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I Being 5 feet, 6 inches tall, Yvonne
Van Brandt is shorter than most vol-
yball players.
But she doesn’t let it affect her.
“Sometimes, I wish I were three
tor four inches taller, but you can’t
psh your life away,” Van Brandt
lid.
“I hate it when people say ‘You’re
Inly 5 feet, 6 inches, so you must be
a setter.’ It makes me compete even
larder.”
Lady Aggie Coach A1 Givens said
vat Van Brandt, who has made the
1-Southwest Conference team the
ist two years, is a great player.
“She plays a lot bigger than 5 feet
6,” Givens said. “She’s a fun player
to watch. Yvonne plays with a lot of
Inergy and positive emotion.
“Yvonne does her job well. If she
iere three or four inches taller,
she’d be an All-American. We give
up some size when she’s at the net,
but she’s got the ball-control skills to
compensate.”
A setter has to have good hands to
put the ball exactly where the attack
ers want it, but ball-control alone
doesn’t make a good setter.
“Q
Oometimes it
seems that she knows
what the other team is
going to do even before
they know.”
— Al Givens,
Lady Aggie coach
Van Brandt isn’t shabby on de
fense, either. She’s second in the na
tion in digs, and has blocked well this
year.
Leadership and experience are
important too, Givens said.
“The setter is to a volleyball team
what the quarterback is to a football
team,” he said. “Yvonne is our play-
maker. She checks the defense and
decides where to put the set.”
Being a good setter also means
knowing where the defense is. Van
Brandt’s anticipation skills are un
canny, Givens said.
“Sometimes it seems that she
knows what the other team is going
to do even before they know,” he
said. “She has a tremendous nose for
the ball.”
Since the setter runs the offense,
the position lends itself to lead
ership. Van Brandt is co-captain this
season, as she has been for the last
two years.
She said that being team captain
isn’t always easy.
“You want to be liked by your tea-
See Van Brandt/Page 12
Fay re hopes to fall out of favor
of Aggie fans with strong showing
By Alan Lehmann
Of The Battalion Staff
When Southern Mississippi
and Texas A&M square off at
Kyle Field Saturday night, the
Aggie defense will see a familiar
face on the Golden Eagles’ of
fense — quarterback Brett Favre.
Favre’s first meeting with A&M
was a shaky one — he completed
only six of 22 passes in a 27-14
Aggie win. But he’s improved
since then.
So don’t expect Favre to do the
Aggies any favors.
The 19-year-old junior from
Pass Christian, Miss., has started
every game for the Eagles since
the second game of the 1987 sea
son.
Favre came into the game
against Tulane late, and led the
Eagles to a come-from-behind
victory.
The next week, the true fresh-
So. Mississippi at A&M
• Site; Kyle Field (72,387 tau.)
• Kickoff: 6 p.m.
• Ranking: A&M (22nd), Southern
Mississippi (—)
• TWRadio: The game will not he
televised: KTAM (AM 1240)
man started his first collegiate
game against the Aggies. He
threw for 143 yards and two
touchdowns, but A&M won 27-
14.
Favre has been the starter ever
since.
He finished the 1987 season
with 15 touchdown passes, break
ing the school record.
Favre broke that record last
season, when he passed for
2,271 yards and 16 touchdowns,
and led the Eagles to an Indepen
dence Bowl victory over Texas-Fl
Paso.
He threw only five intercep
tions in 1988, and had a streak of
1 14 straight passes without an in
terception.
That streak was broken in this
year’s season opener, but he
passed for 282 yards and two
touchdowns as the Eagles upset
Florida State.
Although Favre has had a good
See Favre/Page 12
ast start, fast fade the script to another ho-hum Rangers year
As the baseball season winds down this
veekend, Texas Ranger fans have to
vender: What happened to our team?
(gain.
Once more, the Rangers displayed
jnough competence to keep you interested
for most of the season. Not greatness. Not
jeart. Just competence.
Nothing more.
The Rangers opened up hotter than a
ilOO Rolex with a batting order that could
hit the ball over, around and through the
fence. It didn’t matter who was on the
hound, for or against them.
It was Bobby Valentine’s own Run-n-
ihoot offense.
But as with anything good that befalls the
itrangers, it was short-lived.
Rafael Palmeiro, whose batting average
kas among the league leaders in the
season’s first six weeks, fell in a hole so deep
/ou would have thought it was a sequel to
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the Jessica McClure story. He didn't
recover, if at all, until two weeks ago.
Pete Incaviglia didn’t recover all year.
Stinky is one of those rare individuals
who truly can’t hit his weight. Of course,
that kind of number would be a lot to ask of
Wade Boggs.
But Incaviglia’s laughable plate
performance could only look good
compared to his even more comedic
fielding. Let’s see, who’ve we got for left
field? How ’bout that guy that’s slower than
a tax refund and has that rocket arm to get
it to the cutoff man on one bounce.
What a ballplayer.
But that’s just two guys.
Chad Krueter, who couldn’t hit his
weight from the seventh grade, made Geno
Petralli look like Johnny Bench. Cecil Espy
started the year like Lou Brock and ended
it like Lou Grant.
Of course, names like Julio Franco and
Harold Baines did brighten and bolster the
Ranger lineup. And for better or worse,
Ruben Sierra may be the Ernie Banks of the
1990s. But that’s his problem.
Pitching is the other half of the Rangers’
sad story.
Charlie Hough, who many counted on to
win 17 games, had arm problems from
throwing that tendon-taxing knuckleball.
This was halfway through the campaign.
What can he switch to now? Throwing
underhanded?
Hough’s absence in the rotation brought
about what is now known as the “The
Alvarez Incident.”
Wilson Alvarez, 19, the hottest pitching
prospect in the Rangers’ farm system would
nave his day. With a lack of able starters,
and the team needing a shot in the arm,
Valentine called up Alvarez from Class AA
Tulsa.
In what may be the greatest confidence-
shattering event of the baseball season,
Alvarez failed to get an out against the six
batters he faced in the first inning. After he
was relieved, Alvarez was shipped back to
Tulsa the next day. The day after that he
was traded to the White Sox in the deal for
Baines and Fred Manriquez.
Shelled, shipped, traded.
Not exactly the next Fernando
Valenzuela.
But that’s just a footnote to the season.
The pitching wasn’t all that negative.
There was the biggest every-part-time-
baseball-yuppie-had-to-be-there event of
the season: Ryan’s 5,000th K. And Ryan
was a goldmine, both at the ticket window
and on the mound. His 15 wins to date will
lead the staff, along with being the
American League leader in strikeouts.
And with his slew of near-miss no hitters,
fans flocked to his starts at home and away
games. When Ryan started, history could be
made — as opposed to waiting a night and
seeing Bobby Witt start and do his
impression of Tim Bobbin’s character in
“Bull Durham.”
So It’s a season. Is there hope for next
year?
Can the Ryan Express barrel down the
tracks for another year?
Can the ^outh of Franco, Sierra and
Palmeiro carry the Rangers into the 1990s?
Ha, don’t even kid. They may be up by
five at the All-Star break, but they’ll still
find a way to make the standings say this in
August: Games Behind — 14.
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