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ByCHAREAN WILLIAMS
Spurts Writer
■ “Now we can think about Texas,”
M&M middle blocker Chemine Doty
laid after the Aggies def eated Texas
Tech Monday night.
The Ags, who are now 33-3 over-
and 8-1 in conference, got all the
preliminaries taken care of when
Biev defeated the Red Raiders 15-2,
1-8 and 15-10.
I The win kept the Ags in a lie for
■rst place in the Southwest Confer-
ei < with Texas, making Wednes
day’s match, at Gregory Gymnasium
i in Austin, a winner-take-all affair.
■ On Oct. 21 in Lubbock, the Red
tRaiders played the Ags tough. Al-
nrngh A&M won, they felt they had
bmething to prove to Tech. Mon-
ay night, A&M proved they had the
letter team.
“There was a lot of revenge in this
jiatch,” A&M Head Coach Terry
iondon said. ‘‘We had a horrible
aatch up there. They said all week
bey were going to beat us in three
(straight games).”
“We definitely paid them back,”
|ggie setter Lesha Beakley said,
hey weren’t expecting us to beat
aem in three. This time most of us
ad good games. We passed really
-ell."
Although everyone played well
lar the Ags, A&M outside attacker
Margaret Spence stood out. Spence
frilled the ball past the T ech players
|l! night long.
I Spence finished with a game high
(4 kills and had an excellent hitting
percentage of .700.
A&M’s Terry Condon
Aggie middle blocker Chemine Doty (10) makes a diving save
for the ball as setter Chris Zogota (left) looks on. The Ags de
feated Texas Tech Monday night 15-2, 15-8 and 15-10 to im-
Photo by DEAN SAITO
prove their overall season record to 33-3 and their confer
ence record to 8-1. The Aggies take on Texas Wednesday
night in Austin for the Southwest Conference championship.
“What can
Spence said.
■The sets threaded the button hole,
■justcouldn’t help but nail them.”
I The Ags did run into a f ew prob-
■msinthe second and third games,
■hey fell behind 6-2 in the second
Bame and 9-4 in the third game be
fore regaining the lead in both.
“They were just too keyed up,”
Condon said. “We told them to relax
and pretend like it’s practice. They
tensed up and played loo hard.”
“I think that, like always, we have
a couple of bad passing errors and
then we all overcompensate for each
other,” Doty said, who had a match
high 15 digs. “We are getting belter
about it (bad passing errors). Now
we only lose about two or three
points instead of the game. We just
need to relax and we ll be all right.”
Overall, the Ags were pleased
with their performance.
“They plAyed very well,” Condon
said. “Our defense seems to be very
strong. Our offense is not quite as
strong as 1 would like it to be.”
“1 think it (the match) went better
than what we expecteci,” an excited
Beakley said. “I thought it would be
a tougher match. We flowed tonight.
We served much tougher. They just
couldn’t pick them up.”
As soon as the Tech match ended,
the Ags began thinking and talking
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The last time A&M played Texas,
the Horns defeated the Ags in four
games. The Aggie team said this
time the outcome will be different.
“They (A&M) believe they can do
it,” Condon said. “I think we can do
it. The players really want it this
time. There’s been a calming effect
at practice. ‘We’re going to do all
right’ is the attitude.
“We have to keep the emotional
factor out of it. We want to relax and
play well. We need to have concen
tration and intensity the entire
match.”
“We’re ready for them — defi
nitely ready,” Spence said. “There’s
more on the line this time. We’ve im
proved a whole lot since last time.”
“I think we’re peaking,” Beakley
said. “Beating Pepperdine and
Texas Tech gave us a boost. We’re
confident.”
“We’re a lot more confident,”
Doty said. “I think we’re going to go
in there and play our game this time.
We’ve got the mental attitude that
we’re a good team — the best in the
conference. It doesn’t mean Texas is
any better than us just because they
beat us the last two years.”
Condon said the win over No. 8
San Diego State on Oct. 26 was the
turning point in the Aggies’ season.
“Ever since San Diego, they real
ized they were good. It wasn’t just
me telling them they were good,”
Condon said. “Now they go ‘gosh,
we are good’. They’re already think
ing about Nationals. They think they
can get into the final four.”
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