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Thursday, October 8, 1987^The Battalion/Page 11 Sports Lady Ags collapse in late games to drop 2nd conference match dent said he would By Anthony Wilson Sports Writer The Texas A&M volleyball :eam watched its leads over the lit for ^the$270m| j n i vers jty of Houston Lady Cou gars mysteriously vanish in the hird and fourth games of a four- rame match Wednesday night in id package, w i officials have ■ward before the Not te called for under; j. Rollie White Coliseum. :e accord •ease-fire is My im at support necessan freedom fighters (Ci ible force will be i(i an pledged. Then s raise ing rates w high ORK (AP) - s raised their pnr tes a half-percenla; nesday to 9.25 perm level since earlv 1?' : lection of the bra nward higher interes wide. and Chase Manilas on's two biggest bant e first to announce a i the key rate. Otk ts followed suit, me is the benchinail nks to set interest rater y of corporate and ® ’st increase, the IW year, will likelv men terest payments ot , home equity loans Is and other consumei ilso could slow futuri ;rowth. ally comes as no si 1 Elizabeth G. Reiners aarket analyst with tk firm Dean Witte; Inc. “Banks have bee; isure to maintain prof: flowing huge writeoff ms reserves” for shah Id loans, she said, mcial markets shoved on to the increase. As a result the Lady Aggies lost he match 15-10, 5-15, 15-12, 15- 13. The loss lowered A&M’s sea- ion record to 9-13 and their con ference record to 0-2. Sophomore middle blocker be watching to seen g e iij Kellen led the A&M attack democratic reforc vith 13 kills in 27 attempts for a 407 percentage. Junior outside ittacker Vivian Viera added 12 ills out of 31 attempts for a .226 ercentage. Sophomore setter fvonne Van Brandt led the team assists with 45 out of 126 at tempts for a .357 percentage. Kellen and Van Brandt also led he Lady Aggies’ defensive harge. Kellen blocked five shots, vhile Van Brandt chipped in 20 “I think we played well,” A&M bach A1 Givens said. “In critical joints in the match, we made mis- akes. “We probably had 15-16 serv- ce errors in that four-game natch,” Givens added. “You can’t lo that and win a lot of matches.” Givens pointed out that A&M’s ack of ability to maintain a lead vas a key factor in the outcome of he match. “We should have had the third [ame, and it should have been iver in four in our favor,” he aid. “Both times we got to 12 irst and weren’t able to sustain it. think that’s been real typical of he way we’ve been playing. We’ll ;etto 12 or 13 first and not have he knockout punch to finish. “I think a part of it’s pressure, 'm not sure exacly what it is.” Outside attacker Michelle Photo by Robert Rizzo A&M’s Kelli Kellen and Vivian Viera block a kill by Houston’s Lori Blok during Wednesday’s match. Houston won the match in four games. The Lady Aggies face San Diego State here tonight. Whitwell said, “I don’t think it was a matter of being nervous. I think that our execution just wasn’t on target. We were making good efforts. Things just weren’t always going our way.” Viera agreed that mistakes and a change in momentum were the determining factors in the loss. “I think the team that makes the least amount of mistakes at the crucial time is going to win,” Viera said. “I think that at a cer tain point of the game, we don’t stop playing but things just sort of cool down.” “This definitely puts us be tween a rock and a hard space,” Givens said of the loss. “We have to come back and win the rest of our conference matches to have an opportunity to challenge for the conference championship.” A&M will face San Diego State University tonight at 7:30. The Aztecs have been ranked in the Top 20 until this week in two polls. Giants even NL series at 1-1 behind Dravecky, 2 homers ST. LOUIS (AP) — Dave Dra vecky pitched a two-hitter and Will Clark and Jeffrey Leonard homered Wednesday as the San Francisco Gi ants turned on the power and shut off the St. Louis Cardinals 5-0, eve ning the National League playoffs at one victory each. Dravecky did not allow a runner past second base and did not give up a hit after Tommy Herr’s single in the fourth. Jim Lindeman singled in the second for the Cardinals’ other hit. Dravecky managed to avoid trou ble despite leadoff walks in four in nings. Those were his only walks and he struck out six. This best-of-seven series, which had been billed as a power-versus- speed matchup, moves to Candle stick Park for the next three games. Atlee Hammaker is scheduled to pitch for the Giants in Game 3 Fri day night with either Danny Cox, who missed the opener with a stiff neck, or Joe Magrane going for St. Louis. The Giants, who outhomered St. Louis 205-94 during the regular sea son, seized control on Clark’s two- run homer in the second against John Tudor. Clark almost lost the home run when he came within a stride of passing Candy Maldonado on the bases. Leonard homered to straightaway center field opening the fourth for the second straight day. Leonard, with a $50,000 bonus clause in his contract for being the Most Valuable Player in the playoffs, also had two singles and is 5-for-8 in the series. Gold Glove shortstop Ozzie Smith let Jose Uribe’s bases-loaded grounder go through his legs with two outs in the eighth. The two-run error put the game out of reach. The Giants again throtded St. Louis’ speed with a brilliant pitch- out. Tony Pena was at first with no outs in the third and Tudor batting in a sacrifice situation. But Dravecky pitched out on an 0-1 count with Pena running, and catcher Bob Mel vin caught him stealing. San Francisco led the major leagues in throwing out would-be base stealers, and its only pitchout Tuesday night in a 5-3 loss caught Vince Coleman. The Cardinals, the fastest team in baseball, stole 248 bases this season but are 0-for-2 against the Giants. A crowd of 55,331, matching the record attendance set for the playoff opener, was taken out of the game early. Baylor's single in 8th inning lifts Twins to win over Tigers MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Don Baylor singled to break an eighth-in ning tie and Gary Gaetti homered in his first two playoff at-bats as the Minnesota Twins drew on both youth and experience to beat the De troit Tigers 8-5 Wednesday night in the opening game of the American League playoffs. The victory was the first ever in a playoff series for the Twins, who were swept by Baltimore in their only two appearances in 1969 and 1970. Game 2 will be at the Metrodome Thursday night with Detroit’s Jack Morris, 18-11, facing Bert Blyleven, 15-12. The Twins scored four runs in the eighth inning, erasing a 5-4 Detroit lead and chasing Tigers’ starter Doyle Alexander, whose postseason miseries continued. One run already had scored in the eighth when the 37-year-old Baylor came to bat against reliever Willie Hernandez with the bases loaded and one out. Baylor, one of only five Twins with postseason experience, lined a single to left for the run that put the Twins ahead to stay and made a winner of reliever Jeff Rear don, who had replaced starter Frank Viola in the top of the inning. Gaetti hit solo homers in the sec ond and in Minnesota’s three-run fifth, becoming the first player ever to hit homers in his first two AL playoff at-bats. Alexander came into the game with a 9-0 regular-season record with Detroit, but in one previous World Series and two playoffs he was 0-3 with a 7.65 ERA. Dan Gladden started the Minne sota eighth with a single. One out later Kirby Puckett doubled to left scoring Gladden and chasing Alex ander. Mike Henneman relieved Al exander and walked Kent Hrbek in tentionally. Henneman followed with a walk to Gaetti and that brought on Hernandez. Baylor, hitting for Randy Bush, singled for the tie-breaking run and Tom Brunansky followed with a double to left to score two more runs. Baylor was thrown out at the E late by shortstop Alan Trammell as e also tried to score on the hit. Texas Instruments RETCH lt Dollars ATCNFOR BARGAINS IN THE TALK® TALK TO TVS MAJOR PRODUCT & SERVICE GROUPS. FI’s technical managers want to see you. They want to tell you about the job opportunities in the many technologies which make Texas Instruments a leader in electronics. That’s why T1 is having a Job Fair on the Texas A&M campus October 13 through 15. It gives the company three days to bring in key engineers and managers to meet you. They’ll come from TI labs and sites to describe programs, answer questions, and schedule interviews. 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