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Tuesday, October 1,1985/The Battalion/Page 9 BaHWMana Sports ■ ‘A case of deja vu for A&M’ No. 16 Ag spikers travel to play Lamar —again Photo by ANTHONY S. CASPER / pa the night in Beaumont. Here, Turner tries to get the ball past Aggies’ Sherri Brinkman (left) and Stacey Gildner (right). By CHAREAN WILLIAMS Assistant Sports Editor When the Texas A&M volley ball team looks left, then right to night, it’ll see the same familiar faces. And, even when it looks through the net, the faces on that side will be the same, too. The names will be the same, only the match’s setting will change to protect Lamar from another predetermined outcome — even in Beaumont. Friday night, the Aggies topped the Cardinals 15-13, 15-2, 15-12 in G. Rollie White Col iseum. But, tonight the Cards (9- 5 on the season) will have the home court advantage and the No. 16 Ags (9-3 on the season) might just find a tougher match awaiting them. “Lamar plays 180 percent bet ter at home,” said A&M Coach Terry Condon. “They’re more consistent and more confident. They don’t make as many mis takes and they don’t have the Dunn Hall guys yelling at them.” Lamar Coach Katrinka Jo Crawford admitted the fans at A&M made G. Rollie a difficult place to play, and said the Cards >would be a different team tonight at home. “Playing at A&M, you know how it is,” Crawford said. “The crowd at A&M is great. That’s something good to have. The first game, we didn’t know (the crowd) was there because we were so in tense. In the second game, we were out of it mentally. We played better here this year. “All they (A&M) did was throw the ball, but you can’t expect to et the calls playing away from ome. I think you’ll see a better match Tuesday night. We’ll have a few fans there.” Crawford said the Cardinals must pass better if they expect to stay with A&M. “Their serves are tough,” Crawford said. “Passing was cer tainly the key to Friday’s match. We didn’t get to run the middle, which we plan to do Tuesday. Be ing an unranked team, you’ve really got to be up when playing a i ranked team. You have to play your best to expect to win.” Although the Lamar team isn’t ranked, one of its players made the Top 20. Outside hitter Ruby Randolph is sixth in the nation in kills per game, averaging 4.61. In the first game, Randolph kept the Cards close, biit in the next two games, the Aggie block ers took Randolph out of the match. The 5-foot-11 senior fin ished with 9 kills. “She’s (Randolph) played much better matches,” Crawford said. “It all goes back to the men tal thing. She was shaken by those A&M fans. In the third game, she started to come back. She will hopefully play better this time.” As for the Ags last Friday, they played better than they have all season. A&M finally played a whole match with consistency and intensity. “We need to keep playing like Friday,” Condon said. “We gained confidence. The players felt good about the way they played.” Condon made a few changes before the LU match, which fi nally brought the Ags to life. Set ters Lesha Beakley and Chris Zo- gata were switched to get more productivity from the spikers. “Terry (Condon) just thought it was time for a switch,” said Beakley, who is 13th in the nation in assist percentage. “It seemed to work well. I work with Sherri (Brinkman) more. I think it’s a real good move.” It certainly appeared to be a good move for All-American Brinkman. The Ags’ middle blocker had 17 kills and hit .500 against Lamar, which was by far her best game of the season. “We were getting the commu nication out there,” Brinkman said. “We’ve been slacking off la tely. Everyone was getting a little testy. I do like Lesha setting me. Maybe we all needed the switch, I don’t know.” Brinkman’s resurgence bene fited outside hitters Stacey Gildner, Margaret Spence and Cheri Steensma. “(Sherri playing well) helps be cause their blockers go to triple block in the middle, so it leaves us open on the outside,” Steensma said. “It makes it a hayday for the outside hitters. Their blockers can’t get outside quick enough to block us.” AGGIE VOLLEYBALL NOTES: After Lamar, the Ags next game will be at home Friday night when they take on Kentucky. . . . The UCLA volleyball media guide arrived today and A&M Coach Terry Condon is still listed among its record holders. Con don is second in career spiking, having had 430 kills and a .340 hitting percentage from 1974- 1976. She was also fourth and fifth on the single season spiking list. In her three seasons, the Bruins were 89-12 and won two NCAA championships. . . . Even with all those recoms, they man aged to spell her name Terri. Hawkeyes soar to AP’s top spot Associated Press The University of Iowa, which once set an NCAA record of 19 con secutive non-winning seasons from 1962-80, is ranked No. 1 in the Asso ciated Press college football poll for the first time since 1961. The Hawkeyes walloped Iowa State 57-3 Saturday and vaulted from third place to the top in Mon day’s weekly AP poll following No. 1-ranked Auburn’s 38-20 loss to Tennessee and runner-up Oklaho ma’s 13-7 squeaker over Minnesota. Iowa, 3-0, received 35 of 59 first- place votes and 1,111 of a possible 1,180 points from a nationwide panel of sports writers and sports- casters. Oklahoma, which played its first game of the season last week end, received 13 first-place votes and 1,046 points. Meanwhile, Auburn plummeted from first place to 14th while Ten nessee, Georgia, Baylor and Texas made the Top 20 for the first time this season. Dropping out were UCLA, Maryland, USC and Vir ginia. Behind Iowa and Oklahoma in the Top 10 are SMU, Florida State, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Michi gan, LSU, Penn State and Arkansas. The jump to the top for Iowa capped a rise from virtual obscurity in Hayden Fry’s seven years as head coach. The Hawkeyes were fourth in the 1985 preseason poll and third, fourth or fifth in each regular-sea- son poll. They have defeated Drake 58-0 and Northern Illinois 58-20 be fore crushing Iowa State. Ironically, Fry had pleaded fol lowing the Iowa State game: “Don’t put us No. 1. That might be the kiss of death for us.” When advised of Iowa’s new rank ing on Monday, Fry chuckled and said: “That’s a little bit unbelievable at the University of Iowa. When we came here seven years ago we were in the worst 10.” Then, he added: “Seriously, I think it’s super-great. I really don’t put a lot of value in early-season rankings, but I’d like to see us there at the end of the season. We’re hon ored to be No. 1 and we’ll try our best to stay there.” Iowa plays Michigan State at home this Saturday. AP Top 20 Poll The Top Twenty teams in the Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in par entheses and season record: 1. Iowa (35) — 3-0-0 2. Oklahoma (13) — 1-0-0 3. SMU (6) —2-0-0 4. Florida State (1) — 4-0-0 5. Ohio State — 3-0-0 6. Oklahoma State (1) — 3-0-0 7. Michigan (3) — 3-0-0 8. LSU —2-0-0 9. Penn State — 4-0-0 10. Arkansas — 3-0-0 11. Florida —2-0-1 12. Alabama — 4-0-0 13. Nebraska — 2-1-0 14. Auburn — 2- TO 15. BYU —3-1-0 16. Tennessee— 1-0-1 17. Air Force — 4-0-0 18. Georgia— 3-1-0 19. Baylor — 3-1-0 20. Texas — 2-0-0 Others receiving votes: UCLA, Purdue, Miami (Fla.), Army, Maryland, Arizona State, Georgia Tech, USC, Washington, Indiana, Kansas, Arizona, Vir ginia, Bowling Green, Minnesota, North Carolina, Texas A&M, Utah, Wisconsin. 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