Texas A&M
The Battalion Sports
Page 12/The Battalion/Friday, September 23,1983
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Defense ‘has hands full’
Running attack anticipated
by Scott Griffin
Battalion Staff
Even if Oklahoma State’s
Heisman Trophy candidate
Ernest Anderson doesn’t play
Saturday, Texas A&M defensive
coordinator R. C. Slocum says
the Aggie defense will have their
hands full.
“They’ve got a great running
attack,” Slocum said Thursday,
“They’ve got some good tail
backs — I’ve really been im
pressed with Jones.”
The player Slocum speaks of
is Shawn Jones, a 6-1, 220-
pound junior who gained 160
yards on 32 carries last week
against Cincinnati. Jones was
never tackled for a loss in the
Cincy game, and he scored the
winning touchdown for the
second time this year.
With his performance last
week, Jones is now 13th on the
OSU career rushing charts with
1,300 yards — even after sitting
out last season because of a leg
injury.
In addition to Jones, the Cow
boys have a power runner in
fullback Kelly Cook, who regis
tered his finest day ever against
Cincinnati with 96 yards on only
eight carries.
And then comes Anderson,
who’ll probably see action
against the Aggies after sitting
out the past two weeks with a
groin pull. “Ernest was still sore
this past weekend,” OSU coach
Jimmy Johnson said Thursday,
“But we’re hopeful he’ll be okay
for the A&M game.”
Slocum said he thinks Ander
son will play. If he does, A&M
will have to combat the greatest
single force on the OSU squad.
Last year, Anderson gained
1,877 yards — the fifth best total
in NCAA history.
Anderson owns both the OSU
and Big Eight Conference
rushing records. He tied the
Big-Eight mark for most 200-
yard games in a season with four
last year.
And Anderson rushed for
over 1,000 yards after only five
games last year — a feat match
ed by only three players in
NCAA history.
Slocum is the first to admit
that OSU has an exceptional
offense.
“We’re not gonna shut them
down completely,” Slocum said.
“We just hope to keep them
from making the big play.
They’re gonna get some yards,
but we need to make them earn
those yards. We’re gonna have
to hit ’em hard — we can’t have
them breaking tackles and get
ting loose.
“The thing we have to do is
win the war of the trenches,”
Slocum said. “They’re gonna get
some yards, but we got to pre
vent the big gains.”
As far as possible OSU offen
sive strategies, Slocum said the
Cowboys will spend most of
their time on the ground. “They
have a great running attack
which they sometimes supple
ment with a pass,” Slocum said.
“They like to run the sweep and
get their backs out in the open.
Their running backs and tight
ends will be the ones to watch.”
And OSU coach Jimmy John
son says they’ll run their regular
offense against the Aggies, even
if Anderson doesn’t play.
“We have two good tailbacks
in Shawn Jones and Ken
Zachary,” Johnson said, “We’re
gonna have to run the same
offense, regardless of who’s in
the game.”
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Johnson said he’s been im
pressed with the Aggies this
year. “A&M is a talented football
team,” he said. “They’ve got ex
cellent people at the skill posi
tions — we’ve been especially
impressed with (Aggie QB John)
Mazur.”
Other aspects that impressed
Johnson are the A&M offensive
and defensive lines.
Tennis teams to hit the road
by Kay Mallett
Battalion Reporter
The Texas A&M men’s and
women’s tennis teams are on the
road this weekend to play their
first tournaments of the year.
The men will be to Austin for
a tournament at the University
of Texas, while the women play
at Lamar University.
Men’s coach David Kent said
he is looking forward to the
tournament in Austin and hopes
his team will gain experience,
exposure, and knowledge of
their weaknesses.
And he named the five excel
lent freshmen who could gain
that valuable experience —
Grant Connell, Dean GoLdfine,
Joey Perry, Mark Smith, and
Marcel Voss.
It’ll take them a while to learn the nuts and
bolts of college tennis. Well see how they
act under pressure, ’ — Texas A&M men ’s
tennis coach David Kent on the Aggies’
season-opening tournament this weekend.
“It’ll take them a while to
learn the nuts and bolts of col
lege tennis,” he said. “We’ll see
how they act under pressure.
“We’re approaching it very
seriously this year. We have
more talent than we’ve ever
had.”
Kent also hoping his fresh
men will get positive exposure
this weekend in Austin.
Last year was the first year
since 1979 that the men’s team
wasn’t ranked in the national top
20, and Kent hopes to regain
that lost ranking. But he added
that breaking the top 20 won’t be
an easy task.
“We’re going to have to earn
our way back into it,” he said.
But most of all, Kent hopes
that the tournament will serve as
more than a learning experi
ence. And he believes the team’s
morale could be the winning fac
tor going into this weekend’s
tourney.
Traveling with the women’s
team to Lamar, will be coach Jan
Cannon. The Lady Cardinal
tournament will include 10
teams — three of which are from
the Southwest Conference —
Arkansas, Houston, and Texas
A&M. Texas A&M’s first sche
duled opponent will be Houston
Baptist University.
Cannon believes the key to
this year’s women’s team is the
depth of talent.
She added that the women’s
No. 1 player, sophomore Vanne
Akagi, should be back in form
this year.
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Texas A&M fullback Jimmy Hawkins
(40) goes over the top for a
touchdown against Arkansas State
last week. The Aggies go up
against the Oklahoma
Cowboys Saturday. Game time lias
been moved to 2:50 p.m. for
regional TV coverage.
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