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SPORTS
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Lady Aggies avoid upset, beat Rice
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did receive the most first-place
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ne are goii Blake Arrant was defeated in the quali
fying round of the National Clay Court
Hnis Championships Wednesday.
liArrant lost to South Alabama's Nick
Chisholm, 6-2, 6-3 at the Suburban
Club of Baltimore County.
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NBA champions were not disclosed.
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le campus i f5.3 points and 4.7 rebounds and started in
v do not re iBegular season games.
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hat she li k ee P ihe continuity with our team and the
I,, p ;ir ticin guys that led us to the championship,''
fresh ideasft Bod Weir| hauer, vice president of
basketball operations. “Pete was a ma-
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□ Senior setter Suzy
Wente set an A&M
SWC record with 76
assists in the win.
By Tom Day
The Battalion
It may have been nearly five
years since Rice last won a
Southwest Conference volley
ball match, but you would not
have guessed that Wednesday
night at G.
Rollie White
Coliseum.
The Owls
gave the
Lady Aggie
Volleyball
Team all it
could handle
before bow
ing out in
four games,
15-9, 14-16,
15-6 and 15-
13 in an SWC
matchup.
A&M Head Volleyball
Coach Laurie Corbelli said
Rice did not play like a team
that had just suffered its 41st
consecutive loss in league play.
“I was afraid in the fourth
game that we would be their
first victim,” Corbelli said.
“They have the ability to win
this year, and they’re going to
take a team that isn’t ready by
surprise.”
The Lady Aggies now 10-1
and 2-0 in the SWC, did not
make things easy on them
selves.
Plagued by inconsistency in
Corbelli
the early going, A&M was able
to string together an onslaught
of bonecrushing kills to claim
the first game.
However, mental errors and
indecisiveness caught up with
the Lady Aggies in the second
frame, giving Rice (12-5, 0-1 in
the SWC) an opportunity to
steal the game and tie the
match.
“Our discipline was a prob
lem,” Corbelli said. “We had
too many errors and were out
of position, and that started a
wave of uncertainty amongst
each other.
“Our serve receiving was
not as strong as it’s been late
ly. That put us in a more ten
tative mode than we prefer to
play, and it threw us off a lit
tle.”
The Aggies responded with
a little more fire in the third
game as the Owls wilted under
another furious A&M attack.
Senior outside hitter An
drea Williams took charge of
the offense, setting up eight
shots and knocking down 11
kills while giving setter Suzy
Wente an opportunity to con
tribute on defense.
“Suzy is one of our best de
fensive players,” Williams
said. “Whenever she doesn’t
set the ball, I feel I have to get
there, get my footwork down
and be able to set the ball to
our middle blockers and out
side hitters.”
The momentum appeared to
have shifted back to Rice in
the final game as the Owls
grabbed a 13-10 lead.
But instead of settling for a
fifth game, the Lady Aggies
reached down and delivered
five straight points to close out
the match.
Sophomore outside hitter
Kristie Smedsrud’s 21 kills
paced a balanced A&M attack.
Middle blocker Cindy Vander-
Woude and outside hitter
Dana Santleben each tallied
19 kills while junior middle
blocker
Page White added 15.
Wente finished the match with
76 assists, a new Lady Aggie
record for conference games
and just one short of A&M’s
all-time mark, set by Genny
Wood against the University of
Texas-El Paso in 1991.
“The stat sheet looks a lot
better than the match did,”
Corbelli said. “Some players
weren’t quite prepared to be
fighters tonight, and that was
disappointing.
“Rice scouted us well and
knew what our attack would
look like, but we did regroup
and come back to win. They
were ready to beat us.”
Despite A&M’s sluggish ef
fort, Corbelli said the team can
take some positives away from
the victory. The Aggies’ 94
kills and 94 digs were both
season highs.
“As disappointed as we are
in the wqy we played, I think
this is the best thing that
could have happened to us,”
Corbelli said. “Had we won
easily, we may not be reflect
ing on things we need to work
on. The girls know it and
they’re very serious about it
and that’s only going to help
us get stronger.
“We got away with a win,
but deep down, we know we
could have done better.”
Evan Zimmerman, The Battalion
Sophomore middle blocker Page White winces after knocking the ball
back over the net in A&M's four-game win over Rice.
Experienced Wagner ready to
lead women’s swimming
□ The new coach
hopes to be on the
Olympic swimming
staff in 2000.
By Kristina Buffin
The Battalion
As the swimmers get out
of the pool, he pats them on
the back and tells them,
“Nice job,”
The new head coach of
the Texas A&M women’s
swimming team, Don Wagn
er, believes encouragement
will be the feature that dis
tinguishes him as a nation-
ally-recognized head coach.
“I like to take the positive
approach,” Wagner said. “I
will continue to encourage
them as long as they are
busting their butts every
day. I like to start with the
positive, and then move on
to the things that we are do
ing wrong.”
Until now, the A&M
swimming program has op
erated under one head
coach for both the men and
women’s team. However,
this year, the Athletic De
partment decided that it
was time to have a separate
coach for each team.
“We are opening the new
natatorium and realized
that it was time to commit
to the swim program,” Se
nior Associate Athletic Di
rector Lynn Hick-
ey said. “They
have been success
ful every year and
it is pretty unfair
to have one person
in charge of coach
ing, recruiting and
all the other re
sponsibilities. We
wanted to show a
total commitment
to the program.”
Wagner comes
to A&M from the
University of Southern
California where he was an
assistant head coach and
the recruiting coordinator
for three years. Wagner ac
cepted the job at A&M be
cause he believes this is
the next step in his evolu
tion as a coach.
“There were several rea
sons why I chose A&M,”
Wagner said. “First, they
have built a new facility
that shows their commit
ment to the program.
“Second, the new confer
ence (the Big 12) is going to
be a great one. Being an as
sistant at USC was great,
but I’m not going to go
"We realized
that it was time
to commit to
the swim pro
gram."
-Lynn Hickey
Senior Associate
Athletic Director
where I can’t
progress.”
Wagner brings both na
tional and international ex
perience to the Lady Aggie
Team. This summer, he was
the head coach of the U.S.
men’s team at the World
University Games. The
team set a University
See WAGNER, Page 1 6
Fans see best era
of A&M football
Kristina
Buffin
Asst. Sports Ed
A ttending the A&M-Col-
orado game or watching
it on television Saturday,
it was quite apparent that the
Twelfth Man spirit is alive and
well. Although the Aggies lost
a close game, both former and
current students have nothing
to be ashamed of.
Since R.C. Slocum took over
the Aggie team in 1989, he has
compiled a 59-12-1 record, with
a 34-1-1 record at home. Ag
gies have been able to experi
ence one of the best periods in
Aggie football since 1939 when
A&M captured the national
championship under the coach
ing of Homer Norton.
In fact, current students are
actually being spoiled by this
span of success.
This type of mentality is
what makes the power of the
Twelfth Man so special.
Although a majority of the
campus is whining over how
we were outscored,
Colorado has now joined the
ranks of t-sippers and anyone
who goes to Notre Dame. As
Aggies, we need to realize that
many former students had to
experience just plain horrible
Aggie teams.
Many students are second
or third generation Aggies.
This means that we have
had to grow up with stories
from our parents or grandpar
ents, talking about the good
old days.
Most of our parents attend
ed school during the 1960s
when the Aggies compiled a
30-58-3 record and had only
one first place finish in the
Southwest Conference and one
trip to Cotton Bowl.
Compared to the successes
of the 1990s, current students
are lucky.
Can you imagine attending
games at Kyle Field and being
beaten, oh sorry, outscored?
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