Page 18 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1981
Sports
Aggies travel to Waco
to meet feisty Baylor
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By RITCHIE PRIDDY
Sports Editor
The Texas Aggies invade the
confines of Baylor Stadium Satur
day in what can be billed as a must
game for both sides.
The Bears are coming off an
impressive showing against unde
feated SMU Saturday. Although
they lost the Bears were closer to
the Ponies than the 37-20 score
indicated.
The Bears have fallen on hard
times this year and are 3-3 on the
year, 1-2 in the all-important con
ference race, and they desperately
need another conference victory
soon to keep them in any kind of a
bowl picture.
Meanwhile, the Aggies are 4-1,
2-0 in conference play, and need a
win to keep their string of victories
intact for a shot at a bowl bid. A
win over Baylor this weekend
would help things tremendously.
Baylor, last year’s Southwest
Conference champion, hasn’t had
the offensive punch that was char
acteristic of last year’s 10-2 team.
Through six games the Bears
have averaged 361 yards in total
offense, 159.6 through the air and
201.2 on the ground, good enough
for sixth place in the conference.
Senior running back Walter
Abercrombie is currently in
seventh place in rushing in the
conference with 433 yards on 106
carries, an average of 72.2 yards
per game, 4.1 per carry.
Abercrombie has traditionally
been tough against the Aggies. As
a freshman he rushed for 207 yards
against A&M. His sophomore
year he ran for 137 yards, and last
year he had 143 yards.
Abercrombie will most likely be
a marked man Saturday.
Dennis Gentry, the second half
of last year’s S WC’s most produc
tive backfield, has 370 yards on 72
carries, good enough for 10th
place in the conference.
Last year that same backfield
averaged 296.9 yards per game to
lead the conference in rushing.
The Bears have lost the majority
of their offensive linemen to gra
duation and starting younger play
ers accounts for their lackluster
offensive showing thus far.
Just who will start at quarter
back for Baylor remains a mystery.
Jay Jeffery is the regular but he
had his share of problems against
the Mustangs and head coach
Grant Teaff pulled him for David
Mangrum.
Jeffery is better at handling the
run but inconsistent at passing,
whereas Mangrum is better
known for his passing.
Teaff said he would not
announce who’ll start until
Friday.
The Bears return Gerald
McNeil at split end and Alfred
Anderson at wing back, two excel-
Aggie running backs Johnny
Hector and Earnest Jackson have
combined for 919 yards through
five games, 476 and 443 respec
tively. Hector is fifth and Jackson
sixth in conference rushing.
lent players who can both run and
catch. McNeil, at 5-7, 143, also
returns punts.
The Aggies are second in total
offense with an average of 392.2
yards per game, 134 through the
air and 258.2 on the ground. SMU
is the offensive leader with an av
erage of 419.6 yards per game.
Quarterback Gary Kubiak is
currently ninth in passing, but
third in total offense with 165.2
yards per game. Jeffery is fourth
with a game average of 154 yards.
Defensively A&M is fifth, giv
ing up an average of 320 yards per
game. Baylor is sixth with 338
yards.
Against the rush A&M is fourth,
giving up an average of 92.8 yards
per game. Aggie opponents are
averaging just 2.4 yards per carry.
Baylor is sixth against the rush
with a 172 yard average, giving up
3.4 yards a shot.
“Their defense is inexperienced
but it has made a great deal of
Martin, Piniella
still confident
United Press International
NEW YORK — He would’ve had to be deaf not to hear them and
there isn’t a thing wrong with Billy Martin’s ears.
“Goodbye, Billy. Goodbye, Billy,” they mocked him and hisyouth-
ful Oakland A s only two outs away from a humiliating 13-3 back-
crusher at the hands of the New York Yankees. “We hate to see you
go”
Many of those in the crowd of 48,497 serenading Martin at Yankee
Stadium after Wednesday’s lopsided defeat, which left the A’s a single
game away from elimination in the American league’s final playoff,
were the same people who had given him such a warm, rousing ovation
when he was introduced before Tuesday night’s opening contest.
Martin couldn’t possibly miss hearing them sarcastically telling him
goodbye now, the obvious implication being his A’s were dead even
though they were going back home to Oakland for the remaining game
or games, but if the suddeness with which the fans had turned upset
him at all, he didn’t allow it to show.
“That don’t bother me,” he said expressionlessly. “It ain’t over yet.
Well win tomorrow and the next day and then we’ll see who’ll be
singing that song.”
Craig Nettles accounted for the most damage with his seventh
inning homer and three singles while Jerry Mumphrey chipped in
with a ground-rule double and three singles and Dave Winfield a
double and a single, but it was the seldom used, 38-year-old Lou
Piniella who really settled things with his three-run bomer in the
fourth after replacing Reggie Jackson in right field an inning earlier.
Jackson had been forced out by a calf injury.
The Yankees, who trailed 3-1 at one point, were ahead 4-3 in the
fourth when Piniella produced his three-run shot into the right field
seats off righthander Dave Beard.
Piniella was batting in the clean-up spot. More than once during the
1978 season, George Steinbrenner would call Martin, managing the
Yankees at the time, and urge him to bat Piniella fourth and use him
against both right-handed and left-handed pitchers. Martin would
usually disagree.
When the A’s manager saw Piniella in the on-deck circle waiting to
hit his first time up in the third Wednesday, he kidded the veteran
Yankee outfielder by hollering over at him, “The boss’ buddy has his
dream.”
Piniella merely laughed. Nor did he show any hard feelings toward
Martin after the game.
“Billy is OK,” he said. “He helped us get on our winning ways when
he was here. He showed us how to play with intensity.”
But Piniella got into only 60 games with the Yankees this year,
usually as a designated hitter or pinch hitter, but the fans here still love
him. They hollered for him to come out of the dugout and take a bow
after his homer as some of the other Yankee players do, but he
declined.
“I take baseball as a profession, not as show business,” he explained
later. “I don’t believe in curtain calls. I don’t say it’s wrong if other guys
want to do it but it’s not my way. Why embarrass the other ballclub?
Why embarrass the pitcher?”
Piniella said he was grateful to Yankee Manager Bob Lemon for
using him after Jackson found he was unable to continue.
“I appreciated the fact that Lem had confidence in me to put me in
right field,” he said. “There were a lot of other people he could have
put in instead of me.”
During the past winter, when he was recuperating from an attack of
hepatitis, Piniella thought of quitting. He was discouraged and that
same feeling returned when after the strike was settled in July and he
was told he wasn’t going to play the outfield anymore.
“That perturbed me,” he admitted. “I can still play. I think I can
help a lot of clubs.”
That’s for sure. Just ask Billy Martin.
The Corps of Cadets gets its news from
the Batt.
improvement. They had a much
more solid defensive effort against
SMU,” head coach Tom Wilson
said.
Wilson said that the Aggies
have had a good chance to see the
Bears this year as the Aggies have
followed them in three games.
Baylor played Louisiana Tech the
week before the Aggies did, bare
ly hanging on for a 28-21 victory.
The Aggies beat the Bulldogs 43-
7.
The Aggies also followed the
Bears with Texas Tech. Baylor
beat the Red Raiders 28-15 in
Waco. A&M beat them 24-23.
Also the Bears played Houston
the week before A&M did. Baylor
was demolished by the Cougars
24-3. A&M beat them 7-6 last
week.
Wilson said that Baylor is a good
team, despite their 3-3 record,
and will most likely play the
Aggies their finest game this year,
something the Bears seem to do a
lot against the Aggies.
Weather reports indicate a pos
sibility of rain during the game,
something that has become some
what of a tradition of the Baylor —
Texas A&M football game. So it
might be a good idea to take the
necessary precautions.
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