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Soccer heads north to take on Texas opponents Baylor and Tech
By Jordan Meserole
THE BATTALION
The No. 14 Texas A&M soc
cer team will play two games this
weekend against Baylor Univer
sity and Texas Tech University,
but the Aggies might just as well
be playing one team.
Baylor and Texas Tech are so
similar in appearance that it’s
almost like something out of the
Twilight Zone.
"Both of these teams are real
similar,” said A&M head coach
G. Guerrieri. “They’re both re
ally gritty, and they’ve got a lot
of fight in them.”
The Aggies (5-3, 1-0 Big 12)
w ill make their first stop in Waco
on Friday to take on the Bears
(3-3-1). Baylor has won two of
its last three games, including
a come-from-behind, 2-1 win
against UC-lrvine on Saturday.
Baylor is led by two young
players: sophomore forward
Anna Schuch, who has three
goals along with four assists,
and freshman midfielder Mar
garet Kaderli, who also has
three goals.
“We’re a very young team,
so we play like freshmen some
times,” said Baylor head coach
George Van Linder. “But we
also have some young leaders
too that really help drive this
team. You just have to see what
team shows up and hope it’s the
one that’s going to win.”
After completion of the night
game in Waco, the Aggies will
load their bus and head farther
north to Lubbock for a Sunday
afternoon game against the Red
Raiders (3-5). Texas Tech is on
a bit of a slide, having lost its
last three games. The Red Raid
ers are led by freshman forward
Priscilla Esquivel who has six
goals, which puts her in a tie for
second in the Big 12.
“You always like to see young
kids scoring goals like that,” said
Texas Tech head coach Felix Os-
kam. “We hope that as we enter
the Big 12 part of our schedule,
she’ll continue to do the same.”
So what are the similarities?
Both BaylorandTexasTechhave
scored 14 goals; the Bears have
accumulated 40 total points, the
Red Raiders have 36; and Baylor
has allowed 16 goals with Texas
Tech allowing 17. Both of the
teams’ leading scorers are fresh
men, and both draw on average
400-500 fans, while setting near
attendance records the last time
they played A&M at their home
field. And the kicker — both
have to face No. 20 University
of Texas this weekend.
“Isn’t that something? But
that’s how the Big 12 is,” Os-
kam said. “There’s a lot of qual
ity teams in this conference, and
we have two of the best coming
in the same weekend.”
Van Linder, who was 350
miles away from Lubbock, almost
echoed Oskam’s statements.
“It’s without a question the
most difficult weekend of the
year for us,” Van Linder said.
“To my knowledge, only two
teams have beat A&M and Tex
as in the same weekend. We cer
tainly have our hands full.”
The weekend series marks
the beginning of a long stretch
of Big 12 games for the Aggies,
with only two non-conference
games remaining. While the
Aggies have played many for
midable opponents this far, in
cluding a narrow 1-0 loss to No.
12 UCLA on Sunday, A&M has
See Soccer on page 7
NU hosts Aggie volleyball in Lincoln
By Shawn C. Millender
THE BATTALION
The Texas Aggie volleyball team will travel to
Lincoln, Neb. Friday, hoping to shake off the ef
fects of an uncharacteristically sloppy performance
after being swept in three matches by Kansas State
Wednesday night in Manhattan, Kan.
The Aggies were outblocked for the first time
this season 7-6 by KSU. They allowed the Wildcats
a .387 hitting percentage (a season high for Aggie
opponents) while mustering only .147 themselves.
The road will only get tougher for the Aggies,
who face a talented 7th-ranked Comhuskcr team
coming off an impressive showing in sweeping the
25th-ranked Colorado Buffaloes.
See Volleyball on page 7
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