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Sports 7
Tuesday, February 12, 1991 The Battalion Sports Editor Alan Lehmann 845-2688
Focus anger
toward SWC
foes, not Wilson
V^riticism is the key to
improvement, and I criticized the Texas
Aggie basketball team.
But not with
out a purpose in
mind.
On a bright,
sunny September
day in 1983,
while a senior at
Bishop Dunne
High School in
Dallas, I was
given a failing
progress report Crai WiIson
from my trigo-
nometry teacher. Sports Writer
The day suddenly turned cloudy and
dark as I envisioned the deep trouble
awaiting my posterior (yes, even at age
17) later that day.
After the worst basketball practice of
my life, my buddy gave me a ride home.
The house looked like a dark mansion
in a gothic novel, fog and all the extras.
For some reason, my parents were
especially glad to see me that day,
probably happy that their favorite child
was Finally home from school.
Upon telling my mother of my
progress report she yelled a bit, as most
teacher-parents do, and ordered me to
tell my father.
Sweat dripped from my brow, my legs
wobbled and my chest tightened as I
made the long walk down the hallway to
His Room.
The next thing I remembered was
sitting on my bed, angrier than I ever
have been in my entire life.
My dad, a great and honorable man
by my standards, cursed me, downed
me, and told me to get out of his face.
And the house shook as he said it.
Furthermore, I was temporarily off
the basketball team, in my senior year as
team captain.
As was usually the case, my mom
talked him into letting me play ball
again, but those hurtful words stayed
right with me.
They angered me to the point where I
improved dramatically in class and made
a B in the course.
My dad eventually told me years later
that his explosion was a lesson in
motivation. iijtu.
silt.
See Wilson/Page 8
Williams set to lead Aggie charge
Home opener
today at 1 p.m.
By Michelle Bergeron
Of The Battalion Staff
Travis Williams has no trouble with mak
ing a catch on or off the diamond.
Williams, Texas A&M’s third baseman
and power hitter, admits that when he is
not on the field, his favorite place to be is
fishing.
“Oh, I love to fish,” said Williams. “I
usually try to go fishing at least once a
weekend just to get away, either by myself
or with a friend.”
Williams won’t have a chance to fish this
afternoon, though. He and the Aggies will
be taking on Southwest Texas State in a 1
p.m. doubleheader at Olsen Field.
A&M comes into the match with a 2-1 re
cord after a three-game road trip to UT-
Pan American over the weekend. The Ag
gies are ranked 14th in the nation by Base
ball America and 19th by Collegiate Base
ball/ESPN.
This drastic change of setting helps Wil
liams prepare for his job on the field.
Williams, who is ranked seventh among
the nation’s collegiate third baseman by
Baseball America, has been thrust into a
leadership role this season.
“I feel it’s going to be real important for
me to step forward and assume the role as
leader,” he said.
Williams and fellow juniors Jason Mar
shall and Trey Witte have seen extensive
playing time since 1989.
“We’re going to have to pull out all our
experience and come through as leaders,”
Williams said.
Experience is not an area where Williams
is lacking and he doesn’t feel the team lacks
it either.
“I don’t think we are going to be hurting
in that aspect at all,” he said. “We have a
real deep staff — great talent — and good
team unity this year, and I think we have
just as much experience as last year.”
But Williams does admit to having mixed
feelings about last season.
“As far as the record went and our ac
complishments, I thought it went alright,”
he said. “But as far as when we got into con
ference, I felt real disappointed.”
Due to a late slump, the Aggies finished
fifth in the Southwest Conference last sea
son. Williams said it was a crushing blow not
to make the conference or regional tourna
ments.
“The last two weeks after school was out,
we had to stay here because we didn’t know
J. JANNER/The Battalion
A&M third baseman Travis Williams will get a chance to show some fancy
glove-work today as the Ags face SW Texas St. at 1 p.m. at Olsen Field.
said. “I was on a real good team, and we
won the Alaskan League and also an inter
national tournament in Hawaii.”
One would think playing baseball like
this year-round could make Williams feel
cramped for time, but he quickly disagrees.
“I haven’t got tired of it yet,” he said.
“You can always find the time for the things
you want to do and also take care of the
business of baseball.”
The wildlife and fisheries major said jug
gling school and baseball is not as difficult
as it might seem.
See Williams/Page 8
if we were going to make the conference or
regional tournaments,” he said. “We prac
ticed hard for two weeks and I thought it
built real good character in all of us. Then,
to turn around and not make either tourna
ment was very disappointing.”
But, Williams got the opportunity to par
ticipate in several tournaments while play
ing summer basebell in Anchorage, Alaska.
The avid outdoorsrnan said he loved it
there, and although he was the only Aggie
on his team, some Aggies also played on
other teams in the league.
X “It was a great experience for me and I
got to see some beautiful country,” Williams
Ladys seek
win tonight
By Craig Wilson
The Battalion
After beating the TCU Lady Horned
Frogs, 81-70, Saturday, the Texas A&M
Lady Aggies will try to make it two in a
row Tuesday night against the SMU
Lady Mustangs.
The Lady Aggies (10-11, 5-6) will try
to begin a winning streak at G. Rollie
White Coliseum at 7:30 p.m. against the
Lady Mustangs (8-13, 3-7), who the Lady
Ags beat handily in Dallas, 83-70.
Unfortunately, it will be under
somber circumstances.
Forward Dena Russo, who was a team
spark plug as well as the second leading
scorer for the Lady Ags, has decided to
end her basketball career due to injury.
Russo suffers from what doctors call
heritable high-riding kneecaps on both
legs.
The position of her kneecaps puts a
severe strain on her patellar tendons,
causing inflammation and excruciating
pain.
Showing great courage, Russo played
basketball continuously since surgery on
both knees last August.
However, doctors said the only way to
lessen Russo’s pain is if she were to quit
playing.
The team and coaching staff, openly
saddened by the decision, supports
Russo fully.
“Detia has made a very difficult but
wise decision,” A&M head coach Lynn
Hickey said, “and we are behind her 100
percent.
“The doctors told her not to plav in
August, but she gave it the old college
try. If purple hearts were given out for
basketball, she would deserve the medal
more than anyone.”
Russo, a 6-2 junior from Victoria,
started every game this season for the
Lady Aggies and averaged 13.7 points
while leading the team in rebounding
with 7.5 boards per contest.
Sophomore Karey Janak will replace
Russo in the lineup Tuesday.
Janak is averaging 2.7 points and 3.3
rebounds per game.
A&M is averaging 70.5 points a game
this season, while giving up 71.6 points a
contest.
Yvonne Hill, the team’s leading scorer
at 15.1 points per game, scored 20 points
in the Lady Aggie victory Jan. 12.
She also scored 18 points to lead A&M
See Lady Ags/Page 8
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