The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 21, 1987, Image 9

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, October 21, 1987, Image 9

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AUSTIN (AP) — A quar- irback with a weak-arm reputa tion and a receiver with a ten dency to drop passes teamed up for a scoring strike as time ex- nred in Texas’ 16-14 victory over jkansas, the pre-season favorite Southwest Conference foot- Jall. ■ For their performance in rais ing Texas’ conference record to p-O, senior quarterback Bret Stafford and sophomore wide re- 'tieiver Tony Jones shared recog nition as The Associated Press’ SWC offensive player of the week. K Houston cornerback Johnny Jackson was selected as the SWC defensive player of the week after intercepting two passes and breaking up five in Houston’s 37- 35 loss to Wyoming. The 6-foot- 1, 193-pound sophomore now has lour interceptions for the sea son and has knocked down 12 pbsses. ■ Stafford and Jones won the Weekly honor over teammate Eric Metcalf, a junior tailback who ran for 76 yards, caught a school-re- [cord 11 passes for 90 yards and later got Heisman mention from NlcWilliams. ■Stafford was intercepted seven tiines in Texas’ 44-9 loss to Okla homa and had another picked off ■ Arkansas, but he finished with j completions in 34 attempts for 182 yards and the touchdown to Jones — only the second scoring pass Stafford has thrown in the Longhorns’ 3-3 season. McWilliams said he felt as if Stafford “did a great job with his reads. They were dropping those linebackers so deep, and dou bling the outside receivers, giving Metcalf a 4 - or 5-yard cushion. “I thought Bret did a great job moving us down the field.” Jones, only 5-7 and 145, signed a football scholarship with Texas after the 1985 season but opted to play basketball for Angelina Ju nior College. He transferred to Texas in time for the 1986 sea son. McWilliams says Jones is a great deep threat, but he dropped two passes against Okla homa, with one being inter cepted, and he dropped another against Arkansas. “He’s dropped some, but he’s played very well most of the year,” McWilliams said. “He dropped one on the sidelines the other day (against Arkansas) but he came right back in the fourth quarter and made a great catch on the sidelines. “He’s been consistent in going down field and trying to block — he’s not big enough to block ev erybody — but I think his concen tration has been good. And he’s really worked hard in practice. “And, of course, the catch the other day was just an amazing catch, right over the linebacker and in between three defenders. He knew he was going to get hit because the guy was breaking on the ball. He got the ball, cradled it and protected it.” Lady Aggies lose fifth straight match By Anthony Wilson Sports Writer The Texas A&M volleyball team lost its fifth consecutive match Tues day night, losing to Notre Dame University 15-11, 16-18, 15-2, 15-10 in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The loss dropped the Lady Ag gies’ record to 9-17, while Notre Dame improved to 18-5. The highlight of the evening for the Lady Aggies was a great comeback in the second game. At one point during the game, the Lighting Irish led 11-2. A&M man aged to narrow the margin to eight points when sophomore outside at tacker Megan Purtell checked into the lineup to serve. Purtell responded with five serv ice aces and A&M scored six straight points to pull within two points of Notre Dame, 13-11. A&M then managed to tie the score at 14, move ahead 15-14, and finally win 18-16. “I was told to get the first serve in,” Purtell said about her serving in the second game. “Then I got into rhythm and started looking for one person who was not passing well.” The Lighting Irish came back with a vengeance in the third game and once again jumped out to a quick 11- 2 lead. This time though they were tak ing no prisoners and finished off A&M 15-2. A&M’s offense was led by junior outside attacker Vivian Viera, who had 24 kills in 51 attempts fora .353 average. Cheri Steensma added 17 kills in 50 attempts for a .340 aver age and Yvonne Van Brandt had 55 assists in 161 attempts for a .342 av erage. The defense was led by Steensma’s 27 digs and Kelli Kellen’s five blocks. A&M’s next match will be October 25 in Lubbock against Texas Tech. “We have to come out with the at titude that they have to beat us,” Viera said. “We have to come out in the beginning and play strong.” Sherrill: Ags not guaranteed victory over Rice By Tammy Hedgpeth Sports Writer Indeed, the true Aggies are back. The race for the Southwest Confer ence title continues with Texas A&M battling Rice Saturday in Houston. Rice cannot be taken lightly be cause it can move the ball and put points on the board, A&M Head Coach Jackie Sherrill said at a press conference Tuesday in Cain Hall. “Rice has either led or been sec ond in the lead all year in total offen se,” Sherrill said. “They had almost 400 yards against LSU. They have been able to move the football. They’ve played some very good teams. “Every time we’ve played them they’ve made things happen. Little things can make you win or lose. The problem we have is that we don’t nave all seniors. We don’t have players that have been there every day. We have young players and sometimes that’s a plus and (some times) it’s not.” The next two weeks will not be rest weeks for the Aggies. Sherrill said they will prepare for Rice and Louisiana Tech as if they were the most difficult teams they’ve ever played. “With the situation we’re in after losing to Tech, we cannot afford to underestimate any team,” A&M noseguard Sammy O’Brient said. “We have to prepare well for every body because you aren’t going to win the Southwest Conference with two losses.” It is a known fact that the Aggies have had their way with the Owls in the past. Last year, A&M pounded Rice 45-10 at Kyle Lield and in 1985 the Owls were oeaten by the Aggies 43-28 in Houston. A&M leads the se ries overall, 41-27-3. A&M also has won six straight at Rice Stadium. Those are pretty good odds, but Sherrill said relying on the emo tional effect of past victores will not win Saturday’s game. “You can only get psychologically ready for two or three games a year,” he said. “Your emotions and playing carries you to another level. The rest of the time, you play on sheer ability. When a team lets emo tional involvement enter the game, it sometimes overrides its ability to play normally. “We had a good week of practice last week getting ready for Baylor and played probably our best game of the year because we played like we practiced — with a lot of intensity. Hopefully, our team has learned that they need to play like that re gardless of who we’re playing. “If you don’t believe me just look at the scores every Saturday. Rice has played well at times this year and I don’t think their score against Tech is indicative of how they can play. We can’t afford to rest right now. I don’t think anyone has shut Rice out.” Lreshman Quarterback Bucky Richardson said the Rice game will give the Aggies a chance to improve on their game. “I think these next two weeks are really important for us,” Richardson said. Sherrill again declined to specify A&M’s starting quarterback for the 1:30 p.m. game. “I hope Bucky will start, but we may start Stump if that’s what your asking me,” Sherrill said. “It doesn’t make any difference who we start.” Two Aggies will rest during the Rice game. Junior fullback Matt Gurley will be sidelined with turf toe and senior defensive end Guy Broom is suffering from a sprained knee and will not play. iherroli or stair oleman doubles Cards past Twins ST LOUIS (AP) — Vince Cole- for the stato man’s two-run double in the seventh nwi>n!l inning rescued St. Louis from the uomnientinf brink of elimination and rallied the tinemplovmr: Eardinals past Minnesota 3-1 Tues- it-sday by the I: Knight, cutting the Twins’ World ^ust lijfures Series lead to 2-1. ded: ' No team has overcome a 3-0 defi- 7 (6.7) Kin the World Series and the Car- lie-Harlingen dinals avoided that position by scor- illege Station.v K three times in the seventh hristi 11.7(11.. Hist reliever Juan Berenguer. 1(6.4) fLes Straker, a 10-year minor 9.0(8 8) leaguer, outdueled St. Louis starter nio8.3(8.0) |ohn Tudor for six innings, shutting out the Cardinals on four hits. But St. Louis struck when Berenguer took over to start the seventh. On the coldest night of the fall in St. Louis, the record crowd of 55,347 came to life when the Cardi nals revived their World Series chances. Jose Oquendo and Tony Pena opened the seventh with sin- ? ;les and Terry Pendleton, batting or Tudor, bunted the runners into scoring position. Coleman, just 1-for-11 in the Se ries, sliced an 0-2 pitch barely inside the left-field line that made it 2-1. Coleman then stole his second base of the game and scored on Ozzie Smith’s single that finished Bereng uer. Berenguer, the Twins’ ace re liever in the American League play offs, was again hit hard by the Cardi nals Tuesday. He gave up two runs on three hits in Minnesota’s 8-4 vic tory in Game 2. Tudor and the Cardinals finally found a way to shut down the Twins, who scored 18 runs on 21 hits in the first two games. Tudor allowed one run on four hits in seven innings and Todd Worrell finished with one-hit relief. Yet even with Tudor pitching well, it appeared it might not be enough on a night when the temper ature was to drop into the upper 20s. Tudor issued his only two walks of the game starting the sixth and Tom Bryunansky hit an RBI single. Game 4 will be Wednesday night when Prank Viola, who won Game 1, See Cardinals, page 11 es Mistakes against Redskins baffle Cowboys IRVING (AP) — The Dallas Cow- \ Nys were trying to figure out Tues- yM lay how they got beat by Tony Rob- f nson, a former semi-pro ■herback from the Richmond Ra tes. ds call them Tap] Cowboys Coach Tom Landry was n the Box sewlo'pondering why his veteran- d we have pin) »ded defensive line let Lionel Vital ; sticks just lilt tape for 136 yards in the Washing- ry Queen." li.Redskins’ 13-7 victory Monday light that gave them the lead in the .iid there have s wCjEast. Edjones, Randy White, Don Sme- '-Five years ajt p and Kevin Brooks couldn’t stop ■ dered stufffif'M edskins - ark said. “We .11 from scratch. !■ we’d peel pottf 1 ■eler. Now we is Robinson, who hadn’t played in an NPL game, hit 11 of 18 passes for 152 yards, and made some big third- down plays. He came into the game in the first period after starting quar terback Ed Rubbert was injured. “We couldn’t stop him (Robinson) when it counted,” Landry said. “He made some big plays on third down.” Landry said he didn’t blame quar terback Danny White for the loss al though his 13-year veteran failed on four chances from the Redskins’ 20- yard line with less than a minute to play. “A lot of things that went wrong weren’t Danny’s fault,” Landry said. “He played pretty well, but some of the receivers ran bad routes. They just weren’t on the same page. It was a very disappointing loss because we had a chance to win it at the end.” Washington increased its record to 4-1 with the victory while Dallas dropped to 3-2. The Redskins were 3-0 with their replacement team and Dallas was 2- 1. “I’m thankful the veterans are coming back,” Landry said. “They are a little subdued right now be cause they lost the strike, but they’ll recover.” Landry said the Redskins are the team to beat in the NEC East. • “They are the favorites right now for sure,” Landry said. “You have to give Washington credit for winning all of its games with replacement players. “We are in a little bit of trouble just like the New York Giants are. We need to bring our play back to the same level we had in the second week of the season when we de feated the Giants.” NFL lawyers ask for quick decision in Highsmith case HOUSTON (AP) — NPL at torneys believe a Miami judge’s temporary injunction making Houston first-round draft pick Alonzo Highsmith a free agent can be quickly lifted, restoring the player’s rights to the Oilers. “We believe that the state court’s order was issued without notice or hearing and raises se rious jurisdictional or procedural issues,” NLL spokesman Joe Browne said Tuesday. “In addition, our attorneys be lieve that after a hearing, the court will find that Houston’s draft rights are lawful and should be respected,” he said. Circuit Judge John Gale granted the temporary injunction that allows Highsmith to nego tiate with other teams and pro hibits the NLL from taking any action against a team that signs him. Miami attorney Bruce Greer filed the request for the injunc tion, which was granted Saturday. The NPL and its 28 teams are named as co-defendants. “It’s essentially a case of collu sion between Houston and some other teams to depress the mar ket value of Alonzo,” Greer said. “He’s free for the moment to negotiate with other teams, but we’ll just have to see how it plays out from there. There’s been no final ruling, which may take a short time or a long time,” he said. Houston General Manager Ladd Herzeg said the Oilers had turned the matter over the the league attorneys and would have no further comment. If the Oilers fail to sign Highs mith, it would be the second con secutive year they have failed to sign their No. 1 draft choice. The traded No. 1 pick quarterback Jim Everett to the Los Angeles Rams last year after a contract im passe. Highsmith, the third player se lected in the draft, has been a holdout since July 28. “I’m sure the Oilers will take me to court, but before the case can be heard, I might already have been with another team for a year,” Highsmith said. “I had to do what I thought was in my best interests because I’m a football player and I want to play football,” he said. dn’t have meal [ | ready pounded i out. We hadio'K burger patties." : K i see that all thefc®! Hint of meat.beeK ne kids would jd B ■aid that while it's. I eals for 800 dii-K sometimes has if if i vn her coohf !| m i you go home. Es i normal meal ’ve made and dim ’ nail amount, diet p where you are.'sK 051012^ SI §110 1® :ALL: ’EXAS 1 ) )THER) HALL-Y-WOOD SQUARES Come see the student leaders of TAMU match their wits. 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