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SMU must shake off loss
before A&M showdown
Associated Press
The Soul hern Methodist Mus
tangs will have to shake off their na
tionally televised overtime loss to
North Carolina State quickly.
The Mustangs, who lead the
Southwest Conference basketball
standings by a game over Texas
A&M, must travel to Waco for a
Monday night meeting with the Bay
lor Bears.
The Bears have won only one
SWC game but are always dangerous
in Heart O’Texas Coliseum.
Should SMU push aside Baylor,
then it will have to fight off A&M
Wednesday night at Moody Col
iseum in Dallas.
SMU has two SWC losses and
A&M is the only other league team
with as few as three.
A&M will be rested, after not hav
ing played in a week.
TCU set up the A&M-SMU show
down with a 72-66 overtime victory
over Arkansas, who defeated SMU
last week.
SMU lost 82-78 to North Carolina
State on the road Saturday and Mus
tang Coach Dave Bliss was less than
pleased with the way the game was
called.
Bliss said the officials, all of them
from the Atlantic Coast Conference,
refused to call fouls every time
seven-foot center Jon Koncak
touched the ball.
“They just wouldn’t make any
foul calls on the inside stuff,” Bliss
said. “It happened three times down
there late in the game. They hit Jon
and there was no call.
“There’s one thing I can’t give the
team — competent refereeing.”
TCU’s win over Arkansas was its
first regular season triumph over the
Razorbacks since 1972.
“We showed a lot of heart,” said
TCU Coach Jim Killingsworth.
It was TCU’s fourth SWC victory
in its last five games.
“What an unbelievable year this
has been,” Killingsworth said. “The
conference is close enough this year
that it seems like the No. 9 team can
beat the No. 1 team on any given
day.”
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By CHAREAN WILLIAMS
Assistant Sports Editor
Lesha Beakley serves the ball
during a match against the Q-
Zoo Saturday. A&M took first
in the US VBA tournament.
The Texas A&M women’s volley
ball team ended the regular season
ranked No. 15 in the nation. Starting
the spring season, the Ags are
ranked No. 1 — at least in the Lone
Star Region.
The Aggies competed in a United
States Volleyball Association tourna
ment in the East Kyle gyms Satur
day.
A&M defeated Texas Majic 4-15,
15-12 and 15-12 to take the
championship.
Texas Majic, a team composed of
Gulf Coast area collegiate coaches
and former college players, is the de
fending champion of the Lone Star
Region. Add to that the fact that the
Aggies practiced only three days
prior to the tournament, and one
gets the feeling that this team will be
tough — real tough.
A&M Coach Terry Condon was
pleased with the results.
“They played real well,” Condon
said. “They did a lot better than I ex
pected. I sure didn’t expect them to
win.
“Their were a lot of good teams in
this tournament. This is the first
time in about six or seven years that
an A&M team has won an open tour
nament. If they’re this good now, I
hope they’re this good at the end.”
The Aggies’ first team was com
prised of four returning starters, in
cluding All-American Sherri Brink-
man, from last year’s 33-4 team.
The new starters are Stacey Smith
and Stacey Gildner. Smith replaces
Chemine Doty in the middle and
Gildner replaces Angi Smith on the
outside.
“Everybody played pretty well at
one time or another during the day,”
Condon said. “Stacey Smith played
well in the middle and Stacey
Gildner and Margaret (Spence) hit
well from outside.”
Setter Lesha Beakley said the Ag
gies really played as a team.
“I felt like there were no individu
als out there,” Beakley said. “We
played as a team. Two years ago
Majic smeared us. This is the first
time we’ve matched people that used
to beat us.”
The other A&M teams didn’t fare
as well in the 32 team tournament.
The A&M women’s second team
won two matches, but lost four.
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Dean Goldfine (right) looks on. The Aggie
men’s tennis team chalked up its seventl
dual-match win of the year against Soutb
western Louisiana over the weekend, 7-2.
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Teams from Texas, Texas Tech and U.T.-Arlington
as well as individuals from surrounding areas will
compete. Competition will be in men’s divisions only.
Come out and watch the men compete on the high
bar, parallel bars, vault, floor exercise, pommel
horse and rings. Aerofit is located west of FM 2818
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