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By Jeremy Brown
THE BATTALION
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thing the team was missing.
Because of the wet field condi
tions, practices could not be held
on the field, and the team was
forced to use areas much smaller
than a normal soccer field.
With games looming against
No. 3 Portland and No. 9
Washington at the Washington-
GUY ROGERS • THE BATTALION
Freshman forward Linsey Johnson and the A&M soccer team will take on
Tulane Green Wave Monday night at the Aggie Soccer Complex.
Nike Classic in Seattle this
weekend, A&M soccer coach G.
Guerrieri was determined to get
his team more experience and its
first game at the Aggie Soccer
Complex this season.
That opportunity arose
when the Tulane Green Wave
agreed to travel here for a game
at the Aggie Soccer Complex at
5:30 p.m.
As soon as A&M learned that
its game with New Mexico
would be canceled, it tried to
locate a team within a seven
hour bus ride so air travel would
not be a factor. Teams such as
Texas Christian University
declined, but by Thursday,
Tulane had accepted the offer.
“We are not going to be look
ing any further ahead than
Monday,” Guerrieri said. “We
played really well last Sunday
against Cal. A big part of this
game will be trying to build on
that momentum.”
The Aggies beat No. 12
California 3-1 to claim their first
victory of the season and bring
their record to 1-1. They opened
the season with a 4-2 loss to No. 4
Stanford. Both games were
played in San Marcos.
Guerrieri said that the Aggies
have mixed feelings about play
ing their first true home game
because of all the schedule
changes, but he added that the
team needs to get on the field.
“We need to give the fresh
men the chance to see what it is
like to play in Aggieland,”
Guerrieri said.
So far, A&M’s freshmen have
done well without any home
field advantage. Freshman for
ward Linsey Johnson leads the
Aggies in goals and points
through two games. She has two
goals and an assist for a total of
five points.
Freshman midfielder Amanda
Burke leads the team in assists
with two and, coming off the
bench, freshman forward Emma
Smith also has scored a goal for
the Aggies.
“Against Cal, we started four
freshman,” Guerrieri said. “That
is remarkable knowing the tal
ent that we had returning from
last year.”
Tulane also has had schedul
ing problems this season. Their
game versus Northwestern State
on Sept. 9 was canceled because
of wet weather and the games
scheduled for this weekend ver
sus Charleston and South
Carolina were canceled. The
Green Wave are 0-2 with losses
to Mississippi State and
Alabama. They were outscored
9-2 in those games.
They are returning eight
starters from a team that fin
ished 8-11 last season. They do
not have any seniors on the ros
ter and are coached by first-year
head coach Betsy Anderson.
Texas A&M was the first
team that Tulane ever faced,
opening its inaugural season in
1996 with an 8-0 loss to the then
No. 8 Aggies, in the only meet
ing between the two squads.
Anyone who purchased a
ticket for the New Mexico game
will be able to use that ticket to
get into tonight’s game.
NCAA, NFL squads
made right choice
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few
days
last week, it
almost was
disappoint
ing to be a
college
football fan. .
After the
tragedies in New York and
Washington, D.C., it looked as
though the NCAA would go
ahead with last weekend’s
games, a decision that would
have been a terrible mistake.
It was not until Thursday
that the NCAA decided all
Division I-A games would be
postponed, but even then, the
NCAA’s decision was not
made until after the NFL
announced it would postpone
week two of its season.
For a while, it appeared
that the NFL would go ahead
and have games Sunday and
Monday, but it was not until
several players contacted NFL
Commissioner Paul Tagliabue
and told him they did not feel
safe playing that the league
decided to call off this week
end’s games.
The NFL’s reluctance to
miss work this season is not
all that surprising, considering
the league carried on with its
schedule in 1963, just two
days after President John F.
Kennedy was assassinated,
Then-NFL Commissioner
Pete Rozelle later said having
games that weekend was the
decision he regretted most in
his 29 years as commissioner.
The only other time the
league did not play was
because of labor disputes.
But it is disheartening to
know the NCAA waited until
the NFL made its move before
making the obvious choice of
not playing.
It is almost possible to see
where the NCAA was com
ing from in waiting so long
to make a decision, as
Saturday was set to be one of
the most important game
days of the season.
The state of Florida alone
had three games scheduled
with national title implica
tions, as six teams in the top
11 were slated to do battle.
But, looking at where the
state of Florida fits into
Tuesday’s disaster, to have
games there would have been
in very poor taste.
Fifteen of the 19 suspected
hijackers had ties to Florida.
And, in Del Ray Beach, just
50 miles from the Rose Bowl
where No. 1 Miami and No.
13 Washington were to lock
horns, it is believed that seven
of the terrorists had homes,
living among the people they
were planning to kill.
In addition, two of those
terrorists were trained to be
pilots at Huffman Aviation in
Venice, Fla., just a two-and-a-
half hour drive down 1-75
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