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STEVE
O'BRIEN
Sports Writer
Saturday's
game, Texas
Tech kicker
Jon Davis ran
to the Red
Raiders' side
line, celebrat
ing his field
goal which put
Tech ahead of
Texas A&M
17-16.
Across the
field, the Ag
gie offense
was preparing to take the field in a
last ditched effort to win — to beat
the Red Raiders on the scoreboard,
knowing they had beaten them on the
field.
Play after play. Series after series.
Tech had played an inspired, coura
geous game, but they were outplayed.
The Aggie offensive line, led by ju
nior guard Tyler Harrison, center
Chris Dausin, and senior guard John
Ellisor who was returning from a
knee injury, crammed the nation's
best running attack down Tech's
throat.
But the Aggies had been inconsis
tent throughout the game, and incon
sistent play by a good team doesn't
guarantee a win. It only promises
that the game will be in reach near the
end.
And for the Aggies, it was.
So with five minutes left, after
Davis' celebration had ended and
A&M received the kickoff, quarter
back Jeff Granger slipped his helmet
over his head, snapped his chinstrap
down and ran out onto the field. Be
hind him was a battered and bruised
Aggie offense that had put up 387
yards of offense with only 16 points to
show for it.
live Red Raiders, had put up 293
yards p^f offepse an^khpd the lead.
Starting on theipown 20, the Ag
gies needed 80 yard's. Eighty yards to
stay in the Cotton Bowl race. Eighty
yards to keep their ranking as the fifth
best team in the country.
Eighty yards.
Somehow, they did it.
The Aggies, in what has become a
See O’Brien/Page 7
Aggies give Red Raiders the boot
A&M takes win
from Texas Tech
in final seconds
By DON NORWOOD
Sports Writer of THE BATTALION
Alfred Hitchcock was known as the
master of suspense. But he would not
have had anything on the storyline of
Texas A&M's 1992 football season.
The Aggies added another chapter to
the story of the comeback football team
Saturday against Texas Tech at Kyle
Field.
In the final play of the game, A&M
place-kicker Terry Venetoulias might not
have been kicking into a wind blowing
north by northwest, but he did his best
cool, Cary Grant imitation by nailing a 21-
yard field goal to pull out the Aggies' 19-
17 win over the Red Raiders.
A&M's first Southwest Conference win
of the season was, to quote a line from a
less-Hitchcockian movie, 100 percent
pure adrenaline. With four lead changes
in the second half alone, 381 yards rush
ing from the Aggies and 228 yards pass
ing by Tech's Robert Hall, there might
have been more than a few accelerated
heartbeats.
The Aggies final drive epitomized the
high drama of a win that raised their
record to 5-0, preserving their national
championship hopes. Quarterback Jeff
Granger shrugged off the weight of his
critics' doubts in that drive, leading the
Aggies 80 yards in just over five minutes
to set up Venetoulias' field goal.
The scariest point of the drive came at
third down and eight yards to go at the
Tech 42, when Granger slipped out of
Tech defensive end Dusty Beavers' grasp
to hit tight end Greg Schorp for a 13-yard
first down reception.
Although Venetoulias' field goal was
obviously the most crucial play of the
game. Granger's Houdini act in escaping
Beavers was a close second, as A&M head
coach R.C. Slocum was quick to admit af
terward. /, ,***
"I was really proud of Jeff in thatsitua-4
tion," Slocum said. "He's made some ke^
plays in tough situations (this year)." *
"I think a drive like that gives you con
fidence for the entire year that if you get
in that situation again, you can do it,"
A&M offensive coordinator Bob Toledo
said. "If you don't do it there, then when
you get in that situation again down the
road, your kids don't believe you can do
it.
DARRIN HILL/The Battalion
A&M running back Rodney Thomas lowers his head to break a tackle from a
Texas Tech defender during the Aggies’ 19-17 win over the Red Raiders.
Thomas had his best day as an Aggie, running for 179 yards on 24 carries.
"But our kids right now believe that
we can win in the fourth quarter and we
can win in the final drive, and that's half
the battle."
Granger himself described his comple
tion to Schorp matter-of-factly, which is
pretty much the same manner in which
he performed the play.
"I took a step and I felt some pressure
from the back side, so I started to move
up in the pocket and the next thing I
knpw l almost went down," Granger said.
"It; wa^ good to see Greg Schorp right
the&e. He was wide open and there was
nobody around him. I threw a strike to
him and he turned around and got first
down yardage.
"That was the biggest offensive play of
the game, I think, because the game was
on the line and it was a crucial situation."
Tech coach Spike Dykes grudgingly
echoed Granger's assessment of the play.
"We had a chance for a sack on third
down, but give Granger credit - he made
a great play," Dykes said.
"I think Granger did a good job for
them. He made the plays when they
needed them."
For the most part however. Granger's
primary job against Tech was to hand off
to running backs Greg Hill and Rodney
Thomas and watch them trip the light
fantastic. The former continued bis -re
turn to the glory he enjoyed ago,
rushing for 141 yards before leaving the
game late with a minor groin ihjiity.
And Thomas enjoyed the best game of
his short college career, carrying the ball
24 times for 179 yards, including a key,
22-yard touchdown to put the Aggies up
16-14 in the fourth quarter.
The duo's output on the ground
See Aggies/Page 6
Venetoulias
bounces back
after miss
By MICHAEL PLUMER
Spar "' atritero j mK BArTAUO K ™"
Texas A&M place-kicker Terry
Venetoulias, in a brief fifteen minute
span, went from being the fall guy to
the player that heightened the Ag
gies' chance for a possible national
championship in 1992.
The junior kicker missed an extra
point in the fourth quarter in Satur
day's game but rebounded with a
game winning kick on the last play
of the game mat gave the Aggies a
19-17 victory over the Texas Tech
Red Raiders.
While watching A&M embark on
its game winning drive, Venetoulias
was hoping for a chance to gain re
demption. He said he wanted to
show Texas A&M fans that he was
better than his last extra point at
tempt.
"That was great," Venetoulias
said. "I accept a challenge like that, 1
want a challenge like mat, I like a
challenge like that.
"I take the last second field goal
the same as the first quarter field
goal. It's all the same kick.
"If it comes down to it for me to
win the game with a field goal, I pre
pare in practice each week to make
it."
On the sideline before a kick that
would extend A&M's winning
streak to 14 straight regular season
games, Venetoulias said he was try
ing to keep his focus on the upcom
ing field goal attempt and not worry
about his past indiscretions.
"I'm not telling myself 'God I
have to make this/ because IT l send
myself to a nuthouse if I start think
ing like that," Venetoulias said. "1
know what I did wrong, T know
where I messed up on the missed ex
tra point so I had to make the adjust
ment come back and make the next
one.
"It's part of life. You have to
overcome big obstacles and true
champions always come back."
Venetoulias did admit that his
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