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THE BATTALION
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neman, has taken over the tight
The injuries have hampered
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ad the Aggies have been held
a combined 93 yards in their
two games.
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out of options. We have already
moved everyone we can.”
Fortunately for the Aggies,
Iowa State’s rushing defense ranks
in the bottom-half of the Big 12,
allowing 185.2 yards pier game.
Unfortunately for A&M,
though, the Cyclones (5-1, 3-1)
own one of the top offenses in
the country. ISU is second only
to Nebraska in the Big 12 in
total offense, piling up 409.5
yards per game.
Quarterback Seneca Wallace
and running back Ennis
Haywood are keys to Iowa
State’s offense. Haywood, the
Big 12’s leading rusher, was
named the conference’s offen
sive player of the week last
week after running for 196 yards
and three touchdowns against
Oklahoma State. Wallace,
meanwhile, completed 16-of-19
passes for 150 yards and rushed
for 67 yards.
On the season, Wallace earns
62.5 ground yards per game and
averages over six yards per carry.
“The presence of Seneca
has really helped us,” said ISU
football head coach Dan
McCarney. “He is off to a great
start. There is no question he is
a threat running and passing
the ball, and that helps keep
opposing defenses honest.”
A dominating rushing per
formance is exactly what the
Cyclones want against A&M as
the Aggies have struggled this
against opponents who
Sean Weston and Terrence Kiel (48) bring down
KSU’s Aaron Lockett during A&M’s 31-24 win last
Saturday. A&M hosts
tomorrow at Kyle Field. Kickoff is at 1 p.m.
GUY ROGERS • THE BATTALION
the Iowa State Cyclones
run the ball effectively.
Last week, Kansas State
plowed through A&M’s defense
for 258 rushing yards, while
Colorado racked up 170 the
week before.
KSU quarterback Ell
Roberson gained 77 yards.
mostly on option plays.
“We’ll be seeing the same type
of quarterback this week,” said
junior linebacker Jarrod Penright.
“We opened up too many holes
for Roberson to go through last
week, so that is something we
really need to stop this week.”
The Cyclones’ football pro
gram is in the midst of a tremen
dous turnaround under
McCarney, who joined ISU in
1994. McCarney was named the
Big 12 coach of the year in 2000
See Turnaround on page 10.
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SPORTS IN BRIEF
Men’s tennis team
in Fort Worth
The Texas A&M men’s tennis
team will be competing this
weekend in the 2001 Omni
Hotels Region VI Championships
starting this morning.
The indoor championship is
the second of three national
championship events of the
season and will include a 128-
man singles competition and a
64-team doubles field.
The singles finalists and dou
bles champions will receive
automatic berths in the
November 8-11 Omni Hotels
National Collegiate Indoor
Championships.
The A&M women’s team has
withdrawn from this weekend’s
Tyler Collegiate Invitational and
will resume action Nov. 8-11 at
the ITA Rolex National Indoor
Championships.
A&M-Tech game
to be on PPV
The Texas A&M-Texas Tech
football game on Nov. 3, origi
nally not scheduled to be on
television, will be shown on a
pay-per-view basis.
The game became available
for pay-per-view distribution
because it was not selected
forover-the-air broadcast, syn
dication or cable coverage.
According to conference
rules, games not picked up for
regular television can only be
broadcast with pay-per-view.
Improved A&M hosts OU, OSU
By Jeremy Brown
THE BATTALION
Last weekend, the No. 15 Texas A&M soccer team went on the
road against two improved Big 12 teams and came away with two
impressive wins. This weekend, the Aggies will try to repeat that
performance at home against Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
Kansas and Missouri were riding high with nine wins each until
A&M cut them down 4-0 and 5-2 respectively. With those wins,
A&M (8-3-1,5-1-1) passed both schools to move into third place in
the Big 12.
“We are playing better and better every week,” said A&M soccer
head coach G. Guerrieri. “You never know when you are peaking until
you get there, but we have been creating a lot of positive momentum.”
This weekend A&M will again face two teams on the way up.
Oklahoma had its first winning season ever last year with a 10-9-
1 record. This season, the Sobners already have nine wins and are
ranked No. 8 in the Soccer Buzz Central Region standings.
“Oklahoma is an interesting team because they play with a differ
ent tactic than the rest of the Big 12,” Guerrieri said. “First, they are
always looking to counterattack because of their fast forwards, but
when they have the ball they slow it down. It takes some real discipline
to keep the game at our pace.”
Oklahoma’s style of play has limited opponents to .63 goals a
game and the Sooners (9-4-1, 3-3-1) have had shutouts in three of
their last five games.
Freshman goalkeeper Catherine Wade played a big part in
those shutouts and was named as the Big 12 defensive player of
the week on Oct. 9.
In Oklahoma’s loss to Baylor, Wade shutout the Bears for 61
minutes until she went out with an injury. After she left the game,
the Bears promptly scored three goals to take the 3-1 win.
Sophomore forward Logan Womack leads the Sooner’s “coun
terattack” with 11 goals.
Oklahoma State has already won seven games this season after
only winning four last season. The Cowgirls (7-7-1, 2-4-1) are try
ing to qualify for their first Big 12 tournament.
“Oklahoma State is very organized defensively and are really
good at getting behind the ball,” Guerrieri said. “We can’t let up
our concentration because they have scored off of some really
good individual efforts.”
A&M is 5-0 all-time against both the Sooners and Cowgirls.
With only three games left, A&M will need help to win the
Big 12 regular season title.
No. 10 Texas (9-3, 7-0) has won nine straight games and is the
only undefeated team in Big 12 play. If Texas wins both of its
games this weekend it will claim the regular season title even if it
loses to A&M on Nov. 2.
No. 9 Nebraska can only claim the regular season title if it wins
out and Texas loses two games.
A&M’s freshman forward Linsey Johnson was named the Big 12
offensive player of the week after scoring four goals against Kansas
and Missouri. Against Missouri, she scored the Aggies’ first hat
trick since 1999.
A&M will face Oklahoma at 7 p.m. tonight and Oklahoma State
at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Aggie Soccer Complex.
JOHN LIVAS • THE BATTALION
Senior forward Nicky Thrasher charges past a Nebraska defender Oct.
14. The Aggies will host Oklahoma and Oklahoma State this weekend.
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By Maya Thomas
THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M cross
country team will compete
at the Big 12 Cross Country
Championships, Saturday,
Oct. 27, at the Jimmie
Austin Golf Course in
Norman, Okla. The
University of Oklahoma will
host the meet.
The Aggies compete for
the first time since their title-
clinching run at the A&M
Invitational on Oct. 13. Both
the men’s and women’s
teams took first place honors
at the Invitational.
At the Big 12
Championships, the A&M
women’s squad looks to regain
ranking in the FinishLynx
Women’s Cross Country poll
after dropping from the No. 18
spot earlier this month.
Neither the women’s nor
the men’s team is ranked
nationally, but the women
are ranked third and the men
fourth regionally.
In 2000 the Aggies
made a strong showing at
the Big 12 Championships.
The women’s team fin
ished fourth overall, the
best A&M performance at
the Big 12.
In 2000, Melissa Gulli
finished 13th in the 6,000-
meter layout and Andrea
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to he very strong
this year.
— Dave Hartman
A&M cross country coach
Bookout finished 14th. Mike
Hummel won individually in
the 1,000-meter run at the
Big 12 Indoor.
Kristy Bonn finished
sixth on the Aggie team,
and Andrew Cook finished
second on the team and
30th overall.
The favorite to win at the
Big 12 this year is Colorado
who was ranked first until the
most recent national poll and
have finished first in several
highly competitive meets.
The Colorado men’s team has
never lost a Big 12 cross
country title.
But fresh off their A&M
Invitational win, the Aggies
have a chance to make a nice
showing at the Big 12
Championships.
“The men’s team I think
we’ll be able to get right
back into where the girls
were last year, maybe even a
little higher, “ said head
coach Dave Hartman. “I
expect the guys to be very
strong this year. Just
because we redshirted a cou
ple of key guys we were a
little down, but this year we
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