Next Stop: Lansing A&M Volleyball

The Battalion PC'I Next stop: Lansing o many ba may find this A&M volleyball drops Trojans in three, move on to second round By Ross Hecox Stacy Sykora, who posted 14 isect Kin" and The Battalion kills and 19 digs total, said messages of throughout the match the i separation of Entering the first round in team was able to run its style the Big Dance, the 15th- of offense. igs "You were ranked Texas A&M Volleyball “We did a real quick offense b sun/You ] Team showed it knows how to like we’ve been trained to do,” Pet way/The cut a rug. Sykora said. leyway." | The Lady Aggies quickly The second game, which saw five lead changes, offered the Tro social awarend dismissed the University of jans their best bid at winning. Nu ne of the a Arkansas at Little Rock 15-3, e recording, merous hitting errors, service er 15-8, 15-4 last night at G. Rol- rors and violations by the Lady be the last lie White Coliseum. Aggies kept the game close. oup is goingto With the victory, A&M pen But with the score tied at sev xt release to ciled itself into the second en, junior outside hitter Kristie round. round of the NCAA Tourna Smedsrud hammered a shot off tive-British- ment and will play Michigan one of the Trojans, sending the a ting success State University Saturday at 6 Lady Aggies on an 8-1 run. Sykora C+ . "! p.m. in East Lansing, Mich. made a diving dig at the net, set -James Fran “I don’t think we’ve ever ting up junior outside hitter Jen started that strong in a match nifer Wells’ kill to win game two. in an NCAA Tournament,” Junior setter Farah Mensik Corbelli said. “[UALR] had put A&M on the scoreboard first in the final game with her third pretty good players, but we service ace. The next two A&M took them out of their offense. points resulted from two Smed We were not only effective, we srud service aces. The Lady Ag were relaxed and confident.” gies dominated the entire game, In the beginning of the first building a 9-3 lead with a Smed game, the Trojans used good de srud kill and recording their last fense to keep the score even at six points consecutively. Ryan Rogers, The Battalion three. But a held ball violation by Smedsrud, who hit for a ca Cindy VanderWoude Kristie Smedsrud UALR handed the Lady Aggies juniors (#21) and (#1 3) reer-high .680 percentage in the block an attempted spike by an Arkansas hitter at G. Rollie White. the lead. From there the A&M of match and led the team with 17 fense rolled out 12 straight points kills, said A&M planned to run a were going to swing as hard as nine shots, while holding the to finish the game. As a team, tenacious attack. we could. We were looking for Trojans to four blocks and a A&M hit for a .302 percentage in “We let it all out and played some momentum.” .065 hitting efficiency. the opening frame. as aggressively as we could,” As a team, A&M hit with Sophomore outside hitter Smedsrud said. “We said we .293 efficiency and blocked See Volleyball, Page 6 ersatile Anderson has young Aggi ming high Aggies begin trip you’re defending against Division-I second in the SWC and difference in society,” Barone said. guards it helps. But Chauncey Billups is 10th best in A&M history. I “He will first take care of business with North Texas Chauncey Billups and Jacque Vaughn is Barone said it is Ander here, and if it (NBA) calls his By Matt Mitchell ‘odest, outspoken, leader and Jacque Vaughn. You can’t compare the son’s approach to the sport way, it calls.” The Battalion friend. These are a few of the guards we’ve faced to those guys.” that makes him so effective. “He is a leader,” Barone said. “He -words A&M coaches and players During the offseason, Anderson had to In the midst of a season-opening, sev leads from his attitude and work ethic. ise to describe point guard Tracey Ander make the transition to point guard follow en-game stretch that begins the non-con ing two-sport athlete Kyle Kessel’s depar He plays hard and I think that rubs off son. The 6-foot-2-inch senior on the Men’s ference schedule, the Texas A&M Men’s Basketball Team, subscribing to the Air ture to play for the New York Mets. on the other players. Basketball Team hopes to continue its Force motto of Head Coach “He believes if he works hard he winning ways with two games in three “Aim High,” has Tony Barone said can accomplish anything, and that is days, starting tonight. et a few modest “When we tell Anderson has not contagious.” fbals for himself. missed a beat. At Blinn, Anderson averaged 17.9 The Aggies travel to Denton this him to guard evening to take on North Texas (2-3) be Je most glaring “He is flexible points, 5.7 assists, 3.7 rebounds and f his goals is to someone, to and a great de 2.5 steals as a sophomore, earning fore returning home for a Saturday night first-team All-Texas Eastern Confer ecome “one of fender,” Barone contest against Southeastern Louisiana. said. “He can ence and first team all-region honors. e elite guards in him that means “We’re focusing on North Texas right guard guys up to He made 69 three-pointers, connect | NBA.” now,” A&M Head Coach Tony Barone said. he is not going 6-foot, 5-inch. It ing on 39.4 percent, while leading the nderson, a “We know North Texas is a well-coached is a focus he Buccaneers to a 19-11 record. ond-year to let them team. They play good defense and they’re has. When we As a freshman, Anderson posted 7.7 Insfer from agressive. They’re trying to find themselves Inn College, touch the ball.” tell him to guard points per game in limited action. like most teams are this time of year.” someone, to The senior from Waltrip High School Barone said North Texas’ strength is in as established Tony Barone him, that means in Houston began playing basketball in its inside/outside game, and that the Ag tself as the A&M head coach he is not going the fifth grade. Anderson said he dis gies will need to play the physical, swarm der of the to let them tinctly remembers playing streetball ing defense that has boosted them to a 3- M squad. This touch the ball.” with his cousin. 0 overall record. hson, Ander- Sophomore forward Calvin Davis said “My cousin put a goal up in his back gn is averaging nine points, 2.7 re- Anderson is able to effectively run the yard,” Anderson said. “That’s when I Playing the passing lanes to contain lunds and four assists per game while offense at the point. started getting serious about playing. the Eagles and force them into hurried iclping the Aggies to a 3-0 start. “He’s adjusted really well,” Davis said. Before then, I was a football nut. shots is part of the Aggies’ game plan. Anderson said while he is happy with “I think he’s a bigger factor at the two- “They told me I was pretty good at “They are a good shooting team,” If Aggies’ explosive start, he knows that guard where he can shoot more. But he it (basketball). So, I’ve kept playing Barone said. “Chad Elstun can really 4&M’s early-season opponents do not can handle the ball and makes good de since then.” shoot it and David Miller is a wonderful hold a torch to future Big 12 foes. cisions. He runs the offense well.” Where Anderson will end up after his inside guy. It’s on the road, and you have “I’ll take 3-0 any day,” Anderson said, Last season, Anderson led the team collegiate days are finished no one can to focus. When you go on the road, there’s t you can’t compare these guards with with 13.3 points and two steals per game be sure. But as long as he aims high, an advantage for the home team, and we , 1 iH msas’) Jacque Vaughn and (Colorado’s) and was named Southwest Conference Barone said he is confident Anderson want to make sure that we’re focused in auncey Billups. Newcomer of the Year. 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