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The Battalion
Monday, September 10,1990
Spikers open with win, loss
By SCOTT WUDEL
Of The Battalion Staff
This weekend was one of mixed
emotions for the Lady Aggies.
Texas A&M, in its home-opener
Friday, defeated the University of
North Texas 15-3, 15-5, 15-2.
But Saturday’s match against the
University of Idaho was a different
story as the Aggies fell in three hard-
fought games 15-9, 15-13, 15-9.
A crowd of 642 watched the en
thusiastic Lady Aggies outplay a
smaller UNT team in the first
match, posting 40 kills to the Eagles’
14.
A&M coach A1 Givens said he was
pleased with the team’s performance
in the first match.
“They had a lot of fun ... I think
they wanted to play,” Givens said. “I
think after the outing in Hawaii they
were really anxious to see how they
could do against somebody who’s
not number two in the country.”
The Lady Aggies jumped out to 9-
2 lead in the first game of the match,
highlighted by freshman Genny
Woods’ diving stabs that kept the
ball in play. Raycelle Michalke ended
the game with two service aces.
Michalke’s four kills helped the
Lady Aggies grab a 9-0 lead in the
second game before UNT’s Nicole
Barzilla got the Lady Eagles on the
board. A&M’s Alysia McMath came
in to deliver five kills in the game be
fore Sheila Morgan slammed home
the 15th point.
Givens said he was pleased with
the play of the younger players in
the first home match of the season.
Michalke lead a team that con
verted almost 40 percent of its kills
and posted a .333 hitting percent
age.
A&M had trouble getting orga
nized in the first game Saturday as
Idaho took an 11-3 lead before the
Lady Aggies reeled off six straight
points to close the gap.
But UTs Karen Thompson
quickly pulled the Vandals ahfead by
holding serve for the next four
points to take the game.
A&M fought hard in the second
and third games, refusing to give
into Idaho’s pressure.
The Lady Aggies held a 6-4 lead
in the second game when Elizabeth
Edmiston and Diane Robertson
combined to block a Vandal’s kill
back into the player’s face. The two
teams traded points until Idaho took
a 14-9 lead.
Krista Hierholzer kept the Lady
Aggies in the game by chasing down
Orange Bowl
may peel out
MIAMI (AP) — The place has
been a good home for 53 years, and
its name stirs a lot of memories.
But it’s run down, the neighbor
hood isn’t what it used to be, and the
suburbs beckon.
That’s why the Orange Bowl sta
dium may be abandoned by the
Orange Bowl Classic. Bowl commit
tee members will decide Monday
whether to move the prestigious
game 14 miles north to Joe Robbie
Stadium beginningjan. 1, 1992.
The committee, which includes
some of Miami’s most prominent
residents, predicts a close vote. At
least three former presidents of the
group favor moving; at least two for
mer presidents and the president
elect want to stay.
Current president Arthur Hertz
said the issues are complicated, sen
sitive and emotional. They include
economics and demographics, tradi
tion and competition.
But the most graphic symbols of
the debate are the Orange Bowl’s
toilet bowls. They leak. They over
flow. There aren’t enough of them.
Fans notice.
“They more than likely will (have
to) empty their bladders in a sink, or
on the floor, and have raw sewage
drip on them from above,” wrote
Nick Crane, former Orange Bowl
Committee president.
Crane’s comments are contained
in a position paper to the group. He
and others argue that the condition
of the city-owned Orange Bowl sta
dium makes a move to Robbie Sta
dium mandatory.
The Miami Dolphins’ 3-year-old
home, in Dade County but beyond
the city limits, most often is de
scribed as state-of-the-art. The
Orange Bowl, the only home its
namesake game has known, is de
scribed as “scuzzy.”
Miami Herald publisher David
Lawrence J r. used that term — and
he favors keeping the game where it
is.
Lawrence and others note that the
Orange Bowl is doing fine at its cur
rent location. The New Year’s night
game has emerged in the past de
cade as perhaps America’s premier
bowl. It has crowned the national
champion four times since 1982, and
last January paid participants Notre
Dame and Colorado $4.1 million
each.
Those who want to stay also point
out that the city has promised reno
vations to the bathrooms, seats, con
cession stands and scoreboard that
could total more than $10 million.
There’s more competition all the
time on the holiday football front.
This season, the Orange Bowl will be
one of eight bowl games played Jan.
1; four will be in Florida.
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Photo by Eric H. Roalson
A&M senior Krista Hierholzer blocks a shot by a UNT player Fri
day as the Aggies defeated the Eagles in three straight games.
misguided balls and hitting them
back despite the sprained thumb on
her left hand. A&M fought off re
peated game points before faltering
15-13.
In the final game, the Lady Ag
gies grabbed the lead but couldn’t
hold on as Idaho took over. Later,
A&M ran off five straight points to
contest the Vandals 11-9 lead, but it
wasn’t enough to win.
Givens said he wasn’t happy with
the Lady Aggies’ performance Sat
urday — citing the good play of the
Vandals and a lot of unforced errors
by the Aggies.
Saturday the Aggies could only
convert 14 percent of their kills
against a team that covered the court
better than their opponent the night
before.
“Right now we’re still struggling
to find the right chemistry on the
court,” Givens said. “I think what’s
really evident is that even though we
have a lot of depth, we’ve got to find
the right combination.”
The 1-3 Lady Aggies play their
next home match Tuesday against
Southwest Texas State. The game
begins at 7:00 p.m. at G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
Sindelar splinters Wood
in Classic tie-breaker
COAL VALLEY, Ill. (AP) —
Joey Sindelar parted the first
playoff hole to defeat Willie
Wood at the Hardee’s Golf Clas
sic on Sunday.
“I honestly can’t believe I’m sit
ting here. I’m kind of in shock,”
Sindelar, who beat Willie
sat
hole
000
Wood on the first playoff 1
Sunday to capture the $180,
first prize.
“If you watched my play,
you’re probably scratching your
head, wondering how I got here.
It wasn’t pretty golf,” said Sinde
lar, who came from three shots
behind to tie Wood at the end of
regulation. “I haven’t found my
driver and lots of time I was in
the rough.”
“I hit the only good drive I had
today on the playoff hole,” said
Sindelar, whose winner’s check
was more than he earned all of
last year, when he made $77,957
from the PGA Tour.
B YU players
really rowdys
Associated Press
Image isn’t everything.
Not when the subject is Brigham
Young’s football team.
Although the Mormon Church-
owned school has a squeaky clean
image and rules prohibit students
from using to-
shitty bacco, alcohol
1 and caffeine, the
football team has
not upheld the
reputation.
BYU players “always seem to get
into scuffles,” Miami safety Charles
Pharms said. “Their games are bet
ter than a Tyson fight.”
The scuffling Cougars — they got
into a bench-clearing brawl during a
30-10 season-opening victory over
Texas-El Paso last week — go from a
lightweight opponent to a heavy
weight Saturday, battling Miami, the
nation’s top-ranked team and de
fending national champion, at
Provo.
“Nasty from the East meets Nasty
from the West,” Miami defensive
tackle Russell Maryland said with a
laugh.
“It’s nice to have the defending
champion ... coming into your
hometown,” Chris Smith, the tight
end of the 16th-ranked Cougars,
said. “But we’re not afraid of them.”
In other games Saturday involv
ing the nation’s top 25 teams, it will
be co-No. 3 Auburn at home against
Fullerton State, co-No. 3 Florida
State at home against East Carolina,
No. 8 Tennessee at Mississippi State,
No. 9 Clemson at No. 14 Virginia
and No. 10 Nebraska at home
against Northern Illinois.
Also, No. 11 Illinois at Arizona,
No. 13 Alabama at home against
Southern Mississippi, No. 17 Pitts
burgh at home against Boston Col
lege, No. 18 Ohio State at home
against Texas Tech, No. 19 UCLA at
home against No. 22 Oklahoma, No.
20 Washington at home against San
Jose State, No. 21 Penn State at
home against Texas, No. 24 Hous
ton at home against Nevada-Las Ve
gas, and No. 25 West Virginia at
home against Maryland.
The college football weekend be
gan Thursday night, with No. 6 Col
orado defeating Stanford 21-17.
BYU’s third-quarter fight asgainst
Texas-El Paso resulted in the ejec
tion of star halfback Matt Bellini.
“I don’t expect that to happen to
us, because we never do that kind of
stuff,” Miami coach Dennis Erickson
said, smiling.
Miami’s reputation has improved
since Erickson became coach last
year. He has cracked down on taunt
ing and has warned the Hurricanes
about making disparaging remarks
about opponents.
Virtually forgotten is the Hurri
canes’ appearance at the 1986 Fiesta
Bowl, where they arrived in combat
fatigues.
“It’s taken a lot to clear the image
that we had,” tackle Mike Sullivan
said. “It’s something that a lot of
people got tired of here.
“We’d be winning games and peo
ple would say, ‘They’re just a bunch
of trash-talking whatevers.’ We try to
stay away from that stuff, and I
think we’ve done a pretty good job
of it.”
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