The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 17, 1967, Image 4

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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.
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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
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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.
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