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The Battalion
Page 7
Canseco could
bring Rangers
wins and fans
The Texas
Rangers were picked
by many so-called
experts to compete
for a division title
this season the same
way they were supposed to win one in
1986.
On the road to nowhere, the Rangers
traded away three members of those
purported title teams to the Oakland
Athletics for erstwhile slugger Jose
Canseco.
Oh yeah, your Rangers threw in some
cash to boot.
Ruben Sierra, Bobby Witt and Jeff
Russell became trade rodder on the eve
of the trading deadline for many reasons,
none of which included playing a memo
rable game in September.
What the luckless Arlington franchise
received in return was a winner.
Canseco will bring his huge bat, hard
play and domestic squabbles with his
wife on the road to the Metroplex and
impress everyone but A's General Man
ager Sandy Alderson who let the greatest
player of this generation walk out the
door of Oakland Coliseum.
Rangers' GM Tom Grieve may have
saved his franchise and his job by
pulling the trigger on the biggest trade in
recent memory
Grieve and his buddies from an own
ership group headed by George W. Bush,
known better as the President s son,
solved the biggest problem they had:
How to put the ticketholders' butts in
seats.
On a team that depends on the ever
diminishing returns of Nolan Ryan for
September excitement, Canseco is a God
send.
All those bleacher rowdies that jeered
Canseco last month will greet him as the
hometown hero next Monday when he
returns as a Ranger after the current road
trip
But Canseco's impact will be felt long
after the close of this dying season.
See Davis/Page 8
K. LEE
DAVIS
Sports Writer
Aggies working hard
to end Louisiana jinx
By CHRIS WHITLEY
Sports Editor of THE BATTALION
Texas A&M linebacker Marcus Buck-
ley is on the road to good health, and the
offense is getting a thorough once-over in
practice.
So, head coach R.C. Slocum should
seem optimistic about his next battle
against Louisiana State on Saturday. Au
contraire.
Slocum said Tuesday at his weekly
press luncheon that winning the Aggies'
first game in Baton Rouge since 1975 will
be a challenge.
"It'll be tough," Slocum said. "This is
their opening ball game, and they're
opening at home. They've watched us
play, and we're a ranked team. All those
things are pretty easy to use in trying to
get a team motivated to play.
"So we know that we're going to get
their best shot."
Buckley has confined to improve after
his mysterious ankle ailment that caused
him to miss a week of practice before last
week's Disneyland Pigskin Classic
against Stanford. He recovered in time to
play and even made a fumble recovery
after sacking Cardinal quarterback Steve
Stenstrom.
He said that he should be more effec
tive this Saturday after having been
through a week of practice beforehand.
"I just feel more comfortable when I'm
prepared," Buckley said. "Right now, it's
just a matter of taking care. I'm taking it
day by day trying to be able to get back
into the scheme or things."
This is good news for Slocum, who
had reason to be dismayed after his
team's poor offensive showing against
Stanford, despite winning the game in
the final quarter, 10-7.
The team practiced Monday, for near
ly three hours, and Tuesday on A&M's
grass practice field trying to correct the
problems of last week before Saturday.
"We have got to get some of the rough
edges smoothed out of our offense,"
Slocum said. "We've got to run the ball
better, and we've got to be able to throw
and catch better."
Slocum confirmed that the quarter
back position is "still a big question
mark." Starter Jeff Granger was taken
out in the third quarter and substituted
with Corey Pullig, and later Matt Miller.
Although Granger moved the offense
when it counted in the stretch, Slocum
believes with more experience in game
situations. Granger will make fewer mis
takes like the ones he made in California.
"This is a young kid who has not
played football," he said about Granger,
who spent last spring on the baseball
team, instead of spring football practice.
"A redshirt sophomore quarterback
would be a young quarterback, but he's
even younger than that because of what
he's been doing with the time that he's
not in football.
See Aggies/Page 8
ROBERT REED/The Battalion
Texas A&M tailback Rodney Thomas breaks through the Stanford line in the
Disneyland Pigskin Classic last week, which the Aggies won, 10-7.
Lady Aggies take season opener against Sam Houston in four games
FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
The Texas A&M Lady Aggies traveled
to Johnson Coliseum in Huntsville last
night winning their volleyball match
against rival Sam Houston State, 15-12,
15-4,12-15,15-4.
A throng of 1,151 onlookers watched
as Sheila Morgan and Liz Edmiston chart
ed 15 kills apiece to pace the Lady Aggies
to victory in the season opener for both
squads.
Morgan, a junior outside attacker from
Houston's Cy Creek High School added
six digs and two solo blocks as Edmiston
added 15 digs to two assisted blocks.
Genny Wood, a junior setter from San
Antonio led the Lady Aggies in assists
with 38 while charting 19 digs and three
serving aces. Wood added six kills in 16
attempts to help the cause.
The Lady Aggies were only three
points away from a three-game sweep of
the LadyKats when Sarah Womble guid
ed Sam Houston on a 10-point rally to
take the third game after the Lady Aggies
had led 12-5.
Womble had 16 kills in 56 attempts
and added 23 digs and three aces in an ef
fort to stem the Aggie tide.
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While the Lady Aggies had more er
rors than the LadyKats, 23 to 11, A&M
hammered out 63 kills to Sam Houston's
46.
Those numbers added to a 10 to 6
Lady Aggie advantage in solo blocks
combined to give A&M a decisive victory
before playing in the University of Texas-
Arlington Invitational this coming week
end.
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