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ports Monday, February 6, 1984/The Battalion/Page 11 §1 .■eches ra isence. las nnssdil i funciicJ reported fcl i ihe Rrti e ported ii J igfromt -an prol k ial siaied idneutitj in was ilu L, Joanna Hooker(35) and Rochelle Bennett surround Rice center Holly Jones. The Texas A&M women’s basketball team defeated Rice 71-69 Saturday. The women play in Arkansas today. omen win third straight By DAVE SCOTT Sports writer RAfter the Texas A&M )rtherly women’s upset victory over aw htmii Houston last Thursday, the rest serwfjnatch-up aginst the Rice Owls lurningi was almost SU i e to he a let down. RBut the match against Rice acting i j?as no let down, although it was tonight' almost an upset for the Owls. ^andnortiRice has now lost nine straight jets down games and their only conference y,” said i win was against the Aggies ear- ormallf i' Iter this year. ght. I It was different this time, the proble®®[ies escaped with a 71-69 vic- ; goingK tory on freshmen Rochelle Ben- eatheri» l 'ielt's 18-foot jumper with six Bonds left in the game. The nan for ; Bgies are now 11-8, and 4-5 in v Sheriff'Conference play. UiigalQflMf the team was tired Satur- nortbe^M, they’ll have to do all their j ^ve resting on a plane Sunday as fromap lev fly to Fayetteville where aefore they take on the Razorbacks ©night. Arkansas is third place went cold with four minutes left in the half. The Aggies ended the half having shot 38 percent from the field and trailed 38-35. In the second half, Janet Duckham got the Aggies heated up again. She scored 10 second- the o'J-f the conference with a record [he Nat' 1 ff 15-5, 7-2 in conference, posted a If jffhe Aggies ran hot and cold iing for 11(1 1'nst Rice. The hot came first, [onday. [hey jumped to a 15-8 lead be- edfireli^ tind Beth Y oung’s outside Sooting. 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Saturday night was one of those nights. The Aggies were neither aggressive nor competi tive in front of 3,673 fans in G. Rollie White. Rice plainly outwilled the Aggies for a 43-42 win and moved into fifth place in the Southwest Conference stand ings with a 4-5 record. The Aggies fell to sixth place with a 4-6 record — one-half game be hind the Owls. “Wejust didn’t play as aggres sively as we should have,” for ward Winston Crite said after the game. “We can dominate in side, but we didn’t do that tonight. If you don’t work hard. it won’t fall into place for you.” A&M led 20-12 in the first half with 2:48 left to play, but then the Owl’s Tony Barnett took over. He quickly depleted A&M’s lead with a baseline jumper and then sank four free throws after two A&M fouls. Barnett soon tied the score at 20-20 when the Aggies were called for goaltend ing on a last-minute shot. Their spirits dampened, the Aggies started slowly in the second half and Rice took a quick 28-22 lead. But the Aggies were given re newed momentum as the fans in “The Holler House on the Bra zos” got into the battle when the duo of Todd Holloway and Dar nell Williams came off the bench. Williams, coming off a fight with the flu, and Holloway, who is suffering from tendenitis in his big toe, seemed to be near full strength. Both players mis sed the Houston game. Their skills complimented each other as Williams grabbed stpolc on Hofnneo inH nitrhed the ball to Holloway for fast breaks on offense. A&M soon took a 30-28 lead with 12:11 left in the game. Then the Aggies began to slow down the pace of the game. “As the clock ran down we had to be more conservative with our shots,” Holloway said. “They were beating us on the boards — in shooting and in re bounds.” Actually Barnett was beating the Aggies. He finished the game with 12 points and 14 re bounds. But only four of his points came from the field, the rest were free throws. Crucial free throws. Just as Barnett had tied the game in the first half, he helped the Owls maintain their lead in the second — a lead that changed hands eight times dur ing the course of the game. Rice had possession of the ball with 39 seconds left in the game and Kenny Brown fouled Tracy Steele. Steele missed the back end of a one-and-one for Rice and Jim mie Gilbert grabbed the re bound for A&M. The Aggies called time-out with 27 seconds left and the score 41-40. “We wanted to take the good shot,” Holloway said. “A1 (Pul liam) picked for me as I went across the foul-line. I shot and missed.” With A&M still down by one, Gilbert immediately fouled Bar nett under the basket to stop the clock. But Barnett hit both ends of the one on one. The Aggies then added a' final basket. Neither Holloway nor Wil liams started the game, but they played 28 and 17 minutes re spectively. Holloway, who stumbled up and down the court for 28 mi nutes of the game, said his toe didn’t affect his play during the game. “It didn’t affect the way I played tonight,” he said. “I kept stumbling to keep from landing on my toe. I wanted to stay fiat on my feet and I got off balance a couple of times.” Holloway was high point for A&M with nine points. Nothing new in SWC race United Press International There were some who thought the Houston Cougars- SMU Mustangs matchup Satur day deserved a question mark. The Cougars, however, chose to supply an exclamation point. “We tried as hard as we could,” said SMU coach Dave Bliss. “But they arejust a darned good basketball team.” Houston had struggled to nip SMU by a single point last month, but Saturday night in their home lair the Cougars dis played the kind of stuff that has carried them to the Final Four the Iasi two seasons. Houstonjumped on top early and never showed signs of a letup in romping to a 76-57 vic tory. SMU came into the game leading the nation in field goal percentage (55.5), but could shoot just 35.8 percent from the field against the Cougars. “I think this might have been our best game of the year on both ends of the court,” said Houston coach Guy Lewis. “I don’t mean to take anything away from our offense, but I thought our defense did a heck of a job.” The fifth-ranked Cougars, with Michael Young scoring 26 points, thus elevated their league record to 9-0 and they are 19-3 for the season. Only Arkan sas remains as a challenger fqr the league title and the first meeting of the season between the Razorbacks and Cougars is still three weeks away. Arkansas stands at 7-1 in SWC action after its routine 63- 44 win over Baylor in Fayettevil le Saturday. The win ended a rare two-game losing streak for the Razorbacks. In the other conference con test over the weekend David Reynolds’ 15-foot jumper with four seconds left gave Texas Tech a 47-45 win over the hard- luck TCU Horned Frogs in Fort Worth. The victory was a critical one for Tech, which had fallen to SMU earlier in the week. Com bined with the SMU loss to Houston, it allowed the Red Raiders to move back into a third-place tie and kept alive their hopes for a bye past the first round of the tournament. Conference action resumes on Wednesday with SMU travel ing to Rice. The last lime the Owls played at home they beat Arkansas. Houston will be at TCU Thursday night, going after its 33rd consecutive SWC victory. Next weekend’s top attraction will have Arkansas visiting SMU. 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