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'■ With only three matches remaining in regular season play,
lL l the No. 23 Texas A&M volleyball team will battle Texas Tech
j \j or ' University in its last Big 12 road match. First serve is set for 7
p.m. in Lubbock at the United Spirit Arena.
v ■ The Aggies are coming off a dominating 3-0 win over Bay
lor Wednesday night, while Tech dropped a 3-2 decision to
Colorado in Boulder.
B Currently, the Aggies sit in fourth place in the Big 12 with
a 12-5 record while Tech holds a 10-7 league record and is tied
with Colorado for fifth place.
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rl koII R ;1 ‘d ers s > nce 1076, including a 7-2 record since Big 12 play
L» ion ftgan. A&M has not lost in Lubbock since 1994, and defeat-
11 m Tech earlier this season, 3-0, at G. Rol/ie White Coliseum.
^ In that match, the Aggies set an A&M record for blocks in a
ACELA Efjth ree-game Big 12 match with 17.,
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j Statesdfrfcurie Corbelli. “Tech has some unique things that they do that
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Soccer matches 1999 > s Sweet 16 bid
By Brian Ruff
The Battalion
After a 4-0 thumping of the Marquette
Golden Eagles in the second round of the
2000 NCAA tournament on Sunday, the Ag
gie soccer team (18-6) will take on the sixth-
seeded UCLA Bruins (16-3-1) in Los Ange
les Sunday afternoon.
The Bruins look to end one of Texas
A&M’s best seasons on record.
The Aggies, coming off a solid match
against the Eagles, advanced to the Sweet 16
group of the tournament for the third time in
the program’s history.
Andrea Starns, Heather Wiebe, Amber
Childress and Heather Williams netted
goals for the Aggies in front of the home
town crowd at the Aggie Soccer Complex
Saturday.
Forward Heather Ragsdale leads the Ag
gies’ scorers with 14 goals and nine assists
for a total of 37 points, four points ahead of
standout Kristen Strutz, who tallied 11 goals
and 11 assists on the season, including two
assists against Marquette.
Goalkeeper Esther Thompson also
recorded another shutout, giving her a total
of 7.5 for the season. Thompson’s shutout of
Marquette was the first by an Aggie team in
the NCAA tournament.
UCLA, coming off a 3-0 win over cross
town rival University of Southern Califor
nia, is led by a trio of Bruins, all with 30
points on the season. Sarah-Gayle Swanson
leads the team with 13 goals and four as
sists. Tracey Milburn has posted 12 goals on
the season and has recorded six assists on
the year.
Boasting a .37 goals against average,
UCLA goaltender CiCi Peterson tallied
12.5 shutouts on the season for the Bruins.
The UCLA squad took care of Marquette
during the regular season with a 5-1 victo
ry on Oct. 6.
UCLA, like the Aggies, was granted a
first-round bye in the tournament.
The young Aggie squad looks to put a
blemish in the Bruins’ perfect 7-0 record at
UCLA’s Drake Stadium. The Aggies are 6-
3 on the road this season.
The winner of Sunday’s match will ad
vance to the Elite 8 round of the tournament
and face the winner of the Florida State vs.
Clemson matchup in South Carolina. The
Aggies were defeated, 4-1, by the FSU
Seminoles on Sept. 8.
Sunday’s matchup between the Bruins
and Aggies will be the first meeting be
tween the two programs. Kickoff is set for
1 p.m.
BERNARDO GARZA/Thk Battalion--
The Texas A&M soccer team travels to California Sunday to take on
UCLA in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament.
Aggie invite previews NCAA Championships
By Jeremy Brown
The Battalion
The Texas A&M swimming teams will
compete against some of the nation’s best
this weekend while hosting the Texas
A&M Invitational at the Student Recre
ation Center Natatorium. The meet began
Thursday and will wrap up Saturday.
The men will compete against No/3
Stanford, No. 17 Penn State, Purdue,
Kentucky and individual swimmers from
No. 1 Texas and No. 2 Auburn. The
women will compete against No. 15
SMU, Kentucky and individuals from
No. 6 Auburn.
Coming into the meet, A&M has dom
inated its competition. The men’s team,
ranked No. 8 in the nation, is 3-0 in dual
meet competition with wins over TCU,
Kansas and Nebraska. The men also fin
ished second in the Big 12 Relays.
The women’s team is 4-0 and finished
third in the Big 12 Relays despite injuries
to Kelly Bolton, Katie Swan and Casey
Mucha. The team’s wins were over TCU,
Kansas, Arkansas and North Texas.
“We were missing three really good
swimmers but the other girls have done a
great job stepping up,” said women’s
coach Steve Bultman.
Bultman and men’s coach Mel Nash
said the A&M Invitational will provide
solid competition for their teams. Nash
named Stanford in particular as a test for
his team.
“They bring in people you can really
measure yourself against,” Nash said. “It
really makes for some good racing at this
point in the year.”
During the final two days of competi
tion, the preliminaries for the individual
swimming events will begin at 11 a.m. and
the diving prelims will begin at 1 p.m. The
finals for the individual events and the re
lays will begin at 7 p.m .
— Sports in Brief—:
Aggie linebacker ;
completes suigery
Texas A&M linebacker Jason *
Glenn underwent surgery to re- ■
pair a ruptured lateral collateral '
ligament and lateral tendon in
his left knee on Thursday.
The injury, sustained in the
fourth quarter against Oklahoma ..
Saturday, ended Glenn’s Aggie £
career.
Team medical staff expect
Glenn to make a full recovery be- '
fore the NFL Combine in February.