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By Jamie Burch
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Saddled with a 4-5 record en-
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during the second half.
Trailing 7-0 at halftime, the Ag
gie offense ignited in the third
quarter. After forcing Baylor to
punt on the first series of the half,
A&M took over the ball on its own
48-yard line.
On their second play from
scrimmage, sophomore tailback
Eric Bernard broke free and
scampered 40 yards for a touch
down. The score remained 7-6 af
ter a failed point-after attempt by
placekicker Kyle Bryant.
Two possessions later, the
Aggies would stick to the
ground game.
Using a combination of tail
backs, A&M capped off a 65-yard
scoring drive with a four-yard
touchdown run by sophomore
running back D’Andre Hardeman
to grab its first lead.
A spectacular catch by se
nior wideout Albert Connell in
the back of the end zone for a
two-point conversion put the
Aggies up 14-7.
The Wrecking Crew held the
Baylor offense at bay in the sec
ond half. A&M limited Baylor to
53 offensive yards in the half,
while amassing seven tackles
for lost yardage, including four
quarterback sacks.
Senior noseguard Eddie Jasper
said the key to A&M’s defensive
performance was Baylor’s deci
sion to stray from its game plan.
“For some reason in the sec
ond half, they completely went
away from their running game,”
Jasper said. “If you can’t run, I
don’t think you can win the big
game. But we like playing passing
teams because it’s open season
on quarterbacks.”
After a 40-yard Bryant field
goal extended A&M’s lead to 17-
7 early in the fourth quarter, the
Aggie running game exploded
once more.
On second down and five
from the A&M five-yard line,
Hardeman burst through the
Baylor line and sprinted 95
yards down field for an insur
ance touchdown. The play was
the longest run from the line of
scrimmage in Aggie history.
Hardeman said all he was
thinking about was reaching the
end zone.
“I just turned upfield and
headed for the end zone,”
Hardeman said. “I thought
about the possibility of some
one catching up, but I just put it
in my mind that I wasn’t going
to let anybody catch me.”
A&M Head Coach R.C. Slocum
said increased game experience
for the team’s younger players
made a difference.
“You get better when you
play,” Slocum said. “Each time
you play, you learn something
else, and they’ve learned a lot.”
It was Baylor that drew first
blood in the contest. Surprising
the Wrecking Crew with a pass
ing attack, Baylor scored on a
13-yard touchdown run by tail
back Dexter Ford on its first pos
session to grab the early lead.
The scoring drive was twice
sustained with 22-yard pass
completions on third down and
long situations.
While the A&M offense re
mained in a lull throughout the
first half, Baylor came up empty
on several scoring opportunities.
Late in the second quarter, Bear
placekicker Kyle Atteberry missed
a 39-yard field goal attempt.
In the third quarter, a Baylor
offensive pass interference call
erased a 14-yard completion
and a first down at the A&M 22-
yard line. The Bears then came
up empty when Atteberry
missed another field goal at
tempt from 54 yards out.
Stewart, who completed just
3 of 11 passes for 52 yards in
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Tim Moog, The Battalion
Sophomore tailback Eric Bernard breaks loose from a pack of Bear
defenders Saturday at Floyd Casey Stadium.
yards. Tailbacks Sirr Parker and
Dante Hall also got in on the action,
running for 63 and 76 yards, respec
tively. The Bears were held to 58
rushing yards on 38 attempts.
The Aggies (5-5 overall, 3-3 in the
Big 12) can still be eligible for a bowl
berth with victories over the Univer
sity of Oklahoma and the University
of Texas in their final two games.
Tim Moog, The Battalion
Sophomore tailback Dexter Ford is engulfed by members of A&M's
Wrecking Crew. The Aggie defense limited Baylor to 58 rushing yards.
1996 Big 12 Conference Football Standings
the first half, was taken out of
Conference
Overall
the game with 8:12 remaining
in the second quarter with the
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Texas
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5
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However, redshirt freshman
Texas Tech
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5
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Randy McCown, last week’s
Texas A&M
3
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5
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hero against Oklahoma State,
Oklahoma
3
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3
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failed to jumpstart the Aggie of-
Baylor
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4
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fense, completing just 1 of 3
passes for 11 yards. A&M
Oklahoma St. 1
North Division
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4
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205
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recorded just 16 yards of of-
Colorado
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8
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fense in the second quarter.
Nebraska
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8
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Stewart started and played the
Kansas State
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8
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entire second half.
Kansas
2
4
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129
206
4
5
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258
278
Hardeman finished the game
Missouri
1
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106
240
3
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187
308
with 121 yards on seven carries
while Bernard ran 21 times for 115
Iowa State
1
5
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187
215
2
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273
337
Longhorns take
control of first
in Big 12 South
(AP) — The Texas Longhorns
picked a good time to show their
hearts, something fans were be
ginning to question.
The Longhorns could have
added to a season of unfulfilled
dreams by allowing Texas Tech to
rally past them in Saturday’s Big 12
South Division showdown.
The Red Raiders came back
from 28-3 and 35-18 deficits, but
the Longhorns (5-4, 4-2) held on
for a 38-32 victory and moved into
the division lead. The Raiders (5-4,
4-3) dropped to second place.
“We learned from our mis
takes,” Texas fullback Ricky
Williams said. “We were sick of
people saying we were under
achievers and didn’t have heart.
We knew that wasn’t true. And we
knew what we could do.”
Texas Tech narrowed the
Longhorns’ lead to 35-32 in the
fourth quarter but the Long
horns used 4:11 of the clock to
set up a 53-yard field goal by
Phil Dawson with 51 seconds
left in the game.
That meant a field goal
couldn't tie the game and possi
bly force overtime.
“This time, we weren’t worried
at all,” Taje Allen said. “I don’t
know why. I guess we learned how
to play all 60 minutes.”
The Longhorns almost blew a
21-point lead before beating
Baylor a week ago and they did
blow late leads to Notre Dame,
Virginia and Oklahoma.
They came away smiling
this time.
“You probably just saw one of
the greatest shootouts of ’96,” Texas
coach John Mackovic said. “That
was one heck of a football game.”
How the Big 12 South
Division stacks up
What each school must do to
claim the Big 12 South title
Texas must beat
Kansas and A&M or
could win with a
loss and some help.
Tech must beat
Oklahoma and hope (iT?
Texas loses its two
remaining games.
Oklahoma must
beat A&M and Texas
Tech and hope for a
Texas loss.
A&M must beat
OU and Texas and
hope that with a
Tech loss to OU.
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Soccer falls to Nebraska in Big 12 championship round, 1-0
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The Texas A&M Soccer Team
overcame draining fatigue and cold
weather conditions Sunday in the
final of the Big 12 Conference
Championships, but it could not
overcome its toughest obstacle —
the University of Nebraska.
Playing in a cloudy, blustery 37-
degree climate, the sixth-ranked Ag
gies fell 1-0 in double overtime to
the fifth-ranked Cornhuskers at the
Anheuser-Busch Conference and
Sports Centre in St. Louis, Mo.
Lindsay Eddleman’s goal with less
than two-and-a-half minutes remain
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Members of the A&M Soccer team bundle up on the bench to keep warm
at the Big 12 Championships. The game time temperature was 37 degrees.
earned victory for Nebraska.
A&M was unable to avenge its only
regular season conference loss, a 1-0
setback to the Cornhuskers Sept. 29.
The Aggies returned to play Sunday
after eduring a tightly-contested
semifinal match against Baylor on
Saturday, a 5-4 A&M overtime victory.
Despite allowing a season-high
four goals, A&M capitalized on mul
tiple-goal efforts from Bryn Blalack
and Kristen Koop to advance to
Sunday’s final.
While the second-seeded Aggies
enjoyed a first round bye, Baylor
(17-3-1) defeated the University of
Texas 3-1 on Friday to earn a
matchup with A&M.
The Aggies fell behind 2-0 to the
Bears after 29 minutes, but Koop
would cut the lead in half with a
goal at the 34:02 mark.
However, Courtney Saunders’
second goal of the match just 77
seconds later would post the Bears
to a 3-1 halftime advantage.
“Baylor played terrific,” A&M Head
Coach G. Guerrieri said. “They came
out and played well and put us in the
hole for a lot of the game. Courtney
Saunders, over the course of two
games, appears to be the player of the
tournament, which is saying some
thing considering how well Bryn
played today.”
A Blalack goal at the 56:41 mark
followed by another Koop score six
minutes later would knot the game at
three. Saunders gave the Bears the
lead again with her third goal of the
match in the 65th minute, but Blalack
drove a penalty kick in for a score to
send the match into overtime.
Blalack’s direct kick goal 4:57 into
the extra frame won the game for
A&M. The score marked her fifth hat
trick of the season and her 10th
game-winning goal.
“I couldn’t be more pleased with
the courage and confidence our
players played with to come back
three separate times to pull off this
win,” Guerrieri said. “To be down
two goals at halftime and one goal
late in regulation, and then pull
something out in overtime, is quite
an accomplishment that will have a
positive effect on our program in
the future.”
A&M senior defender Tina Robin
son was named Defensive Most
Valuable Player of the Champi
onships and was also named to the
All-Tournament team. Joining
Robinson on the team were A&M
senior defender Sandy Edwards, ju
nior midfielder Diana Rowe and for
wards Koop and Blalack.
First-round pairings for the 1996
NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer
Championships will be announced
today at 5 p.m. by Kathy Lindahl,
chair of the NCAA Women’s Soccer
Committee. The announcement will
be televised live by FoxSports Net
work affiliates.
Stew Milne, The Battalion
A&M senior forward Kristen Koop drives
past a Baylor defender before passing off
Saturday in St. Louis.