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EittSBBESBBBm No. 1 In College Sales Fidelity Union Life Insurance Company 303 College Main 846-8228 Page 4 College Station, Texas Friday, February 21, 1969 THE BATTALIO Ags Enter Stretch Run Against Tech Saturda By JOHN PLATZER Coach Shelby Metcalf’s Aggie basketballers roar into the stretch run in their quest for the 1969 at Dallas while the Aggie-Tech game is in progress. Greyhound Bus Lines 1300 Texas 823-8071 • Inexpensive Charter Serv ice for student groups or classes. • Group accomodations arranged. Southwest Conference champion ship Saturday night at 8 when they invade Lubbock to battle the Texas Tech Red Raiders. A capacity crowd of over 10,- 000 is expected to attend the game in Lubbock’s Municipal Coliseum. The Aggies take a two game SWC lead into the contest following their 86-74 victory over the Bay lor Bears Tuesday. A&M stands 9-1 in league play while Baylor and Southern Meth odist are tied for second with 7-3 records. The Baptists and Meth odists will be hooked up in a duel This has been a rebuilding year for the Raiders as they start three sophomores, a junior and a senior but they are still capable of giv ing the front runners a scare. They have already defeated Bay lor in Waco and fell by only one point to the Aggies in College Station, 85-84. Coach Gene Gib son’s team suffered a severe blow following their game with Baylor when they lost the services of sophomore guard Clay Van Loozen for the remainder of the year be cause of scholastic difficulty. TECH STARTS one of the smallest teams in the conference with their tallest player at 6-5 (Steve Hardin). Other starters are expected to be senior Jerry Haggard (5-11), and sophomores Steve Williams (6-1), Jerry Tur ner (6-3) and Pat McKean (6-3). In the initial meeting between the two clubs, Williams led a late rally that got the Raiders to with in one point of the Aggies. Hardin Winter Contacted About Tech Job BUSIER AGENCY REAL ESTATE • INSURANCE F.H.A.—Veterans and Conventional Loans ARM & HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: Nevada, Mo. 3523 Texas Ave. (in Ridgecrest) 846-3708 AGGIES ... DON’T DELAY! Order Your Boots Now For Future Delivery - Small Payment Will Do YOUR BOOTS MADE TO ORDER Convenient Lay-Away Plan ONLY $70.00 A PAIR Economy Shoe Repair & Boot Co. 509 W. Commerce, San Antonio CA 3-0047 WOlf Institute Electronics avtaON of wxf industries P.O. DRAWER BM COUEGE STATION TEXAS 77840 Medical * Nuclear General Instrumentation Design • Fabrication • Repair BILL MAERTENS, President — 708 Hereford St. 713-846-3462 College Station SEATTLE IdP) — Tex Winter, completing his first season as head basketball coach at the Uni versity of Washington, is consid ering an offer from Texas Tech nological College. Winter, who came here from Kansas State after winning eight big Eight championships said Thursday he probably will give Texas Tech his answer Friday. Coaching Texas Tech’s basket ball team now is Gene Gibson, whose Southwest Conference team has a 9-11 record. “There is a possibility Gibson will resign,” Tech athletic direc tor Polk F. Robinson told the Seattle Times when contacted by telephone. He said he had visited Winter with the permission of Washington’s athletic director, Jim Owens. paced Tech for the night» points while the now deii Van Loozen scored 18, Wit, had 14 and substitute Mike 1) (6-5). Rebounding has been a problem for the Red Raidersi far this season with the Ml ner the team’s top boant Against the Aggies in Ct Station, Turner had 10 rek while Hardin had 9. “I don’t feel I am in any posi tion to make a switch after one year here,” said Winter, 47, whose record this season is 11-10. He added, however, that he had not given Robinson an answer. “I am still considering.” “Polk called me a couple of days ago. He was just feeling me out. I told him I would give it some thought. He is supposed to call me tomorrow.” Winter’s mother lives in Lub bock, where Texas Tech is located. The coach, however, attended Southern California. UP AND OVER Billy Bob Barnett (24) puts a jump shot up and over the outstretched arms of Baylor’s Tommy Bowman in this second half photo. A&M’s Steve Niles (52) gets set to battle the Bears’ David Sibley (45) as the Aggies blasted Baylor 86-74. Next action for the SWC-leaders is Saturday night in Lubbock. (Photo by Mike Wright) Gymnasts Drop Match, But Future Bright LINE RESERVATIONS - TICKETS 846-3773 FREE DELIVERY INSTANT RESERVATIONS BY COMPUTERS The Texas Aggie gymnastics team showed marked improvement Saturday afternoon in Houston in a triangular meet with San Ja cinto and Abilene Christian Col lege although falling 109.75 to 97.75. Their 97.75 points did outscore ACC’s 91.25 as the Aggies beat them on almost every apparatus. It was actually an off day for the Aggies as the sixteen-man San Jacinto team took the overall honors. The high score of the day for the Ags was 7.5 points awarded Rex Stratton for a fine long horse vault. Rex’s score was well above the 5.43 average the team posted for the day. Side horse competition, still the low scoring event for A&M, turned out to be San Jacinto’s big weakness also. In this event, Mike Kyler and Tom Cooper finished second and third respectively behind Moore of ACC with scores of 5.2 and 5-1. Though the Aggie ringmen, Mickey Stratton, Mike Kyler and Barret Smith had an off day, they all scored within one point of the first place winner and managed to take a third and a fifth place in the process. Bill Wood turned in a 5.95 point performance in free exercise—his best thus far this season—despite the fact that the competition was held on a bare floor. Lee Reeves, kept from competing in the event by a sprained ankle sustained in last weeks competition against Sam Houston, is expected to have to sit out for another couple of weeks. Karley Kuntz, a first year com petitor for the Ags, has improved his free exercise routine notice ably since the Sam Houston meet. Karley is expected to continue his improvement as the season pro gresses. Expected to counter for II will be seniors Billy Bob Bar, (6-5), Ronnie Peret (6-9), So Benefield (6-1), junior MikeE mann (6-4) and sophomorei, Niles (7-0). The top resen'K the conference leaders have! senior Harry Bostic (6-6), jt Bill Brown (6-1) and sopho® Bill Cooksey (6-2) and ft Smith (6-4). BARNETT, a rugged fors; from Brenham, continues top Coach Metcalf’s cagers in smi while Peret, a 6-9 Plainviewp uct, is the club’s top reborn Barnett has scored at a 17,!» for the season and an 18.3 c! SWC action while Peret hasp bed off 9.8 rebounds per gar the season and 10.3 in confc Also scoring in double for A&M thus far in conferc play has been Peret with i points per game average Heitmann with a 15.7 aves Benefield has contributed points per outing in SWCm petition. Following Peret in the rek: ing column has been BarnetU 8.1 per contest while Niles Bostic have each grabbed 4.8i outing and Heitmann is avi ing 4.5. THE AGGIES have hifoi amazing 279 of 544 shots f the field in SWC play for a tering 51.3 per cent while necting on 65 per cent of fc free shots. They are averaps 46 rebounds per contest holding their opponent to 38i| Five members of the team hit for better than the magii per cent mark from the & Peret has hit 59 while Barnet at 57.9 to lead the Aggies. Heitmann is at 54.3, Chuck at 55 and Bostic at 53. VOLI r - I Refer coach Satur Steve . The 71-70. 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