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PANIC |SPREADING 1
Ag volleyball team's loss
to 'Horns causes trouble
AUSTIN — The 13th-ranked vol
leyball team in the nation was play
ing No. 17.
Two traditional rivals, whose con
tests have been filled with sweat,
tears and bad blood, were meeting
once again with little more at stake
than a Southwest Conference
Championship.
Four seniors for both teams were
seeing each other for the last time in
Gregory Gymnasium.
So, with all the buildup, just what
did happen in Austin Wednesday
night?
For starters, the University of
Texas volleyball team defeated
Texas A&M, 15-7, 15-9, 15-13.
For clinchers, Texas may have
cost the Aggies a lot more than just a
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BRANDON BERRY
Sports Viewpoint
loss in the
standings.
So is everything over for this
year’s battered, bruised and
“horned-hooked” Aggies?
“We’re down right now,” Ckmdon
said. “We know I exas will win (the
SWC championship), unless five of
its starters get hurt. They aren’t
going to lose again.
“We’ve just got to make sure we
win the rest of our games and finish
second, instead of third (behind
Tech). 1 think the NCAA will let us
in (the national championship tour
nament) because of us not getting in
vited last year.”
But the Aggies have lost their pas!
matches witn the ’Horns and haven’t
been invited to the NCAAs since
1981. And that streak is in danger of
being extended.
What makes this season’s derail
ment even harder to take for A&M
coaches, fans and players is that
1985 was supposed to be the Aggies’
year.
Four starters from last year’s 33-4
team were returning for another try
at the NCAA playoffs. Condon had
recruited one of the best freshman
classes in A&M history. And the Ag
gies had beaten Texas three times
last spring in an off-season tourna
ment.
“The match was just what I
thought would happen,” A&M
Coach Terry Condon said Wednes
day. “We were just too weak in two
rotations.”
The “two rotations” referred to
were those belonging to A&M mid
dle blocker Margaret Spence and
outside hitter Michelle Wnitwell.
You see, until two weeks ago,
Spence was an outside hitter and
YVhitwell was the Aggies’ designated
bench warmer.
With Wednesday’s leading ladies
in their performing roles, A&M had
spiked, blocked, dinked, served and
pounded its way to 15-3 record and
a No. 10 national ranking.
A&M should finish second in the
conference, despite Smith’s absence
from the lineup. However, when the
NCAA selection committee looks at
the Aggies’ wins and losses, their up
coming schedule might be more im-
f >ortant than Wednesday night’s de-
eat.
The Aggies defeated the Georgia
Bulldogs in Atlanta Thursday night
and moved on to the Tennessee In
vitational Tournament in Knoxville,
Tenn.
"W’e’re going to be the best team
in the United States," All-American
middle blocker Sherri Brinkman
whooped after a spring practice.
But now the Aggies are searching
for stronger rotations, stronger per
formances and stronger answers to
four-year-old questions.
But the Aggies’ steamroll lost its
spark plug in a match against Texas
Southern, when starting middle
blocker Stacey Smith injured her an
kle and would be lost for most of the
remainder of the season.
A&M hasn’t been the same team
since it lost Smith.
The Aggies, having inserted and
inverted Whitwell and Spence, im
mediately lost to Texas Tech in Lub
bock after the TSU match, putting
themselves in a must-win situation
going into “Orange Wednesday.”
“I expected a lot of mistakes of
them (Whitwell and Spence),” Con
don said, “but I was just hoping
Texas would make a few. It’s really
disheartening because when Stacey
was with us, we were playing so
well.”
For A&M to make the NCAA
playoffs (by which time it hopes to
nave Smith back in the lineup), the
Aggies realistically need to nave a
perfect week.
Losses to nationally-ranked and
respected Texas teams are merely
thorns in the sides of playoff con
tenders. Losses to Tennessee and
other Southeastern Conference
teams would be shots through the
Aggies’ playoff-seeking hearts.
Seniors Brinkman and Lesha
Beakley are winding down illus
trious careers, and their losses will
leave the ’86 cupboard quite a bit
barer than this year’s preseason de
luxe china cabinet.
But will Condon be around to ar
range the dishes?
The long-time A&M coach en
tered this season in less than great
spirits. After a season in which a 33-
•1 record didn’t earn the Aggies a
playoff berth, the A&M Athletic De
partment told Condon her team
would be playing its matches in the
Bryan High School gymnasium this
season due to the renovation of G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
More important than any game,
loss or playoff exclusion, Texas may
have set A&M’s volleyball program
tne Te
ech
back a step or two. Until
defeat, the Aggies had never lost to
another SWC team except Texas.
The A&M-UT match was
The lack of respect, both home
and’ nationally, for A&M volleyball
has to make other pastures appear
enticingly green to a woman de
scribed as one of the best young
coaches in the game today.”
rds more
than just intense volleyball — it was
the clincher that decided which team
would represent the SWC in the
NCAAs and which team would have
a longer off-season to plot its re
venge.
At least one of Condon’s highly
recruited ’84 recruits has stated pri
vately that if Condon goes, she also
will transfer.
So a twist of an ankle and an un-
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