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By TONY CORNETT
Sports Writer
The Texas A&M women’s volley
ball team opened their home season
before a crowd of 219 in G. Rollie
White Coliseum Wednesday night
with a convincing win over Sam
Houston State University.
Billie Aggies took the best three-
out-of-five match in straight games
15-6, 15-9, 15-10 while raising their
overall match record to 3-1.
■A&M Head Coach Terry Condon
was pleased with the way the team
played.
"I thought they did real well,” said
Condon, “We were trying a lot of
new plays and we were running our
offense a little bit different. They
really ran some nice offensive plays.
I was really pleased to see some of
the things we’ve been doing in prac
tice come through in this match. Be
cause this is were we got to do it
against teams like this. All in all, I
was very pleased with their perfor
mance.”
Sam Houston State Head Coach
Brenda Gray said that her team was
“scared to death,” out on the court
against the Aggies.
The Bearkats had three new play
ers on the floor after a recruiting
year that brought in a lot of fresh
man talent.
Coach Condon gave the Bearkats
credit for their agressive style of
play.
“They’ve always been a scrappy
team,” Condon said. “FWery time
we’ve played them there have been
times during the match when we’ve
had problems. They were a little bit
stronger offensively. They hit the
ball a little bit better than they have
in the past.”
Coach Condon didn’t substitute as
many of her players in and out of
the game as she’s been accustomed
to, but she had a valid reason.
Condon is looking for continuity.
“I’m trying to let them play more
all-around at the beginning of the
year so maybe I won’t get stuck in
positions that I don’t won’t to be
later on,” Condon said. “T hey gell a
little better together and play better
defense, hopefully. It may not work,
but we’ll see.”
The next game for the Aggies will
be Monday night against the Univer
sity of Georgia in G. Rollie White
Coliseum at 7:30 p.m.
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Terrible tackling takes the wind
out of Hurricanes’ No. 1 ranking
"Our players don’t tackle very well," Miami Head
Coach Jimmy Johnson said. "It wasn’t as much of a
problem against Auburn because we were more of a
swarming defense, and we were not in a position of hav
ing to make too many one-on-one tackles. But against
Florida we didn’t have that kind of swarming, fanatical
tackling, and it almost cost us. ”
United Press International
1 NEW YORK — You know it’s still
early in the season when the coach of
the No. 1 team in the nation says his
players can’t tackle.
|v But that’s the reward the defend
ing champion Miami Hurricanes got
from Head Coach Jimmy Johnson
after knocking off Auburn and Flor
ida within six days to move into the
top spot in the United Press Interna
tional Board of Coaches’ ratings.
■ “Our players don’t tackle very
well,” Johnson said. “It wasn’t as
much of a problem against Auburn
because we were more of a swarming
defense, and we were not in a posi
tion of having to make too many
one-on-one tackles. But against Flor
ida we didn’t have that kind of
swarming, fanatical tackling, and it
almost cost us.”
H Miami received 30 of a possible 35
ffrst-place votes and 513 points to
take a comfortable lead over No. 2
Nebraska (415), No. 3 Texas (337),
No. 4 UCLA (330) and No. 5 Clem-
son (311).
B Nebraska received four first-place
votes. Teams receive 15 points for
first-place votes, 14 for second, etc.
Miami, ranked fourth in presea
son, jumped to No. 1 after running
its nation-leading winning streak to
13 games. The Hurricanes edged
preseason No. 1 Auburn 20-18 and
topped Florida, ranked 18th in pre
season, 32-20.
Auburn fell to sixth in the ratings,
followed by No. 7 Penn State, No. 8
Ohio State, No. 9 Michigan and No.
10 Oklahoma.
Rounding out the Top 20 are No.
11 Alabama, No. 12 Brigham
Young, No. 13 Arizona State, No. 14
Iowa, which received one first-place
vote, No. 15 Notre Dame, No. 16
Boston College, No. 17 Southern
Methodist, No. 18 Washington, No.
19 Florida State and No. 20 Pitts
burgh.
Boston College soared four spots
after a 44-24 win over Western Car
olina. Miami and Clemson, a 40-7
winner over Appalachian State last
Saturday, each jumped three places.
BYU, unranked in pre-season,
vaulted into 12th after a 20-14 upset
over Pittsburgh. Florida State also
crashed the ratings this week follow
ing a 48-17 blowout of East Carolina.
Pitt took the biggest fall, slipping
13 spots from its No. 7 pre-season
rating. Florida dropped out of the
ratings along wih Georgia, which
was 19th in pre-season and hasn’t
played a game yet.
In games pitting ranked teams
against each other this week, Michi
gan hosts Miami and Alabama meets
Boston College at Birmingham, Ala.
Saturday. It will be Miami’s third
game against a ranked team in 12
days.
Including Michigan and Alabama,
11 Top 20 teams open their seasons
this Saturday. Nebraska hosts
Wyoming, UCLA visits San Diego
State, Penn State hosts Rutgers,
Ohio State hosts Oregon State, Okla
homa hosts Stanford, Arizona State
hosts Oklahoma State, Iowa hosts
Iowa State, Notre Dame plays Pur
due at Indianapolis, and Washing
ton hosts Northwestern.
Also, Clemson visits Virginia and
Brigham Young hosts Baylor.
The Pac-10 and Big Ten are the
most well-represented conferences
with three teams each. UCLA, Ari
zona State and Washington are from
the Pac-10; Ohio State, Michigan
and Iowa from the Big 10. ,
Photo by PETER ROCHA
Texas A&M’s Angi Smith (#1) spikes the ball from the cor
ner during the Aggies’ home opening three-game sweep of
Sam Houston State Wednesday night in G. Rollie White Col
iseum. Chemine Doty (#10) awaits a possible return.
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