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By TONY CORNETT
Sports Writer
Going into tomorrow’s Southwest
Conference opener, the same thing
os still worrying Aggie Football
■Coach Jackie Sherrill about his team
that has worried him all season long.
The Ags are a young football
team.
And just as A&M has a surplus of
youth, their first conference foe,
Texas Tech, has an abundance of
experience.
"They have 26 seniors or redshirt
juniors,” Sherrill said. “They have
16 of those starting for them. This is
a senior football team. They’ve been
around a long lime.”
Sherrill sees the Aggies’ youth as
the cause of many mistakes they’ve
made in the first three games and
the reason for another problem —
inconsistency.
That’s an area where Sherrill ex
pects to see the most improvement
Saturday.
“1 hope we improve in consis
tency,” Sherrill said, “I think we
will.”
The Ags will need all the consis-
“You've got to make a decision. Either you’re going to
be a running football team, a passing team or both. Our
decision is that we’re going to do both. We’re going to
throw the ball to open up the running game. ”
— Texas AScM Head Coach Jackie Sherrill
tent play they can muster. Texas
Tech has the best pass defense in the
SWC and is ranked No. 2 nationally.
Passing has been A&M’s ticket to
its 3-0 record.
Even Aggie quarterback Kevin
Murray’s shotgun arm might have
had some trouble with such a
staunch Tech defense.
Murray will be out of action for at
least six or seven weeks. It will be up
to redshirt freshman quarterback
Craig Stump to get a firm grip on
the offense early in the game and
hang on to the football.
What exactly will the Aggies’ strat
egy be against the Red Raiders?
“You’ve got to make a decision,”
Sherrill said, “You’re going to be a
running football team, a passing
team or both. Our decision is that
we’re going to do both. We’re going
to throw the ball to open up the run
ning game. So, they (Texas Tech)
are going to fu.ve to drop people off
to cover us. We have the receivers to
do it. We can throw the ball well
enough to do it.
“I think our football team is one
where you have to get the football to
the weapons. Certainly our weapons
right now are our tight ends and re
ceivers. Who’s the most productive?
The most productive are the wide-
outs, tight ends and quarterbacks.”
Sherrill obviously thinks that
Stump can pass his first SWC test
against Tech.
“Craig’s got a lot of discipline to
him,” Sherrill said, “He’s not going
to get rattled. The expectations are
not out of line. He takes what hap
pens, plus or minus. He’s pretty lev
elheaded.
Details on exactly what form Sher
rill’s strategy will take are secret.
This week, for the first time since
Sherrill began coaching at A&M, the
Ags closed their practices this week
to the print and electronic media.
As usual, look for Sherrill to play
a lot of players just as he has in the
past three games.
As far as the quarterback situa
tion, if anything should happen to
Stump, senior John Mazur will quar
terback. Behind Mazur is sopho
more Paul Gasper.
“John Mazur is one who’s been
around,” Sherrill said, “His intensity
level is good. I think that Paul Gas
per has made a lot of progress in
camp and he’s certainly a young man
who can give us that third depth sit
uation.”
The Aggies are blessed with tal
ent, even if it is young.
Sherrill quoted the late Paul
“Bear” Bryant:
“For every sophomore you start
you’re going to lose a football game.”
Sherrill is hoping Bryant’s proph
ecy doesn’t hold true this season.
San Diego rides 11-hit barrage
Padres stay alive; Zap Cubs
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SAN DIEGO — The San Diego
Padres postponed the last rites and
remained alive in the National
league playoffs Thursday night by
defeating the Chicago Cubs 7-1 be
hind Ed Whitson’s five-hit pitching
over eight innings and an 11-hit at
tack that featured a three-run
homer by Kevin McReynoJds.
After a day off Friday, the best-of-
jfive series resumes Saturday night
with the Cubs still needing one vic
tory to notch their first pennant in
39 years.
Geared to an emotional pitch by a
racuous record-setting San Diego
Stadium crowd of 58,346, the Padres
rushed loser Dennis Eckersley and
reliever George Frazier to give
themselves renewed hope in the se
ries.
As usual, Chicago scored first,
taking a 1-0 lead in the second in
ning on a double by Keith Moreland
and a single by Ron Cey, but that was
all they would get off Whitson, who
blanked them on two hits the rest of
the way until he was replaced by
Rich Gossage in the ninth. Gossage
got the last three outs to preserve the
first playoff victory in the Padres’
history.
Whitson, a 14-game winner dur
ing the regular season who special
izes in a palm ball, struck out five
and walked only one in shutting
down the powerful Cubs bats that
had made such a loud noise in the
first two games at Wrigley Field.
It appeared for a while as if that
one-run lead might stand up, but the
Padres finally got to Eckersley in the
fifth and rocked him for four hits
and three runs to take a lead for the
first time in the series.
Terry Kennedy and McReynolds
started the inning with back-to-back
singles and after Carmelo Martinez
popped out, Garry Templeton
ripped a double into the left center
field gap to score both runners.
Eckersley retired Whitson on a
pop to second, but Alan Wiggins
ripped a single to center to score
Templeton with the third run of the
inning. Wiggins was cut down at sec
ond base when first baseman Leon.
Durham cut off the throw to the
plate, but it didn’t matter because
the Padres shelled Eckersley again in
the sixth.
Tony Gwynn, the National
League’s leading hitter this season,
opened the Padres’ sixth with a sin
gle and moved to second as Steve
Garvey grounded out. Graig Nettles
then singled to center to score
Gwynn for a record-tying 18th RBI
in post-season playoff competition.
Eckersley then was replaced by
Frazier, who was greeted by a single
by Kennedy. McReynolds then fol
lowed with a home run to left field
that brought the crowd to its feet in a
deafening roar.
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A&M weekend
sports roundup
Aggie sports fans are faced
with a quiet weekend if they plan
on watching A&M teams other
than football.
• The Texas A&M Cross
Country team travels to San An
tonio on Friday for the UTSA In
vitational meet.
• The Women’s Volleyball
(18-2jteam will be competing in
the UTA Tournament in Arling
ton until Saturday.
• The A&M Softball team
heads to the All-College Tourna
ment in Oklahoma City for a two
day tournament
• The Ag Women’s Tennis
team hopes to continue its win
ning ways at the Westwood Tour
nament in Austin until Sunday.
• The A&M Women’s Soccer
team heads for the important
Colorado Springs Tournament
this weekend.
• And the Ag Women’s Golf
team leaves Sunday for the Mem
phis State Invitational and will
finish Tuesday.
• Good luck to all the Aggie
teams this weekend from The
Battalion Sports staff.
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