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student body on
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p.m. on the main
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$2.50 non-students
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Soccer team ready to host NCAA’i
By Troy Miller
THE BATTALION
The NCAA Championship Tournament
is a funny thing. Unlike most sports in
which rankings in the polls are the most
critical factor in deciding who plays against
who and where they play, NCAA soccer
seems to emphasize regional matchups over
top teams playing against each other.
The No. 4 Aggies (17-4-1) feel they
were not treated fairly by the NCAA.
Despite playing the first and second rounds
of the tournament at the friendly confines
of the Aggie Soccer Complex, Texas A&M
did not receive one of the top eight seeds.
The No. 8 University of Texas also did
not receive a seed, despite being in the
national top five for virtually the entire sea
son. Instead. Texas will start by playing
Southern Methodist University (SMU) on
Friday in College Station.
“For there only to be three of our teams
from the Big 12 doesn’t make any sense,”
senior defender Jessica Martin said. “We
have one of the best conferences in the
nation 1 think.”
This year’s first and second rounds look
almost identical to the first and second
rounds from the 2001 NCAA Tournament.
SMU will play Texas in a rematch of last
year’s first round in which the Mustangs
upset the Longhorns. A&M will play
Northwestern State (12-5-5), the champion
and automatic bid from the Southland
Conference, on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
“It’s exactly the same,” Aggie head
coach G. Guerrieri said. “You take the
WAC champion (SMU), you take the Big
12 champion, you take their biggest rival,
and then throw in the Southland
Conference champion, and then you move
on from there and the survivor of this
bracket goes on to play a great PAC-10
team, probably.”
Last year, the Aggies beat Southwestern
State 3-1 in the first round. They went on to
beat SMU 2-1 in an overtime thriller, and
then upset No. 4 Stanford 1-0 in Palo Alto,
Calif, before losing in the Elite Eight to
No. 3 Portland.
This year, the Aggies will have to do the
same. To reach their goal of the final four,
they must take care of business at home
and then win out in a bracket that includes
the seventh-seed UCLA, and national pow
erhouse North Carolina.
”The goal is definitely a national cham
pionship.” Martin said. “Of course we have
to go game-by-game, but the goal is a
national championship this year."
Texas A&M is led in scoring by sopho
more Linsey Woodard, who has scored 14
goals on the season. Freshman goalkeeper
Kali Jo Spisak has improved tremendously
during the season and is the driving force
for the Aggies in net.
Northwestern State is looking for its
biggest upset in team history when it plays
the Aggies in the first round. The Demons
are currently on a five-game unbeaten
streak, including two wins in the Southland
Conference tournament to lift them into the
NCAA Championship tournament.
“We are thrilled about the opportunity
to go to College Station and face an oppo-
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Swimming teams host UL-Monroe Saturda
By Jeff Allen
THE BATTALION
Both the men’s and women’s
swimming and diving teams will
be hosting their counterparts from
Louisiana-Monroe tonight at 6
p.m. in the Student Recreation
Center Natatorium.
The No. 23 women’s team
(3-2) will be trying to sustain
momentum garnered from an
impressive performance two
weeks ago in a meet against
Southern Methodist University,
North Texas and Arkansas. The
women heartily defeated the
Ark an sets and North Texas teams
while competing valiantly against
the highly regarded group from
SMU who entered the meet
ranked No. 6 in the nation.
The Aggie men (1-2) are look
ing to rebound from losses to
national powers Texas and the
University of Southern California
in their last meet held two weeks
ago in Austin. Tonight’s contest
marks the first time this season
the men will have the opportunity
to compete at home. They are
entering the pool with a No. 17
national ranking in tow. which
extends a streak as a Top 25 team
dating to the fall of 1995.
“We want to maintain that
level of excellence.” said men’s
head coach Mel Nash. “It’s a little
bit of a rebuilding year. We were
expecting it last year, but we were
a bit better than people thought
we’d be and I think again (this
year) we are better than people
thought we’d be.”
The men will be looking to
some fresh young talent this year.
Nine of the 26 athletes on the
team are freshmen.
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to swim some events to
where we are,” Nash said '?:
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