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BATTALION College Station, Texas Ags Down Tigers, 81-66; Go To Kansas By RICHARD CAMPBELL After stubbing their toe Tues day night in Daniel-Meyer Coli seum against TCU, the Texas Aggies returned to their old form Saturday night in Fort Worth as they dumped upstart Trinity of San Antonio, 81-66, to advance to the NCAA Midwest Regionals. The Aggies worked hard all week in practice and were re warded as they downed the South land Conference champions eas ily. Trinity, who played in small college ranks all year, was invited to play in university competition after taking third place in the NCAA Small College meet last year. Towering Steve Niles and flashy guard Sonny Benefield provided the fireworks as the Aggies showed, the Alamo City Tigers that they were not as ready for the big time as they thought. Niles sparked the Ags in their first half with 15 of his 17 total points and 11 rebounds while Benefield kept the Aggies ahead in the second half with his deadly outside shooting. The 6'1" Sweeney product canned 18 of his Louisville, Drake Dominate All-MVC Strong, irmediatfl Abbott, urdles i/| lay tear. dricksj:| irst plat 1 1 :orthe I jk LONG RANGE ARTILLERY 111 IBonny Benefield contributed the outside touch to the Ag- , e “"lies’ attack Saturday as they rolled to an 81-66 victory rsiy tver Trinity. Benefield poured in 25 points in the game tfor A&M. (Photo by Mike Wright) '/tree Fish Named All-SWC Team KANSAS CITY <A>)_Tulsa’s Bobby Smith and Louisville’s Butch Beard were unanimous selections to the 1969 Associated Press all-Missouri Valley Confer ence basketball team announced Tuesday. They were joined on the first SAE To View TrackFeatures The construction features of the race track being built near College Station will be shown to the Society of Automotive Engi neers at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Architectural Lecture Room. Guest speakers are C. M. Moneypenny, designer of Inter national Speedways, and Ridley Briggs, member of Bryan Cham ber of Commerce. The public is invited to see and hear about what the various racing associations require in con struction, operation and commun ity support. Also, the impact of the growth area because of the Speedway will be discussed with the track in Daytona used as a basis. HTF( V istics, I ,e way, )k at' long e [ /re IK nithatT So H or ^ jo tN s fei^ provid* sound r i earlK ists, a^ till ^ :et^- incial' 1 ' if £ ha# 1S M a 0 By RICHARD CAMPBELL Jeff Watkins, the Aggie Fish ager from Meselle, Miss., was one vote shy of being a animous selection to the All- outhwest Conference freshman am. Pat Fees, a 6’ 7” jumping jack mi Baylor was the only unani- ious selection and was also lamed the outstanding freshman hsketballer in the conference. [Watkins, a 6’ 4” 200-pounder, had pe highest average of any fresh man in the SWC with a 24.7 per [game mark. Fees and Vernon purphy, a 6’ 6” record breaker pom Arkansas, both posted 24.6 [averages. ; Rounding out the first team picks were Joe “Scooter” Lenox, I 6’ 2” guard from Texas, was (he high scorer for probably the Inost respected team in the con- lerence with a 20.6 mark and Ted [Melady (6’ 6”), an all-stater last year from Dallas Jefferson, fin ished strongly for Rice and was liamed on three first team bal lots. The annual team was chosen jby vote of the league’s freshman poaches. Rick Duplantis, who started lowly for the Fish but improved reatly with each contest, was med to the second team. The I’ 8” all-stater from Groves, Tex., inished the season with a 15.3 scoring average while trailing \) only Watkins in rebounding for the Fish. Joining Duplantis on the sec ond squad were Don Snyder of Rice, Eric Groscurth and Rich ard Langdon of Texas, and Bob by Rollins of SMU. Skip Carleton, the 6’ 4” Fish playmaker, was named by the coaches to the honorable men tion team. He was joined by Steve Aaker of Texas, Tom Stan ton and Steve Baldwin of Baylor, Mike Rogers of Texas Tech, Dan McGuire of Rice, Bob Burge of TCU, and David Miller of SMU. Baylor, coached by Carroll Dawson, had the best record of any team against other SWC schools. The Cubs defeated TCU, SMU, and A&M twice and split two meetings with Texas for a 7-1 mark, finishing 9-3 overall. Ag Swimmers Get Dual Win Coach Art Adamson’s Aggie swimmers won a dual meet at Rice Saturday with a 61-55 vic tory over the Owls and an 86-21 triumph over TCU. First place honors go to the medley relay team of Tom Sparks, Ronnie Rogers, Bob Dommel an Tom Beall; 50 yard free style, Sparks; one meter diving, Ed Grant; 200 yard individual med ley, Rogers; 100 yard free style, Dommel; 100 yard backstroke, Sparks; 500 yard freestyle, Larry Linn; and the freestyle relay of Jimmy Jeter, Jerry Patterson, Steve Henry and Hank Paup. team by Willie McCarter of Drake, Jim Ard of Cincinnati and L. C. Bowen of Bradley. All are seniors except Ard, a junior. Every Missouri Valley coach and neswman participating in the AP all-star balloting placed Smith and Beard on the first team. McCarter just missed being unanimous. He was named on the second team by one coach and three newsmen. Making up the second team were Mike Grosso of Louisville, who narrowly missed being a first-team selection, Joe Hamil ton of North Texas State, Steve Kuberski of Bradley, Rob Wash ington of Tulsa and Greg Carney of Wichita State. The third team was comprised of Willie Wise and Dolph Pulliam of Drake, Jerry King of Louis ville, Rich Jones of Memphis State and Rick Roberson of Cincinnati. Smith, a 6-foot-five native of Memphis, Tenn., was the Valley’s leading scorer this season with a 25-point average and was named to the third All-America team by The Associated Press. Nicknamed “Bingo” by his Hur ricane teammates, Smith teamed with Washington to lead Tulsa to a 19-7 season record and a berth in the National Invitational Tournament. Beard, a repeat selection on the AP all-Valley team, was the main cog in Louisville’s somewhat sur prising co-championship this sea son. The Cardinals were not expect ed to win a third straight title with All-American Westley Un sold gone. But Beard directed a Louisville team which refused to listen to the experts and shared the crown with Drake. Beard, a 6-3, averaged 20 points. McCarter, regarded by many writers covering the Missouri Val ley as the league’s most talented over-all performer, fired a balanc ed Bulldog team which rallied from S 1 /^ games back in the stretch run to deadlock Louisville for the title. His 20-point average paced Drake’s offensive attack. He is 6-3 and from Gary, Ind. 25 game-leading points in the second stanza. The unsung hero of the game was 6'5" Aggie Billy Bob Barnett, who drew the unenviable task of guarding Trinity star Larry Jeff ries, who made the Little All- America first team. Barnett put the defensive blanket on the Tiger gunner, holding him to 14 points, ten less than his season average. Rebounding and free throw shooting gave the Aggies their victory. They outrebounded the Tigers, 52-36, and connected on 27 of 36 from the charity stripe. A&M hit 12 straight free throws at the start of the game before junior Bill Brown missed with 7:16 left in the half and finished with 14 of 15. A&M hit 54 per cent of their shots from the field with 27 of 50 while the Tigers could only connect on 28 of 77 for a meager 36.4 per cent. Benefield got hot at the start of the second half and dropped in two quick buckets. Mike Heit- mann hit a short jumper from the right corner and Benefield hit the same type of shot from the left to shoot the Aggies into a 12- point lead at 49-37. Aggie hearts trembled a little when Trinity called a time out with 9:38 left and began a full court press. But the Aggies’ Benefield took a nice pass from 6'9" Ronnie Peret and went in uncontested for a layup to put the game out of reach. They never lost the ball on the press and Trinity could get no closer than nine points. A&M had a 12-point lead on 11 occasions, running up a 17- point margin for their biggest lead with 0:12 left on two of Peret’s free throws. Benefield led the Aggies with 25 points, Niles had 17, Barnett had 12, Peret had 10, Heitmann had nine, Cooksey had seven, and Brown finished with one. Jeffries and reserve Felix Thruston each got 14 points to lead the Tiger attack. IT’S ALL MINE Billy Bob Barnett drags down one of his 11 rebounds in The Aggies victory over Trinity. The Aggies play Drake Thursday in the first game of the Midwest Regionals in Manhattan, Kansas. (Photo by Mike Wright) Coaches Tackle Cops For Fun A basketball game between the College Station policemen and A&M Consolidated coaches is the main attraction tonight at Con solidated Gymnasium at 7 p.m. Prior to tipoff, the fun will be gin with the women High School teachers challenging the women teachers at Middle School. During half time, a free throw contest between the outstanding community members and auction of plastic cushions will help raise money for the Tiger Club, accord ing to Charley Wooten, vice presi dent. Admission is 50^ for adults and 25^ for students. 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 Call 822-1441 Allow 20 Minutes Carry Out or Eat-In THE PIZZA HUT 2610 Texas Ave. TRANSMISSIONS REPAIRED & EXCHANGED Completely Guaranteed Lowest Prices HAMILL’S TRANSMISSION 33rd. & Texas Are. 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