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Page IB • Friday, December 12, 200.
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Staff & Wire
THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M volleyball team, the
No. 16 seed in the 64-team NCAA
Championship field, will play top-seeded
and defending national champion
University of Southern California in a
regional semifinal today in Lincoln, Neb.
First serve is slated for 4:30 p.m. at
Nebraska Coliseum.
No. 8 UCLA (23-8) will take on No.
9 Nebraska (28-4) in the second match
of a doubleheader, and the two winners
battle Saturday at 7 p.m. for a spot in the
Final Four, to be contested at Reunion
Arena in Dallas, Dec. 18 and 20. The
Aggies, who were eliminated by the
Women of Troy (31-0) in the second
round of the 2002 NCAA tournament,
are making their 11th consecutive and
15th overall appearance in the NCAA
Championship.
In addition, A&M (23-9) is advancing
to regional play for the sixth time,
including the third time in five seasons,
after sweeping both Nicholls State and
Wisconsin in the first two rounds played
in College Station. USC, the Pacific-10
Conference champion and a 3-0 winner
against the Aggies earlier this season, is
31-0 after sweeping both New
Hampshire and 15th-ranked Loyola
Marymount in the first two rounds
played in Los Angeles.
The Trojans, who have won two
NCAA titles (1981, 2002), are making
their 13th consecutive and 21st overall
appearance in the postseason tourna
ment. UCLA (23-8), ranked seventh in
the USA Today/AVCA Top 25 Poll is
making its 22nd appearance in the 23-
year history of the NCAA tournament
after tying for third place in the Pac-10.
The Bruins, who have won three
NCAA crowns (1984, 1990, 1991) and
finished runner-up four times, advanced
to the regional after sweeping both San
Diego and UC-Irvine. Nebraska also is
making its 22nd appearance in the
NCAA tournament.
The ninth-ranked Huskers, who cap
tured NCAA crowns in 1995 and 2000,
swept both Valparaiso and Dayton in
East Lansing, Mich., to advance to the
third round. They are 2-0 against the
Aggies this season.
Live scoring of all matches will be
available at www.Huskers.com and free
video streaming and audio of A&M
matches only will be available at
www.AggieAthletics.com.
Information in this report came from the
A&M Sports Information Department.
|P Beato III • THE BATTALION
Texas A&M middle blocker Melissa Munsch, right, goes for a block against Wisconsin's Lisa
Zukowski during the Aggies' three game sweep of the Badgers last weekend. A&M plays USC today.
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Staff & Wire
THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M women’s
basketball team continues a
seven-game home stand by
hosting the McNeese State
Cowgirls Saturday at 2 p.m. at
Reed Arena.
The Aggies (4-2) have won
three straight games including
each of their home games.
McNeese State (2-4) enters
the game following a 62-58 win
at home over Texas Southern
last Saturday.
The countdown is on for
A&M senior point guard
Toccara Williams as she needs
27 points for career 1,000. She
will become the 17th Aggie to
reach the 1,000 milestone.
She is the Aggies’ leader in
scoring (15.3 points per game),
assists (6.5) and steals (3.5).
The Big 12 active career
leader in steals and assists,
0(120
Williams is the nation’s return
ing leader in
steals per
game after
ranking No. 1
last season
for 10 weeks.
Williams
is the all-time
A&M steals
leader and the
Big 12 steals
leader with 362 while ranking
No. 3 all-time in the league in
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career steals.
She is on-track to break the
Big 12 career steals record of
418.
Williams is also climbing the
NCAA all-time steals list as she
ranks No. 28. She has recorded
a steal in all 90 games she has
played at A&M.
She is one of two Big 12 play
ers ever to record 900 points, 500
assists and 300 steals.
Junior transfer guard
Charlette Castile has emerged as
the Aggies No. 2-ranked scorer
with 8.5 points a game. Castile
has started in the last three
games for the Aggies. With
Castile in the starting lineup, the
Aggies are 3-0 this season.
Senior Lynn Classen blocked
nine shots last week and ranks
No. 2 in the Big 12. Classen has
blocked 97 shots in her career.
Information in this report came
from the A&M Sports
Information Department.
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