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Cash, checks, Aggie Bucks, VISA, MasterCard, Discover and American Express accepted. picked ctppour copy? 8 Friday, October 18, 2002 THE SPORTS BMTALIOI Soccer team heads to Oklahoni with 9-game streak on the line BILLIARD BARN ^our Ordinary (PooCMatt" 1010 S. !Ave., ‘Bryan “On the BencC” (979)775-4877 Monday: Happy Hour Mon-Fri 4-8pm $ 2.75 Pitchers “FOOTBALL FRENZY” • Free Pool • 1.25 Wells • $ 3.25 Pitchers Wednesday: “BUCK NIGHT” ' ^ • $ l.00 Pints and Wells (til I 1:00pm) Sunday: “CUSTOMER APPRECIATION NIGHT” • Free Pool • $ 1.50 Wells • $ 3.50 Pitchers (all night) Breakroom available for private rentals (dance club) ** Pool 1/2 OFF w/college ID all semester ** By Troy Miller THE BATTALION The No. 6 Texas A&M women's soccer team (10-3-1,4- 0-1) holds a nine-game unbeaten streak going into the toughest part of its conference schedule. The next five games are against five of the top six teams in the Big 12. A&M has never fallen to any of these teams in the pro gram's 10-year history. First up for the Aggies is Oklahoma State (12-3, 2-3) Friday at 7 p.m in Stillwater. The Cowgirls are undefeated at home this season and are hungry after losing six straight games to the Aggies. The Cowgirls have only scored three goals against the Aggies in their previous six meetings while the Aggies have tallied 25. “Oklahoma State is in a posi tion where they can qualify for the Big 12 tournament for the first time,” said Aggie head coach G. Guerrieri. “They have very good results at home and they get really riled up on Friday nights. I'm sure they’ll look at this as a real oppor tunity to not only knock off the No. 6 team in the country, but also to put themselves one step closer to their first Big 12 Tournament appearance.” Next on the Aggies schedule is the University of Oklahoma (11-3, 4-1) Sunday at 1p.m. in Norman The Aggies hold a 7-0 series lead over the Sooners and have dominated them 18-2 in goals since the teams first played in 1996. Oklahoma is currently third in the Big 12 standings ritiht behind Texas A&M. “Oklahoma has beaten every one in the conference except for us,” Guerrieri said. “They have this game circled as a big break through opportunity for their program.” Volume 109 • JOHN C. LIVAS • THE BATTAU0\ Sophomore midfielder Christina Echavarry looks around Texas Tech defender Undsey Wile for a pass during Sunday afternoon's gameatfe Aggie Soccer Complex. The Aggies won the match 6-2. The Aggies then return home only four goals despite for their final three games of the 41 shots. “We came out uithaloi regular season against North Division stalwarts Kansas and Missouri, and then the annual showdown with No. 4 Texas. The Aggies are 6-0, 6-0, and 13-0 against those teams, respectively. The goal for the Aggies this season is a Big 12 Championship, and in order to do that it seems that they will have to stay perfect against these teams. “They'll definitely be some tough games,” said sophomore Linsey Woodard. “This week we've practiced on a lot of tech nical things during our play and we've tried to touch up those things that we’re still missing in our game. I think it's starting to click more and more.” The Aggies will be looking to Woodard to increase the offen sive output as she leads the team with 11 goals on the season. Sophomores Christina Echavarry and Emma Smith are each com ing off two-goal games against Texas Tech in the Aggies 6-2 vic tory. “1 needed some goals for my confidence,” said Smith, who has of effort and determination (against Baylor and TexasTeck but we didn’t play our j We're going to come out (against Oklahoma State)." In order to keep their strea against these teams alive, to Aggies must do better in thefc: half. The Aggies have foia: themselves in early deficits seven games this season. Info of those games they rebound:: and won. and against Bayloi took an 84th minute goal hyp- ior Kristen Strutz to earn tie. “We've been emphasizii concentration,” Guerrieri sai “The goals that we've given we think have been soft, and think it's been because of occ: sional softness in our defers and occasional lapses in our con centration, which are all sym[ toms of a team full of fresher and sophomores. “Our thing is that we cantle down our concentration or le down our intensity to anytl® less than 100 percenrof whab: are, and that has nothing to u with our opponents." By Sara THE BAT Bea Trevino kn feels now, swimmii front of a crow score up in ligl Trevino joim Brandon Trevino a son duo from H meter Freestyle I of the sta Olympics on Sati alongside her son first place Brandon Trevino i Parker prac tice June for the enjoy panic Volleyball team hopes to fix road game woes By True Brown THE BATTALION The road has been difficult for the Texas A&M volleyball team this season. It will get even tougher Saturday when the Aggies play Kansas State in Manhattan, Kan., a place where the Aggies (12-5, 4-4 Big 12) own a 0-6 all-time record. Before Wednesday, it may have seemed like the stars were aligned against this being the first A&M team to score a road win against the Wildcats. That was before the Aggies pulled off a last-minute win against Texas Tech. The win has left the Aggies with a newfound outlook on traveling to Manhattan. “This team has a great opportunity,” said A&M head coach Laurie Corbelli. To capitalize on the opportu nity, however, the Aggies will have to keep up the momentum from Wednesday night’s win against the Red Raiders. A&M’s season seemed on the verge of collapse, as the Aggies blew a two-game lead to Tech before rebounding from an 11-7 deficit to win in the fifth game. A loss would have been the second straight in which the Aggies had lost the lead. Instead, they are riding an emotional high. “We need to keep up this surge we are on,” Corbelli saw “To see it come back wasreall) important. We hadn’t seen in' 1 a while, but now that we have seen it, it’s something werr want to build on.” The Aggies are 1-3 in Big - road games this season, but t Aggies want to put those losses as far away as possible. “The foundation has been laid of what we need to said A&M middle blocker A. ^ Achilefu, one of two sen '°^° the Aggies’ youthful team, told ourselves that we were a new team. We’re ma tj changes, and this will be a gre place to start." , Junior Tara Pulaski, ^ tied a career high with 20 against Texas last week, sai win against the Wildcats co potentially turn the seas around. “We have this confiden now because we were down ai we got back on top," Pu as said. “We know what that fee like. (A win Saturday),:^ prove how strong we reai y and what we can do. 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