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HUKt DINE IN Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 9pm Sunday Brunch 11am - 2pm Page 2B SPORTS Wednesday, Ockw Wednesd; THE BATTALION Volleyball after first win in Austin since 19! [ e. 2319 Texas Avenue • College Station • 695-09S5 Sunday Champagne Brunch Luncheon Buffet Tuesday-Friday I l:30am-2pm House Menu I I a.m. - Close Over 42 domestic and imported beers, *2 each Extensive Wine List Private seating banquet room available for social events or meetings. By Blaine Dionne The Battalion - We also offer a wide variety of delicious desserts - Triple Chocolate Cheese Cake • Cream Bailee • Italian Cream Cake CASUAL GOURMET Where quality is our tradition, serving the Brazos Valley since 1983 Coming off a five-game heart breaking loss can be a difficult task in volleyball. It is a marathon of physical and emotional exertion that can stick with a team if they let it. According to members of the 25th-ranked Texas A&M volleyball team, that will not be a problem. 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BRAZOS PHYSICIANS providing medical care for all ages 1512 Holleman, College Station 979-693-3313 1301 Memorial, Bryan 979-776-7700 Office Hours: Monday - Thursday 8:30-7:00 Friday 8:30-5:30 Saturday 9:00-12:00 (Acute Illnesses Only) After Hours: 361-5174 five game match at Kansas State last weekend that eased their grip on second place in the conference, the Aggies will be ready for the road match. “With this match, it does- it doesn't matter who's good, it doesn't matter who's bad.” n’t matter who’s good, it doesn’t matter who’s bad,” outside hitter Michelle Cole said. “You throw all those things out the window, be cause you know it’s going to be a battle.” Unfortunately for the Aggies, they have not won one of the battles in Austin since 1979, something that has stuck in the craw of this year’s seniors. Senior middle blocker Heather Marshall said that winning at Texas has been a goal of hers all along. “Coming into this season, 1 had three goals,” Marshall said. “I want ed to beat Kansas State, Baylor and Texas away because those are the three teams we had never beaten on the road.” The Aggies are one and one so far on that list, with their last opportuni ty to win at Gregory Gymnasium coming tonight. Truth be told, this could be the Ag gie’s best opportunity in years to beat the ’Horns. The usually dominant squad from Austin is in a rebuilding year of sorts this season, and A&M coach Laurie Corbelli said that the Aggies need to take advantage of their opponents’ weakness while they can. “They’re just young, we all go through those grow ing pains,” Corbelli said. “He’s got some freshman on the court and it doesn’t really resemble his (Texas coach Jim Moore) type of team yet. “I know that they’re struggling, yet those can be dan gerous type of teams. Teams that have a lot of young talent.” From here on out, — Michelle Cole Aggie outside hitter the Aggies will be under a microscope. They cannot afford to lose any more matches, rival or not, if they ex pect to make serious noise in the postseason. Being stuck at 25, Corbelli said that A&M really has no more lever age to move up in the polls right now because every team is in the middle of conference schedules. The Kansas State team the Aggies just lost to was not even ranked in the Top 25, a fact that Corbelli does not agree with. “They are unquestionably a team that is Top-25 caliber but won’t get a chance to break in because they don’t play anybody else,” Corbelli said. “I think if we can beat the ma jor teams that come here the rest of the season, we can have a shot at second place.” SUSAN REDDING/TheB Kidney ailment sidelines Heat’s Mournir MIAMI (AP)—A common but serious kidney ailment will keep Alonzo Mourning sidelined for the entire season, depriving the Miami Heat of their biggest star and the key to their quest for an NBA title. Doctors said Monday that the illness, first spot ted just after Mourning helped the U.S. team to the basketball gold medal earlier this month, was focal glomerulosclerosis, which leads to kidney failure in about half the cases. They said there were no immediate plans for a kidney transplant or dialysis. “I feel great right now. We’ve pretty much got a hold on it, the whole situation right now,” Mourning said at a news conference in which he discussed his ailment publicly for the first time. “The main objective is to get me healthy so I can live my life normally, so I can see my babies grow up, and so I can enjoy my family. “And, at the same time, possibly do the things that I know and love — and that’s the game of bas ketball. But the key right now is to get me healthy.” Pat Riley, the Heat coach who spent the off-sea son signing free agents and redesigning the team to complement Mourning’s talents, said his star center was following the proper course. “Alonzo Mourning will not be playing profes sional basketball this season, and we’re totally convinced that the only thing that should be on his mind is getting healthy," Riley said. The 30-year-old center made his first public ap pearance since Oct. 3, when he attended the team’s media day. Training camp began without him the following day, and he has not practiced because of his condition, which was discovered during a rou tine physical two weeks ago. Sean Elliott, who had a kidney transplant last year and is back playing for the San Antonio Spurs, has spoken with Mourning. “There’s a lot of questions that he had, basical ly," Elliott said. "I know how he feels right now as far as fatigue-wise. When I first went to the doc tor, I felt terrible. I can sympathize with him.” Dr. Gerald Appel, of Columbia Presbyterian Hos pital in New York, said the disease causes the kidneys to leak protein into a person’s urine. Without treat ment, filters in the kidneys eventually become scarred, cease to function and a transplant is needed. He said the disease is widespread among blacks. “I am very confident this is not related to HIV 1 CHIC health ex A&M outside hitter Michelle Cole spikes a ball against Texas Tedil should no G. Rollie White. The Aggies will vie for conference positioning toofled doctors as they take on archrival Texas. B disease, i I raged a d Bergalis £ dentist. Lawrei Universih rent rules disease, it’s not related to drug abuse, it’s ik rights bur lated to steroids or anything Alonzo did,” A' edby recc said, adding that the origin of Mourning’s a doctor-pa tion is unknown. >,,, tremely h Mourning will be placed on a six-mart* The g U ment trial. He will take medications in ated undei ducing the swelling in his lower body, stoppin Centers f( kidneys from leaking proteins and controil Preventior blood pressure and cholesterol levels. HeaM posal was follow a strict low-sodium diet. I day’s Jourr The drugs cause side effects, Riley said.1 ical Associ would make strenuous exercise unsafe. Bergalif “He wants to play, but he can’t,” Rilejil prompted t “He’s not that stupid.” 1 lines in 19' But even with treatment, about 50 perefl cases develop chronic renal failure, Appel Kidney disease used to be the fourth-largest of death in the United States. Doctors initially suspected Mourning had ral infection, thyroid condition or merely6 from a busy off-season. “Without Zo, everything changes,” guard HcU'daway said. “It’s going to be like that If whole season. Nobody’s going to give us They’re going to take it to us.” /V<4,^4 : ■ - rfE)r/</ s /.csriyzc.vt : October 16-20 from 10-2 at Rudder Fountain. Come be a part of tbe world’s longest poem by- sharing your work:. Spoken Word: Oct. 1 8 in 1VTSC 203, Oct. 1 S> in IVISC 205, and Oct. 20 in Kudder 601 from 5 PIN/I-6FIV1. $2 per day or $5 For all three days. Learn techniqfues in Spoken Word poetry from a published poet. 'with, disabilities please ca.ll 8 45 - ISIS to irxfomn us of your special needs. 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