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Page 9
The Lady Aggie volleyball team
II breathe a sigh of relief on the
ray back into College Station to
night.
Texas A&M (3-9) plays the Sam
louston State University Ladykats
16-3) today at 7 p.m. in Huntsville.
After their game against SHSU,
he Lady Aggies will play 10 of their
icxt 13 matches in the friendly con-
inesof G. Rollie White Coliseum.
But Coach A1 Givens insists the
earn is not looking past the Lady-
,ats.
"We’re not looking past anybody
t this point,” Givens says. “We’re
nost concerned with just how- we’re
playing on our half of the court.”
The match in Huntsville will end a
ong list of eight consecutive road
;ames for the Lady Aggies. A&M’s
/in over Lamar Sept. 20 was their
mly road victory of the season
igainst eight losses.
"We’ve had a tough two weeks on
he road, no question about it,”
livens said.
The Lady Aggies have played a
oadofTop 20 teams this season, all
in the road. But Givens says the
natches will be beneficial to the de-
elopment of the young team.
"We feel like we’ve learned from
ilaying that caliber. Now we’ll find
mt as we get into the conference
nd this home stretch whether in-
leed its going to pay dividends for
is," he says.
“I believe it will and the players
believe it will, and that’s probably
more important.”
SHSU will not make it easy for the
Lady Aggies to bring home their sec
ond road victory. The Ladykats have
won their last eight matches and
have won all three tournaments in
which they have played.
This year the Ladykats return
seven letterwinners from a team that
posted a 25-14 record last year and
finished second in the Southland
Conference.
A&M owns a 21-4 lead in the se
ries with SHSU and beat the Lady
kats last year.
Givens says he will change the
starting rotation again to find the
right mix that will be best for the
team. He has started 11 different
players through the 12 matches of
the season.
A&M’s starting rotation will in
clude regulars Elizabeth Edmiston,
Amy Cumings, Diane Robertson,
and Krista Hierholzer.
Givens will also start Alysia
McMath and bring on Kim Mitchell
in different situations. Sheri Her-
mesmeyer, who returned to match
play last weekend after arthroscopic
surgery, will fill the sixth spot.
Givens says this lineup will be
more mature and experienced, and
will allow the younger players to de
velop off the bench.
The Lady Aggies next home
match will be this weekend at G.
Rollie White Coliseum. A&M will
host the Hampton Inn-Texas A&M
Invitational.
Fielder shooting for 50
home runs as fans wait
DETROIT (AP) — Would-be
fielders of Cecil’s big blast are
waiting, and the cheap seats rar
ely have been so popular. T he
count is two —and holding — for
Cecil Fielder in the chase for 50
home runs.
Fans with gloves in hand have
crowded the left field seats since
early September in hopes of a
catching one of the burly Field
er’s prodigious shots.
If it’s the 50th homer, a fan
could:
— Donate it to the Baseball
Hall of Fame. The Hall has the
record 61st home run ball Roger
Maris rocketed into the right field
stands of Yankee Stadium in
1961. Fielder’s 50th would be
part of its 1990 collection that will
be displayed through 1992.
— Sell it. Collectors say the ball
could be worth $200 or more.
— Trade it. Tiger officials say
anyone wanting to give it to
Fielder would be escorted by an
usher to the stadium office,
where the fan could meet the first
baseman after the game, and pos
sibly trade the ball for another
ball, a bat or other item.
— Keep it, as for what Tom
House calls “a vicarious connec
tion” to a star.
“A baseball is a physical rep
resentation that connects a per
son of star status with a person of
something less than star status,”
said House, pitching coach of the
Texas Rangers. “It ties the two of
them together in a way they never
would be otherwise.
“That’s why people will tear up
a $500 suit to get a $6 baseball.”
In 1974, Henry Aaron’s 715th
home run off A1 Downing broke
Babe Ruth’s career record. House
caught it in the Atlanta bullpen.
“It made me an answer in Triv
ial Pursuit,” House said. “I do 10
or 15 clinics every year around
the country, and I’m always intro
duced as the guy who caught
Hank Aaron’s 715th homer.”
The last Detroit Tiger to hit 50
homers in a season was Hank
Greenberg, who finished with 58
in 1938. He didn’t keep the 50th
or the 58th, said his son, Steve
Greenberg, deputy baseball com
missioner.
“My dad’s philosophy was that
he was going to go out and do
something even greater next sea
son than he had done the pre
vious year. He didn’t dwell on
nostalgia, if you will,” Greenberg
said.
A fan might need some signed
statements from ushers and other
witnesses to prove the authentic
ity of the ball, Tigers spokesman
Dan Ewald said.
When Fielder became the third
player to hit a ball over the left-
field roof at Tiger Stadium, on
Aug. 25, Ewald presented him
with that ball, recovered from a
rain gutter by a member of the
grounds crew. Then four fans
showed up at the Tigers offices
the next day claiming they had
the ball.
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DUNCANVILLE (AP) — Greg
Ostertag, the most highly re
cruited schoolboy basketball
player in Texas, said the atmo
sphere at the University of Kan
sas attracted him to the school.
The 7-foot-1 Duncanville High
School center said Monday he has
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“I liked the coaches, the play
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Tech’s Gill may play Saturday
against Bears despite hurt knee
LUBBOCK (AP) — Injured
Texas Tech quarterback Jamie Gill
may be well enough to play Saturday
in a Southwest Conference matchup
against Baylor, coach Spike Dykes
said.
Dykes announced that Gill did not
tear cartilage in his left knee during
last Saturday’s 34-32 victory against
New Mexico.
The junior sprained his knee and
severely bruised his kneecap on a 16-
yard run early in the second quarter.
Moments before, Gill had fired a 73-
yard touchdown pass to split end
Rodney Blackshear to give the Raid
ers a 7-3 lead.
Dykes said Gill may see action Sat
urday, but freshman Robert Hall
will start.
“His (Gill’s) progress is going to be
up to how fast he can handle it,”
Dykes said at his weekly news con
ference.
“There’s nothing wrong with his
knee. Of course, it’s sore, swollen
and tender,” he said.
“Robert will start because he will
get the majority of the practice time
this week,” Dykes said. “Jamie will be
limited in what he can do for the
next few days, so Robert will prac
tice. Whoever practices plays, that’s
the way we do it.”
Hall responded to his first exten
sive college playing time with a 15-
of-31, 316-yard, two-TD passing
performance. He directed a game
winning, 58-yard drive, culminated
by Lin Elliott’s 37-yard field goal
with 27 seconds remaining.
Hall and freshman wide receiver
Lloyd Hill accentuated the march
with two critical plays: a 33-yard
pass-and-catch on fourth-and-18 at
the Tech 14 and a 31-yard comple
tion on the very next play to move
Tech within field-goal range.
Dykes said he didn’t want to ex
pose Hall to such a pressure-packed
situation at this stage of his career.
“That’s the last thing we wanted to
happen,” Dykes said.
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Continued from page 7
or real.
This years’ Texas team might be
[oodenough to break A&M’s six-
ear winning streak and get the
rnghorns back on the winning
rack.
It’s still early and even though
leither team has yet to face a
onference opponent, this year’s
neeting between the two on Dec. 1
ould be the deciding factor on who
oes to the Cotton Bowl.
Texas is led by a defense laden
fith sophomores and juniors,
lowever, the defense is not lacking
nsenior leadership with hard-
itting safety Stanley Richard,
lefensive end Oscar Giles and
niddle linebacker Brian Jones
lading the way.
They continually held Colorado’s
uper-twins, quarterback Darian
lagan and tailback Eric Bieniemy,
icheck last weekend as they put the
luffs in third and long situations all
ight.
Texas lost the game because of its
nability to hold on third-and-long
ituations. Being able to do this will
omeas the team jells while the year
irogresses.
Offensively the Longhorns are led
iy an experienced Peter Gardere.
The sophomore quarterback led
Texas to midseason wins over
)klahomaand Arkansas last year
before a shoulder injury hampered
his late season performance.
Head coach David McWilliams, a
captain on the Longhorns’ 1963
national championship team, drew
heavy criticism after Texas dropped
four of their last five games last year.
The ’Horns were en route to their
second straight losing season —
something that hadn’t happened
since 1937-38.
McWilliams said he saw vast
improvement in this year’s
performance over last year’s and
sees his team coming out of last
weekend in good shape.
“I’m proud of the way we
performed,” McWilliams said.
“We’re going to be a better team
because of this.”
He’d better hope so, because after
a week off and a trip to Rice, his
Longhorns play charged up
Oklahoma and Arkansas in back-to-
back weeks.
The good news for the Longhorns
is that they play the Razorbacks,
Houston and A&M in the friendly
confines of Memorial Stadium, in
Austin this year.
So look out and keep a sharp eye
on the Horns this year. They might
just stumble into being a pretty good
team —well, at least good enough to
go the John Hancock Bowl.
Williams.
Continued from page 8
' , on21-of-30 games between the two
t Baton Rouge.
"Half of my teammates (from
-SU) are gone,” Malone said. “I
tally don’t know what happened,
everything was totally different af-
er we got back from the Hall of
'ame Bowl (a 23-10 loss to Syracuse
in 1988). We had a hard spring that
last spring I was there. A bunch of
them said, ‘Forget it, I’m going
somewhere else.’”
But LSU’s problems won’t matter
Saturday. The Tigers are 279-103-
18 at Tiger Stadium, known as
Death Valley because of its raucous
crowds. Through LSU’s first three
ames, Williams is averaging 97.3
yards a contest.
Malone said he would have an ad
vantage against Williams on Satur
day because he used to live, eat and
iractice with him.
“To be as quick as he is and as big
she is, he’s a natural,” Malone said.
But being with him all the time, you
n kind of tell where he’s going to
|o. It’s stuff like that most people
n't pick up on —especially oppos
ing teams.
Malone said Williams is hard to
stop regardless of how many films
an opposing team watches, and that
he can break a game open.
“If you give the man a crack, he’s
gone,” Malone said. “You’ve just got
to get on him and beat on him. He’s
a natural athlete. We’ve got to shut
him down.
“Instead of two people hitting
him, you have to have eight or nine
hitting him. I remember one time in
practice, five of us had Harvey in
our hands at one time. The next
thing we know, he’s 80 yards down
the field by himself.”
Williams is hoping to recapture
the form of his sophomore season,
when he rushed for 1,001 yards. Ma
lone said Williams must have an out
standing senior season because he’s
missed so many games due to inju
ries.
“I know how he thinks,” Malone
said. “Harvey loves attention. This is
his last go-around, and he knows he
has to run the ball to get that big
paycheck at the end of the road in
the NFL. He’s serious.”
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