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Section Cangvicw lUarmngHmirnal Sunday, October 23, 1983 a Cowboys host to Raiders, 9-B NBA opens piay, 11-B Journal outdoors, 12-B TTT. WWtiS It MMfl -ironies. the game. But the Mustangs came right back and drove 80 yards to score a touchdown on a 16-yard run by Reggie Dupard. Then, after a time out, the Mustangs tried to regain the lead with a 2-point conversion.

But, under great pressure from Texas rushers, Lance Mcllhenny underthrew a pass to Dupard. Later, with 54 seconds remaining, Ed Williams, the Longhorns' right defensive end, tackled Mcllhenny in the end zone for a safety and the game's final 2 points. Befitting their high defensive rankings, each team prevented the other from scoring a touchdown as the first half ended in a 6-6 tie. So strong was the defense in the second quarter that Texas turned the ball over five times four fumbles and an interception and SMU turned it over three times on fumbles. Six turnovers occurred in the first 6 minutes 40 seconds.

Yet only one score came as a result of a turnover, the 43-yard field goal by Harrell that put SMU in the lead, 6-3, with 9:50 remaining in the half. Harrell had given SMU a 34 lead in the opening moments of the By MICHAEL JANOFSKY N.Y. Timet News Service i IRVINO -7 Despite six turnovers, a poor performance by Rob Moerschell, their, starting quarterback, and a late rally by Southern Methodist, the University of Texas Longhorns won Saturday, 15-12, to remain undefeated and tied for the lead in the Southwest Conference. With the victory, Texas improved its record to 6-0 over all and 3-0 in the conference. Texas next plays Texas Tech, which is also 3-0 in the SWC.

SMU, which won the conference championship the past two years and hadn't lost since 1981, fell to 5-1 and 2-1. The Mustangs' unbeaten streak of 21 games, which included one tie, had been the longest in the country. The Longhorns, who were ranked No. 1 team in the nation by the New York Times and No. 2 by the two major wire services, survived by scoring a touchdown and a safety in the fourth quarter.

The touchdown, which came on a 7-yard pass from Todd Dodge, the backup quarterback, to Bill Boy Bryant, gave Texas a 134 lead with six minutes, 59 seconds remaining in game' by. kicking a 25-yard field goal at the end of SMU's first possession. The kick completed a 78-yard drive highlighted by a 60-yard pass from Mclhenny to the flanker Ron Morris. In the final minute of the period, the Longhorns tied the score on a 52-yard field goal by the freshman Jeff Ward. It was his longest of the season.

came the turnovers. The first was on a punt by Whit Smith of SMU Eric Jeffries let the ball bounce, and it touched him. Kit Case recovered for the Mustangs at their 29. But on the first play, a pitchout, the tailback Jeff Atkins fumbled. Fred Acorn recovered for Texas at the 35.

Texas gave it right back as Moerschell had his first interception of the season. Russell Carter, the free safety, picked off a pass intended for Kelvin Epps, and SMU had a first down at its 25. Later, Moerschell fumbled at his 29, with T.D. Briggs recovering for SMU Four plays later, Harrell kicked SMU into the lead. Texas again gave the ball up on a fumble, as the defensive tackle Tom Linebarger stripped Moerschell of the ball at the Longhorn 40.

But this time, SMU returned the generosity. Mcllhenny's pitchout hit Reggie Dupard on the helmet, and Ray Woodard, a defensive tackle, recovered for the Longhorns at the 40. But Texas was forced to punt, and on its next drive lost the ball with its fifth fumble. The turnover occurred after the tailback John Walker had carried up the middle for 8 yards. The ball was batted out of his hands by the nose guard Jerry Ball, and Carter recovered for SMU.

After three plays had produced only a yard, SMU punted. This time the Longhorns held the ball long enough to move into position for the tying field goal, a 45-yarder by Ward with 25 seconds left in the half. The final turnover of the half came on the ensuing kickoff, when Texas recovered after the ball had touched an SMU player. But time ran out before Texas could score. The third quarter was consistent with the second, as each team turned the ball over once Texas on an interception; SMU on a fumble.

But neither scored. Bears trample i 1 'Jacks upset SW Texas, halt streak 56-21 Frogs, r- I Saturday's scores Southwest Texas 15 SMU 12 Arkansas 24 Houston 3 Texas MM 29 Rice 10 Baylor 56 TCU 21 Tulsa 59 Texas Tech 20 Stephen F. Austin 27 SW Texas 24 Junior College Henderson County 37 Kllgore 17 Navarro 34 Bllnn21 Tyler 27 Wharton 14 Others Nebraska 69 Colorado 19 Oklahoma 49 Kansas State 11 Michigan 16 13 Stanford 31 Arizona 22 WACO (AP) Quarterbacks Cody Carlson and Tom Muecke each guided Baylor on 80-yard touchdown drives in the first quarter Saturday and freshman walk-on Derrick McAdoo scored three touchdowns as the Bears swamped Texas Christian 56-21 in a Southwest Conference football game. Baylor Coach Grant Teaff inserted a third quarterback, short-yardage specialist Allen Rice, behind the Bears first-team offensive line and Rice squirmed 1 yard for one touchdown and darted 5 yards for another. Sophomore running back Ralph Stockemer subbed for Baylor's leading career scorer, Alfred Anderson, and ran 13 times for 111 yards in the first quarter.

Anderson rested a sprained ankle. Stockemer scored an 8-yard run early in the second period and also grabbed a Muecke pass and ran 7 yards for a third-quarter score. Stockemer finished with 149 yards on 25 carries. McAdoo had touchdown runs of 3 and 1 yards and caught an 11-yard pass from Muecke. Two penalties were instrumental in Baylor building a 35-7 haltime lead, which was never seriously challenged.

With the score 144 in Baylor's favor, a clipping penalty eraced a 27-yard pass to the Baylor 4 yard-line, and Texas Christian had to punt On Stockemer's touchdown run for a 21-0 Baylor lead, Texas Christian was penalized IS yards for unsportsman-like conduct, and the penalty enabled Baylor to kick off from the Texas Christian 45. Jim Mueller kicked a bouncer that Baylor defensive back Aaron Grant recovered at the TCU 9 and Baylor scored in two plays on Rice's 5-yard run. Another clipping penalty against TCU wiped out an apparent 91-yard punt return for a touchdown by 1 John Thomas. The victory raised Baylor's season record to 4-2-1. The Bears are 2-2-1 in the SWC The Frogs fell to 1-5-1 and 1-3.

McAdoo, a 54, 173-pounder from Houston Northwest Academy, scored on Baylor's first possession from the Texas Christian 3 on his first college carry 2:16 into the game. Carlson had completions of 21 and 36 yards in that drive. Muecke directed Baylor on its next possession, which Rice finished off by twisting over from the 1. The big gainer was Stockemer's 35-yard run. Texas Christian trailed 28-0 before scoring its first touchdown on a 1-yard run by quarterback Anthony Galley.

The Horned Frogs added two second-half scores on a four-yard run by freshman James Calhoun and a 6-yard pass from Gulley to running back Egypt Allen with 2:10 left in the game. The homecoming victory before 35,876 was Baylor's highest point total since it beat Blackland Air Force Base at Waco 68-0 in 1942. It was the most points Baylor has scored in a conference game since the Bears beat Arkansas 60-0 in' 1922. AF By KYLE WALVOORD Staff Writer NACOGDOCHES College football's longest winning streak has ended at 22 games. The fans at jam-packed Lumberjack Stadium got just what they came for a Stephen F.

Austin victory here Saturday night Rick Wilson booted a 37-yard field goal with just 44 seconds remaining, giving the 'Jacks a hard-fought 27-24 upset win over top-ranked Southwest Texas in their homecoming game. Wilson's kick capped an SFA comeback that was just short of miraculous, and handed Southwest Texas, the two-time defending national champion in Division its first loss since the final regular-season contest of 1981. The Lumberjacks, who advanced their Lone Star Conference record to 30, trailed 17-0 at halftime after coming up short on three prime scoring opportunities deep in Bobcat territory. They trailed 24-10 with just over a minute left in the third quarter before quarterback Tod Weder came back with a pair of scoring strikes to knot the contest in the fourth. With the score tied at 24, the 'Jacks got their chance with 2:27 left to play when defensive tackle Mike Granger recovered a Ricky Sanders fumble at the Bobcat 36.

Five plays later, Wilson kicked the game-winner. He also contributed a 25-yarder early in the second half. "We've become known for coming back, but I was surprised," SFA head coach Jim Hess said. "I was seriously worried at halftime because we were down 17-0 to the No. 1 team in the nation.

"It was really a miracle, the way we came back and the way we held them to one touchdown in the second half." It was Weder's passing that brought the Lumberjacks from behind time and again. He connected with Jacksonville product James Noble jon a 45-yard touchdown strike in the third quarter, narrowing the SWT lead to seven points at 17-10. Then, after a Bobcat score, Weder. brought the 'Jacks back two more times with a 7-yard TD toss to Noble and a 20-yarder to Charlie Smith out of the backfield. The second-year starter from Durant, Okla.

passed for 277 yards, completing 20 of 36 attempts. Noble was his primary target, snagging eight passes for 172 yards and his pair of touchdowns. Southwest Texas quarterback Rene Maldonado, who was 17 of 32 for 247 yards, came through with, touchdown tosses of 18 and 5 yards to Sanders and Vaughn Deary, spectively. Running back Ron Gaskin carried over for another score on a 2-yard plunge and kicker Neal Neunhoff er was good for a 48-yard field goal just before halftime. Sanders was the game's leading ground-gainer with 72 yards on 20 carries, while teammate Eric Cobble added 47 and Gaskin 44.

The SWT defense, the best in the LSC against both the run and the pass, held SFA's Michael LeBlanc to 19 yards on 7 carries and Doug Jefferson to 5 on eight totes. Weder picked up 19 on the ground, and offensive tackle Larry Milton picked up 49 yards off a Weder lateral that moved the football Inside the Bobcat 10-yard line. Maldonado gave up a pair of interceptions to Mark Kanipes and Kelvin Polk, while Bobcat defensive back Adrian Simpson snagged a Weder aerial in the opening minutes. SMIPS RUSSELL CARTER RETURNS INTERCEPTION Longhorns hold off Mustangs for big 15-12 Southwest Conference victory Texas subdues stubborn Rice, 29-10 HOUSTON (AP) Texas freshman quarterback Kevin Murray threw three touchdown passes, two to Jeff Nelson, and overcame four interceptions by Rice Saturday to lead the Aggies to a 29-10 Southwest Conference football victory. The Aggies, who have won nine of the last 10 games against the Owls, improved their record to 3-3-1 while the Owls dropped to 1-7 for the season.

It was the final home coaching appearance for Rice Coach Ray Alborn, who has announced his resignation at the end of the current season. The Owls close out the season with three road games. The Aggies struck twice over a nine-, Patterson's interception return was his second of the game. On the Aggies' previous drive, Patterson returned an interception 13 yards but fumbled and Matt Darwin record at the Rice 30. After two running plays, Murray tried another pass and this time Patterson ran untouched 85 yards after a clearing block by cornerback Eddie Johnson.

Rice was unable to take advantage of miscues late in the third and fourth quarters. Rice's Dwain Turner recovered an fumble late in the third quarter and Richard Crayton picked off a Murray pass early in. the fourth quarter, but the Owls got no points from either turnover. son with 23 seconds left in the half. The two teams traded third quarter field goals with a 33-yarder by Rice's James Ham-rick and a 44-yarder by Alan Smith.

The Aggies put the game out of rech in the fourth quarter when Murray got his third TD of game, a 25-yarder to Nelson with 9:29 remaining one the clock. Rice is 0-5 in SWC games and the Aggies are 2-1-1. Murray suffered his fourth interception of the game with 1:52 to play when Troy Cates intercepted at the Rice 6 to push back a final Aggie scoring attack. Murray completed 24 of 48 passes for 280 yards. second span of the first quarter on a three-yard touchdown pass from Murray to Jimmie Hawkins and Roger Vick's 11-yard run.

The Aggies then coasted to a 20-7 half-time lead. Hawkins's touchdown came on the Aggies' first drive of the game and after Rice's Kevin Trigg fumbled on Rice's first offensive, play linebacker Billy Cannon recovered at the Rice 11 and Vick ran in on the first play. Rice's Brian Patterson intercepted a pass by Murray in the second qurter and returned it 85 yrds for a touchdown but the Aggies answered that with an 80-yard drive camp-ped by Murray's nine yard pass to Jeff Nel World-rated boxers advance By MARK L. ELWOOD Staff Writer Twenty semifinal bouts were contested Saturday, evening at the Gregg County Fairgrounds Exhibition Hall in the United States Amateur Boxing Federation Texas State Championships. Only four of the first fourteen bouts were decided by knockout, and the judges received a workout, as did the fighters forced to go three 3-minute rounds each.

Three world-ranked boxers advanced to the finals, scheduled for 2 p.m. today, including' Vincent Rele-ford, Michael Collins and Robert Byrd. Releford, representing the Northeast Texas District at 147 pounds, pounded out an easy decision over Houston's Joe Garcia to earn a spot opposite San Antonio's Os-scar Pena in the welterweight title bout Pena was victorious when opponent Gilbert Castillo of Texas Tech was retired by his corner after the second round in which he was knocked down twice. Collins, the bantamweight (119 pounds) from La- Porte, rallied for a third-round knockout of game Harry Washington from Arlington, using body shots to do the damage in one of the night's best bouts. He meets Austin's Conrad Sanchez, a winner by clear decision over Joe Ben-era of Plainview in the finals.

Byrd, a "Wild card', was awarded a crowd-contested decision over San Antonio's Robert Ochoa in a match that saw Byrd punch sparingly from a defensive posture with a reportedly injured right hand. He will tangle with Robert Guy of Fort Worth for the lightweight i 132) title following Guy's come-from-behind escape against Tulia's Eddie "Pee Wee" Parker. Guy put Parker down twice with body and kidney punches in the third round to sway the judges after Parker had apparently captured the first two rounds. Gerald "Cookie Monster" Lege Jr, the All-Army cha-mion from Killeen, advanced to the 139-pound title bout by scoring a third round technical knockout (TKO) of Lubbock's Terry Norris with a pair of third-See Releford, 12-B SuftphMkyMikGiteM JOHNNY MILLER (left), BRIAN LONNON BATTLE IT OUT 106-pound bout in state tournament at fairgrounds-.