Page 4 College Station, Texas Tuesday, January 8, 1963
THE BATTALION
One Of Nation’s
Aggie Guard Bennie Lenox, a 6-2 junior
from League City (Clear Creek), goes up
for his favorite jump shot in last week’s
SWC-opening victory over the Baylor Bears.
Contesting are Winston Moore (22) and
Scoring Leaders
Ronnie Phelps (43). Through the 80-54
routing of Baylor, Lenox had dropped in
220 points for a 22.0 per game average. He
was 16th in national scoring and the only
conference representative in the top 50.
Varsity Cagers’ Statistics
Show They Belong On Top
The league-leading varsity cag-
ers have sizeable leads over the
enemy in all statistics columns—
large enough, at any rate, to show
that they belong in the top slot.
Owning a 9-2 season record and
an unblemished slate after two
Southwest Conference clashes,, the
Cadets have averaged 73.8 points
per game for the season against
64.7 for opponents. They have a
70.0 norm in conference play and
their foes have netted only 53.5
per contest.
THE BIG GUN in scoring for
the Ags has been Bennie Lenox,
who now has a 21.5 average for
the season. He is third in the
SWC with 17.0 after two games.
Among the conference teams as
far as the season is concerned,
Lenox is way out ahead of Rice’s
Kendall Rhine and Baylor’s Win
ston Moore.
The 6-2 guard’s best showing
was 31 points against Michigan in
the Houston Classic and Virginia
in the Jonesboro, Ark. Classic over
the holidays. That was his high
for varsity play at A&M. He is
also the best free-thrower, having
hit 10 of 10 so far in SWC play
and 61 of 77 for the season.
Leading in rebounds and second
in scoring is Jerry Windham. One
can only speculate where he might
stand in the statistics if he hadn’t
run into an unfortunate leg injury
against LSU in the Houston Clas
sic. Windham has 84 rebounds so
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far in season play and 20 since
SWC competition opened. He’s hit
15.5 points per game in season
and 10.0 per game in conference.
GERALD WOODARD and Lee
Walker are the next best scorers
and rebounders for Coach Bob
Rogers. Like Windham, Woodard
has a total pointage of 124 for the
season. He has hit 11.3 per game
through 11 and 8.0 in the confer
ence. Walker has 97 points
through 11 and has hit 8.8 for the
season and 11.5 in SWC competi
tion.
Fish statistics after four games
show A&M frosh averaging 81.5
points per game while winning
three and losing one.
The Fish have a well-balanced
offense with four players averag
ing in double figures. John Beas
ley, 6-7 center, leads the team with
an 18.5 average. Dick Stringfellow
has hit for a 15.8 norm, while
guard Billy Atkinson has 13.8 and
injured guard Dick Rector 10.7.
ATKINSON boasts the top field
goal percentage of the regulars,
hitting 22 of 42 shots for 52.4 per
cent. Beasley has connected on 34
of 70 shots for 48.6 per cent.
Top man in free throw accuracy
is Joe Roberts with one miss in
eight attempts for 87.5. Beasley
has six for eight and 75 per cent.
Big Beasley paces the Fish in
rebounds, grabbing off 48 in four
games for an average of 12 a con
test. Stringfellow has cleared the
boards 36 times for an average of
nine a game. Atkinson, only 5-10,
has 29 rebounds and an average
Walker has 75 rebounds and
Woodard has 70 through 11 games.
Paul Timmins and Lew Qualls
are the fourth and fifth scorers
with 5.9 and 5.8 averages, respec
tively, in season play. Qualls has
averaged six per game in the
SWC and Timmins has two. The
seven-foot Qualls, has 70 rebounds
so far.
The Ags are tied with Texas for
the SWC lead. As far as season
standings are concerned, the Ca
dets are way out in front of others
in the league.
of 7.3.
As a team, the frosh. have hit
on 135 of 315 shots for a per
centage of .429. Their opponents
have hit for a better percentage
(.441), connecting on 113 of 256
attempts.
THE SAME is true for free
throws as the Fish have sunk 56
of 89 for 62.9 per cent, while their
opponents have netted 65 of 101
for 64.4 per cent.
Having an edge in height on
their foes, the Fish have out-re-
bounded them 215 to 169 and, as
is characteristic of high-scoring
teams, have allowed a high 72.8
points per game.
The freshmen have beaten Allen
Academy and the Baylor Cubs,
while splitting with Kilgore Junior
College. The Fish have reached
the century mark once this season
in a 100-80 defeat of Allen.
Rice’s Owlets provide the next
opposition for the Fish in G. Rollie
White Coliseum Tuesday night in
the prelim to the A&M-Rice tilt.
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Fish Stats Show 81.5 Norm,
4 Players In Double Figures
IN LUBBOCK, 60-53
Ags Stop Inspired Raiders
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By VAN CONNER
Battalion Sports Editor
The Aggie basketballers coupled
deadly free-throw accui’acy and
their usual rebounding prowess to
ward off a determined bunch, of
Red Raiders in Lubbock Saturday
night and maintain their clean
slate and lead in the Southwest
Conference.
Now 2-0 in the SWC, and 9-2
for the season, Bob Rogers’ cagers
fought off flurry after flurry of
Texas Tech attacks through 35
minutes of play and then surged
ahead at the end for a 60-53 tri
umph.
Bennie Lenox, who had been 16th
in national scoring through last
week, assumed his familiar role as
high-point man with 17 counters
against the Raiders. Tech’s 6-5
sophomore, Glen Hallum, matched
Lenox in scoring.
THE BIG MAN in the rebound
ing column for the Cadets was
Jerry Windham, who had 14. Wind
ham had 13 points to be the Ags’
second high man on offense.
Bill Robinette was the third Ag
gie in double figures with 12. That
mark is the highest yet for him
in varsity play.
The other top scorers for Tech
were Sid Wall with 11 and Bill
Murren with 10.
Tech was feeling its oats after
a season-opening victory over TCU
in Fort Worth the same night the
Ags knocked off Baylor in G. Rol
lie White Coliseum. There were
more than 9,600 just a tiny bit
biased fans.
The Raiders came out in a
scrambling, ball-hawking defense
that gave them the lead twice and
kept the score tied until midway
in the first half.
With the score even at 10-10,
and about 9:50 left in the first
period, Lenox got hot and dropped
in two of his favorite jumpers and
three charity shots while Tech
could only manage a free throw
and a jump shot by Wall.
JUST AS things looked as if the
Cadets were getting cranked
within one point again. Things
improved again fast, however, as
Robinette sank a hook shot, Lew
Qualls hit from the pivot and Rob
inette put in two free tosses.
As the first half was coming
to a close Hallum managed a
jumber for Tech. But Lenox had
just made two free throws and
then Qualls got his other two
points on a tip-in and it was 29-22
at the intermission.
After a rest and undoubtedly
some stern words from Coach Gene
Gibson, the Raiders went back to
work. Windham and Robinette
kept the Ags ahead by a comfort
able margin for awhile, but at the
mid-way. point in the second half
Denny scored on a tip-in to bring
Tech within one point of the Ca
dets at 40-39.
During the next five minutes
Murren kept the Raiders within
a field goal of the Aggies with
a layup and a pivot shot as Robin
ette and Lee Walker scored for
A&M. With about three minutes
left Windham hit two charity
tosses.
Charlie Minor followed up Wind
ham’s efforts with a layup and
then Robinette hit on a long
jumper to put it on ice for the Ags.
Hallum and Denny hit twice fi
the floor in the last two mint
but at the same time Lenox, 1
ham and Walker were pumpinf
enough to make it 60-53 at
buzzer.
AMPLE TESTIMONY of
inspired play by Tech was the:
that the Aggies had their lot
shooting percentage of the sea
39.1. The Raiders had 42.0.
difference was in the free-cdi
where the Ags had 24 of 30
Tech hit only 11 of 18. Rebo:
ing meant a lot, too, and
possibly the depth Rogers halj
the bench.
VolUT
Cadets Play Host To Owls,|\^
Seek 30th Straight At Homljg
The SWC-leading Aggies play
host to a puzzling Rice team Tues
day night in G. Rollie White Col
iseum in quest of their fifth
straight win and third without a
loss in conference play.
Tip-off time is 8 p.nv as the
Owls will be seeking to end A&M’s
skein of 29 consecutive home court
triumphs.
RICE BRINGS a 3-8 season rec
ord and 1-1 conference slate into
the game, having lost to Texas and
beaten TCU. The Cadets stand 9-2
for the season and have victories
over Baylor and Texas Tech in
SWC play.
The Owls will be counting heav
ily on their tall junior center, 6-9
Kendall Rhine. Rhine is the sec
ond leading scorer for the season
with a 19.9 norm. Other starters
will be 6-5 junior Larry Phillips
and Eli Spradling at forwards, and
Frank Pickens, 5-10 junior college
transfer, and 6-0 junior Herb
Steinkamp at the guard slots.
Coached by John Fi'ankie, Rice
was picked to finish in the first
up/division in most pi'e-season polls
Harold Denny and Bobby Gindorf
went to work to bring the Raiders
but has yet to reach its potential.
The Aggies, who have been a
welcome surprise to A&M fans and
an unsettling influence on the rest
of the conference, will be favored
to pick up their tenth victory of
the season against two defeats.
STARTING at center for the
Aggies will be 6-7 Lee Walker with
6-6 Jerry Windham and 6-3!
aid Woodard at forwards. Goa
will be scoring leader Bennie
and either soph Paul Timmiiisl
junior Charlie Minor.
By c;:
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In the prelim, the Fish will mho live
the Rice Owlets at 6 p.m.
FNTRAMURAL&
Class A horseshoe finals are
Wednesday. Winning teams in
semi-finals Tuesday were Sqd. 1
vs. Sqd. 10 and F-l vs. B-2.
Sqd. 1 beat Sqd. 9 Monday in
the quarter-finals, 2-1; Sqd. 10
won from Sqd. 2, 2-1 and F-l de
feated A-3, 2-1.
F-l’s winning players and the
probable line-up for Tuesday were
Ronnie Owen, Harry Jones, Bob
Galaway, Jerry Lee, Otto Wilkie
and John Yaklin.
Winners for Sqd. 10 were Melvin
Yarbrough, John Hughson, Winton
Zimmerman and Randy Yates.
Those for Sqd. 1 were Jonathan
Chase, Allan Peterson, Theron
Dossey, Bill Sherman, David Hal
bert and Jerry Levy.
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week,” Charles E. McCaJ«‘ arg: ® d s
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place are F-l and C-2, Sqd. 2. Ranging-
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