Pag-e 8
Colleg-e Station, Texas
Thursday, March 6, 1969
THE BATTALION
Full Weekend Ahead For
A&M’s Spring Sports Teams
While Texas A&M’s Southwest
Conference champion basketball
team is in competing in the Mid
west Regionals in Fort Worth
this weekend, the spring sports
will be coming into full bloom.
Coach Shelby Metcalf’s cagers
play the Trinity Tigers Saturday
night at 9 in Daniel-Meyer Coli
seum. In a game preceding the
Aggie tilt Saturday, Dayton will
take on Colorado State in another
first round contest.
The two winners will then ad
vance to the Midwest Regionals
in Manhatten, Kansas. The Ag
gies or Trinity will take on the
Missouri Valley Conference cham
pions (Louisville or Drake) in
the first round of the regionals
while the winner of the Dayton-
Colorado State game will play
the Big Eight champion (Kansas
or Colorado). The champion of
the regionals will then advance
to Louisville, Kentucky and the
NCAA finals.
The Aggie baseball team opens
1969 play here Friday afternoon
against Houston Baptist.
The game originally was sched
uled for Saturday but was moved
up to 3 p.m. Friday at Kyle Field
to avoid conflict with A&M’s
NCAA basketball playoff game
against Trinity in Fort Worth
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BOMBS AWAY
Mike Heitmann bombs two of his ten points against TCU
Tuesday night from long range. Coach Shelby Metcalf’s
Southwest Conference champions return to Daniel-Meyer
Coliseum in Fort Worth Saturday night at 9 when they
clash with the Trinity Tigers in a Midwest Regional tilt.
(Photo by Mike Wright)
Trinity Picked 5th
In Final AP Pall
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Ashland, Ohio Eagles
edged Fairmont, W. Va., by eight
points and finished in first-place
for the first time in The Associ
ated Press’ final small-college
basketball poll Wednesday.
Despite absorbing their second
setback of the 1968-69 season last
week, 44-38 to Central State of
Ohio, the Eagles accumulated
eight votes for the top position
and 270 points in the voting by
a national panel of 18 sports
writers and broadcasters.
Ashland never had been ranked
among the top teams in any pre
vious final AP poll. The small-
college vote began in 1961.
dropped out of the rankings.
California State at Long Beach
placed 11th followed by South
west Missouri State, High Point
and Cheyney State.
South Dakota, 16th Nevada-
Las Vegas, South Carolina
State, Indiana, Pa., State and
Michigan Lutheran round out the
Second Ten.
LIU, last season’s final small-
college leader, advanced to the
major-college group this year.
The final Top 20 with first
place votes, season records
through Sat. March 1 and total
points for the first 15 picks on
a basis of 20-18-16-14-12-10-9-
8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1:
The Eagles wound up with a
23-2 record this season. Their
only other loss was to Grove
City, Pa., in their fifth game of
the campaign.
Fairmont, 25-1, collected the
first-place vote and 262 points in
the final balloting. Alcorn A&M
advancing three positions from
last week, wound up third while
Howard Payne, Trinity, Tex.,
Kentucky Wesleyan, Stephen F.
Austin, Southwestern, La., La
mar Tech and Gannon, Pa. com
pleted the first 10 in that order.
Central State, unranked a week
ago, leaped into a final 15th place
after defeating the poll leader.
Wittenberg, 20th last week.
10.
11.
23-2 367
25-1 262
23- 0 208
24- 3 194
19- 4 154
20- 5 147
24-2 135
20-6 127
19-4 104
20-5 97
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
18.
17.
19.
Ashland, Ohio 8
Fairmont, W. Va. 1
Alcorn A&M 1
Howard Payne 1
Trinity, Tex. 2
Ky., Wesleyan 1
Stephen F. Austin
Southwestern, La.
Lamar Tech
Gannon, Pa.
Cal St.—Long Beach 23-3 67
Southwest Mo. St. 20-4 65
High Point
Cheyney State
Central St. Ohio 1
South Dakota St.
So. Carolina St.
Nevada-Las Vegas
Indiana, Pa. St.
Michigan Lutheran
24-2 64
24- 2 60
19- 6 56
17-5
20- 4
20-6
22-1 40
25- 1 27
50
42
43
Saturday night.
Coach Tom Chandler has named
sophomore southpaw Doug Rau
as A&M’s starting pitcher.
The rest of the Aggie starting
nine will have Larry Stelley,
catcher; Boyd Hadaway, first
base; Pete Maida, second base;
Eddie Vaughan, third base; Jim
Raley, shortstop; Dave Elmen-
dorf, left field; Bob Long, center
field and Bob Arnold, right field.
The Aggies go to Huntsville
next Monday to play Sam Hous
ton State.
Texas A&M’s track squad
leaves at 8 a.m. Friday for La
redo, Tex., where it’ll compete in
the Border Olympics Track and
Field Meet.
Prelims are scheduled for Sat
urday morning and finals begin
at 8 p.m. Saturday.
A&M Coach Charles Thomas
will be referee of the famed track
meet this year.
Among Aggie standouts are
Curtis, the fleet-footed quarter-
miler who is a sophomore; Rock-
ie Woods, another sophomore who
won the 100, 220 and 120-yard
high hurdles in a dual meet with
Texas here last weekend.
The tennis squad plays two
home matches this weekend,
meeting Corpus Christi Univer
sity Friday afternoon and host
ing Lamar Tech Saturday after
noon.
Action starts at 1:30 p.m. each
day on the A&M courts just east
of Kyle Field.
A six-man Texas A&M golf
squad will compete in the three-
day, 72-hole Border Olympics golf
tournament at Laredo Thursday,
Friday and Saturday.
They’ll play 36 holes Thursday,
18 Friday and 18 Saturday.
The Aggie players include Bill
Wade, Duke Butler, Richard El
lis, Chuck Leske, Donnie Fergu
son and Reggie Majors.
Wooden Named
Coach-Of-Year
For 3rd Time
LOS ANGELES <A>) — There
was a slight pause and some
thing of a sigh. Coach John
Wooden of the unbeaten UCLA
Bruins had been asked how this
basketball season compared with
the last two in the era of Lew
Alcindor.
Newly named — for the third
time in his career — as College
Basketball Coach of the Year by
an Associated Press poll, the 59-
year-old Wooden finally replied:
“This was probably the most
difficult of the three. There have
been all the outside pressures
from the other teams since we
are going for three straight na
tional championships, something
that has never been done.”
In the AP poll of 329 sports
writers and broadcasters, Wood
en got 113 votes to win by a
wide gap over Lou Carneseca of
St. John’s of New York, who re
ceived 37.
Harv Schmidt of Illinois was
third with 30 and Adolph Rupp
of Kentucky, 23, and Dean Smith
of North Carolina, 22, followed
in that order.
“I am very proud of this
team,” Wooden continued, speak
ing of one which is the only ma
jor squad unbeaten in 24 games
this season.
“We have had to play with
out experienced guards. Oh, the
boys are good but not quite as
good as we had the two previous
years.
“And, of course, the pressure
to remain unbeaten builds. Our
opponents know they have a lot
to gain and nothing to lose when
they play us. They can play it
loose. We can’t afford to.
“Each time we have been in
a spot — and we’ve been in a
few this year — we’ve managed
to work our way out.
“I guess you could say this
team has tremendous poise,
Wooden continued. “When we’ve
been behind we just stuck in
there. If you try to make up
points in a few minutes you us
ually get further behind. That
is where poise comes in.”
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