCAA Zone Diving
Championships last year return for
this season.
Coaching them is Kevin
Lawrence, who is in his third year and
has previously coached St. Cloud
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