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JOHN LIVAS • THE BATTALION
&M senior forward Nicky Thrasher goes up against an SMU player during the Aggies’ 2-1 win Sunday,
he No. 8 Aggies will play the No. 4 Stanford Cardinal today in Palo Alto, Calif.
By Jeremy Brown
THE BATTALION
The No. 8 Texas A&M soccer
team will attempt to avenge its
season-opening loss against No. 4
Stanford in the third-round of the
2001 NCAA Women’s College
Cup Friday in Palo Alto, Calif.
The Aggies gave up four
goals in only six shots to drop a
4-2 decision to the Cardinal in
San Marcos on Sept. 7. An
unusual amount of rain in
College Station forced A&M to
move the game to the Southwest
Texas Soccer Complex.
“The thing that we were
impressed with about Stanford
was that they had the most
organized defense that we saw
all year long,” said A&M head
coach G. Guerrieri
A&M controlled most of the
game, taking 14 shots, but only
connected on shots by freshman
forward Linsey Johnson and jun
ior defender Jessica Martin.
Johnson’s goal was the first of
her record-breaking season. She
scored 15 goals to break the
freshman record of 13 set by
Jamie Csizmadia in 1993.
Stanford’s senior goalkeep
er Carrie Walsh made four
saves in the game, while junior
midfielder Callie Withers
The thing that we
were impressed with
about Stanford was
that they had the
most organized
defense we saw all
year long.
— G. Guerrieri
A&M soccer head coach
scored two first-half goals.
The early season loss
dropped A&M to 1-2 against
Stanford with the win coming in
a 1997 match at the Aggie
Soccer Complex.
In its only previous trip to
Maloney Field, A&M fell 3-0 to
Stanford in 1998.
“Ninety-eight was the last
time we were out there,”
Guerrieri said. “We went out
there for a single game similar to
this. We had a great weekend. We
had incredible food. The sun was
shining. We had a brilliant week
end and then we absolutely stunk
up the field for 90 minutes. It was
one of the worst performances we
have ever had.”
In Stanford’s second-round
game against Saint Mary’s, junior
forward Marcia Wallis scored two
goals in the first 11 minutes as the
Cardinals won, 3-1.
A&M won its second-round
game against Southern Methodist
University, 2-1 in overtime.
Sophomore midfielder Kristen
Strutz scored the winning goal
with only 2:17 left in the game.
Friday’s winner will move on
to a fourth-round match up against
the winner of Saturday’s game
between No. 11 Nebraska and No.
5 Portland, the only other teams to
beat A&M this season.
Aggie basketball squad signs top prep star
By Brian Ruff
THE BATTALION
hard-pressed t(
Texas A&M basketball head coach Melvin
Watkins announced Tuesday that one of the
ation’s top shooting guards, Antione Wright of
.awrence Academy in Groton, Mass., has
^igned a national letter of intent to play college
asketball at A&M.
Wright, a 6-foot-7-inch, 195-pound player was
nked as the top high school shooting guard in the
iountry by ESPN.com. Wright posted impressive
lumbers during his junior year at Lawrence, averag
ing 27 points, 13 rebounds and 3.7 blocks per game.
“I am pretty happy with everything,” Wright
said. “It was the loyalty of A&M overall that
I chose A&M because every
person I met there was genuine.
—Antione Wright
A&M basketball signee
made me decide. They were always there, and
they saw what I could do.”
Wright was highly recruited by college bas
ketball powerhouses Arizona, UCLA, Miami,
Connecticut and Texas.
“I chose A&M because every person I met
there was genuine,” Wright said. “Each coach
was family oriented.”
Wright is ranked the fourth-best high school
player in the class of 2002 by ESPN.com and is a
consensus top-30 rated prospect.
“Our coach staff, as well as our team, was very
excited when we received Antione’s paperwork
today, and know that he has officially become an
Aggie,” Watkins said. “We look forward to him
making a tremendous impact on our program.”
The Aggies will lose senior guard Andy
Leatherman next season after graduation, and
Wright, along with freshman Daryl Mason,
should make a young, exciting tandem to watch
during the 2002-2003 season.
Wright, a native of San Bernardino, Calif., has
already met NCAA eligibility requirements in his
fourth year at Lawrence Academy.
“I want to bring my hard work to A&M,”
Wright said. “I want to earn the respect of every
player and make an immediate impact.”
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