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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."
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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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