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Wednesday, September 5,1984/The Battalion/Page 11
Cowboys’ Donley
gains confidence
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acNe!
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play SHSU
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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
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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.
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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.
So even though we have a fantastic women’s volleyball team,
polo team, rugby team, soccer team, field hockey team, fencing
team, swim team, wrestling team, water polo team, cross country
team, boxing team, lacrosse team and many others all these ath
letes can breathe more easily.
None of these sports, with the hundreds of dedicated athletes
has to worry about being booed or cheered by a mere 42,000 fans.
Instead they can be ignored by nearly the entire University all
at once.
So the next time someone comes up to me to complain about
how hard I’m being on the football team, be prepared to tell me
the last time you went to some other A&M game.
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