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i Friday, September 9, 1994 Michael Stich and Karel Novacek reach U.S. Open semis C3 Scoreboard C8 Neighbor Sports CIO No. 1 Cornhuskers wear down Raiders DLTD UT yp WHEN: 2:30 p.m:, Saturday WHERE: Memorial Stadium (capacity 77,809) RECORDS: Louisville 0-1 Texas 1 -O LAST WEEK: Louisville lost to Ken- tucky 20-14; Texas beat Pitt 30-28. FAVORITE: Texas by 12 points CROWDTICKETS: 60,000 to 65,000 expected; tickets, $20 reserved, $1 0 general admission, $5 children TV: ABC regional (KVUE, Channel 24, Cable 3) RADIO: KLBJ-AM (590) Texas needs 3-4 defense to add up on Saturday C4 Louisville running back Anthony Shel-man can't wait to run at UT defense C4 Longhorns report C5 off 21 unanswered points to wear down the gutsy Raiders en route to a 42-16 victory before a small crowd of 32,768 in Jones Stadium. "Anytime you play the No.

1 team in the country, you'd better be ready to play 60 minutes," said Tech Coach Spike Dykes, who takes his 1-1 team to Oklahoma next week. "They just wore us out, our defense especially." Quarterback Tommie Frazier, I-back Lawrence Phillips and fullback Cory Schlesinger combined to make Thursday a virtual instant replay of last year in Lincoln. There, the Raiders led 21-20 mid-. way through the third quarter before wilting 50-27. The Raiders did about as See No.

1, C5 By Randy Riggs American-Statesman Staff LUBBOCK When Texas Tech made it interesting Thursday night, Nebraska's top-ranked sleeping giants obliged by getting properly interested and, consequently, down to business. The Cornhuskers wakeup call came early in the third quarter of their nationally televised game with the Red Raiders. When Tech tight end Scott Aylor, a Round Rock product, caught a 6-yard scoring pass from Zebbie Lethridge, the 25-point underdog Raiders trailed only 14-9. But that was as good as it would get for Tech. The aroused Cornhuskers ripped Louisville.

Adams, however, must make restitution for his half of the $1,000 value of a car rental before the Longhorns host Houston on Nov. 12 or riSk further suspension, said Carrie Doyle, NCAA director of eligibility. Texas has not applied for reinstatement of wide receiver Lovell Pinkney, who with Adams was given a one-game suspension by the university for accepting use of a 1994 Toyota Camry for five weeks this spring, a violation of NCAA See NCAA. C4 NCAA reinstates receiver's eligibility for Longhorns' home opener By Mark Wangrin and Suzanne Halliburton American-Statesman Staff The NCAA reinstated the eligibility of Texas wide receiver Mike Adams late Thursday, and he will play in the Longhorns' home opener Saturday against 1 jestlake stretches streak to 27 Venable fills in for injured Nunez and runs for 138 yards in 14-7 win over Round Rock By Butch Hart American-Statesman Correspondent ROUND ROCK Matt Venable might be a backup, but he proved he has more than second-string talent in leading Westlake, the state's fifth-ranked Class 5A football team, to a 14-7 win over Round Rock Thursday night. Venable, subbing for the injured Ryan Nunez, gained 138 yards on 19 car- hm AW) il -V 'A -v vn.i.

-4- 1 ries and set up a touchdown as Westlake ran its regular-season unbeaten string to 27 games, dating back to late 1991. "It was a short week of practice, andjve worked very hard so the line would be used to my running," said Venable, a 180-pound senior. "Every hole was wide open tonight." H.S. football Reagan blanks Bowie 17-0, set sights on Consolidated C6 Previewing tonight's games C6 David Denney has coached Marble Falls to a 43-7-2 record from 1990-93 C7 Linebacker Shad Zapa- lac keyed a Westlake defense that forced five turnovers. He recovered two Dragon fumbles inside the Chap 20 to break up scoring threats.

"Venable did a great job tonight, which wasn't really a surprise because he's a good running back," Westlake Coach Ron Schroeder said. "But Zapalac had been injured and we weren't sure he could even play, but he had a great game." Five Round Rock turnovers kept the Dragons off the scoreboard until 4 minutes, 37 seconds was left in the fourth quarter. Fullback Ray Ortiz raced 56 yards up the middle for a score to cut the margin to See Westlake, C6 Staff photo by Sung Park Southwest Texas State receiver Chris McGarrahan is flipped after being hit by cats shocked the No. 3 Panthers 20-19 for their biggest victory since a 1990 deci-Northern Iowa defenders during the first half Thursday in San Marcos. The Bob- sion over McNeese State.

SWT shocks Northern Iowa Sit i I both sides of the ball especially on the defensive side Southwest Tex- as State pulled off its biggest victory since a win over McNeese State in 1990, stunning the third-ranked Panthers 20-19 and thrilling 7,139 fans at Bobcat Stadium and a regional television audience. SWT's big-play cast of characters was large: Steady senior kicker Ray Whitehead, who earlier had flubbed a 30-yard chip shot, provided the margin of victory with a career-best Senior running back Donald Wilkerson bested his opening-day performance against Texas a week ago, gaining 184 workhorse yards on 34 carries and accounting for all but three of the Bobcats' running plays. In a unanimous decision, it was the biggest win ever for this current crop of Bobcats, especially after last week's 45-14 thumping at the hands of The win over No. 19 McNeese in 1990 was also the last See Bobcats, C5 By Bill Martin Special to the American-Statesman SAN MARCOS What a difference a week makes. A Northern Iowa team coming off an emotional win over intrastate rival Iowa State came to town and was ripe for an "upset against a Southwest Texas State team that was humiliated just a week ago.

The Bobcats were happy to accommodate their guests. Boosted by an inspired effort on 47-yard field goal with 5 minutes, 52 seconds left in the game. Senior linebacker Vincente Reid, who in the third quarter had to be helped off the field, blocked a punt and a field goal Matt Waller's 50-yard attempt to win the game with 11 seconds left Senior defensive end Donald Miller the Bobcats' starting fullback last season pounced on Reid's first punt block for a touchdown that gave Southwest Texas a 10-6 third-quarter lead. 7 teLJ i. 1 im -u: i v- Please, baseball, don't come back 4 i 4 ft section of the still-standing center-field wall.

Inside the Pitt student union building, under a sheet of plexiglass, rests home plate from the Pirates' final game in June 1970 before the team relocated to Staff photo by Lynne Dobson On the eve of the deadline to call off the 1994 baseball season, players offer a 'taxation' plan they hope owners will accept in place of a salary cap. Owners said they will study the plan which calls for a 2 percent payroll tax and for clubs td split 25 percent of gate receipts and respond today. If there Is an agreement today, players probably would return to the field Sept. 16 or Sept. 19.

Story, Page C3 Kirk 60HLS field wall in 1960 to send a disbelieving third-grade fan of the New York Yankees crying all eight blocks home. But, like the current baseball strike that has lasted 28 days, I got over it. So have you. You have found a life outside baseball, a meaningful and worthwhile one at that, and this is a self-professed Rotisserie nut Of course, there has been one fewer reason to escape mowing the yard, but books, movies and family conversation are valid alternatives to nine innings. So it is with some trepidation that See Strike's, C3 Day 29.

Do you know where your baseball team is? You at least know where it -isn't, and that's on the field. It is fast approaching a month without major-league baseball, and it is with much satisfaction to report that the time has transpired without so much as a withdrawal pain. At least, not until last week's trip to Pittsburgh. A tour of the Pitt campus included a trip down memory lane at the vestiges of Forbes Field, the former home of Roberto Clemente and the Pittsburgh Pirates. A double row of inlaid red bricks outlines where the left-and center-field walls stood.

Green ivy cloaks the truncated Don't blink Shantel Cornelius blocks a shot from Arkansas Little-Rock's Jenny Anderson (3) during the Lady Longhorns' home opener at the Recreational Sports Center. No. 12 Texas swept the Trojans to improve Its record to 6-1. Story, Page C2 Three Rivers Stadium. And, finally, the bronze plaque embedded in that row of bricks commemorates the final resting place for the ball that dastardly Bill Mazeroskl hit over the left-center-.