The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 31, 1992, Image 7

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, August 31, 1992, Image 7

Newspaper Page Text- it's going-; aid to a choit Page 7 Sports mMmmmmmmmmMmMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm The Battalion Monday, August 31,1992 iere is reconst! ore speakings; »ed that Floiii be put to woil r disaster aid: 11 more were k f road hadt; \] roads wereo ng services opi ion of govern: isaster area, le iday home deli de County. me s 1,000 customer: i: ixth day witli lay, downfroiri | )se power rlier in thewea I ong as 10 day - restore custor areas suck \klin and Patter utility worker- i ■ power gridfr I e areas. Thest; j l miles of line- ! tween New Ik: : L’ity. In the 3: the potent m: $ utility poles- miles of trans: is where there: rcks working,: cheering," said: i okesman fort | thout power,re lectricity forsta refrigerators,! | s, air conditiois ters and televis ■ queued up aji a ter, ice and | ;s and grits fe 6 ptist Convert I meals from: .tional Guard: rom the SalvaS I A&M wins, but lack of offense cause for worry ANAHEIM, Calif. - Never be fore has a football team been more de pressed after a win. Sure, the Texas A&M Aggies won the game in come-from-behind fashion scoring 10 points in the final quarter to fend off the feisty Stanford defensive machine, 10-7. And sure, they came away from what head coach R.C. Slocum called the toughest game they'd play all year with a win. But you never saw a gioup of sadder faces from a winning team before, only five miles away from "the happiest place on Earth." The Disneyland Pigskin Classic was hyped all week in southern California as the return of Stanford coach Bill Walsh, but at game's end, the big ques tion was: Where's the A&M offense? The spark that carried Texas A&M through its Southwest Conference championship season last year was not at Anaheim Stadium last Wednesday. Through the first three quarters, 11 of the Aggies' 12 possessions ended in punts. The other one ended in a fum ble. The zip that Jeff Granger puts on his fastballs could not be found in his pass es. He spent considerable time looking for his receivers, and then several times, he under threw the ball. Perhaps this is due to only having practiced with the team for a month or even opening-day jitters, but nonetheless it was disheart ening for those who assumed that Granger would be an instant cure to the void left by Bucky Richardson. When Granger was pulled in the third quarter, he had completed a mere 6-of-21 passes. Corey Pullig, the up- and-coming freshman backup promptly had a pass nearly picked off, got sacked, and threw away a pass on third down. Matt Miller, whio a month ago was No. 1 on the depth chart, came in and had no success moving the ball down the field, either.., ; rr See Whitley/Page 8 CHRIS WHITLEY Sports Editor A&M slides Aggies score 10 points in final quarter to secure comeback victory Stanford ROBERT REED/The Battalion A&M cornerback Derrick Frazier (23) celebrates as 10-7 win over Stanford as the final seconds tick off the clock. The win was the fourth straight season opening victory for the Aggies By DOUG FOSTER Sports Editor of THE BATTALION ANAHEIM, Calif. - For three quarters, it looked like the sequel to the 1992 Mobil Cotton Bowl Classic. But luckily for Texas A&M fans, the Aggies managed to resuscitate their of fense in the final 12 minutes to post a 10-7 come-from-behind victory over Stanford in the third annual Disneyland Pigskin Classic. The Aggies, ranked seventh in the na tion in the Associated Press top 25 enter ing the game, provided the usual A&M defensive highlight film against the Car dinal. The offense, however, was probably not churning like head coach R.C. Slocum would have liked. Stanford held the Ag gies to 33 yards total offense in the first half,'and A&M only crossed midfield one time in that 30-minute span. In the end, though, it was neither de fense nor offense that would pull out the win for the Aggies. Ifrwas special teams. A&M place-kicker Terry Venetoulias put the Aggies in the lead foy the first tifne in the game with a 39-yard field goal with 4:27 left to play, and punter David Davis closed out the game With a 52-yard punt as time expired to end the Cardinal hopes. "I was really ex,cited to be in that type of pressure situation," Venetoulias said of his game-winning kick. "Kickers live to win the game like that. I've been think ing about being in a situation like that since I was knee-high. I just try to do whatever I can to help the team win." < The 60-yard drive that set up the game-winning field goal was keyed by a 33-yard scramble by A&M quarterback Jeff Granger which moved the Aggies to the Cardinal 29-yard line. The drive was started on an interception by cornerback Aaron Glenn at the A&M 16. Less than 10 minutes earlier, the A&M offense had completed its first successful drive of the game by moving 64 yards in eight plays, the final 21 of which came on a pass from Granger* to tight end Greg Schorp in the back of the end zone to tie the game at seven. Schorp finished the game with four catches for 68 yards, all of which came on either second or third down and long yardage. Schorp was later named A&M's Most Valuable Player for the game. The two scoring drives combined helped the Aggies to a 109-58 total yard advantage during the final stanza. Until the fourth quarter, however, Stanford looked to be in control as the A&M offense remained stagnant. After opening the game by driving down to the Aggie 15, the Cardinal as sault was halted as A&M linebacker Mar cus Buckley, who was not expected to play because of a mysterious illness, sacked Stanford quarterback Steve Sten- strom and caused a fumble which he re covered at the 22. The A&M offense then immediately began their stall technique, going zero yards in three plays and being forced to punt the ball back to Stanford. "We didn't execute well in the first half and we began to get down on our selves," Granger said after going 3-for-12 for 16 yards in the first half. "I was hav ing trouble throwing the ball .because my hands were sweaty, but luckily me and the offense got a second chance." The Cardinal finally removed the scoreboard of all goose-eggs on a short ened scoring drive early in the second quarter. After Stanford's Glyn Milburn re turned a punt to the A&M 15, the Cardi nal needed only two plays before fullback JJ. Easley scored from five yards out to give Stanford a 7-0 lead. Slocum said despite his frustration with the offense, he felt his team gave a good effort in the season opener. "I thought it was a very good game, even though I was frustrated with our in ability to move the ball," Slocum said. "Their defense plays a lot like ours, and they did a good job of taking us out of our ability to run the ball. When we couldn't run, our quarterbacks were hav ing a tough time executing and failed to get the ball to our receivers a few times." Being a former defensive coordinator for the Aggies, Slocum was quick to point out his satisfaction with the way the A&M defense performed. "I was very pleased vyith ppp. clefense tonight," he said. " I thought opr coaches did an excellent job of preparing for this game, and we did a good job of holding them in check. 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