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By Hal L. Hammons
Sports Editor
The Texas A&M volleyball team rode
an improved serving and attacking game
to a four-set win over Rice Wednesday
night at Autry Court in Houston.
Four Lady Aggies were in double dig
its in kills as A&M won 15-10, 15-13,
12-15, 15-3.
The Lady Aggies improved their re
cord to 4-2 in Southwest Conference
play and 15-11 overall.
Vivien Viera led the team with 18 of
the team’s 78 kills, while Cheri
Steensma added 17.
Kelli Kellen contributed 16 with a
team-high .464 hitting percentage, and
Amy Cumings added 11 kills as well.
A&M Coach A1 Givens said, “This
was a must win for us. We knew coming
in that Rice was a good ball club, be
cause they had beaten Houston here at
home last week.
“They just got beaten by a better ball
club tonight.
‘We let down a little bit in the third
game. It seemed like we were waiting for
them to fold. But we came backs!
and it gave us momentum going ini
fourth game.”
A&M hit .243 as a team withonl)
errors in 202 attempts.
“We played extra aggressive,"Gin
said. “We blocked better tonight,i
our service was much improved."
The Lady Aggies were down loss
players after last weekend’s Floridal;
tational, but Melanie Rother returas
action against the Owls. Rotherplaytf
all four games and contributed
and seven digs.
Rice was led by Suzanne Zakrse»sk
15 kills in 28 attempts fora .500perce
age.
Overall the Owls hit for a .227 [t
centage with 61 kills and l9errorsinj
attempts.
“I’m pleased with the win," Gin
said, “and we’re looking for the sj
kind of effort against Tech.”
The Lady Aggies face Texas Techt:
day night at 7 in Lubbock.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Oiler
fullback Alonzo Highsmith went into the
[ 1987 off-season determined to come
back this season as “hell on wheels. ’’
But Highsmith’s wheels were used for
blocking until Sunday’s 41-17 victory
over Washington when the Oilers al
lowed Highsmith to run down the clock
and protect their big lead.
Highsmith, who lost a fumble early in
the game, responded with a career-best
75 yards on eight carries and had runs of
20, 21 and 27 yards.
Now the Oilers are preparing for a
Monday night showdown in the Astro
dome against the Cleveland Browns and
Highsmith wants more.
“I think I can be a piece to the Super
Bowl puzzle,” he said. ‘T’m a 240-
pounder, and I can pound on the line
backers all day and it doesn’t wear me
down.”
Highsmith, the Oilers’ No. 1 draft
pick in 1987, missed part of his rookie
year because of a lengthy contract hold
out and the NFL players’ strike.
Highsmith signed his contract Oct. 28
and was activated Nov. 8 but lost a fum
ble in his first appearance against San
Francisco.
He’s fought the fumbling rap ever
since.
“I’ve struggled all season and not
very many people have been on my
bandwagon,” Highsmith said.
missing.
‘T’ve struggled; it’s been a long
coming,” Highsmith said. “But
a vow to myself last week that
going to run the ball aggressively if Ip
a chance.”
Highsmith got his chance in theft
quarter Sunday against the Redskins
“I just need the Houston Oilerstoir
alize that Alonzo Highsmith can
team other than just blocking,” Hi|
mith said. “1 need someone to s
‘Let’s go with Alonzo, give him
ball.’ ”
Highsmith made the most of his for
quarter call and Finished as the ganr
leading rusher, including a career
27 yard run.
“I’m glad Alonzo had some in
runs,” Oiler quarterback Warren Moo:
said. ‘‘He was kind of down on himst!
because he hadn’t gotten the ball a lot,
‘‘He’s doing such a good jobofblocl
ing and the other little things thatpeopli
don’t see. Now he’s starting todosom
of the things that running backs wantu]
do and that’s run the football.”
“I think the more opportunities
gets, the better he’ll be,” Moon said,
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HOUSTON (AP) — If a poll were
taken, people might prove to be about
equally divided regarding four-legged
cats; we either love felines or hate them,
with few voting-age folks undecided.
But on the issue of finned, freshwater
cats (especially rolled in com meal and
fried golden brown), it’s a favorable
landslide.
Sport fishing for black bass may be all
the rage, but stringing a mess of catfish
is a much straighter route to a statisfying
family meal. Cats are fairly easy to
catch, and cruise the bottom of almost
every body of fresh water in the state.
The general daily sport limit on catfish
is 25 per day, 50 in the aggregate, with a
9-inch minimum. There is an exception
on Lake Livingston, however, where the
limit is 50 fish per day.
Since catfish are primarily bottom
dwelling scent feeders, artificial lures
rarely work. Now and then, a big cat will
hit a spinnerbait or crankbait, but odorif
erous natural baits are far and away the
better choice.
Selecting a catfish bait is more a mat
ter of personal preference than of effec
tiveness. Catfish will hit just about any
thing sooner or later, as long as they can
smell it. And the more it smells (to the
dismay of whoever does a catfisherman’s
laundry) the better it works.
for several hours, are a fast way tocattl
more fish. Texas Parks & Wildlife ft
partment regulations require that it
more than 50 hooks be used, and th
each hook be at least 3 horizontal fef
from the next.
Trotliners ofter use the same bails t
rod-and-reel anglers. But for bigger fisli
many switch to live bait and, accordias
to Texas Parks and Wildlife state re
cords, the tactic works.
The biggest cats take to date on
and reel are a 98-pound flathead ('
liam Stephens, June 1986) and a 71-
pound (Sammie Roberson, March 1986)
Trotline catfish records are considerable
higher — a 116-pound blue (C.D. Mai
tindale, April 1985) and a 114-pouiii
flathead (Charles Booth, October 1976)
The state record channel cat, a 36'/i
pounder, was taken on rod and reel bf
Mrs. Joe Cockrell on March 7, 1965.
Rod-and-reel fishermen do well with a
wide variety of baits. Shad and night
crawlers are top choices for those wish
ing to offer the fish a familiar meal. Pre
pared dough, cheese, blood and stink
baits also are economical catfish-catch
ers, the best of which depends mostly
upon who you ask. Many veteran catfi-
shermen go so far as to mix up their own
secret concoctions, which usually turn
out to be a combination of some or all ot
the above.
Technique and equipment range from
simple to simpler, there’s no way to
make catfishing as difficult or mind-bog
gling as bassing. On a good day, in the
right spot, a plain old cane pole may
catch just as many cats as the fanciest
graphite rod and reel.
Terminal tackle for rod-and-reelers
depends on the flow of water and attitude
of the fish. Though they hit suspended
baits at times, most cats are taken on or
near the bottom.
In the still water of lakes and ponds, a
small split shot or no weight at all will
keep the bait down. If the water is mov
ing or longer casts are required, rig an
appropriate egg sinker to slip on the line
so the fish feels no resistance when it
hits.
Trotlines, multiple hook rigs left out
Numbers of catfish vary from lake
lake. According to Steve Gutreuter, a re
search specialist with TP&WD in Aus
tin, Lake Conroe has the best catfisb
population among local impoundments.
“Gill net surveys are better for deter
mining catfish populations,” Gutreuter
said, “but the most current data avail
able comes from an electro-shocking sir
vey. Lake Conroe produced 34 cats per
hour. Lake Livingston was a close sec
ond with 33.”
Gibbons Creek shocking raised 16
catfish each hour, while Sam Raybun
only produced eight. Zapping at Fayette
County, which definitely has some good
catfish on it, raised zero. That single sta
tistic bears out Gutreuter’s statement thal
electro-shocking is not the most accurate
way to count catfish.
In Fayette County and Gibbons Creel
Reservoirs, state law prohibits trotlines
In their place, fishermen set juglines,
which are exactly what they imply—a
hook and line attached to a floating jug.
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One more way to catch catfish, popi
lar in some parts of the country but noi
legal in Texas, is grabbling. Also called
doodlesocking or noodling, the sport
calls for the fisherman to reach into
sunken logs or other hollow objects and
grab the fish by whatever part is closest,
hopefully the mouth.
Grabblers, as it seems they’d have to
be called, sometimes also get a handful
of snapping turtle or water moccasin. In
most circles, grabbling is not considered
the most rational way to go about catch
ing catfish. Illegal it may be, but at the
least a person accused of grabbling could
plead insanity with reasonable expects
tion of sympathy from the judge.
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