Monday, October 27, 1986/The Battalion/Page 9
A&M volleyballers
take down Baylor
The Texas A&M volleyball team,
coming off a disappointing loss to
the Rice Owls, rebounded to defeat
the Baylor Bears 15-5, 15-13, 3-15,
15-10 Friday night in Waco.
The victory improved A&M’s re
cord to 18-6 overall and 5-2 in
Southwest Conference play.
Senior Margaret Spence paced
the 18th-ranked Aggies with 19 kills
and a .519 hitting percentage.
Setter Chris Zogata was the Aggie
mainstay on defense with 19 digs.
Stacey Gildner followed with 13
digs, while Michelle Whitwell came
off the A&M bench f or five kills, and
Kelli Kellen had four.
The team as a whole finished the
match with a .183 hitting percentage
and 52 kills.
The Aggies will be on the road
again as they head to Kentucky
Margaret Spence
Thursday for three matches. A&M
will play Louisville, Kentucky and
Eastern Kentucky.
Top 20 Action
How The AP Top 20 college football teams fared Saturday:
No, 1 Miami, Fla. (7-0-0) was idle.
No. 2 Alabama (7-1-0) lost to No. 6 Penn State 23-3.
No, 3 Nebraska (6-1-0) lost to Colorado 20-10.
No. 4 Michigan (7-0-0) beat Indiana 38-14.
No. 5 Oklahoma (6-1-0) beat Iowa State 38-0.
No. 6 Penn State (7-0-0) beat No. 2 Alabama 23-3.
No. 7 Auburn (7-0-0) beat No. 13 Mississippi State 35-6.
No. 8 Washington (6-1-0) beat Oregon 38-3.
No, 9 Arizona State (6-0-1) beat Utah 52-7.
No. 10 Texas A&M (6-1-0) beat Rice 45-10.
No. 11 Iowa (6-1-0) beat Northwestern 27-20.
No. 12 Louisiana State (5-1-0) beat North Carolina 30-3.
No. 13 Mississippi State (6-2-0) lost to No. 7 Auburn 35-6.
No. 14 Arkansas (6-1-0) beat Houston 30-13.
No. 15 Arizona (6-1-0) beat California 33-16.
No. 16 Clemson (5-2-0) lost to No. 20 North Carolina St. 27-3.
No. 17 UCLA (5-2-0) beat Washington State 54-16.
No. 18 SMU (5-2-0) lost to Texas 27-24
No. 19 Stanford (5-2-0) lost to Southern California, 10-0.
No. 20 North Carolina State (5-1-1) beat Clemson, 27-3
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(AP) — On a day of surprises in
college football, Penn State proved it
belonged in the Top 10 and Colo
rado improved its image in the Big
Eight.
“We’ve got a mighty fine team and
somebody will have to play awfully
well to beat us,” Penn State Coach
Joe Paterno said Saturday after his
sixth-ranked Nittany Lions over
whelmed No. 2 Alabama, 23-3.
“I don’t know who’s No. 1,” added
Paterno, whose 194th career tri
umph tied him with Howard Jones
for 12th on the all-time major-col
lege list. “When all is said and done,
we’ll find out. I don’t know how
good we are, but we’re good.”
Colorado, meanwhile, is better
-than Nebraska thought. The unher
alded Buffaloes, who were 2-4 be
fore Saturday, upset the nation’s No.
3 team 20-10 in one of the biggest
shockers of the season.
Texas edged No. 18 Southern
Methodist 27-24 and Southern Cali
fornia blanked No. 19 Stanford 10-0
in other upsets, while No. 20 North
Carolina State scored a surprisingly
easy 27-3 victory over No. 16 Clem
son.
In other games involving the na
tion’s ranked teams, No. 4 Michigan
crushed Indiana 38-14; No. 5 Okla
homa blanked Iowa State 38-0; No.
7 Auburn battered No. 13 Missis
sippi State, 35-6; No. 8 Washington
routed Oregon 38-3; No. 9 Arizona
State crushed Utah 52-7; No. 10
Texas A&M beat Rice 45-10; No. 11
Iowa defeated Northwestern 27-20;
No. 12 Louisiana State whipped
North Carolina 30-3; No. 14 Arkan
sas downed Houston 30-13; No. 15
Arizona trimmed California 33-16,
and No. 17 UCLA walloped Wash
ington State 54-16.
Tailbacks D.J. Dozier and Blair
Thomas capped long second-period
drives with touchdown runs of 19
and 3 yards, keying the Nittany Li
ons’ victory at Tuscaloosa.
The TD runs provided Penn State
with an early-14-3 lead and gave the
Nittany Lions all they needed to end
the nation’s longest unbeaten streak
at 13 games and improve their re
cord to 7-0.
Later, Massimo Manca kicked
field goals of 37 yards in the third
period and 29 and 42 yards in the
fourth quarter, each of which trig
gered chants of “We’re No. 1” from
the 5,000 Penn State supporters in
the sellout crowd of 60,210 at Bry-
ant-Denny Stadium.
Ward's field goal keeps Akers’ future coaching hopes at Texas alive
«pAP)— Fred’s not dead yet.
^■red Akers, said to be clinging to
his head coaching job at the Univer
sity of Texas by a bare thread, gave
his 11 itics something to consider on
Saturday.
Texas Longhorns stunned
Southern Methodist 27-24 to remain
[p in the SWC chase, a game be
hind Texas A&M, which blasted
Rice 45-10.
In other games, Baylor put itself
in shape for a bowl bid with a come-
frorn-behind 28-17 victory over
Texas Christian and Arkansas
stayed just a game behind the Aggies
with a 30-13 victory over the Hous
ton Cougars.
The SWC standings look like this:
Texas A&M 4-0, Arkansas 3-1,
Texas 2-1, Baylor 3-2, Texas Tech 2-
2, Rice 1-4, Houston 0-4. SMU 4-1
and TCU 0-4 are ineligible for the
SWC title.
“Maybe this victory put us over
the hump,” Akers said. “We won it
when we had to in the fourth period.
If you’re not thrilled with the way we
won this game then you’re sick.”
Texas placekicker Jeff Ward’s 40-
yard field goal with 16 seconds to
play beat the Mustangs. It was
Ward’s 13th game-winning field
goal in his Texas career.
"Jeff has been doing that since he
got here,” Akers says. “He has ice
water in his veins.”
Ward said, “It felt nice to do
something positive for Coach Akers
with all he has gone through.”
Scouts from the Independence,
Sun and Bluebonnett bowls watched
as the Baylor Bears rallied behind
Cody Carlson’s two touchdown
bombs to beat TCU on homecom-
ing.
“It was nice to do it with those
bowl people looking on,” said Baylor
Coach Grant Teaff. “We’ve got an
exciting team.”
Aggie coach Jackie Sherrill was
looking ahead to Saturdgy’s meeting
with SMU in Texas Stadium.
“SMU has an outstanding team,”
Sherrill said. “Even though they lost
they came from 21 down to tie it. To
do that, you have to be doing some
things right. They are a very physi
cal football team.”
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