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i page] my vision | Sports The Battalion Page 5 • Friday, November 7, 2003 to do ni imselfinit; in a monft irst effon, Cabrera saii w quid]; er. recordei; house. W;: first rtctii had logo ad to kaoci is an rate emostiofe Slumping A&M falls to Nebraska Big 12 By Staff & Wire THE BATTALION Despite outshooting Nebraska, 22-10, the Texas A&M soccer team dropped its Big 12 Tournament first-round game against the Huskers, 2-1, on Thursday in front of 692 fans at the Blossom Soccer Complex in San Antonio. With the loss, the Aggies dropped to 12-5-2 while Nebraska improved to 12-6-1. “This is very frustrating from our standpoint,” said A&M coach G. Guerrieri. “We have had some losses that have been hard to swallow this season. I thought we came out and took the game to them the entire match. We have to put this behind us and prepare for the NCAA Tournament.” Trailing 1-0 and running out of time in regulation, A&M’s | Becky Olsen "A collected the ball at the top T- °f the 18-yard | box and hit a shot that sailed over i|A I N e b r a s k a goalkeeper guerrieri Brooke Bredenberg and dipped into the net to tie the game with 2:30 remaining. Nebraska midfielder Brittany Timko scored the golden goal just 1:20 into the first overtime peri od. Timko received the ball on a diagonal cross over the A&M defense from Ashley Carter on the right flank. Timko raced past the A&M defense and slipped the ball underneath a charging Kati Jo Spisak and into the net. Nebraska took the initial lead in the game’s 22nd minute on tournament opener Timko’s first goal of the match. Jenna Cooper made a long uncontested run down the left flank and took a shot from the left comer of the 18-yard box. The shot caromed off the cross bar and the right post to the feet of Timko, who buried the ball from point-blank range. Despite the Nebraska goal, the Aggies dominated play in the first half, outshooting the Huskers 14-3. Of the 14 first-half shots, Bredenberg saved four and the Nebraska defense cleared another off of the goal line. A&M forward Cristina Echavarry had a shot bang off the crossbar. The site and date of A&M’s next game will be announced on the NCAA Tournament selection show Monday. 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Livas • THE BATTALION Texas A&M wide receiver Terrence Murphy hauls in a pass during A&M's win over then-No. 1 Oklahoma last sea son. OU coach Bob Stoops said the Sooners are "fully aware" of what the Aggies will bring to Norman on Saturday. By Michael Crow THE BATTALION After losing five of six games, the Texas A&M football team rebounded with a much- needed 45-33 home win over Kansas on Saturday. While there might typically have been some sort of celebration to follow, the Aggies’ upcoming opponent and remaining schedule hardly afforded them the time. During the remaining three weeks of the 2003 season, A&M has the country’s toughest schedule, meeting three teams currently ranked in the top-25. This week's matchup pits the Aggies against undefeated and consensus No. 1 Oklahoma. “(Oklahoma has) had some impressive wins,” said A&M coach Dennis Franchione. "They’re scoring lots of points. They’ve got lots of playmakers. They’ve only let two teams have over 300 yards. They deserve to be ranked No. 1.” The Sooners (9-0, 5-0 Big 12) were the coun try’s top-ranked team last year when their national title hopes were dashed by A&M in a 30-26 shocker. In the Aggies’ first-ever defeat of a No. 1 ranked team, then-freshman Reggie McNeal came off the bench to pass for 191 yards and four touchdowns. Oklahoma had narrowly escaped an upset as the national No. 1 two years prior when they visited College Station. Down 14 points late in the third quarter, the Sooners rallied to a 35-31 victory. This year, the Aggies (4-5, 2-3) will undoubt edly lack the element of surprise. Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said his team will not be tak ing A&M lightly anytime in the near future. “Virtually the same Texas A&M group of players came out a year ago and beat us there,” Stoops said. “Our guys are fully aware of that. So, we understand that we have to be on top of our game and ready to play to continue to put ourselves in a position to win a championship.” The OU offensive attack includes a Heisman Trophy candidate in quarterback Jason White. The senior has passed for 2,842 yards and 27 touchdowns, while throwing only six intercep tions. Largely behind his arm, the Sooners boast the highest scoring offense in the Big 12 with 45.1 points per game and trail only Texas Tech in terms of passing offense. Still, teams cannot sim ply concern themselves with combating the Oklahoma offense, as the Sooners also lay claim to a defense that is arguably the best in the coun try. OU is surrendering a mere 14.4 points and 245.3 total yards per game. By comparison, the Aggies have allowed 33 points and 399.8 total yards per contest. Not surprisingly, the Sooners have been led by senior linebacker Teddy Lehman, an All- American and the 2002 Chevrolet National Defensive Player of the Year. Lehman’s team- high 73 tackles include eight tackles for a loss. His 17 tackles for a loss last season were the third-most ever in a long history of outstanding Oklahoma linebackers. Lehman and the Sooners See Sooners on page 7 Ag volleyball trying to keep focus vs. OU By Blake Kimzey THE BATTALION In the waning weeks of the Big 12 conference schedule, the theme for the Texas A&M volleyball team is focus. Never are coaches more wary of a cellar-dwelling team than late in the season when so much is riding on the line. Saying there are no bad teams playing volleyball in the Big 12 really isn’t just the politically correct thing to say; there really aren’t any bad teams in the conference. A&M coach Laurie Corbelli isn’t kid ding when she says losing to the University of Oklahoma could be devastating. Instead of preparing to take a day off against a struggling team such as OU, Corbelli has her team preparing for an all-out war. “It is mentally preparing to perform and being business-like that is so important, especially late in the season,” Corbelli said. “I think this is the time of the year where teams aren’t focused and can get careless. Winning on Saturday is even more important than a match against somebody like Nebraska, because you have everything to lose if you don’t perform well.” Corbelli has reason to be suspicious that things could go awry if her squad were to let up. Sprained ankles and ACL injuries haven’t derailed the Sooner volleyball team in the morale department, despite its woeful Big 12 record. When University of Oklahoma volleyball coach Kalani Mahi pencils in his starting lineup against the Aggies this weekend, he might be thinking about how much his team has spent on Ace bandages. After starting the season on an optimistic note, the Grinch spoiled Christmas for the Sooners three months early. A few weeks into their season, the Sooners lost one-third of their starters to a bevy of injuries. “We got off to a very quick start in the first part of the season,” Mahi said. “We felt really good and then five or six matches into the season we lost our number one middle blocker to an ACL injury, and then we lost we lost a third of our starters in back- to-back matches.” When the Sooners limp into G. 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