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l Marines „ We’re looking for a few good meii. Captain R. Mahany 846 . 8891 /9036 Class of 77 Page 10/The Battalion/Wednesday, October 15, 1986 Sherrill says SWC race just beginning School of Hair Design 693-7878 1406 Texas Ave. S. College Station, Tx. MEN’S shampoo cut blowdry. WOMEN’S shampoo cut blowdiy. PERMS 00 00 By Homer Jacobs Assistant Sports Editor At his weekly Tuesday press con ference, Texas A&M Coach Jackie Sherrill tried to downplay the signif icance of Saturday’s showdown be tween A&M and Baylor in terms of the Southwest Conference race. “Anybody talking about going to Dallas at this time, (the SWC race) won’t be settled for a long time, re gardless of whether you win or lose,” Sherrill said. But with Sherrill clad in a bright green sports jacket and yellow pais ley tie, it made it hard to believe the Baylor-A&M battle would be just an other conference game. Sherrill said a crowd between 74,000 and 76,000 is expected in Kyle Field to watch the No. 1 1 Ag gies take on the No. 20 Bears, a team that is probably better than its 4-2 re cord. “Baylor is the best 4-2 team in the country,” Sherrill said. He said if the Aggies are going to win the game, defensive pressure on Baylor quarterback Cody Carlson will be the key. But getting to Carlson could be a formidable task according to Baylor Coach Grant Teaff. “People have found it hard to blitz on us,” Teaff said in a telephone hookup Tuesday. Although the game matches two solid defenses, Teaff said no one can really shut down A&M’s offense. “You hope to keep it from getting way out ahead of you,” he said. “And you hope you can get lucky enough to win the ball game.” The Aggies may need a little luck as well to beat the Bears because A&M’s injury list is unusually long. Sherrill said five players definitely will be out for Saturday’s game. They include backup fullback Ira Valentine (sprained ankle), 12th Man Kickoff Team member Bill Walker (knee), backup wide receiver Greg Dillon (bruised thigh), backup defensive back Anthony Taylor (knee), and special teams member Lance Haverda (concussion). Eleven other players, including quarterback Kevin Murray, center Matt Wilson, wide receiver Shea Walker and right tackle Marshall Land, have nagging injuries that will limit their practice time this week but shouldn’t keep them out of ac- tion o" < 5'>tnrrGv Sherrill said the Aggie offense^ to eliminate the mistakes that hut hampered A&M lately and prepay for Baylor’s roaming All-Ameritj li ce safety Thomas Everett. “Everett, pound for pound, is tin most productive player in tlj league,” Sherrill said. Sherrill also said he wants tostt 12th Man towels out in force, I* cause the A&M crowd could be t biggest factor in the game. "Certainly, the crowd, the ho® and the noise will be a big advantag f to us,” he said. “And not likeotfe places, our people don't lean 1 hey II stay here for 60 minutes,anj the crowd noise will beallthe*at down to the end.” A&M’s Flowers earns AP honors 00 All work done by students Supervised checked by our qualified, professional instructors. mCE TH€ ORIGINAL IS BACK. SBOi. Thurs., Oct. 16 Rudder Theatre $2.°° 7:30 & 9:45pm Presented by MSC Cephid Variable (AP) — A little advice by the coach helped Texas A&M cornerback James Flowers pick off two passes, returning one 25 yards for a touch down in A&M’s 19-7 win over Hous ton. It also netted him the Asso ciated Press Defensive Player of the Week. With A&M ahead 12-0 early in the fourth quarter, Flowers, a senior from Bryan, picked off a Mike Davis toss and scrambled down the side line for the Aggies’ only touchdown of the game. “Before that series (defensive sec ondary) Coach (Curley) Hallman told me to get inside,” Flowers said. “He said they were throwing short slant passes. And it was another slant pass. I got a nice break, and just saw noth ing but end zone.” On the next Houston series, Flow ers picked off another Davis pass, this time at the UH 40, and returned it 29 yards to the Houston 11 to set up A&M’s final field goal. Flowers said he thought he would make it into the end zone again. “I was looking forward to it,” he said. Remember the Billy Joe Tolliver of 1985? Well, he showed up again. Recall the Tolliver who broke the Southwest Conference single game passing record with 26 of 43 passes for 422 yards and five touchdowns against Texas Christian last year? The Texas Tech quarterback wasn’t quite that prolific against the Arkansas Razorbacks on Saturday but he still directed the Red Raiders to the upset of the year. Tolliver, a redshirt sophomore from Boyd, was named the AP Of fensive Player of the Week for his exploits against the eighth-ranked unbeaten Razorbacks in a 17-7 vic tory. Tolliver’s story is one of boom, bust, boom. The Red Raiders were a high-fly ing offensive outfit last year but Jerry Moore was fired and David McWilliams, a defensive specialist, was hired. Tech’s offense took a holiday in runaway victories by Miami, I exas A&M and Baylor. Tolliver showed his poise against the Hogs by completing 19 of 34 passes for 168 yards and directing the offense like a senior. “The difference in his play from a lot of the other games this year is that he executed the offense, every phase of it, the running, the drop back passing, the quick passes and the sprint out passes,” McWilliams said. “Only twice in (he entire game did he move out of the pocket when he shouldn’t have. He’s young and still learning but he’s getting better every week.” The 6-foot-1, 200-pounder guided the Raiders 58-yards to a touchdown on six plays in the sec ond period. Tolliver put the game-clinching touchdown on the board in the last quarter himself, sneaking across on fourth and one to climax a 35-yard scoring drive. The AP Top 20 By The Associated Press The Top 20 teams in the Associated college football poll with first-placevw- parentheses. 1986 record, total Kn based on 20-19-18-17-16-15-14-13-12-Wi. 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 and ranking In lost WS.; I • poll: Record Pt» 1. Miami, Fla. (56) 6-0-0 1,175 1 | 2. Alabama (2) 6-0-0 1,099 2 ■ 3. Nebraska 5-0-0 1,018 3 | 4. Michigan 5-0-0 986 t I 5. Oklahoma 4-1-0 946 t | 6. Penn State (1) 5-0-0 892 5 | 7. Auburn 5-0-0 861 7 I 8. Iowa 5-0-0 753 V I 9. Washington 4-1-0 676 12 1 10. Arizona St. 4-0-1 619 131 11. Texas A&M 4-1-0 559 11 f 12. LSD 3-1-0 524 13 || 13. Mississippi St. 5-1-0 345 19 14. Arkansas 4-1-0 338 ! 15. So. California 4-1-0 325 9 1 16. Arizona 4-1-0 296 !’ 17. Clemson 4-1-0 293 2! 18. North Carolina 4-0-1 147 • 19. UCLA 3-2-0 116 • 20. Baylor 4-2-0 94 13 (tie) SMU 4-1-0 94 Sox smash Angels to even series BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Red Sox, behind Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd’s gutty pitching and Spike Owen’s four hits, charged past the California Angels 10-4 Tuesday night, tying the American League playoffs and setting up a decisive seventh game. By winning Game 6, the Red Sox overcame a 3-1 deficit in the best-of- seven series and put themselves in the position they wanted. Roger Clemens, Boston’s ace right-hander and the most dominant pitcher in baseball this season, will start Game 7 Wednesday night, opposed by left hander John Candelaria. The deciding game will mark yet another chance for the Angels to win the first pennant in their 26-year his tory and for Manager Gene Mauch to reach his first World Series in 25 years. California, which was one strike from the pennant Sunday, played for the third straight game without rookie first baseman Wally Joyner. It has not been determined whether Joyner, batting .455 in the playoffs before being hospitalized with a bac terial infection in his lower right leg, will be available for Game 7. The Angels started Game 6 like they did not need Joyner, taking a 2- 0 lead in the first inning on consec utive RBI doubles by Reggie Jackson and Doug DeCinces. California went on to load the bases and seemed to be one batter away from knocking out Boyd before being overhauled by the Boston express. A packed crowd of 32,998, not in cluding fans wedged on top of nearby rooftops and clinging to high-rise signs above Fenway Park, watched Boston tie it in the bottom of the first and break the game open by scoring five times in the third, two on first baseman Bobby Grich’s throwing error. Marty Barrett added three hits for the Red Sox, who totaled 16 in all and pinned the loss on Kirk McCas- kill. The fidgety Boyd, meanwhile, set tled down from his shaky start and breezed through the middle innings. His only blemish after his first-in ning troubles was a solo home run by Brian Downing in the seventh, and he left the game after seven innings to a thunderous roar of “Oil Can, Oil Can.” Boyd pitched nine-hit ball over seven innings, striking out five and walking one. The Angels added another run in the eighth off Bob Stanley when Dick Schofield singled and later trotted home on Ow T en’s throwing error from shortstop, but the run was meaningless. Boyd overcame a first inning in which he threw 44 pitches and was nearly out of the game. With one out, Ruppert Jones fouled off seve ral balls and walked on 1 1 pitches. With two outs, Jackson doubled high off the Jl-high wall in leftit- DeCinces followed with*dm cen higher off the wall in left,a oston pitching coach Bill Fisdit :lo' alked hurriedly to the moundii ! . ["ill iippei quit klv began warming up 1 he Angels went on to load i) ases on a single and hit batsman it )t e Boyd saved himselfandthefe' i se\ ox bv retiring Rob Wilfongot opup. Major League Baseball Championship Series Tuesday, Oct. 14 New York 2, Houston 1,12 innings, New York leads series 3-2 Boston 10, California 4, series tied 3-3 Wednesday, Oct. 15 New York (Ojeda 18-5) at Houston (Knepper 16-10), 2 pm California (Candelaria 10-2) at Boston (Clemens 24-4), 7:20pm I Thursday, Oct. 16 New York (Darling 15-6) at Houston (Scott 18-10), If necessary,7:20pm * 87,141 reasons WHY YOU SHOULD SHOP US! 44,758 - hardbacks lla. PRICE BOOK§ we buy and sell anything printed or recorded 21.168 - paperbacks 12.169 - magazines 6,645 - records 2,401 - tapes 700 University Dr. E. (next to 24 Hr. 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