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September 13'Tuesday • September 13, 1994 BV AlW'Vv, ’ 1 lOilers loss po lou cycR that not 60 P 1 " r&euNt ? secondary to y Buckys debut fa Sportswriter By Bra You didn’t thin wc meant hunting did you?... !y Gitiii W...MAMA ALWAVtSTA. -•••LI-FE IS u-KE-A IWKKS 0*= CHAWWK-KtOU Av HAt cwvbr ^ H e ran wild and slipped through tackles. He scrambled and threw strikes. He took over and valiantly led his team. He did everything in his power to pro duce a Houston Oiler upset. But the feisty Bucky Richard son couldn’t do it all alone as his team fell to the heavily-favored Dallas Cowboys, 20-17. It might have been a more suc cessful debut had his teammates not experienced several of their characteristic mental letdowns. But the Oilers are notorious for their bone-headed blunders, so that’s beside the point. Let’s talk about Bucky. It wasn’t until two hours before kickoff that Richardson was named the starting quarterback in place of the injured Cody Carl son. Once the former Texas Aggie trotted onto the field, he didn’t disappoint his die-hard throng of fans. With the exception of an ill-ad vised interception, Bucky played a pretty solid game. He kept the two-time defending world champi ons on their toes the entire after noon, eluding a fierce pass rush by scrambling and unloading passes on the run. The third year quarterback was cool and confident in the hud dle, and effectively moved the football. When all was said and done, Bucky had 242 yards pass ing and he ran for 37 more. Although the Cowboys were the better team on this day, Richard son showed he has great potential as a starting quarterback in the NFL. At this stage, he lacks the Please see Day, Page 6 $PORTS The Battalion • Page 5 Lady Aggie soccer impresses TarHeels Young team meets top- ranked schools in tourney By Stewart Doreen The Battalion After a hard fought weekend against the nation’s best, The Texas A&M women’s soccer team comes home for the season’s home opener today against Mercer University at 5 p.m. at the Aggie Soccer Complex. The Aggies return from Dallas where they partici pated in the Southern Methodist University Classic with three teams ranked in soccer’s top 20. A&M, 2-1-1, tied the 17th-ranked Maryland Terrapins 1-1 in a hard- fought match. The Aggies used a tough defense that shut down the high-scor ing attack of the Terrapins that had scored 5 goals in their Friday win against 11th ranked SMU. In the end, missed opportunities and suspect officiating took a victory from the young Aggies. “We left the game with a little bit of a bitter taste,” A&M head coach G. Guerrieri said. “We thought we created many more good chances than they did.” The tie came two days after the Aggies were baptized into the religion of big-time collegiate soccer in Friday’s match against the legendary North Carolina Tar Heels, a team that marched into Dallas on a 83-game winning streak. The 4-0 win by the No. 1-ranked Tar Heels did leave the Aggies with many positives on Friday. Tar Heel head coach Anson Dorrance, whose team has won eight straight national titles, threw some praise towards A&M’s second-year ball club. “His (Guerrieri’s) players played hard and didn’t roll over against us,” Dorrance said. “I respect a young program that plays hard against a veteran program like ours and has stretches of domination like they did.” Despite the Aggies’ 0-1-1 record, their performances against top competition war ranted praise from their head coach. “My kids impressed me,” Guerrieri said. “They showed the ability to step up and play with the best teams in the country. We’re much farther along than where I thought we’d be at this point in the development of the program.” Please see Soccer, Page 7 "We left the [Maryland] game with a little bit of a bitter taste. We thought we created many more good chances than they did." — G. Guerrieri, A&M head soccer coach U.S. Open win boosts Agassi to No. 9 NEW YORK (AP) — He was on his knees, his eyes aglow, mumbling a word or two to himself on the stadium court. “I can’t believe it,” Andre Agassi said. ‘The whole thing.” Maybe this was the real Agassi on Sunday, a champion at the U.S. Open, producing a 6-1, 7-6 (7-5), 7-5 victory over Michael Stich that had every thing to do with substance and pre cious little with marketing campaigns. Agassi went into this tournament unseeded and beat five seeded players on his way to the title. Work like that is not done with smoke and mirrors. Stich does not know Agassi well, but he has seen the glitz and the neon that accompany him wherever he goes. He has seen Barbra Streisand on his arm at one Open, Brooke Shields at another. He has heard the screeches for Agassi at the National Tennis Center and he has heard the courtside proclamation by U.S. Tennis Associa tion president “Bumpy” Frazer hail ing Agassi as the most famous tennis player in the world. Stich does not take kindly to fool ishness. And this was not a good af ternoon for him, his groundstrokes caught in the wind, his skills dimin ished by Agassi, his patience tested by the umpire. But even Stich was struck by the poignance of Agassi alone on the stadium court while the cheers washed over him like the surf. “If you were standing out there next to him, he was just like a little kid,” Stich said. “He didn’t know what to say. He was just so happy and I think he is a nice guy. “He wasn’t able to cope with all the things people brought up to him. And everybody was just trying to make his image — companies, television people, ATP, players. And I think the image he has is not the person he is. To get rid of that is very difficult for a young man, and he seems able to do that now a little better.” Some players simply have to deliver the right shots to win a tournament. For Agassi it is never that simple. This Open became a kind of psychodrama for him, an examination of his strength and will and maturity. “I think more than anything this is a reflection of my commitment,” he said. “If I had gone down to one of these other guys during the week, I would still have been sitting here say ing the same thing. I’ve got to keep on my dreams, and my dreams are to win a tournament like this. That is where it is at — winning the Grand Slams.” His ATP ranking Monday moved from No. 20 to No. 9. He said it was not unreasonable to think he could be come No. 1. If he did it for two weeks, why not longer? More immediately, he leaves the Open and begins an exhibition tour, starting Tuesday night at Albany, N.Y., against John McEnroe. Agassi said American tennis needs a lift and the tour is important. WTAW radio adds sports show to line-up By David Winder The Battalion Feel like Leeland McElroy is not get ting the ball enough? Think the baseball strike will never end? Having trouble finding people you can express your true sports feelings to? If so, then Chip Howard’s new Sports Talk from 5 - 7 p.m. on WTAW radio has you in mind. “People have al ways said to me for years ‘Why doesn’t Bryan-College Station have a sports talk show?”’ Howard said. “I’ve always wanted to do one, but I couldn’t because of the early hours I was working at KORA.” Since the show start- Howard ed last week, Bucky Richardson, Dallas Morning News writer Randy Galloway, Dallas radio broadcast er Brad Sham and Oklahoma Sooner head coach Gary Gibbs have all ap peared as guests. A&M volleyball head coach Laurie Corbelli, soccer head coach G. Guerrieri and football head coach R.C. Slocum have also made appearances on the show. “I hope what I am doing is giving a fo rum to some of the lesser sports that haven’t had that forum before,” Howard said. “I never had the soccer coach on when I had three minutes for the sports- cast on KORA.” Howard hopes to get more people lis tening to the show by including seg ments on golf and hunting every week. Aggie Fact September 13,1980: A freshman running back named Herschel Walker runs 80 yards for a touchdown and leads eventual national champion Georgia to a 42-0 throttling of the Aggies at Sanford Stadium in Athens. 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