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Rekend at the Aggie Soccer Complex
as the No. 8 Texas A&M Aggies host
the first and second rounds of the
NIAA 2001 Division I Women’s
Soccer Championship.
Bslo. 11 University of Texas (14-5),
Bthern Methodist University (15-3)
and Southwest Texas State University
(14-6) will travel to College Station
this Friday, each representing the top
ofi conference as the regular season
or tournament champion.
H‘We figured that with the NCAA
Hing back on a lot of the costs and
other issues that they had going on
Ht they would bring the closest
Hns to whoever won the Big 12
■mament, which luckily was us,”
sai A&M soccer head coach G.
Guerrieri.
■The Aggies will ride the momen-
,tun d an eight-game winning streak
a Big 12 Conference tournament
Impionship into tonight’s 7:30
Tie against the Southland
Conference Champion SWT Bobcats.
The SWT soccer program is in its
third year of existence and is making
its first appearance in the NCAA tour
nament. With the NCAA bracket
expanded to include 64 teams, the
Southland Conference champion
received an automatic bid for the first
time this year.
For SWT head coach Kat Conner,
tonight’s game is a homecoming.
Conner was an assistant coach at A&M
until 1999 when she left for SWT.
“It will be interesting facing her
because she knows all of us as players,”
said senior forward Nicky Thrasher.
Conner left A&M to help SWT
build its program, and, while the pro
gram is still in its youth, she has led
the Bobcats to two Southland
Conference championships.
A&M and SWT have never faced
each other.
In tonight’s other match-up, UT
will face SMU at 5 p.m.
The SMU Mustangs won the
Western Athletic Conference by
sweeping its regular season confer
ence matches and the WAC tourna
ment. SMU is ranked in the latest
Soccer Buzz poll at No. 21 but did not
have enough votes to crack the
National Soccer Coaches Association
of America poll.
SMU has never lost to the
Longhorns but UT is in the midst of its
best season ever.
UT won its first Big 12 regular
season title with a conference record
of 9-1 and set a team record for wins
in a season with 14. The Longhorns
are in the NCAA tournament for the
first time, while SMU is making its
seventh appearance.
The winners of tonight’s games will
face each other at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday.
If A&M and Texas win tonight, they
will meet for the third time this season.
A&M took the previous two contests 6-
0 in Austin and 1-0 in the Big 12 tour
nament championship in San Antonio.
The winner of this weekend’s
regional in College Station likely will
travel to face the No. 5 seeded
Stanford Cardinal next weekend in
Palo Alto, Calif. This weekend,
Stanford (13-3-2) hosts Denver (16-2-
2), California-Berkeley (12-6-2) and
JOHN LIVAS • THE BATTALION
A&M senior midfielder Amber Childers battles Tulane defender Jacque Gruber during A&M’s 4-
1 win on Oct. 17. A&M hosts Southwest Texas State University tonight in the NCAA tournament.
Swimming continues season in Indiana
By Mark Merrell
THE BATTALION
This weekend will mark a busy
few days of traveling for the Texas
A&M men’s and women’s swimming
and diving teams. On Friday, the No.
14 men’s squad goes to Indiana to
participate in the two-day Indiana
Invitational while the women pack
their bags for Dallas for a match-up
with Southern Methodist University.
The women’s weekend continues on
Saturday as they travel to
Fayetteville, Ark., to battle with the
Arkansas Razorbacks.
The Aggie men take their unde
feated record in Indiana after being
off since the Reveille Invitational two
weeks ago, where they defeated SMU
by more than 150 points. At this
weekend’s invitational, the Aggies
will face Indiana University, the
University of Evansville and the
Cincinnati Bearkats.
A&M’s toughest opponent
should come from the hometown
Hoosiers, who defeated Evansville
earlier this year in a dual meet and
hold a 51-4 career mark over the
Bearkats. Aggie Patrick Kennedy,
who has yet to be defeated in the
100-meter backstroke, will try to
continue his perfect 2001 record.
On the women’s side, last week
end’s two dual meets produced dras
tically different outcomes. On
Friday, the women were defeated
180-120 by No. 4 University of
Texas-Austin. The Aggies bounced
back with a dominating 173-113
victory over the University of North
Texas on Saturday, when the Green
Mean won only one of 16 events.
This weekend the Aggies face two
quality opponents in No. 11 SMU and
the University of Arkansas. Friday’s
match up with the Mustangs will give
the young Aggies another chance to
race against some of the best swim
mers in the nation and prepare for
important meets later in the season.
“If (the girls) are going to do some
thing on the national level, they need
to be able to step up against tough
opponents,” said A&M women’s
coach Steve Bultman. “SMU has
some really strong swimmers, so we’ll
have our work cut out for us.”
The work will not end as Aggie
women depart Dallas for Arkansas and
a match up with the 2-1 Razorbacks.
“Arkansas is going to be a really
good, competitive meet,” Bultman
said. “We’re going to have to be
ready to swim fast if we’re going to
win that meet.”
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