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Thursday • October 6, 1994
Great college
rivalries rock
the weekend
The Battalion • Page 11
STEWART
DOREEN
Sportswriter
I n the days of strikes, free
agency, lock outs and collective
bargaining agreements, it is no
wonder that college football has
taken off in the eyes of sports fans
all over the country.
It is hard for sports fans to ig
nore the great rivalries and big
games under the autumn sky that
occupy our Saturdays. We sit
back and watch as players from
across the nation seem to deliver
each weekend despite the big
business that college football has
become today with the television
contracts and bowl coalitions.
What they deliver are the mem
ories like Colorado’s Michael
Westbrook catch to defeat Michi
gan, a Michigan victory over the
Irish two weeks before or A&M’s
crucial touchdown or big win. It’s the
tens of thousands of fans packing the
stadiums, cheering their team to
overcome the obstacle before them.
This weekend should prove no dif
ferent with the great games on
schedule.
No. 16 Texas vs. No. 15 Okla-
homa-The official Red River rivalry
continues this weekend. With both
teams entering the game ranked for
the first time since 1985, tradition
takes a back seat to the importance
of this year’s game.
Since the Aggies have already
defeated the Sooners. A win for
Texas would give them a great deal
of confidence for the Nov. 5 game
with that other Texas team.
No. 3 Florida State vs. No. 13 Mia-
mi-It has been football’s biggest ri
valry since the late 1980’s. With the
Miami Hurricane’s losing in the Or
ange Bowl to Washington, Florida
State has the mental advantage
knowing Miami can be defeated at
home.
No. 8 Notre Dame vs. Boston Col
lege-Boston College gave college foot
ball one of the more incredible mo
ments of the 1993 season. The last-
second field goal defeated the
almighty Irish and diminished then-
hopes of a national title.
No. 6 Arizona vs. No. 23 Colorado
State-If you get the chance to see the
“Desert Swarm” defense of Arizona
you won’t be disappointed.
No. 10 Texas A&M vs. Houston-
Just kidding!
There many others that will ap
peal to sports fan ready to spend his
Saturday on the couch, and with
cloudy skies and scattered showers
predicted for Saturday many of you
will be. So let baseball and hockey
argue over their own matters, and
check local listings for the game in
your area.
ATM
This day in Aggie
football...
October 6, 1962: With :19 left in the
game, Texas Tech takes a 3-0 lead over
A&M in the SWC opener for both
teams.. Dan Mcllhany takes the ensuing
kickoff a school record 100 yards for a
touchdown to win the game 7-3.
McConnell big part of Lady Aggies’ success
Goalkeeper ranks as one of South's best
By Jason Holstead
The Battalion
When G. Guerrieri was named head
coach of the Texas A&M women’s soc
cer team, he knew exactly who he
wanted to get.
Goalkeeper Sunny McConnell was
that person because of the way she
played the game.
Guerrieri first worked with Mc
Connell during her junior year at
Richardson Berkner High School.
Guerrieri, a former goalkeeper with the
University of Tulsa, knows the how
very demanding the position can be.
“Sunny leads by example,” Guerri
eri said. “Through her work ethic and
the incredible amount of time she puts
into her game, the rest of the team
learns from her success.”
McConnell, a two-time member of the
Olympic Development State Select Pool,
said the idea of being a part of a new pro
gram influenced the decision to go A&M.
“I wanted to be a part of a new
team that was going to be building a
name for itself,” McConnell said. “I
respected coach G. (Guerrieri), and
when he got this job here, I knew this
is where I wanted to come.”
In her second year, McConnell’s
record is already ranking among the
best goalkeepers in the South region.
While splitting time with Senior goal
keeper Michelle Crofts, McConnell has
a 4-2-1 record and is holding oppo
nents to a 1.11 goals-against average.
Last year, McConnell debuted on the
collegiate scene with a 14-3-1 record
leading the team to the season-ending
tenth ranking in the South.
She ranked among the top ten
goalkeepers in the South for the entire
season ending a with 0.85 goals-
against average placing her second in
the region. Her eight shutouts also
placed her second in the region.
McConnell, a GTE Achievement
Academic Award winner, said her
strengths as a goalkeeper include de
fending one-on-one plays and her clos
ing speed to the ball.
However, she says that that the
teamwork and communication demon
strated by the defense and the ball-
control ability of the midfielders are
the keys to success.
Blake Griggs/THE Battalion
Goalkeeper Sunny McConnell gets ready to make a save during soccer practice.
“I think our team’s strengths are
the ability to communicate with each
other, read each other and play off
Houston expects tough game against A&M
Helton says Cougars ready to step on the field and face strong Aggie defense
By Drew Diener
The Battalion
As the nation’s lOth-ranked team,
Texas A&M should be licking its chops
in anticipation of playing the winless
University of Houston Cougars this Sat
urday. Cougars’ head coach Kim Hel
ton, however, said that his team is pre
pared to give the Ag
gies a tough battle.
“In past history,
this has always been
a good game,” Hel
ton said. “Players
on our team know
players on their
team so it’s like a
family affair, and
the competition has
always been keen.”
The Cougars will
be without-: first
string quarterback Chuck Clements, who
went down with a season-ending injury
two weeks ago against Ohio State. Re
placing Clements will be fifth year se
nior Clay Helton, who will be making his
first career start.
“I couldn’t be more excited,” Helton
said. “ These are things that you
Helton
dream about.
I’ve been waiting five years for this.”
Clay Helton relieved Clements in the
Ohio State game, completing seven of
nine passes for 51 yards. Helton said
that such numbers would not be so easy
to attain against the Aggie defense.
“They have the quickest defense that
we’ve seen, quicker than Ohio State,”
Helton said. “They have two great cor-
nerbacks (senior Ray Mickens and sopho
more Donovan Greer) that can play
bump and run with the best of them.”
Trying to protect Clay Helton from the
relentless Wrecking Crew attack will be
a young offensive line anchored by junior
left tackle Jimmy Herndon and senior
right tackle Billy Milner. Milner said
that the line will have their work cut out
for them Saturday when they line up
against a stifling A&M defensive line.
“We’ve got to stop their pass rush and
keep our quarterback protected,” Milner
said. “Because they blitz a lot, we need
to open holes (for our running game).”
Behind the strength of sophomore
workhorse Jermaine Williams, the
Houston ground attack has managed
70.5 yards per game. Williams’ 47 car
ries for 253 yards leads the team.
McGuire will be up against an A&M
defense that has held all four of it’s oppo
nents this season to under 100 yards
rushing. Coach Helton said that his team
has great respect for the type of damage
the Wrecking Crew is capable of doing.
“They have a ‘Confront You’ defense,”
Helton said. “Every team has struggled
against them this year. Our objective is
to move the ball and score points.”
On the other side of the ball, the
Cougars are faced will the unpleasant
task of containing A&M running backs
Rodney Thomas and Leeland McElroy.
Opponents have rushed for an average
of 278.5 yards per game against the
Cougar defense this season. Ohio
State ran the ball 62 times for 312
yards en-route to a 52-0 victory.
“Kansas (359 yards against Houston
in week one) and Ohio State have good
running games,” Helton said. “But
A&M has two of the better running
hacks in the country. They wall provide
an excellent challenge.”
Clay Helton said that the Cougars
have practiced well this week and are
eager to step on the field.
“We’re improving weekly and we’re
ready to play,” Helton said. “When
you get to play a great team like
A&M, you get up for it.”
Nebraska’s Frazier to miss rest of ‘94 season
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska
quarterback Tommie Frazier, hospi
talized with a blood clot in his right
leg, is all but certain to miss the rest
of the season.
A doctor Wednesday recommended
surgery and said Frazier, once a lead
ing contender for the Heisman Trophy,
should have no physical contact for
three to six months.
Dr. Deepak Gangahar, a cardiovas
cular surgeon, said the 20-year-old ju
nior from Bradenton, Fla., should re
main in the hospital for a week to 10
days for an operation.
“Medicine is an inexact science,”
Gangahar said from Bryan Memorial
Hospital. “But as it goes today that is
my recommendation to the coach.”
“You never say never in athletics,”
Osborne said after practice. “But I
wouldn’t hold out that hope to anybody.
The main concern now is down the road
... to get him healthy.”
“Tommie kept his chin up and recog
nized the reality,” Gangahar said.
The doctor said he is 90 percent sure
Frazier will have surgery to tie off a
surface vein that had
a smaller blood clot.
That smaller vein, he
said, likely rubbed
against the larger in
ner vein, causing the
second blood clot in
two weeks.
The larger second
clot discovered Tues
day has been dis
solved, Gangahar
said. Doctors now
Frazier
want Frazier’s blood to gradually thick
en so they can operate to tie off the
smaller vein.
After a first clot was discovered
Sept. 25 behind Frazier’s right knee,
Gangahar said Frazier would be out for
the season if the clot re-formed.
While clots like Frazier’s are not
rare, Ganghar said they usually occur
among the elderly or those with heart
disease or cancer.
“We have done numerous tests to de
termine that he is not suffering from
any other blood or disease related prob
lems,” he said.
Frazier was spending “some private
time with his mother,” said Chris An
derson, the university’s sports informa
tion director. Priscilla Frazier came to
Lincoln on Wednesday.
“You just hope the kid’s OK,” said
Oklahoma State coach Pat Jones,
whose team plays at Nebraska on
Saturday.
Added Colorado coach Bill McCart
ney: “Our prayers are with Tommie
Frazier. We’re certainly pulling for
him. I don’t like hearing this.”
each other,” McConnell said. “We have
a very strong midfield enabling us to to
work well and move with them.”
NBA tries to
avoid lockout
NEW YORK (AP) — Amid two
work stoppages in pro sports, NBA
commissioner David Stern tried to
quell talk of a lockout Wednesday,
saying the league was willing to ne
gotiate any system to fairly divide
revenues with its players.
“We’re open to almost any idea or
proposal,” he said. After the league’s
Board of Governors meeting. Stern
and owners left open the possibility
the season could start without a col
lective bargaining agreement. The
NBA’s deal with its players expired
at the end of last season, and no
talks have been held since July.
“We would like to have a deal as
soon as possible,” Stern said. “There
are no ultimata. There’s no gantlet
being thrown down here.”
Calls to Charles Grantham, exec
utive director of the players’ union,
were not immediately returned.
Although the owners briefly dis
cussed lockouts and strikes as poten
tial results of a bargaining impasse,
they avoided setting a deadline for
reaching an agreement, even though
training camps open this weekend
.“We don’t want to establish a hos
tile environment,” said Utah Jazz
owner Larry Miller, a committee
member. “I think that we purposely
did not establish a deadline to foster
this positive environment.”
“We know what a strike is, we
know what a lockout is,” Stem said.
“But because of the relationship
that has existed between us and our
players, those particular weapons
have never been called into
action.In a meeting to approve sev
eral rule changes and a new owner
for the Minnesota Timberwolves, la
bor talk dominated the gathering.
Stern spoke while standing in
front of a blue-and-red graph
showing how league revenues have
increased since 1982-83 when a
salary cap was first imposed. Up
from $135 million 12 years ago, the
NBA divided $925 million last sea
son, 53 percent of which went to
player wages and benefits.
Stem said the league was willing
to include an additional $100 mil
lion in revenues as a part of the pie
divided by players and owners.
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