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It’s about time to hear that familiar old
line around Aggieland again: “Wait ’til
next year.”
That line may yet be premature, but
Lady Luck can’t seem to find College
Station, and Murphy’s Law has already
moved into the area.
In fact, the SMU catastrophe supports
O’Toole’s Corollary to Murphy’s Law:
Murphy was an optimist. Indeed, prac
tically anything that could have gone
wrong this season has gone wrong, and
the really unfortunate events haven’t
been the Aggie football squad’s fault.
The season can be summed up in one
word: injuries.
Before the season began, talk about
the Aggies and their new coach centered
around a balanced offensive attack that
would make extensive use of junior tight
end Mark Lewis. Lewis was heralded as
the best tight end in the conference and
one of the best in the nation.
As the Aggie commanders spoke of
their plans, the “oohs” and “aahs” from
the writers soon took the form of positive
predictions about Texas A&M’s season.
Reinforcing their predictions was furth
er enthusiastic talk about the balancing
effect the running back tandem of John
ny Hector and Earnest Jackson would
have.
Oh yes, and that Aggie defense was
expected to resemble the Texas A&M
defenses of the mid-’70s.
Exit writers, enter Boston College.
It took months of preparation for
Jackie Sherrill to assemble his plans and
his team for the fall. It took about two
hours for a big chunk of those plans to
disintegrate — just long enough for
Lewis to fall victim to Murphy’s Law.
The problem of what to do with those
offensive plans that required Lewis to be
effective was something to be worked on
for the next few weeks.
One answer was more frequent use of
Hector and Jackson as receivers. But
Jackson left the field about the same time
Lewis did. Hector followed one week la
ter, andjunior back Thomas Sanders hit
the injury list soon afterward.
Meanwhile, the defense was wearing
down while waiting for the offense to get
untracked. No injuries there, just this
burden of having to keep the opposing
offenses away from the end zones while
their partners on offense were trying to
figure out a way to use freshmen and
second- and third-stringers.
The eventual return of Hector and
Jackson helped things a little, but the
• damage had been done. The offense was
rusty and the defense had lost a great
deal of confidence.
And there was still no Mark Lewis.
With the victories over Baylor and
Rice, things began to look brighter, as the
substitute game plan began to work.
Gary Kuhiak’s passing was looking as
sharp as ever, and a short passing game
using the backs was an effective substi
tute for a running game that was practic
ally non-existent.
Enter Russ Washington, exit Kubiak.
Minutes into the SMU game, the
Aggie quarterback made the wounded
list. After Washington, the Mustangs’
right defensive end, put Kubiak out of
the game, hopes of a great upset began to
fade faster than Sherrill’s plans for
Lewis.
Despite an impressive defensive per
formance by the Aggies against the
Ponies, breaks just didn’t come about for
the Maroon and White.
True, the season’s not over yet, but
with what’s happened thus far, a good
country music writer could really turn
out some big hits.
Hawks blister Bullets
Hare wins
racquetball
tourney title
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conti-
Mike Hare was a double win-
nerin the Texas A&M Racquet-
all Club’s Halloween Classic,
idd the past weekend.
Hare captured victories in the
men’s A division and the men’s
doubles competition. Other re
ts include:
Men’s A: Oscar Diaz, second;
Cameron Walker, consolation
Men’s B: Bobby Warrington,
first; Steve Searcy, second; Lee
Carter, consolation
Men’s C: Allan Robinson,
first; Nguyen Hanh Dung,
second; Bill Schultheis, consola
tion
| Women’s A: Mary Bean, first;
Kathleen Fairchild, second;
Terri Smith, consolation
Women’s B: Lore McDowell,
st; Lora Hurley, second;
Chris Kleinhenz, consolation
Women’s Novice: Kris Mar-
att, first; Kenda Ernst, second;
Caroline Abbott, consolation
Men’s doubles: Hare-Eric
iandt, first; David Segers-Gary
Hale, second; Phil Mani-David
tys, consolation
Women’s doubles: Lorie Mac-
Dowwel-Kathleen Fairchild,
Mary Bean-Cathy Lang-
lotz, second; Kris Marlatt-
Kenda Ernst, consolation
The Texas A&M Racquetball
this open to those who desire
to play either recreational or
competitive racquetball. Any
one interested should call David
sat696-3637 or Phil Math at
■9451.
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Four-star performances are
nothing new to Dominque Wil
kins, dubbed the “Human High
light Film” while playing at
Georgia.
“Dominique had a sensational
game, he played about as well as
possible for a player to play,”
Washington coach Gene Shue
said Tuesday night after Wilkins
scored 30 points to help the
Atlanta Hawks to their first vic
tory of the season — a 105-88
triumph over the Bullets.
Wilkins had 9 first-quarter
points, 10 in the third quarter
and 11 in the fourth. He hit his
last nine shots from the field.
“The proudest I am about
Dominique’s game tonight was
the defensive effort he put out
there against a great player in
(Greg) Ballard,” said Atlanta
coach Kevin Loughery. “He has
the chance to be a very good de
fensive player with a lot of work,
but he needs an awful lot of
work.”
Dan Roundfield finished with
23 points and Wes Matthews had
16 for the Hawks, 1-2. Round-
field and Tree Rollins had 9 re
bounds each for Atlanta.
In other games, it was New
Jersey 110, San Diego 100; De
troit 128, Cleveland 119; Kansas
City 119, Milwaukee 112; Dallas
113, Houston 103; Seattle 120,
Utah 92; and Phoenix 92, Port
land 87.
NETS 110, CLIPPERS 100 —
At East Rutherford, N.J., Darryl
Dawkins scored 20 points and
Buck Williams added 17, enabl-
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119 — At Richfield, Ohio, Isiah
Thomas tossed in 30 points and
John Long added 29 to lead the
Pistons, extending the Cavaliers’
record losing streak to 22 games
over two seasons.
KINGS 119, BUCKS 112 —
At Kansas City, Mo., Eddiejohn-
son collected career highs of 34
points and 15 rebounds to lift the
Kings.
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