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Lady Aggies closer to bid
after upset of Lady Tigers
By Jerry Bolz
Sports Writer
Texas A&M’s Lady Aggie volley
ball team upset the Louisiana State
Tigers Friday 3-15, 15-7, 15-5, 15-7
to move them closer to an at-large
bid to the NCAA tournament.
After getting scorched by a near
perfect LSU performance the first
game, the Aggies rebounded in what
Coach Al Givens said was their best
performance of the year.
Coming into the match, the Ti
gers were ranked fourth in the
NCAA South Region and the Lady
Aggies were rated sixth.
“The win puts us in the driver’s
seat,” Givens said. “If we would have
beaten Houston (Wednesday), it
would be sweeter.”
Givens said the top six or seven
teams of the region should get bids
to the tournament.
LSU capitalized on A&M mistakes
to open the match with 13 straight
points. Givens said his team wanted
to open up their offense against the
big Tiger team, which has five play
ers six-feet or taller.
Game two was a complete turn
around for the Lady Aggies as they
rallied behind attacker Vivian Viera,
who led the team with 16 kills and
had a .303 hitting percentage. Cheri
Steensma also helped the cause with
several kills and a service ace in the
game as LSU could get no closer
than three points.
Game three was more of the same
for the Lady Aggies. Setter Yvonne
Van Brandt fed hungry A&M at
tackers and the Lady Ags turned a 4-
4 tie into a blowout. Givens said the
match was Van Brandts best as far as
getting the ball to her hitters.
Defensively, A&M was phenome
nal. They consistently dug out LSU
New Englands’ Flutie
not short on talent
Take your best shot at New En
gland’s Doug Flutie. Everybody else
does.
Shrimp. Shorty. How about Lilli
putian?
“America’s Midget,’’former team-
matejim McMahon called him.
But when the wee one got
through with the Bears on Oct. 30,
he had thrown four touchdown
passes in a 30-7 victory that left Mc
Mahon injured and Chicago coach
Mike Ditka two days away from a
mild heart attack.
Some midget.
Flutie is flourishing with a 4-2 re
cord for the Patriots since relieving
Tom Ramsey who was subsequently
cut. He’s been New England’s quar
terback ever since.
He has completed 18 passes in the
last three games, but six of them
have been for TDs. Now maybe the
scouts who once sneered “too short,”
are starting to take him seriously.
Certainly Patriots’ coach Raymond
Berry does.
“His ability to see things and his
quickness are extremely unusual,”
he said. “He gives us a new dimen
sion which is speed, quickness and
ability to move around back there.”
Don’t for a moment, though,
think that Flutie was Berry’s first
choice. But Tony Eason is hurt,
Steve Grogan is 35 years old and also
hurt, and Ramsey was not the an
swer. Enter the little man.
“I can understand some of the
reservations,” Berry said.“He’s not
big or tall like most quarterbacks. I
was curious about how his size would
affect him. But I’m not too con
cerned about it anymore.”
That may be because he remem
bers the Pats’ game with Buffalo.
The Bills arrived equipped with
Bruce Smith and Cornelius Bennett,
a combined 520 pounds or so of de
fensive bulk. They eyed the tiny
quarterback and their mouths wa
tered as they arranged a meeting in
Hogs
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Trainor connected again, giving the
Razorbacks a 17-7 lead at the half.
In the third quarter, John Roper
stopped a long Arkansas drive by sack
ing Bland for a two-yard loss at the
A&M 8.
The snap on the field goal attempt was
hobbled and Bland threw an interception
to William Thomas.
But a personal foul call against Terry
Price after the play backed the Aggies up
to their own 2, and Lewis was stopped
by Kerry Owens for a safety.
After the Hogs had taken the free kick
in for another field goal, the Aggies
the Pats’ backfield at which Flutie
would be the guest of honor.
Flutie, however, is no dummy. He
fled, leaving Smith and Bennett to
collide rather unceremoniously, with
no quarterback to cushion the blow.
Everybody is more concerned
with Flutie’s size than Flutie. “If you
have the talent,” he said, “you’re
going to get a chance to play.”
In October 1986, after the USFL
folded, the Los Angeles Rams
traded Fluties rights to Chicago.
Ditka liked Flutie, but not better
than McMahon who had, after all,
taken the Bears to a Super Bowl title
just 10 months earlier. So, except for
pieces of four games, Flutie func
tioned like something of a good luck
charm, standing on the sidelines
with a clipboard. He did start a play
off game against Washington, but
only because McMahon was hurt.
Almost a year to the day after he
arrived in Chicago, Flutie was dealt
to New England. When he turned
up No. 3 on the depth chart this sea
son behind Grogan and Ramsay and
ahead of only the injured Eason, it
looked like another season of inac
tivity. He was becoming a pro foot
ball red shirt. Still, Flutie did not
think he was running out of time or
opportunities.
“Not at all,” he said. “I’m only 24
and I have a long way to go. If it
wasn’t going to be here, it would be
somewhere else. The only surprise
was that my chance came this soon.”
On Sunday, Flutie started his
sixth straight game for New En
gland. Meanwhile, in Dallas, the
Cowboys started Kevin Sweeney, the
ex-Fresno State passer, who broke
Flutie’s NCAA passing records.
Sweeney probably would have had
the job earlier except that people
thought that, at 5-1 IVs, he was too
small.
Look out, McMahon. The midgets
are taking over.
mounted one of their best drives of the
day.
Richardson and Lewis brought the ball
down to the Arkansas 5. But, Richard
son threw a pass on the run into a crowd
of Arkansas players in the end zone.
Cornerback Anthony Cooney came
down with it.
“That’s a mistake I shouldn’t make,”
Richardson said. “I was trying to make
something out of something that wasn’t
there. .....
kill attempts and turned them into
points — something the Tigers did
not do beyond the first game.
In the fourth game, the Lady Ag
gies jumped to a 3-0 lead behind an
excited crowd. Late in the game,
A&M continued its domination of
the Tigers and took all the wind out
of them by ending several long ral
lies with scoring kills.
Givens was impressed by the per
formance of sophomore attacker
Amy Cumings who had 13 kills and
an incredible .545 hitting average.
Cumings was part of a lineup that
Givens said he planned to stay with
and “see where it takes us.”
The Lady Aggies will travel to
Austin to face Texas Wednesday.
A&M’s last home match will be
against Baylor Saturday at 8:30.
A&M swims
to 1 st victory
over TCU
By Tom Kehoe
Reporter
The monkey is finally off their
backs.
Despite having to give away ail
the diving points again, Texas
A&M Swimming Coach Mel
Nash’s men’s and women’s teams
posted their first wins of the sea
son by defeating Texas Christian
University Friday.
T he Aggies had suffered nar
row losses in their first two dual
meets because of the lack of a div
ing team.
The women swept all the swim
ming events en route to whipping
TCU 78-33.
The men outscored the
Horned Frogs 71-40 and won all
but two swims. They were led by
Mike Varozza and Ernie Vela,
Verozxa, a junior, posted wins
in the 100-yard and 200-yard
freestyles and swam a leg on the
winning freestyle relay.
“Mike did art outstanding job
by beating Doug Ellis,” Nash said
referring to TCU’s top sprinter.
“That was a significant upset.”
Vela, a freshman, won the 200-
yard backstroke in 1:56.02 sec
onds and swam the backstroke leg
on the victorious medley relay.
“Ernie Vela has made us a dif
ferent team,” Nash said. “We can
count on his backstroke.”
The women’s domination of
TCU was led by Susan Habermas,
Jennifer Newcomb and Courtney
Searcy.
Habermas won the 50 and 100-
yard freestyles and teamed with
Searcy, Joan Wqjtowicz and Rox
anne Nelson to win the freestyle
relay in three minutes, 33.38 sec
onds.
Newcomb left the field in her
wake posting times of 2:1 1.22 in
the 200-yard individual medley
and 4:59.58 in the 500-yard free
style.
In the fourth quarter, A&M drove for
another touchdown to cut the lead to
eight. Lewis carried the ball on five of
the eight plays, including a 23-yard TD
run on fourth-and-three.
But the Aggies were unable to move
the ball on their next drive, and they
muffed a fake punt attempt, giving Ar
kansas the ball on A&M’s 22.
Sherrill said the snap was designed to
go to Larry Horton, the up back. But,
apparently, the center missed the call and
Wilson, not expecting the snap, dropped
the ball.
Another field goal by Trainor put the
game out of reach.
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