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Bell is batting .334 and leads the team with 86 RBIs. Davie takes over for surgery-bound Holtz INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz will have spinal surgery Tuesday, and will be sidelined for at least three weeks. Defensive coordinator Bob Davie ll direct the No. 24 Irish while Holtz is out. "We kind of just all sat there in disbelief," said offensive guard Ryan Leahy, describing a team meeting Monday where Holtz broke the news lohis players. Leahy said Holtz was calm, but the team was shocked. "It's pretty hard to take that," Leahy said. "Half the time you see your coaches as indestructible. But then you realize they're just hu man." Czech Bartova sets new pole vault mark BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Daniela Bartova of the Czech Re- ic broke her women's pole vault record, leaping 13 feet, 10 inches, Monday in an international competi- i in the town of Salgotarjan. Bartova had set the previous record of 13-9 3/4 at Linz, Austria, Aug. 22. Drabek, Gant withdraw ^pension appeals NEW YORK (AP) — Houston pitcher Doug Drabek and Cincinnati outfielder Ron Gant withdrew appeals of their sus pensions Monday and immediately be gan serving their penalties for involve ment in a series of brawls last Tuesday. Drabek is suspended for five games and will be eligible to play on Sunday. He was penalized for throwing at Cincinnati's Benito Santiago after an umpire's warning and then fighting. Gant was suspended for four games andean play again starting Friday. He was penalized for instigating a bench clearing brawl in an inning before Drabek hit Santiago. Both managers, Terry Collins of the Astros and Davey Johnson of the Reds, were suspended for two games and missed them over the weekend. Reliever Xavier Hernandez of the Reds, who was suspended for eight games, and catcher Pat Borders of the Astros, who was suspended for five, have both appealed and are awaiting hearings. □ The sophomore mid dle blocker led the SWC in blocks-per- game last season. By Kristina Buffin The Battalion Texas A&M sophomore mid dle blocker Cindy VanderWoude is hoping to use this season as an opportunity to expand on her freshman successes and estab lish herself as one of the top volleyball players in the South west Conference. “We have most of the same starters as last year, so that makes it more comfortable,” VanderWoude said. “It’s hard er because people now know me on the court. I have to fo cus to get in the groove and do what a middle blocker needs to do for the outside hitters — open up holes.” Last season, VanderWoude played in all 33 matches, but did not become a starter until midway through the season. Nevertheless, she led the team and the SWC with a 1.5 blocks- per-game average. A&M Head Volleyball Coach Laurie Corbel- li plans to utilize Vander- Woude’s blocking ability even more this season. “She is one of our key blockers,” Corbelli said. “The fact that her attack style is different, namely her arm swing, makes it difficult for her opponents.” VanderWoude came to A&M from Escondido, Calif., where she led her team in blocks and kills and was named the 1994 California In terscholastic Federation (GIF) Player of the Year. Besides being impressed by her great talents as a player, Corbelli recruited Vander Woude for her personality and work ethic. “She has got this certain naivete that makes her lov able,” Corbelli said. “There is something pure about her. She has a great work ethic. She works her tail off and gives it her all.” VanderWoude has drastically improved since she was recruit ed. Corbelli believes that Van derWoude is right where the coaching staff expected her to be at this point in her career. “She has more control over the ball,” Corbelli said. “She has improved consistently.” The success that Vander Woude has enjoyed has made her more confident on the floor. She said this confidence has al lowed her to become stronger in her position. “After starting for half a sea son, more is expected of me,” VanderWoude said. “The pres sure doesn’t hinder me it is go ing to help me. I need to put up the best block. I’m helping by getting a lot quicker and touch ing the ball more.” VanderWoude worked on her physical conditioning in the preseason to help make her a better player. She believes that she must be both mentally and physically strong in order to contribute to the team. “I want to be stronger and get stronger blocks,” Vander Woude said. “I want to im prove all around. I can im prove as much as I can by be ing a smarter player. “You need a combination of both the mental and the physi cal aspects.” Corbelli believes that this conditioning will not only help VanderWoude this season, but also in the future as well. “She’s working on her condi tioning now because she was involved in summer school,” Corbelli said. “I would like to see her increase her blocking average, her hitting average, and as she gets older, I expect more. The lack of conditioning has set her back, but she’s catching up quickly.” Evan Zimmerman, The Battalion Texas A&M sophomore middle blocker Cindy VanderWoude prepares to serve during the Lady Aggies' win over Utah State Sept. 6. Strange week for sports fans Philip Leone Sportswriter T his week was a wild ride for the world of sports. So many strange occurrences popped up, it was like watching a soap opera instead of ESPN’s SportsCen- ter. Consider these examples: I hate to admit it, but I was flat-out rooting for Spike Dykes and his Texas Tech squad against Penn State this past Saturday. Only a field goal that barely skated through the uprights with four seconds left in the ball- game rescued the Nittany Li ons from one of the biggest football embarrassments of this decade. A win by Tech would have made A&M’s trip to Lubbock on Oct. 7 some thing to hype up. Have you heard about the two cartoonists for the Uni versity of Nebraska student newspaper Who got the entire sports staff banned from the Comhuskers’ football prac tice? Seems that Head Coach Tom Osborne took offense to a couple of tongue-in-cheek cartoons the paper ran. One depicted star running back Lawrence Phillips driving a sports car with dollar bills shooting out the back. See Leone, Page 8 Hayes, Allen highlight A&M Hall of Fame inductee list □ Six former A&M athletes will be honored Oct. 27. Staff and Wire Reports Six former Texas A&M athletes will be inducted into the Texas A&M Athletic Hall of Fame Oct. 27 at the College Sta tion Hilton. The six honorees are former football players Grady Allen, Lester Hayes and Rolf Krueger, former softball All-American Josie Carter and former baseball players Lance Cobb and John Scoggin. Allen was a consensus All-Southwest Conference defensive end in 1967, helping the Aggies to the SWC title and a Cotton Bowl victory against Alabama. He was named honorable mention All-American and signed as a free agent with the At lanta Falcons in 1968. He played five sea sons in the NFL. Hayes, an All-American defensive back at A&M in 1976, went on to an All-Pro ca reer with the Oakland Raiders in the NFL and was named the NFL’s defensive player of the year in 1980. At A&M, Hayes led the Aggies to the SWC co-championship in 1975 as A&M led the nation in total defense. His 14 career interceptions stood as the A&M record un til 1990, and he was drafted in the fifth round of the NFL draft by the Raiders. Krueger was a first-team, All-Ameri can defensive lineman in 1968. He was a second-round draft pick by the St. Louis Cardinals in 1969 and played six years in the NFL. Carter was an All-American out fielder for the Lady Aggies in 1984 and 1985, and helped A&M to national championships in 1982 and 1983. She was member of the U.S. team at the 1987 Pan-American Games. Cobh led the SWC in batting average in 1964 with a .382 mark. He was an All- American second baseman in 1966. Scoggin was a two-time All-SWC out fielder and catcher in 1941 and 1942. He received an offer to play for the New York Yankees, but entered the military service in World War II instead. After attaining the rank of captain as a bomber pilot, Scoggin was shot down and killed on a mission over Okinawa, Japan. He posthumously received a number of honors, including the Air Medal with Clus ters, Purple Heart and Theatre of Opera tions Medal.Honor. 9f- in sri- :rs, an all xm xre The University Honors Program TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY salutes its 1995 National Scholarship Winners Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies Hilaire Kallcndoif, May Graduate in English and Spanish For graduate study at Princeton University Phi Kappa Phi National Fellowship Jennifer Green. May Graduate in Bioengineering and German To study for the M.D./Ph.D. Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Teris Minsue Chen, Junior Biochemistry and Genetics Major 1995-96 Exchange Student to Kings College, the University of London John D. Hixson, Junior Biochemistry and Genetics Major 1995-96 Texas A&M University Undergraduate Research Fellow National Science Foundation Fellowship Mark Bradley Davis. December Graduate in Chemical Engineering For graduate study at the University of Minnesota Matthew Darrell Felder. May Graduate in Electrical Engineering For Graduate study at the University of Texas at Austin Cynthia Ann Finley, May Graduate in Civil Engineering For graduate study at Northwestern University Mark Travis Holder, December Graduate in Biochemistry For graduate study at the University of Texas at Austin Michael E. McGuire, August Graduate in Horticulture For graduate study at the University of Florida David Wayne Mosley, December Graduate in Chemistry For graduate study at Harvard University Jessica Louise Neu, May Graduate in Meteorology For graduate study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Davin Mark Potts. May Graduate in Chemistiy and Mathematics For graduate study at the University of Chicago Christopher O. Tiemann. December Graduate in Electrical Engineering For graduate study at the University of Califomia-San Diego Marshall Scott Veach, May Graduate in Computer Science For graduate study at the University of Califomla-Los Angeles Mercury Seven Scholarship Kristopher A. Lee, May Graduate in Electrical Engineering For graduate study at Texas A&M University THANKS Your acliievcmcnt has improved the value of au A&M Degree for all of us! THANKS and congratulations to die faculty and departments who have shined in these students’ education. 12th Man Student Foundation Presents Coach R.C. Slocum of the Nationally Ranked FIGHTIN’ TEXAS AGGIE FOOTBALL TEAM at our first General Meeting Wednesday, September 13 6:30 P.M. MSG Room 226 Everyone Welcome! 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