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“I was so
proud, as I
always am, of
our students.
I thought
it was a
beautiful
thing”
— A&M football head
coach R:C. Slocum on
Red, White
and Blue Out.
“We went out
this week and
were really
focused
and played
dominating
Wrecking
Crew football.
— Senior defensive
tackle Rocky Bernard
“Any time
you’re in
someone else’s
house, and
you are
playing well
a something
like that
happens, that
is just a
total morale
dropper.”
THE BATTALION
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The Associated Press Top 25
college football poll, with
number of first-place votes
and record in parentheses
(Records through September
23,2001)
The Associated Press Top 25
Team Record
1. Miami Fla
2. Florida
3. Oklahoma
4. Nebraska
5. Texas
6. Oregon
7. Tennessee
8. Virginia Tech
9. Georgia Tech
10. Fresno St
11. Kansas St
12. UCLA
13. Washington
14. LSU
15. South Carolina
16. Northwestern
17. Michigan
18. Florida St
19. Oregon St
20. BYU
21. Mississippi St
22. Illinois
23. Michigan St
24. Purdue
25. Toledo
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(15) (3-0)
(11)(3-0)
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(4) (3-0)
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Ags hold OSU, 21-7
By Jeremy Brown
THE BATTALION
Kyle Field was filled with red, white and blue
as the Texas A&M football team downed the
Oklahoma State Cowboys 21-7 Saturday.
However, head football coach R. C. Slocum
already was seeing red days before the game.
Slocum was upset that his defense was not liv
ing up to the “Wrecking Crew” title, and he let his
team know about it in practice.
With Slocum challenging them, members of
the Crew were out to prove themselves against
Oklahoma State, and there was little that the
Cowboy offense could do to stop them.
“I think that we played with more intensity,
and when you play hard, you should make plays,”
Slocum said. “The defense just turned up its level
of intensity and played with great effort.”
The Aggie defense only gave up a total of 199
yards on the day and managed to sack Cowboy
quarterback Aso Pogi five times.
“We had to go out there and say “Hey, we’re
the Wrecking Crew. We have the name, and we
have to live by it.’ And I think we
did that today,” said line
backer Christian Rodriguez.
On the Cowboys’ sec
ond possession, OSU
coach Les Miles decided
to catch A&M off guard by
faking a punt on fourth-and-
14 from his team’s own 25-
yard line. Punter Scott Elder
was able to find a hole to run
through, but Jay Brooks was
able to make an open-field tack
le and stop Elder for only a 6-
yard gain.
“We knew we were going to fake
a punt,” Miles said. “I felt like it was
wide open on each of those plays, but
they were able to chase us down.”
The Aggies were able to take
advantage of the short field, driving the
ball 31 yards in six plays to get on the
scoreboard first.
Running back Keith Joseph capped
the drive with a two-yard touchdown
run with 4:36 left in the first
quarter.
Joseph left the game in /m •
the second quarter because
of pain in a shoulder he had
injured earlier this week.
Joseph ended the game
with only seven yards on
eight carries.
After Joseph left the
game, sophomore Oschlor
Flemming
took over
the bulk of ^
A&M’s
rushing
attempts, j
carrying
the ball 16 7
times for 71
yards.
The Cowboys
were able to get
their first break in
the game with seven
minutes left before
halftime on a Terrance
Robinson interception.
Robinson ran under the
ball after it was tipped
up by junior tightend
Michael de la Torre and
returned the ball 16
yards to the A&M 10-
yard line.
It only took the Cowboys one
play to tie the ball game, as running
back Tatum Bell took the toss from
Pogi and ran to the corner of the
end zone for a 10-yard touchdown.
Bell was OSU’s leading rusher fo
the game with 94 yards on 22 car
ries.
In the third quarter, A&M’s
defense came through again by
stopping OSU on fourth-and-one at A&M’s 26.
Miles put defensive back Chris Massey in at quar
terback for the play to run the option but Massey
was unable to turn the corner and Terrence Kiel
tackled him for a 6-yard loss.
Following that stop, junior quarterback Mark
Farris had his best drive of the day, taking the
Aggies 68 yards in six plays for a touchdown.
Farris completed four of four passes for 45 yards
on the drive. He finished with 92 yards on the day.
The touchdown came on a 19-yard pass to
sophomore wide receiver Jamaar Taylor.
“I ran that same play earlier on in the game and
it was clogged (up in the middle),” Taylor said. “I
saw that one of my blockers kind of held up a guy,
so 1 busted it outside, and it pretty much was a
walk-in.”
Taylor led the Aggies with 36 yards on four
receptions and a touchdown.
The Aggies sealed the game up less than five
minutes later when senior safety Wes Bautovich
blocked a Cowboy punt in the end zone and
freshman Eric Crutchfield recovered it for the
touchdown.
The Wrecking Crew shut down the Cowboys
from there, and the offense started pounding the
ball between the tackles with freshman Derek
Farmer to run the clock.
The Aggies wil
continue the three-
game homestand
on Saturday
when the
Notre Dame
Fighting
Irish visit
Kyle Field.
GUY ROGERS • THE BATTALION
Sophomore wide receiver Jamaar Taylor runs through an attempted
tackle against Oklahoma State Saturday. The Aggie won 21-7.
Slocum solidifies
Aggie defense
By True Brown
THE BATTALION
If you want the perfect
cross-section of Texas A&M’s
21-7 win over Oklahoma
State, look at one play.
Late in the fourth quarter,
with Oklahoma State trying to
mount a drive, sophomore
running back Tatum
Bell took a hand-off
at the A&M 20-
yard line. Bell
made it to the 19
before running
into a brick
wall.
On this play, the brick
wall’s name was Ty Warren,
A&M’s six-foot four-inch,
295-pound nose guard.
The strength of the hit was
so hard that Warren’s helmet
popped off on impact. You
would not have known it,
though, as Warren drove Bell
into the ground with about as
much force as, well, 490
pounds of human body collid
ing at high speed.
That was exactly what foot
ball head coach R.C. Slocum
had in mind when he called out
his defense on Sept. 13 after
the Aggies gave up 20 points
and 273 yards of offense to the
University of Wyoming, a team
A&M slaughtered 51-3 in
2000.
Saturday, fans saw the
Wrecking Crew of old: aggres
sively going after the ball, unre
lenting pressure, vicious hits
and downright domination.
“Coach Slocum was pretty
rough on us this week,” said
A&M defensive lineman
Rocky Bernard. “All the way
up to the pre-game meal, he
was telling us he wanted to see
us go out from the first series
and dominate.”
And dominate they did.
The Aggies held the
Cowboy’s to three-and-outs on
their first three possessions. It
took the
Cowboy’s
until their
first drive
of the
second
quarter
to
cross
midfield,
and even then,
OSU’s back
up quarter
back Josh
Fields
was
CHAD MALLAM • THE BATTALION
Ags open Big 12
play with win
The Texas A&M volleyball team
recorded a come-from-behind
victory over the Missouri Tigers
Saturday.
The Aggies (8-1, 1-0 in Big 12)
handed the Tigers their first loss
of the season, 30-28, 27-30, 23-
30, 30-23, 15-13.
Freshman middle blocker
Melissa Munsch, one of five
Aggies to hit the double-digit
mark in kills, posted a match-
high 20 kills.
“To be on the road and win
against one of the top teams in
the Big 12 is huge for our pro
gram,” said A&M head volley
ball coach Laurie Corbelli.
“Both teams played great
defense, and our block took a
big step tonight.”
The Tigers led the decisive fifth
game 12-10, but A&M ran off four
straight points and won the game
and the match.
No. 16 A&M will continue Big
12 play Wednesday when it
hosts Baylor.
Soccer finishes 1-1
at Husky Invitational
A goal in the 87th minute by
freshman forward Linsey Johnson
gave the No. 10 Texas A&M soc
cer team a 1-0 win over No. 16
Washington Saturday night at the
Husky/Nike Invitational.
The Aggies (3-2) dropped a 2-1
SPORTS IN BRIEF
decision to No. 5 Portland Friday.
Johnson scored both of A&M’s
goals the tournament, and has
scored a goal in each of A&M's
games this season.
Saturday's 1-0 win gave sopho
more goalkeeper Esther Thompson
her first shutout of the season.
"I cannot stress enough how
huge this win is for us,” said head
soccer coach G. Guerrieri. “This
is a good confidence booster
heading into the start of the con
ference season.”
A&M outshot the Huskies 9 : 2
in the second half and did not
allow a shot in the last 30 min
utes of the match.
Junior midfielder Jessica
Martin, Johnson and Thompson
earned spots on the All-
Tournament team.
Aggies finish 14th
in season opener
The Texas A&M men’s golf
team finished 14th at the 47th
William H. Tucker Intercollegiate
Tournament over the weekend.
The tournament was the Ags’
season opener.
Junior Dwayne Morley led the
Aggies with rounds of 74-74-
75=223, good enough to tie for
37th. Sophomore Stephen Reed
finished one shot behind Morley,
carding a 73-76-75=224.
No. 19 New Mexico won the
tournament with rounds of 278-
294-287=859. A&M finished
with 293-309-302=904.
option play. Junior linebacker
Jesse Hunnicutt was there to
pounce on the fumble, giving
A&M the ball.
“[The OSU quarterbacks]
couldn’t throw the ball, they
couldn’t get more than ten
yards running so you’ve got to
give it to the D-line and the
linebackers,” said A&M defen
sive back Jay Brooks. “They
had a great game today.”
That is an understatement
when you look at some of the
stats.
Saturday, the Aggies record
ed six sacks, costing the
Cowboys 36 yards of field posi
tion. That is twice the number
of sacks A&M recorded in its
first two games combined.
Also, eight players were
credited with tackles made
See Defense on page 9.