_ Texas A&.M
The Battalion Sports
Friday, October 21,1983/The Battalion/Page 13
ice may pull tricks against Aggies
' B staff photo by Dean Saito
(evin Murray will lead
UfcM Saturday at Rice.
by John P. Lopez
Battalion Staff
Ho hum.
Texas A&M will travel to
Houston Saturday to take on the
Rice Owls.
Sound exciting?
Probably not, but with Rice
coach Ray Alborn walking the
sidelines as head coach for the
last time at Rice Stadium, just
about anything may happen
when the Owls challenge the
Aggies.
Alborn announced his retire
ment from coaching two weeks
ago and has since made it clear
that during the remainder of his
tenure as head coach, he’s going
to, “do all the things I’ve always
wanted to do as a coach.”
Exactly what those “things”
are, nobody exactly knows, but
the Aggies will likely find out
Saturday. Many Southwest Con
ference football observers ex
pect Alborn to gamble and use
many trick plays while trying to
upset the Aggies.
But Alborn hasn’t said a word
about the Owls game plan for
Texas A&M — he just hopes it
will be good enough to give him
a win in his last home appear
ance.
“It will be an emotional time
for me,” Alborn said. “After
spending 16 years at the place, it
will be difficult knowing that I
won’t be walking up that tunnel
again after a game.”
That emotion, Aggie coach
Jackie Sherrill says, could help
the Owls play much better than
their 1-6 record indicates.
“Rice played extremely well
against Texas Tech (14-0 loss),”
Sherrill said, “and I’m sure
they’re going to play hard
against us because it’ll be an
emotional thing for them due to
the resignation of coach
Alborn.”
And with Rice on an emotion
al high and Texas A&M perhaps
looking forward to key SWC
games against SMU and Arkan
sas, will the Aggies be flat against
the Owls?
Texas A&M center Matt Dar
win doesn’t think so.
“Every game is special and
the whole team has to be ready to
play awfully hard,” Darwin said.
“Rice will be ready and we have
to be ready to play.”
Nevertheless, since Rice has
only won a single game in the last
two years, it would be easy for
the Aggies to be overconfident.
But linebacker Darrell Smith
said Texas A&M cannot afford
to look past the Owls.
“We’ll have no problem get
ting up to play Rice,” he said.
“Every player wants to win and
knows that we have the capabil
ity to do just that.”
Offensive tackle Nate Stead
man agrees:
“They’re no pushovers,”
Steadman said. “We have to go
out and get better this week and
every week.”
The Aggies are heavy favo
rites over Rice, but that’s not to
say the Owls don’t have talented
players — players that are hun
gry for an upset.
But Alborn said the Aggies
are also talented and will be a
tough opponent to knock off.
“They certainly have a lot of
talent,” Alborn said. “Kevin
Murray has really been a spark
for their offense. He sits back in
the pocket against the rush and
has a quick release, but it’s really
frightening whan he starts run
ning around back there.
“Defensively, it’s a typical
A&M team — big, strong and
mobile.”
Aggies to host volleyball
ournament this weekend
sc. 2
by Bob Caster
Battalion Staff
Tie Texas A&M volleyball
in will host the A&M Classic
leyball tournament Friday
j* 1 ™-1 Saturday in G. Rollie White
iseum. Entered in the tour-
15 neni are Texas Tech, Oral
Iris, LSU and Texas A&M.
Kav Don, Texas A&M assis-
t athletic director, said the
ie(l rnament will be good for the
taofl'BjL w } 10 are holding down
ond place in the Southwest
nference race — one match
linn Texas.
“We’re looking forward to
Sbecause it will be a good test
flalioi us,” she said. “But it won’t be
linst teams that are impossi-
tolbeat.”
"■‘■“Don hopes that the tourna-
nt, which is only five years
n be expanded to host a
" about eight teams next
hat we’re trying to do,”
said, “is to build it into a tour-
ment where we could have
fiepf the top teams in the na
il coming in. We have been
ing lo get it off and running
that direction.”
■—5h* said the Tex^s A&M vol-
ball team tries to get most of
ams for the tournament
itnbut of state because most of
e Abgies’ opponents are Texas
ims
Mostly out-of-state teams are
sought for the tourney because
many of the Aggies’ opponents
are Texas teams, she said. These
teams from other states provide
the Aggies with some different
competition and allows the team
to see a little of what it will be up
against when it gets into regional
and national competition.
The Aggies have already
played in four out-of-state tour
naments this season, competing
against some nationally-ranked
teams. Team members Sherri
Brinkman and Chris Zogata
have racked up all-tournament
honors in two of those tourna
ments — Brinkman at LSU and
Nebraska and Zogata at LSU.
The team recently suffered a
loss to nationally-ranked Ten
nessee in three straight games.
But Don said the team re
sponded in a very positive way
coming off of the loss.
“I think it helped them to
know what they had to work har
der at,” she said. “It’s giving
them an extra boost to work on
the things they need to.”
The Aggies will play Texas
Tech at 2 p.m. Friday, LSU at 7
p.m. Friday and Oral Roberts at
noon on Saturday.
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This has been the scene for the Rice Owls all
year — a dejected bench in the fourth
quarter.
The Owls have lost all but one game over the
photo by Donn Friedman
past two years, but hope to give retiring Owls
coach Ray Alborn a win in his last home game
as Rice head coach Saturday against the
Aggies.
Paterno hopes to upset W. Virginia
United Press International
Coach Joe Paterno suffered
deep embarrassment in Penn
State’s ignominious slide from
1982 national champion to right
out of the top 20 college football
ratings. He has an opportunity
Saturday to silence some of his
critics by beating fourth-ranked
West Virginia.
Penn State is on an upsurge
and that momentum could help
Paterno and the Nittany Lions
make West Virginia their fifth
consecutive victim this season.
The Lions dropped their first
three games to Nebraska, Cin
cinnati and Iowa and roared
back with victories over Temple,
Rutgers, Alabama and Syracuse.
West Virginia is enjoying one
of its finest seasons with six con
secutive wins. Additional pre
stige would be forthcoming if
the Mountaineers beat Penn
State for the first time since
1955.
Fortunately for the Mounties,
they no longer have to contend
with a Curt Warner, a second
team All-America with Penn
State last season who now is tear-
ing apart National Football
League defenses. State’s best
offensive weapon these days is
D.J. Dozier, the nation’s 17th
leading ground gainer with 677
yards for a 96.7 game average.
The only rusher to pass the
1,000 yard mark this season is
Heisman Trophy candidate
Mike Rozier of top-ranked Neb
raska with 1,064 yards. His 152
yards a game is second only to
the 157.7 for No. 1 ground gain
er Napoleon McCallum of Navy.
Rozier can improve on his fi
gures against a 2-4 Colorado
Saturday as the unbeaten Hus-
kers aim for an eighth consecu
tive victory this season and
attempt to improve on a 17-
game winning string, the longest
among major college football
teams.
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