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gjfhe Battalion SPORTS es / | priday, November 10,1989 9 Sports Editor Tom Kehoe 845-2688 Alan Lehmann Sports Writer ish vs Ponies: Big A1 says it’s senseless violence ^Saturday's Notre Dame-Southern ^thodist football game should be l- Reeled. a ■There’s already too much gratuitous violence on television, so it won’t be shown on any of the networks. However, the Sports Channel, a national cable Rnnel, will show the massacre. -■rhis is supposed to be a kinder, gentler nation, and yet this senseless slaughter is allowed to happen; a game l that can only appeal to someone with C ious homocidal tendancies. Come on, the Fightin’ Irish are the fending nationalchampions, and have beaten top-ranked teams all year. Two weeks ago, they thrashed seventh- raiiked Pittsburgh 41-7, holding the Panthers scoreless after their First drive, ■rlier in the season, they had an off- dav and still beat second-ranked Michigan. ■SMU is on the opposite end of the Spec trum. The Mustangs are the first major college teum in the modern era to suffer the death penalty. Although they are trying valiantly to rebuild, they are arguably the worst major college football nm in the last decade. ■ Even though the Punies weren’t expected to win a game all season, they beat Connecticut and North Texas, a couple of Division II teams. However, SMU was slaughtered 95-21 by Houston and 63-14 by Texas A&M. The Aggies probably could have scored 100 points, but Coach R.C. Slocum put in his third string and ran the ball up the middle the last 20 minutes. 1 The Irish’s second team has more strength and speed than the Punies’ first squad. m Notre Dame has over a dozen players on its roster who can run a 4.5 second 40 yard dash. The Irish have the biggest, strongest lines in the nation, dominating quality opponents like Pittsburgh and Michigan. 1 Not that SMU will roll over and die — they certainly didn’t against heavily favored A&M last week. The Mustangs kept the Aggie faithful quiet for the first eight minutes of last Saturday’s game, when they scored on the opening drive, See Lehmann/Page 10 Photo by Scott D. Weaver Texas A&M’s Amy Cummings surpirses Tech’s Lisa Clark with a quick spike during the second game. Tech downed A&M in five games. Texas Tech spikes A&M in five games By Alan Lehmann Of The Battalion Staff Somebody needs to tell the Lady Aggies that close doesn’t count in volleyball. Not even against teams as good as the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Texas A&M lost 15-13, 7-15, 15-8, 4-15, 12-15 to Tech Thursday night, dropping to 2-6 in Southwest Conference play and 10- 15 overall. Tech, who is now 7-0 in Five- ame matches, clinched second place in the WC with a 7-2 record, and improved to 17-10 overall. A&M rallied from a 10-2 deficit in the Lady Aggie Update • Score: A&M loses in five games to Texas Tech. • Record: 10-15. • SWC Record: 2-6 fifth game to tie Tech 11-lL However, it couldn’t capitalize on the momentum and lost the match. The Lady Aggies and Raiders each played superb defensive matches, with both teams breaking the previous SWC record for digs in a match. A&M had 149 and Tech had 141 to break Houston’s record of 139. Amy Cumings led the Lady Aggies with 16 kills and four blocks, one solo, and three assists. Kelli Kellen contributed 14 kills and six blocks, including four solos. Setter Yvonne Van Brandt turned in her usual solid performance, leading the Lady Aggies with 37 assists and leading all players with 33 digs. Tech’s Sabrina Zenon led all players with 20 kills and seven blocks, including five so los. Teammates Vicki Baldwin and Lisa Clark added 18 and 15 kills, respectively. A&M took leads of 2-0 and 11-6 in the first game before winning on a Krista Hier- holzer ace past a diving Red Raider. Tech dominated the second game, and took an early 7-0 lead. A&M closed the gap to 11-7, but couldn’t score on the swarming Tech defense, and lost the second game. A&M erased a 2-0 deficit, and grabbed a 7-2 lead, on their way to a win in the third game. The Raiders completely dominated the fourth game, taking leads of 5-0 and 10-2 before taking the win, and setting the stage for the winner-take-all fifth game. A&M coach A1 Givens was pleased with his team’s effort. “We played a lot better (than in A&M’s earlier loss to Tech),” Givens said. “We made some mistakes, but our intensity was still good. “Tech is a great team. They play unbelie vable pursuit defense, and keep everything in play. It was just so hard to put them away.” Carter was 6 ripped off DISD official mad about ruling AUSTIN (AP) — Dallas Independent School District Athletic Director John Kincaide says Carter High School has been “ripped off’ by the University In terscholastic Athletic League’s executive board, which upheld a decision that will keep Carter out of the playoffs. “I am not angry. I am mad,” Kincaide said Wednesday after the state commit tee vote. “I feel that we have been ripped off. We did not get a fair hear ing. I see it as a designed plan to keep Dallas Carter out of the playoffs.” The UIL state executive committee upheld a District 11-5A committee’s Oct. 30 decision to ban the defending Class 5A state champions from the play offs for knowingly playing an ineligible football player in its Oct. 13 game against Grand Prairie. The school also has been placed on probation for the 1990 season. “If it were my decision to make. Car ter would be in the state football play offs,” Kincaide said. “They made their minds up before we ever came here. The kids have not been treated fairly. It’s a sad day.” The district committee based its ineli gibility ruling on the fact that Carter was already on probation for a similar viola tion last year. Carter is the first UIL team to be dis qualified from playoff competition since the Post High School girls team received a similar penalty three years ago for holding off-season practices. Dallas school board member Thomas G. Jones, who represents the Carter area, said he was not surprised by the ruling. “When you look at their membership, it’s eight Anglos and one African-Amer ican,” he said. “They’ve been intent on dealing with Carter ever since last year.” Carter was first placed on probation for failing to report a grade change by school principal Clarence Russeau dur ing the 1988 school year. 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