r iday, December 1,1989
The Battalion
Page 11
swim teams
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lay at meets
I The Texas A&M men’s and wom-
ieh’s swimming teams made a splash
on the first day of the Pitt Invitatio-
inal swim meet on the campus of the
[University of Pittsburgh.
■ The Aggie men trail Pittsburgh
100-67 in the team race as the
women are in hot pursuit of Pitt, tra-
[iling 86-85. There are six men’s
teams entered in the meet, seven in
fthe women’s.
J The lone winner for the Aggies
o^ithe day was Joan Wojtowicz in the
l[l650-yard freestyle with an NCAA
qualifying time of 16:25.63. Other
gomend finishers in the mile for
I&M were third place finisher Jen
ifer Newcombe in 17:24.40 and
Brenda Greathouse, fourth in
117:28.78.
In the 800-yard freestyle relays,
khe men were led by Mike Varozza’s
Dol-record leadoff split of 1:39.70
K they cruised to second place be-
■ind Pittsburgh. The women like
wise nabbed second place as Wojto-
ficz anchored the Aggie quartet to a
(me of 7:39.10.
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ST* T
orton makes smooth transition to safety
By Richard Tijerina
The Battalion Staff
Early in the spring, second-team
linning back Larry Horton was
given a choice. Either make the
^ove to free safety or stay on of-
pse, backing up Heisman Trophy
pdidate Darren Lewis.
The choice was easy.
• Horton has responded well to his
witch to defense — he’s started ev-
igry game this season at free safety,
■e leads the Aggies with 91 tackles,
nd is tied for second in intercep-
j lions.
But though Horton now is shining
at safety, it wasn’t easy for coaches to
pnvince him the move was the best
Horton was apprehensive about
the switch at first, even though he
did play safety as well as running
feck in high school.
I A compromise was reached. Hor
ton would try safety out on a two-
week trial basis during the spring.
■ Things worked out so well that
Horton stayed at the position. But
he still wanted to run with the ball,
so coaches came up with a solution,
i Kick returns.
i Horton is ranked eighth in the na
tion in kick return average with a
24.7 yard average. He returned
A&M’s first kick of the year 96 yards
for a touchdown. It was the play of
the game in a 28-16 win over Lous-
Ina State.
R Horton’s seen his share of big
plays in 1989, but they haven’t all
turned out quite as nice for A&M as
■is celebrated kickoff return.
Against Texas Tech, quarterback Ja
mie Gill burned Horton on a last
minute touchdown to beat the Ag
gies, 27-24.
In last week’s 23-22 A&M heart-
breaker to Arkansas, Horton was on
the wrong end of a controversial
pass interference call late in the
fourth quarter. On fourth-and-three
at the Aggie 19-yard line. Razor-
backs quarterback Quinn Grovey
threw a short pass to tight end Billy
Winston. Horton, playing back be
hind Winston? jumped up and
knocked the ball away.
However, line judge Ron Under
wood ruled that Horton bumped
Winston from behind before he
knocked the ball away. Arkansas
scored the winning touchdown five
plays later.
“I was just reacting to what I’ve
been coached to do,” Horton said. “I
saw the ball and had to go over the
top for it.”
But A&M Coach R.C. Slocum said
the play was just too close to call, and
that he had nothing but praise for
the junior safety.
“He can be a cornerback, safety,
running back — I think Larry can
play any of the skill positions. He’s a
tough kid. I thought he did a good
job (against Arkansas). You’re talk
ing about a guy who just moved over
there.”
“It’s a shame that he hasn’t been
over there a couple of years — he’d
be an All-SWC player.”
That sort of recognition may
come next year if Horton continues
to improve. At least, he said, he’s
starting and helping the team.
“I’m happy,” he said. “I don’t
have any disappointments as far as
my move there or any of the plays
nsi'
' Rivalry
: (Continued from page 8)
phtf
ithe Aggies upset the Horns 37-12
break a three-year Horn winning
eak in the series. Sherrill then
o^ jsed the victory to out-recruit the
pless Horns, and start the Aggie
e to SWC dominance.
The 1985 victory was even bigger,
ith teams were 6-1 in SWC play
and were fighting for a trip to the
Cotton Bowl when Texas visited
oy Kyle Field. Sherrill’s troops
pounded the Horns 42-10 to give
Jackie a wonderful 42nd birthday
>la' jjresent. The Aggies went on to drub
TMtburn 36-16 in the first of their
lljhree consecutive Cotton Bowl trips.
lyltfThe 1986 contest was a defensive
D^K-uggle that the Aggies won 16-3 in
lustin. Notice a pattern developing
""Tere?
■Fate was no kinder to Texas in
|987. After coming back from a los-
" ig season in 1986, the Horns had
Tut together a good season. How
ever, the Aggies held explosive Eric
Jetcalf to 81 yards and shut down
xas’ offense. The 20-13 Aggie win
rked the first time in the 94-year
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I’ve had. I’m still in the process of
learning. It’s a risky position, but it’s
a position someone’s got to play.”
Cornerback Kevin Smith, who will
team with Horton next year to lead
A&M’s defensive backfield, said
Horton’s progress this season will
make free safety a strong position in
1990.
“He’s been doing well since the
spring,” Smith said. “He’s an athlete
— you can see it in his eyes. He has a
lot of heart and he’s going to give his
all every time he goes out there.
But the Aggies can’t wait until
next year — they’ll need Horton to
be at his best this weekend when
A&M hosts Texas. Longhorn receiv
ers Tony Jones and Johnny Walker
are deep threats, but Horton said he
was confident the Aggies could shut
them down.
“It gives us another chance, and
our last chance this year, to prove
ourselves,” Horton said. “Sure, los
ing to Arkansas hurt us, but it’s not
going to have an effect on us this
week while we’re getting up for
Texas. This game here is just as im
portant as Arkansas was, even
though we’re not playing for the
Cotton Bowl.”
Playing hard is nothing new to
Horton. Nicknamed “Lick” for the
hard hits he gives wide receivers,
Horton knows just one style of play:
aggresive.
“I look at myself as an aggresive
type of player,” he said. “I saw my
self like that on offense too. I was al
ways that type of player. I just
played it differently on offense.”
When he was being recruited,
Horton always thought he’d be a
running back. But being in the same
class as Lewis, the chances of him
making an impact at the position
seemed slim at best.
history of the series that the Aggies
had won four years in a row.
Finally, Texas coach David Mc
Williams started catching up in the
recruiting race, but it was too little,
too late for the Horns.
They couldn’t even beat the 1988
Aggies in the midst of the George
Smith scandal. The Ags held on for
a 28-24 win in Austin.
Because of A&M’s probation, the
Horns won the recruiting war last
year, marking their second quality
crop of freshman.
So how do we bring back the excit
ement for Saturday’s game?
• Spot the Horns 21 points? Nah,
too obvious, and it wouldn’t look
good on ESPN.
• Throw the game, on purpose?
No, although if we don’t, the kids
from Austin might take their toys
home and never play with us again.
Here’s the plan: since we’ve got
too much talent to put everybody on
the field at one time, we could loan
the teasips some of our second and
third string players. I know that our
players are loyal Ags, and don’t want
to wear burnt orange, but if they
don’t help the Horns, the tradition
may die.
Game
(Continued from page 8)
devastating injuries.
Junior running back Darnen Le
wis is listed as questionable for Satur
day’s game after injuring his knee
against Arkansas.
“Darren didn’t work out Monday
or Tuesday,” Slocum said. “I would
say it’s doubtful he’d play at this time
with his knee sprain.”
A&M also is hurting on defense
with injuries to noseguard Pat
Henry (dislocated elbow), linebacker
Anthony Williams (bruised shoul
der) and cornerback Mickey Wash
ington (broken scapula).
Although Aggie quarterback
Lance Pavlas is completing 59.9 per
cent o of his passes this season,
Texas defensive lineman Ken
Hackemack believes the Longhorns’
pass attack could rattle A&M’s offen
sive game.
“I think that Pavlas is a better run-
oriented quarterback than a passer,”
Hackemack said. “He’s a great one
when he gets time, but in looking at
the films, I think he gets rattled un
der pressure.”
However, the Texas offensive line
will have its hands full trying to give
Longhorn quarterback Pete Gardere
time to throw.
Gardere, who still is recovering
from a bruised shoulder, will be hin
dered by A&M’s punishing blitz-
oriented defense.
“That’s our style,” Slocum said.
“It’s good that other teams are hav
ing success against them (blitzing).
That will be our plan this week.”
Under Gardere, a redshirt fresh
man from Houston Lee, Texas’ of
fense has looked either very good —
in its 28-24 upset over Oklahoma
and its 24-20 upset over Arkansas —
or very bad, like in its 47-9 drubbing
to Houston and its loss to Baylor last
week.
The Longhorns’ running attack is
led by freshman redshirt Adrian
Walker, who has become Texas’
main weapon in its last three games.
He averages 4.3 yards a carry, and
needs only 124 yards against A&M
to break former Heisman Trophy
winner Earl Campbell’s freshman
UT mark of 928 yards.
If Lewis somehow can manage to
suit up and play, he needs only 31
yards to reach the 1,000-mark for
the season.
Gardere has passed for 1,511
yards this season — the best ever for
a Texas freshman. But he hasn’t
faced a pass rush this year like he
will on Saturday. The closest thing to
A&M’s defense he’s seen this season
was against Houston.
And in that loss, Gardere left the
game in the fourth quarter — still
Jfcjeeling dizzy from the effects of a
sack.
Also hindering Gardere will be
the crowd noise.
All 72,387 seats at Kyle Field have
been sold. A few temporary seats
along the track remain.
Houston quarterback Andre Ware
and the Cougars’ top-rated Run-
and-Shoot offense, No. 1 in the na
tion, was shot down by the Aggies’
blitz and hindered by the crowd
noise at Kyle Field.
“With all the activity on campus —
the bonfire, Elephant walk, a big
crowd is expected,” Slocum said.
“The players will be around some
excitement this week. That should
help them bounce back.”
Although A&M’s 19-game home
winning streak for SWC games came
to an end last week, the Aggies still
possess a five-game winning streak
against the Longhorns.
The last time that Texas beat
A&M was way back in 1983, when
the Longhorns drubbed the Aggies
45-13 at Kyle Field.
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