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id ay, Noverabei . the first to do Shakespeare iver the sea; Seasons” is 1 ) Spring: bir escence andtiL 4) Winter: 0i;| summer, fori nimer, wf Visit www.thebatt.com for post game coverage of the Aggies’ battle against the Texas Tech Red Raiders. THE BATTALION Page 5 looks continue Tsuccess is swing hasdJ ‘"American Rudder Audi * Orchestra per| Idi's “FourSesJ )rehestra is ai ^ :eous to with such virtu Idi’s FourSe^ By Jeremy Brown THE BATTALION my performi- rid. •out Mark O’C* >m . For tickei Office at 845-1 h their unique se an unusual -based group Ft. Worth Star is Sewtces -11 I &":T Redemption-hungry Ags head to Tech No. 24 football squad looks to notch first win in Lubbock since 1993 season It has been a season of sts for the No. 7 Texas nghorn soccer team, bong those are its first ever [g 12 regular season title and first top 10 ranking. Tonight, No. 15 Texas M will travel to Austin and mpt to stop the Longhorns where my iii$|ifl)m another first — their first erwin against the Aggies. A&M (10-3-1, 7-1-1) Ids an all-time record of 1 I- against the Longhorns (11- 9-0), but this is the best UT jam that the Aggies have |er faced. “The fact that we are 11 -0 ainst them. I am sure that is mething circled on their illetin board,” A&M soccer Rad coach G. Guerrieri said. While A&M has been a mjR U ainstay in the top 25 and has ■"er won less than 14 games, bxas is just now' coming onto : national scene. Texas soccer head coach kis Petrucelli took Notre ameto three straight national lampionship games from 194 to 1996. winning the itional title in 1995. Now he trying to build the bnghorns into a national bvveras well, and since being red in Dec. 1998, he has eadily improved the program. Last year, the Longhorns By Brian Ruff THE BATTALION STUART VILLANUEVA • THE BATTALION Junior quarterback Mark Farris and the Texas A&M football team will travel to Lubbock to take on Texas Tech at 1 p.m. Saturday. Junior linebacker Brian Gamble has all the motivation he needs going into Saturday’s Texas A&M vs. Texas Tech foot ball game. In 1999, the Red Raiders handed the No. 5 Aggies a 21-19 upset in Lubbock. “A lot of the guys who are on this team made that trip,” Gamble said. “It really left a bad taste in our mouth. Their fans rushing the field and tear ing down the goal posts and taunting us. We definitely remember that stuff.” Senior linebacker Christian Rodriguez also has memories that he would like to forget about the 1999 match up. “The memories 1 have are sitting on the bus after we lost to them in 1999 and watching their fans walk by with the field goal posts in their hands,” Rodriguez said. “I will defi nitely remember that.” Lubbock has not been a friendly place for the Aggies to play of late. A&M has not come back from Lubbock with a win since 1993, when the Aggies defeat ed Tech 31-6. “Everyone asks why Lubbock is so hard; Lubbock is not hard,” said A&M football head coach R.C. Slocum. “It has nothing to do with Lubbock. It is our guys against their guys. We will go out and see Saturday which group of guys will get it done.” The Aggies are coming off a 24-21 win over the Iowa State Cyclones at Kyle Field. Freshman running back Derek Farmer racked up 133 yards on 17 carries, including a 65-yard game-winning score down the sidelines in the fourth quarter. The Red Raiders come into the A&M game on the heels of a 63- 19 thumping of Baylor in Waco. Tech, who is second in the Big 12 in total offense, racked up 518 yards of offense against the Bears. Tech's offensive efforts are lead by junior quarterback Kliff Kingsbury, who leads the Big 12 in passing with 2,159 yards See Redemption on page 8. Reveille Invitational opens home season By Mark Merell THE BATTALION See Success on page 8. The Texas A&M men’s swimming and diving team opens up their home schedule in an unconventional manner on Friday during the Reveille Invitational at the Student Recreation Center Natatorium. The 2-0 Aggies face off against Southern Methodist University in what should be an entertaining day for both the swimmers and the fans. "‘It's a bizarre order of events,” said A&M swimming coach Mel Nash. “ # We have races and we’re scoring points, but we have races that have never been contest ed before in the history of swimming.” Included in this bizarre format will be races such as a three-man, 900-yard butterfly relay in which each indi vidual swimmer swims three 100-yard butterflys. The purpose of swimming unusual races such as the 900 but terfly relay is not primarily to crown winners and losers, but to provide a grueling workout environment for both teams, one that pushes each of the swimmers to the limit. “We wanted to have a real tough workout,” Nash said. “But you want to get them to do the workout at a higher level so you score it as a meet... (The races) might not be too fast, but there could be a lot of guts spilled on the deck.” SMU will be competing in their first meet of the season after finishing No. 12 in the nation last year, one spot behind A&M. Last season the Aggies defeated SMU 145-91 in their only head-to-head matchup of the year. “We always have pretty good meets,” Nash said. “We’re pretty close in a lot of things, so it could get some performances out of the guys that are pretty impressive.” The Aggies are coming off of a 154-1 18 victory over TCU in Fort Worth last Thursday, in which A&M captured seven individual victories by five different swimmers. Headlining the day for the Aggies was sophomore Scott Mueller, who took gold in the 200 freestyle and the 200 individual medley. Other individual winners includ ed All-Americans Patrick Kennedy and Matt Rose. The Aggies look to continue their winning ways begin ning at 6 p.m. Friday afternoon and again at 10 a.m. on Saturday morning. While the meet will be a little out of the ordinary, it should provide a great atmosphere in which to watch swimming. “It’s going to be a very unique situation,” Nash said. “It could be very entertaining for the crowd.” i Yes? No? Not sure? 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