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'This will be a big test for our
learn leadership wise. It will be
interesting to see how we
bounce back from this one.”
- Franchione on
Saturday’s game against
Baylor
"We executed flawlessly. We
deverlost focus on what our
jhb was, and we went out and
attacked the defense and took
what they had to give us.”
- Symons on Tech’s
offensive performance
“Every play worked tonight.
We weren’t foolproof, but a lot
of credit goes to B.J. Symons.”
-Tech coach Mike
Leach
Sports
The Battalion
Page 7 • Monday, October 6, 2003
West Texas whippin’
LEACH
“He was everything we
expected. He was very com
posed back there.”
- A&M coach Dennis
Franchione on Tech quarter
back B.J. Symons
Red-hot Symons,
Tech route A&M
By True Brown
THE BATTALION
LUBBOCK - Records fell Saturday
night as quickly as Texas Tech University
quarterback B.J. Symons could get his
hands on the ball.
Symons and the Red Raiders dissected the
Texas A&M defense for eight touchdowns
and 505 passing yards as the Red Raiders
cruised to a 59-28 win Saturday night.
Just three minutes into the fourth quarter.
Symons set the Big 12 record for the most
touchdown passes in a
game when he connected
with Wes Welker on a 16-
yard strike.
Symons has now
thrown for 2,467 yards in
five games. By compari
son. A&M’s total offense
has 1,930 yards in its five
contests.
“Sometimes you just
get out there and feel it,” Symons said. "I got
into that groove and felt like I couldn’t be
stopped and we felt like that as an offense.
You get in that groove where everything you
seem to do works out for you, and I felt like
we had that mentality as a whole offense.”
Meanwhile, A&M’s defense had one of its
worst perfonnances in school history. Tech’s
59 points is the most ever scored against
A&M. The previous high came in a 57-28
loss to the University of Texas in 1977.
It was also the most points any Dennis
Franchione-coached team has ever allowed.
The 669 yards of offense by Tech (4-1, 1 -0
Big 12) is the most ever allowed by A&M (2-
3, 0-1), as is the Raiders’ 605 passing yards.
“I don’t think you ever come out and
expect something like this, but they are an
excellent team," Franchione said. "We tried
to do a lot of different things, but for every
thing we tried they had an answer.”
Tech has now won four straight games
against the Aggies, including seven of the
past nine. A&M has not won in Lubbock
since 1993.
Saturday’s score was the most lopsided
Tech win since 1959 when the Red Raiders
posted a 41-9 win over A&M in Bear
Bryant’s first game as A&M’s coach.
The Aggies now have a 2-3 record for the
first time since 1996, when they finished 6-6.
Tech took charge on its first possession
with an eight play, 89-yard drive that took
just 2:31. Symons had completions of 17, 14,
13 and 17 yards on the drive, which ended
with a touchdown pass to Nehemiah Glover.
After an A&M three-and-out, Tech need
ed just six plays to score again. Symons
"connected with Glover again for a touch
down, this time on a 3rd-and-8 from A&M’s
19-yard line.
A&M’s secondary allowed the Red
Raiders to convert every third down during
Tech’s first two drives, and Symons was 9-
of-10.
The Aggies never recovered.
A&M’s next possession ended with a
missed field goal by Todd Pegram. One play
before the missed field goal, the Aggies had a
touchdown pass nullified after officials ruled
that Reggie McNeal crossed the line of scrim
mage before throwing to Terrence Thomas.
Tech added three more points after
A&M’s Jason Carter fumbled a punt on the
Aggies’ 18-yard line.
The Aggies cut Tech’s lead to 10 points
twice: once after a Courtney Lewis touch
down run made it 17-7 and again when a
McNeal touchdown pass to Jamaar Taylor
made it 24-14. Lewis finished with two
touchdowns and 91 yards, and Taylor had
three catches for 89 yards.
After the Taylor touchdown, however.
Tech ran off 28 consecutive points, capital
ized on a botched A&M fake punt and used
its spread offense to near perfection.
The Red Raiders scored on their next five
possessions, each one ending with a
Symons touchdown pass.
“We attacked everything,” Symons said.
“(Running back) Taurean (Henderson) ran the
ball when we ran the ball. We attacked deep,
we attacked short and we attacked everything.
Whatever they gave, we tried to make a rou
tine play. Routine play after routine play adds
up, and you can look at the result.”
Five different Raiders scored touch
downs, as Symons and Co. moved the ball at
will against A&M. In all, 13 receivers had
catches. Welker led all receivers with 1 14
yards and two touchdowns. Glover had
three touchdown catches and 97 yards.
Tech only punted twice during the game
and did not fail to score a touchdown on a
drive until the 4:56 mark of the fourth quarter
after a failed fourth down conversion attempt.
“B.J. (Symons) was making good deci
sions,” said Tech coach Mike Leach. “Our
receivers are doing a great job, and our offen
sive line in particular is playing really well.
The other thing was we had some really big
plays on the other two sides of the ball, and we
played at a high level on all three cylinders.”
Top: Texas Tech quarterback B.J. Symons threw
for 505 yards and a Big 12 record eight touch
down passes Saturday against Texas A&M.
Bottom: A&M safety Jaxson Appel watches from
the sideline late in the game during Tech's 59-28
win. Appel led the Aggies with seven tackles.
Ags lose to K-State
Texas A&M's Jayna Baker goes
fora kill during the Aggies' loss to
Kansas State on Saturday night at
Joshua Hobson • THE BATTALION
G. Rollie White Coliseum. The
No. 12 Wildcats posted a 3-1
win against the No. 22 Aggies.
Aggies tie Jayhawks, Cowgirls
Staff & Wire
THE BATTALION
Texas A&M’s Kristen Strutz
scored in the 25th minute, but the
Aggies could not tally again on
Sunday, as the No. 3 A&M soccer
team and Kansas played to a 1-1
tie in front of 389 fans at
SuperTarget field.
The tie was the second of the
weekend for the Aggies.
They move to 8-1 -2 overall and
1-0-2 in Big 12 Conference play.
A&M has not lost in its last 20
regular-season Big 12 matches.
Kansas is now 9-3-1 overall
and 1-2-1 in Big 12 play.
“This result shows just how
hard it is to get a win on the road
in our conference,” said A&M
coach G. Guerrieri. “Going into a
hostile environment and playing
against a well-coached team is
never easy, but the difficulty is
magnified when you play in a
great conference like the Big 12.”
Strutz put the Aggies on top
24:31 into the match when she
scored her sixth goal of the sea
son. Laura Probst played the ball
from the left flank to Strutz, who
one-timed a volley from the top of
the 6-yard box
to beat Kansas
goalkeeper
Meghan Miller.
Early in the
second period.
GUERRIERI
Emma
barely
giving
Aggies
Smith
missed
the
a two-
goal lead when
her rocket shot from the top of the
18 yard box deflected off the
crossbar and out of play.
Kansas’ Monica Brothers
scored the equalizer in the 57th
minute with her second goal of the
season. Rachel Gilfillan’s pass
was perfectly slotted between two
A&M defenders to give Brothers
a one-on-one situation with Aggie
goalkeeper Kati Jo Spisak.
Kansas was forced to play with
only 10 players after Brothers was
immediately red-carded for strik
ing in the 92nd minute.
A&M outshot the Jayhawks 4-
0 in the two overtime periods but
could not get the golden goal and
the win.
“We are a little beat up right
now,” Guerrieri said. “We are real
ly looking forward to being at
home for a few games.”
On Friday against Oklahoma
State, scoring chances were at a
premium in the first half as there
were only 11 shots taken in the
first 45 minutes, with the Aggies
taking seven of them. Coming into
the match the two teams were
averaging 42.2 shots per contest.
The Aggies had the best scoring
opportunity of the first half in the
25th minute of play. Cristina
Echavarry forced OSU goalkeeper
Kathrin Lehmann to make a sprawl
ing save on a header off a cross
from the left foot of Laura Probst.
Spisak stopped seven OSU
shots, earning her fifth shutout of
the season, while Lehmann turned
back five A&M tries. Lehman has
allowed just one goal in 756 min
utes between the pipes.
A&M will begin a three-game
homestand when it plays Texas
Tech University on Friday.
Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.
DALLAS SHIPP
Photos By John C. Livas • THE BATTALION
Aggies find
themselves
at crossroads
E very time the Red Raider
offense took the field
Saturday night, the SBC
Jones Stadium jumbotron crew
tried to warn the Aggie defense
of the impending “Air Raid,”
complete with sirens and
bombers.
On the field, the Aggie
defense was
as defenseless
as the USS
Arizona at
Pearl Harbor.
Texas Tech
University
quarterback
B.J. Symons
led the bar
rage against
the Aggies with 505 yards
through the air and a Big 12-
record eight touchdowns.
It was embarrassing to watch
an Aggie defense that tried sev
eral different defensive pack
ages to no avail.
“It’s frustrating anytime you
get on the field and you can’t
get yourself off of it,” said
A&M defensive coordinator
Carl Torbush. “We need to
remember this game. We need
to remember what happened to
us. That’s how you build a foun
dation. You’ve got to go through
some tough times, and obvious
ly this is some tough times.”
These aren’t just tough
times, this is the toughest time
the famed Wrecking Crew,
which has failed to live up to
the name this season, has faced
in more than a decade.
When the season began, no
one expected the Oct. 11 Baylor
game to be much more than a
speed bump for the Aggies. But
after Baylor’s 42-30 win over
Colorado that brought down the
goalposts in Waco Saturday, the
A&M-Baylor game has turned
out to have much more signifi
cance for the Aggies who des
perately need a win.
After losing three straight
games, including the embarrass
ing throttling by Tech on nation
al television, the Aggies have to
decide this week where they go
from here.
“We’re going to really find
out what we’re made of,” said
A&M safety Jaxson Appel as
Raider fans screamed “Hey
Aggies, when are you going to
beat Tech?” pouring salt into
the Aggies’ wounds.
“We can either come back
out and let this eat us up and
have a terrible rest of the sea
son, or we can come back next
week and have a good game
against Baylor, who of course
See Gut check on page 9
SPORTS IN BRIEF
El Dorry ends ITA
tournament run
Texas A&M senior Khaled El
Dorry fell in the round of 32 in
prequalifying of the Icy Hot/ITA
All-American Championships
Sunday at the Champions Club
in Tennessee.
El Dorry, from Cairo, Egypt,
ended his run after falling to
Florida’s Martin Stiegwardt in
straight sets, 6-4, 7-5. El Dorry
was a No. 1 seed and ranked
No. 100 nationally, while
Stiegwardt was a No. 17 seed
in the 256-player draw.
El Dorry needed to beat
Steigwardt and an opponent in
the round of 64 in order to
advance to the 64-player quali
fying round.
Beginning Thursday, A&M All-
Americans Lester Cook and
Ante Matijevic will start play in
the 64-player main draw singles
and 32-team doubles draw. Four
players from the qualifying round
will advance to the main draw.
The tournament is the first of
three national championship
events at the Division I level.