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The Battalion Sports
Thursday, September 8,1983/The Battalion/Page 13
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Volleyball: Dangerous
to your health, face
I’M WRITING THIS column to pay back a bribe, or favor, or
whatever you want to call it. All I know is that I escaped with my
face intact and my body in one piece. No bumps, no bruises, no
one-way trip out of G. Rollie White in the back of an ambulance.
It could have been worse.
As a member of the media team that played the women’s
volleyball team Tuesday night, my life, as well as my team-
mates’, was in danger. Talk about playing with fear. Volleyball is
aroughsport. Real volleyball players hit the ball hard, and they
hit it right at you. The key is learning to keep your face out of
the way.
This varsity/media grudge match was sponsored by the
Texas A&M Athletic Department, to familiarize local media
personnel with the team and provide a little comic relief for
those in attendance.
Mission accomplished.
YOU WANT PLAY-BY-PLAY? It went like this. The media
served first, lost the serve, then lost the first game. We finally
scored in the second, but lost that one, too, 15-1. The match was
supposed to be best two-out-of-three, but the varsity hadn’t had
enough. So we wentafter’ema third time. Unfortunately, a lack
of conditioning and poor execution cost us. We lost again, 15-1.
THE MEDIA TEAM had several game plans. None of them
worked.
Our coach, former all-American Joey Vrazel (she’s now a
graduate assistant here at A&M), gave us our first plan — titled
Plan I. It’s simple, she explained —just hit the ball back over the
net every time the varsity does.
Simple for her, maybe. For us, it was a task akin to raising the
Titanic. At night. In the rain.
ANYWAY, WE BEGAN with Plan I (a strategy many college
volleyball coaches use). We quickly learned we weren’t capable
of getting it right. Like any good team, though, we were able to
make adjustments and come up with Plan II.
Plan II included confusing the varsity with unusual forma
tions, inane acrobatics and — last, but not least — Neil Lands
man. The first two didn’t work too well (you still have to hit the
lover the net). The third, however, almost did the trick.
Landsman, who covers college sports for the Bryan/College
Station Eagle, did his goofy best to distract the varsity. “I kept
talking trash to them the whole game — you know, trying to
rattle’em. But it didn’t work. For a young team, they have a lot
of poise,"said Landsman, who had earlier dismissed our oppo-
nent’schances of winning by saying they played “like a bunch of
SO WE STRUGGLED on, trying our best and looking our
worst. But that’s OK because the game wasn’t the important
part. Losing wasn’t the important part. Playing was the impor
tant part.
Tnafs an attitude that’s unique to women’s athletics. Cer
tainly, the women want to win — everyone does. The difference
is that these athletes aren’t spoiled. They’re not playing for the
television cameras or the glossy magazines or the pro contracts
" e many other athletes.
They’re playing because they love their sport. And that’s an
attitude a sports-lover like myself can appreciate. Good luck,
women’s volleyball team. Thanks for being good winners.
There’s not enough of that in athletics these days.
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“Quality First”
Golfers say SWC title a ‘possibility’
by Scott Griffin
Battalion Staff
After a disappointing season
last year, the Texas A&M
Women’s Golf Team hopes to
jump back into the Southwest
Conference race and return to
their national qualifying form of
two years ago.
Senior Susan Yands and
sophomore Angela Atkins, both
qualifyers for the upcoming
Susie Maxwell Berning tourna
ment this weekend in Norman,
Okla., should play vital roles in
bringing the team’s perform
ance back to top form.
Yantis is a 1978 state cham
pion from San Antonio Holmes
who qualified for NCAA nation
als with the team in ’81 and ’82.
(She placed 14th her freshman
year)
She was also a member of
Aggie team which won the 1982
TAIAW State Championship.
Atkins is a 1982 state cham
pion from Houston Dulles who
was runner-up in the Texas
State Amateur Tournament last
week.
And while last year’s team had
its problems, Yantis, the team
captain, hopes to provide some
vital leadership this season.
“Last season, there was a lack
of leadership and everybody
seemed to be competing against
one' another,” Yantis said
Wednesday.
“But things should change
this year. Everybody’s working
hard and there’s a lot of team
unity.”
Building a team this year
won’t be easy. The group is
young — two seniors, one
junior, one sophomore and four
freshmen make up the squad.
Another problem is the com
petition. Texas A&M is in
NCAA Region 6, one of the
toughest in the country.
But Atkins, a sophomore, is
optimistic.
“In the past couple of years,”
Atkins said, “one good player
had to carry several people who
weren’t so good.
“But this year we’ve got sever
al strong players. The whole
team should be good.”
Even though the team failed
to qualify for nationals last year,
See GOLF page 14
The Texas A&M women’s golf team
will count on solid performances by
Angela Atkins and Susan Yantis if
it wants to once again be a SWC
power. Yantis, the team captain,
said better team play is the key.
Houston blows 7-0 lead;
7V2 games back in west
United Press International
SAN DIEGO — The whispers
were growing louder: while the
Dodgers and Braves were fight
ing atop the National League
West, the Houston Astros were
making a run at them.
That run slowed to a walk
Wednesday night as Nolan Ryan
failed to hold a 7-0 lead and Ter
ry Kennedy’s solo homer cli
maxed a four-run seventh in
ning that rallied the San Diego
Padres to an 8-7 victory over the
Astros.
The loss left the Astros IV2
games behind first-place Los
Angeles.
Kennedy, who has 15 homers
this season, now has hit one in
each of his last four games and
in five of his last six. Sid Monge,
7-2, pitched the final three in
nings to extend the Padres’ win
ning streak to four while Frank
DePino, 3-4, who relieved Ryan
in the seventh, took the loss.
The defeat left the Astros
shocked.
“I had good velocity, good
command of my pitches and I
was getting ahead of the hitters,”
said Ryan. “I don’t really think I
lost anything, it just seemed ev
erything they hit was well-
placed.
“When you get that big a lead
and you’re in a pennant race, to
lose like that is a cardinal sin.
This looked like a game we
could finally relax in. It just
didn’t work out that way.”
Ray Knight was just glad he
wasn’t able to wager on the
game.
“Going into the bottom of the
fifth I would have bet a million
dollars we wouldn’t have lost
that game,” Knight said.
Even San Diego manager
Dick Williams was surprised.
“Nolan sure looked like, he
was on his way to another shut
out,” Williams said. “Even if we
hadn’t won the game, it was a
feather in our cap just to get him
out of there.”
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