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Texas A&M The Battalion Sports Thursday, October 27,1983/The BattaIion/Page 11 MU’s Carter proving his worth Dave Scott, by Bob Caster Battalion Staff KWhat does a college football coach do with a second-team All- America cornerback when he becomes a senior? If he is SMU coach Bobby Collins and the player in question is Russell Car ter, one of the hardest hitting defensive backs in the country, the answer is simple. 1 Move him to free safety. P Why move an outstanding cornerback to a new position in ^ “"X h* s s enior year? According to « ' Collins, it’s simply a matter of supply and demand. H“We felt he was one of the top cornerbacks in the country,” Collins said. “But we graduated two starting safeties off of last year's team and Russell is ex perience coming back (Collins had to replace eight defensive ||tarters this year). He has had to Ke over the role of making ad justments in the secondary — lisTT „u F s , * le leader back there and „ P a , r tc he’s given the entire defense ISC to chtcl confidence.” I Despite the Mustang’s loss to Texas Saturday, Carter had one ofhis better games of the season, Collins said. Carter had fifteen tackles, two interceptions and a fumble recovery. Not bad for a J day’s work. Q/'fl jfCarter said he feels good ab- V t v. i l out making the move to free jafety. It’s giving him the oppor tunity to be in on more plays and get into more of the action than when he was at his old position. Despite the praise he has re- i '' Nov ’ll] cei H this year, Carter said he’s 1 i nr (in 'vffljying at the same level that he played last year. Jh the privateur;w! Collins sees thin g s difTe - ^‘Russell has exceeded our ex- pectations,” Collins said. “He’s imecominskitij® much a team P ,a y er and he i. and has ntadelti 3 .! S® 1 . 1611 more and more in- .mces,»tin ^Ited ,n every ballgame. [ bounds as though Charter is , som inar will I fverything a coach could ask for b Hope Thealrt F a football player. At least, ie comedian ^ al s what Collins thinks, d funds for itsthe type of young man oiie brokegrodp 0 ' s a H things we as coaches in 1965, ando look for in a player,” Collins in October llB' dde P* a ys for keeps. Most i.illy televised ^ e f en sive backs are interested in ih c ofthenlavl ' nterce P dn S l be pass but Russell gets a thrill out of j ust playing off Porter, spokeswiff | block and making a tackle — endows Schooh tie’s most concerned about what J, said Hope* ‘sbest for the team.” shed visiting [«| Going up against the Aggies, fetime tenure, however, Carter may get a good Kit at an interception or two. ale hasnotyetki&M quarterback Kevin Mur- minar. Hope's! ray hit his receivers 25 out of 48 leotaped for peijhes for 280 yards against Rice teaching aids,) last week. Heads up, Russell r will stage a re Carter. pe’s movies ami ::jg He (Murray) has a very in conjunction Strong arm and can read de- s. fenses real well,” Carter said. Ilhey also have smart receivers ne has not said)® they can beat you deep.” lie will teach, s| Carter said he didn’t think last ikely topicsindcjveek’s loss to the ’Horns will medy, writing affec t the Mustangs as they pre- teen and stage pare for the Aggies. This week dy in the last5I has been business as usual for omedy differsfn tarter and Co. sion to stagelo# “We’re just doing what we do |j«ry week,” Carter said. “We ie course willnt have to know the (opposing) inyone. A small tfeam real well and and prepare mts will bechoape best we can prepare. We past particip; have to continue playing hard fields in theIbTip for A&M. They’re a good nent Porter sail te am, capable of scoring a lot of points and we don’t want them get the big play.” - U| |||2 Just ask Carter how many big w* SCHUlfr plays they have given up during O^FMLVNUESt’i 'ue.-fmlvM THEAT^his tenure at SMU — not many. | United Press International AUSTIN — University of Texas coach Fred Akers con firmed Wednesday Rob Moers- ''chell would be the Longhorns’ .starting quarterback in Satur- 7:1 SM MR. brainsk y;309.55 ill ,jcil 141 — [RAPING^’ 8 Southwest Conference i.n>rrr^j game against Texas Tech. ' - , " 1 Akers said Moerschell, a Jnior from Highland Park who ■^5 started the first six Texas games, qCYONO ' Vou * d rem ain at the helm de- D 1 --1 mlt spite his sub-par performance in B^econd half of last week’s 15- Texas win over SMU. Texas, |rahked second in the nation, ties a 6-0 season record and a i.»- , 3-0 conference record into the dctiIRN^ fFFe against Texas Tech, 3-3 E jEM nd 3-o. 9 Dodge, who was tabbed as the J itter in preseason before in ring a shoulder, relieved I'erschell against SMU and mhshi wtected the Longhorns’ win- N^gGj)ning touchdown drive. - nfjjfr ,, : 1,7 In this sequence, A&M’s Jeff Nelson hauls in a Kevin Murray pass, at left, heads to the goal line and holds staff photos by Dean Saito J the ball up in jubilation after scoring against Rice. to run deep pass routes by Aggie receivers concerns SMU’s All-America safety Russell Carter said the ability the Mustangs greatly going into Saturday’s game. A&M’s Stoll named softball’s athlete of the year by Kay D. Mallett Battalion Reporter ‘‘I thought somebody was playing a joke on me at first,” Lori Stoll said when she found out that the Broderick Sports Awards Program had named her the Outstanding Woman Collegiate Athlete in softball for 1982-83. Well, it’s no joke. The Broderick Sports Award is given to the most outstanding woman athlete in each of 17 women’s sports. Stoll received the Broderick Softball Award for her record- breaking four-year career as pitcher for the Texas A&M women’s softball team. Stoll’s career winning ratio was 87 percent with an earned run average of 0.35. In four years, she struck out 1,359 batters and walked only 181. Though nominated two of the last three years for the Broderick Award, this is the first year Stoll has won it. And the award automatically nominates the four-time All- America pitcher for the presti gious Broderick Cup. Stoll, along with the 16 other Broderick Award winners will compete for the cup, which is awarded to the woman athlete most deserving of the recogni tion as the Woman Collegiate Athlete of the Year. Texas A&M Women’s Athle tic Director Kay Don said that women athletic directors from colleges all over the nation take part in the voting for the cup. Stoll was very excited about her award, but didn’t feel her chances were very good to win the Broderick Cup. “I’m kind of excited,” Stoll said. “But there are too many other sports that carry on to the Olympics and get more pub licity.” She said the participants in the more popular sports such as basketball and swimming would be most likely to win the award. She may be right. The Broderick Awards Sports Program was started in 1976 and since then there has been three basketball players, two swimmers and one track athlete to receive the Broderick Cup. Don, on the other hand, feels Stoll has gotten enough “visibil ity” and recognition should have a good shot at the cup. Stoll has been on a winning team that has won “back-to- back” national championships. “Because of that visibility and her competing in the Pan Amer ican games this year, I think she has a real good chance of win ning,” Don said. But Don added that the bal lots wouldn’t be out until mid- November and Stoll won’t know until then who else will be com peting for the cup. The cup will be awarded by the Broderick Co. at the NCAA convention this January in Dallas. Stoll is the first woman athlete from Texas A&M to get close to being nominated for th^ Broderick Cup. She said she never really- thought about her goals in terms. of winning awards. “My biggest continual goaP wasjust to win the game (she was playing),” Stoll said. And win she did. After four years with the' Aggies, Stoll’s win-loss record was a phenomenal 167-24. 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