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The Battalion
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By Jeff Allen
THE BATTALION
Texas A&M’s men’s cross country team is preparing
0 take another test this Saturday at the Roy Griak
nvitationai in Minneapolis, Minn. The meet comes on
he heels of a second-place finish behind the No. 27
Jniversity of Washington team in last week’s Sundodger
nvitationai in Seattle.
“Up in Seattle things went really well,” said head
:oach Dave Hartman. ”We were a little short handed ... a
louple of our top runners from last year’s team, senior
luan DeBastos, who is nursing an injury, and junior
Tommy Bonn, who is still recovering, were missing and
he guys still managed to go out and run a great race.”
Despite the medical set backs, the Aggies managed
[he strong showing because of senior Andrew Cook and
junior Jonathan Lewis.
“They ran some tremendous races,” Hartman said.
Those guys have really come into form ... their per-
howed that. They went out there
and ran with some of the better runners in the country.”
Following the race, Lewis said he feels confident as
the rest of the season approaches.
“We didn’t know that we could go out there and com
pete with a top-25 in the country and we did pretty well,”
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Lewis said. “We're pretty boosted, with two of our top
runners getting better we think we have a pretty good
chance of getting to Nationals.”
The Aggies are hoping to take that confidence boost
with them to Minneapolis this Saturday. Hartman said
he and the team are looking to compete against some of
the better squads in the country this weekend.
"A big reason for going up there is to see if we can beat
a ranked team, but more important is getting these guys in
a big race against some national type competition,”
Hartman said. “It will help us prepare for the Big 12 and
the regional race.”
The men will be looking to Cook and Lewis to carry
the team as Tommy Bonn will not be back to full
strength and DeBastos will be out again. Hartman, how
ever, is looking for both to be at full strength by the time
conference and regional competition starts.
The Aggies are hoping to use this week’s shorthanded
squad to gauge their strength as a team leading up to
conference competition.
“That should give us a real idea of where we are,”
Hartman said. “We'll get a good idea of how our guys
stack up against the three, four and five runners on other
teams, and we will be able to tell w'hat we can do against
them later in the season.”
FILE PHOTO • THE BATTALION
Texas A&M men’s cross-country team members lead the pack in their meet last season.
Waco-based AFCA awards BYU's Edwards
WACO, Texas (AP) — Former Brigham Young coach LaVell Edwards
will receive the 2003 Amos Alonzo Stagg Award from the American
Football Coaches Association.
The award, which honors those "whose services have been out
standing in the advancement of the best interests of football," will be
presented Jan. 7 during the 2003 AFCA convention in New Orleans.
Edwards will speak Jan. 6 during the "Master Coach" session.
"I remember seeing this award presented as a young coach, but I
never thought I'd receive it," Edwards said. "This is a credit to the play
ers and coaches I've worked with over the years."
Edwards retired in 2000 after 29 seasons at BYU with a career
record of 257-101-3 (.716), second-most by a Division l-A coach at
one school. His teams won 20 conference titles and appeared in 22
bowl games. In 1984 Edwards was named AFCA national coach of
the year after going 13-0.
Edwards was a five-time winner of the AFCA's regional coach of the
year award. He was a member of the association's board of trustees
SPORTS IN BRIEF
from 1978-1987, serving as AFCA president in his final year.
The award is named in honor of a man who was instrumental in
founding the Waco-based AFCA in the 1920s. Stagg is considered one
of the great innovators and motivating forces in the early develop
ment of the game of football.
Recent winners include Bo Schembechler, Tom Osborne, Vince
Dooley and Joe Paterno.
A&M golf set to open season in N.M.
The roster for the Texas A&M's women's golf team is a young one.
It contains six freshmen, three sophomores and only one junior, with
no seniors to be found.
As a result, the Aggie golf team will be competing as an inexperienced
team up against tough competition this season.
The first test in its fall campaign will begin today in Albuquerque,
New Mexico at the Dick McGuire Invitational.
Three freshmen will be representing the team on the trip.
After watching these women compete with one another in practice,
head coach Jeanne Sutherland is optimistic.
"Qualifying (for the tournament) was very competitive, which I am
very excited about," Sutherland said.
The Aggies will look to last year's stand-out freshman Nicole
Melton to lead the team this semester.
Melton had five top-10 finishes in the 2001-2002 season, was
named Big 12 Freshman of the Year and was second-team all Big 12.
"She (Melton) is already leading the team. Nicole and Mira help the
freshmen to get better everyday," Sutherland said.
The team is young and inexperienced but sometimes that can be
an advantage, she added.
"You don't have any expectations when you are a freshman, and
most of the time you play your best golf when you have no expecta
tions," Sutherland commented.
The Aggies will look for a solid start for the season by making a
stand in a field filled with top-20 teams.
"Consistence is the only thing that might not be there," Sutherland
said.
The 54-hole competition will run through Saturday with 18 holes
per day and will be hosted by the University of New Mexico's
Championship Golf Course.
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