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Thursday, October 5,1989
Lady Ags swept
in SWC opener
By Alan Lehmann
Of The Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M Lady Aggies had
an upset in mind when the Houston
Cougars came into G. Rollie White
Coliseum Wednesday night.
For a while, they even had an ad
vantage on the scoreboard. But, the
Coog defense was simply too strong
for the Lady Ags. The Coogs beat
the Lady Ags 15-11, 15-11, 15-8.
In spite of the sweep, the games
were close. A&M refused to give in,
fighting until the last point, but the
Houston defense stole the show.
A&M never managed a run
longer than two points, and had only
six two-point runs.
A&M coach A1 Givens said that his
team made mistakes, but had only
praise for Houston.
“We were simply thumped by a
better team tonight,” he said. “I
thought we would match up better
(with Houston) than we did.”
Houston out-performed A&M in
almost every statistical catagory. The
Coogs killed 61 of their 168 attempts
with only 18 errors for a .256 attack
percentage. A&M was 53 of 168 with
28 errors, for a .149 attack percent-
age.
Freshman Elizabeth Edmiston
and junior Krista Hierholzer led the
Aggies with 13 kills each, and they
contributed 15 and 14 digs, respec
tively. Amy Cumings had nine kills,
13 digs and two aces.
In the first game, Houston
grabbed a 3-1 lead on a Julie Gates
ace and two Lady Ag errors. After
Cumings killed a Coog rally with a
powerful spike, the Lady Ags scored
on a Houston error and a cross
court spike by Edmiston. A&M then
scored on two Kelli Kellen
blocks
See volleyball/Page 13
Photo by Scott D. Weaver
Lady Aggies’ attacker Amy Cummings (#6) spikes the ball
over the Cougars’ Julie Gates (#12) in A&M’s 15-11, 15-11,
15-8 loss Wednesday night in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The
Lady Aggies play this weekend in North Carolina.
The Brothers Webb:
teammates once again
By Richard Tijerina Butkus Aw rd candidate Aaron
Of The Battalion Staff
For as long as they can remem
ber, they’ve played together —
from childhood through high
school, and now college. But
these two Texas A&M football
players share more than just be
ing teammates.
They’re brothers.
After growing up in the same
home and being stars in the same
high school, Richmond and
James Webb now find themselves
Aggies. Richmond, a 6-7, 290-
pound senior offensive tackle,
anchors a talented offensive line
in 1989. He is a returning All-
Southwest Conference lineman.
James is a 6-4, 221-pound
sophomore outside linebacker.
He’ll have to wait his turn to play,
though. Playing time this season
has been hard to find. He backs
up preseason All-American and
Wallace.
Wallace, the Aggies’ defensive
leader and biggest playmaker,
ironically also is from the same
high school as the Brothers Webb
— Dallas Roosevelt. In fact, Wal
lace is at A&M today because of
Richmond. A&M recruiters saw
W’allace only because they were at
Roosevelt looking at Richmond.
“I’ve known Aaron ever since
the third grade, so we’ve been
pretty good friends through the
years,” Richmond said. “We’ve
grown up together and I’ve been
playing with him ever since high
school.”
But James’ relationship with
Wallace is on a different level.
“And I’ve been playing behind
Aaron ever since I can remem
ber,” James said. “When he
leaves, I hope I can get my chan
ce.”
Coaches voted Richmond as
See Brothers/Page 13
Poor play, no scoring and an ‘offensive’ line — Dallas has it all
The 1989 Dallas Cowboys.
New owner. New coach. New
quarterback. New hope after a 3-13 season.
And now, a new reality.
One that makes 3-13 pretty attractive.
After four abysmal games it’s now certain
that the preseason, new-regime hype was
nothing more than that. A 3-1 preseason
deceived many into thinking that deposing
Tom Landry was the panacea that would
resurrect (whimper) “america’s team.”
But alas, it’s not to be.
The numbers are startling.
Initially, there are the four consecutive
losses. And in case you haven’t read or
heard it elsewhere, that’s their worst start
since 1963 when they were and expansion-
dub doormat. Now they’re just a doormat.
More numbers — Points For: 41, Points
Against: 115!
Six of those points on the “for” side were
scored by defensive end Jim Jeffcoat.
,
1?
Tom
Kehoe
Sports Editor
Numbers? How ’bout number 28?
Not only is it where the Cowgirls rank in
most offensive and defensive categories, it
was where Troy “Million Dollar” Aikman
ranked among starting NFL quarterbacks
before his left index finger was realigned.
And 28 is one place before the Cowboys
will get to pick in next year’s draft. That’s
right. Even if they’re 0-16 this year, barring
a trade, there will be no first-round pick in
1990. The 1990 pick is filling in for
Aikman. Steve Walsh, a.k.a. the brilliant-
supplemental-draft-trade-bait-pick, hasn’t
panned out to be the hot item around the
league Jimmy Johnson thought he would.
But I’m sure Johnson is still gald to have
him. If he didn’t, his first order of busines
Monday morning might have been to
ingratiate himself to Steve “Pariah” Pelluer.
I would have loved to see that.
But here’s the worst number of all for
Dallas: 12.
That’s how many games they still have to
play.
Twelve more games. Sounds cruel,
doesn’t it?
How did this lowly state come to be, you
ask? How, after a — whoa — 3-1 preseason,
could the Cowboys be getting waxed so
badly?
First, It’s not all the JJ Boys’ fault.
Jerry Jones bought a crummy team. No
draft, no new coach, no way was anything
going to make the Slow Pokes any kind oi
worthwhile team this year.
Before the Dogpatch Twins even made
the scene, Dallas had lost a large
competitive advantage. That is their near
non-participation in the Plan B free agent
market.
Former owner Bum Bright was trying
desperately to unload the team and saw no
reason to put money into acquiring players.
So, Dallas signed five such free agents
(compared to Green Bay’s 20) and of those
only cornerback Ray Horton and running
back Kevin Scott made the team. Had Jones
made his deal sooner, former Oiler tight
end Jamie Williams would probably be a
Cowboy. Not that Dallas needs help at tight
end, much.
What is Johnson’s fault is the revolving
free-agent door spinning like the entrance
of Bloomie’s during a back-to-school sale in
thejuniors department.
Every day Johnson is bringing in
handfulls of players to possibly add to the
roster. Not exactly good for morale. Why
not stick with what you’ve got, try to teach
and improve them, instead of fooling with
other team’s rejects a couple of days at a
time?
Come to think of it, why add even more
rejects to the Dallas roster at all?
There’s already plenty on the very
offensive line. Aikman should be glad it was
just his finger. 1 hate to think how many
screws it takes to hold a femur together.
But together is not how the Cowboys
have it this year.
Twelve more games.
I’d rather endure a fistful of Aikman’s
fingers.
COME TONE UP WITH US
ggygg •
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