Friday, September 27, 1985/The Battalion/Page 13 ^A&M spikers find out rs all about work ethic 1/2 OFF ALL YOU CAN EAT! 1/2 OFF Ifo itle B reta mpoigi ALL J r years, b Ellis and ight a 'pionship ettermenJ peers on 3 be the sea] /ought. ] i pretty ’ve tyj n’t playtti one of tki| ly helped ! ity andevJ ( s returmf a junior ft mention i, and j l-Ameriaiil obecom) which nui ughestini Aggies -I at least, snl I is to havtJ every toural would be til is just no II title), jlayingwtT and Cog! Flint N nd fifth-y vide then ■pth m though ar, was >; Ellis to win e* in during By CHAREAN WILLIAMS Assistant Sports Editor I Thus far this season, the only tiling the 'Texas A&M volleyball team has lacked has been intensity. I Looking to find last year's form, which carried A&M to a 33-4 season, Terry Condon changed the Aggies’ practices to try and find some consis tency. B “I’ve been too easy on them in practice,†Condon said. “We haven’t oeen as intense. We will work a lot harder in practice. We’ll work the whole two hours in the gym.†I The No. 16 Aggies got to have “a little fun†on the court Wednesday and Thursday. Condon had the Ags limning, jumping, hitting, blocking and sweating— really sweating. 1 “Wednesday we worked on hitting a lot,†Condon said. “Thursday we worked on blocking and the tran sition game.†I The Aggies, 8-3 on the season, are going to be on ton of their blocking game Friday night. That’s because the Ags take on Ruby Randolph and Kamar at 7:30 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum. 1 Randolph is sixth in the nation in kills per game, having averaged 4.61. I “She’s a good hitter,†Condon said. “She jumps pretty high. We have to take away the strong shot. We will play def ense around that.†1 On Oct. 15 of last year, middle blocker Sherri Brinkman and out side hitter Margaret Spence keyed the Aggies to a 15-1, 15-12, 15-0 crushing of the Cardinals. 1 However, this season Lamar has already upset Houston, so Condon A&M spiker Stacey Smith said the Ags must be ready. “I haven’t seen them play yet this year,†Condon said, “but from what I’ve heard, they’re better than last year. I’ve also heard they’re a real up and down team. You have to get on them early and get them down. They still have the potential to come back. It’s not going to be easy.†Condon said A&M will switch the lineup around tonight to try to be come more consistent. Ironically, be fore last season’s game against La mar, the Ags made some starting lineup changes, switching setters Lesha Beakley and Chris Zogata. “It will be the same people,†Con don said. “We’ll just be rotating up and back depending on if we’re serv ing the ball or not. You’ll just have to wait and see exactly what we’re going to do.†The Aggies ’85 season has taken them from a low against Sam Hous ton to highs against Minnesota and Houston. But, thus far they just haven’t put it all together for one complete match. “Hopefully we will be more con sistent,†Condon said. “We just need a little more teamwork. We don’t need individuals out there playing. They need to quit worrying about how they’re doing and start worry ing about how the team is doing.†AGGIE VOLLEYBALL NOTES: Tuesday the Ags defeated Sam Houston State 15-3, 15-11, 15-13 in G. Rollie White in front of a disap pointing crowd of 650. . . . “(The crowd) was a little weak,†Condon said. “I don’t think anyone knew we’re playing in G. Rollie White. It will hopefully be better Friday.†. . . The starting lineup remains Sherri Brinkman and Stacey Smith in the middle, Margaret Spence and Stacey Gildner at the outside hitting post ions and Lesha Beakley and Chris Zogata will be setting. Cougars looking to clow way out of losing streak Associated Press er finisli :ning tour in Inter an H and failed rage 13 HOUSTON — Houston Cougars ns have learned to be wary of too liuch bragging early in the season. They’ve had front row seats in the otton Bowl four of the past nine asons, but the early going seems to airy its own set of problems. Last season, fans came to the As- tfodome expecting to see an easy vic- s lory over Louisville and were sur- |piised by the Cardinals 30-28 upset win. But later in the season, the Cou- trs beat highly ranked Southern lethodist 29-20 and eventually arned their fourth trip to the Col in Bowl because of a tie with the lustangs for the title. This year, the Cougars are once [gain having to dig out of an early :ason hole with an 0-2 record going Ho Saturday’s rematch in Louis- Ulle. And Cougar linebacker Robert larper thinks the wake-up call fi- ally has arrived at the LJH athletic “It just seems like we can’t get our minds right at the start of the sea son,†said Harper, a sophomore from Kansas City. “I don’t know why, but it seems like we have to get beat by somebody before we realize that we can get beat.†The Cougars were upset by Tulsa in their season-opener and lost Sat-, urday to Washington. “You might look real good going against your own second team of fense but when you get in that first game it’s different,†Harper said. “I think we start the season expecting to shut everybody down and when we don’t, we don’t know how to re act.†Cardinal Coach Howard Schnel- lenberger said he thinks the Cougars are ready to react. • “They are the defending cham pions down there and although they lost their first two games, that’s his toric with Houston,†Schnellen- berger said. “By this game, Houston will have its fumbles and bad things out of its system and be at mid-sea son form.†Harper, a sophomore starting his second season on the Houston de fense, thinks it’s time for both of fense and defense to play a complete game. up game and the defense for the other,†Harper said. “We need to both play at our best in the same game.†Harper is experiencing a tran sition from his freshman year on the Cougar defense. Last season, he had to worry only about playing his posi tion. Now he calls the plays and makes certain everyone is lined up correctly. “I’ve got to get the call from the sidelines, go to the huddle, make the call, make sure everyone is in the right spot, and then I get to play my position,†Harper said. “I’m getting more comfortable with it now.†&M Golf hart (continued from page 12) en finish on the leader board the est of the season. Ellis said Wylie, who has struggled e past two seasons, is off to his best ever. And good starts, by the whole Ag- e team, is what it’s going to take to competitive in the SWC. Ellis said the conference is “really trong,†with Texas, Arkansas and luston, last year’s champion, all xpected to field outstanding teams. “The Southwest Conference is ping to be extremely strong (for ev eryone to compete against) nation wide,†he said, “and very competitive within the conference. “All the schools in the conference, except maybe Texas Tech . . . are improved over last year.†The Aggies opened the ’85 season last week by finishing a distant sec ond place, 32-strokes back, to Hous ton in the SWC Commissioners’ Cup in Lufkin. “I didn’t think U of H would be as strong as they are,†Ellis said, “but they played just an unbelievable round of golf.†Ellis said the Aggies can beat Houston, as well as the other SWC teams, if they “just go out and play good solid golf.†“Any of the (SWC) schools can be beaten,†he said. “But you’re going to have to play — not even up to your capability — you’re going to have to play well. “I feel that when we play up to our capability we can play with any team in the country. 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