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02 Austin American-Statesman Sunday, October 29, 1989 College football: swc state Defense helps Baylor regain pride against TCU By Randy Riggs American-Statesman Staff WACO After their Cotton Bowl dreams faded here last week, tie Baylor Bears were a bit defensive Saturday when Texas Christian came calling. f.The Baylor defense, in fact, out-scored a masochistic Horned Frogs offense 12-9. Thus Baylor cruised 27-9 victory before a home-corning crowd of 35,713 at Floyd 3asey Stadium, snapping a two-game losing streak to TCU. didn't compensate for last freek's shocking 14-11 loss to Tex-asj that effectively ended Baylor's hopes for a Southwest jCenference title. But interception Returns for touchdowns by James Francis and Malcolm Frank helped picked up our signals, but he sure hit that one." What did Teaff think when he saw the Frogs attempt a fake? "I just thought Jim was trying to run the score up on me," said the Baylor coach, who was accused of doing that to SMU two games ago with a late fake punt.

"Just kidding. That's not going to be funny to Jim." It wasn't a day of total laughs for the Bears, who will have a week off before visiting Arkansas on Nov. 11. Quarterback Brad Goebel injured his right shoulder midway through the second quarter when he was on the losing end of a collision with TCU safety Levoil Crump as both dove for a loose ball that Coleman fumbled. Scott McKinnon, who, next to Coach Jim Wacker, was the most surprised person in the place.

McKinnon was stopped short, which led to a 19-yard field goal by Jeff Ireland. It turned out that Graham didn't hear the audible "blue," TCU lingo for snapping to the upback. Instead, Graham misunderstood a Baylor player shouting "Lou," for the type of return Baylor would set up. It was that kind of day for the Frogs. Wacker wasn't convinced that the Bears hadn't pilfered TCU's calls.

"Somehow they caught on to our audibles," he claimed. "I don't know where the mouse was that ly in the second quarter while nursing a 3-0 lead, rejecting three straight sneak attempts by Clay from the 1. Stopped a fourth-and-one try at its 40 midway through the third period, which set up a 59-yard drive capped by Lincoln Coleman's 3-yard scoring run to make it 17-3. Intercepted five passes two by Francis. For good measure, Francis also blocked an extra-point try after TCU scored late on a 21 -yard pass from Clay to Kelly BlackweU.

It was Francis' sixth block of the year, a Baylor record, and 10th of his career. "I said last week that James turned in the finest overall performance I'd ever had a linebacker restore a touch of pride to what has been a disappointing season for the Bears (4-4 overall, 3-2 in the SWC). took a lot out of us," said Francis, the Bears' forceful outside linebacker, who didn't hurt his bid for the Butkus Award. "We know for our team to be good, the defense has to play well and score points of its own." Mission accomplished. Besides scoring on the runbacks by Frank (32 yards in the second quarter to give Baylor a 9-0 lead) and Francis (50 yards in the third to make it 24-3), the Bears defense also: Sacked freshman quarterback Leon Clay five times, the most allowed by TCU this season.

Mounted a goal-line stand ear give," Baylor Coach Grant Teaff said. "But this was even better." While the Bears rebounded from a crushing loss, the Frogs were grounded after a heady 27-9 victory last week over 19th-ranked Air Force. With Clay starting and playing most of the way in place of injured starter Ron Jiles, TCU gained 366 yards. But the Frogs (4-4, 2-3) repeatedly were stopped short in critical situations. Or they stopped themselves.

A classic example of the latter came early. With no score midway through the first period, TCU lined up to punt with a fourth and one at its 29. Deep snapper J.R. Graham, thinking he heard an audible, centered the ball to blocking back Texas routs Rice as Lewis gains 201 yards special care not to look past Rice. "We aren't going to take anyone lightly," Slocum said.

Rice had led at some point in each of its first seven games but never pulled ahead of "I have to take a hard look at why our first-team defense wears down so early," Rice Coach Fred Goldsmith said. "This has been a pattern the past several weeks. "Either we are terribly out-manned or we don't have the stamina and just get worn down." Pavlas completed touchdown passes of 36 yards to Percy Waddle, 20 yards to Cornelius Patterson and 12 yards to Robert Wilson before leaving the game early in the fourth quarter. Pavlas completed 13 of 16 passes for 161 yards. The Aggies improved to 6-2 overall, 4-1 in the SWC.

The Owls dropped to 1-6-1 and 1-4. Lewis, a junior who carried 28 times, scored on runs of 2 and 3 yards and moved past George Woo-dard on the rushing list with By Michael A. Lutz Associated Press HOUSTON Texas Lance Pavlas and Darren Lewis were too much of a one-two punch for the Rice Owls on Saturday. Lewis ran for 201 yards and became the school's No. 2 rusher, and Pavlas threw three touchdown passes, leading the 21st-ranked Aggies to a 45-7 Southwest Conference victory.

"All week long we worked on the running game and its blocking schemes," Lewis said. "We were really focused out there today." The Aggies rushed 64 times for 348 yards and had 525 total yards, compared to 274 for the Owls. Rice lost to the Aggies for the ninth straight year. "We were concentrating all week in practice, and it showed today," Pavlas said. "We wanted to establish our running game, and today we did." Coach R.C.

Slocum took 3,104 yards. Woodard rushed for 2,911 yards. Lewis bulled into the end zone on a 2-yard dive with 32 seconds left in the half for a 17-7 lead. He scored again on a 3-yard run in the third period, bouncing off a tackier at the 1-yard line. Other first-half scores came on Layne Talbot's 27-yard field goal and a 36-yard pass from Pavlas to Waddle.

Pavlas scrambled to the sideline on the first drive of the third quarter and threaded a pass to Patterson in the corner of the end zone. Later, he passed 12 yards to Wilson. Keith McAfee scored on a 4-yard run for the Aggies with 12:56 left in the game. Rice had two long first-half drives, one leading to a 5-yard touchdown run by Trevor Cobb. On the first drive of the game, the Owls reached 8-yard line before they were stalled by two offensive pass interference calls.

AP Southern Methodist's Andy Bergfeld catches a 5- Abraham defends during the Mustangs' 35-9 victory yard touchdown pass from Mike Romo as Chris over North Texas. SMU rips North Texas 35-9 McNeese State beats SWT Around the state Angelo State 44, Cameron 14 Abilene Christian 24, E. Texas State 21 Austin Col 31, Howard Payne 21 Baylor 27, Texas Christian 9 Chicago 23, Trinity 17 Grambling St. 49, Texas Southern 6 McNeese St. 21, Southwest Texas St.

7 N. Mex. Highlands 53, Panhandle St. 29 Prairie View 21, Miss. Valley St.

12 Sam Houston St. 26, NW Louisiana 3 Southern Meth. 35, North Texas 9 Stephen F. Austin 42, E. Wash.

36 Tarleton St. 14, Sul Ross St. 9 Texas 45, Rice 7 Southland Conference "You can't imagine how losing by 74 points turns your stomach," Romo said after SMU (2-5) extended the Eagles' losing skid to five games and snapped a four-game losing streak. "We've been waiting for this for a while," said Romo, who was 31 of 47 with three touchdowns. Gregg had told his players to forget the Houston game, but they haven't.

"It makes me sick," Romo said. North Texas Coach Corky Nelson deserves to feel sick about his team's efforts. It was the nation's top-ranked NCAA Division I-AA team as recently as five weeks ago. "We haven't seemed to stop falling," Nelson said. "I thought we had hit bottom last week (a 14-6 loss to Sam Houston State).

But maybe we haven't." Leading 9-3, the Mustangs took charge with two touchdowns in the last six minutes of the first half. Kevin Love capped a nine-play, 49-yard drive with a 1-yard run for a 15-3 lead with 5:21 left in the half, then Romo passed 5 yards to Andy Bergfeld with 1:44 to go. Matt Lomenick's extra point gave the Mustangs a 22-3 halftime lead. On the second play of the fourth quarter, Romo passed 23 yards to Jason Wolf for a 28-3 lead. By Arnie Stapleton Associated Press DALLAS If you think Southern Methodist quarterback Mike Romo is in any mood to dwell on his six turnovers against North Texas, he'd say you're all wet.

Just like SMU Coach Forrest Gregg, who got the i celebratory ice water down his back after the Mustangs, led by Romo's school-record 427 passing yards, whipped the Eagles 35-9 Saturday at Ownby Stadium. The victory was the second for SMU in its first season of football since a slush fund scandal forced two-year suspension of the program in 1987. It wasn't all pretty Saturday in front of 21,186 fans showered by intermittent rains. Four of Romo's passes were intercepted in Mustangs territory. North Texas (3-5) recovered one of his two fumbles in its own end zone after SMU had driven from its 20.

But the numbers etched into Romo's mind weren't SMU records or turnovers. They were from the 95-21 thrashing at the hands of Houston last week. Confaranca AIIQamaa WLTPIa OP LTPtt OP 3 0 0 109 51 7 1 0 272 1e5 3 11 90 73 4 3 1 164 132 2 1 1 59 37 3 3 1 112 132 2 1 0 53 30 3 9 0 112 172 1 3 0 68 91 3 5 0 177 158 1 3 0 45 77 4 4 0 187 154 0 3 0 29 79 3 6 0 138 184 S.F.Austin NWU. NE La. Sam Hou SW Taxaa McNeaa N.

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Three first-half turnovers put Southwest Texas in an early hole it would never recover from as McNeese State defeated the Bobcats 21-7 in a Southland Conference game Saturday night. Southwest Texas avoided the shutout with a drive in the closing minutes as Eric Turner hit Delwin Manning on a 31-yard scoring strike with 19 seconds remaining. McNeese State did not complete a pass until midway through the third period, and completed only two on the night, but didn't need a passing game as Tony Citizen paced a strong running game that piled up 410 yards and led the Cowboys to a 410-310 advantage in total offense. Citizen rushed for 182 yards on 21 carries. The win was McNeese State's first conference victory as it improve to 4-4 overall and 1-3 in the SLC.

SWT fell to 3-5, 1-3. Southwest Texas will return home next week to face Lamar on homecoming weekend. Texas 27 E. New Mexico 12 KINGSVILLE Fullback Curtis Green scored twice to lead the NCAA Division II's No. 1 ranked Texas (8-0, 5-0) past Eastern New Mexico (5-3, 3-2) in a Lone Star Conference game at Javelina Stadium.

The Javelinas played without tailback Johnny Bailey for the second straight week. Bailey is the NCAA Division II's leading rusher with a 172.3 average. Bailey and starting fullback Sloan Hood both have bruised thigh muscles. Bob Gilbreath got ENMU's points on field goals of 40, 38, 34 and 44 yards. Green's runs covered one and two yards.

The other touchdown came on a 91-yard kickoff return by Kerry Simien. Stephen F. Austin 42 E. Washington 36 CHENEY, Wash. Todd Ham-mel passed for 421 yards and six touchdowns for Stephen F.

Austin (7-l)and the Lumberjacks held off a late rally by the Eastern Washington Eagles (3-4). Hammel completed 20 of 36 passes, including two touchdown strikes each to Pat Jackson and Anthony Landry. Mark Tenneson passed for three touchdowns and ran for another as Eastern scored 28 points in the fourth quarter, three times trim- 4 SWAC standings with a 5-0 record. Texas Southern fell to 3-5-1 and 3-2-1 with the loss. Chicago 23 Trinity ..17 CHICAGO A school-record 97 yard kickoff return by Matt Fi-cenec in the third quarter gave Chicago a win over Trinity.

Brian Blitz returned a second-quarter kickoff 83 yards for a TD and the Maroons, 2-6, got their other touchdown on a 48-yard pass from Joe Talanges to Matt Moline. Trinity, 0-8, scored on a 10-yard pass from Mike Hinton to Greg Knott and 35-yard field goal by Tarpon Wiseman in the first half. They tied the game at 17-17 on a 27-yard pass from Scott Sigman to Mike Hinton in the third quarter. Austin Col 31 Howard Payne 21 SHERMAN Quarterback Dale Tromper's 6-yard touchdown capped a 16-point third quarter rally as Austin College 3 upset Howard Payne in a Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association game, Prairie View 21 Miss. Valley St 12 PRAIRIE VIEW Arnold Wolfe and Kevin Peterson each intercepted passes and returned them for touchdowns to help the Prairie Panthers win their first game of the season, whipping Mississippi Valley State.

Field. The win lifts Prairie View to 1-5 in Southwestern Athletic Conference play and 1-7 for the season. Mississippi Valley falls to 1-7 overall and 0-5 in conference play. Tarleton St 14 Sul Ross St 9 STEPHENVILLE Jimmy Sides passed 10 yards to Rush Shirley to give Tarleton State (6-2) a victory over Sul Ross State (4-4) in a Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association game. The touchdown capped a 73-yard drive early in the fourth quarter.

McMurry 16 Midwestern St 14 WICHITA FALLS Ray Williams returned a punt 74 yards after time expired to give McMurry its first victory of the season, a Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association win over Midwestern State. McMurry is 1-7. Midwestern State drops to 2-6. I 8:30 p.m. (KOKE-AM 1370) Mick Haley Show (University of Texas volleyball) 7 p.m.

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(KFIT-AM 1060) SportScene: football hour 8:30 p.m. (KLBJ-AM 590) SportsTalk: open mike ming Stephen F. Austin's lead to six points. Angelo St 44 Cameron 14 LAWTON, Okla. Darron Johnson scored two touchdowns, one on a 92-yard kickoff return, as Angelo State (8-1, 4-1) beat turnover-plagued Cameron (1-7, 0-5) in the Lone Star Conference.

The Rams took advantage of eight Cameron turnovers five interceptions and three fumbles and were never threatened after taking a 24-0 lead at halftime. Abilene Christian 24 E. Texas St 21 COMMERCE Stan Stevens threw two touchdown passes to help Abilene Christian subdue E. Texas St. in Lone Star Conference action.

With the win, Abilene Christian improves to 4-1 in LSC play and 4-4 for the season. The loss drops the Lions to 2-3 in conference play and 4-4 overall. Grambling St 49 and fullback Walter Dean ran for two touchdowns in Grambling State's Southwestern Athletic Conference rout of Texas Southern. The homecoming victory kept Grambling, 6-2 overall, atop the 'Good teams win three in a row. Great teams win four in a Coach Buddy Ryan after his Philadelphia Eagles beat the Los Angeles Raiders last Sunday for their third consecutive victory 'Jose thought Debbie Does Dallas was a baseball movie.

Why are we paying $5 a minute to hear this guy's Buddy Baron, discussing Jose Canseco's in telephone not line, on KSAN-FM Oakland Mind-bender On Oct. 28, 1973, what Los Angeles Lakers player set an NBA record with 17 blocked shots in a 111-98 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers? (Answer on Scoreboard, Page D22).