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l SPORl *attau : SPORTS THE BATTALION 11A Monday, September 2, 2002 m page % quarter^ 0 entered Aggies’ f ; and led g alter scrr Aggies By True Brown THE BATTALION ed after fay The Texas A&M volleyball odd Peg; ■team survive d a scare from rd field ' £ ■ Louisiana Stt ue University on illegal pm. : ■ Sunday, coming from behind to :ated his & - ■ win the last three games and 'd atterr: ■the match, 3 1 0-32, 24-30, 30- for-5 on • ■ 16, 30-24. 15 i-10 at G. Rollie ily success ■ White Coliseum. on a 21 y c The win clinched the irst half. ■ McDonald’s Texas A&M touchde. ■ Invitational title for the Aggies, remaining ■who knocked off Alcorn State 'ack-up qur ■and UTSA on Friday. :ta coropk: “When yc >u’re down two wn the Ag ■games to nom you really have tamps. ■ nothing to U Tse,” said A&M i weird gr ■ head coach Laurie Corbelli. » Van Ck ■“We started a little bit uptight said. “Ojl ■and not as pre| pared as we need- ied on led to be. We did a really good ig time fey ■ job of coming back and winning ease to |the match. I was really |impressed with that.” is one of * v The Aggies (3-0) fell behind dayers in : ■after being pi agued by mental nee last ■ mistakes and st rrvice errors in the 2,499 \t. I first tw o game s. LSU (2-1) took 10 inter;:: ■advantage of A &M’s mistakes by ison. I turning to Jenn lifer Hampton and ■ Lauren C'uylei ■ for 27 kills.' who combined 1 page c “A lot of ■Corbelli said. ’ it is nerves,” “A lot of it is just IcNeal] j. ■getting back into competition ne next ■.serving. (Serv ing) is probably ed since - lone of the mo st stressful times school]. ■of the game fo »r a lot of people. 1 to create; ■There is a f ot you have to the siad.- ■ resolve in you r mind and your C field i* ■emotions.” two hrd fo take LSU, tourney title Randal Ford • the battalion LSD's Jennifer Hampton spikes a ball against Texas A&M’s sophomore Melissa Munch and junior Tara Pulaski in Sunday’s game. The Aggies forced a fifth game by holding off the Tigers in game four. A&M led by as much as eight points, but blocks by Cuyler and Kyra Lancon helped the Tigers cut the lead to four. An ace by A&M’s Melissa Munsch and a kill by Lexy Beers helped A&M force game five. Beers, a sophomore from Manhattan Beach, Calif, fin ished her first weekend as a starter, posting 50 assists for A&M. Beers had a game-high 43 assists against Alcorn State and 32 against UTSA. Beers had the duty of replac ing All-American setter Jenna Moscovic, a four-year starter for the Aggies. “I don’t think people realize the kind of talent and skill she brings to the team,” Corbelli said. “Moscovic was out there tor four years so everyone was wondering how different it was going to be. That was the main question I’ve been hearing. I’ve told everyone to wait and see because everything was going to be fine.” A&M outhit LSU .232-. 136 and benefited from the play of outside hitter Laura Jones. Jones, a freshman from Arlington, led A&M with 17 kills and a .500 hitting percent age. Corbelli rewarded Jones with a spot in A&M’s starting lineup after Jones’s strong per formance Friday. “It’s been intimidating com ing from being a senior [in high school] and having girls look tip to me to being back on the bottom, looking up.” Jones said. “The first game took a lot of the girls telling me to have fun out there.” In the fifth game, A&M and LSU stayed within one point of each other until a kill by A.D Achilefu gave the Aggies a 10-8 lead. The Aggies closed out the match after two kills by Jones and a block by Beers. “[Coming from behind] real ly builds your confidence,” Munsch said. “It doesn't put us down. 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The preseason i ihai ‘i; ranking of No. 5 in the nation was put to iloajin** tlli' tcM early when the Aggies (2-0) took •IcNeau 4, n 9 Southern Methodist University fjlSrCiU) this weekend at the Aggie Soccer is. All 1 ■ I’omplex. [ravel pj ie SMU Mustangs (1-1) came to P 1 * College Station Sunday night looking for Cguystu^evenge for an overtime loss to A&M that s. Slocu | ent ih em home in the second round of the monstrait |sJCAA Championships last season. The some pr; | wo teams began where they left off, and |he result stayed the same with Texas \&M winning 2-1 in double overtime. ‘It's two top-10 teams so you know it's ming to be a battle,” said SMU head coach jeorge Van Linder. “|A&M] was a bench- nark for us, and it makes you work a little |iarder.” The scoring started when Mustang sen- h° w ^Bor Tara Comfort scored, guiding a shot ■ nside the right post that beat Aggie fresh- • jnan goalkeeper Katie Jo Spisak in the ninth minute. BlUaflP The Aggies countered in the sixteenth ninute when sophomore Linsey Woodard scored her second goal of the season off a juick, crossing pass from Berend. fhe two teams were at a stalemate until A&M junior Kristen Strutz scored against Vlustang goalkeeper Amanda Clark in the > jns i :ival nen's and itry team! tason wilt ce at ttie stival on 104th minute from a crowd in front of the Mustang goal. “It was confusion in the box,” Strutz said. “I think I just barely got a piece of it. All I remember is colliding into their defender,” Clark recorded 12 saves for the Mustangs, including the deflection of With sixteen underclass- tneriy we need this type of expe rience ... Jo come from be!) hid and win against a team ranked as high as No. 9 in the country is even that much more valuable — G. Guerrieri Head Soccer Coach A&M sophomore Emma Smith’s shot in the 76th minute that would have given the Aggies the lead. Spisak saved six for the Aggies and improved her record to 2-0 at goalkeeper. “With sixteen underclassmen we need this type of experience under our belt,” said A&M head soccer coach G. Guerrieri. “To be able to come from behind and win against a team ranked as high as No. 9 in the country is even that much more valu able.” After being outshot 8-7 in the first half, the Aggies outshot the Mustangs 16-5 in the second half and two overtime periods. A&M also hosted the Rice University Owls on Friday in their First game of the season. Rice sophomore goalkeeper Amanda Garrison kept the Owls close by making several one-on-one saves, but she was not enough as the Aggies won 4-1. A&M freshman Carrie Berend scored on her First touch of her college career, making the score 1-0 only 26 seconds into the game. The goal was the second fastest from the opening whistle in A&M history. “I was really nervous,” said Berend. “I wasn't expecting to score. It got me settled down for the rest of the game.” Other A&M tallies on the night came from sophomore Amanda Burke on a penalty kick. sophomore Christina Echavarry, and Woodard. “The most important thing was we have 1 1 players who never played for Texas A&M that now have a game under their belt," Guerrieri said. "Rice is a good team. They were very well organized, and they were very gritty. It was a worthy result.” The road does not get much easier for the Aggies as they head to California this weekend to face two more top 15 teams, Stanford University and the University of California-Berkeley. (Pecan Latigs GOLF CLUB We are now open for play! You can reserve a starting time by calling 936-870-3889 SPECIAL TWO for ONE Here is you invitation to come and play Pecan Lakes. Bring this coupon for Half-Price Golfi 936-870-3889 Offer good through November 2002 TAMU Pecan Lathes golf Club 2001 Fairway Drive • Navasota, Texas 77868 SM0KEN JOE’S WaU'rpipcs • I’iix's • and much more 3517 S. 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