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Photo by Mike C. Mulvey
Aggie quarterback Lance Pavlas avoids Bay- 11 victory in Waco. Pavlas scored A&M’s win-
lor’s Darrin Franklin’s pass rush in A&M’s 14- ning touchdown in the fourth quarter.
The Drive
Pavlas seals come-from-behind victory
By Clay Rasmussen
Of The Battalion Staff
WACO — It was a come-from-
behind performance that even
Staubach would’ve appreciated.
Old No. 12, the former Dallas
Cowboys’ star quarterback who
engineered so many last-minute
wins, wasn’t there for Texas
A&M’s 14-11 victory over Baylor
on Saturday, but he just might as
well have been.
Instead, No. 12 was wearing an
Aggie uniform and had the name
PAVLAS spelled above it.
But the result was the same.
Down 8-6 with 4:48 left in the
game, Pavlas and the Aggies
marched 66 yards downfield.
After kick returner Larry Hor
ton rambled 34 yards up field,
“The Drive” went like this:
• (1st-10 at A&M 34) Darren
Lewis scampers eight yards.
• (2nd-2 at A&M 42) Lewis
plunges ahead for three yards
Lance Pavlas
■and the first down.
• (lst-10 at A&M 45) Pavlas
throws incomplete pass to tight
end Mike Jones.
• (2nd-10 at A&M 45) Pavlas
rambles for 11 yard gain.
• (lst-10 at Baylor 44) Pavlas
throws incomplete.
• (2nd-10 at Baylor 44) Pavlas
is sacked.
• (3rd-13 at Baylor 47) Pavlas
scrambles for 34-yard gain.
• (lst-10 at Baylor 13) Lewis
drives for three yards.
• (2nd-7 at Baylor 10) Lewis
again goes up the middle for
three yards.
• (3rd-4 at Baylor 7) Lewis
gains critical first down.
• (Ist-Goal at Baylor 3) Robert
Wilson picks up 2 yards.
• (2nd-Goal at Baylor 1) Pav
las dives over top for the touch
down.
By Clay Rasmussen
Of The Battalion Staff
WACO — The Baylor fans
taunted Texas A&M all day long.
They showered the field of Floyd
Casey Stadium with a rain of cotton
balls, believing the Bears were on
their way to their first conference
championship and Cotton Bowl ap
pearance since 1981.
But they were too quick to cele
brate.
With just 4:48 remaining in the
game, the Aggies found themselves
in a precarious position: 66 yards
and a closefisted Baylor defense
stood between A&M and its hopes to
stay in contention for the Southwest
Conference championship.
Six plays into that final drive, the
Baylor defense looked like it would
once again shut down the Aggies’ of
fense.
But on a crucial third-and-13
from the Baylor 47-yard line, Aggie
quarterback Lance Pavlas scrambled
34 yards to the Baylor 13.
“We had two receivers out and
their defense had dropped off all
day to cover,” Pavlas said. “I had it in
the back of my mind to look for the
seam and when I saw it open up, I
took off.”
Five plays later, Pavlas resur
rected A&M’s chance for a victory
with a 1-yard plunge on a quar
terback sneak. After the two-point
conversion, the Aggies led for the
first time, 14-11.
But Baylor would make the end of
the game exciting with a 60-yard
field goal attempt with 30 seconds
left in the game. However, the kick
sailed wide right, and A&M sneaked
out of Waco with a thrilling 14-11
victory.
“This game was just about what I
expected coming into Waco,” A&M
Coach R.C. Slocum. “I was asked at
the start of the season which team I
would pick to win the SWC — it was
Baylor.
“The reasons were simple. (Baylor
linebacker) James Francis is a great
player and their defense was on top
of the league last year.”
With the win, Texas A&M im
proved their record to 4-2 (3-1 in
SWC) while Baylor dropped to 3-4
(2-2 in SWC).
The Aggies’ win was an unlikely
one. A&M’s offense was limited to
174 yards in the game. It took a little
help from Baylor punter Pete Rutter
and the A&M defense before the
Aggies would be able to score their
first points.
In the fourth quartr, Rutter fum
bled the snap in the endzone and
A&M defensive back Chris Grooms
recovered, giving the Aggies six
points.
“I thought our defense played an
outstanding game,” Slocum said.
“After the opening drive, they had
their backs against the wall the entire
game. Baylor had the field position
all day, but we kept them out of the
endzone.”
Even Baylor Coach Grant Teaff
thought the game was a defensive
struggle.
“This is one of the greatest de
fensive games that I have seen in my
years as a football coach,” Teaff said.
“There was never a better start-to-
finish football game as this one.”
The Bears were outstanding de
fensively. They held A&M running
backs Darren Lewis and Robert Wil
son to a combined total of 90 yards.
Francis recorded eight unassisted
tackles and one sack. He had 2
tackles for losses and harried the Ag
gies’ offensive scheme all day.
However, as good as the Bears de
fense was, the Aggies were just as
punishing.
A&M’s defense bent, but refused
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