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Page 10 The Battalion Lady Ags volleyball signs two recruits By ALAN LEHMANN Of The Battalion Staff Lady Aggie volleyball coach A1 Givens will have a hard time replac ing All-Southwest Conference play ers Yvonne Van Brandt and Kelli Kellen. Both were four-year starters who graduated this Spring. But Givens took a step in that di rection this week by signing prom ising recruits Genny Wood and Di ane Robertson. “I don’t think you ever replace players like Kelli and Yvonne, but Genny and Diane will fit in well with the players we already have,” Givens said. “There are a lot of similarities between them and Kelli and Yvonne. “Both (Genny and Diane) are very competitive players and have a lot of the same intangibles that Yvonne and Kelli had.” Wood, a 5 foot 9 inch setter from San Antonio’s Tom C. Clark High School, was the San Antonio Player of the Year in 1989. She helped lead her team to a 33-2 record and a run ner-up spot in the Texas high school championships last year. Givens likens her to Van Brandt, A&M’s all-time leader in assists and digs. “Genny is a taller version of Yvon ne,” Givens said. “She was one of the top setters in not only Texas, but the whole Southwest region last season.” Robertson comes to A&M from Chabot College in Hayward, Calif. As a freshman last season, she was named the Most Valuable Player in the Golden State Conference and was selected for all-state honors. In high school, Robertson won honors in volleyball, softball and bas ketball. Givens said he’s impressed with Robertson. “Diane is a good, big athlete who comes in with a lot of experience,” he said. “She will have to work on her blocking, but she has the size to be real effective there.” Givens said he hopes to add a cou ple more players during the signing period. High school basketball lockout has fans burning ATLANTA, Texas (AP) — Atlan ta’s still burning. High school oasketball fans in this small northeast Texas town are still quite upset about being locked out of their last game against the Gilmer High Buckeyes. All outsiders were banned from the Feb. 6 game in Atlanta because a stands-clearing brawl had occurred during the first meeting on Jan. 19. Gilmore won the game 98-89 in overtime, and the local paper imme diately dubbed it “the best game no body saw.” Even the town’s local sports writer was locked outside the gym. But townspeople are gearing up for Monday night’s third meeting between the two bitter rivals. It’s a game with high stakes: The winner will advance to the state playoffs as the champion of District 15-3 A. The two teams had finished the season in a three-way tie for first, along with Linden-Kildare. All had 7-3 records. Gilmer knocked off Lin den-Kildare 80-64 Saturday in the first game of a three-team tie breaker playoff. Atlanta coach Eddie Johnson, whose team is 20-9, said after the overtime loss played to empty stands last month that his players had been hurt by the lack of vocal encourage ment. But that won’t be a problem Mon day. Fans plan to show up in force at Longview High School’s Lobo Col iseum where the game will be played. A local bank message board has been encouraging everyone to leave town Monday night and head to Longview for the game. Three bus loads of students are expected to make the trip. The Rabbits fans also are rabid fans. They have a “sixth man sec tion” dressed in matching T-shirts that read: “We Will Rock You” and “Atlanta’s Sixth Man.” .. . ! Ags lose in finals: Men’s tennis team falls to Indiana in championship round of tourney Texas A&M men’s tennnis team traveled to Bloomington, Indiana last Friday to participate in the Wil son Sporting Goods Invitational on the campus of Indiana University. The Aggies went undefeated on the first day of play defeating Mur ray State, 9-0, in the first round on Friday. Shaun O’Donovan, Doug Brown, and Scott Phillips got the job done by breezing through straight sets. How ever, Guistano Espinosa, Matt Zi- zette, and Steve Kennedy had to go three sets to claim their victories. “Murray State has a good team, we just played real well,” A&M Head Coach David Kent said. “Depth will eptr be the key to this season and if Fri day is any indication we will be all right.” ^ A&M opened up the second day of play picking up where they left off by defeating Michigan, 6-3. O’Donovan, Espinosa, and Phillips won their matches in the singles cat egory, while Zizette, Kennedy, and Brown lost to three Michigan net- ters. The Aggies won all three of their double matches against the Wolver ines in straight sets. On Sunday A&M lost to Indiana, 7-2, in the final round giving the Hoosiers the overall tournament win sporting a 3-0 record for the week end. However, O’Donovan stayed on a roll as he beat out his opponent by the score of 7-5, 3-6, 6-4. Zizette also went three sets 6-2, 6-7, 7-5, for the victory. “Overall, O’Donovan had a great tournament,” Kent said. “He was 3-0 and had some big wins. “Two of his wins (over the week end) were as big as anybody has had at Texas A&M since 1985.” Kent also said he was pleased with Matt Zizette’s performance. “Zizette also played well,” Kent said. He had a big win Sunday over a highly regai Becker of Indiana.” Kent said he felt that the trip11 Indiana gave the Aggies an insill: edge as they prepare for a kl Southwest Conference mattil against Arkansas. “It was really a great trip," Ket said. “The indoor experience will{ri us ready for the trip to Arkansas.' The Aggies next match will Hi them pitted against Southwe Texas. A&M returns to the friend confines of Omar Smith Tenn Center on Thursday, Feb. 22, ar then host Trinity on Friday, Feb.23 GE Information Meeting Who? All students interviewing with General Electric. What? Your chance to learn about the GE businesses you’re interested in before you sit down for a formal interview. Not only will you be better informed, you wont have to waste precious interview time asking about GE when you should be telling us about you. Presentations will explore the following programs: • Distribution Management • Technical Sales • Field Engineering • Manufacturing Management Also, recent grads and current program members will be on hand to discuss their experiences with you. When and Where? Tuesday, February 20th, 7:00-8:30 p.m. College Station Hilton, 801 University Drive East What else? Informal mixer with GE employees, immediately follow ing the presentations. Refreshments will be served. The mark of a leader. An Equal Opportunity Employer CAMP DAY Monday February 19 M.S.C. 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