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In addition to his almost impeccable passing -- he completed his first nine passes and 13 of his first 15 and finished with 267 yards passing -- Young parlayed his trademark scrambling into 200 rushing yards, the last eight on a fourth-down scurry to the right pylon of the end zone with 19 seconds left. Four minutes before that, he had rolled left, then galloped back right 17 yards for a touchdown that pulled Texas within 38-33 after it had suffered from all of USC's stash of offensive options, especially barreling running back LenDale White, who scored three touchdowns, and quarterback Matt Leinart, whose 15th pass of the second half, and 14th completion, went to a leaping Dwayne Jarrett for a 22-yard touchdown for a 38-26 lead with 6:42 left. In between Young's two late touchdowns came a decision sure to generate conversation for decades. Facing fourth-and-2 at the Texas 45-yard line with 2:13 left, USC coach Pete Carroll, upholding a personal tradition of dice-rolling, went for the first down. When White stalled in the gathering Texas line, Young had the ball 56 yards from the end zone. He would get there in nine passes and scrambles, completing a thrilling fourth quarter that followed up a thrilling third in a second half featuring 52 points, 28 by USC. Only after halftime did an offense averaging 50.9 points per game (Texas) and an offense averaging 50.0 points per game (USC) spiral the defenses into the futility everyone expected of them. A third quarter that began 16-10 in Texas' favor wound up 24-23 in USC's as Leinart steered TD drives of 62 and 74 yards and Texas quarterback Young fulfilled his role as a marvel. Leinart found open tight ends and handed to White, USC's barreling running back, who scored his second and third TDs of the game and the school-record 56th and 57th of his career. Young, meanwhile, streamed to the right corner of the end zone on a commanding 12-yard TD run, and took off on a 45-yard scramble late in the quarter. All along, he showed no excess oomph that might detract from his own game. If he still seethed from his second-place Heisman Trophy finish and the lavish pregame praise doled to the opposing offense, he channeled it adroitly. He repeatedly and effectively flipped the football to tight end David Thomas, six times before halftime. He made his patented scrambling moves and gathered 60 yards on six carries before halftime. When the second quarter arrived in full and Texas still hadn't scored a touchdown, he meandered from the USC 22-yard line to the 12 and had his right knee hit the ground unnoticed by officials as he pitched to Selvin Young on the left. When Selvin Young streamed the last 12 yards into the end zone right in front of the thunderous burnt-orange part of the Rose Bowl, Texas had its first lead at 9-7, and Vince Young giddily scampered back downfield toward the sideline. He persisted. Having guided a swift, 80-yard, seven-play, no-huddle march for that first touchdown, he steered Texas on a 51-yard, four-play move for a 16-7 lead, his offense officially flourishing. Ever the distraction even when the play doesn't go to him, he stuffed the ball in Ramonce Taylor's gut at the 30, and once Taylor shirked an early tackler, moved off to the left and found only Pasadena air on his way to the end zone. That total of 16 may have come up 14 points below Texas' first-half average for the 2005 season, but then, so did USC's eventual first-half total of 10. But where Texas stopped itself only once in the early restlessness -- fumbling backward, which Young recovered to save three points -- USC rather perfected the art. Even with Texas defenders speeding around and hitting hard like mobile trucks, USC's offense upheld its image as one of the greatest ever -- until it neighbored the goal line. But breaching their usual knack for finishing the job, the Trojans collected three points from four trips to the Texas 25-yard line or better, stalling once when Reggie Bush suddenly went mad on a 37-yard screen-pass catch-and-run and tried to lateral the ball wildly toward an anonymous receiver.  
SC TD -- 12:27 LENDALE WHITE 4 YD RUN (MARIO DANELO KICK) Drive info: 5 plays, 46 yards. USC 7 UT 0 SECOND QUARTER UT FG -- 10:38 DAVID PINO 46 YD FG Drive info: 9 plays, 52 yards. USC 7 UT 3 UT TD -- 4:57 SELVIN YOUNG 12 YD RUN (MISSED KICK) Drive info: 7 plays, 80 yards. UT 9 USC 7 UT TD -- 2:34 RAMONCE TAYLOR 30 YD RUN (DAVID PINO KICK) Drive info: 4 plays, 51 yards. UT 16 USC 7 SC FG -- 0:02 MARIO DANELO 43 YD FG Drive info: 11 plays, 54 yards. UT 16 USC 10 THIRD QUARTER SC TD -- 10:36 LENDALE WHITE 3 YD RUN (MARIO DANELO KICK) Drive info: 7 plays, 62 yards. USC 17 UT 16 UT TD -- 8:34 VINCE YOUNG 14 YD RUN (DAVID PINO KICK) Drive info: 7 plays, 80 yards. UT 23 USC 17 SC TD -- 4:07 LENDALE WHITE 12 YD RUN (MARIO DANELO KICK) Drive info: 9 plays, 74 yards. USC 24 UT 23 FOURTH QUARTER SC TD -- 11:19 REGGIE BUSH 26 YD RUN (MARIO DANELO KICK) Drive info: 9 plays, 80 yards. USC 31 UT 23 UT FG -- 8:46 DAVID PINO 34 YD FG Drive info: 9 plays, 52 yards. USC 31 UT 26 SC TD -- 6:42 DWAYNE JARRETT 22 YD PASS FROM MATT LEINART (MARIO DANELO KICK) Drive info: 4 plays, 80 yards. USC 38 UT 26 UT TD -- 4:03 VINCE YOUNG 17 YD RUN (DAVID PINO KICK) Drive info: 8 plays, 69 yards. USC 38 UT 33 UT TD -- 0:19 VINCE YOUNG 8 YD RUN (VINCE YOUNG 2PT RUSH) Drive info: 10 plays, 56 yards. UT 41 USC 38
The victory brought the Longhorns their first outright national championship since 1969. Young came to California hoping to prove he was the best player in the country after his bitter disappointment at finishing second to USC running back Reggie Bush this year for the Heisman Trophy, which Trojans quarterback Matt Leinart won the year before. By running and passing his way through another spectacular Rose Bowl performance, the Longhorns quarterback finally relegated the Heisman twins to supporting roles. This was, without a doubt, Young's show: He ran for 200 yards and passed for another 267 in a game that surpassed his 372-yard, five touchdown effort against Michigan here last year, and became the first player in NCAA history to rush for 1,000 yards and pass for 2,500 in a season. Before the game, Young went through his usual routine, listening to music on his iPod while tossing passes to his receivers and hamming it up with thousands of Texas fans who came to the game early. By kickoff, he was reaching for what he calls his "Jordan Mode" -- the zone where he feels he can make any play at any time. It worked to perfection on Texas' first touchdown when Young snuck one past the USC defense and the replay officials. Young broke through the left side of the line and pitched the ball to tailback Selvin Young, who slipped through three tacklers to get into the end zone. The quarterback was being tackled when he tossed it, and television replays showed his knee was down before the ball left his hands. Game officials did not review the play. By the second quarter, he was still dancing on the field, pantomiming riding down the field on a horse during a timeout. On one play, Young slipped through the tackle of blitzing USC safety Brandon Ting for a short pass, then turned and shook Ting's hand as if to say "I'll be here all night." Young scored his first touchdown when he capped a seven-play, 80-yard drive in the third with a stiff-arm of a Trojan defender before diving for the end zone pylon to give the Longhorns a 23-17 lead. He then flashed a "Hook'em Horns" sign to the crowd. His second touchdown, a 17-yard run in the fourth, started when he dropped back to pass, then used a burst of speed to run through the middle of the defense. The score pulled the Longhorns within 38-33 with 4:03 to play. By then, Young was unstoppable. When Texas got the ball back for its final drive near midfield, Young completed five passes and covered the final 14 yards on his own. He also pushed his way through the middle of the line for the two-point conversion that made it 41-38. "He's a fantastic player and he made the difference," Carroll said. "How classic was it that he ran it in on the last play?" The only question now is whether the junior, who said he plans to return for a final season, leaves school early for the NFL. If he stays, the Longhorns can expect to enter the 2006 season ranked No. 1. 
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Texas (11-2), ranked No. 2 for the first five polls of the season before consecutive losses, held Memphis almost 30 points below its average and sealed the win by going 17-of-19 over the free throw line over final 8:34. Memphis (11-2) had not lost at home this season and wanted to burnish its record before heading into Conference USA where the Tigers are the league's only ranked team. LaMarcus Aldridge, the Longhorns' leading scorer, had a season-low 12 points before fouling out. Senior forward Brad Buckman, who injured his right knee in the loss to No. 1 Duke and then missed the home loss to Tennessee, went 1-of-11 from the field and had six points. Memphis came in with the nation's fifth-best scoring offense (87.3 points), but against Texas' zone, the Tigers missed 13 of their first 14 shots and finished at a season-low 28.6 percent (20-of-70). Rodney Carney had 22 points for Memphis but was 3-of-14 from 3-point range, and freshman Shawne Williams was 2-of-14 for 10 points. With a sellout crowd on its feet for most of the second half, the Tigers whittled away at Texas' lead with a 17-4 run capped by Darius Washington's 3-pointer from the top of the key. That made it 48-47 with 7:16 to go and was the Tigers' first lead of the game. Kenton Paulino put Texas back up to stay at 52-50 with a three-point play off a fastbreak layup with 6:28 left. Texas led 29-23 at halftime even though Aldridge went scoreless in the first half and played only 11 minutes after picking up his third foul. Buckman missed his first nine shots.
The Jayhawks (12-0, 1-0) snapped a 36-game losing streak against ranked opponents. Their last victory over a Top 25 team was a 69-61 win over then-No. 6 Iowa State on Feb. 17, 2001. Kemp, a 6-2 senior from Topeka, Kan., has four double-doubles this season and has scored in double figures in every game. The Longhorns (6-5, 0-1) trailed 31-29 with 3:01 left in the first half but Kaylee Brown and Erica Hallman hit 3-pointers to help the Jayhawks grab a 39-31 lead at halftime. Brown finished with 15 points and Hallman added 14 points and six assists. Kemp and Hallman opened the second half with baskets as the Jayhawks upped their lead to 43-31 and forced Texas to call a timeout with 18:48 left. Kansas led by as many as 14 points with 9:03 to go and the Longhorns never got closer than seven in the final minutes. Tiffany Jackson scored 18 points and Aubry Cook and Nini Norman had 10 apiece for the Longhorns, who finished 1-for-8 from 3-point range. Brown and Hallman made three 3s for Kansas, which went 8-for-20 from behind the arc. Brown scored five straight points early in the first half to help the Jayhawks take a 13-8 lead. Kemp scored 11 of the Jayhawks' first 20 points and had 15 points by halftime. Kansas, which is one of six remaining undefeated teams in the country, is 12-0 for the first time in school history and has already equaled its win total from last season, when they went 12-16. The 12-game winning streak is the longest in school history. Another tough road game awaits the Lady Horns this weekend, as they play defending national champion Baylor in Waco at 3:00 p.m., Saturday.
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With the loss, Texas suffered its first defeat at home in Gregory Gym in 2005, closing the season with a 11-1 record. The loss also snapped the Longhorns' 17-match winning streak that dated back to the mid-point of the 2004 season. Texas' 50 wins (26 in 2004, 24 in 2005) in the last two seasons is the most in a two-year span since 1997-98, when UT went 52-12. Hawaii won its fifth straight against Texas, as the Rainbow Wahine are now 10-1 all-time against the Longhorns. UT's only win came in the 1988 when UT defeated Hawaii, 3-0, in the NCAA Championship match in Minneapolis, Minn., to win the program's first NCAA title and second national championship overall. The Longhorns will be set to make more noise nationally in 2006 as they return 11 of 12 letterwinners and all six starters, as well as the team's libero. UT's lone senior - Heather Schreiber - was a one-year player who previously was an All-American basketball player at the 40 Acres. UT has already signed a pair of top-10 prep recruits that will join the team in 2006. (Stories, Click to a Bracket, etc)
Texas (11-9-1) saw its season come to an end after earning its fifth-consecutive NCAA Championship bid, while UTEP (20-3-1) won its first tourney game during its first NCAA appearance. Despite incurring their first loss at Myers Stadium in NCAA competition, the Longhorns closed their season with their sixth consecutive 10-plus win campaign under head coach Chris Petrucelli. Texas should return a stronger team next year, as the Longhorns lose only two players on a team driven largely by its talented freshmen and sophomores.  • TEXAS LONGHORN TENNIS • TEXAS LONGHORN GOLF • TEXAS LONGHORNS TENNIS • 2005-6 LONGHORN MEN'S TENNIS SCHEDULE 2005-6 LONGHORN WOMEN'S TENNIS SCHEDULE
The Longhorns were making their fourth appearance in the NCAA finals (previously in 1992, 1993 and 1995). UT is now 4-2 against Stanford in NCAA tournament play, and these two teams had also met in the 1993 championship final, with the Longhorns posting a 5-2 victory over the Cardinal to win Texas' first national title. As the No. 11 seed in the NCAA tournament, Texas became the first double digit seed to reach the finals since the NCAA field expanded to 64 teams in 1999.
After trailing 4-1 in the opening set, Helgeson eventually rebounded to even the set at five games apiece. Helgeson managed to save a set point as the first set progressed into a tiebreak, but, trailing 7-6, Helgeson sent a forehand wide and beyond the baseline to give Kokta the set. The Texas men's tennis team will now take part in the ITA National Indoor Championships in Columbus, Ohio, this week. TEXAS WOMEN GO AS FAR AS SEMI's AT ITA-COLLEGE STATION -- University of Texas seniors Mia Marovic and Kendra Strohm collected a semifinal victory but came up just short in the doubles final this week at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Southwest Regional Championships at Texas A&M's Mitchell Tennis Center. After eliminating Texas A&M's Anna Blagodarova and Tiffany Clifford by a 9-7 count in the semifinals, Marovic and Strohm fell on the short end of an 8-5 defeat to TCU's Helena Besovic and Anna Sydorska in the final. A win would have given the Texas tandem the regional title and an automatic berth in next month's ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships at Ohio State. Texas junior Petra Dizdar made the most of her appearance in the consolation bracket, defeating Baylor's Zuzana Krchnakova by a 6-1, 7-5 margin to win the draw. The Texas women's tennis team will now take part in the ITA National Indoor Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this week.
Texas posted rounds of 291, 288 and 285, three-under as a team in the final round and even par for the tourney, to finish 15 shots off UCLA's first place finishing score of 849. Northwestern was second with an nine-under total of 855, while Arkansas and California tied for third with identical five-under 859s. The Longhorns will now take a break until Jan. 30-31 when they head to Tucson, Arizona for the PING/Arizona Intercollegiate at Arizona National Golf Course.
The Longhorns finished with a combined score of 929. Host Auburn won the tournament with a three round score of 879, Duke followed in second with a total of 880 and Georgia was third with a score of 892. Virginia and Tennessee rounded out the top 5 with scores of 893 and 894, respectively. The Longhorns will now take a break until they return to play in early March, when they head to Guadalajara, Mexico, for the Cal-Guadalajara Invitational.
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UT junior Landra Stewardson led Texas for the fifth time in eight meets, placing 24th with a six-kilometer time of 22 minutes, 30 seconds. Arianna McKinney added another solid race to her successful freshman season, placing 26th in 22:35. The Longhorns improved upon their 11th-place finish at the team’s last event, the Big 12 Championships held on Friday, Oct. 28 in Waco, despite the fact that the regional event was completed in less favorable running conditions than the cool, arid conditions at the Big 12 meet.
"Coming into the meet ranked as the nation's 10th-ranked team, I knew that a finish anywhere in the single digits would be a successful finish," explained Vigilante. "To place seventh in a sport in which just about every school participates is huge. I couldn't be more proud of our guys." Wisconsin won the NCAA team championship by placing all five scorers among the top-15 runners. After Wisconsin, the top ten teams included Arkansas, Notre Dame, Iona, Colorado, Stanford, TEXAS, Oklahoma State, Portland, and Arizona.
The triumph was a personal one, too, for Texas coach Bev Kearney, who lost all feeling and motor skills below the waist in a car crashed that killed two of her friends in 2002. She vowed to walk again, and after three years of exhausting rehabilitation, she gets around with only a cane. "This makes it all the more sweeter," Kearney said. "With the personal things that I had to overcome and the losses we suffered a year ago, and coming here with only seven people, knowing that we had very little room for error. We just kept believing it was possible."  • TEXAS LONGHORN BASEBALL • TEXAS LONGHORN SOFTBALL • TEXAS LONGHORNS BASEBALL •
The annual Alumni Game will be held at Disch-Falk Field on Saturday, Jan. 28. Then, the Horns open the 2006 season on the road with a three-game series at San Diego (Feb. 3-5). After the home opener against UT-Pan American on Feb. 8, Texas then makes its way to Minute Maid Park for the 2006 College Classic to face Houston (Feb. 10), Rice (Feb. 11) and Tulane (Feb. 12). While playing five more home contests during the month of February against the likes of UT-San Antonio (Feb. 14), Texas State (Feb.27) and Villanova (Feb. 24-26), the Longhorns will also travel to Stanford, Calif., for a three-game set with the Cardinal from Feb. 17-19. March opens with UT traveling to UNLV (March 3-5) and Rice (Mar. 7) before the Horns make their way home for games with Long Beach State (March 10-12) and Arizona State (March 14). From there, Texas jumps into conference play with a three-game series at Texas Tech (March 17-19) and a home series against Oklahoma State (March 24-26) sandwiched around its third meeting of the season with Rice on March 22 at Disch-Falk Field. April and May are primarily conference games, with a smattering of non-conference foes ... Texas will travel to University of Oklahoma and Kansas State, host UT-Arlington, split a series with Baylor, travel to San Antonio for a game with UT-San Antonio, host Nebraska, UT-Pan Am, Texas A&M (one game, April 28), Kansas, and Dallas Baptist. Texas will go to Texas A&M for two games on April 29 and 30. Missouri concludes the Big XII conference run with a three-game set scheduled for May 19-21. Texas will begin official preseason workouts for the 2006 season on Monday, Jan. 9 at Disch-Falk Field.
Additionally, five Longhorns student-athletes picked up a total of seven Preseason All-America honors awarded by the two publications. UT was one of only four Big 12 Conference teams selected in the two preseason polls with Missouri earning No. 10 and No. 14 rankings from Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball, respectively, and Nebraska (No. 4) and Baylor (No. 23) being ranked in Collegiate Baseball's top 25. Texas' 2006 schedule also includes matchups with a total of eight preseason top 25 competitors according to the two polls released. Notably, the Horns' No. 1 preseason ranking marks the program's third in the last four seasons as UT also began both the 2003 and 2005 campaigns ranked No. 1. The Longhorns concluded the 2005 season with a 56-16 overall record after making their NCAA-record 32nd College World Series appearance and earning their sixth national title overall and second in the last four years.
With the honor, Osterman becomes the first-ever active collegian to be honored as the top female athlete. Athletes were considered for the award based on their athletic achievements between August 1, 2004, and July 31, 2005. Athletes are nominated by sport governing bodies and the public. The winners are determined by voting members of the Women's Sports Foundation and its Awards Committee." The Texas southpaw led her team to a third-place finish at the 2005 Women's College World Series for the second time in three seasons. Throughout the 2005 season, Osterman was also recognized for her individual contributions to The University of Texas women's softball team. Osterman was voted the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year for the second time in three years and won the Honda Award in softball to become the unanimous national player of the year. She also earned first-team All-America, first-team All-Big 12 and Big 12 Pitcher of the Year honors. Later in the summer, Osterman earned her second Big 12 Female Athlete of the Year Award as the top female student-athlete in the 12-member conference. Congratulations to Cat Osterman. Wow !
Texas Softball, which went 49-13 and finished tied for third at the 2005 Women's College World Series, will participate in four regular-season tournaments, including the Time Warner Cable Texas Invitational which the Horns will host March 3-5. Thirteen of the Horns' opponents - constituting 21 games on the schedule - were ranked in the final national last season. Notably, Texas owned a 31-9 record in 2005 against teams scheduled for the upcoming season. The schedule also features match-ups against the reigning conference champions from five difference leagues - Arizona and Stanford (co-champs in the Pacific 10), Michigan (Big Ten), Louisiana-Lafayette (Sun Belt), Fordham (Atlantic 10) and Georgia Tech (Atlantic Coast). Texas opens the 2006 season the second weekend in February - Feb. 10-12 - in Tempe, Ariz., at the Kajikawa Classic, where the Longhorns are slated to face Wisconsin, Syracuse, Arizona, Northwestern and Stanford. Texas is also entered in the Palm Springs Classic (Feb. 24-26), with play to include Long Island, Stanford, Fresno State, UNLV and Arizona. Texas opens March with an eight-day, nine-game homestand that includes the Time Warner Cable Texas Invitational, March 3-5. The Longhorns will welcome Houston, Mississippi and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi for the weekend Texas returns seven positional starters, three pitchers and a total of 11 letterwinners from last year's team that led the nation in earned run average and was second in fielding percentage. Returning players include national player of the year Cat Osterman, Easton All-American Chez Sievers and All-Big 12 Tournament honorees Tina Boutelle and Megan Willis. The Horns also welcome four newcomers in 2006, including a pair of Texas products - Crystal Saenz and Kacie Gaskin, both out of College Station - and a duo of California players - Kelly Melone and Shannon Thomas.
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At the conclusion of the final day, the Texas men's squad finished with 619 team points, just four points below 2005 team champions Arizona with 623 points. Southern California rounded out the top three for the men with 486 points. Meanwhile, Texas' women's team finished with 652 points to take second, while Arizona took the 2005 team championship with 724 points, Wisconsin was third with 525 points after the last day. The University of Texas men's swimming and diving program will return action Jan. 13 when they host Auburn in a dual meet and Jan. 14 when they host Georgia also in dual meet action. The UT women's swimming and diving team will return action Jan. 14 when they host Georgia in dual meet action.
Crocker, Hansen and Peirsol teamed with Jason Lesak for a world-record time of 3:30.68 for the U.S. in the finals of the 4 x 100m medley relay. Crocker and Hansen each earned Olympic gold, silver and bronze at the 2004 Athens Games. Crocker earned gold in the 4 x 100m medley relay, silver in 100m fly and bronze in the 4 x 100m free relay, while Hansen captured silver and bronze in the 100 and 200m breaststrokes, respectively, and gold in the 4 x 100m medley relay. Crocker now boasts gold medals in each of the last two Olympics swimming the 4 x 100m medley relay each time. Former Longhorn NEIL WALKER, competing in his third-straight Olympic games, earned gold for the second-straight Olympics in the 4 x 100m medley relay as well, swimming in the preliminaries.  • TEXAS LONGHORN ROWING • TEXAS LONGHORNS ROWING • TEXAS LONGHORN ROWING •
The University of Texas varsity eight A rowers placed sixth with a time of 14:27.3, just by the narrowest of margins behind Clemson’s fifth place boat’s time of 14:27.2. Ohio State University's A boat won the varsity eight competition with a time of 13:51.88. Wisconsin's A boat came in second (14:02.30), followed by Virginia's A boat in third (14:05.91). Twenty-two boats raced in the competition. One week earlier, The Texas women's rowing team finished the Head of the Hooch Regatta in impressive fashion, sweeping the top three spots in the novice women’s eight on the Chattahoochee River near Chattanooga, Tennessee. The University of Texas novice rowers finished one, two and three in the women’s collegiate and club novice eights race. The three teams finished with times of 17:52.5, 18:02.9 and 18:39.1, respectively. The Longhorn rowing team will take a break between seasons before competing again at the Fighting Nutria Regatta in Austin, Saturday Feb. 11.  • AROUND THE LONGHORNS • TEXAS LONGHORN ATHLETICS • AROUND THE LONGHORNS •
TEXAS FINISHES SECOND FOR 2004-2005 NACDA DIRECTOR'S CUP -- (UT Sports News) - The University of Texas finished second in the final 2005 Sports Academy Directors' Cup Division I standings for the third time in four years, the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) announced on Wednesday. NACDA, the United States Sports Academy and USA Today present the award annually to the best overall collegiate athletics program in the country. Stanford University won the Cup with 1,209.25 points, while the Longhorns amassed a total of 1,075 points. UCLA finished third with 1,074 points.
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