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Page8 The Battalion Friday, Novembers, 1989 TANK M^NAMARAT by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds uJEWe e>'/KicAf^NiZ£{? £»0UlMMlk)O f^RTNie^ FOR Almost poor yeAR^. I'M &€TTlKJG TtAl^UI&RP FeeUMG) TtAAT 6VtRyrAlM& t'M e.<PERieMClMO &XPERie(OCl N&, TOO WOO^e UMP&R A lot of x joe.T tmvmk 'Voo Meec? ^OMe T\MG OPf voi/Rt OMPet? a LOT OF 9r«e^S>. X JO^T TAlMK VOOKJEeP November lO, 1989 O. Rollie White Coliseum A&M students* $12.50 MSC Box Office Only Non-student $14.50 Tickets on Sale NOW! w/ Baillie & the Boys MSC Box Office special guest: Billy foe Royal Ticketron Outlets for more information call the MSC Box Office (409)845-1234 or for phone orders call 1-800-284-5780 Rakiri in Fall Celebrate fall with Shellenberger’s. It’s a two- bushel savings salute to men and women of traditional style, through November 4 Outside linebacker William Thomas (11) and free safety Larry Horton (39) combine for a sack of Rice quarterback Donald Hollasinlas Saturday’s 45-7 Aggie victory over the Owls Game (Continued from page 7) won-loss record — even SMU’s 2-5 mark. “We come out and treat every team the same,” Webb said. “Our goal is to reach the Cotton Bowl and we have to take everybody serious.” The Aggies have the firepower to run up the big numbers against a substantially smaller, inexperienced Mustang defense, and Slocum might seem to let the numbers on the scoreboard roll around a few times before he finally backs off. But Slocum said his first priority on Saturday will be to come out and win. “We’ll come out and do every thing we can to win the game,” Slo cum said. “I will never take a chance to jeopardize winning the game by pulling out my players too early. “I’ve seen the other team come back in that situation too many times to where they have a chance to win.” Still, Slocum is concious of run ning up the score on the Mustangs. “I would never take advantage of an opponent’s defenselessness just so I can embarrass them,” Slocum said. “I just won’t do that.” If A&M jumps to a comfortable lead, Slocum said he would use the opportunity to give some of his younger players experience. SMU runs an offense similar to Houston’s Run-and-Shoot, and al though they don’t have the over whelming talent the Cougars have, they are capable of putting some points on the scoreboard. “They’ve got an explosive offense, so we need to be able to put some points on the board and stay ahead,” A&M quarterback Lance Pavlas said. The Aggie’s defense is aware of the threat that Mustang quarterback Mike Romo possesses. Last week, Romo set a SMU record, passing for 450 yards on 47 attempts. In his first year at SMU, Romo already has moved up to the ninth spot on the school career yardage list. His play has not gone unnoticed. “I really think he’s going to give us a real challenge,” Webb said. “If he keeps progressing the way he is, I think he can be a premier quar terback for them. To neutralize Romo, the Aggies plan to use a similar defensive scheme that worked so well against Houston’s of fense. “We need to get in his facei make him mess up a couple of tiir| like we did to (Houston quarterb»| Andre Ware,” A&M linebackerw| liam Thomas said. The Mustangs realize the hid task that awaits them on Kyle Fide* “There’s no question about it, t| is cine of the best teams in the co. try,” Gregg said. “Look at A&M’sci fense with all the speed theyh; with their defensive linemen, backers and defensive backs. “It’s an awesome task in from us.” The Aggies have shown h much they’ve matured this seal A&M has refused to look pastSMl “It would be easy to look beyo: SMU, because they’re so young,; focus on Texas and ArkanS Webb said. “But our attitude! year has been to take one team; time.” Pavlas said it best. “This is a conference game; it’s a must-win game,” Pavlas sail “If we take SMU lightly, they'llf:, us a great fight. “For those last two games tonif anything, we have to win thisone Lehmann (Continued from page 7) shouldn’t have any trouble with the Owls. The Hogs, 3-1 in SWC play, have lived by the run this season, and the Owls couldn’t slow (much less stop) the Aggie ground game last week. It’s gonna be a long day for the Owls, and they probably won’t even stop the Hogs from covering the 21- point spread. The Houston Cougars get an other shot to run up their stats against TCU. Is there anything sad der than a team with only numbers to play for? With no television ap pearances or bowl game to get na tional attention, the Cougars can only amass stats and blowouts to lure blue-chip recruits. The Horned Frogs have been me diocre this year. They’ve played not well enough to stay in the race, but too well to attract sympathy. Poor Frogs, they’ll earn some pity this week when the Cougars run over and shoot through them. Talk about ugly. 1’he mismatch at Kyle Field on Saturday might bring back images of the Roman specta cles. Throwing the Punies to the Ag gie gladiators will be cruel. The young Punies will be pn bruised up after a day of pM with the big boys, but not as enr rassed as they were after the 95 ; | mauling at the hands of the 0*1 gars. I The spread is 45 points, and! Aggies can cover it. However, Co>H Slocum is more interested in geii! to the Cotton Bowl than scoring! points. There you have it, if you i bloody blowouts and teasip-Tffl games, it’ll be your weekend. IfW you’re out of luck. Romo (Continued from page 7) Shoot team up close and personal in 5-2 Houston’s 95-21 mauling of SMU two weeks ago, Romo says that the Mustangs’ version needs work. “The plays are the same (as Hous ton’s), but I don’t know if the execu tion is the same,” he says. “We’ve su- prised some people, but we’ve still got a long way to go.” Romo says the loss to the Cougars wasn’t as hard to take as it might seem. “It wasn’t that hard to come back from,” he says. “We knew Houston had a great team. Nobody gave us much of a chance. “It was a tough defeat because no body likes to get beat that way. We knew we were going to be in for some tough times this year, so we just blew it off, and got ready for North Texas.” Romo knows that SMU will face a momumental task Saturday. He lik ens the Aggie defense to the Cougar squad. SMU failed to score on UH‘s first-team defense. “It’s hard to say what A&M will do on defense,” he says. “We’lljustly to take what they give us, and Ido think they’ll give us a lot. “I expect the Aggie defense to more physical than Houston" They’ll probably blitz us a lot.” What an understatement. If this one was a movie, itwo- be something like, “Godzilla ttf; Bambi” or, “The Wrecking Creit meets the Rookie QB.” Either way, Romo will havt work hard to stay relaxed Satuio afternoon, because the A&M ( fense won’t want him to be bored