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Page 10 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1978 I P( the sports Aggies strive for goal By SEAN PETTY Battalion StafT The Texas A&M University wo men’s volleyball team had two goals before the season started this fall: win the regional tournament and then win the national cham pionship. The Aggies completed the first of their goals Saturday in Arlington where they beat the University of Texas at Arlington to win the re gional tournament for the first time. “We had a very exciting weekend,” said Dave Schakel, head volleyball coach. “I felt we were the best team all season and we proved it last Saturday. “I knew we had a good team but it just took a while for me to figure out what the best line up was. We have some very talented freshmen and I just had to see how everyone would fit in.” The Aggies went into the tourna ment seeded second and upset top- seeded UTA in four matches. UTA won the state championship at the beginning of of November while Texas A&M placed third, being upset by second place Lamar. Now the Aggies head for Tus caloosa, Ala. to try and fulfill their second goal — the national cham- =M>C= pionship. The tournament is packed with California schools and promises to be a good one. “I believe we will go into the tournament seeded seventh or eighth,” Schakel said. “Hawaii will probably be top-seeded followed by UCLA, USC, Pepperdine, Utah St., BYU and then us. “We are going to the tournament thinking we can win the whole thing. I think that we can do it too. “It used to be that there would be one or two teams that were the strongest going into the tourna ment,” he said. “Now the talent is pretty evenly spread and just about any team can win. I think if we play our best we can definitely win. ” This is not the first trip to the na tional tournament for the Aggies as they received an at-large invitation last year. The Aggies take a 47-11 record into the tournament being held at the University of Alabama. All of the Aggie starters are healthy and ready for the tournament according to Schakel. Schakel praised his players for their consistently good play and hard work all season that got them to the tournament. “I would have to say that our co captains, Vicki Marshall and Wendy Wilson have led the team all year,” he said. “They are our best defen sive players and best spikers and have played great all year. “Dianne Douglas led our team in blocking this year. I think she can block just about anything a team can put over the net. “We have one quarterback out there and that is our setter, Kristen Bloom. She sets every ball that is set and has done an outstanding job all year. “We have two more positions that four people share. We have front and back row specialists and all four have played excellently for us. Donna Branch and Crystal Cobb are the back row specialists and Nancy Dunn and Krista Sodich are the front row specialists. “Another player who came off the bench time and time again to help us is Pam Hill. She played a big part in our drive to the national tourna ment, scoring seven crucial points in the final match against UTA. “Pam Miller, Mary Rushke and Lisa Duncan have also come off the bench to help us put together a lot of our wins. I m just very pleased with our whole team,” he said. **-—-T=XK- cMytandcfo NOON-SEVEN 75c bar drinks 40c beer Campbell leads the way Oilers slip by Miara fol. 72 12 Pac United Press Internationa] HOUSTON — What Earl Campbell has done for the Hous ton Oilers can be told in the story of the simple slip screen pass play. The tale began as Campbell was carrying Tyler High to a Texas state football cham pionship in 1973 and Oilers quar terback Dan Pastorini was trying to surprise NFL defenses with the slip screen — a pass thrown across the field to a wide receiver who has stepped back behind the line of scrimmage. “We used it a lot, probably too much,” Pastorini said. "But it was a potent play. We needed something to keep defenses hon est and that seemed to be the best we had. We used it even though it didn’t work half the time. Houston’s use of the play, which was seemingly the Oilers’ only departure from offensive conservatism, became a joke among local sports writers. “Where have I seen that be fore, a press box spectator would announce loudly. More often than not, he was no more surprised by the slip screen than opposing defenses. Then came Campbell, who is after 12 games the NFL’s leading rusher with 1,143 yards and the eighth rookie in NFL history to gain more than 1,000 yards a- ground. In the last collegiate draft, coach Bum Phillips se cured the 220-pound Heisman Trophy winner who by then had done for the University of Texas what he had done for Tyler High. Earl Campbell “Before, people didn’t respect our running. Oilers wide re ceiver Ken Burrough said. “Be fore Earl they didn’t stay at home. When you have a back like him, the slip screen is almost unstoppable.” The Miami Dolphins would not disagree after their dishear tening 35-30 loss of a Monday night thriller in the Astrodome. Campbell ran for 199 yards and four touchdowns, and a half- dozen slip screen passes to Bur- rough, Rich Caster and Mike Renfro worked every time for good yardage. Eight-year veteran cornerback Willie Alexander said the Oilers, a possible playoff team now, have never won a bigger game against a tougher opponent. “Give credit to (Miami coach) Don Shula for making my night a track meet,” Alexander said. “He’s one of the greatest of all time. His game plan was magni ficent. We didn’t know where they were coming from next. The Dolpins appeared to have enough to win the game when defensive end A.J. Duhe made a spectacular sack of Pastorini in the end zone early in the fourth quarter for a safety and a 23-21 lead. But the Oilers defense, des pite being riddled for almost 500 yards, held Miami after its free kick was returned into its territory. “No matter if they had scored again, we would not have gotten down,” Pastorini said. Houston’s offense took strength from the defensive stand and pounded 80 yards in 12 plays for the go-ahead touch down. Campbell’s 12-yard run capped that drive, and then moments later following an in terception he took a pitch out and fled down the right sideline for 81 more yards and a clinching score. “Earl won’t listen to ii tions,” an obviously del Oilers coach Bum 1 “I told him to just get (Ik down and run out the dod Some excellent defei plays were made, but Wl fenses executed so t that they controllei Houston’s five touchdown went for 70, 87, 63, yards. Miami marcbed touchdowns on drives of Si, 89 and 75 yards. “It was two great offen! the field tonight and they carried it to each other,"II linebacker Steve Kinersaid “Campbell,” said everything they said and more.” Miami, with the loss,(el game behind New England competitive champion' in the AFC Eastern Di« The Patriots are 9-3 and phins 8-4 with four game play. Houston, 8-4, remained games behind AFC Cei leader Pittsburgh but rema solidly in position to vie wild card playoff berth. Hot is one of six AFC teamsmti records or better. Five will the playoffs. 3t>C NORTHGATE (Next to the Dixie Chicken) -MM- 1 '-SfW" 1 -HW ' -MW -HW - ,k=J5 HEY AGS! the msc camera committee ANNOUNCES Mexican Stew Meat in a Flour Tortilla Aggie wrestlers win 1978 BONFIRE PHOTOGRAPHS Battalion Classified Call 845-2611 The Texas Aggie Wrestlers jour neyed to Fort Worth to participate in a five team tournament Friday. The tournament, which was hosted by TCU, was attended by Richland Junior College, North Texas State University, and part of the University of Texas wrestling team in Fort Worth for the weekend. The Aggies won the meet by downing TCU, UT, and NTSU — Texas A&M’s main rival and second place finisher in last year’s state championships. The Aggies did not wrestle Rich- least land however since Ri< squad was missing severali The Aggies had won to matches against Richland. Only one team remains Texas A&M and number out in the state of Texas —Tea However, student playei ening Boh Santini says heisnotf t s jd e a Texas A&M finished well even though at various time stituted five different junioii wrestlers. “Our team has great deptl best in the state, Santini FOOTBALL FIESTA SPECIAL HATE DOING LAUNDRY? 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