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COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Texas A&M registered two second-half goals in a span of 67 seconds to flip the script on an upset-minded UC Riverside. The No. 8 Aggies pulled out a 2-1 victory over the Highlanders Sunday evening at Ellis Field.With the triumph, the Aggies ran their win streak to six matches. Texas A&M closed out the nine-match homestand and hit the midway point of the regular season with a 7-2-0 mark.Trailing 1-0 with the game headed to the final 30 minutes, the Aggies used a corner kick to notch an equalizer. Haley Pounds served the corner up from the left arc, sending the offering to the far post. Grace Piper outjumped her marking defender and crushed a header that one-hopped to the left side netting to tie the score at 1-1 with 30:16 remaining in the second half. It marked the second goal of the season for the freshman.Before the Highlanders could catch their breaths, the Aggies put on an otter show to strike again. The sequence started when UC Riverside goalkeeper Alanna Guzman boomed a punt into the Texas A&M half. McKayla Paulson was five yards off the center circle when she returned the service with a header. Paulsons header found the head of a back-pedaling Mikaela Harvey on the offensive side of the center circle. Harvey sent the ball to the attacking third where Jordan Hill was able to flick a header towards the 18-yard box. The third header found the mercurial Pounds to the right of the penalty arc and she sent a driving right-footed shot to the left of a charging Guzman and into the side netting for the 2-1 advantage with 29:09 left in the second half. The goal was a team-high fifth of the year for Pounds.UC Riverside (3-3-3) drew first blood in the 21st minute. Blanca Barrio sent a perfect cross in from the left side of the penalty box and she found the headed of Ashley Webb who had sent it into the back of the net to snap Texas A&Ms five-match shutout streak. Prior to the goal, the Aggies went 488:41 without yielding a goal.Texas A&M had trouble mustering offense in the first half with UC Riverside owning a 4-2 advantage in shots, but the Maroon and White brought the fury in the second half. The Aggies outshot the Highlanders 10-3 in the second half and 12-7 in the match. Texas A&M also owned the edge in shots-on-goal (6-2) and corner kicks (8-5).The Aggies return to action Thursday as they travel to Nashville for a 7 pm contest against the Vanderbilt Commodores. With two league matches in the books, Texas A&M is tied with Arkansas and South Carolina atop the SEC standings with six points.TEXAS A&M QUOTESHead coach G GuerrieriOn halftime adjustments...Honestly, I thought we were fortunate to only be down by one at halftime. I thought Riverside came out and played hard and put us under a lot of pressure and we didnt respond well to it. The fact that they (UCR) only got one goal - as coaching staff we actually felt pretty good that we survived with that. At halftime there was no yelling, no screaming, no turning over furniture. It was just an understanding that there are certain things we control and the fight that we put in is one of those things. If youre going to play a scrappy team, youre going to have to play scrappy. I thought our team came out and immediately jumped on them and created some chances. I think a sign of a great team is that when you score, you quickly score again. You put the game away while youve got that team down on the mat.On Haley Pounds...She bleeds maroon more than anyone youll ever come across, not just because she is a legacy kid from generations and generations of Aggies. She put it on the line. She was not going to let this University take a loss. Her heart and her abilities were on display for everyone to see.Junior forward Haley PoundsOn her goal...Jordan (Hill) played an excellent ball, in behind, with her head. I was able to get it in and take a shot to the far post. So props to Jordan for being able to get her head on that to set up the goal.On the comeback win...We were told at halftime to come out and play our game. I dont think we did we did that in the first half. So to get that goal early really boosted our confidence. I think we all knew we had to score again to get that win.Freshman midfielder Grace PiperOn her goal...In the second half, we knew we had to put the pressure on, looking for that early goal. Our forwards did a great job of earning us corner after corner. Haley put in a great ball and I had a mismatch with a smaller girl on me. I was able to out-jump her and get a head on the ball.Jeff Beukeboom Rangers Jersey . 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Numbers Game looks into the Canadiens securing the services of Thomas Vanek in a trade with the New York Islanders. The Canadiens Get: LW Thomas Vanek and a conditional fifth-round pick.ANAHEIM, Calif. - Albert Pujols turned back the clock and pulled out the kind of majestic home run stroke that helped him hit 30 or more in each of his 12 previous seasons in the major leagues. There was no doubt about this one, and it couldnt have come at a better time for the Los Angeles Angels. Pujols hit a go-ahead homer in the eighth inning and drove in three runs, leading the Angels to a 4-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday night. His ninth of the season not only got Jered Weaver off the hook, but also third baseman Alberto Callaspo, whose third-inning fielding error led to a pair of unearned runs. "I knew it was out of the park as soon as I hit it," Pujols said. "It just felt good because it gave us the lead. Even though Weaver didnt get the win, he pitched very well and gave us a chance to score some runs and come out with a win." Cubs starter Scott Feldman took a 3-1 lead into the seventh before former Texas Rangers teammate Josh Hamilton led off with a double and scored on Howie Kendricks third single of the game, which made him 8 for 18 against the right-hander. James Russell came in and retired the next three batters, including Callaspo on a sacrifice bunt. But Erick Aybar greeted Carlos Villanueva (1-4) with a leadoff single through the box, and Pujols drove his first-pitch homer over the double-decker bullpen in left field after Mike Trout flied out. "He wasnt supposed to even come close to throwing that pitch in that situation," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said with a tinge of disgust. "Somewhere down the line, we lost the scouting report from the bullpen to the mound." Villanueva was understandably downcast in the clubhouse talking about the 17th home run allowed by the Cubs bullpen. "It caught too much plate. Its as simple as that," Villanueva said. "If I make a better pitch there, maybe its a different result. But Pujols is a great hitter. I dont really have to say that. So to a hitter, you cant miss by that much over the plate in that situation. He did what he was supposed to do — put it in the seats." Pujols, who has hit 54 of his 484 career home runs against Cubs pitching, is batting just .244 with 35 RBIs in 57 games. After he struck out in the third inning, he was soundly booed by the crowd. "Numbers-wise, its nowhere where I want to be. But I feel like Im one swing away from turning things around," the three-time NL MVP said. "I dont give up, man. I take every game like its the last game of my career. I go out there every day, try to fight and get a good pitch to hit and hopefully do something to help the ballclub win. Yesterday and the day before, I put a good swing on the ball and didnt do the damage I should do. Its frustrating because I know Im not too far away from it." Robert Coello (2-1) pitched a scoreless eighth for the win and Ernesto Frieri got three outs for his 13th save in 14 attempts. Weaver struck out five and was charged with an earned run and six hits over six innings in his fourth start this season and second since coming off the disabled list.dddddddddddd He is 0-2 with two no-decisions in four starts against Feldman, who spent his eight previous big league seasons with the AL West-rival Texas Rangers. "Hes got good stuff," Weaver said. "Hes kind of changed his approach over the years. He was a hard thrower and a mid-90s (mph) guy, and now hes mixing in that split-finger and that cutter a lot. So hes kind of developed into a great pitcher and hes obviously proven that this year. He kept our guys off balance, but we were able to battle back and get that big homer by Pujols to put us back on top." Feldman allowed two runs and six hits in six-plus innings. In his previous head-to-head duel with Weaver, on Sept. 19, 2009, Feldman beat him 3-2 at Texas for the 17th and final win of his best season in the majors. "You realize its going to be tough to scrape up runs against Weaver because hes one of the best," Feldman said. "Hes always going out there and leaving his heart on the field." The Angels, coming off an embarrassing four-game sweep by the visiting Houston Astros — the team with the worst record in the AL — won for the third time in nine games. The Cubs snapped a 1-all tie in the third after Callaspo fumbled David DeJesus leadoff grounder on the infield grass, his fifth error this season and fourth in three games. One out later, Weaver walked Anthony Rizzo and gave up an RBI single to Alfonso Soriano. Ryan Sweeney, who had three hits, delivered the second run of the inning with a two-out single — his first RBI in 26 career at-bats against Weaver to that point. Chicago opened the scoring in the first on a broken-bat RBI single from Nate Schierholtz with two outs, after Weaver hit Luis Valbuena with a 1-2 pitch and gave up an opposite-field single to Rizzo. The Angels tied it in the bottom half on Pujols sacrifice fly, after a leadoff double by Aybar and an infield hit by Trout. This is the Cubs second visit to Anaheim since interleague play began in 1997. They took two of three in 2004. NOTES: With another Los Angeles vs. Chicago confrontation going on up the freeway at Staples Center between the Kings and Blackhawks in Game 3 of the NHLs Western Conference finals, the baseball game drew 32,223 — 4,772 below the Angels season average. ... One catcher picked off the other at first base in the second inning when Chicagos Welington Castillo caught Chris Iannetta leaning too far off the bag with runners at the corners. ... This was the first of eight home games the Angels will play against NL Central teams. ... Three of Weavers four starts have been against NL teams. ... The Angels have committed 39 errors, second-worst in the AL behind Houstons 40. ... LHP Scott Downs relieved Weaver, pitching a perfect seventh inning with two strikeouts in his first appearance since May 26. ' ' '