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le Battalion PORTS 9 [ednesday, September 27,1989 'ULTUfiE nyingrj lodern r ds. 1 510 flu; | ady Aggies sweep SWT, ook ‘down’ in road win China a Lybrand; ommittefi iberMf;.; )-fn. imy n Willa- JOM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS The Texas A&M volleyball team l)k its two-game winning streak on ihi road Tuesday night, but not e|n a hostile crowd could stop the mi\ Aggies from sweeping South- list Texas State I5-(), 15-4, 15-8. jA&M took advantage of a lot of nlstakes by an injury-riddled SWT [Am to improve their record to 5-4. Vf dropped to 2-14. Although A&M never seriously As threatened, they didn’t look dlminating either. SWT committed oler 20 errors in only 75 kill at tempts and posted a -.053 kill aver- Jdder.Fj 'eng-bf ica: floss- oomnuir- Profess; 1 thatnw nation ca Givens said he was worried about an upset. “1 was scared at first,” he said, “be cause 1 had visions of them upsetting us (like they did) in 1986. That loss cost us a host spot in the NCAA play offs.” In the first game Tuesday night, the Lady Aggies jumped out to a 6-0 Kill average is determined by sub- icting kill errors from successful kilN and dividing that sum by the to- ■ kill attempts. ■Lady Aggie Coach A1 Civens said hi was disappointed in his team’s ef- t 1 ' ' T‘We played noticeably down to- ifcht,” Givens said. “We didn’t have the lire that we displayed against La mar or ChicagoTllinios. To be mpions, we’ve got to develop a tiller instinct. |“We looked good in spots. I nation cal ihi mght that we served well early, bat didn’t pass well in the final lime. Of course, we’ll take this Btch as a win.” i Dinner- r in Br/« I ■3 or 7ft I ss-coyo lead and never looked back. SWT slowly closed the gap to 9-5, but A&M scored six of the next seven points to end the game. SWT scored the first point in the second game, but A&M scored the next six. From that point, SWT got only as close as 8-3. The Lady Aggies scored seven of the final eight points to take a 2-0 lead in the match. Civens took advantage of the lead in the third game to get some play ing time for his younger players. With the game tied 4-4, A&M took the next five points. SWT nar rowed the game to 1 1-8 before the Lady Aggies racked up the final four points to complete the sweep. Junior attacker Krista Hierholzer led the Lady Aggies with six kills. Amy Cumings and Yvonne Van Brandt added five kills each, and Kelli Kellen chipped in four. Civens said that Kellen had a good night offensively. He also liked the effort of some of his younger players. “Alysia Gonzales did a good job in the middle blocker role. She came in for Kelli, and played well,” Civens said. “Barb Bella, Moniki Daniels, and Sheri Hermesmeyer also had good games for us tonight. 1 think that our depth and flexibility showed up again tonight. “We’ve won three games in a row now, and I think this will put us in a good mindset for this weekend’s matches,” he said. The Lady Aggies return home to C. Rollie White Coliseum to play Eastern Kentucky Friday night at 7:30 and South Florida Saturday af ternoon at 3:00. Can Aggies gel into contenders? Slocum hopes team forms winning chemistry By Richard Tijerina Of The Battalion Staff As far as Coach R.C. Slocum is concerned, A&M’s at a crossroads in the 1989 season. This week end’s game against Southern Mis sissippi could either make or break the team. Slocum has the Aggies focused on Saturday night’s game against the Golden Eagles, but he said on Tuesday that he’s keeping his players aware that the game might mean a lot in November, when bowl bids are announced. “It’s a critical game to us 1 think from a bowl standpoint,” Slocum said. “So although this to some right now might not be a big game, when you start counting wins and losses in November this is a real big game. I’ve tried to emphasize that to our team. “This is one we desperately need to put in the win column to give us another win.” Another win might go a long way for Slocum’s Aggies. Through three games this season, A&M has looked like the 1989 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. They looked great in their season-opening win over Loui siana State, terrible in their 19-6 loss to Washington and great again in their 44-7 romp over Texas Christian. It’s that time of year in college football when the good teams gel and the bad teams fall apart, Slo cum said. What he wants the Ag gies to do most right now is to be consistent. “We’re in a formative stage right now as a team,” he said. “We’re trying to decide what we’re going to be as a team. So. Mississippi at A&M '•Sties K' • Kicfcdar 6 p.m. • Ranking: A&M (22nd)» Southern Mississippi } • TV/Radio; l he game will not he televised: K l AM (AM 1240) You’re always trying to get that chemistry to come together to the point where you are consistent and you are getting better every week.” That consistency might be hard to get after the Aggies had an open weekend. Although they needed the two weeks to help some players in the offensive line get over nagging injuries, a two- week break sometimes causes a team to come out looking flat in its next game. However, Slocum said that’s not going to happen to the Aggies. “I was pleased with our prac tices last week,” he said. “We didn’t see any signs of (flatness) in our workouts, and yesterday we had a good workout. This is a week where we are trying to focus on each person to assume the re sponsibility of making us a better team.” The Aggies are facing a South ern Mississippi team that is 1-3 and coming off a disappointing 19-17 loss to TCU. Slocum said the burden of making sure there’s no letdown from a two- week break is on the shoulders of the players. “That’s what we’re working on desperately right now — for that reason we need to come out and play well in this game and show improvement in every area," Slo cum said. “Each player has the re- sponsiblity of making that hap pen.” That chemistry that can propel a team is difficult to obtain, but it’s a chemistry that Slocum said is crucial for A&M to attain. “If you ever get that thing to catch, you start seeing it grow a little bit,” he said. “If you ever get it going, it starts growing itself. “But getting it started is the key." It could be the key to a great season for A&M. If the Aggies catch fire, they could be tough to beat. They play their key See Slocum/Page 10 ound of golf may not be be best way to kill off slow afternoon inizatior-; Anders: For moil 5p.m.fo wakerr: >718. onald ublish Up is rem Ifyou It was slow going in the sports partment last week so I did the thinkable. . . I golfed. The Aggies had an open week, the Dallas Cowboys were till set for a sound beating |rom the Washington Redskins and I’d rather have Michael Dukakis’eyebrows Ban watch baseball. So what was I to do with a free weekend? could have caught up on all that Studying I was letting slip by. You know, spend the weekend catching uton my Marketing reading or doing my ^Statistics homework. Have you ever known & college student I pass tfp''an'Opporttin>iiPbtc)>spend a fi re |;ekend studying? 10 ^ Right. And the Cowboys will go 13-3 this Clay .Rasmussen Sports Writer year. But I had to do something. I was bouncing off the walk. .Uptight and tense, I paced the floor back and forth. Then someone said it: “Why don’t you go out and golf a few holes? You know, swing a club and relax. Enjoy the day.” It’s painfully obvious that this person has never golfed. To understand the mental stress caused by golf, you have to understand the game and its origins. Coif started in Scotland hundreds of years ago. What started as a war ceremony grew into a sport. Scots would decapitate their enemies and club their heads around an open field. It was a great way to get some of the day’s frustration worked out. I gug^s this is why people today look to g olf as an anxiety relief.. Ask any golfer and e’ll telFyou otherwise. There is nothing more stressful than using a clubbed stick to knock a tiny white ball into a cup 250 yards away. Executives take up golf for one reason, and it isn’t relaxation. They are accustomed to stress. They see it everyday, in the office and at home. Stress has become a big part of their lives and without it they are lost. Executives are comfortable w ith stress and somehow they feel comfortable on the golf course. They don’t feel like they’re missing out on anything. So anyway, there I am on the golf course, determined to shoot the best round ever. As I teed up on No. 1, I felt refreshed. Just me, nature and the simple game of golf . I took a few warm up swings and felt my adrenaline surge. This w as the day I would break 90 on my scorecard. I stepped up to the ball and judged the distance, wincl direction and other relevant factors golfers worry about. I addressed the ball (I’ll spare you the golf jokes) and swung. The divot (clump of turf to you non- knowers) I removed from the course w ith my club should grow’ back in about five weeks. No problem. In golf, you are permitted what is called a Mulligan — a free shot. So, I teed up another ball. Does everyone know what a slice is? See Rasmussen/Page 10 I Smith Corona presents three products that can ielp make schoolwork academic. 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