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lessons from
Lombardi
Motivation...
When I woke up Monday morn
ing, I felt like a steamroller had
plowed over me in my sleep. I was
hacking up crud and sneezing like
it was going out of style. My head
was throbbing, and I was sure I
was going to die. Stumbling out of
my bed, I tripped over it...
Cursing the day I was born, I
picked it up and opened it.
Marie Lombardi’s husband “nev
er missed a practice. Never.”
Wow, that sounded impressive. I
read on...
“There were times that he went
to bed with a high temperature
and woke up with an even higher
one. I’d tell the doctor, ‘There’s no
way you’re going to keep him off
the practice field today,’ and the
doctor would say, T know.’”
Impressive.
My brother gave me the book
Sunday afternoon as a belated
birthday gift. There has got to be
something symbolic about getting a
book about Vince Lombardi on a
Sunday, the day of the week that
he lived for.
I figured that I would wind up
looking at it sometime soon. How
ever, I had no idea that it would be
so soon. A nice little hardback en
titled “Motivation Lombardi Style”
was going to help me battle
through this day.
However, as I was getting into
it, I looked at the clock and real
ized that I had better start moving
and get to school. No time for
Coach Lombardi. Would such ne
glect come back to hurt me?
After a ten o’clock tutorial with
my Latin prof, I was off to African-
American Literature. Midway
See Diener,Page 7
Unranked Lady Ags challenge
12th ranked Lady Longhorns
By Kristina Buffin
The Battalion
An intense rivalry and the chance to
prove themselves against a top team will
serve as the motivating factors when the
Lady Aggies face the 12th ranked Uni
versity of Texas Lady Longhorns at 7
p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Coach Laurie Corbelli said the tradi
tional rivalry between Texas A&M and
Texas is what sets this game apart from
all the others this season.
“The expectations are higher,” Cor
belli said. “Every year the crowd is
bigger for the Texas game and the
fans expect strong performances and
ultimately a win.”
The Lady Aggies hope to use the
crowd to their advantage. Junior setter
Suzy Wente expects the same support
from the crowd that the team received
last year.
“I’ve never seen G. Rollie White so
packed in my life,” Wente said. “The sup
port of the crowd made us play better.”
The challenge for the Lady Aggies
tonight is to control the play of a Texas
team that is known for its athletic,
strong and mobile players. In prepara
tion, the Lady Aggies have been working
on their passing and blocking skills.
“If our passing improves and we con
centrate on our blocking, we will do real
ly well,” Wente said.
The Lady Aggies hope to put on a
strong performance against a Texas
team that they lost to in the
second round of last year’s NCAA
Tournament.
“We have a really good chance of do
ing well,” Wente said. “The more top
ranked teams like Texas that we play
and beat, will give us that extra push for
a bid to the NCAA Tournament.”
The team is concentrating on tonight’s
game as a test of their ability to compete
with top teams.
“We are really confident,” Wente
said. “Many people could be surprised
at the outcome.”
Stew Milney The Battalion
Line switch no
problem for
Vordenbaumen
Stewart Doreen
The Battalion
For four years, Tim Vordenbaumen
played on the defensive line waiting
to assume his role in the “Wrecking
Crew” defense and off the field
worked towards his accounting de
gree. Now in his fifth year, he is as
suming the role as the Aggies’ start
ing offensive left guard and is looking
over offers from accounting firms that
came with his degree.
“He’s already on the road for a
bright future in his career,” offensive
line coach Joe D’Alessandris said.
Vordenbaumen, a senior from San
Antonio Clark High School, was told
midway through last year’s spring
workouts that he would be making the
switch due to a void left by the four lost
starters. His performance at the new
position has pleased D’Alessandris.
“He has put in two solid perfor
mances this year,” D’Alessandris said.
“Each week, each practice and each
game he is getting better.”
Vordenbaumen, who backed up All-
Conference defensive tackle Lance Te-
ichleman, admits the move to offense
was a big switch considering his de
sire to become an integral part of the
A&M’s famed “Wrecking Crew”. The
switch was made more difficult con
sidering the complexity that comes
with move.
See Switch, PageS
This date in
Aggie football
September 14, 1991: The
20th-ranked Aggies, led by
212 yards rushing by redshirt
freshman Greg Hill, pummel
LSU at Kyie Field, 45-7. Hills’
performance set an NCAA
record for a freshman in his
first game.
Lady Aggies victorious in home opener
A&M beats Lady Bears 4-1
Stewart Doreen
The Battalion
The Texas A&M women’s soccer team scored early and
often in their 4-1 home
opener Tuesday over
Mercer University.
The Aggies, 3-i-i, got on "We want to keep going up and up to the
the board right away when 001 1
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son Buckley took an A&M _ . . . . .
comer kick and headed the —G, (jruemen, head COdch
ball into the goal five min
utes into the game. The Ag-
gies would take that 1-0
lead into the half.
“Allison Buckley had a great game, starting with that goal,
which was a great goal,” A&M head coach G. Guerrieri said.
“She’s starting to be a solid organizational factor for us.”
In the second half, the Aggies took their play to the next
level. Thirty seconds into the second half, the scoring re
sumed when sophomore forward Yvette Okler headed a cross
ing pass from sophomore midfielder Kim Duda.
Following a goal by Mercer’s junior defender Alane Crab
tree, the Aggies took advantage of good ball movement when
Okler’s touch pass connected with sophomore forward Tina
Robinson for a 3-1 lead over the Lady Bears.
Mercer’s fortunes did not get any better as the Aggies put
the final touches on their 4-1 win. Sophomore forward Kris
ten Koop knocked a deflected ball from Mercer goalie Amy
Rudge into the goal to finish off the Lady Bears.
“I thought Mercer outplayed us in the first half,” Guerrieri
said. “In the second half, we
had to simplify and speed up
our play and play within our
abilities, and take those abili
ties to the limits. We stressed
getting the game back to our
style at halftime.”
The victory over Mercer,
ranked 10th in the South Re-
gion was an important one for
A&M. The Aggies, ranked eighth in the same poll, won a
contest that could have playoff implications down the line.
“After the loss and the tie this weekend, we didn’t want to
feel like we were going downhill,” Okler said. This was an
important game for us because they were up in our region’s
rankings. We want to keep going up and up to the sixth posi
tion so we can go to the playoffs.”
The Aggies continue their three-game home stand on Fri
day when they host the Tulsa Golden Hurricane, a preseason
top 20 team, at 5 p.m.
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