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Rice Blasts Ags 61-41, Fish Lose 84-53
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By JERRY WIZIG
Battalion Sports Editor
It looked like somebody put a
glass lid over the Aggie basket
last night in their opening South
west conference game.
A&M’s varsity made a horrible
14 of 71 shots, was outrebounded
Riflers To Fire
In Army Match
The Aggie rifle team will have
its next competition in the Fourth
Army Area match in January.
“Harry P. Gayden is expected
to spark the team and Bobby Car
lisle is expected to follow up Gay
den,” Sgt. Samuel Lucky said. “We
also have some very promising
freshmen to make up thp rest of
the team,” he added.
Lucky encouraged all freshmen
who made 90 or above on their
marksmanship grade to come down
to the range for tryouts.
27-64 and lost to the Owls 61-41.
The Fish, though playing better
on the - backboards, were way off
on their usually sharp shooting
and were swamped by the unde
feated Temple Tucker - sparked
Owlets, 84-53.
The varsity took a 5-0 lead, but
the Owls came back to build up
an insurmountable 23-35 lead at the
half, chiefly on the shooting of
6-4 forward Terry Telligman, who
made 16 points in the first half.
After this, the two teams took
turns missing shots in the second
half, as the Aggies had to shoot
from outside and Rice muffed nu
merous cinch baskets on bad passes
and faulty shooting.
Telligman was the leading scor
er for the Owls with 20. John
Fortenberry led the Aggies with
13, followed by Bill Brophy with
11. In the entire first half, the
Cadets got just nine rebounds and
made only 9 of 33 shots. Rice hit
15 of 33 in the first half, yet fin
ished with a mediocre 22 of 61.
The 6-11 Tucker, darling of the
Rice fans this year, scored 35
points, including 19 after Ted
Dockery, 6-5 Fish center who was
guarding him, drew his fourth foul.
With Dockery out, Tucker had
things pretty much his own way
under the basket. He now has an
average of 32 points per game.
The big boy sank 12 of 19 field
goals but carpe off with only 13
rebounds. Forward Fritzie Conn-
ley was high for the Fish with 18
points and 11 rebounds. Guard
Bryan Sutherlin, leading scorer on
the team, was held to nine points.
The varsity meets Arkansas here
A&M (41)
fg.
ft.
fl.
t|>.
Smith
. . . . u
2
0
2
Harvey
. . . . 2
0
3
4
Mehaffey
. . . . 2
1
2
5
Brophy
. . . . 2
7
3
11
Fortenberry
. . . . 6
1
4
13
Harrod
.... 0
0
1
0
Gattis
. . . . 0
, 2
0
2
Sawyer
. . . . 2
0
1
4
McCrory
. . . . 0
0
1
0
Bilbrey
. . . . 0
0
1
0
Totals . , . .
. . 14
13
16
41
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ig.
ft.
fl.
tp.
Woods
. . . . 4
0
3
8
Durrenberger
. . . . 3
0
3
6
Telligman . . .■
. . . . 8
4
3
20
Robicheaux
. . . . 1
5
0
7
Brashear
. . . . 1
0
1
2
Fields .
. . . . 3
4
0
10
Nichols ■
. ... 0
2
1
2
Coterill
... 0
0
0
0
Arhos
. . . . 2
2
0
6
Pahmeier
. . . - 0
0
0
O
Totals ....
. 22
17
11
61
Halftime score: Rice
35; A&M 23.
Officials: Watson and Preston.
OWI.KTS (81)
Kg
Ft
i*r
Tp
Wilson, f
... 3
3
3
9
Hill f ...
. . 5
1
1 1
Tucker, c
. . .12
11
4
35
Ball, g
... 3
7
3
13
White, g
... 2
1
3
5
Jordan, f
... 1
1
0
3
Baggett, f
... 0
0
0
0
Dismukcs, c
... 0
0
0
0
Watson, g
2
4
2
8
Gainey, g
. . . 0
0
0
0
Totals ....
. 28
28
20
84
FISH (5:i)
Fg
Ft
Pf
Tp
Connley, f
... c>
6
4
18
Smith, f . .
... 2
1
4
5
Dockery, c
... 2
0
4
4
Sutherlin, g
. . . 4
1
3
9
Hutto, g
... 2
2
4
6
Collier, f
. . . 1
1
3
3
Williams, c .
... 0
4
1
4
Wells, f
. . . 0
0
0
0
Lesikar, c
... o
0
O
0
Elswick. g
0
0
0
0
Forsythe, g
. . . 2
0
0
4
Archer, g
... 0
0
5
0
Totals
. 19
15
28
53
Free throws missed:
Owlets-
-Wilson
5,
Hill 3, Tucker 5, Ball. White, Watson.
Fish—Connley 4, Smith 2,
Sutherlin,
Hutto 5, Collier 3, Archer.
Halftime score: Owlets 33, Fish
23.
Officials: Cherry^ and
Martin.
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Saturday night. Next game for
the Fish is with Tyler junior col
lege here Tuesday night while the
varsity is meeting SMU in Dallas.
Rice couldn’t score in the first
five minutes, as center George Me-
haffey’s jump shot and free throw
and guard Roger Harvey’s jump
shot put the Aggies in front.
Harvey’s basket came with 15:05
left in the half, and A&M didn’t
make another for five and a half
minutes. Meanwhile, Telligman
made five goals as Rice pulled in
front 19-6.
Brophy’s jump shot, a layup by
Harvey and a basket by Forten
berry cut it to 12-21, the closest the
Cadets could come.
Soph forward Glenn Fields made
five straight. points after guard
Monte Robicheaux hit a layup, and
the run-and-shoot Owls led 42-27
before the Aggies made their first
goal of the second half.
After Fortenberry’s basket made
it 31-45 with 13:40 left, only 12
points were scored in the next six
and a half minutes. The Aggies
didn’t get another basket until
Fortenberry made a set shot with
7:10 left in the game.
In the opener, the Fish held 12-9
and 16-12 leads, then Rice forward
King Hill tied it at 18-18 with a
onehander. His free throw and
two tipins by Tucker made it 23-
18, and the Owlets derricked it to
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33-23 at the half. Tucker had 16
points and four fouls at the 20-
minute mark, and didn’t enter the
second half until five minutes were
gone.
The Owlets yanked the score to
47-26 in the first three minutes of
the second half. Closest the Fish
could come was 37-50. They held
Rice almost even on rebounding,
41-45, but made only 19 of 65 shots
and 15 of 31 free throws.
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