Page 8 College Station, Texas Thursday, December 14, 1967 THE BATTALIOI Aggies Lose First, 71-65, To North Texas State By GARY SHERER When you don’t hit the basket, you don’t win. A very simply-stated philoso phy, but it rang true for the Ag gie basketball team Wednesday night at Denton. The Maroon and White lost its first game of the year, 71-65, to North Texas State. The reason for the defeat was the Aggies failure to score from the field and the foul line. THE EAGLES of North Texas didn’t hit that well either, but they had it when it was needed and never lost the lead after half time. The first twenty minutes were fairly even with the lead TUXEDO RENTALS At 3nirt Stiirnci* ^ ^ men's wear ' <•.*1 » • l*M\ W I 822-3711 see-sawing back and forth. Turn overs hurt the Aggies more in the first half. At least a half doz en times the Aggies had made a basket but had it disallowed by a traveling call. The Eagles were 1-4 going into the game. North Texas always is a threat at home because of the bandbox fieldhouse they play in. The fans were right at courtside, as the 3,500 capacity was pushed to the limit. REGARDLESS of the crowd and the Eagles, it was the Ag gies’ failure to score that meant the difference in the game. The Maroon and White had 33.3 from the floor in the first half and 37.0 in the second half. Their foul shooting in the first half was a poor 8 for 17. The second half saw better foul shooting but the damage had been done. The Eagles took a 32-30 half time lead to the dressing room. They came back after intermis sion and built the lead up to as much as seven points but couldn’t £ull completely away from the Aggies. Then, with about 11 minutes to go, the Aggies led by Ronnie Peret and Mike Heitmann started to peck away at the Eagle lead. When Mike Hazel tipped in a shot with eight minutes to go it made the score 57-55 North Tex as. This however, turned out to be the last threat by the Aggies. his agg-ressive play. The 6-6 soph omore had been a question-mark up to this game but Metcalf sta ted Hazel may have found him self in this game. A MINUTE LATER, the Eagles had pulled away to their biggest lead at 65-57 and the game was all but over. The Eagles hit a scoring drought about this time but the Aggies wei - e equal to the task and missed just as many. There were many factors that led to the first defeat for the Ag gies. JC transfer Harry Bostic who had turned in three solid performances in the first three games, couldn’t buy a basket. The 6-6 service veteran had a bad shooting night in the win over SW Texas and the inconsistency continued Wednesday night. PERET LED all scorers with 21 points to maintain his 20 per game average. Heitmann added 10 for the only two Aggies in double figures. Lee Winfield was high for North Texas with 16 while Hamp Hazelton and Neil Adams chipped in with 14 and 10 respectively. The Aggies now travel to Law rence, Kansas to meet Kansas in the first half of the Sunflower Classic on Friday night. Following that game, the 4-1 Aggies move to Manhatten, Kans. to meet Kan sas State Saturday night and com plete the weekend tournament. RONNIE PERET Hig-h scorer for the Aggies. MIKE HEITMANN Led second-half surge. MIKE HAZEL Plays his best game. Call 822-1441 Allow 20 Minutes Carry Out or Eat-In THE PIZZA HUT 2610 Texas Ave. BOSTIC DIDN’T have a field goal in seven attempts in the Tough Middle Guard Kubecka Natural For SWC Champs first half and three quick ones towards the end of the game seved him from being shutout. John Underwood and Billy Bob Barnett also had off nights for the Aggies. On the bright side, Hazel re ceived praise by Coach Shelby Metcalf following the game for Texas A&M’s SWC football championship was a natural for sophomore Billy Kubecka, start ing middle guard in the last seven games. 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