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- WON !rs lffs Whip Colorado St. Bears, 63-54 Othpr other three team and are P a lot of said. lily ) 1 BATTALION eil Wednesday, December 17, 1969 College Station, Texas Page 7 Richard Campbell illalion Sports Editor Hie Texas Aggies rekindled J le scoring ( jr winning ways Tuesday night the outstanding play of nick Smith and at the same je downed the Colorado State iirs, 63-54, before 2,800 fans G. Rollie White Coliseum. Smith turned in his best all- tund performance of the season te led all scorers with 18 and tjged down 20 rebounds for the si individual Aggie board show- gof the year. The Cadets led from the first otofthe contest and were never sled as they upped their sea- smark to 2-3. They now begin sparation for their visit this lekend to El Paso where they Splay in the Sun Carnival. Pat Kavanaugh, a 6-0 junior, came to life against the arsas he hit five of seven from _ i field and finished with 15 / \i * bts. He started the scoring of I 1/ | game by sinking two free iws to give A&M the first hts and that was as close as Bears from Greeley, Colo., aid ever come. lehind the balanced scoring of lith, Kavanaugh, Mike Heit- in and Bill Cooksey, the Ca- slowly increased their lead eight with 4:29 left in the it half. Cooksey hit two short ipers in a row with a Bear il sandwiched in between to eA&M its biggest lead of the ming stanza, 29-19, with 3:16 : But when the halftime buz- had sounded, the Aggies were top 35-27 after some good side shooting by Colorado !L State had narrowed the margin. In the second half, Smith went to work to keep the Aggies out in front as he covered the floor from end-to-end stealing passes, scoring and rebounding. The agile 6-5 junior from Odessa hit eight of 18 from the field and two from the free throw line to total his 18 points. The Colorado State zone began denying the Cadets the inside route, so much of the shooting came from the outside as Cook sey, Smith, and even Kavaneaugh, who has been reluctant to shoot from afar, hit consistently to pace the Aggies to their second win of the year. The usually hot- shooting Aggies felt the impact of the outside shooting though as they hit 24 of 62 for 37.8 per cent but managed to connect on 17 of 24 from the charity stripe to keep the game out of reach. Whenever the Bears could man age to creep within eight points of the Aggie lead, the Cadets did what they had to do to keep them at a safe distance. The Aggies built up a 62-48 lead with 5-18 left and managed to hold on as they got only a Robert Threadgill free throw in the re maining time while the Bears could not connect on two crucial 1-1 free throw situations. For the fourth time this year, the Cadets won the battle of the boards by outrebounding the Bears 54-28 but they also man aged to win the battle of the turnovers too, 12-10. Cooksey ended with 12 points, Heitmann had 10 and Rick Duplantis got five with eight rebounds. EASY TWO POINTS Pat Kavanaugh puts in two of his 15 points against the Colorado State College Bears on a layup in the second half of the Aggies’ 63-54 win last night. Kavanough, a 6-0 guard from Camden, N. J., also shot well from the outside as the Aggies registered their second victory against three defeats. (Photo by Mike Wright) Overhouse Leads Ag Fish Over Wharton JC, 75-59 -S'-r-- LEADING SCORER ff Overhouse (55) goes up for a layup against John ucker (53) of Wharton Junior College. Overhouse was le leading Fish scorer with 33 points as they swept to a i-59 triumph last night. (Photo by Mike Wright) Would You Believe? Fresh From The Gulf OYSTERS on the half-shell or fried to order ' Served Right Here on the Campus 3 to 7 each evening at the famous Oyster Room MSC Cafeteria By Mike Wright The Texas Aggie Fish rode the hot shooting of Jeff Over- house to a 75-59 victory over the Wharton County Junior College Pioneers here last night. Over- house singed the cords for 33 points and pulled down 12 re bounds before fouling out late in the contest. The Pioneers had lost only two games before last night’s contest. Cisco Junior College and the Uni versity of Texas at Austin Fresh men were the conquerors of the Pioneers while the junior college team has amassed nine victories. Wharton led only once early in the game, 2-1. Wayne Howard hit a short baseline jump shot to erase that lead and the Pioneer hopes. The Fish lead during the first half varied from eight to 15 points, with the Ags taking a 88-25 lead into the dressing room at halftime. The second half was simply more of the same, as Overhouse continued to find the range under the Pioneer basket. The Aggies were plagued with 20 turnovers, which possibly held the score down. Wharton was charged with 12 miscues. Wharton was also troubled with a poor shooting percentage. In the first stanza the Pioneers hit 10 of 35 from the field for a cool 28.6 per cent. The second half wasn’t much better as the group sank 14 of 38 for a 36.8 clip. The Pioneers managed 24 to 73 for the game, shooting a low 32.9 percent. Meanwhile the Fish sank 15 of 32 for a 46-9 clip in the first half and blitzed 14 of 25 in the second, for an overall total of 29 shots of 57 and 50.9 percent. Cation i63 ■ \ ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR Types of Calculations: Addition, sub traction, multiplication, division. Con tinual multiplication and division. Product sum and difference. Individ ual quotient. Sum and difference of continual multiplication and division. Constant multiplication and division. Involution. Extraction of square roots. Mixed calculations. Standard deviation calculations. OTIS MCDONALD’S 429 S. Main — Phone 822-1328 Bryan, Texas The other Fish postman, Bryan Mezger, contributed 13 points to the cause and was the game’s leading rebounder with 15. Bob Gobin and Bill O’Brien contributed only six and four points, respectively, but they were credited with numerous assists in setting up other players with shots. 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