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THE BATTALION
Page 2
Ags face Stanford in tourney
By Doug Puentes
THE BATTALION
. CODYWAGES • THE BATTALION
Senior outside hitter Brandi Mount blocks a lob by UTSA’s Stacy Schmidt Tuesday.
Tne Aggies will play Florida State and Stanford this weekend.
So far the No. 18 Texas A&M vol
leyball team has been perfect in the
2001 season.
It has rolled to a perfect 5-0 record,
and in those five matches, it has failed to
lose a game. This weekend, however, the
Aggies will test their perfect ways as
they host the Verizon Texas A&M
Invitational at G. Rollie White Coliseum.
A&M is fresh off a commanding 3-0
victory over University of Texas-San
Antonio on Tuesday. Senior outside hit
ter Brandi Mount led the team with 19
kills as A&M had a .278 hitting per
centage as a team.
With the starters playing most of the
time, the Aggies breezed through game
one. The match tightened up in the sec
ond and third games as A&M volleyball
head coach Laurie Corbelli sat most of
her starters and got some other players in
the game. However, as was the case in its
previous four matches, A&M was able to
pull off the sweep.
“There are moments that get tight, but
that’s our focus,” said A&M senior out
side hitter Michelle Cole. “If we think
we should beat a team, we want to come
out and put the hammer on them.
“That way, when we start playing
teams that are more to our ability or even
some teams that might be better than us,
we still want to come out and play our
game hard from the first point to the 30th
point,” Cole said
The Aggies stand to face teams more
to their ability in the invitational as they
face off against No. 9 Stanford and
Florida State.
The Florida State Seminoles (1-2) are
coming off a rough first weekend of com
petition at the Pepperdine Tournament.
The Seminoles knocked off Fresno State
in their season opener but fell to Northern
Arizona and host Pepperdine.
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Florida State is led by Norisha
Campbell who is averaging 4.62 kills per
game and Jennifer Anderson who is
averaging 11.08 assists per game.
Stanford (4-0) is coming off a tremen
dous 3-1 victory over No. 4 Penn State on
Tuesday in State College, Pa.
The Cardinals boast one of the best
collegiate players in the country in junior
Logan Tom. Tom was a member of the
2000 U.S. Olympic volleyball team and
is the only current collegiate player who
was on the Olympic squad. So far this-
season, Tom is leading the Cardinals^
with 4.54 kills per game.
“Florida State is going to offer a lot of
physical players” Corbelli said. “They
are a very big team with lots of great
blocking and attacking coming our way.
They’re going to be determined to upset
a ranked team.
“Stanford, being the highest ranked
team in the tournament, they’re proba
bly a little more experienced at higher
levels,” Corbelli said. “They have a lot
of tradition of being a very strong pro-'
gram. It's going to be a great challenge;
It's exactly why we wanted them ter
come here.”
Also competing at the invitational
will be No. 25 Texas. Because of sched
uling. the Aggies and Longhorns will not
compete against one another in the invi
tational. However, that does not mean the
Aggies will not have an eye on their
rivals to the west.
“1 wish we could play them right
now,” Cole said. “Playing that team
always gets us so fired up. But we’ll have
to sit and watch for right now, bide our
time and wait until later. I want to see
them play though because they have a lot
of new things going on.”
A&M kicks off the tournament today at
6 p.m. against Florida State. Texas and
Stanford take the court at 8 p.m. while
Texas and Florida State kick off Saturday’s
play at 5 p.m. with the Aggies taking on
Stanford at 7 p.m.
A&M to battle Cardinals, Bears this weekend
By Jeremy Brown
THE BATTALION
| Wet weather has wreaked havoc
on the No. 10 Texas A&M soccer
team so far this season.
[ Rain last week caused both the
Reason opener against Samford and
the showdown with No. 1 North
Carolina to be postponed. The
Samford game will be played on
Oct. 30, but a new date for the North
Carolina game has not yet been
agreed upon.
I Again this week, the rain will
cause problems for the Aggies.
Unwilling to postpone another
game because of field conditions,
A&M has moved tonight’s battle
vith No. 8 Stanford to San Marcos.
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California was still scheduled to be
held at the Aggie Soccer Complex
as of Thursday.
“It is a huge advantage for our
opponents to have the game with
out the 12th man,” said A&M soc
cer coach G. Guerrieri. “They went
from facing one of the most electri
fying atmospheres to nobody.”
Losing the home field advantage
is not the only averse effect of the
rain on the Aggies.
“It is having a major effect on
our practices,” Guerrieri said. “We
can’t practice on the entire field. It
is equivalent to a basketball team
practicing on a racquetball court.”
With Stanford and California
slated for this weekend, the Aggies
will need to get as much practice
as possible.
The Stanford Cardinals are ranked
No. 8 by Soccer Buzz and No. 16 by
the National Soccer Coaches
Association of America (NSCAA).
In their season opener, the
Cardinals fought from two goals
down to defeat Florida 3-2 in
overtime.
The Cardinals return eight
starters from last season’s team
which finished 14-6-1 and went to
its third straight NCAA tournament.
The California Golden Bears
present an even tougher test for
the Aggies.
Ranked No. 5 by Soccer Buzz
and No. 12 by NSCAA, the Golden
Bears were picked to finish second
in the Pacific 10 Conference behind
second-ranked UCLA.
California has a 2-0 record after
winning the Cal Invitational last
weekend. .In the invitational, the
Golden Bears fialiened Pacific 4-0
and came from two down to beat
Michigan 4-2.
California is led by All-
American forward Laura Schott.
Schott, who is a junior, led the team
in scoring her freshman and sopho
more years and already has a goal in
both games this season.
The Aggies will try to keep the
ball away from Schott and the rest
of California’s attack by using its
own strong set of forwards, led by
senior Hermann Award candidate
Nicky Thrasher, to attack
California’s goal.
The Golden Bears return six
See SOCCER on page 7.
GUY ROGERS • THE BATTALION
Freshman forward Unsey Johnson dribbles past Tulsa’s Keely
Flynn during an exhibition game in August. A&M’s match
tonight against Stanford has been moved to San Marcos.
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