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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
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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
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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.
Kubecka played on champion
ship football and track teams
three years at Palacios. The A&M
freshman team for which he line-
backed last year had a 2-2-1 rec
ord.
THE SON of Mr. and Mrs. O.
R. Kubecka was a three-year all
district linebacker for the Pala
cios sharks, Class AA state
champions in 1965, and started
the ’67 season at the same post.
Then he moved closer to the
action, playing defensive tackle
in A&M’s Purdue and LSU games.
Coach Gene Stallings assigned
the “B” average pre-veterinary
medicine major in the heart of
the Aggie defensive line for Flor
ida State.
A game later, things began
clicking for the Aggies, who came
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through in big play style tofa
ish the season with six straigi
wins. A&M and Alabama linei
in the Cotton Bowl on NewYa
Day.
Kubecka believes the big pli|
trend that began with a last*
ond comeback over Texas Ttd
was due to Aggie adaptibility.
“We have a lot of pride
being able to take advantage
sudden changes in a game,’ 1 tin
Palacios High honor student sail
“In practice, we worked coi®
tently on things like setting!
blocking walls for interceptions,
turns.”
“I THINK interceptions wen
our best big plays. Bill Hobk
103-yd return against TCU ««
the biggest.”
With Kubecka and other Af
gie defenders stacking the tnii
die, few opposing’ teams dies
that route of travel. Billy andkii
mates combined for a key staj
early in the Arkansas game. Tin
Razorbacks had driven 58 yarA
to the Aggie II on their first
possession. On fourth and out,
wingback David Dickey headei
straight for Kubecka. The Ag
gies stopped him for no gain
took over and drove 90 Yards t(
score.
“Most teams ran off tackle or
outside against us, the fifth old
est of 11 Kubecka boys noted.
“At first, they passed because of
our weak pass defense. But after
Coach Stallings made changes in
the secondary, I think we came
up with one of the best pass de
fenses around.”
At Palacios High, Kubecka also
played on a 1963 district champ
and high jumped for the Sharks’
district and regional track champs
of 1963-64-65.
HIS THREE older brothers are
Aggies. Oswald graduated in 1965.
Dan is a Senior, Doug a junior
Summers, he works for his fa
ther, a farmer-rancher located 12
miles from Palacios. One of Bill’s
most time-consuming jobs was
clearing roots from new rice
fields.
On Jan. 1, the Aggies will be
picking cotton.
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Swift pouring through 15 points
in the first half, TCU built a 21-
point lead then coasted by Loyola
of New Orleans 101-69 Wednes
day night for its first victory
of the season.
TCU, which came into
game with a cool .322 shooting
percentage, riddled the visitors'
zone defense with a 48.8 first-
half spree and a 16-point inter
mission advantage.
Loyola whittled it to 12 early
in the second half but Carey
Sloan picked up the pace with
four field goals. With TCU in
front 68-44 the Frogs’ new coach,
Johnny Swaim, played his second
team the final 12:58. The re
serves also came in for the last
4:02 of the first half.
Swift, 6-5 junior college trans
fer from Fullerton, Calif., fin
ished with 17 points. Sloan and
substitute Tommy Goan had 14
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