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By Tammy Hedgpeth
Sports Writer
The Texas A&M volleyball
team feasted on cardinals
Wednesday night in their open
ing match against Lamar Univer
sity in G. Rome White Coliseum.
The Lady Aggies swept the
Lady Cardinals 15-8, 15-7, 15-8
in a three-game match which was
strong botn offensively and de
fensively.
A&M fell behind in the First
game 4-6, but once they stepped
forward, it never looked back. It
rallied to score six consecutive
points before Lamar scored its
last two points.
With sophomore Yvonne Van
[ Brandt blocking and junior Cheri
Steensma spiking, the offense
went hand in hand with the de
fense.
“We really pulled it together,”
Steensma saia. “The chemistry
was there, but we still have a long
way to go.
“I was happy with my game. I
do need work and I know it.”
“We established that we can
run the middle,” A&M Coach A1
Givens said. “We established it
early and the outside was there.
That’s why Cheri had a good
night.”
The Lady Aggies were cheered
not only by each other but also by
a rowdy Dunn Hall yelling sec
tion. With all of that, they ap
peared motivated and ready to
sweep.
The Lady Aggies took total
control of the rest of the match.
“We showed we can run a quick
attack,” Givens said. “It (the
match) showed we have power.
This group is so young. They will
do nothing but get oetter. We
need matches to give us the expe
rience.”
The Lady Cardinals had a cou-
g le of tough cookies themselves.
ophomore Cassi Presley set up
good balls for senior Trisha Beis-
sel to spike.
“I think they came out hust
ling,” Van Brandt said of the
Lady Cardinals. “We had a slow
start. Trisha had some experi
ence. She was tough.
“It’s nice to start with a win. We
still have a lot of flaws. We were
just ready to play.”
The future looks promising for
the young Lady Aggies but
Givens said they still need work.
“Our main concern is our
blocking,” Givens said. “We’re us
ing a new blocking technique.
Some players are having to get
used to the new blocking. Outside
blockers are our big concern.
This performance was better
than our opener last year.”
Sherrill says first game anxieties
should hit new LSU coach Archer
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9 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — On
the night of the first football game
for a new head coach, he may be
looking anxiously for a bathroom,
veteran Coach Jackie Sherill of
■exas A&M said Tuesday.
I “You’re excited. There’s no ques
tion that you’re scared as hell,” said
Sherrill. “You have confidence in
your team or you try to find a bath-
Jpom to throw up.”
I Louisiana State Coach Mike
Archer, sitting quietly at his weekly
news luncheon while reporters
Quizzed Sherill on the phone about
nat, grinned, shaking his head in
agreement.
g Just turned 34, Archer is the na
tion’s youngest Division I head
Coach, and he gets blooded in the
post Saturday night as the sixth-
ranked Tigers and No. 15 Aggies
open their seasons at College Station
— on Kyle Field, where A&M has a
14-game winning streak to protect.
Earlier, Archer said being a new
head coach “didn’t set in for the first
time until yesterday. I returned to
my office and had 33 phone mes
sages, flowers and plants. I sat at my
desk and said, ‘hmmm, it’s really he
re.”
Archer was chosen in January as
successor to Bill Arnsparger, who ac
cepted the athletic director’s post at
Florida after his Tigers won the
Southeastern Conference
championship.
“If I were Mike, I’d be anxious,”
said Sherill, whose highly-touted
1986 squad was ripped 35-17 in Ti
ger Stadium.
Archer, who was Arnsparger’s
chief assistant and defensive coordi
nator, inherited a team that has lost
almost none of its offensive power.
That includes sophomore quar
terback Tom Hodson, who com
pleted 15 of 21 passes for 193 yards
and a touchdown against A&M in
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Aggie players shun ties to Tigers,
hope to look good for home folks
Hodson’s first appearance in a col
lege game.
But Archer is dealing with a
young, new defensive line that must
jell quickly if LSU is to live up to its
expectations, Archer said.
“The Aggies are similar to us,” he
said. “They have had to replace
some outstanding players. .
There is an experience factor for
both teams. What concerns me is
that our defensive line is young
while their offensive line is big and
experienced.
“Their runt on the offensive line
is six-foot-four and 255 pounds.
Most have started for two years.
They will try to run the football
against us. That makes sense.”
To do the job, the Aggies have
running back Keith Woodside. “He
makes it go for them,” said Archer.
Sherill, who may have been guilty
of poormouthing, didn’t sound too
optimistic.
By Hal L. Hammons
Assistant Sports Editor
Keith Woodside and Basil Jackson
are two football players with several
things in common.
For instance, they are both native
Louisianans, they both left their na
tive area to attend Texas A&M, and
they both love cajun food.
And the senior running back and
the junior linebacker both are
looking forward to taking a big bite
out of the Bayou Bengals Saturday
when the 15th-ranked Aggies open
the 1987 football season against 6th-
ranked Louisiana State at Kyle Field.
Both were highly recruited high
school players from deep in the
heart of LSU country. Woodside is
from Vidalia, about 90 miles north
of Baton Rouge; Jackson is from
Hammond, 32 miles to the east.
Jackson said the difference be
tween his roles of LSU supporter
and Aggie football player became
evident at the game last year.
Jackson said, “Every game I’d
gone to, I was a fan of LSU. When I
got there, it seemed like everyone
had turned against me.”
He said his family and friends
supported his decision to leave Tiger
country for A&M, but he still feels
pressure to do well in front of the
hometown folks.
Woodside, too, grew up as a Tiger
fan. He said he had other priorities
than just playing the hometown
team, but the game still meant a lot.
Woodside said, “I’m just happy to
have the opportunity to play LSU on
nadonal television.” The game is be
ing telecast nationally by ESPN.
The native Louisianans left their
home state for different reasons.
Woodside said the main reason he
did not go to LSU was because of the
running back talent already there.
Dalton Hilliard and Garry James,
both All-Southeastern Conference
selections, would have been sopho
mores when Woodside entered as a
freshman, limiting Woodside’s play
ing time.
Jackson’s main reason for becom
ing an Aggie, on the other hand, was
because of A&M’s excellent aca
demic reputation in engineering.
Jackson is an electrical engineering
major with a 3.2 grade point ratio.
Both are going to be playing a big
ger role in A&M’s game plan this
year. The Aggie backfield is missing
second-team All-America Roger
Vick, which means more ball-carry
ing opportunities for Woodside.
Woodside estimates he will get 20 or
more handoffs per game this year.
Jackson will be trying to help fill
the holes left by four starting line
backers who have left for the profes
sional ranks, including All-America
Johnny Holland.
“It’s a bigger obligation to myself
as well as the team,” Jackson said. “I
have ajob, I know I can do it, it’s just
a matter of showing it.”
The two Aggies are not the only
ones involved in Saturday’s game
that left their home state for a rival
school. After all, LSU is planning to
start a young man from Hempstead
named Harvey Williams.
Williams made headlines all across
Texas and Louisiana when the blue-
chip running back ranked as the best
in the country that year decided to
“defect” to LSU instead of staying
near home at A&M.
He has made headlines again re-
cendy with bold predictions of how
he and his teammates will do against
the Aggies. And neither Jackson nor
Woodside care too much for it.
Jackson said, “They’re a good
team, a team with a few talkers.”
He said he didn’t care too much
for people who run out of breath
blowing their own horn.
“Basil Jackson’s a doer, not a sa-
yer,” he said. “If you can’t back up
your words, you shouldn’t be talk-
ing.”
And the subject of Williams in
particular is a sore one for both play
ers.
“That’s the main boaster right
there,” Jackson said about Williams.
“If he’s as good as he says, he doesn’t
need to say it.”
Woodside said, “When it comes to
Harvey Williams, I think of Muham
mad Ali — a man never at a loss for
words.”
Woodside downplayed the idea of
him trying to outdo Williams on the
field Saturday.
“Basically I just want to play ball,”
Woodside said. “It’s not me against
Harvey Williams.”
He said the defense would take
care of any punishment-dealing that
might be necessary.
Jackson said Woodside was a bet
ter back than Williams, anyway. He
said the back’s quickness and experi
ence gave him a significant edge
over the younger Williams.
“There’s no comparison,” Jackson
said. “(Williams) couldn’t carry
(Woodside’s) shoes.”
And the two Aggies are in a good
position to rate each other. They line
up against each other practically ev
ery day.
“Yeah, and I don’t like it either!”
Woodside says about practicing
across the line of scrimmage from
Jackson. He said the linebacker
could really be an intimidating force.
“When he hits you, he really hits
you,” Woodside said.
Conversely, Jackson compli
mented Woodside on the way he
could avoid being hit directly.
“It’s hard to get a good lick on
him, . . Jackson said of the
back. “He’s one of the better run
ning backs I’ve seen.”
Both said the atmosphere at a Ti
ger game in Baton Rouge is differ
ent than anywhere else. The fans,
who are allowed to bring alcohol to
the games and who have the reputa
tion of being drunk and disorderly
for the most part, are extremely par
tisan and extremely loud.
Jackson said, “You’re either
friend or foe (at LSU games). And if
you’re not for LSU, you’re definitely
a foe.”
Woodside said the boisterous
crowd might have had a negative ef
fect on the Aggie team.
“Once LSU got into the groove,”
he said, “that wild and crazy crowd
got into it.”
Jackson, however, said the effect
was minimal.
“Overall, if a team is going to play,
it’s going to play,” Jackson said.
This year is different, though.
The game is at Kyle Field.
“They’re on our turf,” Woodside
said. “It’s going to be exciting.”
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