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THE BATTALION
Ags take down Wave
No. 10 squad notches win in season home opener
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By Jeremy Brown
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Junior forward Heather Ragsdale battles for a ball during the Aggies’ 4-1 win over
the Tulane Green Wave on Monday at the Aggie Soccer Complex.
Herman Award Nominee Nicky
Thrasher and the No. 10 Texas A&M
soccer team took it to Tulane from the
start, downing the Green Wave 4-1 last
night in first game at the Aggie Soccer
Complex this season.
The Aggie’s season had a rocky start
with all of their first six games either
being canceled or moved. The first two
games of the season versus Samford and
No. 1 North Carolina were canceled
because of wet weather and poor field
conditions forced A&M to move its next
two games versus Stanford and California
to San Marcos.
The field conditions made it impossi
ble for the Aggies to practice on the field
and they were forced to use a much
smaller field.
This past weekend’s games were also
canceled because of Tuesday’s terrorist
attack on New York and Washington.
“You want to get out there and play so
that was a struggle,” Thrasher said, “I
don’t want to make excuses, but when
you are not playing on a full-size soccer
field and you’re only out once or twice a
week, you are struggling. But 1 think we
came back really well.”
Tulane was able to turn back the
Aggie’s aggressive attack on their goal
for over 10 minutes but then Thrasher
took over the game, starting a barrage of
Aggie goals.
Thrasher put the Aggies up for good
with a strike from just inside the penalty
area 14 minutes into the game. Tulane
never made a real threat of coming back
after that as the Aggies rarely let the
Green Wave across midfield.
Thrasher stretched the Aggie’s lead to
2-0 just under ten minutes later by taking
a pass from midfielder Michelle Royal
and launching a shot from the top of the
penalty arc. Green Wave goalkeeper Sara
It y s frustrating when we
play a team who
likes to slow the ball
down when we like
to play it quick
because we
tend to drop our
level of play slower.
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— Nicky Thrasher
A&M senior forward
Simpson was able to get her hands on the
ball but could not keep it out of the net.
Freshman forward Linsey Johnson
scored her third goal of the season at 28:53
to put the Aggies up 3-0. She headed the
ball into the the top right comer of the net
after a pass from defender Jessica Martin.
Thrasher got an assist on A&M’s final
goal of the night by passing the ball from
near midfield to just outside the goal area
enabling midfielder Andrea Stams to put
in past the out of position goalkeeper.
The Green Wave got its only goal of
the night when Kelley Smith lofted a shot
over goalkeeper Esther Thompson’s
hands. After allowing that goal, the
Aggies shut down the Green Wave for the
rest of the game. In the second half,
Tulane was only able to manage a single
shot on A&M’s goal.
However, the Aggie attack that was
red hot in the first half cooled down in
the second and the Aggies could not add
to their lead.
Simpson was able to make seven
saves in the second half and denied
Thrasher a hat trick.
“It frustrating when we play a team
who likes to slow the ball down when we
like to play it quick because we tend to
drop our level of play slower,” Thrasher
said, “They won that second half pretty
much because we let our intensity down.”
For the game, the Aggies outshot the
Green Wave 34 to 4, forcing Simpson to
make 10 Saves.
Head soccer coach G. Guerrieri said it
was frustrating for him to see the team let
up after taking a 4-0 lead.
“This is a starting point,” Guerrieri
said, “It’s still a journey for us to do bet
ter. I’m disappointed that we didn't score
more goals in the second half but Tulane
did well in the second half.
The Aggies travel to Seattle this
weekend to take on No. 3 Portland and
No. 9 Washington in the Washington-
Nike Soccer Classic.
Ags tangle with Cougars
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K The 16th-ranked Texas A&M
volleyball team resumes compe
tition Tuesday with a non-confer
ence match against the Houston
Cougars at 7:30 p.m. at the
Hofheinz Pavilion in Houston.
■ The Aggies (6-1) have not
played since sweeping Florida
State and dropping a four-game
match to then-No. 9 Stanford at
the Verizon Texas A&M
Invitational on Sept. 7-8.
I A&M was scheduled to
begin Big 12 Conference play at
Oklahoma last Wednesday and
host No. 22 Kansas State on
Saturday, but all Big 12 contests
were postponed because of the
tragic terrorist attacks in New
York and Washington, D.C. The
matches will be rescheduled for
a date to be determined.
I The Aggies faced Houston on
Aug. 31, defeating the Cougars,
30-20, 30-13, 30-25, in the sec-
ond match of the season-opening
Crowne Plaza/Rice Invitational
at Autry Court. The victory
increased A&M’s winning streak
to eight against the Cougars and
gave A&M a 30-29 lead in the
all-time series since 1976.
Senior outside hitters Erin
Lechler and Michelle Cole led
the Aggies with 14 and 10 kills,
respectively. Cole also posted a
match-high 15 digs iftMie victory.
Senior setter Jenna Moscovic
tallied 37 assists as A&M outhit
the Cougars, .290 to .069. In
addition, junior middle blocker
A.D. Achilefu posted a career-
high four aces and led the
Aggies with four blocks as
A&M outblocked Houston, 8-4.
Houston outside hitter
Jennifer Wittenburg was the
only Cougar to reach double
digits in kills with a match-high
17, but she was held to a .170
hitting percentage.
For the season, A&M is sec
ond in the nation with 18.77
kills per game; third with 17.36
assists per game; 1 1th with
19.09 digs per game; and 23rd
with a .286 hitting percentage.
Moscovic is ranked sixth
nationally with 13.86 assists per
game, and Cole is 14th in the
country with 4.29 digs per game.
Senior right-side hitter Brandi
Mount is the team leader with
4.05 kills per game, and Achilefu
is averaging a team-high 0.78
blocks and 0.72 aces per game.
Houston, which has not
defeated A&M since the cham
pionship match of the 1994
Southwest Conference
Tournament, is 3-4 overall after
defeating Arkansas in five
games on Sept. 8.
Wittenburg leads the Cougars
and is ranked fifth in the nation
with 5.59 kills per game but is
hitting only .198. She also leads
the team with 4.14 digs per
See Cougars on page 9
Wyoming grieves over
deaths of eight athletes
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) —
Alcohol may have been a factor
in a collision that killed eight
members of the Wyoming
cross-country team, a state offi
cial said Monday.
Lisa Murphy, state
Department of Transportation
spokeswoman, said the
Highway Patrol would not elab
orate on their findings until
investigators received results
from victims’ blood tests, which
could take up to two weeks.
Meanwhile, a candlelight
vigil was planned for the vic
tims Monday night.
The mood on campus,
already subdued because of the
terrorist attacks, was somber.
Coaches were given the day
off, and athletes were given the
option of attending class.
“Kids everywhere have had
difficulty understanding this
national tragedy, and now you
pack this on top of it,” athletic
director Lee Moon said Monday.
On fraternity row, the Sigma
Phi Epsilon house displayed a
large banner over its entrance
saying “We Love You Shane”
in memory of victim Shane
Shatto, 19, of Douglas.
Shatto and seven teammates
were killed when their SUV
collided head on with a pickup
truck that apparently swerved
into their lane at about 1:30
a.m. Sunday south of Laramie.
The driver of the pickup,
fellow student Clinton
Haskins, 21, of Maybell,
Colo., was in serious condition
at Ivinson Memorial Hospital.
Haskins is a steer wrestler
on the rodeo team. He was
apparently heading from
Laramie to his family’s home
when the crash occurred, said
Lt. Mike Johnson of the
Wyoming Highway Patrol.
The runners were headed
for Laramie after spending
Saturday in Fort Collins, Colo.
The wreck occurred in the
northbound lane about 17 miles
south of Laramie on U.S. 287.
Haskins and the two occu
pying in the front seats of the
SUV were wearing seat belts,
Murphy said.
The person sitting in the
SUV’s front passenger seat was
thrown from the vehicle despite
wearing a seat belt, she said.
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