Thursday, December 8,1988
The Battalion
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hitting 4-for-4 from the
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med to the all-tournament
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average of 31 points per game.
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By Patti Easterling
Reporter
Two Texas A&M baseball players
have returned from the Interna
tional Harbor Baseball Tournament
in Taiwan, bringing with them a list
of outstanding achievements.
Aggie second baseman Terry
Taylor and shortstop Chuck Knob
lauch returned Tuesday after being
chosen to compete with the 20-
player United States team.
“I was really surprised when I
found out because I wasn’t even
aware of the tournament,” Taylor
said.
Baseball players from colleges
across the United States who were
chosen to represent their country.
“Getting there a couple of days
before the tournament started gave
us time to practice and get used to
playing together,” Taylor said.
The tournament was held from
November 25 to December 4.
The United States team defeated
Mexico, Japan, Puerto Rico, the Do
minican Republic, Taiwan “A” and
the Taiwan “B” team twice, sending
them into the championship game
against the Taiwan “A” team with a
7-0 record.
“We beat the Taiwan ‘A’ team in
the winner’s bracket playoff but they
played really well in the
championship game and won,” Tay
lor said.
Both players were honored to get
the opportunity to help the United
States team capture the silver medal.
“It was a real honor to be chosen
for the team, but it was an even
greater honor when we did so well,”
Taylor said.
A&M Head Baseball Coach Mark
Johnson says the accomplishments
of Taylor and Knoblauch provide a
boost to the A&M baseball program.
“I think it’s a great honor for
Terry and Chuck to be chosen to
represent their country in this tour
nament,” Johnson said.
“From the standpoint of both the
baseball program and Texas A&M,
it makes our program feel really
good that two of our players were
chosen for this honor.”
Taylor hit .290 in the tournament
highlighted by a grand slam. Knob
lauch batted for a.240 average and
scored an eighth inning, game-win
ning run in the first round of the
medal round against Puerto Rico.
Knoublach led the Aggies with a
.365 batting average last season and
Taylor finished the season with an
impressive 17 home runs.
Jeffires hopes future is now
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston
Oiler wide receiver Haywood Jef
fires would like to get out of the
team’s future file.
“They call me the future here,
and I tell everybody I’m not the fu
ture, I’m the present, so I’d like to
get off the future stuff,’’ Jeffires
said.
Jeffires will get his chance Sunday
when he returns to the active roster
against the Cincinnati Bengals.
When wide receiver-punt re
turner Willie Drewrey suffered a
dislocated elbow in Sunday’s 37-34
loss to Pittsburgh, Jeffires got his
chance to get back on the roster.
“I’m willing and ready to play,”
said Jeffires, a first-round selection
from North Carolina State in 1987.
“I’ve been practicing hard on the
field, hoping they’d take me off the
injury list. ”
“I don’t know how much I can do
with the type of offense we have and
with guys like Drew and Ernest,” Jef
fires said.
Jeffires will be available for the
Oilers’ “Red Gun” offense that in
cludes four wide receivers.
Hill and Givins have been among
the most potent receiving duos the
past three seasons.
Hill has 985 yards and 61 recep
tions this season and is nearing his
third, 1,000-yard season in four
years. Givins has 797 yards and 50
catches.
“I think they are two of the best
things going in the NFL right now,”
Jeffires said. “Those guys have pro
ven themselves and they are doing a
good job.”
“I don’t come in and say I’m as
good as Ernest and Drew, even
though in my mind, I think I am,”
Jeffires said.
Jeffires says working against
Houston’s outstanding secondary
gives him confidence, although he
has little playing time.
“It’s hard to get an ankle well be
cause you have to keep working on
it,’’ Jeffires said. “I definitely feel I
can get past those guys and there’s
no better defensive backs than these
Oilers.”
The Oilers, 9-5, still have a chance
to win their first AFC Central Divi
sion title if they defeat Cincinnati
and Cleveland and Cincinnati also
loses its finale to Washington.
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OUSTON (AP) — Nebraska
backer Broderick Thomas, a
|uston native, is coming home for
istmas and hopes to find a Lom-
li Award awaiting him Thursday
it.
gfhomas, the outspoken leader of
e Comhusker defense, is one of
| finalists for the award, given
lually to the top collegiate line-
in the nation,
he other finalists afe defensive
;s Mark Messner of Michigan
Tracy Rocker of Auburn and
backer Derrick Thomas of Ala-
■tocker was a finalist last year
Ohio State linebacker Chris
hnanwon the award,
errick Thomas earlier was
ed winner of the Dick Butkus
rd as the nation’s top linebacker.
|From the time I left (home), I al-
said that one day I’d be back
i the Lombardi Award,” Brode-
:k Thomas said. “I’ll be back home
rsday night. Hopefully, it will be
lick up my trophy.”
Tie trophy is named in honor of
Vince Lombardi, the former coach
of the Green Bay Packers and Wash
ington Redskins who died of cancer
in 1970.
The dinner benefits the American
Cancer Society.
Lombardi was a member of the
Fordham line that was called the
“Seven Blocks of Granite.” The tro
phy is in the form of a 40-pound
block of granite.
Broderick Thomas, 6-3, 250,
leads the Nebraska defense in nine
categories including 98 tackles, 10
quarterback sacks and 17 tackles for
losses.
Rocker, 6-3, 278, was a finalist for
the honor as a junior. He finished
with 342 career tackles and 20 quar
terback sacks for the Tigers, who will
play Florida State in the Sugar Bowl.
Rocker was named winner
Wednesday of the Outland Trophy,
which also honors the nation’s out
standing lineman.
“Auburn has had more outstand
ing defensive linemen than any
other team in the country the last
eight years, and Tracy Rocker may
be the very best,” Tennessee Coach
John Majors said.
Rocker’s tackle production is off
this season because of the Tigers’ ef
ficient offense. Rocker played only
eight plays in a 56-7 victory over
Kansas.
Rocker was the only junior among
last season’s finalists. He led the Ti
ger tacklers as a freshman and
earned nomination last year despite
an injury.
Derrick Thomas helped the Ala
bama Crimson Tide earn a spot in
the Sun Bowl against Army on
Christmas Eve.
“My season started not-so-hot,”
Derrick Thomas said. “I wasn’t very
productive against Temple, but
starting with the Kentucky game I
had a game I couldn’t even imagine.
“Since then, it’s been all downhill.
Now teams are having to do things
to stop me and my teammates.”
Messner, 6-3, 244, is Michigan’s all-
time leader with 69 tackles for losses
of 375 yards. He has 36 sacks for 273
yards in losses.
Messner describes his style as all-
out.
“Hustle compensates a lot for mis
takes,” he said. “When I was little,
my mom was always saying, ‘Don’t
spill the milk. Don’t spill the milk.’
You naturally made yourself avoid
spilling the milk.
“Now it’s Don’t lose contain.
Don’t lose contain.’ ”
Ohio State’s Jim Stillwagon won
the first award in 1970.
Other winners were: Walt
Patulski, Notre Dame, 1971; Rich
Glover, Nebraska, 1972; John Hicks,
Ohio State, 1973; Randy White,
Maryland, 1974; Lee Roy Selmon,
Oklahoma, 1975; Wilson Whitley,
Houston, 1976; Ross Browner,
Notre Dame, 1977;
Bruce Clark, Penn State, 1978;
Brad Budde, Southern California,
1979; Hugh Green, Pittsburgh,
1980; Kenneth Sims, Texas, 1981;
Dave Rimington, Nebraska, 1982;
Dean Steinkuhler, Nebraska, 1983;
Tony Degrate, Texas, 1984; Tony
Casillas, Oklahoma, 1985, and Cor
nelius Bennett, Alabama, 1986.
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