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The Battalion Sports
Thursday, September, 15 1983/The Battalion/Page 17
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by Scott Griffin
Battalion Staff
After a shaky start in the first
ne, the Texas A&M women's
lleyball team came back in con-
icing fashion to defeat Texas
theran College Wednesday
it by scores of 15-6, 15-7 and
TLC quickly jumped out to a
lead in the first game when the
had had a little trouble
fh passing.
But that was the only lead the
Bulldogs had for the rest of the
night. Trailing 5-6, A&M reeled
off 10 straight points on the serv
ing of freshman Angie Smith to
win the game.
In the second game, last year’s
All-SWC middle blocker Sherri
Brinkman led the attack with
some savage blocking and spiking.
“We really flowed well together,”
Brinkman said.
“We weren't really sure of
ourselves at first, but we slowly
got better and we could feel we
were just gonna win. When we get
going, there s no stopping us, ” she
said.
Indeed, there didn’t seem to
be, as Brinkman excited the small
but vocal crowd with some incre
dible spikes.
With the exception of hitter
Denise Dornak, who had several
good shots of her own, the entire
TLC squad had blocking and pas
sing troubles all evening.
A&M’s front line dominated
play for the entire match, and in
the third game, freshman Mar
garet Spence led a blocking attack
which crushed the TLC offense.
“I was nervous out there,”
Spence said. “But we got the flow
going pulled it all together. I’d
been sitting on the bench and
wanted to get in the game — I was
just hungry for the court.”
Head coach Terry Condon was
also pleased with the showing.
“We were little uptight ’cause it
was our first home game,” Condon
said. “But we got the adrenalin
flowing and came back. ”
“We had a lot of movement on
defense,” Condon said. “That
caused a lot of good ups and gave
us a lot of points and side-outs.
Our overall performance was ex
cellent.”
Texas A&M now stands 6-4 on
the year, with their next match
scheduled for this weekend at
Southern Illinois University.
ilborn, Rice to face LS U
mid negative atmosphere
United Press International
HOUSTON - With a 14-game
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ds the second-longest current
d in college football at 14
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the Owls 56-13 and this
is favored to beat them by 20
s does not make it any easier.
“I’m trying hard not too. But
you have to wonder sometimes
what is going on. You’ve got to
guard yourself, your coaches and
your players against that aw-hell
syndrome. You know where you
say. Aw hell, what bad is going to
happen next.”’
Albom said, however, he did
not think his team had forgotten
how to win.
“I don’t think remembering or
forgetting how to win — that’s
something you would forget. But
maybe sometimes in the back of
their minds there is the thing ab
out when is it going to turn, when
are the bad things going to stop
happening. ”
He said media references to the
losing streak stretching back to the
1981 season do not help.
“The world’s full of negative
people, he said. “It’s a whole lot
easier to be negative than it is to
be positive. But I think all my
players realize that.”
Albom said it would take “an
extreme effort out of everybody”
to beat the LSU Tigers. However,
he said he would not revert to the
psychological tricks predecessor
Al Conover used before games
with LSU.
Conover had a manager light a
string of firecrackers in the locker
room at the moment Conover
reached the end of his pre-game
speech. But the smoke created by
the firecrackers drove the team
outside, gasping for air, and into
the emerging Tiger team.
"It made quite an impression. I
don’t know but that Charlie Mac
(McClendon) thought we were
breathing fire. In fact, we were,”
Alborn said.
Rice beat LSU 17-7 the last time
they played in Rice Stadium in
1980, but has lost the two subse
quent contests at Baton Rouge.
The rivalry is Rice’s oldest in non
conference play.
Auburn’s Dye
says UT tough
United Press International
AUBURN, Ala. — Auburn
Coach Pat Dye said Tuesday he
is uncertain if his fourth-ranked
Tigers are physically capable of
beating back the offensive and
defensive lines of third-ranked
Texas.
The Tigers, 1-0 after last
week’s 24-3 win over Southern
Mississippi, will play host
Saturday to the Longhorns in a
regionally-televised contest.
Kickoff is set for 11:30 a.m.
CDT.
“The biggest challenge will
be how we match up with them
on the offensive line and across
the defensive front,” said Dye.
“I am not sure we are physically
capable of doing that. We have
got to better ourselves.”
The coach said the Lon
ghorns have “big and strong”
linemen and a quick defensive
secondary. On offense, he said,
the running backs rank among
the country’s best.
“Texas is without a doubt one
of the strongest teams in Amer
ica,” Dye said.
The coach said he expects
junior Rob Moerschell to start
at quarterback for Texas instead
of Rick Mclvor. Todd Dodge,
who apparently was favored for
the starter position, separated a
shoulder during a recent scrim
mage.
“Moerschell is the better
runner of the two,” said Dye.
“Mclvor will also play and when
he is in the game, we anticipate
them throwing the ball more.”
Looking back at the Southern
Mississippi game, Dye said he
was pleased at the Tigers’ over
all performance except for mis
takes that kept them from scor
ing more points.
“There is no question that we
play a different kind of football
team in Texas,” he said. “When
you look at Texas, they have ev
erything you need to have a
good program.
photo by John Makcly
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for a spike during the Aggies’ 15-6, 15-7,
15-3 win over Texas Lutheran Wednesday.
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