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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."
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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.
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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.
"The defense got us the ball
and we wanted to make sure we
took advantage of it and got it
down within field-goal range. We
executed well and it was a good
come-from-behind victory.'
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