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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
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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. But we can’t go
out and play as we did last week on
that 18 holes at 17-over-par and ex
pect to beat teams.”
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