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
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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.
Malone, booed loudly during the
Steelers’ last home game, a 23-20 vic
tory over Cincinnati on Oct. 25, was
increasingly jeered Sunday and Bris-
ter’s entrance brought a loud roar
from the crowd.
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