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Equal rights
should apply
to all sports
A nyone
will tell
you sex
ism and dis
crimination by
gender are two
of the most evil
facets of our
society today.
That is one
thing we, as a
society, are try
ing to eliminate
through educa
tion and com
munication
with others,
finding out
what offends people and why every
one should be treated equally.
The University Interscholastic
League tried to do something about
eliminating that this week.
The UIL voted Tuesday to allow
girls to play high school football in the
state of Texas, making them eligible to
participate for the first time in 44
years. If the decision is passed by the
State Board of Education, females will
be eligible for competition starting
Aug. 1,1993.
The decision was one that should
have been made, because we are at the
point were everyone has to be given
the same opportunities for pursuing
whatever desires they have. Even if
some people think women might get
hurt, or that the entire teaching of
chivalrous behavior will be wiped out
by teaching head-hunting football
players to take the same open-field
shots at females.
Even if it costs more money for the
schools by having to possibly have
four locker rooms for each game. It
was the right decision.
But, in making this decision, the
UIL eliminated one incidence of dis
crimination and created another.
See Foster/ Page 8
J. DOUGLAS
FOSTER
Sports Editor
The Battalion
Page 7
Tech halts possible 'miracle 7 comeback
Lady Aggies can't recover
from two-game deficit
against 17th-ranked Raiders
By DON NORWOOD
Sports Writer of THE BATTALION
Those who got to see Wednesday
night's volleyball match between Texas
A&M and Texas Tech got to see two dif
ferent storylines unfold. Unfortunately
for the Lady Aggies, both stories had less
than happy endings.
Tech, the 17th-ranked team in the na
tion, jumped out to a quick two games to
none lead in G. Rollie White Coliseum be
fore A&M fought back to near y tie the
match at two games each. But a timely 5-
0 run by Tech prevented an A&M come
back, as the Lady Raiders pulled out a 15-
4, 15-7, 2-15,15-13 Southwest Conference
win.
If the 793 fans in G. Rollie White were
taken aback by the incredible swings of
momentum of the match, they had noth
ing on A&M head coach A1 Givens, who
was in a near state of shock after the
fourth game.
"If we can only solve the riddle of why
we waited until we were two games
down to play like we did," Givens said
about the mystery of A&M's turnaround.
"I thought that after we settled down
midway through the second game we
started gaining momentum and playing
better. But if you're up 13-10 (as A&M
was in the fourth game), you've got to
close it out."
A major contributor to A&M's awak
ening in the second game was outside at
tacker Elizabeth Edmiston. The senior
had only five kills on 23 attempts in the
first two frames, but she came out of the
locker room with her typical fiery attitude
to log 11 kills in the last two games,
putting her at a total of 16 for the match.
"After the second game, coach just told
us 'You have nothing to lose'," Edmiston
said.
"A lot of the time, it takes only one
person on the team to get things going.
Everyone on the team was fired up, they
just show it in different ways. I'm a talk
er. But the good thing about this team is
you don't have to motivate anybody."
Tech almost gave the Lady Aggies a
little more motivation than A&M is used
to. The Lady Raiders logged 19 service
errors, the most serving miscues an op
posing team has had against A&M this
season.
Tech head coach Mike Jones was,
needless to say, unhappy with his team's
serving. But he was equally miffed with
Tech's inability to hammer home a win in
the third game.
"A&M really turned up the tempo on
offense (in the third and fourth games),"
Jones said. "They made us make a lot of
mistakes.
"The first two games we served terri
bly. In the last two we served better, but
we played terribly."
If the second half of the match nearly
sank Tech, the individual effort of leading
scorer Erica Ruegg was what kept the
Lady Raiders afloat.
Tech's bruising middle blocker entered
the match with a .316 hitting percentage
and a 3.37 kill average. And although she
did not match her season averages
against A&M, her scoring came at the
right place and the right time.
"I though one of the keys was to shut
her down," Givens said. "She didn't hit
her average. But her kills were real time-
1 y-"
Ruegg capitalized on 10 of her 27 kill
attempts, chipping in with three service
aces and 16 digs.
If nothing else, the A&M-Tech match
allowed both teams to show what defen
sive volleyball is all about. Both squads
finished with seven team blocks, and they
combined for 156 digs:
"I though both teams played good de-
See Lady Aggies/Page 8
DARRIN HILL/The Battalion
Lady Aggie Kim Mitchell (8) goes up for a spike against Texas Tech in A&M’s
four-game loss to the Lady Red Raiders Wednesday. Mitchell, a junior from
Marshall, had 10 kills on the evening. The Lady Aggies, now 11-8 overall and 3-
3 in Southwest Conference play, will take on Rice Saturday at home.
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