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□cNel Sports Wednesday, September 5,1984/The Battalion/Page 11 Cowboys’ Donley gains confidence See page 12 acNe! \gs set to play SHSU n opener JMETEKs By TONY CORNETT Sports Writer The Texas A&M women’s volley ball team will play their first 1984 Reason home opener tonight in G. ' <5 polite White Coliseum against Sam ^riouston State University. The f natch will get under way at 7:30 •j.m. The Aggie women are coming off wo wins Tuesday night over a team omposed of members of the Bryan- "follege Station sports media. Tuesday’s match with local sports ■ I vriters and broadcasters could not A I A >e accurately called a tuneup match I ■■ — at least not for the Aggies anyway. ■ ■ If anybody got tunea up in that natch it was the media team. They ost both games by the scores of 15-2 ^1^ indjl5-7. J I I However, compared to last sea- ^ ■ on’s media effort, there was a narked improvement in scoring. The ’84 media team managed to i impasse .core nine points in two games while Inch defiei ast season’s team could only muster •e weekstmvo.points in three games, losing 15- reema-), 15 I. 15 1 luthoria ! X missile ns have! billion the Rea • presold; evond u started w There were only about 50 specta- ors to cheer on the players. And :heei they did, along with many nickers and chuckles for the media ■quad. illyhe Aggie women seemed to have i great dme and were great sports as jped its fir. he men of the media tried to make lot accepti- Jp > the gap in conditioning and rharin their opponents into making mental mistakes. House ai *d produfl . TheSenj an addicio ittached,! ily 15 stan / if Congr s also area ary aid i uing theSd in Nil But it was not to be. The A&M women only had one lapse and that occured in the second game when the media team opened up an early 4-0 lead. Chris Lee, left, attempts to block the ball against Texas A&M’s Karre Welch (#8), Photo by DEAN SAITO during Tuesday’s Varsity vs. Media volley ball match at G. Rollie White Coliseum. UTEP burn still has not healed Well the week after football game, the now fa mous UTEP sunburn has faded and those lovely mums are now wilted and crushed. And still the question remains — what is Aggie sports all about? I watched a football game that stunk. That put me in a bad mood. But the worse thing about the whole Black Sat urday affair is I am trapped by a university that won’t allow me to let off the collective steam and frustration of watch ing the home team play terrible. ED CASSAVOY Sports Editor How I ached to boo the bums for dropping the ball, and could only scratch my head as I watched the teams roam around the field aimlessly. Oh yeah, I’d be a real mean Ag for being disgusted by the play of The Sherrill Squad, but it is our University team. I want to see triple figures in our scores,not a team that wins only because the other team lets them off the hook, but because the Aggies actually beat the crap out of the opposing team. I want to see A&M walk all over UT and SMU (revenge for last year), and smear anyone else that gets in their way. But ho\v can a football fan take the early 1984 A&M football season series seriously? How come I have the suspicious feeling that A&M is trying to slip through the backdoor to so called SWC respectability. Folks, I would be the first to stand up for the Ags when they deserve it. And I’d be thrilled to watch the Ags succeed. And by implication win. And to those other forgotten winning A&M teams I wish you luck. Apathy seems a way of life here at Texas A&M. 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