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By Troy Miller
THE BATTALION
The No. 3 Texas A&M women’s soccer
team (17-4-1) dropped a 1-0 decision to the
University of Nebraska (14-5-3) in the Big
12 Tournament Title game Sunday after
noon in San Antonio. The loss snapped a
16-game unbeaten streak for the Aggies,
which is a school record.
A&M outshot the Cornhuskers 19-10,
: the Aggies could not solve Nebraska
goalkeeper Erin Miller who had eight saves
in the match.
“This is a great win,” said Nebraska head
coach John Walker. “It was nice to come
back and we showed a lot of character.”
Nebraska had traveled the improbable
road to the Big 12 Championship by beating
. 5 Texas 2-1 in semifinal action Friday
before triumphing over the No. 3 Aggies.
“A lot of people have written us off in
conference,” Walker said. “We came back
and beat the two teams that beat us this sea
son. It was our finest victory.”
Nebraska sophomore Jenna Cooper
scored the game-winner in the seventh
minute of action. Cooper took a direct free
kick from outside the penalty box that
deflected off the Aggie wall and back to
Cooper. Cooper buried the ball into the
upper right comer past outstretched Aggie
goalkeeper Kati Jo Spisak.
The match was a defensive struggle that
ended with only 1 1 shots-on-goal of the 29
shots taken in the match.
The Aggies had two great chances in the
first half when sophomore Linsey Woodard
banged a shot off the far post and senior
Andrea Stams hit the crossbar. Miller tipped
the shot by Stams up and off the crossbar.
With ten minutes remaining, the
Aggies seemed to have scored the equaliz
er. A&M had loaded the box and got the
ball past Miller, but the goal was disal
lowed for a foul called on Aggie sopho
more Amanda Burke.
Page 5 • Monday, November 11, 2002
Aggies beat No. 20
MU in five games
ALISSA HOLUMON • THE BATTALION
Texas A&M soccer players Kate Ripple. Carrie Berend and Becky Olson react to falling to
Nebraska, 1-0, in the finals of the Big 12 Conference Tournament on Sunday in San Antonio.
The physical play of the match result
ed in six yellow cards and one red card,
which went to the A&M bench before
A&M head coach G. Guerrieri was eject
ed from the game.
“Nebraska did the things they needed to
do to win today,” Guerrieri said. “They did
a great job of not giving us a good look at
the goal after they scored their goal.”
The Aggies reached the tournament
final by decisively beating eighth-seeded
Oklahoma State 5-0 in the quarterfinals.
Woodard, senior Heather Ragsdale, junior
Kristen Strutz, sophomore Emma Smith
and freshman Carrie Berend all scored
goals in the match.
In their semifinal against the University
of Colorado, the Aggies were deadlocked
1-1 for most of the game until Ragsdale
scored in the eighty-first minute to put the
Aggies up for good. Smith added a securi
ty goal in the eighty-fifth minute to put the
Aggies up 3-1.
The loss to Nebraska snapped an eight-
game scoring streak for Smith.
Senior Jessica Martin, Ragsdale,
Strutz, and Berend were named to the all
tournament team.
The Aggies now wait to see where they
will play in the NCAA Championship tour
nament. Selections will be announced at
3:30 p.m. on Monday.
By True Brown
THE BATTALION
Laura Jones and Carol Price
led the Texas A&M volleyball
team Friday to its first win over
a ranked opponent this season,
upending No. 20 Missouri 30-
24, 30-19, 28-30, 30-25 at G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
A&M (17-7, 9-6) dominated
the match from the opening
serve, out-hitting the Tigers in
every game, and capitalizing on
a stellar defensive effort.
“It’s starting to all come
together,” said A&M head
coach Laurie Corbelli. “Things
are just starting to click for this
team. There are times in prac
tice you can kind of see what
it’s supposed to look like, and
then it’s there.”
The win was the fourth
straight for the Aggies, who
have found themselves in a tie
for fourth place with the
University of Texas in the Big
12 standings.
Jones recorded a match-high
22 kills and hit .422, while
Price added 16 kills and an
impressive .500 hitting percent
age. Price tied her career high
in blocks with seven as A&M’s
defense kept a hard-hitting
Mizzou (20-6, 9-5) team in
check most of the night.
“They’re starting to get a
real good groove with block
ing,” Corbelli said. “Blocking
has always been a part of our
game at A&M that has started
slowly, and we’ve started to get
a good feel for it the more
we’ve practiced it.”
The Aggies quickly won the
first two games, but the Tigers
came strong in game three.
Behind the hot hands of Mary
Lauren Smith and Christi
Meyers, Missouri held five
point leads on five separate
occasions before A&M rallied
to tie the game 28-28 on a kill
by Melissa Munsch.
The Aggie rally burned out
and the Tigers won the game’s
last two points.
“We came back in game
three and competed,” said
Missouri head coach Susan
Kreklow. “We were controlling
the ball a little bit more which
was allowing us to run our
offense. Game three was very
competitive, but we had trouble
sustaining our play.”
A&M put any of Missouri’s
hopes at a comeback out the
window quickly in game four,
jumping to a 4-1 lead after a
kill by Jones. The Aggies never
trailed in the frame.
The win avenged a loss by
A&M earlier this season in
Columbia, Mo.
“We’ve been wanting to
beat them for a long, long
time,” Jones said. “So we were
a little extra pumped up at the
beginning. We’ve been strug
gling all season (with confi
dence), and now in the second
half of the season, we’re start
ing to kick it in.”
Next week’s QB decision will have long-lasting impact
Talking!
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Kevin
Espenlaub
After the celebrating ends around College Station
following the Aggies upset over No. 1 Oklahoma,
fans will notice that another dilemma has hit the
Texas A&M football team.
Although sophomore quarterback Dustin Long
has led the Aggies to unprecedented offensive suc
cess throughout the season, freshman quarterback
Reggie McNeal finally had his day Saturday and
performed as everyone had expected him to since
coming to A&M.
“I knew going into the game that I would play a
little,” McNeal said. “But I didn’t know I’d play
almost the whole game. I just gave it 110 percent
and it worked out.”
But Aggie fans should be careful before asking for
Reggie to start for the Missouri game and for the
re mainder of the season.
Let’s not forget that Long has set a Big 12 record for
touchdown passes in a game with seven against Texas
Tech, set an A&M record for passing yards in a game
Wl th 399 against Kansas and has become the fastest
A&M quarterback ever to reach 2000 passing yards.
Reggie has only had one game.
One very productive game, but one game nonetheless.
“He came in and created some plays on his own,”
said A&M offensive coordinator Kevin Sumlin. “He
looked first to execute the offense and put his legs
into play afterward.”
After everyone had thought the quarterback contro
versy was over, the heat will come back down on
A&M head coach R.C. Slocum to choose between the
player that has led his team all season and the player
who has led his team over the nation’s top team.
It comes as no surprise that R.C. is dodging the
question already.
“I knew I wanted to play both of them,” Slocum
said. “We had the same game plan whether it was Dustin
or Reggie in the game. (Reggie) had the hot hand, so we
continued to go with him. I’m going to continue to get
him in the game and develop him as a player.”
Sitting in the background of his decision should
be whether or not pleasing fans and making Reggie
happy will cost A&M the opportunity of keeping
Long on the roster.
Any quarterback with the numbers that Long has
posted this season will have ample opportunity to
move to a team where he will be appreciated.
Not to take anything away from Reggie, but R.C.
should not sell the farm and drive Long out of town
to help save his job by making the fans happy.
Slocum must face the heat and start Long on Saturday.
Reggie might be the future of A&M football, but
if anything were to happen to the newly crowned
Prince of Aggieland, the Aggies would be up a creek
without a paddle and and Long won’t be around to
bail them out.
JOHN C. LIVAS ♦ THE BATTALION
Sophomore quarterback Dustin Long attempts to break through the line early in the OU game.
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