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Page 10/The Battalion/Friday, October 18,1985
Sports
Bad times over for Ag spiker
Gildner's finally having fun playing volley boll
By CHAREAN WILLIAMS
Assistant Sports Editor
Off the volleyball court, Texas
A&M outside hitter Stacey Gildner is
timid, shy and probably the nicest
person you’d ever want to meet.
On the court she’s a different per
son. You certainly wouldn’t want to
meet this version of Gildner in a
dark alley.
“Petey,” as she is known by her
teammates, isn’t afraid to hit the ball.
And she isn’t afraid to let her oppo
nents know when a patented Gildner
spike hits the floor at their feet.
When “Yes,” echoes through the
ym, it has to be Gildner with the
ill.
“I don’t know what it is,” the 5-
foot-8 junior said. “I say more things
on the court than 1 would face-to-
face. 1 talk to them (my teammates)
on the court. I just get real excited
out there. I just feel like yelling
when something really good hap
pens. That excited feeling makes
you want to scream and yell."
This season, Gildner’s had a lot to
yell about.
She is second on the team in hit
ting percentage with a .276, and this
past week, Gildner was nominated as
the Southwest Conference’s Player
of the Week.
With the week she’s had, a wise
betting man would lay all his money
on the Aggies’ No. 9 to win it.
In A&M’s upset of Purdue last
Saturday, there were two All-Ameri
cans on the floor — and then there
was a Gildner.
Never mentioned in the same
breath with an All-American, Gildn
er’s 23 kills, .353 hitting percentage
and 20 digs made her look like an
All-World.
“I don’t think I’ve ever played bet
ter,” Gildner said. "I am at my peak
now, but it took a lot to get here.”
A whole lot.
Gildner’s First disappointment
came after her senior season at Al
bert Lea High School in Albert Lea,
Minn.
At the end of that outstanding
season, being named all-conference
was her only reward.
Her door was never knocked on,
and the mailbox remained empty.
“I wasn’t recruited at all which was
very disappointing,” Gildner said.
“My high school coach was good, but
she didn’t know how to publicize
players. I thought (the recruiters)
would come to me, I didn’t know
you had to write them. If I could
give high schcxil players advice, I
would tell them to look into differ
ent colleges. You have to sell your
self. No one’s going to do it for you.”
So Gildner’s collegiate career be
gan in upstate Minnesota at the Uni
versity of Minnesota at Duluth, a
little Division 2 school.
Her team captured the state
championship and Gildner was
named Rookie of the Year to end a
successful freshman season.
"At Duluth, I achieved everything
I wanted to my freshman year,” she
said. “I got to start. We won the state
championship. I was named Rookie
of the Year. I guess I could have
stayed around to see if I could get
MVP, but that’s not the caliber of
volleyball I wanted to play."
This time she knew how to get the
attention of college coaches.
"I got this women’s sports mag
azine, and saw the Top 20,” Gildner
said. “I wrote to the last 10 on the
list. (A&M Goach) Terrv (Condon)
wrote back and I came down to vis
it.”
And what was her first impression
of A&M?
“It was kind of boring really,” she
said. “It was during finals week, so
we really didn’t do too much.”
Gildner decided she liked A&M
enough to transfer.
“It was Texas, you know?" she
said. "I wanted to go somewhere far
away where they’d say, ‘Wow, you
play for Texas A&M.’”
But Gildner didn’t say many
‘Wows’ her first two years with the
Aggies.
NCAA rules stipulate that a trans
fer athlete must sit out for one year
before playing. So in 1983, Gildner
spent her time watching and waiting.
It wasn’t a year Gildner looks back
on with fond memories. In fact, if
there was one thing she could
change in her life, it would Ik* “The
Rule.
"I learned a lot at Duluth — a lot
about life,” she said. “But I wouldn’t
want to sit out that year again. I’d
abolish that rule if I could.
“I lost a lot not getting to plav. My
freshman year, I was playing almost
as good as I am now. Then when I
sal out, I lost it.”
Last season didn’t go much better
for Gildner. She was an on-again-
off-again starter, who ended the sea
son watching senior Angi Smith
from the bench.
“Terry was always saying that I
was a better substitute than starter,”
Gildner said. “I started for three
straight weeks. I don’t know what it
was. I don’t know if I was a bad
starter or what. My self-confidence
was low. I guess I knew I wasn’t one
of the stars on the team.
“I thought it would lie a challenge
It has been a long, hard road for Texas A&M outside hitter Stacev
Gildner. But the 5-foot-8 junior has finally jumped above the pack
to become one of the premier players in the Southwest Conference.
This past week Gildner was nominated for SWC Player of the Week.
here, but I was demoralized. I guess
I just should have tried harder.
Terry gave me plenty of chances. If
I’m not playing g(KxI, I don’t want to
start because I don’t want to get
taken out. ’’
What a difference a year makes.
Gildner is now rhe starter and oneot
the stars.
“I think I am more confident,"
Gildner said. “I worked a lot o!
things out. I was worrying about too
much. I’ve just got to stay consistem
and not let the little things boibei
me. ”
7-game format helped Series teams
Associated Press
KANSAS CITY — If one lesson was learned from baseball’s first experi
ence with seven-game playoff series, it is that the longer format is more for
giving than the best-of-five arrangement.
Both Kansas Gity and St. Louis, who open the World Series here Satur
day night, lost the first two games of their pennant playoffs, the Royals
beaten by Toronto and the Cardinals by Los Angeles.
What’s more, three of the setbacks were one-sided. The Royals lost the
opener to the Blue Jays 6-1 and St. Louis dropped 4-1 and 8-2 decisions to
the Dodgers.
In the best-of-five pennant series baseball had used since division play
was introduced in 1969, both KG and St. Louis would have been perched on
the edge of elimination. In the seven-game format, however, both had mar
gin for error. St. Louis didn’t need that luxury, sweeping the next four
games, but Kansas City did, dropping Game 5 to slip into a 3-1 hole against
the Blue Jays.
The Royals were matter of fact about their predicament after that set
back. Before Game 5, playoff MVP George Brett even suggested the pres
sure was on Toronto, not Kansas City.
“I don’t know why I said it,” Brett said later, “but I think I was right, the
pressure was on them. We weren’t supposed to win our division and we
weren’t supposed to beat the Jays. We had nothing to lose.”
Only four other times in baseball postseason history has a team recov
ered from a 3-1 deficit to win a championship. And each of those, of course,
came in World Series, the last one in 1979 when Pittsburgh overtook Balti
more. Toronto, however, became the first team to win three playoff games
and not gain a World Series berth.
The Blue Jays had a horrendous batting slump to blame for their fail
ure. After scoring five runs in the fifth inning of Game Three at Kansas
City — a game the Jays eventually lost to a heroic individual hitting show bi
Brett — Toronto scored only eight runs in the last 40 innings of thheolay
offs, baiting just .224 with 33-for-147 over than span. And three of tnose
runs came in the ninth inning of Game Four to produce the victory that left
them one win away from the World Series. It was a win they never got
Perhaps the most obvious change in strategies produced by the ex
panded playoffs came in pitching rotations. Toronto Manager Bobby Cox
chose to start his ace, Dave Stieb, three times, each with three days rest. Kan
sas City’s Dick Howser used five different starting pitchers in the seven
games.
Stieb was solid the first two times out but came up short in Game Seven
In a 2-1 game, he loaded the bases with two walks and a hit batsmen,setlinf
the stage for a decisive triple by Jim Sundberg.
Charley Leibrandt, Bud Black and Mark Gubicza all started games for
the Royals and also did double duty out of the bullpen, contributing impor
tant relief efforts for Howser.
After the Dodgers beat 20-game winners John Tudor and JoaquinAn-
dujar in the first two National League games, St. Louis won Game Threr
with Danny Cox, scoring four runs early and then hanging on behind Man
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