i y 1 1 ■■ ill ii! nil in Ags Host Stephen F. Austin College Tonight THE BATTALION Page 4 College Station, Tesi Tuesday, December 13,1966 By GARY SHERER Unbeaten Stephen F. Austin College invades G. Rollie White Coliseum tonight in a 8 p.m. bas ketball game with the Aggies. The high-scoring cagers from Nacogdoches have won seven in a row, with the most recent vic tory a 75-57 win Monday night over Houston Baptist. The Lumberjack offense is led by freshman George Johnson, a 6’11” youngster from Harleton. The Polnick twins, Marvin and Ervin, a pair of 6’5” freshmen from Houston, bolster up a young starting five that features four freshmen and one sophomore. The entire squad is senior-less, with one junior and the rest first and second year men. Coach Marshall Brown, starting his eighth season as SFA mentor, has high hopes as being a con tender for the Lone Star Con ference championship. The team’s high point mark this year was 122 against Houston Baptist Dec. 2. They recently whipped a highly-regarded Ar lington State team at Arlington to add to their unbeaten skien. Aggie Coach Shelby Metcalf, despite the Aggies poor record, is encouraged by the team’s over all improvement and hopes to hit the winning trail this week. “We learned a lot on this road trip,” Metcalf said, “and we’ll be looking for a big crowd to add incentive to the team,” the Aggie coach added. The Aggies returned to College Station Thursday night with an 0-4 record and unhappy memor ies of their first road trip. On their arrival, they were met at Easterwood Airport by several Aggie rooters. “I didn’t know what organiza tion they were from on campus, said Metacalf, “but the boys and I appreciated the greeting very much.” For tonight’s game, Metcalf is unsure about a starting lineup and probably won’t make a final decision until gametime. Metcalf praised Ronnie Peret, Billy Bob Barnett, Terry Trippet and Buzzy Myatt for their play on the road trip and hopes the overall improvement since the first game can continue. “I wish I had known at Thanks giving what I know now,” said Metcalf when discussing the team’s improvement. Aggie statistics after four game show Barnett as the leading scor er with a 13.4 average on 20 for 45 from the floor for 44.4 per cent, 18 for 27 from the free- throw line for 66.7 and a total of 58 points. Peret is next with 17 for 50 and 34 per cent from the floor and 18 for 30 foul shooting for 60 per cent and totalling 52 points. An interesting team statistic is that while being outscored, the Aggies are still out-rebounding their foes. Metcalf adds that if the team can start hitting the bas- Fish Meet Ravens In Prelim Tonight By JERRY GRISHAM The Texas Aggie Fish round- ballers go bird hunting tonight as the San Jacinto Junior College Ravens wing into G. Rollie White Coliseum intent on keeping their perfect 11-0 record intact. Although the Fish can’t lay claim to as impressive a string as 11 wins, they won their opener against Lon Morris Dec. 1, by the impressive score of 78-61, and a victory over the tough Black birds will indeed put a feather, a black one at that, in their caps. ACCORDING TO Coach Jim Culpepper, the probable starting five for the fish will be Mike Heitmann and Oliver Diggers at forwards, Mike Hazel at center, and Mac Hooten at a guard posi tion. The only doubtful starter is Bill Brown, a guard. Brown has an ankle injury and may not see action. In the event Brown doesn’t play, a possible replacement could be Tom Miller. The Fish will have a chance to find out if the results of their last outing were indications of a balanced and poised team or just one of those nights when the basketball seems to be drawn like a magnet to the net. Against Lon Morris the Fish hit on 29 of 68 field goals at tempts for a respectable 42.6 per cent. HEITMANN WAS the high scorer in that game with 11 field goals and six free throws for 28 points. Hooten was run ner-up with a total of 16 tallies. Brown contributed 13 points to the cause, Diggers hit for 10 and Hazel topped off the scoring for the starters with eight points. Others scoring were David Sad ler with two and Buddy Gann with one. Game time for the Fish game will be at 5:45 preceeding the Varsity game. ket a little more and maintain their rebounding they will win some ball games. “Overall, we are taking an op timistic outlook and hoping,” add ed Metcalf when summing up the team’s outlook at this point in the season. In addition to tonight’s game, the Aggies will host the North Texas State Eagles from Denton Thursday night, to cap the pre- Christmas week. During the holidays, the Aggies will travel to Canyon and meet West Texas State Dec. 27. On Dec. 29 and 30, they will partici pate in the New Mexico Univer sity Invitational Basketball Tour nament to. complete their holiday activity. High-Scoring UCLA Cagers No. 1 In National Rankings By BEN OLAN Associated Press Sports Writer UCLA’S Bruins, who scored 195 points in beating seventh- ranked Duke twice last week, were unanimous choices Mon day for the first place in this week’s Associated Press major college basketball poll. The Bruins were placed in the top position by all 36 selectors on the national panel of sports writers and broadcasters. Last week, UCLA was No. 1 on all but 2 of the 34 ballots. Texas Western held second place. There was a mild shake- up in the remainder of the standings, the principal one in volving Michigan State. The Spartans, unranked a week ago, slipped into the No. 8 spot as Duke dropped out of the Top Ten. UCLA lifted its record to 3-0 by defeating Duke 88-54 last Fri day and 107-87 Saturday. Lew Alcindor, the Bruins’ 7-1 sopho more star, was held to 19 points Friday and scored 88 in the next game. Texas Western, unbeaten in five games, beat East Texas 61- 30, Pan American 67-65 and Southern Methodist 71-62. Louisville advanced one place to No. 3 ranking after defeating Southwestern Louisiana 107-68 and Southern Illinois 70-66 in two overtimes. Kentucky fell one spot to fourth. The Wildcats lost to Illi nois 98-97 in overtime, then re bounded with a 118-116 victory over Northwestern. New Mexico, North Carolina, Brigham Young, Michigan State, Houston and Cincinnati PARDNER You’ll Always Win The Showdown When You Get Your Duds Done At CAMPUS CLEANERS complete the rankings, in that order. 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