The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 15, 1981 Page: 15 of 20
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THE RICE THRESHER/SPORTS
Owls force turnovers, come from behind to whip TCU
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(Left) Clenzie Pierson (94) reaches TCU quarterback Steve Stamp (10) as Steve Wilson (67) misses the block. Marc Seguin (96) is blocked out of the play but Pierson strips the ball from Stamp (center) and
Eric Sampson (90) recovers for Rice (right) as Keith Hall (70) arrives late. ^ Gladu
sprinter, he burned the Owls for a
68-yard bomb. Porter's extra point
made the score 14-3 with 14:30 left
in the hdlf.
Rice once again managed a good
series of plays on the next
possession 57 yards before stalling
at the TCU 12. Calhoun had two
important completions on the
drive: for 10 yards to Deron Mller,
and 23 yards to Hosea Fortune.
Baxter delivered a 28-yarder to
keep the Owls close at 14-6 with
10:48 to go in the half.
see TCU, page 19
by Donald Buckholt
It almost took all night, but Rice
finally thumped the Texas
Christian University Horned
Frogs 41-28 last Saturday night in
Rice Stadium. An estimated crowd
of 15,000 saw the Owls zoom back
from a 21-6 second quarter deficit
behind a hot offensive
performance from quarterback
Michael Calhoun and a defense
which scooped up eight TCU
turnovers. "I would have stayed
until midnight if we knew we were
gonna win," said Rice coach Ray
Alborn around 11:05 Saturday
night.
The two teams seemed to be
cautious of the wet conditions at
the beginning of the game, as the
first five possessions were all thice
downs and punt. TCU's John
Thomas returned the fifth punt, by
Rice's Dale Walters, 44 yards to
the Rice 28. Frog QB Steve Stamp
wasted no time getting into the
end zone, hitting his top receiver
Stanley Washington for 17 yards
and a touchdown on the fourth
play of the drive. Greg Porter
converted to put TCU ahead 7-U
with . 2 left . die period
Porter was very wary of the Rice
deep kickoff men, having
apparently heard the rumor that
Willie Tullis was returning kicks
for Rice. Porter used a squib kick
on every one of his kickoffs,
including the one after the first
touchdown, which Chris Shoppa
brought from the Rice 21 to the 27.
T here, the Owls began their first
drive. They eschewed the pass,
marching to the Frog 25, where
Joel Baxter hit the first of his four
field goals from 42 yards. The big
plays were a 15-yaid draw play by
Tim Sanders and Calhoun's dive
for a first down on foarth-and-two
at the TCU 26.
Stamp took a grand total of 21
seconds to give TCU an eleven-
point lead. With a second-and-ten
at his 32, the Frog quarterback
dropped back and saw flanker
Phillip Epps staging a footrace
with Rice's Wayneard Nellums
and Richard Crayton. Since Epps
had the advantage of being a
VOLLEYBALL
Rice squeaks into fourth at SWT, San Jac does it again
by Steve Bailey
Rice beat Stephen F. Austin at
San Jacinto Junior College
Wednesday night but dropped the
second match of the night to San
Jac after placing fourth at the
Southwest Texas State Invita-
tional last weekend with a 3-4
record. Rice is now 11-13 over the
season.
Rice beat Stephen F. Austin for
the second time in less than a week
in a performance that was
blemished only by Rice's
unfamiliarity with the new plays
they were running. Rice won the
first game 15-9 and squeaked out
the second game 16-14.
The Owls ran their plays almost
flawlessly the first game and made
few mistakes the second game, but
those mistakes made the game
close. Freshman Lisa Ferdinand
turned in one of her best
performances in a Rice uniform
against SFA with superb hard and
well-placed hits and excellent
blocking.
In the seco id game the Owls
spotted the "Ladyjacks" a 4-0 lead,
and then a 7-2 lead before coming
back with five quick points on the
strength of sophomore Nina
Akai's serving to put Rice up 9-8.
Rice and SFA traded points the
remainder of the game until Rice
scored two straight to take the win.
The second match started within
30 minutes of the previous match,
and Rice looked weary on the
court. San Jac jumped out to a 4-0
lead in the first game and never
allowed Rice to tie. The Owls did
come back to 4-3 on senior co-
captain Kris Annexstad's first
service, but that was the closest
Rice ever came to the Ravens as
San Jac took a 15-12 win.
Both teams took plenty of time
to score in the second game, but
San Jac pulled ahead 3-0. In one of
two bright spots for the Owls in
this match Caryn Perkins turned in
four great serves for aces and put
Rice ahead 5-3 for the only time all
night.
With their backs to the wall at
13-6, Rice scrapped out another
five straight points on some poor
play by San Jac, a block by
sophomore Nina Akai and a soft
ace by junior co-captain Meg
Sullivan. However the Ravens
came back on the next service to
put the game away 15-10.
"The passing wasn't there
against San Jac," commented
assistant coach Debbie Sokol.
"Our defense wasn't ready to go.
They took a breather during the
rally (in which San Jac pulled
ahead 9-3 in the first game on five
striaght serves)."
Head coach Linda1 Tucker
commented, "You relax on defense
and you'll get beat. And if you
don't get that first pass it's hard on
offense." Rice had trouble
returning San Jac's serves most of
the match.
"Still, I feel everything is a lot
smoother, everyone is more
confident," added Sokol.
In addition to poor play on the
court the second match was
marred by 20 minutes in delays
caused by errors at the scorer's
table. In the first game with
Perkins serving Rice was called for
serving out of rotation. It took the
scorer 15 minutes to understand
her error.
The Owls breezed to two quick
victories Friday in San Marcos
over Hardin-Simmons University,
15-7, 15-13, and Texas A&I, 15-4,
15-10. "We just ran over A&I with
our plays," commented Sullivan.
Rice has now won both matches
against A&I, and the only other
teams the Owls have beaten twice
are TSU and SFA.
In the third match Friday host
Southwest Texas came back after
dropping the first game to the Owls
15-12 to take the match in the final
two games/15-7, 15-8. SWT's
victory was their second over Rice
in two matches.
Tucker was not displeased with
the loss to SWT. "Friday we did a
real good job, the offense did real
well, and everbody was ready to
play."
Lisa Ferdinand (right) turns back an SFA spike with the help of Nina Akai
(behind Ferdinand) and Caryn Perkins (2). —S. Bailey
Saturday was a different story.
"We didn't maintain our
momentum and concentration,"
lamented Tucker. Rice started
Saturday morning with a tight 15-
11, 11-15, 15-13 loss to St. Mary's.
"We lost our concentration in our
match against St. Mary's," said
Tucker. In their fifth match of the
tourney Rice bowed to
tournament champion Angelo
State 15-5, 15-3, and went into the
final match with a 2-3 record.
Rice met Stephen F. Austin in
their last match and won 14-16, 15
see Angelo, page 18
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