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First ■erve is at 7 p.m. at G. Rollie White Coliseum. ■ The Aggies are coming off a Ive-game victory over ftolorado on Wednesday to inprove to 9-3 overall and |ven their Big 12 record at 1 -1. he Tigers, riding a five-match inning streak, swept Texas ech in their last outing to prove to 10-2, 3-0. A&M is 14-3 in the all-time leries against Missouri, Including 7-0 in matches llayed at G. Rollie. Last year, |t&M lost in four games in olumbia, Mo., and then upset |he No. 20 Tigers in four ames in College Station. X-Country teams In NC for meet The Texas A&M men’s and women’s cross country teams will be in North Carolina today for the Great American Cross Country Festival. On the women’s side, 10 nationally ranked teams will compete. Vanessa Kelly, ’s top finisher last week end, said she welcomes the increased competition. Tm looking forward to it,” Kelly said. “It should show us low far our depth can take us.” The men’s race hosts an equally tough field, as eight nationally ranked teams will battle for the title. Preseason 5 Northern Arizona is favored to defend their title. “(The first two meets) were more like a warm-up,” said A&M's Tommy Bonn. “This should show us a lot.” Today’s race starts at 2:15 p.m. 9 Friday, September 26, 2003 Aggies begin Big 12 play By Troy Miller THE BATTALION Defending a championship is never easy, but for the Texas A&M women's soccer team, being defending Big 12 champi ons and a national top five team puts a large target on their back. The road to a second straight Big 12 Championship begins tonight when the No. 3 Aggies (6- 1) travel to Norman, Okla., to face the Oklahoma Sooners (5-2-1). “Conference is another sea son in itself,” said senior mid fielder Kristen Strutz. “We’re going to have to play like the defending champs of the Big 12 by stepping up and pressuring the ball, and just bring a whole other intensity to the field.” This season the Aggies are relying on a defense that has relinquished just three goals in their seven non-conference games, and has shut out opponents for 180 consecutive minutes. Part of the reason is sopho more goalkeeper Kati Jo Spisak, who is one of the premier goal keepers in the nation. The other reason is the play of the Aggie backline. With the loss of Jessica Martin and Martha Moore in the offseason, the Aggies turned to two fresh men — Linda Pierson and Annie Burnett — to fill the gaps. Combined with returning juniors Shannon Labhart and Amanda Burke, the back four have choked the life out of opponents in the defensive zone. “Right now we’re pretty con fident in our back four,” Strutz said. “I just think we’re going to have to continue to focus on get ting the shutout.” Posting shutouts has been one of the Aggies’ main goals this season. The team has allowed only three goals in seven games. One of those goals Sharon Aeshbach • THE BATTALION Sophomore goalkeeper Kati Jo Spisak makes the save against North Carolina last weekend. The Aggies lost the match in overtime 1 -0. was scored in the final five min utes of a game and another was scored in overtime against No. 1 North Carolina. “The players are very good about achieving (their) goals,” said A&M coach G. Guerrieri. “We want to give up no more than one goal per game, and so far we’ve done a good job of that.” The Sooners also bring a two-match shutout streak into tonight’s game with the Aggies. Oklahoma junior goalkeeper Catherine Wade earned Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week for posting 180 minutes of shutout soccer and making 12 saves in the Sooners' wins over Tulsa and Oral Roberts. “We’re expecting a very good game,” said A&M junior forward Emma Smith. “You don’t really have teams that you want to play anymore, and every team in the Big 12 is a very tal ented team.” After their showdown with the Sooners, the Aggies return to College Station for their last non-conference game of the sea son with Washington State Sunday at 7 p.m. Then it’s nothing but the Big 12 for the rest of the season, and fending off the shots opponents will be taking at the targets plant ed firmly on the Aggies’ backs. “Every team that we play in conference, their big game is against us ” Smith said. “So that means that our big game is every game.” # IN THE AFTERNOON! 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