Page 18 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981
Aggies ready for UTA tourney
By FRANK L. CHRISTLIEB
Battalion Staff
Bob Brock must be pleased.
The coach of the Texas A&M
women’s softball team has won
seven of eight games with his new
team, and he knows there are
many more wins ahead.
But success is something he’s
used to after spending two win
ning seasons coaching the Baylor
Bears, and it looks like he hasn’t
lost his touch. The Aggies have
quickly adapted to Brock’s
coaching style, coming through
with clutch hitting and the usual
fine pitching.
Sue Lilley, Brock’s assistant
coach, has helped a great deal with
the coaching transition. Lilley
played softball four years at In
diana University under former
Texas A&M coach Bill Galloway,
who was an assistant coach at IU.
The team has been involved in
six shutouts during the first week
of the season, five of them won by
the Aggies. Veteran pitcher Shan
McDonald has picked up three of
those shutouts, while freshman
Lisa Martinez has won the other
two.
The Aggies, who won the Texas
A&M Invitational tourney the
past weekend, travel Friday to the
University of Texas at Arlington to
participate in another invitational
tournament. Lori Stoll, Texas
A&M’s other starting pitcher, has
returned from her American Soft-
ball Association playing tour of
Japan and will travel with the
squad to Arlington.
First baseman Shannon Mur-
Coogs’ Yeoman
feels NFL could
offense
use veer
United Press International
HOUSTON — Longtime University of Houston football coach Bill
Yeoman believes NFL offenses would get a shot in the arm from the
option offense, and this weekend’s two games involving teams from
Houston and Miami could prove his point.
Not surprisingly, Yeoman’s Houston Cougars will run the veer
option offense almost exclusively Saturday in Miami against the Miami
Hurricanes.
But in a departure from recent form, the NFL Miami Dolphins will
probably send quarterback David Woodley on a limited number of
option roll outs when they play the Houston Oilers in the Astrodome
Sunday.
Their opponents, the Hurricanes and Houston Oilers, will use
standard pro-type offenses. So far this season it’s ben hard to deter
mine which offensive attack is more successful since none of the four
teams has lost a game.
The opposite offensive styles run deeper than game plans, says
Yeoman, who is the father of the veer and whose teams rank 7th
nationally in rushing yards over the last 10 years. He’ll alternate
sending two sprinter-type quarterbacks, Audrey McMillian and
Lionel Wilson, at the Hurricanes defense.
“It’s amazing to me that no recent pro team has ever used an option
attack,’’ Yeoman said Tuesday. “There are seven or eight excellent
option quarterbacks coming out of college every year, maybe more.
And nobody uses them.”
He dislikes the pros’ arguments that a pro quarterback is too
valuable to risk injury from constant running, and that a pro team
would have to be five-deep in quarterbacks to use an option attack.
“Since 1965 we’ve only had a handful of quarterbacks hurt running
the option, and most of those were freak falls. A quarterback is more
likely to get hurt getting hit in a passing pocket than running, ” Yeoman
said.
He says the greater competitiveness in college football causes
college coaches to go to the option, and he believes greater job
insecurity in the NFL keeps them from experimenting with the op
tion.
The Dolphins’ Woodley would seem to provide limited proof that a
pro quarterback can run around end and survive in the NFL. He ran
the option five times against the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Dolphins’
last game and was successful with it. On Miami’s second possession, he
pitched to halfback Tony Nathan off the option play, and Nathan got
nine yards. Later in a third-and-six situation, he picked up 20.
Oilers Head Coach Ed Biles Monday did not seem concerned about
preparing for the added dimension of Woodley’s running.
“It’s a play you have to look at. It puts a defender in a one-on-one
situation, but as long as you can tackle, you’re okay. It doesn’t present
any big defensive problem,” Biles said.
The Oilers predictably leave the running to Earl Campbell and the
passing to Stabler, and there is little chance the roles will be reversed
even for one play. But the Oilers’ offensive efforts in narrow victories
over the Los Angeles Rams and Cleveland Browns have been subpar.
The Oilers have yet to score a touchdown running.
Witness says Spur
fan’s claims untrue
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio Spurs basketball fan, who is
seeking $850,000 in damages, appeared to be intoxicated and “faking
his injuries” following a confrontation with Boston Celtics players, a
former paramedic who treated the man has testified.
“He was whooping and hollering and creating quite a disturbance,”
Hector Cardenas, a former Emergency Medical Services paramedic,
told jurors during Wednesday’s second day of testimony in truck
driver Johnny Merla’s civil suit against Boston forward Larry Bird,
former center Dave Cowens and the Celtics.
Cardenas examined the 27-year-old Merla outside Hemisfair Arena
following a Jan. 5, 1980 Spurs victory over Boston.
“My assessment was the patient didn’t have anything wrong with
him and was faking his injuries,” Cardenas said. “It was hard to
believe he was injured.” He said Merla appeared “inebriated.”
Testimony was scheduled to resume today.
Merla is a former member of a group of Spurs fans known as the
“Baseline Bums” and claims he was injured in a confrontation with the
players as they were boarding a team bus.
Other defense witnesses called by Bob Summers, attorney for the
players, included policeman Tom Secraw and city bus driver J.J.
Valdez.
Both testified Bird and Cowens were provoked by a large gathering
of San Antonio fans.
“It was near a riot, like a mob,” Secraw said.
“Some of the people in the crowd were chanting, ‘We want
Cowens, We want Cowens!’ One man doubled his fist and advanced
forward and spit at Cowens,” Secraw added.
Merla testified he suffered neck, lower back pains and severe
headaches in being hit by one of the players, causing him to miss work
for 2Va months.
He said he held his hands to his neck and teased the Celtics about
“choking” and losing a game they could have won.
Merla said Cowens approached the group of fans and “attempted to
put us down by asking us what we did for a living. ” He said a spitting
match ensued between him, Bird and Cowens before Bird struck him
to the ground with enough force “it nearly knocked me out” and “I
could not get up.”
Valdez, who was driving the Boston bus, testified that a fan, appa
rently Merla, entered the Celtics’ bus and challenged players to come
outside.
Secraw, who said the bus required a police escort to leave the arena
parking lot, testified some of the fans were “loud, drunk and boiste-
rious.”
Summers said “Baseline Bum” officers would testify today that the
organization, which is not affilated with Spurs management, did not
codone the filing of the suit against the Celitics players.
Other witnesses Wednesday included Dr. James Potyka, Baptist
Memorial Hospital emergency room physician, who testified by video
tape that he had found “no objective findings” of injury to Merla.
Merla’s wife Stella broke down in tears on the stand, saying the
couple had been “humiliated” by the incident.
Summers said he had offered Merla a $1,500 out-of-court settlement
“as a matter of economics and to get rid of him.”
ray, who has been out with a
broken finger during the Aggies’
first eight games, will probably
miss a few more games.
After this weekend’s tourney,
Texas A&M travels to Nacog
doches Sept. 25-26 for the
Stephen F. Austin Invitational,
and to Killeen Oct; 2-3 for the Sam
Houston Invitational.
The Aggies’ final tourament of
the fall season, the Oklahoma
State Invitational, will be played
Oct. 9-10 in Stillwater, Okla., and
the state championship will be
held Oct. 16-17 in Conroe.
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