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Wednesday, March 4, 1970
College Station, Texas
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\gs Get Revenge Over Owls, 9 l-86;Take Second
By Richard Campbell
Battalion Sports Editor
The Rice Owls came to Foul
City, U.S.A. last night and un
fortunately, got their feathers
plucked by a fired-up band of
Texas Aggies, 91-86, before 5,050
screaming fans.
The Owls, perched on Cloud
Nine after clinching the South
west Conference crown Saturday,
felt the full impact of a letdown
is they dropped their fourth
pame in 14 league outings this
year. A&M finishes 9-5 and 14-
10. There were a total of 62 fouls
tailed in this floor fight, dis
guised ever so slightly as a bas
ketball game.
Referees Percy Penn and Bill
Valentine made their whistles
leard frequently above the Aggie
rumble in the G. Rollie White
stands. The Owls were called
town 32 times to 30 for A&M.
Aggie senior captain Mike Heit-
mann, playing his last game in
a Maroon and White uniform,
was honored by the A&M student
body as the players were intro
duced with a citation read by
Head Yell Leader Sam Torn.
Heitmann also received a two-
minute standing ovation from the
crowd when he fouled out of the
contest with 3:48 left. He led Ag
gie scorers with 24 points.
Nobody would have guessed the
final outcome based upon how it
started because both teams took
their time warming up. Rice’s
Ted Melady got two quick fouls
within the first minute and the
Ags used this and a running
game to race to a 9-2 lead before
the Owls began to click. They
relied on the outside shooting of
guards Gary Reist, Don Snyder,
and forward Tom Myer to fight
their way back against an Aggie
zone. They took the lead briefly
at 14-13 but that would be the
last time they would have it all
night as Rick Duplantis got a
layup to start A&M on its way.
From there, the Cadets ran off
13 points to two for Rice at one
stretch to forge out to a 34-22
advantage. Terry Timmerman,
brother of former Aggie great
Tim Timmerman, gunned in a 12-
foot jumper with 0:16 left in the
half to pull Rice to within nine
36-27.
The Aggies came back after
the break to make it seem like a
runaway as they charged ahead
to as much as a 19-point lead sev
eral times before Reist and Myer
could whittle the spread to a re
spectable margin with their long-
range bombing. With Heitmann
and big Steve Niles in foul trou
ble, the embarrassed Owls decid
ed they had better make their
move. And move they did.
Three-point plays abounded for
both sides with all of the fouling
but the Owls let theirs keep them
nipping at Aggie heels. When
Heitmann fouled out, Reist con
verted a 3-pointer at 2:12 to
bring the Birds back, 80-73. Niles
left via the foul route with 1:54
left and Melady cashed in another
3-pointed to keep the Owls close,
82-76. Reist hit a long jumper
and then fed Myer on a fast
break for two quick buckets and
Rice trailed only 88-84 with 21
seconds remaining. But A&M’s
Robert Threadgill hit two free
throws with seven left and Pat
Kavanagh hit another with four
left to ice it away for the Aggies
while the Owls got only a long
bucket by Reist to make the final
count 91-86.
The Aggies finished alone in
second place after Baylor beat
Texas Tech, 80-72, in Lubbock!
Rice boosted their overall
shooting performance to 40.8 per
cent with a fine 20 or 40 from the
floor in their second half rally
which netted 59 points. A&M hit
a blistering 58.6 in t h e second
half and 32 of 61 for 52.5 overall.
The Aggies won the rebounding
war, 55-49, but Rice’s Steve Wen-
del led all players with 19 indi
vidual caroms. Duplantis with
13, Niles with 12 and Smith with
10 led A&M. Reist and Heitmann
tied for scoring honors, each with
24, while Myer followed with 21. i
Niles had 14, Duplantis 13, Kava
nagh 12, and Cooksey 10 for the
Aggies.
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Fish Fall To Owlets Again;
Finish Year With 9-3 Mark
By Clifford Broyles
Battalion Sports Writer
The Rice Owlets took advant
age of two Texas A&M dry spells
tore last night to dump the Fish
(or the second time this season
h-go:
The Owlets were led by a
touple of giants in 6-10 Mark
Mrle and 6-8 Steve Emshoff
fho scored 18 points apiece.
A&M jumped to an early lead
at 19-12 but Rice rallied with
acme strong offensive rebound
ing to take the lead with 5:32 to
fo in the first half 24-23.
The lead was short lived how-
aver as Bill O’Brien hit a jumper
for the Fish and at the same
time Perry Gaudet was called for
ahoving Charlie Jenkins. Jen
kins sank a pair of free throws
and the Aggies were back on
lop 27-24.
Rice then hit a streak of their
own scoring 8 straight points and
taking a 32-27 lead with less than
two minutes to play in the half.
The Owlets led at the half 34-
31 as neither team was able to
score in the last 50 seconds of
the half.
The Fish were revived in the
opening minutes of the second
half by Wayne Howard who
scored 11 points in the first ten
minutes as the Fish battled back
to tie the score at 52-52.
The Fish were hampered by
erratic ball handling the second
half, at one point the Aggies
went five straight possessions
without getting off a shot and
at another went another stretch
with three straight turnovers.
The first lapse did not hurt too
much as the Owlets could man
age only 3 points themselves, but
the second gave Rice the chance
to break open the close struggle.
The Aggies appeared in rea
sonably good shape after Jenkins
canned a three-point play to put
them on top 55-52 with 9:14 to
go.
But Rice then scored 11
straight points as the Fish could
not find the range for 5:12. By
the time they did the Owlets were
sitting on a 63-55 lead.
The Fish battled gamely in the
fading minutes but could never
pull closer than five points and
that was the way it ended, 74-69.
Rice had three other players
who scored in double figures as
Randy Reynolds, Bert Schmidt
and John Mott scored 11 point
each.
The Fish, who were outgunned
60.9 to 55.6 per cent in the sec
ond half were paced by Wayne
Howard who scored 19 for game
honors and also grabbed off a
game high rebound total of 12.
Bob Gobin scored 16, Bryan
Metzger 14, Jeff Overhouse 11,
Charlie Jenkins 7, and Bill
O’Brien 2 for the Fish.
The Fish and Owlets both con
cluded their 1969-70 season with
this game and both teams fin
ished with 9-3 season marks.
ENDING A FOUR-YEAR CAREER — Mike Heitmann
closed out his college playing days last night scoring 24
points in the season’s finale victory over the Rice Owls.
Rice’s Terry Timmerman gently nudges Heitmann while
in the process of hitting a basket to set up the Aggie senior
with the chance for a three-point play. (Photo by Mike
Wright)
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