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The Battalion Page 5 • Wednesday, October 2, 2002
Young stars lead No. 25 A&M vs
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The Texas A&M volleyball team has
been hit by a youth movement.
After being led to the Elite Eight last
season by a group of five seniors, the No.
25 Aggies have turned to several
new faces this year to replace the experi
ence and leadership they lost over
the summer.
With three outside hitters, one defen
sive specialist and one setter all graduat
ing, A&M head coach Laurie Corbelli
was faced with a tough challenge.
“A lot of our court was open”
Corbelli said. “I think that probably was
the most significant loss of starters that I
have ever experienced.”
But Corbelli found a reliable rotation,
and the Aggies (10-3, 2-2 Big 12)
stormed to a 9-1 record to begin the
season.
A&M continues Big 12 play tonight
when it travels to the University of
Oklahoma for a 7 p.m. match against the
Sooners. The road thus far has not been
easy, as A&M has had to work through
some growing pains. In both conference
losses, the Aggies reached double-digits
in service errors and had problems with
first touches.
"With rally scoring, you really have
no room for error,” Corbelli said. “We’ve
made a lot of young errors, and I think
they are realizing they can do better. It’s
coming along a little better now.”
Entering the 2002 campaign, none of
the Aggies had bigger shoes to fill than
sophomore setter Lexy Beers. Beers
played sporadically last season in the
shadow of All-American Jenna
Moscovic, the most decorated setter in
A&M history.
Beers wasted no time filling in, aver
aging 12.08 assists per game, just .85
behind what Moscovic averaged in her
senior season.
“Lexy had a really big position to
fill” said sophomore outside hitter
Melissa Munsch, another young Aggie in
a starting role. “She’s done a wonderful
job. She works her tail off every day at
practice. She runs all over the court. She
has really stepped up, and her leadership
skills, too, have helped our team become
a team.”
The player making the most noise on
the court has been freshman Laura Jones.
Jones leads the Aggies in hitting per
centage at .336 and is second on the team
in kills behind Munsch with 162. She
also posted four of A&M’s five highest
individual match hitting percentages and
has tallied 20 kills twice.
Corbelli, however, says she may just
be scratching the surface.
“She’s incredibly important,” Corbelli
said. “She really knows how to hit the
ball. But she is also learning and realiz
ing that there is so much more to the
game that she is capable of but has never
had to excel at. She’s improving daily
with her defense, with her blocking, with
her range and shot selection.”
With such a large insurgence of
youth, A&M has turned to a trio of older
players to lead the way. A.D. Achilefu,
Tara Pulaski and Carol Price have all
assumed leadership roles.
Achilefu and Pulaski each have more
than 100 kills, and Price has posted 76.
“We had to try and find a core to lead
(the younger players) and to have a pur
pose and an identity as a team,” Corbelli
said. “The leadership is really emerging.
Those three are really working at leading
and trying to set the tone.”
For Achilefu, it’s all about having
faith.
“Last years team depended so much
on the seniors,” Achilefu said. “Now, this
year we have to believe that it is our turn
and that we can perform just as well as
those five seniors last year did. We’re
getting there.”
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Viking s Randy Moss faces additional charges, suspension for marijuana
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Vikings
star receiver Randy Moss was charged Tuesday with
possession of a small amount of marijuana, adding
to charges last week that he pushed a traffic officer
with his car.
The new petty misdemeanor count carries a fine
of up to $200. but it could also lead to a suspension
or fine from the NFL.
Police said they found a marijuana cigarette in
Moss' car after he was arrested on Sept. 24. Moss
was driving in downtown Minneapolis when the
traffic officer stepped in front of his car to stop him
from making an illegal turn. She was injured when
she fell off the car.
Moss spent the night in jail and was charged the
next day with careless driving and failure to obey a
traffic officer, both misdemeanors.
The complaint said the marijuana amounted to
just under a gram. Moss has said the marijuana did
not belong to him and that he had allowed other peo
ple to use his car recently.
ESPN reported Sunday that Moss was already in
the league’s substance abuse program for testing
positive for marijuana last year, and underwent
another test by the NFL after his arrest last week.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league
would review the case.
“Under the policy, a drug-related violation of the
law is grounds for disciplinary action,” Aiello said.
If Moss tests positive for a banned or illegal sub
stance or is convicted on the possession charge, he
could be subjected to fines and suspensions by the
league. He was allowed to play in last Sunday’s 48-
23 loss at Seattle.
Moss could lose his driving privileges in
Minnesota for a year because he refused to take a
police test for drug or alcohol use when he was
arrested, said Kevin Smith, a spokesman for the
Minnesota Department of Public Safety.
Moss, who has only a Florida driver’s license,
could lose driving privileges in that state, too.
City prosecutors on Tuesday also added two new
traffic counts to the charges: making an improper
turn at an intersection in a hazardous manner, and
obstructing traffic with a vehicle, a petty misde
meanor.
Each misdemeanor count carries a maximum
penalty of 90 days in jail and up to a $1,000 fine.
The maximum fine on the obstructing traffic count
is $300. Neither petty misdemeanor count carries
jail time.
The 25-year-old Moss was to be arraigned
Wednesday. Defense lawyer Joe Friedberg said
Moss was not required to appear and would not be
there.
Friedberg also said he did not plan to enter pleas
for Moss during the arraignment, which he expect
ed would be a quick and routine hearing.
“At some point we will enter not guilty pleas to
all of these counts,” Friedberg said.
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