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Page 7
THE BATTALION
aim for second Big 12 title
A&M holds No. 2 seed in tourney
Brief
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BERNARDO GARZA/The Battalion
A&M forward Heather Ragsdale claimed first team All-Big 12 honors.
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Football team regains
“"’respect, re-enters poll
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ty city. O ince t ‘ ie A gg ,es l° ss to Col-
, s of the'^^V orado that snapped their 22-
d oftwotH^ g ame home winning streak,
nk rodcf A&M foothill team has talked
Chief Jjftout respect- The players said they
•^Wanted it and deserved it, but they
is per v i cren °t gating it.
old rappf 1 We 11 ’ after
it thel- : hpldnig their last
dswoc:'■ ree opponents
p e( j e to a total of 17
Bariir points, including
| / the Kansas State
00 ms- Wildcats —the
dhen in t^ountry’s third
lost scoring offense — the Aggies
ecorded ire starting to garner that elusive.
i are tbefC word"
iebut. Tiiel “ft feels great to be back in the
e is fiecoiop25,” said outside linebacker Ja-
l>n Glenn. “You’ve got to respect
If you don’t, we’ll jump on you
argeial quick.
“Before each game, we see our-
Ives as a pit bull on a chain. You
)n’t feed him for a whole week,
id when you let him off the chain,
’ll eat anything, and that’s how
s label ourselves now.”
Looking back on this year’s sea-
m, one can see where that pit bull
as finally let off the chain — Iowa
Texas lb rtate.
I In Waco the week before, the de-
son Jan$||nse put on a stellar performance
ie Oct shutting out Baylor. But, at the
ed a dafline time, the offense struggled to
ident D''Score points against one of the
Runtry’s worst defenses,
dent 8t I While opposing the favored
booked'|yclones and on the road for the
;demedi»cond consecutive week, A&M
j SatufC'put together an all-out team effort
at carried over into its monu-
ental victory over the Wildcats
on Saturday.
By beatiiag KSU, just two weeks
removed from being the No. 2
uad in the country, the Aggies
oved back into the AP and Coach-
polls for the first time since the
first week of the season.
“It’s a really great feeling,” said
offensive lineman Chris Valletta.
It’s a good time to be an Aggie
[right now. We’re all excited with
the big win, but what we need to do
| keep having a good season and
not overlook Oklahoma State.”
Not all the members of the A&M
football family are enamored with
the proposition of being back in the
polls, though. Offensive coordinator
Steve Kragthorpe said that, while it
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n the coi
is nice to be noticed, he does not
give much credence to the weekly
offerings of the national media.
“We’re going to go out and pre
pare each week the same, no matter
what,” Kragthorpe said. “Those
polls are arbitrary numbers. There
are some teams in
the Top 10 that
shouldn’t be there.
And there are
some teams that
are 27, 28 or 29
that should be (in
the Top 10). So
who knows? There will never be a
true national champion until there is
a playoff system.”
Even though there is an air of
confidence and satisfaction sur
rounding the team right now, the
coaching staff is not buying into the
feel-good aura. They know that last
week’s win is now history and, if
the Aggies get complacent, OSU
will be more than happy to bring
them down.
According to cornerback Jay
Brooks, the team will not have
those problems again.
“We’re hiding out right now.
We’re just slowly climbing up the
mountain,” Brooks said. “People
are starting to recognize that we’re
still A&M. We were kind of down
the first couple of games, but we’re
slowly making our mark now. As
long as we’re in the Top 25 when it
counts, that’s all that matters to us.”
• OU kickoff moved
The kickoff for the Texas A&M-
Oklahoma game has been moved
by ABC to noon on Nov. 11. The
game is sold out already except for
temporary folding-chair seating on
the sidelines between the 30-yard
line and goal line on the east and
west sides. The $40 tickets are not
elevated and have an obstructed
view because of their height.
• Halloween fun
About five minutes into his
weekly media luncheon, A&M
coach R.C. Slocum was interrupted
by a 6-foot mass wearing a long
black cloak. Its face was obscured
by a black net, and it lunged at
Slocum. After startling Slocum,
fullback Ja’Mar Toombs removed
his mask to reveal the Halloween
prank.
Blaine Dionne is a senior
journalism major.
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After their 2-0 loss to the Nebras
ka Cornhuskers in Lincoln on Oct. 8,
coach G. Guerrieri and the Texas
A&M soccer team had one thought
on their minds — redemption.
With their Thursday night win
over Texas, the Aggies secured sec
ond place in the Big 12 conference
and will get a chance to foil the
’Huskers in the fifth Big 12 soccer
tournament.
But the road to the Big 12 Cham
pionship passes through the Col
orado Buffaloes. The Aggies will
face Colorado, the seventh seed in the
tournament, at 5 p.m. today in San
Antonio. A&M pounded the Buffs on
Sept. 24 at the Aggie Soccer Com
plex, 6-1.
“Colorado is a team that we had a
real good performance against the
first time out, and we’re going to
have to really work hard to match
that performance,” Guerrieri said.
If the Aggies repeat their perfor
mance against Colorado, they will
face the winner of the matchup be
tween the sixth-seeded Oklahoma
Sooners and the third-seeded Texas
Longhorns on Thursday.
“We will be preparing the way
we need to win the championship, at
a speed to beat Nebraska,” Guerri
eri said.
On the other side of the bracket,
the top-seeded Nebraska team will
face the eighth-seeded Kansas Jay-
hawks. The Cornhuskers defeated
Kansas in Lawrence earlier this sea
son, 3-0. The winner of the the Corn-
husker-Jayhawk matchup will face
the winner of Missouri and Baylor,
seeded fourth and fifth respectively.
The Bears defeated Missouri, 2-1, on
Oct. 20.
See Soccer on Page 9.
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