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Slocum: There’s just no team controversy Douglas Pils k3top! Pavlas time. Or is it Bucky time? The big question of the week is not what’s to become of the 12th Man Kickoff Team or even about possible disunity on the team. The $64,000 question is: Who will be the starting quarterback this week when Texas A&M faces the Houston Cougars, Bucky Richardson or Lance Pavlas? Head coach R.C. Slocum answered the first two questions Tuesday at his weekly news conference. Number one, he said he would be a fool to dismantle the 12th Man. The team will still exist, either as a unit or possibly as a mix of scholarship and non scholarship players. Secondly, there are no underlying problems on the A&M football team. Comerback Kevin Smith, who became A&M’s all-time interception leader last week, vented some of his frustration after the game by saying he felt there were some outside distractions bothering the team. He said these distractions were taking away from the performance of the team. Slocum, who said there’s probably not a finer individual than Smith on the team, said Smith was just feeling frustrated at the team’s overall play. The Aggie defense held Texas Tech to just 102 yards total offense in the first half and yet A&M was still down 13-7. Slocum said Smith’s comments were just a result of one young man playing his heart out, and for the second straight week his team was behind. Slocum did not, however, name his starting quarterback. He wants to surprise everyone, including the pass- happy Cougars. There is not a quarterback controversy. What there is, is an image problem. See Pils/Page 9 Photo by Eric H. Roalson A&M’s Darren Lewis rushed his way to SWC co-player of the week honors after rushing for 232 yards in last weekend’s 28-24 win over Texas Tech. Lewis, Clay named AP’s SWC players From Staff and Wire Reports When it came to the best offensive performances of the week in the South west Conference, it came down to the churning legs of Darren Lewis and Leon Clay’s arm. Their feats were so spectacular that the heroics couldn’t be separated, so they share The Associated Press South west Conference Offensive Player of the Week award. Texas A&M’s Lewis was a force in the Aggies 28-24 victory over Texas Tech, but he did it the old-fashioned way — overland. Lewis rushed for a career-high 232 yards on 34 carries, the third best rush ing day in school history. It was Lewis’ fourth 200-yard game which tied him for the SWC record with former Texas Tech running back, James Gray. Lewis has 21 games of 100 yards rush ing or more. Earl Campbell of Texas also had 21 during his career. Eric Dick erson of SMU has the career record of 28. Lewis’ performance came a week after he had oeen ejected for punching a Louisiana State player. “I had something to prove to the team,” Lewis said. “I owed them a game like this.” Lewis also made his first touchdown pass reception of his collegiate career. It came on a 4-yard pass from Bucky Rich ardson. Texas Christian’s Clay, who won the award outright last week by accounting for five touchdowns against Southern Methodist, Hid it again Saturday. But this time it was against a more formida ble opponent, the Arkansas Razorbacks. Clay threw four touchdown passes on scoring plays of 18, 88, 57, and 7 yards and scored on a 1-yard run. He com pleted 19 of 28 passes for 322 yards in the Horned Frogs’ “Triple Shoot” of fense. TCU obliterated Arkansas 54-26. It’s a first time a player had won the award back-to-back since Andre Ware did it for the Houston Cougars in his Heisman Trophy winning season. The last Horned Frog to win the award in consecutive weeks was running back Kenneth Davis in 1984. In the last two weeks. Clay has ac counted for 10 touchdowns. “He’s been on an incredible roll and I hope it never stops,” said TCU coach Jim Wacker. “He’s just a sophomore, too. Imagine what might happen when he gets some experience.” The AP’s SWC Defensive Player of the Week is TCU’s sophomore safety, Tony Rand, who blocked an Arkansas punt and fell on the ball for a touch down. The 5-11, 176-pounder from Al- dine also intercepted a pass that led to a field goal and made six tackles in the Frogs’ upset. Reds walk away with 5-3 win to take 3-1 series lead PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds used their potent combination of ower, pitching and defense to beat the ittsburgh Pirates 5-3 Tuesday night and take a 3-1 lead in the National League playoffs. The Reds can wrap up their first NL pennant since 1976 on Wednesday night if left-hander Tom Browning can beat 22-game winner Doug Drabek in Game 5. Chris Sabo, in a 2-for-13 slump, snapped a 2-2 tie with a two-run homer in the sev enth inning off Bob Walk, the winner in Game 1 at Cincinnati. Jose Rijo, the Reds’ ace, pitched like it as he gave up six hits and three runs in seven-plus innings. Jay Bell chased Rijo when he led off the eighth inning with a nome run to make it 4- 3. Randy Myers finished the eighth inning, but wasn’t quite as nasty as usual. After Myers got Andy Van Slyke to fly out, Bobby Bonilla hit a drive off the cen ter-field wall just above Billy Hatcher’s glove. Eric Davis came over from left field to field the carom and made a terrific one- hop throw to nail Bonilla trying to stretch it into a triple. Barry Bonds then followed with a single and stole second, but Sid Bream struck out, leaving the Pirates 5-for- 34 with runners in scoring position in the series. Rob Dibble got the last three outs for his first save of the series and the third for the relievers known as “The Nasty Boys.” The Pirates are 0-for-15 with 10 strikeouts against Dibble. The Reds won their fifth straight game at Three Rivers Stadium, including the last three games of a series in August. The fans showed up in greater numbers for Game 4 and the Pirates showed their appreciation by taking a 1-0 lead in the first inning. A less than enthusiastic crowd of 45,611 showed up for the Reds’ 6-3 victory on Monday, 8,000 less than the Steelers drew for Sunday’s game against San Diego. Tues day night’s game drew 50,461 and there were only small pockets of empty seats in the upper deck in center field. There was also a lot more noise. 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