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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.”
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registration periods.
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