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Page 6 College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 6, 1968 Ags Meet Rice By GARY SHERER Coach Shelby Metcalf and his Aggie basketballers invade Rice’s Autry Gym tonight in the role of spoilers. The Maroon and White took on this new face as a result of their 77-67 loss to Baylor Saturday night at G. Rollie White Coli seum. THE LOSS makes the Aggies 2-4 in the Southwest Conference race while Baylor upped its league mark to 5-1. With four losses, the Aggies would have to win all of their remaining games, and in the crazy SWC, winning streaks are not very abundant. Coach Don Knodel’s Owls also lost Saturday. Rice dropped a 68- 64 afternoon TV decision to Tex as at Austin’s Gregory Gym. The Owls now have a 3-3 conference reading while the Longhorns are tied with Arkansas for second place at 4-2. Rice is now in the same posi tion that the Aggies were before Saturday night’s games. They cannot afford to lose. THUS FAR this season, Baylor has been the only team to show any consistency. The Bears’ only loss has been to Texas Christian. Only last week, TCU had been considered the team to beat. The schedule-makers put an end to that, as the Frogs ran into the two toughest road trips in the conference. The result — two straight losses at the hands of Arkansas and Texas Tech. Rice’s attack is led by Larry Miller and Greg Williams. Miller, BARNETT FOR TWO Billy Bob Barnett (24) scores on a layup in this first-half action of Saturday night’s 77-67 loss to Baylor. Defending for Baylor is Randy Thompson (11) and Ed Thorpe (be hind Barnett). Mike Hazel (30) sets for a possible rebound. Fish Ripped 81-67 By Baylor Cubs By JOHN PLATZER A poor shooting first half proved disastrous for the Aggie Fish Saturday as they dropped an 81-67 decision to the Baylor Cubs. The loss was the Fish’s second against four wins for the season while Baylor is now 4-3. It was the first SWC loss for the Fish. BAYLOR jumped off to a 4-0 lead in the contest and was never threatened. They had their big gest lead of the half at 36-18 with five minutes remaining. The half ended with the Cubs on top 43-28. Outside shooting, which had been one of the Fish top weapons in the season, all but deserted them in the half as they hit on only 11 of 28 from the field for 39.3 per cent while the Cubs hit at a 53.3 mark on 16 of 30. The first portion of the second half produced more of the same as the Cubs pulled away to a 62- 38 margin with 12:20 remaining. THE FISH then began to re verse the trend and started chip ping away at the lead but it was too late as Baylor protected their win. A&M hit on 22 of 49 from the floor for the game for a 44.9 mark while Baylor hit on 30 of 58 for 51.7. Steve Niles led the Fish in scor ing with 18 points and in re bounding with 9 while Chuck Smith added 16 points and Bill Cooksey had 15. Tom Friedman and Bob Griffiths led the Cub’s attack with 21 and 20 points re spectively. 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The Fish play the Rice Owlets in Houston tonight before return ing home this Saturday to take on the Texas Shorthorns in a pre liminary to the varsity game. FINAL MAKE- UP Pictures For 1968 Aggieland All Seniors and Graduate Students Thru Feb. 17. University Studio r \ PARDNER You’ll Always Win The Showdown When You Get Your Duds Done At CAMPUS CLEANERS THE BATTALION Owls Tonight MIKE HEITMANN Returned to form Saturday night. Texas Outfielder Hurt In Practice 6-3 forward from San Antonio leads the Owl SWC scoring with an 18.8 mark. Williams, a pint- sized guard from Portland, Ind. is runner-up with an even 16 per game. KNODEL LOST his first-string center when Jim Hubenak, a 6-7 junior from Wharton was a vic tim of the scholastic woes. Soph- ..omore Steve Wendel has stepped into Hubenak’s spot. Houston product Bob Rule, a 6-4 guard continues to be the number one reserve for the Owls. The Aggies will have their BOB RULE Rice’s top reserve this season. hands full for this 8 p.m. game, as the Owls feature a varied at tack. The task of guarding Mil ler will go to sophomore Mike Heitmann who returned to his early season form in the Baylor loss. Heitmann came off the bench and paced the Aggie at tack with 18 points. The Houston Sam Houston grad had run into mid-season sluggishness and Metcalf hopes the 6-4 forward has regained his confidence. Joining Heitmann in the starting lineup will be Ronnie Peret, Billy Bob Barnett, John Underwood and Sonny Benefield. SATURDAY night’s loss was in keeping with the Aggies’ re cent misfortunes. Baylor was consistent and A&M wasn’t. The final statistics prove this state ment true. The Bears were 24 for 44 from the field for 54.5 while the Aggies managed 19 of 52 for 36.5. The Aggies definitely need con sistency in their attack. The loss to Baylor proved this but there is a lot of talent on this Aggie aggregation and they can still make some noise in the SWC race. One improvement was notice able by the noise it made Satur day night. The biggest crowd of the season entered G. Rollie White as 7,300 observed the game. AUSTIN, Tex. (^P)—Pat Brown, all-conference outfielder with the University of Texas, was beaned in practice Monday and will be out of action for three weeks. The accident occurred in an intra-squad game as Texas started its second week of prac tice. Brown’s left cheek bone was fractured and he will have to undergo surgery. Aggies - Ba ma Split $500,000 DALLAS — Victorious Texas A&M and the University of Ala bama will receive record Cotton Bowl Classic payments in excess of $243,000.00 for their 1968 par ticipation, the Cotton Bowl Ath letic Association revealed recent ly. “An increase in our television receipts combined with a seventh straight sellout enabled us to bet ter the previous record,” said James H. Stewart, president ol the Association. The 1966 pay ments to Arkansas and LSU wen $230,107.26. Mr. Stewart also announced that the Cotton Bowl Athletic As sociation has completed negotis- tions for a new three-game con- tract with the Columbia Broad casting System at a substantial increase in rights receipts. Based on the increase in television rev- enue, the Cotton Bowl Classic ex pects to pay in excess of $30(1,. 000.00 to each of the 1969 partici pants. “Our last 10 Cotton Boil games have contributed in excess of $4,000,000.00 to the participat- ing teams and to the Southwest Conference,” Mr. Stewart added “Three teams emerged from their performances here as recognized national champions during that span." 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