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char- was re- aboard onth-old board A •% <■ \) i L,* -i C ' s « * « <rv Ik A- Ags Lose to Rice, 53-39; Host Arkansas Saturday George Me haffey Plays Without Foul The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas Friday, January 4, 1957 PAGE 3 By BARRY HART Battalion Sports Editor The zone defense ran true to form again last night as the Rice Owls dropped A&M, 53-39, in a slow-moving South west Conference basketball opener in White Coliseum. The Aggies host the Arkansas Razorbacks tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Rice’s huge height advantage and the frigid shooting of Coach Ken Loeffler’s Aggies was the difference as both teams hit their season low in point total. A&M’s one bright spot was the play of Captain George Mehaffey, who led the Aggies in scoring with 13 points, paced both teams in rebounds with 13 and played the entire game without committing a foul—the first time Mehaffey has accomplished this in his collegiate career. DOWN GOES AN OWL —as Ted Harrod drives over an unidentified Rice basketballer on his way toward the basket with the Owls’ Fred Woods (23) and W. A. Preston (28) looking on. Harrod fouled the grounded Owl. Mehaffey, however, could not offset the scoring and re bounding of the Owls’ 6-10 Temple Tucker and 6-9 Tom Rob- itaille who scored 18 and 16 points with 12 rebounds each. A&M soph Ernie Turner took second in the Aggie scoring column with 10. P O G O By Walt Kelly By Walt Kelly In losing their ninth game as against four wins, the Aggies hit a meagre 25.8 per cent of their shots from the floor to Rice’s 34.4. Robitaille and Tucker had five points before Mehaffey’s jump shot at 16:10 made it 5-2. The Owls pulled away to a 12-4 lead midway in the first half and the closest the Aggies got after that was with 3:33 remaining at 20-16. Robitaille hit five quick points and Glenn Fields dropped a jump for a Rice lead at the half of 27-20. Tucker got hot to open the sec ond half, hitting 10 consecutive points to make it 39-26 at 12:33. The Owls turned it on to pull out in front by their largest margin, 49-31, with two minutes remaining to play. BOX SCORE A&M (39) Fg Ft Hutto,g 1-3 0-0 Swisher, g 3-10 1-4 Mehaffey,c 4-19 5-8 Schwake.f 1-2 0-0 Harrod, g 1-4 0-0 Heller,f 0-2 0-0 McNichol.c 0-1 0-0 Turner,! ........ 5-11 0-0 Connally.f 0-2 3-4 Kolle.f 0-4 0-0 Reb Pf Tp 3 0 2 2 2 13 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 0 0 7 3 2 O 2 2 Team Reb. . 10 Totals . . 15-58 9-16 42 11 39 Rice (53) Tucker,c Robitaille,! Woods,f Thomas, f Higgins,g , Fields,g . . Preston, f Griffin,c Hill, g .... Baggett,f Fg Ft Reb Pf Tp 8-12 7-11 0 - 5 .1-9 0 - 6 4-13 1 - 1 0 - 2 O - 2 0 - 0 2-3 2-4 0-0 5-7 0-0 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0 1-2 12 12 8 4 0 2 3 1 0 1 Team Reb 6 Totals . . . 21-61 11-18 49 Halftime: Rice, 27; A&M, 20. Officials: Rossi and Watson. 9 53 TWO FOR SPIDER—as Aggie Captain George Mehaffey goes up for a jump shot in last night’s action with Rice. Mehaffey took high point honors for A&M with 13 in their 39-53 loss. Surrounding George are Rice’s Temple Tucker (21) Glenn Fields (26) W. A. Preston (28) and Tom Robi taille (25) in background. Annual CHS-Kiwanis Tourney Opens Today By MAURICE OLIAN The eight-team 11th annual Ki- wanis-A&M Consolidated Basket ball Tournament got underway this afternoon in Tiger Gym. Tomorrow night the tournament comes to a close with the consola tion finals scheduled for 7 p. nji. and the championship battle on tap for 8:30. First, second, and con solation trophies are to be present ed following the completion of the championship scrap. Also to be awarded at this time are miniature gold basketballs to members of the all-tournament team, which is to be selected by the coaches. Tonight’s session begins at 6 p. m. as the losers of today’s initial two melees get together. The hometown A&M Consolidated Tigers, who won the consolation crown each of the past two years and took championship titles in 1953 and in 1954, conclude first- round play at 7:30 tonight when they meet Burton. Following this contest, the winners of the Nava- sota-Allen clash and the Sealy- Franklin tilt play each other for a spot in the finals. The action tomorrow starts at 1 p. m. with the loser of the Wal- ler-Somerville game meeting the loser of the Burton-CHS fracas. Then at 2:30, the victors of these two games fight for the other championship finals place. Tickets, which may be bought either for individual sessions or for the entire tournament, are being supplied by Black’s Pharmacy of Bryan and College Station. For separate sessions, tickets are 25 cents for students and 50 cents for adults, while for the whole tourney, tickets are selling for 50 cents for students and $1.00 for adults. 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