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1991 ink ean the ifth ! Of Mer les' ope ser- lose 5re- dez to teld the eles /ith irth ime lext )nly L - A NFL ) pay play- »ed to or re- urt of istrict $ NFL nsion »1 re- s that s had lat the bene- make we do 5 f the stitut- y' obli- iarvie ed by a and dilton arned ent of nsion Wednesday September 4, 1991 The Battalion Page 11 Battling the press Houston Cougar quarterback David Klingler adapts to the pressure of being a Heisman Trophy candidate. HOUSTON (AP) - Uni versity of Flouston quarter back David Klingler faces op posing defenses once a week. The rest of the time he con fronts a media blitz that in cludes conference calls and in terview requests. He's been photographed on horseback and sitting in the cockpit of a jet. Klingler spent part of Tuesday morning catching questions rather than throw ing passes in a weekly confer ence call designed to meet the crush of press interview de mands. Klingler started the season in typical record form Satur day with nine touchdown passes, including an NCAA record six in one quarter, in a 73-3 rout of Louisiana Tech. Now the lOth-ranked Cougars are preparing for na tional television appearance Sept. 12 against No. 3 Miami and Klingler is as practiced at fielding questions as he is threading passes through eight defensive backs. Do you get the feeling you guys are running up the score a little bit? "Not at all. The way our offense works, when you ex plode for 45 points in a quar ter, that's still only a quarter of play. If you go through the whole season with a couple quarters of play in each game, it will catch up with you." "Other teams are playing full games. We need some game experience, especially with the young offensive line and our receivers. (Wide re ceiver) Freddie Gilbert is do ing well but he's still making some basic mistakes." "Those are the things you have to work on in games. You can't really do that in practice but in front of a crowd it's a little harder." The quote about the Heis- man, you referred to it as a doorstop? "It was taken out of con text. The writer asked me if I thought the Eastern Washing ton game last year hurt my chances of winning the Heis man. I told him whether it did or not, if I had to go throw five touchdowns (he threw 11) to the Heisman and really not try, it lessens the value of the trophy. What's the trophy mean if you're not giving your best?" The Cougars beat Eastern Washington 84-21. Klingler passed for 572 yards before leaving the game with 12:41 to play. "I don't think anyone should tell you you should go out there and lay down and not try to do your best," Klin gler said. "All I did in the East Washington game was go out there and play the best I could play and the defense had a good game. "If that lost me the trophy, so be it. If you don't give your best to win it, it's not worth much." Do you want to win the Heisman? "No, I want to win 11 foot ball games. The Heisman is an award that comes out at the end of the season. It's really an individual award and I'm not in football to win individual awards. If I wanted to win in dividual awards I'd be a ten nis player or golfer or some thing like that. "I won't win the Heisman without the other 21 guys on offense and defense doing their jobs. If they don't do their jobs, what I do doesn't matter." Can the run-and-shoot be stopped? "There are definitely de fenses around (to stop it), be cause it comes back to person nel. If you're getting whipped on the offensive line or getting covered it can be stopped. It's not like waving a magic wand and run it every time. "If you have lesser talent than the other team, it doesn't matter you should get beat. By no means are we ever going to line up and say, 'If we're click ing today, w'e should line up and dominate the New York Giants.' " Did you watch the Cotton Bowl, knowing you would be playing Miami? "No, I was on a fishing trip. I heard a couple of min utes of the game but I didn't watch it." 1991 Lady Aggie Schedule September 4 Lamar (H) 5 North Texas (H) 12-14 Cal-State Full. Inv. (A) 18 Stephen F. Austin (H) 21 UTSA Invitational (H) 25 Texas-Arlington (H) 27-28 SWT Bobcat Classic (A) October 2 Rice (H) 5 Florida St. (H) 9 Texas (A) 12 Houston (H) 16 Baylor (H) 23 Texas Tech (A) 26 Rice (A) 30 Texas (H) November 3 LSU (H) 6 Houston (A) ■9 Rhode Island Classic (A) 13 Baylor (A) 20 Texas Tech (H) 23 Cal-State Sacramento (H) 27 Sam Houston (H) Capriati beats Sabatini 15-year old wins 6-3, 7-6 to become youngest semi-finalist in Open history NEW YORK (AP) - Jennifer Capriati, walloping serves more than 100 mph, took a giant step to ward becoming the youngest U.S. Open winner in history as she reached the semifinals by toppling defending champion Gabriela Sabatini. Capriati, at 15 already one of the strongest women in tennis, beat Sabatini for the first time in a full match, 6-3, 7-6 (7-1) on Tues day, overpowering her on serves and groundstrokes, pounding back returns from midcourt and, at critical moments, lobbing with perfection. "I have come this far, I hope I can go all the way," said Capriati, a year younger than Tracy Austin was when she won in 1979. Capriati is the second-youngest semifinalist in U.S. Open history, three months older than Andrea Jaeger in 1980. Capriati sneaked in on Sabati- ni's weak second serves and rock eted them back, or disoriented Sabatini enough with her move ment and the noise of her skipping feet to cause double faults. Capriati did that to break Sabatini in the 11th game of the second set, taking the ball about five feet behind the service line and rapping it back harder than it arrived. Put on the defensive, Sabatini hit a forehand long to fall behind 6-5 with her third broken service of the set and fifth of the match. Capriati made several errors while suffering a break that put the set into a tiebreaker. Capriati broke Sabatini's first serve in the tiebreaker, won 1 the first four points and made it 5-1 with a beautiful lob into the corner that Sabatini couldn't touch. At match point, Capriati pulled a new weapon out of her burgeon ing arsenal, a backhand volley drop that left Sabatini stunned and out. "Every time I used to play her before, she'd control me," Capriati said. "She would move me side to side with her heavy topspin. I nev er used to attack her second serve, but now I went in with a different attitude." The Episcopal Student Center At Texas A&M Welcomes You Holy Eucharist and Dinner Each Wednesday at 6:15 p.m. 902 George Bush Drive 693-4245 Mobile Technologies 696-2693 VallcyView behind K-mart Mobile Technologies in conjunction with the March of Dimes presents the College Station Auto Expo & Central Texas Sound Challenge Sept. 7th & 8th at the Texas World Speedway^ Johnson starts in Mets’ victory over Astros, 6-1 NEW YORK (AP) - Howard Johnson, making his first outfield start since 1986, drove in two runs to help the Mets to a 6-1 victory over the Astros on Tuesday night. Johnson doubled home a run in the Mets' three-run first and singled in another in a three-run fifth that helped Anthony Young (1-1) to his first major league win. Young allowed seven hits over the first seven innings, walking none and striking out six. Tim Burke pitched two scoreless in nings in relief for the Mets. Astros starter Mark Portugal (10-7) helped the Mets with a wild throw in the first inning after Kei th Miller led off with a walk, and Dave Magadan hit a tap back to Portugal. Johnson doubled to score Miller from third and Kevin McReynolds doubled two more runs home. New York made it 6-0 in the fifth on Johnson's RBI single, an RBI single by Mackey Sasser and Kevin Elster's sacrifice fly. Houston scored in the sixth when Steve Finley doubled, moved to third on a groundout and came home on Jeff Bagwell's grounder to third. Johnson had appeared in 14 major league games as an outfield er and was shifted to right in part because he leads NL third base- men in errors with 29. ARE YOU A GRADUATING SENIOR READY FOR LIFE AFTER TEXAS A&M? ARE YOU PREPARED FOR YOUR FIRST JOB INTERVIEW? THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS CAREER CENTER AND TAMU - AGGIE PROFESSIONAL FORUM ANNOUNCE: TAMU CAREER WORKSHOP: INTERVIEWS & RESUMES SEPTEMBER 7, 1991 10:00 AM - NOON 1:30 PM - GENERAL "OPENING" SESSION ** CLAYTON WILLIAMS JR. ALUMNI CENTER LUNCHEON - MSC ($5.00) BREAK-OUT SESSIONS - BY COLLEGE ** RUDDER TOWER REGISTRATION LIMITED TO FIRST 250 GRADUATING SENIORS Registration: Sept. 2, 3, 4, & 5 - 9:00 am - 4 pm MSC - Across from Post Office *>2 V" ■ C1991 Hewlett-Packard Company PGI2102B Rangers pound Yankees, 6-1 ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Texas won its 15th consecutive home game over the Yankees as Jose Guzman pitched a five-hitter Tuesday night and led the Rangers to a 5-1 victory. The Yankees have not won at Texas since May 4, 1989. The AL record for consecutive home victo ries over one team is 22, set by the Boston Red Sox against the Philadelphia Athletics in 1945 and 1946. Guzman (10-5) struck out six and walked three in his third com plete game this season. Texas, which won its third straight, went ahead in the first on a run-scoring single by Mike Stan ley. Jose Hernandez hit an RBI double in the fourth, but the Yan kees pulled to 2-1 in the fifth when Guzman threw a run-scoring wild pitch with Matt Nokes on third. Ruben Sierra hit his 20th home run in the fifth. Giants continued from page 10 The important thing for the Gi ants is that in many ways they car ried over the things they did well last year. They played good de fense and got the clutch plays from their offense with the game on the line. To win the NFC title game in January, quarterback Jeff Hostetler — substituting for an injured Phil Simms — had to take New York on a seven-play, 33-yard drive that Bahr capped with a 42-yard field goal on the final play of the game. "The last drive, we needed to put some points on the board," said Hostetler, who this season beat out Simms for the starting po sition. 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