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Monday, November 16, 1987/The Battalion/Page 9 Volley bailers defeat S. Illinois, Tech By Tom Mulos Reporter The weekend was pretty prof- table for Texas A&M athletic earns. Not only did the football team beat Arkansas but, the Lady Ag gie volleyball team won both of their weekend matches. First, A&M defeated Southern Illinois Friday night, 15-10, 7-15, 15-6 and 15-9. Second, it upset Texas Tech, the Southwest Con ference’s second-place team, in four games on Sunday, 6-15, 15- 15-6 and 15-5. “It’s been a big weekend,” A&M Coach A1 Givens said. “I thought since we won on Friday and the football team won a big game that we might be down. “This really put an end to a big weekend. This is not the same team that was playing in Septem ber and that’s obvious. This team has learned how to win.” A&M extended its record to 15-19 overall and 4-5 in confer ence while Tech dropped to 14- 14 and 6-3 respectively. Earlier in the season, A&M won the first two games against Texas Tech before the Red Raid ers came back and won three games to win the match. This time, the scenario was somewhat reversed. Texas Tech won the first game but the Aggies came back to win the next three. “We had problems passing the ball in the first game,” Givens I said. “But in thejiext games, they pulled together and got the job done. “I’m really proud of our younger players like Amy Com ings, Krista Hierholzer, both freshmen, and Megan Purtell, a sophomore.” Cumings had 11 kills out of 20 attempts for a .558 attack per centage. Senior Yvonne Van Brandt added a .358 set percent age along with Hierholzer’s .353. “Yvonne (Van Brandt) played really well,” Givens said. “She really had good set selection to day.” Texas Tech was led by Susan Kelly’s .545 attack percentage and Mary Loescher’s .327 set per centage. Tech committed 17 er rors to A&M’s nine. Red Raider Becky Boxwell, third in the conference in kills av erage, was held to a .225 attack percentage with 13 kills. “They (Tech) made a lot of £ assing errors which really aosted our momentum,” Givens said. A&M has gone 6-6 against teams that they played earlier in the season. They have also won six of their last seven matches. “Two matches ago down in Houston,” Givens said, “I said that the team had finally learned how to play to win instead of play ing not to lose. “That is something that will really help this young team next. season. We have now played 34 matches this season so tnis team is not really young anymore.” Photo by Robert Rizzo A&M’s Krista Hierholzer (left) and Amy Cumings go up for a block Sunday during the Aggies four-game victory over Texas Tech. Cowboys down Pats for overtime victory FOXBORO, Mass. (AP) — Hers- chel Walker raced 60 yards for a touchdown 1:50 into overtime as the Dallas Cowboys overcame a plague of penalties and a late New England lead for a 23-17 NFL victory over the Patriots Sunday. Dallas’ Roger Ruzek had sent the game into overtime with a 20-yard field goal with 28 seconds left in the fourth quarter. The Cowboys, 5-4, started at their own 30-yard line following the over time kickoff. After Walker’s 2-yard loss and an incompletion, a third- down pass from Danny White to Timmy Newsome gained 12 yards and a first down at the 40. Walker, who rushed for an NFL career high 173 yards, fourth best in team his tory, then burst through the left side of the Ine for the winning touch down. It improved Dallas’ overtime re cord to 6-2 and dropped New En gland’s to 0-9. The Patriots, 4-5, had taken a 17- 14 lead with 1:55 left in the fourth ? |uarter on a 5-yard touchdown pass rom Tom Ramsey to Stanley Mor gan. Ramsey had enterned the game Grogan was tackled and suffered dizziness. But Dallas marched 78 yards in 11 plays and 1:27 for the tying field goal. The key play was a 43-yard, fourth-down completion from White to Mike Renfro that brought the ball to the New England 27. Dallas tied a club record with 15 penalties one week after committing 11 in a 27-17 loss to Detroit. White’s 3-yard touchdown pass to Doug Cosbie 10 seconds before in termission had given Dallas a 14-7 halftime lead. The Cowboys had scored first on Ron Francis’ 18-yard interception return for a touch down, but the Patriots tied the game on Grogan’s 2-yard run. New England cut the lead to 14- 10 on Tony Franklin’s 41-yard field goal with 9:48 left in the fourth quarter. It followed a penalty that gave him a second chance. Cornerback Robert Williams had blocked Frank lin’s 46-yard attejnpt but was penal ized for lining up in the neutral Oilers ransack Steelers on strength of Moon Aggies (continued from page 8) walked off the field carrying Stump on his shoulders, said the game proved a lot about the senior quar- Iterback and his desire to help the I “The best way to describe it,” Sherrill said, “is that there were a lot of players who really hung in there no matter what happened, and Craig is one of them. I "We started off the year not really performing, and I kept saying that it wasn’t the quarterback’s fault, at least not all of it. But he (Stump) never let it get him down. He was re ady to respond and play the game.” Stump entered the game in the third quarter after the Aggies took over on their own 22-yard Tine. After picking up a quick first down, Stump kept the ball on an option to the left side for 21 yards. After three more first downs, the Aggies faced a third down and goal situation from the Arkansas 3-yard line. Stump then dropped back and hit freshman wide receiver Gary Oliver in the corner of the end zone for A&M’s second touchdown. Arkansas, which rotated four dif ferent quarterbacks into the game, mounted its only sustained drive of the day late in the fourth quarter af ter recovering a Matt Gurley fumble on its own 26-yard line. The Razorbacks used four first downs to get inside the Aggies’ 10- yard line. But on third down from the 7-yard line, freshman quar terback Quinn Grovey made a poor pitch on a counter option that was recovered by A&M’s Mickey Wash ington. Fumble, bumble, stumble and fall. So went Arkansas’ Cotton Bowl hopes. A&M on the other hand, strengthened its chance for a third consecutive Dallas New Year. Even if the Aggies lose to TCU this week end, they could repeat as the SWC representative at the Cotton Bowl by beating Texas on Thanksgiving day. Who would have thought? PITTSBURGH (AP) — Warren Moon threw third-quarter touch down passes to Curtis Duncan and Drew Hill as the surprising Houston Oilers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 23-3 Sunday and ended a decade- long Three Rivers Stadium jinx. Moon completed 18 of 24 passes for 252 yards as the Oilers, off to their best start in seven years, won in Pittsburgh for the first time since 1978. The Oilers, 6-3, remained tied for the AFC Central Division lead with Cleveland while ending a four- game losing streak against the Steel ers, who had won eight of their pre vious nine games. Moon, held in check in the first half by Pittsburgh’s blitzing lineback ers, gave Houston the lead for good at 7-3 with a 14-yard scoring pass to Duncan midway through the third period. It was the fifth touchdown catch in the last four games for Dun can, a rookie lOth-round draft choice from Northwestern. Moon, who had beaten Pittsburgh only once previously in his four-year career, made it 14-3 with 1:30 left in the period on a 42-yard scoring pass to a wide-open Hill, who had slipped behind two Steelers’ defenders. T he score completed a 6-play, 90-yard scoring drive kept alive by Moon’s 24-yard completion to Givins on a second-and-seven play. The Steelers, falling to 5-4, never threatened after Gary Anderson gave them a 3-0 lead with a 22-yard field goal in the final minute of the first quarter. With embattled quarterback Mark Malone again unable to generate an offense, the Steelers’ next seven drives ended in either a punt or turnover. Malone completed only 7 of 22 passes for 89 yards and an in terception and was replaced at the start of the fourth quarter by Bubby Brister. 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