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Page 1B • Thursday, September 5, 2002
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Fabulous Freshmen
Several freshmen in the Big 12
wasted no time getting into the mid
dle of the action during season-open
ing games last weekend.
Missouri quarterback Brad Smith
led the Tigers to a 33-20 win over
defending Big 10 champion Illinois.
Smith passed for 152 yards, rushed
for 138 yards and had one touchdown.
Mizzou’s win was the first time head
coach Gary Pinkel has opened a sea
son with a victory.
Oklahoma Sate running back
Vernand Moreney had a solid first
game, tallying 108 yards on 13 carries
and two touchdowns against
Louisiana State. Oklahoma running
back Kejuan Jones had a pair of
touchdowns during OLTs route of
Tulsa and Texas A&M defensive back
Jaxson Appel, a redshirt freshman,
was one of six Aggies to intercept a
pass against the University of
Louisiana - Lafayette.
A&M freshman quarterback Reggie
McNeaJ also played for the Aggies
against ULL, going 2-for-2 passing,
good for 28 yards.
Big 12 opening strong
With its 27-0 win against North
Texas, the University of Texas
notched its 90th straight season-open
ing victory. The Longhorns, the Big
12’s first team to break the 90-win
barrier, hold a 90-17-3 record in sea
son openers.
Oklahoma is second in the confer
ence with 82 wins. Both OU and UT
scored shutouts in their season openers.
A&M is tied with Iowa State for
fourth with 77. The Texas Tech Red
Raiders are last in the conference,
with a 49-26-3 record.
Record-holding wide-receivers
This season, there are more active
players in the conference who already
figure in the league’s record book in
career catches than in any other sea
son.
The conference’s active leader in
catches is Missouri senior receiver
Justin Gage. Gage, a two-sport stand
out, has 125 snares with 81 coming in
his last 12 contests.
OU’s Antwone Savage is the
Sooners' career leader in pass recep
tions with 115. good enough for
eighth on the conference list.
Not to be outdone. Oklahoma
State’s Rashaun Woods had 90 recep
tions in his last 12 games, placing him
sixth in the Big I2’s career receiving
list and first in Cowboys’ history.
Baylor senior receiver Reggie
Newhouse leads the school's all-time
list with 116 catches.
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Texas A&M senior defender Ty Warren pressures the University of Louisiana - Lafayette
quarterback Jon Van Cleave. Van Cleave threw 6 interceptions on Saturday at Kyle Field.
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Higgins, golf team go international for season opening tourney
By David Morrison
THE BATTALION
It is a rare occasion to overhear students dis
cussing the ins and outs of the Texas A&M
men’s golf team. The team doesn't fill a stadium
of over 80,000 fans every Saturday, and you
won't find updates of its status on the national
news. But that could soon change.
As the new semester starts, the men’s golf
team is bringing out a whole new team. The first
recruiting class of head coach J.T. Higgins
boasts three National Junior All-Americans, the
2000 Illinois Player of the Year, a first team All-
American in David Tasker, and stay-homes
Stephen Reed and Tyler Garret.
The list of players is Texas A&M’s most
impressive in recent memory, according to sev
eral members of the team.
“We are deep, this is as deep as any A&M
team I've seen,” said junior golfer Stephen
Reed.
Reed knows impressive line-ups don't bring
championships. The Aggie golf team members
realize they will need to turn their potential into
results before they catch the eye of anyone out
side of College Station.
After what many consider a disappointing
spring campaign, the Aggies hope competition
within the team will bring success. And Higgins
hopes competing for the top spot will bring the
best play out of both Stephen Reed and David
Tasker, the team’s two captains.
“There is always going to be competition.
But in this game anybody can beat you on any
given day. If we aren’t one and two, we are two
and one,” Reed said.
While Higgins believes the new recruits will
undoubtedly improve the A&M golf team, he is
reluctant to expect too much from his young
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good we are. Potential is a pretty
dangerous word.
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team this season.
“We have to figure out just how good we are.
Potential is a pretty dangerous word.” Higgins
said.
The Texas A&M golf team will figure out
how good it is this week when it competes in the
International Collegiate tournament in St.
Andrews, Scotland at the St. Andrews Bay
Resort.
The event will consist of 18 holes on Friday
and 36 on Saturday. It is the first NCAA event
ever to be held in Scotland.
The team will also be tested throughout the sea
son playing in one of the nation’s top conferences.
"The Big XII is just a great golf league,”
Higgins said. “Last year we had six teams make
it to nationals, and there was only thirty teams
there, so when you have one-fifth of the field
from one conference that speaks volumes.”
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