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Sports
Outside hitter Stacey Gildner goes for the
dig as setter Chris Zogata (No. 5) looks on in
Photo by Mike Sanchez
Texas A&M’s victory over 19th-ranked Ari
zona in G. Rollie White Coliseum Saturday.
Unranked A&M men swimmers
upset No.7 SMU in home openet
Aggies clip No. 19 Arizona
By Homer Jacobs
Assistant Sports Editor
I lie 18th-rankecl Texas A&M
volleyball team stayed alive in the
hunt for an NCAA tournament
berth with a 15-5, 15-10, 10-15,
15-8 victory over the 19th-ranked
Arizona Wildcats Saturday night
at O. Route White Coliseum.
Alter losing to 16th-ranked
Peppercline Friday night 15-15,
9-15, 15-18 and 15-8, the Aggies,
22-9, could not afford a loss to
the Wildcats.
■'We had to win tonight,” A&M
Coach A1 Givens said after the
match. “That keeps us in the hunt
for the NCAAs.”
The Aggies did not lack inten
sity or execution in the Arizona
match, especially on the of fensive
end.
A&M outside hitter Stacey
Gildner had 18 kills with a .207
hitting percentage, while Chris
Zogata had seven kills and 10 digs
as a setter.
“I think it was a case of us exec
uting well Give.-.% s; : d “We es-
our mmdte attack
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. The Aggies established
about everything early as
squad jumped to leads of i 1-5 m
the first game and 9-0 in the sec
ond game. A&M was down 9-3 in
the third game, but rallied to tie
the game at 9-9 before succumb
ing to the Wildcats, 10-15.
The A&M defense sparkled in
the victory as well, evident by the
.033 hitting percentage for Ari
zona.
“Defensively, we made some
great efforts to get to the ball,”
Givens said.
He said he felt Arizona was a
good team, but the difference in
the caliber of -play between Pep-
perdine and the Wildcats was
quite noticeable.
“There was a big dif ference be
tween No. 16 and No. 19.” Givens
said. “I still feel we should have
taken them (Arizona) in three.”
A&M plays at Southwest Texas
State tonight before returning to
G. Rollie White W’ednesday for its
final home game of the year
against Houston.
By Ken Sury
Sports Editor
Texas A&M swimming coach Mel
Nash was dripping wet after Satur
day’s dual meet with Southern Meth
odist University. But he was smiling
broadly.
His unranked men’s team had just
knocked off the seventh-ranked
Mustangs in P.L. Downs Natato-
rium.
“We knew we could do it,” Nash
said, “I had been telling the guys all
week that if we got up for it, we
could do it. And that’s what we did.”
It came down to the final race,
however. A&M led 89-79 going into
the 400-yard freestyle relay. Under
the newly instituted scoring system
for relays (nine points for first, four
for second and two for third), il
SMU had taken first and second
places, the Mustangs would have
won the meet.
But Aggies Paul Weber, Aaron
McDonough, Eddie Altman and Da
vid Kohel made it a moot point as
they won the event with a time of
three minutes, 8.92 seconds. The
SMU teams finished second and
third in the race with times of
3:11.31 and 3:11.32. The victory
gave A&M a 98-85 win.
The Aggie women, despite having
sophomore standout Suzanne Fiori
swim only the 1,000 f reestyle, easily
outdistanced the 19th-ranked SMU
women by a score of 1 13.5 to 69.5.
Fiori had sprained her ankle
Wednesday and Nash said it swelled
to the size of a baseball after she
placed third in the race. She finished
behind teammates Rachel Benzel
and Jennifer Newcomb.
Nash said he was pleased with the
overall team effort, especially since
the teams are two-thirds freshmen.
“You don’t beat a team like SMU
with one person,” he said. “We had
some surprising seconds, thirds and
fourths to help us out. This was a
pleasant, pleasant surprise.”
Even Reveille provided support in
A&M’s first home meet of the fall.
She had to be quieted one time at
poolside so the swimmers could hear
the starting horn. Some of the Mus
tang women swimmers patted Re
veille on the head as they walked
A&M swimmers encourage teammates du
sets over SMU's No. 7 men and No. 19 women’s teams.
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tants |ay Holmes and Chris O’Neil
were shoved into the pool.
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