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Battalion/Page 11
September 28, 1982
Aggies’ secondary woes
may disappear in SWC
So the Aggie defense needed a little
practice against the pass.
1 Fine.
The Aggies shipped in some good
sparring partners, didn’t they? Flutie
and company of Boston College, the duo
of Jackson and Hopkins of UT-
Arlington and the ever-efficient Matt
Dunigan of Louisiana Tech all passed
with flying colors,
cxas Ail Together, these guys managed to un-
st featut; load the ball 126 times on the Aggie de
fense, which is fine when we consider the
old cliche “practice makes perfect.”
But it seems unlikely that Coach Jackie
Sherrill figured those opponents would
actually catch 71 of those passes for
almost 1,000 yards — in three games.
So much for practice. That’s all over
now, and this weekend will mark the start
of that tough Southwest Conference
struggle the Aggies were hoping to be
prepared for.
Some may be predicting a gloomy out
come for the Maroon and White. But
they’re caught up in the apparently nega- ,
tiye statistics. They need to read the fine
print.
In the first place, anybody in the SWC
who needs to pass as much as Louisiana
Tech and UT-Arlington did is in big
trouble. Unless you’re Brigham Young,
it’s unlikely you can win many games
without some kind of running game to
keep defenses honest.
Many teams throw the ball simply be
cause they can’t move it on the ground or
because they’re way behind. Granted,
some throw it because they’re good at it,
like Boston College. But who’s going to
count the Aggies out because they lost to
a team that tied defending national
champion Clemson?
Second, the fact that the Aggies are
2-1 right now instead of something un
thinkable like 0-3 has to be a positive sign.
Opponents are averaging only 92 yards a
game on the ground against the Aggies.
That’s why they’re passing, and any team
— especially one with a Flutie or a Duni
gan at the helm — is going to complete
passes when it launches the ball all night
long.
Yes, the Aggies still need to work on
secondary play, and yes, 994 yards pas
sing is a bit much to surrender in three
games. There’s no debating that. But
Sherrill has come up with an observation
that many critics may be forgetting:
If a team can play poorly and still win,
there’s got to be hope.
A big chunk of that passing yardage
can probably be attributed to something
few people consider. When a team is
ahead by some absurd margin like 30
points, it’s only natural (though not wise)
for the defense to relax a little. And it
doesn’t take much relaxing in the secon
dary for a receiver to slip past a defender
into the open.
As for the 126 passes thrown the
Aggies’ way thus far, it seems only logical
to assume the secondary has learned a
thing or two about pass defense. If they
haven’t learned it on the field yet, they
certainly have enough related film foot
age to look at the mistakes in more detail
and make the necessary corrections.
But as obvious as it sounds, as long as
the Aggie offense generates more points
than the defense surrenders, it shouldn’t
matter whether the secondary allows 50
or 500 yards passing.
Of course, it’s unlikely the offense will
always jump out to a big lead. That’s why
defensive improvement is a must.
But improvement may not be as far
away as it seems. Sherrill’s players might
prove that the deficiency in the secon
dary was just a passing thing.
Boren may miss
Saturday’s game
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Arkansas defensive tackle Phillip
Boren may miss Saturday’s Southwest Conference opener with
Texas Christian due to a trained knee sustained during the Missis
sippi game, Ra^orback coach Lou Holtz says.
“He has hurt the same knee before,” Holtz said Monday. “It
looks like he will be out for a while. He has a lot of pain.”
Holtz said takcle Earl Buckingham has been playing well as
Boren’s backup and said freshmen Jim Kingsby, Rodney Beachum
and Bobby King would need to improve their play to provide
depth in the interior line.
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After a rain delay of 63 mi
tes, Ken Oberkfell hit a one-
it double in the first inning
d scored on a single by Dane
|rg. After loser Bill Gullickson,
12-13, issued a walk to Darrell
Porter, McGee hit a line drive to
left center Expos’ center fielder
Andre Dawson missed on an
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' for his fourth homer of the year
to make it 4-0 and help Dave
LaPoint improve his record to
9-3.
LaPoint went 5% innings and
gave up six hits while Bruce Sut
ter got his 36th save.
The Cardinals last won the
NL pennant in 1968, the year
before the league split into two
divisions.
In other games, Cincinnati
stopped Los Angeles, 6-1, Atlan
ta got by San Francisco, 7-0, Chi
cago defeated Philadelphia, 8-1,
New York downed Pittsburgh,
4-1, and Houston beat San
Diego, 7-3,
In the American League, it
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Seattle 8, Chicago 4 in the first
game, then Chiacgo 4, Seattle 1
in the nightcap; New York 10,
Boston 3; and Texas 4, Oakland
1.
REDS 6, DODGERS 1 — At
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five-hitter and the Reds pun
ched out five consecutive singles
to score four runs in the fourth
to hand the Dodgers’ their sixth
straight loss and dropped them
into a first-place tie in the NL
West.
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CO 0 — At San Francisco, veter
an knuckleballer Phil Niekro
pitched a two-hitter for his first
shutout of the season and Chris
Chambliss drove in three runs
with a double and a sacrifice fly
to pace the Braves into a tie with
Los Angeles.
ASTROS 7, PADRES 3 — At
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home run from each side of the
plate and drove in four runs to
lead the Astros. Vern Ruble,
pitching in relief of rookie
Frank DiPino, won his ninth
game of the season against 13
losses.
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