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A&M discovers Cotton Bowl less favorable on return trip By Ken Sury Sportt t.dau>i Perhaps you can't go home again For Texas AAcM, intent on mak ing the Cotton Bowl its home away from home in postseason play, it was a rude return ■ tnp to Dallas And for Dal-sai the difference today — a great de fensive job “I thought the strength of AJicM’s team was its offense We took that away." A&M Coach Jackie Sherrill agreed with Bruce that the lack of Carter outleaped James Flowers and Kip Corrtngton and pulled down a big catch that kept the drive alive—a drive which led to Ohio State s first touchdown and a 7-3 lead. Before Kee's interception sealed the game. A&M was just a Jeff Hol las native Kevin Murray, the man re sponsible for A&M s repeat perfor mance as Southwest Conference champions, it was his worst outing as an Aggie quarterbac k In AJcMTs 36-16 thrashing of Au burn last year. Murray set a (otion Bowl record with 292 passing yards This year he set anothet record — five interceptions. Had instant reptav been used, it would have shown Murray only threw four interceptions A&M. be hind 14-6 after Ohio State line backer Chru Sptelman returned an interception 24 yards for a touch down. was at Ohio State s 46 when Murray tied to hit tight end Rod Bernttme on a first-and-10 play. The bail was thrown slightly behind Be man nr and apparently wrestled from his grasp by OSCs Sonny Cor don as they fell down. Replays showed the ball hit the turf before bouncing into Gordon's arms But the officials' views of the action were blocked by nearby Ohio State play ers and the play was ruled an inter ception. Had that play been ruled incom plete. A&M may have been able to drive downfieid and get back in the game But probably not The Buckeyes, using three differ ent defenses, simply confused and abused Murray all afternoon in wrapping up a 26-12 victory in the first appearance for a Big Ten school in the Cotton Bowl. Murray may have been hampered by a bout with the flu earlier in the week, but he didn't make excuses for his per formance “It wasn’t what they we doing, it's what we weren’t doing.'' Murray said. “Five intercepts That’s enough turnovers to lose to the Little Sisters of the Poor. They didn't whip us. We just didn't move the hall “ Ohio State only out gained A&M 303 yards to 296 offensively, and had three interceptions of its own. but it was the btg plays on defense that made the difference OSU line backer Michael Kee delivered the fi nal blow when he picked off Murray for the fifth tune with just under three minutes left in the game and returned it 49 yards for the score. Ohio State Coach Lartr Bruce, whose Buckeyes finished the season 10-3 and seventh in the country, praised his squad's defensive play. “The thing 1 couldn't imagine a that we could return two of those in terceptions for touchdowns." Bruce said- "You know when two lineback ers intercept two pauses and run them back for touchdowns, that's something “The challenge was to our de fense. The defense faced adversity at times, but fought hack and put points on the scoreboard That was “/r wasn’t what they we doing, it’s what we weren’t doing. Five intercepts. That ’s enough turnovers to lose to the Little Sisters of the Poor. They didn’t whip us. We just didn’t move the hall. ” — A&M quarterback Kevin Murray A&M offense led to the Aggies’ downfall, but credited the play of the Ohio State offense, “Offensivefv. we just couldn't get it going." Shemll said “There's no question we moved the hall very, very well in the first quarter, but they kept making the big play It was third and 17 one time, second and 11. third and 7. “They made the big plays offen sively and we gave up the big plavs defensively." Among the biggest play was a cru cial and spectacular 34-yard recep tion by Ohio State's All-America wide rifceiver Cris (barter on a third- and-17 play late in the first quarter lev steal away from being hack in the game At the OSU 17. Buckeye quar terback Jim Karsatos tried to hit AIF America wide receiver Cns Carter but threw the ball behind Carter A streaking Holley grabbed the ball for a split-second, saw clear sailing to th'* end *one and then dropped the ftxHbail. The only bright spot for A&M of fensively was the plav of senior full- hack Roger Vick, who was named the Cotton Bowl’s most valuable of fensive player with 1 13 yards on 2l carries and one touchdown. With the passing game going nowhere but tn the other direction, Vick beeftne the Aggies' big-play man, accounting for nine of A&M's 10 rushing first downs with his high-strpptng, high- powered running. But it was Murray's rough outing that killed A&M's hopes of tallying back-to-back Cotton Bowl cham pionships Murray threw 13 kiter- ceptions on the season, but nine of those came m his first and last games (A the season. He was intercepted lour times in the Aggies’ 33-17 loss to Ixmisiana State. Murray's interception-plagued dav may be a Messing tn disguise for the Aggies Murray, who is cofistd mng entering the NFL draft, may decide to plav his senior year with A&M to bolster his SWC passing sta tistics and inflate his worth to the professional scouts Heisman Trophy winner Vinny lestaverde probably wishes he had that chance after ending his colie S tate career with an equally dismal ve-interception game in Miami's loss to Penn State But for this year’s 9-3 Aggies, who started the season ranked seventh in the country and finished No. IS, the defeat ckiscd the season on a hater note for the senior-laden team. "We won the conference.'' Murray said “Other than that we didn’t ac complish anything." Perhaps you can't go home again. % ! KJIi ft'* 'r*' 1 * ▼ ^ i£> ■v sC - ^ m *** ■ 61, I 'lea A&M fullback «r Vick goe wpfseld. Vick, Pbm Cotton Howl’s moat valuable player, gritted oat 1 IS yards oa 24 carries.