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Sports
Sherrill’s first Tech victory an ‘Unpredicta-Bowl
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Texas Tech defensive back King Simmons (4) should have got
“caught” grabbing the facemask of Texas A&M flanker Jeff Nelson
Photo by JOHN MAKELY
(8) after he “caught” this pass from quarterback Kevin Murray. The
Aggies edged the Red Raiders, 28-27, in Lubbock Saturday night.
By PETE HERNDON
Sports Writer
LUBBOCK — Texas A&M quar
terback Kevin Murray lakes the snap
and falls on the ball to run out the
clock. A&M Coach Jackie Sherrill
runs onto the field and hugs Murray
as the Aggies walk away from the
Cotton Bowl with a 28-27 victory
over Michigan.
OK, OR, so it wasn’t Michigan —it
was Texas Tech. And so it wasn’t the
Cotton Bowl — it was the “Unpre
dicta-Bowl.” But since it was A&M’s
first win in a Southwest Conference
opener in four years, it’s easy to see
why Sherrill got so carried away.
However, to pull off the 28-27 win
over the Red Raiders, the Aggies
needed some help f rom Tech Coach
Jerry Moore.
After Tech running back Bouvier
Dale scored the game’s last touch
down with only 42 seconds remain
ing, the Red Raiders trailed by only a
single point.
So Moore sent in Tech place
kicker Marc Mallery to tie the game,
right?
Wrong.
Moore changed his mind and sent
in his offense back in to attempt a
game-winning two-point conversion.
But by the time Tech got set up lor
the play, the 30-second clock had ex
pired and the Red Raiders were |>e-
naltzed 5 yards for delay of game.
So Moore sent Mallery back in to
go ahead and get the tie, right?
A&M spikers get ugly win over Kentucky
By CHAREAN WILLIAMS
Assistant Sports Editor
The thrill of victory and the agony
of defeat — at least that’s the way it’s
supposed to be.
But if you judged Friday night’s
volleyball match by the Aggies’
mood afterward, you’d have thought
they had lost.
Terry Condon’s No. 17 Aggies de
feated Kentucky 15-10, 8-15, 15-5,
15-10 in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
But Condon and the Ags were not
happy.
“We played very poorly,” Condon
said. “We’ve been doing this for
weeks. After the first game, we got
overconfident and we slacked off.
Kentucky wasn’t going to roll over
and die for us.”
The Aggies, now 10-3, made al
most every conceivable error at
sometime or another during the
match.
They even managed to serve out
of order and were called for being
out of postilion.
“We just got into one of our ruts
again,” A&M backcourt specialist
Laura Hoppe said. “We just get
down on ourselves. We make a mis
take and we think that’s it, but it’s
not. We’ve just got to keep thinking
positively and forget about all the
previous mistakes we made.”
No one was safe from Condon’s
wrath.
The normally excited All-Anferi-
can looked like she had just lost her
best friend.
said.
“I played bad,” Brinkman
“That’s about the only thing.”
On a night in which the Aggies
couldn’t get their mean machine to
turn over, outside hitter Margaret
Spence and Hoppe provided the
needed fuel.
Spence provided the offense with
her nine kills and .333 hitting per
centage, perhaps her best match of
the season.
“Margaret has been hitting well,”
Condon said. "She is finally getting
her timing back.”
And A&M’s little sparkplug,
Hoppe, added the much needed de
fense.
“Laura played great defense,”
Condon said.
“Sherri (Brinkman) played hor
rible,” Condon said. “Lesha’s (Beak-
ley) choice of setting was poor. You
don’t set Sherri when she has three
blockers on her. We brought some
substitutes in for the second game
and they weren’t ready to play.
Cheri (Steensma) wasn’t ready to go
when we brought her in, although
she did play better in the third
game.”
Even though she had 15 kills,
Brinkman had what Condon called
“an off night”.
“She played better in the third
game,” Condon said, “but she wasn’t
in the match mentally. She can’t af
ford to have anymore matches like
that. We can’t afford for her to have
any more matches like that.”
Coming in off the bench, Hoppe
also provided a little excitement to
an otherwise lackadaisical team.
“I do that all the time,” Hoppe
said. “I think part of my job is to get
them going. Sometimes 1 think they
just want me to shut up because I do
it so much. But I hope it helps. It
really fires me up.”
Overall though, the Aggies
seemed less than fired up about
playing a team that they had domi
nated 15-9, 15-6, 15-7 on Sept. 14 in
the Southern Illinois Tournament.
“We just played real well up the
re,” setter Chris Zogata said. “And
obviously we didn’t here.”
The Aggies did find a few aspects
of their game to be pleased with.
“Offensively we’re pretty consis
tent hitting wise,” Zogata said. “I
can’t say our passing was that good,
but we had a lot of one-arm digs that
were controlled. Sometimes we’re
wild on those. And when we were
blocking, we got our hands on a lot
of balls.”
So who says the sun won’t rise to
morrow?
“I don’t know how we do it,”
Brinkman said, “but we manage to
play bad and still win.”
And regardless of the ugliness of
it, this one still went in the win col
umn.
Wrong.
Moore decided to go ahodal
go for two from the A&M Ml
line. But a strong A&M rush,®
cornerback Terrence Brofe.
caused Tech quarterback M;
Keesee’s pass to fall harmless!)ia;yi
Jones Stadium turf.
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very emotional one,” Moores®
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they wanted to go for the win. I w
planned to just kick it evenbefc
we made the touchdown, hi! s*
crowd and the players urged®
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right decision, but hindsight SiE
ways best."
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tion that Tech safety King Sim*
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going into the fourth quarter. I
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A&M’s offensive line.
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yards, 1 TD) and Roger Vick(3/al
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Although it came away with a 15-10, 8-15, 15-5,
15-10 win over Kentucky Friday, A&M had to'
struggle to get its hands on the ball. Here, Aggie
Stacey Smith battles Wildcat Jill Ackerman (1).
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