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2. Miami(3) 6-0 2
3. VirginiaTech 6-0 4
4. Georgia 5-1 8
S.SouthemCal 5-1 9
6. WashingtonSt 5-1 12
7, FloridaSt 5-1 5
8.0hioSt 5-1 3
O.lcwa 5-1 14
10.LSU 5-1 6
II. Arkansas 4-1 7
12. N.lllinois 60 16
13. Putdue 5-1 18
14. Wisconsin 6-1 23
15. MichiganSt 6-1 21
16. TCU 60 18
17. Michigan 5-2 20
18. Nebraska 5-1 10
19. Auburn 4-2
20. Texas 4-2 11
21. Tennessee 4-2 13
22.0negonSt 5-1 24
23.0klahomaSt 5-1
24. Missouri 5-1
25. Minnesota 6-1 17
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BAIT SPORTS POLL
Full throttle
A&M’s offense
runs wild on
Baylor, Ags end
three-game skid
By Michael Crow
THE BATTALION
Three weeks’ worth of frustration boiled
over Saturday at Kyle Field.
After three straight losses, including a
59-28 drumming by Texas Tech, the Texas
A&M football team rebounded in a big
way, blasting Baylor 73-10.
From the game’s onset, the Aggies
played more aggressively on both sides of
the ball than they had in previous contests
this season. The cathartic victory over the
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3-3 overall and 1-1 in Big 12 play. It also
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shed new light on a season many had
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already written off as a failure.
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“I think after a week like last week
5. USC
5-1
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(against Tech), you find out what you’re
6. Washington St 5-1
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really made of,” said A&M defensive coor
7. Florida State
5-1
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dinator Carl Torbush. “There was a lot of
8. Ohio State
5-1
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pressure on us today, no doubt about that. I
9. Iowa
5-1
15
do think we played hard, and I think we
10.LSU
4-1
6
made a lot of big plays.”
11.Arkansas
4-1
8
The A&M defense controlled the first
12. Wisconsin
6-1
22
quarter and immediately set the tone when
13. Minnesota
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Ronald Jones picked off a Baylor pass
14. Michigan
5-2
19
attempt and returned it 26 yards to the
15. N. Illinois
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18
Baylor 9-yard line. The play set up a 6-yard
16. Michigan SL
6-1
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touchdown pass from Reggie McNeal to
17. Minnesota
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Andy Matakis, the first of three passing
18. Nebraska
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scores from McNeal.
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Later, on the third play of the second
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quarter, Jaxson Appel added an interception
21. Texas
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of his own, returning an Aaron Karas pass
22. Texas Tech
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attempt 64 yards for a touchdown to extend
23. Tennessee
4-2
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the Aggies’ lead to 17-3.
24. Oklahoma St. 4-1
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25. Auburn
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from behind,” Appel said. “He was trying to
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They just kicked our butt.”
- BU linebacker
Stephen Sepulveda’s
thoughts on the Bears’ loss
“I think that was big for us to
gain confidence in our offense,
especially in our running
game. We did a great job run
ning the ball, and that adds
another dimension if you can
run the ball well.”
- A&M WR Jamaar
Taylor on A&M’s offense
“Reggie threw the perfect
pass, I didn’t break stride, I
made the catch and scored a
touchdown.”
-Taylor on his 91-
yard touchdown catch
“It gives us a lot of confi
dence. Showing that we have
all the tools to win a big game
like Nebraska.”
- A&M RB Courtney
Lewis on confidence before
facing Nebraska
throw it to the fullback, and I read it and he
threw it right to me.”
Once the A&M defense helped put the
Aggies ahead, the offense took over and
never looked back. Sparked by an overpow
ering running game, the Aggies closed out
the first half with drives of 74, 67 and 64
yards to build a 38-10 halftime lead.
Baylor’s lone touchdown of the game
came on a 37-yard strike from quarter
back Aaron Karas to wideout Marques
Roberts that was nearly another A&M
interception.
The Aggies nearly doubled Baylor’s
offensive production in the first half, and
showed more of the same in the second.
Running backs Courtney Lewis and
Derrick Farmer took turns barreling
through the Baylor defensive front for big
gains. Both backs finished with more than
100 yards and each averaged more than 10
yards per carry.
Lewis picked up the bulk of his yardage
on an 86-yard touchdown scamper after
breaking free on a draw play.
“The offensive line did a good job
blocking and opening up holes,” Lewis
said. “The wide receivers, they were getting
blocks down field ... so that made it a lot
easier for the running backs to pick up
yards.”
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Above: Texas A&M junior
defensive lineman Mike
Montgomery takes down
Baylor quarterback Aaron
Karas in one of six sacks for
the Aggies Saturday after
noon. Heading into the
game against Baylor, the
Aggie defensive line had
recorded just one sack the
entire season. Prior to A&M's
six sacks Saturday the Aggie
defense had tallied just seven
sacks in their first five games
of the season.
Right: Agg ies celebrate fol
lowing a touchdown by A&M
freshman receiver Chad
Schroeder. It was his first
career touchdown reception.
Schroeder hauled in two
receptions in the game for 48
yards including the 42-yard
touchdown from junior quar
terback Dustin Long late in
the game. The 10 touch
downs for the Aggies was
second-most in school histo
ry. A&M scored 1 1 touch
downs in 1944 against
Miami in a 70-14 win.
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Aggie defense
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Wrecking Crew
A fter three weeks of being
put under a microscope big
enough to make a microbe
nervous, the Aggie defense let off
some steam Saturday in a 73-10
dismantling of the Baylor Bears
(3-3, 1-1 Big 12).
Coming into
the game, all the
talk was about
how bad the
defense had been
playing, and
deservedly so.
In three consecu
tive games, the
Aggies gave up
more than 30
points, a statistic that would send
any defensive coordinator to the
edge of a nervous breakdown. Not
only that, but the Aggies were
falling quickly into a defensive
downward spiral, progressively
getting worse each week, bottom
ing out with a 59 point bloodlet
ting in Lubbock.
Enter Baylor, a team that was
on a hot streak, winning three in a
row, including a win over last
year’s Big 12 North champion
Colorado the previous week.
The Bears came in hungry to
gain respect and beat a team they
had not beaten since 1985; there
would have been nothing better for
them than to kick the Aggie defense
while it was down. However, things
did not go as planned.
Although the score told the story
of the offense’s record day, it was
the defense that made it all possible.
From the First series, the Aggie
defense was bound and determined
to set the tone for the entire game.
In contrast to the previous three
weeks, there was a different feeling
in the air as the defense took the
field. For the first time in a long
time, the defense came out fired up
and on a mission to do one thing:
destroy the Baylor offense.
The demolition began when
sophomore defensive back Ronald
Jones intercepted an Aaron Karas
pass and returned it 26 yards to the
Baylor 9-yard line, leading to an
Aggie touchdown. At that point,
the rout was on, and the Aggie
defense never looked back.
After last week’s defensive col
lapse, the Baylor game was the
perfect catharsis for A&M defen
sive coordinator Carl Torbush.
“After a game like last week, you
find out what you’re made of, and
you find out who’s willing to go out
there and fight,” Torbush said. “This
week, we got ourselves off the field
for a change, and we were able to
come out and make a statement.”
The defense made a statement.
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By Troy Miller
THE BATTALION
On a squad full of youngsters, the
Texas A&M women’s soccer team
was led by its upperclassmen who
were involved in each goal Sunday in
A&M’s 3-0 win over Baylor.
Midfielder Kristen Strutz, the lone
senior on the team, took over the
scoring leaderboard as she gained
two tallies in the win over Baylor (6-
8. 1-5 Big 12) giving her four goals
and an assist on the weekend. The
No. 5 Aggies defeated Texas Tech 8-
0 on Friday.
“Kristen Strutz is the real deal,”
said A&M coach G. Guerrieri. “I’m
real pleased.”
Strutz was not the only upperclass
men getting into the act against
Baylor for the Aggies (10-12, 3-0-2).
Junior defender Amanda Burke
earned an assist and led the team in
shots, along with Strutz, with five.
Burke seemed to be everywhere on
the field during the match, thwarting
Bear attacks and spurring the Aggies
on their own onslaughts.
“Amanda Burke had a real good
game,” Guerrieri said. “It’s great to
see her getting that much of her
potential out (on the field).
It’s great to be with a
home crowd. When we
come out here and see the
bleachers full it just gets
us really motivated. ”
— Kristen Strutz
A&M midfielder
The Aggies began the scoring in
the third minute of play as junior for
ward Emma Smith got behind the
Baylor defense and streaked to the
left post of the Baylor goal. Her cross
found the foot of freshman forward
Madison Klovstad, who buried the
ball into the back of the goal to give
the Aggies a 1-0 lead.
Despite peppering Baylor goal
keeper Monica Housden’s goal with
13 first-half shots, the Aggies could
not increase their lead until Strutz
headed in a goal off a beautiful cross
from Burke 18 minutes into the sec
ond half that threw the 2,449 in atten
dance into a frenzy.
“It’s great to be with a home
crowd,” Strutz said. “That’s extra
intensity. When we come out here and
see the bleachers full it just gets us
really motivated.”
Strutz added an insurance goal in
the 77th minute when she collected a
rebound from Housden and shot it
past her just inside the right post.
The win gave A&M its second
straight shutout and eighth on the sea
son, but it’s not enough for the Aggies.
It won’t be enough until they are
clutching the Big 12 Championship
trophy for the second year in a row.
“All this week we put in so much
work in practice,” Burke said. “This
week having a home crowd is so
much easier to play for, but we still
weren’t satisfied. A 3-0 today, yeah,
it’s convincing, but we’re still not sat
isfied. Why win by three when you
can win by eight like we did Friday.”
Ags dominate UNT
Joshua Hobson • THE BATTALION
Texas A&M's Erin Briskie pushes off before won all 16 events during A&M's 171-109 win
winning the 200m backstroke. The Aggies over the University of North Texas on Friday.