Texas A&M
Monday, October 17,1983/The Battalion/Page 9
ears, Aggies settle for tie, 13-13
Battalion Sports
Baylor freshman blocks last-minute
field goal try to deny Aggies win
by John Wagner
Battalion Staff
WACO — The Texas Aggies learned Saturday
they should never put off till the second half what
they could do in the first.
Instead of kicking the Bears when they were
down in the first half, the Aggies let ’em get up
and get moving. It cost them the game. Sort of.
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With 39 seconds left in the fourth quarter,
Baylor freshman Thomas Everett blocked an
Alan Smith field goal attempt to preserve a 13-13
tie and turn the Battle of the Brazos into a sister-
kissing match.
And if a tie is indeed like smooching on your
sibling, the Aggies must be related to Bo Derek.
They may not have won, but they sure looked
good.
Good, but not great. And not consistent enough
to keep the Bears caged for 60 minutes. After a
near-flawless first half, the A&M offense simply
ran out of scoring punch, enabling the Bears to
mount a semi-successful come-from-behind
attempt.
The Aggies jumped out to an early 7-Q lead,
scoring first when Kevin Murray fired an 18-yard
strike to tight end Rich Siler. The play was set up
by Ray Childress’ interception of a Cody Carlson
screen pass.
“I just grabbed it and started running,” Chil
dress said of his interception. “I don’t even know
how far I went.” The big defensive end lumbered
35 yards to the Baylor 32-yard line, and the Aggies
scored eight plays later.
A&M scored again with 12:16 left in the second
quarter, when Smith booted a 49-yard field goal to
make it 10-0. The Bears had yet to launch a se
rious threat, and it appeared the Aggies might run
away with the game.
But a mental error by A&M quarterback Kevin
Murray gave the Bears new life. After a stifling
Aggie defensive effort forced Baylor to punt from
its end zone with less than two minutes left in the
half, the Aggies threatened to add to their lead.
Murray was sacked for a loss of 12 yards on first
down, but two straight quarterback draws gave
A&M a fourth-and-two at the Baylor 46. Murray,
thinking it was third down, intentionally threw the
ball out-of-bounds to stop the clock.
A&M coach Jackie Sherrill blamed himself for
the mistake. “A lot of our coaches were yelling
‘fourth down’, but a lot were calling ‘third down.’
That’s my responsibility,” he said.
After the change of posession, Carlson hit Brad
Davis on the right sideline for a 19-yard gain.
Davis stepped out-of-bounds to stop the clock,
and Baylor’s Ben Perry kicked a 52-yard field goal
to make it 10-3.
That-momentum stayed through halftime. The
Bears scored again on their first drive of the
second half, an 11-play, 80-yard march that ended
with Allen Rice’s 35-yard touchdown run. That
tied the score at 10-10, and both teams traded
field goals before Smith’s final attempt was
blocked.
The Aggies (2-3-1 on the season) moved the ball
in the second half, but couldn’t score. Only an
outstanding performance by the defense saved
the Aggies from loss No. 4. A&M limited the Bears
to 246 yards of total offense-, way below their
season average of 350.6 yards a game.
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yards against the No. 1 defensive team
in the NFC, piled up a team record
tying 32 first downs and wiped out
Ron Jaworski’s big-play hopes in
trouncing the Eagles, 37-V.
The victory thus kept Dallas un
beaten in seven games, moving the
Cowboys to within one win of equaling
their best start ever.
“We tried to determine what we
needed to do to get out of the groove
we have been in,” said Dallas coach
Tom Landry, referring to the bizarre
manner in which the Cowboys have
had to stage comeback victories this
year.
“We did not want to get out of our
winning grove, but from a perform
ance standpoint we wanted to do bet
ter. We have not played a game like
this all year.”
Jaworski stunned the Cowboys on
Philadelphia’s opening play of the
game with an 83-yard touchdown pass
to Mike Quick, but the Cowboys
promptly regained the lead and for
the first time this season took early
control of a game.
Philadelphia, which had won its
four previous road games this year,
dropped to 4-3.
Rafael Sepden’s 31-yard field goal
gave Dallas a 3-0 advantage and Ron
Springs’ 1-yard scoring run with 1:54
to play in the opening quarter put the
Cowboys in front for good.
White threw a 14-yard scoring pass
to tight end Doug Cosbie with 11:05 to
go in the first half and that started a
streak in which the Cowboys earned
points on five consecutive possessions.
Septien kicked field goals of 46 and
34 yards in a 56-second span at the end
of the first half to put Dallas in front,
23-7, at intermission, and the Cowboys
then added touchdowns on a 7-yard
run by Tony Dorsett and a 2-yard pass
from White to running back Timmy
Newsome.
Quick, leading the NFL in receiving
yards, stunned Dallas by beating De
nnis Thurman, hauling in Jaworski’s
first pass of the day at the Cowboys’
45-yard line and sprinting into the end
But for the remainder of the first
half Jaworski was under pressure
from a variety of Dallas blitzes and
could hit just one of eight throws. Dal
las put the game away in the first half
by outgaining the Eagles, 317 yards to
104, and keeping the ball for more
than 23 minutes. Dallas wound up
owning the ball for almost three quar
ters of the game.
Jaworski finished the day with just
five completions in 14 tries for 138
yards before giving way to Joe Pisarcik
in the fourth quarter.
Jaworski was intercepted twice, in
cluding a key pickoff by Everson Walls
in the first half when the Eagles once
again tried to go deep to Quick.
White, maligned in recent weeks for
his high interception rate, completed
24 of 37 passes.
Although Dallas managed to fall be-
hind for the seventh consecutive
game, the Cowboys did not allow the
Eagles any hint of hope as the second
half began.
Qn Dallas’ first possession of the
third quarter it marched 55 yards in
just five plays — a 32-yard run by
Tony Dorsett being the key play.
Dorsett then ran over cornerback
Herman Edwards for the touchdown.
The Cowboys next marched 80
yards in 13 plays against the dispirted
Philadelphia defense.
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Orioles became the first team
since the 1969 New York Mets to
win four straight games after
losing the opener. They are the
first team since the 1942 Cardin
als to lose the opener, then win
four in a row, including the last
three on the road.
Murray, who had been sty
mied by the Phillies’ pitching
over the first four games, snap
ped a 2-for-16 slump with a long
homer into the right field stands
off loser Charles Hudson to get
the Orioles off to a 1-0 lead in
the second inning.
The switch-hitting first base-
man struck the most crunching
blow in the fourth when he fol
lowed a leadoff walk to Cal Rip
ken with a titanic home run that
hit the scoreboard in right cen
ter field. While the ball was in
flight, the scoreboard was
flashing the names of the Amer
ican League RBI leaders for the
season and, appropriately
enough, the ball struck the “M”
in Murray’s name.
While Murray provided the
punch, McGregor rendered the
Phillies punchless. Just as they
did all Series, the Phils failed to
solve the offspeed deliveries of
the Orioles’ pitchers. Only base
ball’s second all-time hit leader,
Pete Rose, was able to zero in on
the left-hander.
Rose, shifted from first base
to right field in order to get
Tony Perez’s bat into the lineup,
had two singles while Garry
Maddox had a single and a dou
ble. The other hit off McGregor
was a triple by Joe Morgan with
one out in the eighth.
It was not the Phillies’ finest
hour. All year long they had
been labeled as “The Wheeze
Kids” because of the large num
ber of players 40 years and older
on the team and Sunday they
looked and played like old, tired
men.
Once, catcher Bo Diaz forgot
the count on the batter and rol
led the ball back to the mound
thinking Ripken had struck out
when in fact there were only two
strikes on him. Although the
Phillies were not hurt by that
particular play, it was an indica
tion of their lack of concentra
tion.
The final bit of indignity
came after Morgan tripled in the
eighth. Rose followed by hitting
what was sure to be a sacrifice fly
to left but the 40-year-old Mor
gan stumbled on his first step
after tagging up and tumbled to
the ground like an old man.
Morgan’s failure to score was
the second of only two threats
the Phillies had in the game.
Their other opportunity to
score came in the fifth but was
squelched by a sharp defensive
play by third baseman Todd
Cruz.
Maddox led off with a
single to short right field and
Diaz walked. But Cruz bailed
McGregor out of the jam by
grabbing Ivan Dejesus’ sizzling
grounder and turning it into a
double play. Maddox reached
third on the play but was left
stranded when pinch-hitter
Juan Samuel flied to center.
claims Series MVP award
to see us play. Any time you want
to come, you’re welcome. But I’d
like you to talk to the Most Valu
able Player now.”
With that, Edward Bennett
Williams handed the phone over
to Rick Dempsey.
The Orioles catcher who bat
ted .385 for the Series and con
nected for a home run and a
double in Sunday’s 5-0 wrapup
with the Phillies, took the phone
from Williams and laughingly
greeted the President by saying:
“You can tell the Russians
we’re having an awful good time
over here playing baseball.”
There was a short pause, De
mpsey smiled at the President’s
reply and newsmen who were
congregated around the plat
form asked the Orioles catcher
what Reagan had said to him.
“He said, ‘Congratulations on
being the MVP of the game,”’
Dempsey relayed Reagan’s mes
sage. “He also said, ‘It’s a lot
more fun playing the Phillies.’ I
guess he meant it’s more fun
playing the Phllies than the Rus
sians.”
Dempsey looked a little un
comfortable being there on the
platform awaiting the rest of his
teammates. He obviously
wanted to share in the joyous
celebration at the other end of
the clubhouse. From time to
time, he kept calling out to va
rious members of the team as he
looked over the heads of all the
people in the clubhouse and saw
his teammates celebrating.
Williams was then presented
with the World Championship
trophy by Bowie Kuhn.
“I’m so proud of this band of
brothers, called the Baltimore
Orioles,” Williams said in
accepting the trophy from
Kuhn.
Volunteers rip Aggies
in three straight games
by Bob Caster
Battalion Staff
The home-court advantage
wasn’t enough for the Texas
A&M volleyball team Friday
night as 13th-ranked Tennes
see handed the Aggies a de
feat in three straight games at
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
The Aggies, who lost 15-1,
15-13 and 15-7, were hurt by a
key injury to freshman starter
Chris Zogata, and never really
got it together throughout the
match, coach Terry Condon
said.
“With the injury to Chris,
we had to switch the offense
around and play some people
in different places,” Condon
said. “There was a little bit of
confusion in there all night.”
Condon said the Aggies
also suffered from a lack of
communication.
“The girls weren’t really
talking with each other out on
the court and that hurt us
some, too, ” she said. “We we
ren’t really playing our style of
game.”
Condon said the Aggies
need to get their minds off the
loss and look ahead to the re
mainder of their Southwest
Conference schedule.
“We need to forget it and
not think about it any more,”
she said. “The girls are tired
— mentally as well as physical
ly — and they need to take a
rest for the the next couple of
weeks.”
A&M will be on the road
again Wednesday to play the
Rice Owls in Houston, begin
ning at 7:30 p.m.
The Aggies will host the
A&M Classic Friday and
Saturday in G. Rollie White.
LSU, Texas Tech and Oral
Roberts will round out the
field.
staff photo by Dean Saito
Middle blocker Chemine Doty (10) has the
ball returned over her by a Tennessee
player during the Aggies’ loss Friday. The
Vols defeated A&M, 15-1, 15-13, 15-7.