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Tuesday, December 4, 1990
The Battalion
Sports Editor
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By STEVE O’BRIEN
Of The Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M basketball
team was firing on all pistons
Monday night.
The Lady Aggies (2-1) rolled
over a frustrated Prairie View
A&M team 85-52.
Four Lady Aggies scored in
double Figures as they crushed
their Highway 6 neighbors.
Center Dena Russo and guard
Sheri Dillard each had 13 points
to lead the Ags. Guards Yvonne
Hill and Yatisha Bosha scored 12
and 11, respectively.
However, head coach Lynn
Hickey said she was cautious of
playing a team like Prairie View.
“There’s a real danger any
time you play a team that’s in the
situation that Prairie View’s in,”
Hickey said. “Things can get a
little sloppy and a little wild at
times.”
Defense broke the game open
for the Aggies.
Dillard led the team with nine
steals and Bosha added eight
more bringing the team total to
23.
But it was Dillard’s hustling
play with 16:40 left in the first
half that built A&M’s lead to 36-
25.
She stole a Prairie View pass
and missed a driving layup. But
Russo grabbed the rebound and
converted a three point play
when she was fouled on the fol
low-up shot.
Russo, who scored all her
points in the first half, was ex
cited about her play.
“I was amazed, I really hadn’t
been on,” she said. “It just kind of
came tonight.”
Hickey was pleased with Rus
so’s performance but wanted to
rest the her legs in the second
half
Russo is still getting in shape
after arthroscopic surgery on
both knees this past summer.
“I thought Dena Russo had a
great first half, and if I would
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A&M guard Yvonne Hill jumps to save the ball as Prairie View’s Frederica Burnice gets out of the way.
have let her stay in the second this season from a cancelled pro- Wednesday when they battle Ok-
half she would have scored 30 gram and are playing without any lahoma State in Stillwater. OSU
points,” coach Hickey said. scholarships. comes into the game with a per-
The Panthers are returning The Lady Ags return to action feet (4-0) record.
exas leapfrogs Miami, BYU to third in AP poll
Associated Press
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The Texas Longhorns leaped from fifth to third
|in The Associated Press college football poll on
^Monday, improving their chances of winning
their first national title since 1969.
Texas, which beat Texas A&M 28-27 on Satur
day, jumped over Miami and Brigham Young in
the final regular-season poll. Miami edged San
Diego State 30-28, while BYU was demolished by
Hawaii 59-28.
r The Hurricanes (9-2) fell from third to fourth,
the second straight week they’ve dropped a notch
in the poll following a victory. BYU (10-2)
plunged from fourth to 13th.
I Colorado, which completed its regular season
two weeks ago, remained No. 1 for the third
istraight week. The Buffaloes (I0-I-1) received 42
t-place votes and 1,476 points from a nation
wide panel of sports writers and broadcasters.
% Georgia Tech stayed second after beating
Georgia 40-23, but closed the gap on Colorado,
phe Yellow Jackets (10-0-1), the only major team
without a loss, got 16 first-place votes and 1,397
points. They trailed Colorado by 130 points last
week; now they are only 79 points behind.
Texas (10-1) got the other two first-place votes
and 1,338 points, 35 more than Miami. Notre
Dame (9-2), which was idle, moved from seventh
to fifth with 1,252 points.
Rounding out the Top 10 are Florida State (9-
2), Penn State (9-2), Washington (9-2), Houston
(10-1) and Tennessee (8-2-2).
Florida is 11th, followed by Michigan, BYU,
Clemson, Mississippi, Illinois, Iowa, Louisville,
Nebraska, Oklahoma, Southern Cal, Michigan
State, Southern Mississippi, Ohio State and Ala
bama.
Because of the bowl matchups, only the
Orange, Cotton and Citrus have a realistic
chance to produce the national champion. Colo
rado plays Notre Dame in the Orange, Texas
meets Miami in the Cotton and Georgia Tech
faces Nebraska in the Citrus.
The possibilities:
If Colorado wins, the Buffaloes should win the
A&M fans angry that
CBS tipped off play
From Staff and Wire Reports
Some football fans complained
that the CBS broadcast of the Texas-
Texas A&M game may have tipped
off Texas on a crucial play that cost
the Aggies the game.
Officials at both schools said Mon
day the telecast had nothing to do
with the outcome of Saturday’s 28-
27 victory by Texas, but A&M’s head
football coach R.C. Slocum said CBS
was “out of line.”
“I disapprove of CBS. I think they
are out of line to position themselves
to gather information that could in
fluence the outcome of the game,”
he said. “In the future, we will be
more mindful of where their camer
amen are.”
Robin Brendle, a spokeswoman
for CBS Sports, said broadcasting
the play was inadvertent, but added,
“A big part of our telecast is trying to
get in the huddle and capture the es
sence of the game.”
Late in the fourth quarter, A&M
halfback Darren Lewis was stopped
well short of the goal line on a 2-
point conversion attempt that would
have given the Aggies a 1-point lead.
Instead, Texas took the kickoff
and ran out the clock to preserve its
victory and snap a six-game losing
streak to their Southwest Confer
ence arch-rivals.
Before the conversion play, the
CBS national viewing audience
heard A&M plan and call the play on
the sideline.
If the Texas coaches had heard
that information, they could have
adjusted their defense, according to
several callers to radio talk shows.
Norm Hitzges, of KLIF Radio in
Dallas, said he received several calls
during his morning sports show
from people complaining about CBS
broadcasting the play before it was
executed.
“Nobody really has called and
said, ‘We would have won.’ The
question is, shouldn’t we be a little
carelul here? Twenty to 25 seconds
before the ball was snapped a lot of
people knew what the play was,”
Hitzges said.
In an interview Sunday, Texas
coach David McWilliams denied
knowing about the play in advance.
“I was not aware of it being tele
vised until after the ballgame when
somebody told me about it,” he said.
“Our coaches on the sidelines don’t
have monitors. I was talking to our
defensive coordinator Leon Fuller,
trying to make adjustments for the
play. You can make what you want
out of it, but I can honestly tell you
we didn’t know.”
Steve Ross, assistant sports infor
mation director at Texas, said Long
horn coaches could not have heard
the broadcast because they don’t
have their television sets turned on
in the coach’s booth at Memorial Sta
dium.
Ross said the sets are kept off for
fear that a planned play may be
broadcast. “We do it just for that rea
son,” he said.
Slocum said his criticism of CBS
should not take away from Texas’
defensive play.
“In no way would I blame Texas
for using that information if they
had it,” Slocum said.
national title. If Notre Dame wins and Georgia
Tech loses, it would probably be a close battle for
No. 1 between the Irish and the Texas-Miami
winner.
If Colorado loses and Georgia Tech wins, the
Yellow Jackets would stake their claim to the na
tional championship. But the Texas-Miami win
ner would also get strong consideration.
Blockbuster Bowl opponents Florida State and
Penn State are playing as well as anyone in the
country. But the winner of that game appears to
be locked out of the title picture because the win
ners of the Orange and Cotton seem certain to be
ranked higher.
Florida State moved up two spots to sixth after
beating Florida 45-30, while Penn State rose
three places to seventh and Washington went
from ninth to eighth.
Houston climbed from 11th to ninth after
beating Arizona State 62-45 and Tennessee rose
from 12th to 10th after downing Vanderbilt 49-
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