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matches into the 1998 season, the No. 19 Texas
leyball Team is off to a great start. The Aggies are
their only loss coming against No. 11 University
ggies went 3-0 and won first place in the All Sports
;e Tournament in Ann Arbor, Mich., over the week
end. A&M defeated the University of North
Carolina, Louisiana State University and
the University of Michigan to take their No.
1 spot. Senior outside hitter Stacy Sykora
was named tournament MVP.
Their game against Michigan was a re
match of last year’s game in the second
round of the NCAA Volleyball Champi
onships. The Aggies won that match as well.
With their first seven games on the road,
the Aggies will play at home for the first
en they host the University of Houston Thesday at 7
Rollie White Coliseum. The Aggies will also look
heir fifth straight game.
^*97, the Aggies played the Cougars twice in a home-
ne series. A&M won both matches three games to
. ch time.
Snatch against Houston will be the Aggies final pre
game before they begin conference play next week
Texas Tech.
' preseason schedule is fitting for what we need,” Texas
)lleyball coach Laurie Corbelli said. ‘‘We faced some
mpetition at both of the tournaments and the Hous-
\ ch is important because they (Houston) are always so
tally charged to play us.
Stepping up to the tee
see Volleyball on Page 10.
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, S 12 awards announced
/f-AS (AP) — Missouri running back Devin West, Iowa
cv N?fensive end Reggie Hayward and Kansas State kick-
• ' in Gramatica have been named the Big 12’s players
NfWeek-
L t turned a career-high 33 carries into
“BIGGFibl-record 319 yards and touchdowns
THECOid 55 yards as the Tigers beat Kansas
.axes not inch* n addition to breaking Harry Ice’s 57-
^i|d school rushing mark. West set an-
j^cord with 333 all-purpose yards, top-
e 299 by Darrell Wallace in 1985.
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GRAMMATICA
M SI Pl/i'nd caused a fumble in the Cyclones’
^ 11. i j”! on c t 0 ry over Iowa. Iowa State registered
not :ks and held Iowa to 42 yards rushing,
-'Clones’ b es t effort since 1992.
matica hit three field goals, including the longest in
history with a kicking tee, hitting a 65-yarder in the
its’ 73-7 victory over Northern Illinois. It was the
longest college field goal and a Big 12 record, besting
>ards a mark he shared.
• Ryan Palmer returns with 7 others
to anchor the A&M Men’s Golf Team.
BY GRANT HAWKINS
The Battalion
This year marks the the 25th anniversary of Texas A&M Men’s
Golf coach Bob Ellis’ arrival in Aggieland. Over that time, he was
named Southwest Conference Coach of the Year four times. He is
a 1998 inductee into the College Golf Coaches Hall of Fame and
has produced Aggie golfing greats such as PGA players Jeff Mag-
gert and David Ogrin.
His Aggies open their 1998-99 season this week.
The Aggies return seven players from last year’s
team that finished fifth in the Big 12 conference.
The talent is there, but how that talent is going to
perform on the course is something Ellis said he is
concerned about.
“The team outlook is really undecided right now,”
Ellis said. “We have a lot of variables to look at.”
Leading the charge for the Aggies will be senior
Ryan Palmer. This has been a good year for the Amar
illo native. Palmer won back-to-back tournaments in
the spring, capturing the Louisiana Classic after card
ing a final round of 65, and the Border Olympics three
weeks later in Laredo, Texas.
During the summer. Palmer competed in the U.S.
Open at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. Palmer
said he knows his experience this summer will not
only help him this season, but also help the team.
“After the Open, I realized I could play with the big
boys,” Palmer said. “I just have to take that experi
ence and do good things with it, and hopefully the
team will be able to feed off that.”
A&M will also look to Matt Welch, a senior from
DeSoto, Texas, for additional leadership. Welch com
peted in only three tournaments last year, but Ellis
said he knows his leadership will be needed.
“Being an upperclassmen, you are going to be
looked up to,” Ellis said. “We need that leadership
not only from Ryan but also from Matt.”
The Aggies third senior, Ty Cox, will be red-
shirted this year.
A&M will have one newcomer to the team,
freshman Sean Gilliland, from Harker Heights,
Texas. Gilliland won the Collegiate Champi
onship at Waterwood National in Huntsville,
Texas, this summer and qualified for the Ag
gies’ first tournament this fall.
Sophomores Ryan Tull and
Clay Fullick will be counted on
again this season for the Aggies.
Tull had two top 15 finishes last
year at the Border Olympics and
the BellSouth Intercollegiate. As
a true freshman, Fullick com
peted in three of the four fall
tournaments last year.
see Men on Page 10.
• Women’s Golf Team faced with filling
spots of two All-Big 12 performers.
BY GRANT HAWKINS
The Battalion
What does a team do after losing the Big 12 Women’s Golf MVP Is
abelle Rosberg, and Big 12 All-Conference star Jamie Hullett? Get better.
That may be the case for the Texas A&M Women’s Golf Team in the
1998-99 season.
For the past four years A&M has followed the coattails of
Hullett and Rosberg to three runner-up finishes — two in the
Southwest Conference and one in the Big 12 — before break
ing through last year as Big 12 champions, ending four
great years for Hullett and Rosberg.
Now the Aggies are looking for some new players to
carry them to a repeat performance in the Big 12, and
hopefully, a spot in the NCAA Championships. A&M
Women’s Golf coach Jeanne Sutherland is hoping the
three players — junior Anna Becker, sophomore Mimi
Epps and sophomore Marta Ostos — will be able to
handle the load for the Aggies this year.
“I think Anna, Mimi and Marta are all ready to step
up,” Sutherland said. “They have all developed over
the summer into better golfers and they are excited
about being team leaders.”
The one making the biggest leap of the three has
been Epps. The Houston native competed in the U.S.
Women’s Amateur this past summer after qualifying
for the event in Houston. The leap has been apparent
to teammate Becker.
“Mimi really found her game this summer,” Becker
said. “She is really playing great.”
Becker is coming off a stellar spring in which she
captured Big 12 All-Conference honors, placing second
at the GTE Mo-morial Tournament at Pebble Creek be
fore winning the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Classic in
Austin a month later. For Becker, the question is how
she will bounce back from a back injury that severely
hampered her down the stretch last spring.
“My back feels a lot better,” Becker said. “I’ve been
doing a lot of rehab, and the back is doing good so far. ”
Ostos enters the fall season after a solid spring both
in America and in her homeland, Mexico.
Ostos won the Mexican Amateur last spring and
was chosen to represent Mexico in the World Cup in
November. To represent the Big 12 conference as
champions, the Aggies will need help from their sup-
porting cast. Christie Arlitt, Jennifer Karnes and
Amanda Rayford all return
„ - f or the Aggies in ‘98.
Five freshmen will
round out their roster. Jen
nifer Poth from Austin,
Jennifer Cates from Seat
tle, Wa., and Amanda
Spratlin from Keller were
all redshirted last year.
see Women on Page 10.
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