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Aggie Five Ends Season With 85-80 Win Over SMU
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UNDERWOOD SCORES
Johnny Underwood shoots a short jump shot for two points
in Friday night’s 85-90 season final win over SMU. De
fending for the Mustangs are John Higgenbotham (35),
Bill Voight (40) and Woody Taliaferro (33) • Aggies Mike
Hazel and Ronnie Peret (44) prepare for a rebound. (Photo
by Mike Wright)
By GARY SHERER
The Aggie basketballers wound
up the 1967-68 season Friday
night with an 85-80 victory over
the Southern Methodist Mustangs
at G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Aggie Coach Shelby Metcalf’s
charges ended the season with a
14-10 record and 8-6 in the South
west Conference. The Aggies end
ed up in a three-way tie for sec
ond place with Baylor and Texas.
THE TIE CAME about as the
result of Saturday night’s action
in which Texas Christian won the
title by knocking off Baylor at
Waco while Texas was losing at
home to Arkansas. Thus, one of
the wildest races in SWC history
went down to the wire with the
Horned Frogs ending up with the
laurels.
Metcalf praised his team fol
lowing the game which marked
the final game for two seniors,
Johnny Underwood and team cap
tain Terry Trippet.
Underwood, 6-3 guard from
Honey Grove, was high-point man
for the Aggies with 22. Trippet,
from Odessa, who started the
game, contributed to the lead the
Aggies took early in the game
with two comer jump shots.
THE AGGIES HIT 50 percent
for the game as they made half
their shots in both halfs. SMU,
on the other hand, was cold from
the floor. It took them two min
utes to score in the first half
and they suffered a four-minute
drought to start the second half.
It was almost a runaway for
the Aggies early in the second
half as Underwood and Sonny
Benefield got hot and led a surge
that pulled them to a 16-point
lead. However, the Aggie guards
cooled off and the Mustangs, with
Woody Taliferro pumping in six
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corner jumpers, came back.
This was the pattern of the
rest of the game, as Bill Voight
picked up the scoring for SMU
after Taliferro was sent to the
bench with his fifth foul.
UNFORTUNATELY for Coach
Bob Prewitt’s Mustangs, Voight,
Taliferro and Lynn Phillips were
the only Ponies hitting with any
regularity and this spelled their
downfall.
Voight matched Underwood’s
total of 22 for SMU honors with
Phillips and Taliferro tallying 17
and 12 respectively.
Ronnie Peret, who ended up as
the conferences’ fifth leading
scorer, finished with 17 points.
The 6-9 Plainview junior com
bined two contrasting halfs. In
the first half, Peret led the scor
ing with 13 points but only three
rebounds. In the final twenty min
utes, his rebounding was a big
factor for the Aggies as he pulled
down 10 caroms while scoring just
four more points.
Billy Bob Barnett went 4 for 5
in the second half to help the
Aggie scoring load and also pulled
down nine rebounds. Barnett, who
finished with 11 points, joined
Peret in winning all-SWC bertli!
on Saturday.
PERET WAS named on the sij|
player Associated Press all-con.
ference team, as Peret tied wit!. 1
Phillips for the fifth spot. Bai.
nett, 6-5 junior from Brenhamj
was named to the TV Sports hon-
or five.
Following the second place tit
in the conference, was Arkansas
in third with a 7-7 mark. Rice was
next at 6-8 and Texas Tech ani
SMU finished in the cellar at 4-1(1.
The Mustangs then, did a con.
plete turnabout from last season
when they won the title going
away. Prewitt, who took over for
E. O. (Doc) Hayes this season
could not make up for the loss
of four starters and saw his team
finish with a 6-18 mark.
TCU will now play in the NCAA
Midwest Regionals and will meet
the Big Eight champion Mar. 15
at Salt Lake City, Utah. The Big
Eight champ will be either Kansas
State or Kansas. The Aggies met
both teams in the Sunflower Clas
sic earlier this season. The Ma
roon and White lost both games
but they were close contests all
the way (K-State won a squeaker
by two points).
V0I
Spring Sports
Aggie Golfers Take Win;
Traeksters, Swimmers Fall
By JOHN PLATZER
The Aggie track team tied con
ference favorite Rice in a tri
angular meet in Kyle Field Fri
day but had to settle for a co
hold on second place as Texas
University came away with an
upset win.
Texas collected 77 points in the
meet banking on its overall depth
while the Aggies and Rice ended
with 4614 each. Rice took first in
seven events, including both re
lays, while Texas had six firsts
and A&M three.
WEIGHT EVENTS continue to
be a strong point of the Aggie
team this season despite the loss
of world record holder Randy
Matson.
Ronnie Lightfoot, a sophomore,
won the shotput with a toss of
56-014 while Senior George Resley
finished second with a put of 53-2.
Kelvin Korver, a freshman o n
Coach Charlie Thomas’ team, end
ed in second behind Rice’s Gerald
Holtzman in the discuss with a
throw of 162-8 while Lightfoot
finished third with 153-7.
Jack Abbott, an Aggie hurdler,
was the top individual point
maker in the meet along with
Texas’ Brian Woolsey with eight
points. He took first in the 120-
yard high hurdles, where Aggie
Steve O’Neal was second, with a
time of 14.2 and placed second in
the 220 with a clocking of 21.7.
The top individual performance
in the meet may have been pro
vided by Martin Rollins, an Ag
gie senior from Alabama, in the
pole vault. Rollins set a school
record in route to winning the
event with a vault of 16-lVz.
CURTIS MILLS a top fresh
man on the Aggie squad pushed
Rice’s Conley Brown to the limit
in the 440 before losing in the
last 20 yards. Brown timed 47.8
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in the event while Mills was a
close second at 48.0.
The 440-yard relay team of the
Aggies dropped the baton on the
final exchange as they recorded
no time. A&M was in the second
position in the event, which was
won by Rice with a time of 41.6,
at the time of the mishap.
In the mile relay the Aggie
team of Mike Boyd, Rocky Woods,
Jack White and Mills finished
third behind first place Rice with
a time of 3:16.7. Rice had a 3:11.5
clocking in the event.
The meet was the first of the
season for the Aggies and the
Owls while it was the year’s sec
ond competition for Texas.
GOLF
The varsity golf team of Coach
Henry Ransom successfully de
fended their championship of the
Southwestern recreation tourna
ment in Fort Worth over the
weekend.
Billy Wade paced the win firing
a one-under par 139 for the toum-
ament’s 36 as the Aggies recorded
a team score of 577.
Arkansas was second in the
meet with a 578 mark while Texas
Wesleyan finished in the third
spot with 586.
The Aggie freshman team was
also defending a championship in
the tournament but failed to
place. North Texas State won the
junior college - freshman division
with a 587 score while Texas
Christian University was second
and Cooke County Junior College
was third.
A&M is the defending South
west Conference champion in the
sport.
SWIMMING
Southern Methodist University,
Southwest Conference swimming
champions for the past 11 years,
swept 12 of 13 events to drown
the Aggies Saturday in College
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