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By Hal L. Hammons
Assistant Sports Editor
Texas A&M Head Coach Jackie
iherrill had litde but good things to
ay about his defense Tuesday in his
veekly press conference at Cain Hall
Dining Hall.
I: The Aggies held Washington
quarterback and Heisman Trophy
hopeful Chris Chandler to a 11-for-
51 passing performance which
netted only 120 yards. They also
yielded only 53 yards rushing, the
fifth game in a row that A&M has al-
iowjed less than 100 yards on the
ground to an opponent.
Hierrill sard that much of the
red it belonged to the pressure that
vas constantly applied to Chandler,
jiving him little time to throw deep
latterns as he likes to do.
"iBierrill said, “We took out the
print -out game (with the pressure)
nd forced them into a drop-back
amt .” However, he said the ability
I the secondary to cover Chandler’s
eceivers in blitzing situations al-
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lowed linebackers Aaron Wallace
and John Roper to pressure the
quarterback even when Chandler
read the blitz correctly.
“I was pleased with the confidence
our players had in playing the re
ceivers,” he said.
“The guy who helped us more
than anybody else was Guy Broom,”
Sherrill said of the junior defensive
end. Broom collected five tackles
against the Huskies.
Sherrill said improvement was
needed in the offense and special
teams for Saturday’s game against
Southern Mississippi in Jackson,
Miss.
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receivers or quarterbacks doing the
right thing,” he said. “We’re still not
polished there yet.
“(Punter Sean) Wilson has the
chance to be a good punter, but
(Craig) Stump has a lot more consis
tency.” Wilson, who has a 35.6 yards-
per-punt average for the year, was
replaced with Stump during the
Washington game.
“Southern Mississippi has excel
lent football players,” Sherrill said.
“Most of them are the same that
played us last year.” USM was de
feated 16-7 last year at Kyle Field.
“They have, as far as player for
player, the most people returning of
anybody we’ll play.
“We’ll have to play at the same in
tensity level every game — if we
don’t, we’re in trouble.”
Sherrill said the choice whether to
start Stump or redshirt freshman
Lance Pavlas at quarterback has not
been made.
“Right now, we won’t know that
until later in the week,” he said. “It
doesn’t make any difference who
will start (since both will play).”
Pavlas said, “Our offense is not
where we’d like it to be. Our offen
sive line is making up for the young
guys at the skill positions.”
He said getting the offense to pro
duce long drives for scores, some
thing the team has not done yet this
year, would be important for the Ag
gies to win.
He said playing football at the col
legiate level was not a nervous expe
rience for him.
“Once you get in, all it is is foot
ball,” he said.
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_ ■a»ijHf exas A&M’s rowdy defense is
itself “The Wrecking Crew”
I 11 Wd the head demolition expert is
lafety Terrance “Chet” Brooks.
I Brooks had 10 tackles, eight of
hem solo, forced an errant pass and
ecovered a fumble in the Aggies’
19-12 upset of No. 10 Washington
m Saturday.
It earned the 5-foot-ll, 191-
jound senior from Dallas The Asso
rted Press Southwest Conference
Defensive Player of the Week award.
Jexas Christian running back
Tony Jeffery, who rushed for 207
rards on 19 carries and had a 69-
cing. ard touchdown run in a 33-12 rout
r resigned fromtfccif Brigham Young, was The AP’s
March after thcsiWC Offensive Player of the Week,
that time a chute Brooks was one of numerous Ag-
ew York, becamepsje defensive stars as A&M limited
said she had agiecVashington to only 20 yards in the
5,000 for her silelcond half, including minus 11
lence when Baktcwds rushing. Noseguard Sammy
e encounter. D’Brient, linebackers Aaron Wallace
tyments were stoptfind John Roper, and free safety Kip
rbara said Hahr. -wrrington also made big contribu-
>efore payments - ions.
Brooks prides himself on talking
trash and then backing it up.
“I like to let the receivers know
I’m there,” Brooks said. “It’s my way
of getting into the game.
“They were inviting us to blitz and
I think we gave them more than they
could handle,” he said.
Defensive coordinator R.C. Slo
cum said, “We felt, going into the
game, that we would have to mix our
blitzes to confuse their quarterback
(Chris Chandler). We blitzed 70 per
cent of the time in passing situations.
“We knew we couldn’t match up
physically, so we used our speed.
Our secondary which included
Brooks got to him (Chandler).”
Chandler has passed for 514
yards against Stanford and Purdue.
Against the Aggies, he managed
only 11 of 31 for 120 yards.
“Chet personifies our defense in
that he can run — and our entire de
fense is a fast one — and he is a very
physical tackier,” said Slocum. “I
know he likes to talk a lot, but he
doesn’t get obnoxious about it, and if
he did, he backs up it up with his
play.”
Brooks moved to strong safety in
the spring after playing cornerback
in 1986. He rehabilitated in 1985 af
ter suffering a knee injury against
Baylor.
He made 80 tackles, fifth best on
the team, and was second on the
squad in pass breakups with 11.
“Moving him to strong safety will
help us tremendously because it puts
him around the ball more,” said
A&M secondary coach Curley Hal
lman. “He loves to play the game as
much as anyone we’ve got.”
At Dallas Carter High School,
Brooks was a Parade Magazine All-
American.
“Roper and I came up with the
name of ‘Wrecking Crew’ for our de
fense,” Brooks said. “I think it fits.
At least Washington thinks it does.”
Jeffery moved into second place
in two school career categories. He is
now second in career rushing with
2,723 yards and needs only 272
yards to replace Jim Swink as the
school’s all-time leading rusher.
Jeffery had gained only 120 yards
in two games until he found his form
against the Cougars.
“We needed to get the ball to
Tony more and he responded in a
big way,” TCU Coach Jim Wacker
said.
Jeffery, a senior from Gladewater,
said, “You have to give a lot of credit
to (quarterback) David (Racoe). His
timing was great on a lot of the
pitches out of the option. ”
Lady Aggies’ efforts
fall short against UTA
By Brad Marquardt
Reporter
The Texas A&M volleyball
team made a valiant comeback
but were still overpowered by the
20th-ranked University of Texas
at Arlington Lady Mavericks 15-
8, 15-9, 6-15, 4-15, 15-11 at G.
Rollie White Coliseum Tuesday.
The Lady Aggies didn’t look
sharp in the first two games, but
regained their composure for the
final three games. After the losses
in the first two games, four re
serves were brought into the
game which gave the team a
spark.
“We were looking for a chemis
try out on the court that would
mesh, and the people that came
in off the bench did a nice job,”
A&M Volleyball Coach A1 Givens
said.
The reserves were led by Liz
Clifford, who had nine kills and
two blocks. Dena Zalesky, who
has played sparingly in the last
two games due to tendinitis, con
tributed three kills on seven at
tempts and seven digs.
The Lady Mavericks were led
by powerful outside attacker
Jackie Bennett, who had 16 kills
and an attack percentage of .375.
Kelli Kellen led the Lady Ag
gies with 18 kills and an attack
ige of .340. Cheri
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elle Whitwell contributed 11 kills.
Yvonne Van Brandt led the team
with 54 assists and 20 digs.
“I think they showed they had
some fight in them, after the first
two games it would have been
easy to roll over and be blown off
the court,” Coach Givens said.
“We learned a lot about our
selves today. We learned we can
always come back even if we’re
two matches down,” Givens said.
If any consolation can be taken
from the loss, Givens said it is the
experience that the team gained
from the five-game match.
“This is our third fifth-game
match, and we have come up
empty three straight times. But
because we have gone through
that already, we will come back
stronger,” Givens said.
Lady Maverick Coach Lisa
Love was impressed by the Lady
Aggies’ comeback.
“A&M eliminated a lot of their
errors and we became over-confi
dent. They really took it to us and
we sat back on our 2-0 lead,” Love
said.
“A&M deserves a lot of credit
for coming back from 0-2 and
eliminating a lot of court mis
takes. It really turned into a good
match after that,” Love said.
Rozelle intervenes in
effort to end NFL strike
NEW YORK (AP) — Commis
sioner Pete Rozelle intervened and
brought negotiators for striking
NFL players and owners back to the
bargaining table Tuesday, and the
two sides agreed to more full-scale
talks in hopes of cutting short the
day-old walkout.
Rozelle was identified by several
sources as the “mystery man” who
union chief Gene Upshaw said had
the authority to end the strike.
John Jones, a spokesman for the
NFL Management Council, said the
owners’ regular bargaining team
would be joined by two members of
the council’s executive committee —
Tex Schramm of the Cowboys and
Dan Rooney of the Pittsburgh Steel-
ers. Rooney was instrumental in ne
gotiating the agreement that ended
the 57-day strike in 1982.
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