{"id":481148,"date":"2026-10-30T06:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T06:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/481148\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T06:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T06:22:19","slug":"no-5-smu-clinches-close-victory-against-no-3-texas-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/481148\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 5 SMU Clinches Close Victory Against No. 3 Texas A&M"},"content":{"rendered":"

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (SMU) – \u00a0No. 5 SMU defeats No. 3 Texas A&M, 9-8, in College Station, Texas for the first time since 2016.

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\nCaptains Schuyler Dayner<\/a> and Aedan Mooney<\/a><\/a> claimed a point each on fences, with both scoring at a 78. Dayner has started the season only dropping one point and has collected two MOPs.

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\nThe Mustangs started off strong with three straight points from Jayna Lagace<\/a>, Shaelyn Boutelle<\/a> and Violet Shetler<\/a>, clinching victory on horsemanship. Lagace gained victory with a score of 69.95 over 66. Junior Boutelle followed up with a win over OSU’s Elizabeth Marmor, 73.75 over 71.25. Shetler attained her second MOP of the season, three in her career, with 75.25 over 73.75.

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\nIn reining, SMU split points 2-2. Madison Rafacz<\/a> defeats Dylanne Rodriguez with a score of 70.75 over 68.5, gaining a career record of 11-1-2. Addi Schmersal<\/a> outscored her opponent 71.75 over 69.75.

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\nSMU drawed in flat 2-2. Dayner earned her second point of the meet, clinching 63 over 58.5. With Aedan Mooney’s<\/a><\/a> final point, the Mustangs clinched the meet with a 70.50 over 52.\u00a0

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\nSMU will host No. 4 Georgia on Oct. 6, then the following day against No. 7 Oklahoma State on Oct. 7, for the first two home meets of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION, Texas (SMU) – \u00a0No. 5 SMU defeats No. 3 Texas A&M, 9-8, in College Station, Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-481148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}