HE BATTALION
Thursday, January 23, 1969
College Station, Texas
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SWC Leaders Tangle With UH Tuesday At Delmar
By JOHN PLATZER
Coach Shelby Metcalf’s Aggie
basketballers take time out from
their Southwest Conference wars
Tuesday night to challenge arch
rival University of Houston at
Delmar Gym in Houston.
The Aggies increased their
SWC lead to one full game over
the Baylor Bears with a hair rais
ing 72-71 come-from-behind vic
tory over defending champion
Texas Christian Saturday night
at G. Rollie White. Mike Her
mann connected from the corner
with only five seconds left in the
game to give A&M the Cinderella
victory.
For the first time this season,
a huge crowd (6,936) was on
hand to cheer the Aggies. This
seemed to send A&M into a state
of shock as they could connect
on only 7 of 29 shots in the first
half for 24.1 percent and went to
the dressing room trailing 42-31.
In the second half the Aggies
quickly narrowed the margin to
5 points before the Frogs quickly
increased it back to 13. The
Aggies started chipping away at
the lead then until Heitmann’s
last second shot sent them ahead
for the first time since the first
three minutes in the contest.
Billy Bob Barnett and Ronnie
Aggie Cage Stats
f Player
G
FG-FGA
Pet.
FT-FTA
Pet.
Miss
Reb-Avg.
PF-D
Pts.
Avg.
Billy Bob Barnett
13
85-156
54.6
68-91
-74.8
94
109-8.4
41-1
238
18.3
i Ronnie Peret
13
81-137
59.2
56-99
56.7
99
121-9.3
48-4
218
16.8
Sonny Benefield
13
71-141
50.4
25-34
73.5
79
34-2.6
32-0
167
12.8
Mike Heitmann
13
50-103
48.5
54-78
69.3
77
48-3.7
41-2
154
11.8
‘ Harry Bostic
11
35-78
44.8
12-17
70.6
48
75-6.8
26-0
82
7.5
Steve Niles
13
20-51
39.2
22-31
71.0
40
65-5.0
34-3
62
4.8
Bill Cooksey
13
22-62
35.5
13-22
59.1
49
32-2.4
17-0
57
4.4
Chuck Smith
12
10-25
40.0
8-18
44.5
25
26-2.2
13-0
28
2.3
Bill Brown
7
3-8
37.5
5-8
62.5
8
3-0.4
5-0
11
1.6
Roddy McAlpine
4
1-5
20.0
4-5
80.0
5
4-1.0
5.0
6
1.5
I Ross Brupbacher
3
2-8
28.6
0-0
00.0
5
4-1.3
3-0
4
1.3
' Oliver Biggers
1
0-1
00.0
0-0
00.0
1
3-1.5
1-0
0
—
Totals A&M
13
Team Rebounds
380-774 49.2
267-403
66.3
530
.... 83-6.5
607-46.7
266-10
1027
79.0
FOES
13
386-894
43.1
257-360
71.4
611
534-41.1
293-15
1029
79.1
K SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE (Won 4, Lost 0)
Player G FG-FGA Pet. FT-FTA
Pet.
Miss
Reb-Avg.
PF-D
Pts.
Avg.
Billy Bob Barnett
4
30-49
61.3
17-20
85.0
22
34-8.3
11-0
77
19.2
Ronnie Peret
4
25-40
62.5
16-33
48.5
32
36-9.0
14-1
66
16.5
Mike Heitmann
4
17-36
47.2
19-28
67.8
28
14-3.5
15-2
53
13.3
Sonny Benefield
4
18-37
48.7
8-12
66.7
23
18-4.5
12-0
44
11.0
Harry Bostic
4
18-33
54.5
8-11
72.8
18
31-7.9
12-0
44
11.0
Bill Cooksey
4
3-14
21.4
5-10
50.0
16
11-2.8
5-0
11
2.8
Steve Niles
4
2-7
28.6
2-5
40.0
8
11-2.8
7-0
6
1.5
Bill Brown
2
0-4
00.0
2-2
100.0
4
0-0.0
2-0
2
1.0
[Chuck Smith
4
0-2
00.0
3-6
50.0
5
2-0.5
4-0
3
0.8
Totals A&M
4
Team Rebounds
113-222 40.9
80-127
63.0
156
.... 28-7.0
185-46.3
82-3
306
76.5
FOES
4
116-291
39.5
66-102
64.7
211
182-45.5
107-6
298
74.5
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Fish Travel To Austin
To Tost Texas Yearlings
By RICHARD CAMPBELL
The Texas Aggie Fish will put
their four-game winning streak
on the line Saturday, Feb. 1, when
they tackle the Texas Yearlings
in their first game since the holi
days.
In their first four encounters of
the young season, the Fish have
thumped Wharton County, 72-68;
the TCU Wogs, 81-59; Henderson
County JC, 70-64; and Lon Mor
ris, 82-69. The Henderson Coun
ty win was the only loss inflicted
on the Athens, Tex., crew and in
their last game they beat highly-
touted Tyler Junior College.
Jeff Watkins, a 6’-4” jumping
jack from Moselle, Miss., con
tinues to lead the Fish in both
scoring and rebounding with 23.5
and 12.5 norms respectively.
Skip Carelton, another 6’ 4”
shooter is second in the scoring
parade with a 17.5 average and
5.3 rebounding norm. Rick Du-
plantis is third in scoring with a
12.8 average and second in re
bounding with 10.8 per game.
The other starter in double fig
ures is Robert Threadgill with an
11.5 norm and 8.8 rebounds per
contest. The last starter is
Frank Farnsworth with a 7-0
point output and 5.3 rebounds.
The big edge for the Fish this
year has been their strength on
the boards dragging down an av
erage of 53 per contest. Their
shooting percentage is 44 per cent
from the floor while averaging
76.2 points per outing. Their
four opponents have hit only 39
per cent from the floor while
scoring 65 points in each contest.
The high game for Watkins this
season was 31 markers against
Henderson County. He also pull
ed down 15 rebounds. Watkins is
hitting 65 percent of his shots
from the floor and also has con
nected on 83 percent of his free
throws to lead the Fish in both
categories.
The Yearlings are also unde
feated for the year averaging
over 90 points per game. Their
big gun for the season so far has
been Scooter Lenox, brother of
former Aggie great Bennie Len
ox, who has been burning the nets
at a 25 points per game pace.
The Fish game will follow the
varsity contest between the
Longhorns and Aggies.
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Peret paced A&M’s scoring with
16 points apiece while Heitmann
had 15 and Harry Bostic contrib
uted 12. Bostic hurt his ankle
while scoring a basket in the sec
ond half and is not expected to
see action Tuesday.
The win left A&M with a 4-0
SWC record and a 9-4 season
mark. Baylor has posted a 2-0
SWC record thus far for a second
place standing.
The mythical state champion
ship among major universities
could be on the line Tuesday when
the Cougars and Aggies clash.
Houston won the national cham
pionship last season in the final
poll by both wire service polls be
fore the NCAA playoffs while
the Aggies are currently the top
rated major college team in the
state this season.
A&M is rated among the “oth
ers” by both the AP and UPI this
week while Baylor is ranked
among the “others” in the AP
poll only. Houston is not ranked
in either poll.
Houston, which is currently in a
two game losing streak while
A&M has won its last six games,
has posted a 10-7 mark thus far.
Despite the loss of all-time great
Elvin Hayes, the Cougars still
pack a potent wallop with such
proven performers as Ken Spain
(6-9), Theodis Lee (6-8), George
Reynolds (6-4), Billy Bane (6-2)
and Ollie Taylor (6-2). Taylor
was the nation’s leading junior
college scorer the past two sea
sons at national champion San
Jacinto.
Talk about an arch-rival and
the Aggies and the conversation
naturally turns to the Texas
Longhorns. The Longhorns will
be A&M’s next conference op
ponent on Feb. 1 in Austin. Re
gional television cameras will be
on hand at dilapidated Gregory
Gymnasium for the 2 p.m. game.
The Steers of Coach Leon Black
return three starters from last
season’s team. Wayne Doyal (6-
6) averaged 12.9 last year while
Kurt Papp (6-6) hit for 11.4
points per game and Larry
Smith (5-10) averaged 7.7.
The Aggies are expected to
start a fivesome of Barnett (6-5),
Peret (6-9), Steve Niles (7-0),
Mike Heitmann (6-4) and Sonny
Benefield (6-1). Niles, a promis
ing sophomore from San An
tonio, turned in one of his better
efforts of the season against TCU
and it is hoped that he can take
up some of the slack created by
the absence of Bostic.
Four Aggies are currently av
eraging in double figures for the
season with Barnett leading the
way with 18.3 while Peret is at
16.8, Benefield at 12.8 and Heit
mann at 11.8.
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