The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, October 11, 1991 Page: 11 of 16
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THE RICE THRESHER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1991 IX
Michelle Bird has a spike deflected by two Baylor players. Rice lost to Baylor in three
games Wednesday night.
Campbell, von Heintze, Hos
shine in men's tournaments
by Randy Block
The Rice Owls tennis team contin-
ued to showimprovementas the men's
team played at the Pinewood Invita-
tional in Beaumont this past weekend.
Hosted by Lamar University, the
tourney also featured Southwest
Louisiana, Texas Pan-Am, and South-
west Texas.
Jesco von Heintze and Pascal Hos
defeated Kurt Naumann and Berai
Gade of Southwest Texas, 6-3,7-6, in
the doubles finals. Also, Juan Lavalle
and Ryan Gately made it as far as the
semifinals before Ming to Naumann
and Gade in a hard-fought toss.
In singles, the Owls were even
more impressive. Three players, Jose
Medrano, Gately, and von Heintze
played into the quarterfinals. Von
Heintze continued his great weekend
by advancing to the semis before los-
ing to Southwest Louisiana's Hall
Bohlinger.
Meanwhile, Rice's number one
player, Steve Campbell, was playing
singles in Los Angeles at the West
Coast Championships. Most of col-
lege tennis' best players were present,
with Stanford, USC, UCLA, and TCU
among the participants.
Campbell, currently ranked 25th
in the country, faced tough competi-
tion in the early rounds. But he made
it to the quarto-finals before falling to
UC-Santa Barbara's Laslo Markowitz
in a hard-fought 6-2,6-7,6-3 loss.
Campbell was disappointed in his
finish, but knew the competition was
especially good. "I don't think I played
my best tennis, but I feel I can play
with the best players in the nation."
Campbell will have the opportu-
nity to prove this as he was invited to
join the nation's other top 32 players in
the Volvo All-America tournament in
Austin next weekend.
Most of the rest of the team will
travel to Austin this weekend to begin
qualifying for the Volvo match. Four
others, von Heintze, Hos, Willie Dann,
and Nick Lorenzini, play in Lafayette,
Louisiana at the USLRolex Invita-
tional.
Women denied at UCA
by Tim Lam
Rice women's tennis team mem-
bers competed in the 1991
Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Asso-
ciation (ITCA)/Rolex Regional
Championships on October 3-6 at the
University of Texas Tennis Center.
According to coach Paul Blankenship,
team members performed well but
none advanced beyond the third round
in this single elimination tournament
Renee Capri and Blair Strassner
both advanced to the third round of
competition. Strassner beat Baylor's
best player, Kathryn Sale, in the sec-
ond round, 6-3,7-6, but was defeated
in the third round by the tournament's
number one seed, Susan Gilchrist of
Texas, 6-2,6-0.
Capri went to the third round after
defeating opponents from SMU and
Southwest Texas, where she lost to
Kelly Pace, another top-seeded player
from Texas, 6-1,6-1.
Jackie Brown, afreshman, lost her
first round matchup in three sets but
won the consolation match against a
tough opponent from Tulane, Dina
Berger.
Standout performances were
turned in by freshman Antonette
Vetoso and sophomore Abby Daniels.
"I was very pleased with the way we
played," commented Blankenship,
"especially our younger players."
In doubles play, Rice's combina-
tion of Vetoso and Capri defeated
players from Southwest Texas and
Texas to go on to the third round
where they tost to the fourth seeded
team from SMU.
The Owls were without their two
top players, who could not compete
due to injuries.
The team travels to Rhode Island
this weekend, at Brown University's
expense, to compete in the Brown
Invitational Tournament
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Volleyball team suffers plague of injuries
by Wilbur Lam and
Peter Howiey
The women's volleyball team was
hindered by injuries as they began
their conference season last week.
Their record stands at 7-12 going into
next week's matches against rivals
Texas and Texas Tech.
Defensive specialist Amy Birkhold
hyperextended her right elbow,
middle blocker Tammy Trownsell
suffered a sublexed shoulder, and set-
ter Carrie Swank sprained an ankle.
All will be out for at least two weeks.
The Owls weren't held back very
much in a three game victoty over
North Texas at Autry Court last Satur-
day. Rice won, 15-5, 15-8, 15-5, with
ease.
They didn't offer us a lot of compe-
tition , but it was a good match for u s to
get back on track and get a little rhythm
back," said head coach Debbie Sokol.
Rice needed to get back on track
after a disappointing loss to Texas
A&M the week before. "We were
primed for a win. Everything was in
place to beat them," said SokoL "Then
everything just sort of crumbled. We
weren't really competitive."
The team was thrown when setter
Katie Meyer sprained an ankle early
in the second game and lost 6-15,7-15,
11-15.
"We didnt really play with any
teamwork that night," said outside
hitter NicciYarber.
The A&M loss was the fourth in a
row for Rice. The Owls began their
losing streak a week earlier on a road
trip to Florida.
The Owls narrowly fell to the Uni-
versity ofVirginia, 15-13,6-15,8-15,15-
9,16-18. "Playing Virginia was a real
heartbreak because we made such a
strong comeback in the last game and
we thought we were going to win,"
said Sokol.
"We were down by four points in
the final game, made a comeback, and
even got a point of them," said assis-
tant coach Henry Chen.
Rice also fell to the University of
Florida that day, 7-15,8-15,4-15. "We
were not at all intimidated by playing
a team like Florida, which is 17th in
the nation," said Chen. The scores
definitely did not reflect the games
because our players are comparable
to theirs."
The Owls had no more luck the
next day, when they lost to Florida
State, 4-15,8-15,11-15. Inconsistency
was to blame in all of the losses, ac-
cording to the coaching staff.
"We didn't execute consistently;
that was our only major problem,"
Sokol said. Chen agreed: "We have
such a talented team, we just need to
put it together."
The team tost in three straight to
Baylor Wednesday night, and faces
two more conference opponents next
week. Tomorrow they travel to Austin
to face Texas, the nation's eighth-
ranked team They are tough," Sokol
said. "It will be a brutal match without
our reserves."
Texas Tech comes to Autry Court
Wednesday night at 7 p.m. The Red
Raiders are 18th in the nation, and
"should bring out the best in us," ac-
cording to SokoL
This could legitimately be an up-
set for us," she added. "If we could pull
that one out, that would be a bright
spot in the year."
The game will be televised, and a
cheering contest between the colleges
will be held, with food prizes going to
the loudest college contingent
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Zitterkopf, Ann & Howe, Harlan. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, October 11, 1991, newspaper, October 11, 1991; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245793/m1/11/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.