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Bears Axe Aggies to Take Lead
By Richard Campbell
It must have been what Custer
saw at the Little Big Horn when
the Baylor Bears trotted onto the
floor of G. Rollie White Saturday
night. But unlike their yellow
haired counterpart, they rose up
to defeat the Indians,
The Bears fought against im
measurable odds and an inspired
Texas Aggie team to notch per
haps their biggest victory of the
season, a 79-71 headknocker
which gave them the undisputed
lead in the Southwest Conference.
A little over 8,000 fans jammed
G. Rollie to see the top game of
the year for both teams and not
one walked away believing that
they didn’t see one.
Larry Gatewood, a 6-5 senior
from Oklahoma City, was virtual
ly unstoppable for the talent
laden Bears as he connected on
his first eight shots in a row
from the field and finished with
31 points.
But the Aggies were not with
out performers with Pat Kava-
naugh playing perhaps his best
game of the year, coupled with a
fine belated showing by sopho
more Jeff Watkins. Kavanaugh
turned in a 14-point production
from the field while chipping in
several big assists and doing a
good job on defense. Watkins
showed that he could more than
hold his own underneath with 10
points and 11 rebounds, all after
sitting on the bench for much of
the first half.
The Aggies trailed 9-2 before
they came up with one of their
many small spurts to go ahead
10-9 with four straight buckets.
From there it was nip-and-tuck
until Gatewood hit a 16-foot
jumper to give the Bears a 21-19
lead with nine minutes left in
the first half and the Aggies
would never regain the lead.
Inability to cash in at the free
throw line proved to be the Ag
gies’ nemesis for most of the
night as they hit only 15 of 28
for the game while the opportun
ist Bruins converted 19 of 29.
A&M crept within one point twice
in the second half after trailing
44-37 at the break but sophomore
guard Tom Stanton hit six
straight from the line in the
waning moments to keep the Ag
gies knocking at the door. But
that door never opened as A&M
was forced into fouling when
they trailed 66-65 and Stanton
and Gatewood settled the issue
by hitting the last 10 they at
tempted from the charity stripe.
Mike Heitmann led Aggie
scorers with 20 while Kavanaugh
had 14, Chuck Smith 13, Steve
Niles 12, and Watkins 10. The
other Aggie Starter Bill Cooksey,
suffering from ah eye bruised in
practice Thursday did not score.
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The Texas Longhorns saw their
wishes go unrewarded Saturday
night when the Aggies dropped
their first conference game to
the Bears.
That eliminates any hopes that
the Horns had on ganging up on
the Aggies, who could have been
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sporting a 2-0 mark instead of
the 1-1 record they now hold. The
Steers had earlier been crushed
81-59 by the Classy Bruins but
outlasted Arkansas, 75-69, Satur
day night.
A&M now stands 6-5 for the
season while Texas rests at 6-6,
but the Horns own an undefeated
mark at Gregory Gym. In the
Steer lineup should be Eric Gros-
curth (6-6), Wayne Doyle (6-6),
Lynn Howden (6-7), Sam Bradley
(6-2), and Billy Black (6-3).
In the starting lineup for the
Aggies will probably be Mike
Heitmann (19.3), Steve Niles
(13.2), Chuck Smith (12.7), Bill
Cooksey (11.6), and Pat Kava
naugh (6.5).
The loser of the 8 p.m. contest
will drop two games off the SWC
pace while the winner could still
be in it with a 2-1 mark. This will
be the last game for the Aggies
until Saturday, Jan. 24, when they
again take to the intersectional
road for a clash with Louisiana
Tech at 7:30 p.m. in Ruston, La.
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Aggie basketball coach Shelby Metcalf and his players at
tempt to regroup during the Baylor contest, won by ttie
Bears, 79-71. Tonight Metcalf will take his charges totlie
darks floors of Gregory Gym in Austin to meet the Long
horns. (Photo by Mike Wright)
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Fish Keep Cool,
Cubs Choke, 63-62
By Mike Wright
Assistant Sports Editor
The Texas Aggie Fish came
within one point of losing their
perfect season record Saturday
night, beating the Baylor Cubs,
63-62, in G. Rollie White Coli
seum.
The Fish now stand 3-0 for the
season, while the Cubs are 0-3.
The Fish had to pull out all
stops to put a halt to the rallying
Cubs when, with less than two
minutes remaining, Baylor start
ed to move. Sid Kuykendall was
fouled by Bryan Mezger with the
score standing 62-57. Kuykendall
then returned the favor by foul
ing Mezger and the Fish postman
hit one of two tosses for a 63-59
tally.
Jeff Overhouse foulded out of
the contest with 31 seconds re
maining to send Kuykendall to
the line with a one-and-one situ
ation. Kuykendall sank both to
close the gap to 63-61. Handling
the ball for the third straight
time, Kuykendall was again foul
ed and was at the line for a one-
and-one again. This time, the
Baylor freshman hit the first shot
but lost his cool on the second
as it rimmed the basket and fell
away. The Fish then missed a
one-and-one situation with four
seconds remaining. The clock ran
out as the Cubs were trying to
move the ball downcourt.
For close to a year the Friedman incident of last season hasbec
a cat that most Aggies would like to have dozed off to never-neverlaii
and disappear. But one of my senior colleagues on a major Texasdai
refuses to let the matter die.
For those of you who are not in the know or who were bombs
year, the issue involved a foul committed by then Baylor sophoraoi
Tom Friedman on A&M’s Ronnie Peret. Peret was in the processi
going up for a layup after receiving a long pass from a teammli
Friedman tackled him in mid-air and things got down to Ik
nitty-gritty. Billy Bob Barnett caught Friedman with an elbow sim
which opened a gash on Friedman’s cheek and sent him crashing toll
floor. There he was reportedly beaten by several fans.
A&M may have made a terrible mistake in trying to defend ai
prove innocent the parties involved, but it’s over and should i
forgotten.
This is exactly the point that my friend from Dallas willnotli
die! This year’s Baylor-A&M pre-game story contained the passas
“Baylor’s Tom Friedman violently decked A&M’s Ronnie Peret andtia
the error of his ways pointed out to him by several hundii
spectators.”
Call it pride or fact, but if several hundred Aggies had pointedoi
the “error of his ways” as the story read, well I don’t believe ol’Toi
would have played as well as he did Saturday night.
Baylor has a fine team and they played well here, but thistypei
publicity to perhaps get them ready for a crucial game just is not fain
them or A&M. The fact that Baylor has not won any type of Souths
Conference Championship in over two decades should be enough tofi
the Bears ready to do well in any sport.
So just keep those columns and stories coming in, because a
kitty just wouldn’t know what to do without them. However, it s«
would be nice to try.
The Fish starting lineup all
hit in the double figures to give
the Aggies a balanced scoring
threat. Mezger led the scorers
with 11, Overhouse, Bill O’Brien,
Bob Gobin, and Wayne Howard
sank 10, while Charlie Jenkins
and Ron Eeten came of the bench
to hit 8 and 4, respectively.
Baylor’s Richard Garner led
all scorers with 17 points and
Kuykendall tossed in 16, five in
the last minute and a half.
The Fish finished the game
with 22 field goals on 54 shots.
The closeness of the game was
due to the ineffectiveness of the
Fish from the free throw line.
For the night the Fish were able
to cash in on only 19 of 31 tosses.
Tonight the undefeated Fish
travel to Austin to tackle the
Texas Yearlings in Gregory Gym.
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