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Wednesday • November 2, 1994
5 PORTS
The Battalion • Page 7
Success not
known lately
by Longhorns
DREW
DIENER
Sportswriter^^l - jp
A fter two unexpected losses in
the last three weeks, a once
proud and mighty college
football program slipped out of the
Top 25, placing dreams for a return
to past glory on hold, again.
Their head coach, in the third year
of a five year contract, is walking on
pins and needles, and the consensus
among the school’s boosters is that he,
like his predecessor, will be replaced
before his contract expires.
In the last ten seasons, success
on the gridiron for the University
of Texas has been as rare as De
mocratic party success in Brazos
County. The days of perennial
SWC dominance and nationwide
prowess are all but distant memo
ries in the minds of most Long
horn football enthusiasts.
There once was a time when the
Longhorns were consistently
ranked among the nation’s top foot
ball powerhouses. The annual bor
der war between Texas and Okla
homa was not only for regional
bragging rights, but for national
supremacy. Those were the days
when a coaching legend named
Darrell Royal roamed the sidelines
of Memorial Stadium, winning
three national championships and
11 SWC crowns during his 20-year
reign. Several great players proud
ly wore the hallowed burnt orange
and white during Royal’s tenure,
but perhaps none greater than the
“Tyler Rose,” Earl Campbell.
Racking up over 4,440 rushing
yards in his storied four year
Longhorn career, Campbell was a
consensus All-American twice,
and won the Heisman Trophy in
1977, before being made the num
ber one pick in the 1978 NFL
Draft by the Houston Oilers.
J Royal retired after the 1976 sea
son, a year in which Texas suffered
a rare 5-5-1 record. The poor year
had a lot to do with an injury to
Campbell, who was forced to miss
four conference games.
Royal’s replacement, Fred Ak
ers, fared well in his first year at
the helm, going 11-1 in Campbell’s
Heisman season, almost adding
another national championship to
the UT trophy case, if not for a 38-
10 loss to Notre Dame on New
Years’ Day in Dallas.
Akers’ next three teams did not
get to make the “annual” holiday
season trip to Dallas, as subpar
records led them to the now-de
funct Sun and Bluebonnet Bowls.
In 1981, Texas would make the
first of three final trips to the Cot
ton Bowl in the last 14 years. With
a 14-12 victory over Alabama, the
10-1-1 Longhorns finished second
in the nation that season. No Long
horn team has finished that high
since. In 1983, the Longhorns
made their last New Years’ Day
run at number one, falling short
with a 10-9 loss to Hershel Walker
and the Georgia Bulldogs.
Conference supremacy and na
tional representation took their last
breaths wearing burnt orange and
white during that fateful year in
Austin, as the Longhorns would
pass the torch 90 miles to the east
See Diener/Page 8
Volleyball team faces top-ranked Longhorns
Carrie Thompson/ I hk Battalion
Sophomore Page White hits the ball against Tennesse. A&M will play Texas tonight.
Lady Aggies could move into second
place tie with Texas in SWC standings
By Kristina Baffin
The Battalion
The Texas A&M women’s volleyball
team will play a tough conference
match when they
face the 23rd
ranked University
of Texas in Austin
tonight.
This match is
critical for the
Lady Aggies be
cause a win could
move them into a
tie for second
place with Texas
in the SWC
VanderWoude
standings with only two conference
matches remaining.
“Our next two matches are very criti
cal,” head coach Laurie Corbelli said.
“But our goal is to win both of them.
We have our work cut out for us. It’s
not an easy task, but it’s possible.”
The strong showing against their
last seven ranked opponents gives the
Lady Aggies confidence that they will
have a great match against Texas.
“We did real well in the last
match,” junior Suzy Wente said. “I
know that we will come out strong and
beat the hell outta t.u.”
One of the keys to an A&M win will
be freshman middle blocker Cindy Van
derWoude, leads A&M with a 1.35
block average and is ranked eighth in
the SWC with a 0.97 average.
“Cindy has made great improvement
at the net with her block and attack
and that has opened up our outside at
tackers a lot more,” Corbelli said.
The Lady Aggies’ passing and serv
ing have improved throughout the sea
son. Sophomore middle blocker Page
White leads the league in ace average
(0.45) in conference matches.
“The key for us will be to serve
tough,” Corbelli said. “Also, our passing
has to be sharp and our outside hitters
have to be on.”
Defensively, the Lady Aggies will
have to stop Texas’ outside hitter Jenny
Warmack and middle blocker Angie
Breitejpfield. Warmack leads Texas
with a 3.90 kill average and a 2.91 dig
average. Breitenfield leads the team
with a .265 hitting percentage.
“Our blocking and defense will be
key,” freshman Kristie Smedsrud said.
“Our blocking has improved throughout
the season and if we play well, we have
a good chance to win.”
If the Lady Aggies are consistent in
all aspects of their game, the team be- i
lieves they will have a strong showing
against Texas and win.
“If we can get everyone playing
their best, we have a good chance to
win, even though the match is in
Austin,” Corbelli said. “When we
played Texas earlier this season, we
outplayed them statistically in every
area. The team knows we can beat
them. We were very disappointed not
to get the win. The players are defi
nitely ready to redeem themselves.”
Ward comes back home to anchor quarterback protection
Senior center's new starting role strengthens line
By Tom Day
The Battalion
Ecstatic.
That was the feeling Aggie football
player Brandon Ward felt three
weeks ago when his coaches told him
he would be the starting center
against the Baylor Bears. As a back
up for two and a half seasons, Ward
has definitely paid his dues.
“You can’t even put it into words,”
Ward said. “I was really excited to fi
nally get an opportunity after all
these years to go out there and show
what I can do.”
Offensive line coach Joe D’Alessan-
dris said moving Ward to the starting
lineup was part of an attempt to
strengthen the offensive line.
“We’re trying to
get the best out of
our personnel,”
D’Alessandris
said. “We felt
(that) moving
some players
around may give
us a little more
strength and a
more physical of
fensive line.”
After a solid
game against Baylor, Ward has held
on to his new starting role the last
two games.
Ward
D’Alessandris said Ward has pro
gressed quickly.
“He’s done very well,” D’Alessandris
said. “He had a really good game
against Baylor and he’s had two steady
performances against Rice and SMU.”
After playing his freshman year at
Colorado State, Ward decided to come
home to Texas and play at A&M. Be
sides his unhappiness with being far
from home, the senior lineman had two
other reasons to make the transfer.
“Academically, I wanted to work in
Texas after I graduated and I figured
the best opportunity to do so would be to
graduate from A&M,” Ward said. “Also,
the traditions, the people and everything
is overwhelming. You go to one game
and you know it’s the place to be.”
Ward said his experience as a back
up was enough to prepare himself for
his current starting role.
“Basically, as a backup, you pretty
much do everything the same as a
starter, you just work hard and im
prove your technique,” Ward said.
D’AJessandris said Ward’s desire im
presses him most.
“He’s a disciplined player with intel
ligence and dedication,” D’Alessandris
said. “He comes to work everyday with
a tremendous attitude to get better.”
Ward said he aims to improve each
week.
“I’m still kind of inexperienced at
this position,” Ward said. “Every week
I’m learning a little bit more and try
ing to smooth out the rough areas.
“It’s been fun, and hopefully it will
just get better,”
Lady Aggies challenge Mustangs for SWC soccer supremacy
By Stewart Doreen
The Battalion
The Texas A&M women’s soccer team
is confident of becoming the unofficial
Southwest Conference champion and the
new power of collegiate soccer in Texas.
A victory over Southern Methodist
University today at 3 p.m. at the Aggie
Soccer Complex will accomplish both.
“I know we’re going to take them,”
senior forward Anna Whitehead said.
“They’re going to be fired up, and we’re
going to be fired up. Now, we just have
to make it for the record as far as being
the best team in Texas.”
“They are a respectable team, but I
don’t believe we should have any prob
lem with them,” sophomore goalkeeper
Sunny McConnell said.
Despite the fact that official confer
ence play does not start next year, a
win will give the Aggies victories over
all conference teams. Head coach G.
Guerrieri sees the importance of
Wednesday going far beyond the state
level. An A&M win should have rami
fications of national proportions.
“To establish this team as a national
power, we have to knock off a national
power,” Guerrieri said. “It adds a little
that we’re undefeated against South
west Conference teams.”
An invitation to the NCAA tournament
might also be on the line, as the two teams
Eire both ranked in the South region’s top
ten. Guerrieri is confident that any argu
ments for the Mustangs’ superiority will
be defeated with a win on Thursday.
“It is unfortunate that SMU and us
can’t go to the playoffs, but it’s looking like
only the winner of this game can move on,”
Guerrieri said. “We come in with the bet
ter record. We come in with the better
record against common opponents. We get
to play on our home field. We believe this
game will be a stepping stone to move onto
bigger and better things.”
The Aggies, the eighth-ranked team
in the South region, are 12-2-2 and are
coming off a 3-1 victory over the Uni
versity of Arkansas Sunday in Dallas.
The victory gave the Aggies a 7-0-1
record for the month of October.
The Aggies will be looking to extend
two streaks with a win in today’s game.
The Aggies have a 14-0 record at home in
their two years as a varsity scholarship
program. The Aggies are 7-0 in their inau
gural year at the Aggie Soccer Complex.
They have also won their last seven
games, dating back to their tie with North
Carolina State University on Oct. 2.
“As far as were concerned, the play
offs began the day we got back from
North Carolina,” Guerrieri said.
The Aggies are led by freshman for
ward Bryn Blalack, the team’s leading
goal scorer (nine) and point producer
(21). Sophomore forward Yvette Okler
leads the team in assists with eight.
McConnell, who has a 0.90 goals
against average, senior defender Kristi
Dillinger and sophomore defender Allison
Buckley will look to stop the SMU attack.
“I’ve got confidence in our defense
that we can shut them down,” Mc
Connell said. “We always try to domi
nate the game and make them play us
rather than reacting to another team.”
The Mustangs, 10-7-1, are the fifth
ranked team in the South region.
Freshman forward Danielle Garrett
and junior midfielder Courtney Linex
are the leading goal scorers with 18 and
13 respectively and lead an attack that
averages the third highest scoring of-
fenfee in the South region.
McConnell, however, doesn’t think
the Aggies will have a problem stopping
the Mustang attack, right Sunny?
“That’s right, no problem.”
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