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Page 18/The Battalion/Friday, October 7, 1983
Volleyball team at LSU tourney
by John Wagner
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M volleyball coach
Terry Condon says this
weekend could be the turning
point of what’s been an other
wise disappointing season.
‘Losing was all in our heads. It’s not a lack of
skills, because we have the talent to play with
anybody. We just keep making mental mis
takes that kill us. ’ — Volleyball coach Terry
Condon
“It was nice to see the team
come back, and do what we
wanted them to do.”
If so, credit Condon with a
touch of psychological genius.
A grueling, four-hour prac
tice/gripe session, held after the
team’s loss to Texas in Austin
Monday night, seems to have
turned the Aggies around. “I
think everything’s back on
track,” Condon says. “We’re
ready to go.”
The Aggies get a chance to
prove that readiness during the
LSU Aspri Volleyball Showcase,
which runs today through Sun
day in Baton Rouge, La.
nessee. Illinois, Penn State and
host LSU round out the field.
Monday’s loss to Texas gave
the Aggies something else they
can shoot for this weekend —
revenge. The Longhorns tore
A&M apart in Austin, winning
in three games, 15-4, 15-8 and
15-8. It may be a different story
in Baton Rouge, however.
The six-team tournament,
which Condon says “is one of the
toughest in the nation,” includes
two nationally-ranked teains,
No. 10 Texas and No. 13 Ten-
The first hints of A&M’s
turn-around were evident in
Wednesday’s 15-13, 15-13, 15-8
defeat of the Houston Cougars.
The Coogs took a 9-1 lead in the
first garqe before the Aggies
came together to put them away.
That, Condon says, was a very
positive sign.
“The players want to to make
up for last time (against Texas),”
Condon said. “They know they
played bad. Once you play
somebody, you get over your jit
ters and realize they’re not as
good as you thought they were.
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“Losing was all in our heads.
It’s not a lack of skills, because
we have the talent to play with
anybody. We just keep making
mental mistakes that kill us.”
A&M opened their tourna
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The Texas A&M rifle team
may be able to recruit more
shooters soon.
After being on temporary
status for the last two years, the
team received permanent varsi
ty status this fall, and coach Ma
jor Rick Pitts says the new status
should help the team in many
ways.
“The main thing varsity sta
tus will do for us is enable me to
go out and recruit more shoo
ters,” Pitts said.
In past years, people on the
rifle team were voluntary mem
bers.
“What I’d like to do is be able
to go out and offer scholarships
to really good shooters so they’ll
come to A&M,” Pitts said.
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Before this year, the team
had been operating on a “book
store account.” Pitts said the
account, which was about
$7,500, paid for the team’s ex
penses to shoot in competitions.
Pitts said he hopes the perma
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“Right now, we’re one of the
best air rifle teams in the na
tion,” he said. “The team mem
bers have to wait in line to prac
tice because we don’t nave
enough air rifles to go around. I
just wish we had the money to
buy three more air rifles. I’d be
happy with that. At least it’s a
start.”
vious years. He also said there
were some outstanding shooters
that may receive individual
honors.
Senior Glenn Park has done
well this semester and it looks
like he may make the All-
America team. “My main goal —
at least this year — is to qualify as
an All-American and shoot in
the NCAA.”
Park, who made the All-
Southwest Conference team last
year, has a good chance of
reaching his goals. He is pre-
sendy shooting 377 out of a pos
sible score of 400. The cut-off
point to compete in the NCAA’s
is a minimum score of 375.
Park already received one
honor this fall when he and
three other team members qual
ified to shoot in the Internation
al Team tryouts.
Varsity status also allows the
team to compete in the NCAA
championships.
“We have a good chance to
take our whole team this year,”
Pitts said, “With two, possibly
three shooters making the All-
American team.”
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Park, Ben Potter, Kevin Scha-
baker, and John Berry shot high
enough scores in a champion
ship tournament two weeks ago
to qualify for the tryouts, which
will be next July in Phoenix.
The International Team
competes in the Pan American
games and Pitts said more team
members should qualify for the
tryouts with scores from com
petitions throughout the year.
The team got off to a good
start at the Texas State Air Rifle
Championship Sept. 24-25
where approximately 50 indi
viduals and 12 teams, including
Texas A&M, competed.
A shooter may compete in
one of four classifications:
marksman, sharpshooter, ex
pert, and masters. Five Aggie
shooters placed at the cham
pionships, and the squad, di
vided into three teams, captured
first, second and third in the
team division.
The rifle team travels to
Houston this weekend for the
Smallbore Rifle Prone Cham
pionships where they won the
title last year.
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NEW ORLEANS — A state
appeals court Thursday decided
it would not rule on the eligibil
ity of Tulane quarterback Jon
English before the weekend,
allowing the senior passer to
play for the Green Wave against
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a decision early next week, offi
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That delay means the tem
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which English played against
Vanderbilt last Saturday will re
main in effect for this weekend’s
game at Memphis State, said
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The court’s decision came
one day after a distrietjudge had
removed the restraining order
under which English had per
formed all season. Civil District
Judge Revius Ortique ruled it
was unlikely English would suc
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