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Texas Tech Is Host THE BATTALION Page 4 College Station, Texas Friday, February 17,188 Aggies Visit Lubbock Saturday Night By GARY SHERER The Aggies invade Lubbock Saturday night to meet Texas Tech’s Red Raiders in what prom ises to be a hotly contested affair. Tech visited College Station Feb. 7 and the Aggies had to come from behind to nip Tech at the wire, 70-67. Since that game, the Red Raiders have found the winning combination. They knocked off Texas Christian at Lubbock and pulled off the South west Conference rarity, a win on the road when they topped South ern Methodist at Dallas Tuesday night. ^ - §§§ gg m '/■% mm, The Tech resurgence has been led by 6-7 Vernon Paul. Paul, a junior from Lawton, Okla., has been the leading scorer and re bounder in the two-game win streak. After the two wins, Tech’s SWC record is 3-6. They are 5- 14 for the season, the same as the Aggies. Tech Coach Gene Gib son, in his seventh year as head man at the West Texas school, lost his four leading scorers and starters to graduation and the losing record reflects the missing players. Texas Tech uses a deliberate style of play and tries to get most of their shots from around the keyhole or work the ball into Paul for close-in layups and jump shots. Paul is now the leading scorer after a slow start. He has a 15.2 ,SWC mark and a 13.0 season reading. Close behind are Billy Tapp and Dave Olson. Tapp, a senior from Lubbock is runner-up in season scoring with a 12.8 norm but he is third in SWC Tech scoring with a 12.6 mark. Olson, senior forward from New Mexico is hitting at a 13.1 pace in the SWC and 12.0 for the season. BILLY BOB BARNETT These three sophomores have won praises from Coach Shelby Metcalf for their play SONNY BENEFIELD RONNIE PERET this year as the threesome are the leading- season scorers. Netters Face St. Edwards In First Dual Meet Of Year By CHARLES ROWTON St. Edwards University of Aus tin will host the Aggie netters in the first dual match of the year for both teams Saturday at 2 p.m. All six members of the varsity will play singles matches. Pete Faust is the top-seeded player for the Aggies, followed, in order, by Joe Tillerson, Marcus Beleck, Terry Smith, Carroll Schubert, and Martin Halpem. Faust and Beleck will form the top doubles team, followed by the duos of Tillerson and Smith, and Schubert and Halpem. “St. Edwards has a good ten nis program and they aways have a good team,” Coach Omar Smith observed. “They will be hurt by the loss of Julio Rojas, but we were hurt by the loss of Luis Rojas and Richard Barker.” Julio and Luis are brothers who usually played against each other in meetings between the two schools in the past. Julio, billed as “St. Ed’s Ace,” is the greatest player ever to play for the Aus tin school, according to Coach E. Strohmeyer. Returnees for St. Edwards include L. Marias and W. Braun. Smith feels that the net squad has more confidence now than they did before the Pan-American Games and that they are begin ning to shape up as a team. Mo rale is good and the Aggies have a good chance to take their first win. “They are all playing pretty good but are not at peak form yet. Since they are a young team, every match they play should help them improve con siderably.” Faust and Tillerson are the only lettermen on the squad; the other four netters played for the Fish team last year. Faust, a 6-0, 165 pound junior, is a native of Lamarque. He has impressive credentials in that he was state 3A doubles champion in 1964. The 20-year-old tennis star is a physics major. Tillerson, also a junior, meas ures 6-2, 184 pounds, and is from Celeste. He was a state cham pion one year and runner-up the other two years of his high school career. Twenty-one years old, Tillerson is majoring in mathematics. Following the match with St. Edwards, the netters’ schedule shapes up like this: Feb. 25—University of Hous ton* March 3—University of Corpus Christi March 4—East Texas State March 10—Lamar Tech March 11—Louisiana State University March 16-18—R i c e Tourna ment* March 20—Southeast Oklahoma State March 30—Oklahoma City April 1—North Texas State* April 4—Rice Univ. (SWC) April 8 — Southern Methodist University (SWC) April 11—North Texas State April 14—Hardin-Simmons U.* April 15—Texas Tech* (SWC) April 18—Texas Univ.* (SWC) April 21—Trinity University April 22—Baylor* (SWC) April 26—University of Hous. April 28—Texas Christian Uni versity (SWC) May 4-6—Southwest Confer ence Meet in Dallas *Away games Aggie FCA Huddle Elects New Slate ji PETE FAUST JOE TILLERSON Coach Omar Smith will depend heavily on these two juniors to lead the young Aggie tennis squad this season. The Texas A&M Huddle of The Fellowship of Christian Athletes elected a new slate of officers at their meeting Thursday night at the Memorial Student Center. Elected president was Jerry Campbell—Football. New vice- presidents are Steve Bancroft— Track, Bob Pettit—Swimming and Jack Whitmore—Baseball. The secretary-treasurer is Gady Wells—Football and R o n n y Lightfoot—Track heads publicity. The Aggie Huddle is open to participants of all sports. The chapter meets once a week and has had as many as 72 members present for one meeting. The outgoing FCA president, football lineman Ken Lamkin, says the FCA has helped the members to be better Christians and that their athletic life is strengthened by membership in the organization. Other outgoing officers are Jack Pybum, Dan Westerfield and Joe Weiss. All three partici pated on the Aggie varsity foot ball team this past season. Aggies In Third Position In SWC Blue Chip Signings NBA Playoffs To Begin By March 22 NEW YORK OP)—The National Basketball Association playoffs will start no later than March 22 and the playoff pool will amount to a record $280,000, President Walter Kennedy announced Thursday. By The Associated Press The signing of football pros pects went through its third frenzied day in the Southwest Conference and was just short of the two-thirds mark Thursday. There have been 246 boys to affix their names to letters of intent or pre-enrollment applica tions from a possible 400 that can be signed. The top signer Thursday was Baylor, which came up with all- state quarterback Laney Cook of Sonora. Cook is the sensational left-handed passer who carried his team through an unbeaten season to the state Class A cham pionship. Texas has been the busiest, signing 36 of its quota of 50, while Rice and Texas Tech each has reached 35, Texas A&M 33, Arkansas 30, Texas Christian and Baylor 26 each and Southern Methodist 25. Baylor got two members of San Angelo’s state Class AAAA champions along with Cook when the Bear recruiters signed guards Tom Jones and Don Aylor. Texas listed Davie Holubec, Paint Rock halfback; Steve Stewart, Clear Creek tackle, and Tommy Matula, Boling guard, in maintaining its narrow lead in signing. Rice bagged seven players to move one short of Texas, with two of them coming from Class AAAA Port Neches — Tommy Alexander, halfback, and Cliff Hammond, guard. Halfback Johnny Weaver of Gatesville and guard C. W. Walk er of Cleburne brought Texas A&M’s signings to 33. Southern Methodist signed four players Thursday, one being Larry Tunnell of Tyler Lee, son of a Southern Methodist player, Gus Tunnell, of a quarter of a century ago. SMU also got Ed die Valdez, star quarterback of Henderson County’s Junior Rose Bowl champions. Texas Christian signed five, making 11 in two days and in cluding all-state tackle John Nel son of Round Rock. Texas Tech got five more names on the line Thursday, three of them from area west Texas, but two coming from Palestine in East Texas — linebacker Harold Fox and tackle Bob Mitchell. Arkansas slacked off in its signing, taking on only one boy Thursday. He was Robert Pack- ett, fullback from Atkins, Ark. The Razorback coaches have signed six from Texas. The Red Raiders pulled a real surprise when they toppled SMU, 82-74. The Mustangs were sail ing along at the top of the heap and a home game with Tech was not much of a worry. Tech hit a fine 58 per cent from the field, a feat that is not easy to do every game. In their first Aggie-Tech game, there were 51 personal fouls. As that game was rough, this one promises to be just as full of con tact. As anyone who has made the trip before will attest, a visit to Lubbock’s Municipal Coliseum is an experience to be remember ed. Tech’s school colors are one color, RED, and the student body as well as the basketball team are clad in colors of red. The Aggies will still be looking for their first win on the road and they will have to come up with a good effort if they want to accomplish it in the Tech game. Coach Shelby Metcalf has pre pared the team for a tough match and hopes his young aggregation can come through with a good game. After Tuesday night’s win, Metcalf had some good things to say about his team. The Aggie mentor feels Buzzy Myatt and John Underwood are the most im proved players from early in the season. He is also pleased that the top three season scorers are his starting trio of sophomores Billy Bob Barnett, Ronnie Peret and Sonny Benefield. Peret is top season scorer at 12.9 and the Plainview product is hitting at 11.4 for SWC play. Benefield is runner-up in season production with a 12.3 count while the Sweeny six-footer leads the team in SWC play with a 12.7 mark. Barnett is third in scoring for the season at 10.6 and is fourth for conference play at 10.3. Un derwood is second in league scor ing with a 11.5 reading. The Aggies have two more road games after Saturday night. The Maroon and White will be at Austin Feb. 25 for their second tussle with the Longhorns and on March 2 the Aggies will play their final game at Fort Worth against TCU. The Aggies will be home against Baylor Tuesday' and their last home game will be Feb. 28, hosting SMU. Read Battalion Classifieds REGISTRATION AND TEXT BOOKS BREAK YOU? Then see us, for a personal loan. Take advantage of our prompt, confidential loan service now. §§§ . 'V. UNIVERSITY LOAN COMPANY 317 Patricia (North Gate) College Station, Texas Telephone: 846-8319 The Church..For a Fuller Life..For You CALENDAR OF CHURCH SERVICES ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL 906 Jersey Street, So. 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