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THE BATTALION
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By True Brown
THE BATTALION
ed after fay
The Texas
A&M volleyball
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■team survive
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■ Louisiana Stt
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■ Sunday, coming from behind to
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■ win the last
three games and
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■the match, 3 1
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ily success
■ White Coliseum.
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The win
clinched the
irst half.
■ McDonald’s
Texas A&M
touchde.
■ Invitational title for the Aggies,
remaining
■who knocked
off Alcorn State
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■and UTSA on
Friday.
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“When yc
>u’re down two
wn the Ag
■games to nom
you really have
tamps.
■ nothing to U
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■ head coach
Laurie Corbelli.
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■“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.”
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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
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“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
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■emotions.”
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take LSU, tourney title
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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. It shows us what we are
really made of that we were able
to come back at any time.”
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jAgs end SMU thriller with OT goal
uncon: By Troy Miller
ling 0UU‘ THE BATTALION
Anticipation had mounted during the
,c ‘* ^ I'tf-season for the upcoming Texas A&M
5<w vo rne n s soccer season. 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
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tason wilt
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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.
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