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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, March 18, 1969
THE BATTALia
Ags Drop Midwest Consolation To Colorado, 97-82
By JOHN PLATZER
A tremendous season ended on
a sour note for the Aggie basket-
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a 97-82 decision to the hot-shoot
ing Colorado Buffs.
The defeat came in the Consola
tion game of the Midwest Region-
als at Manhattan, Kansas. Coach
Shelby Metcalf’s cagers had lost
their opening game of the tourney
81-63 to the Drake Bulldogs, the
eventual champions. Drake now
plays defending national cham
pion UCLA in the first round of
the national finals in Louisville,
Kentucky.
A&M, which got the regionals
by way of the Southwest Confer
ence championship and an 81-66
victory over Trinity, had trouble
finding the basket in the first
half as Colorado streaked away
to a 51-31 lead.
Both teams hit their first shots
of the night as Gordon Tope con
nected on a 25-foot set and Mike
Heitmann countered for the Ag
gies with a 15-foot jumper. A&M
had its last lead in the contest
at 10-9 on another baseline jump
er by Heitmann.
The Buffs of Coach Sox Wal-
seth took over the lead for good
on a jumper by Dudley Mitchell
and then raced to a 19-12 advan
tage on a 15 footer by the 6-3
sophomore.
COLORADO steadily increased
their advantage throughout the
remainder of the opening half.
A spurt of eight straight points
upped the Aggie deficit to 33-20
with 8:08 remaining in the half
and then Colorado closed the
period with five straight points
for their 51-31 lead.
The entire story of the first
half can be told in the shooting
percentages, as the Aggies hit
on 10 of 33 for 30 per cent while
Colorado was connecting on 22
of 3 for 56 per cent. The two
teams battled to a draw on the
boards with each squad dragging
down i24 caroms in the initial half.
Cliff Meely, the Buffs’ best of
a whole stable of great sopho
mores, paced both teams in the
first half with 16 points. Gordon
Tope, a 5-11 junior, bombed the
Aggies from outside for 12 points
in the half.
THE AGGIES refused to fold
and battled back time and again
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champions. (Photo by Mike Wright)
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in the final 20 minutes but Colo
rado continued to hit at a tre
mendous pace to hold off the
rallies.
A left handed hook by Ronnie
Peret narrowed the margin to
88-76 with 4:53 remaining to be
played but layups by the Buffs’
Mike Coleman and Tope built the
margin back to 16. A pair of
buckets by Heitmann reduced it
to 92-80 with 2:48 left but five
straight points by Colorado put
the game out of reach for the
final time.
The five starters for the Aggies
for most of the season, Peret,
Billy Bob Barnett, Sonny Bene
field, Heitmann and Steve Niles
led the Aggies’ comeback in the
second half. With Peret and Niles
sweeping the boards, the Aggies
built up a 29-19 rebounding edge
in the second half and a 53-43
margin for the game.
PERET WAS the Aggies’ lead
ing scorer with 21 points while
Barnett had 18, Heitmann had 17,
Benefield had 12 and Niles con
tributed 9.
The Aggies were led to their
rebounding edge on the work of
Niles, a 7-0 sophomore, and Peret,
a 6-9 senior. Both Aggie cagers
pulled down 12 while Barnett con
tributed 8.
MEELY added 12 points to his
game-leading total of 28 in the
second half. Tope ended the game
with 24 tallies while Mitchell add
ed 12. Ted Erfert and Tim Wedge-
worth shared top rebounding hon
ors for Colorado with 7 apiece.
For the first time in the tourna
ment the Aggies found their
shooting eye in the second half-
against Colorado but it came Too
late. Coach Metcalf’s cagers con
nected on 19 of 35 shots in the
final 20 minutes for 54 per cent
San Jac Tabbed To
Repeat As JC Champ
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (A*) —
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Pasadena, Tex., is a slight fav
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the 25th National Junior College
Basketball Tournament opens
here Tuesday noon.
The Ravens bring a 29-game
winning streak into the tourna
ment, last losing to Tyler, Tex.,
84-81 early this season. They
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COMMERCE, Tex. <A>) — Jim
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basis after the resignation of
Norman Pilgrim in October.
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at Western Carolina. In 1963,
his team was runnerup in the
NAIA’s national Championship
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