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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1971)
-v-iv V.v.r,v:v> with ai. rs. Print tl, card, th ■ tio n, tl, f 1 i\ tfl ■placed j, lram, -i^ns s , i s totals - v ed fn,, -or. E«| *- *^ipusai, Donaldl 5^ 40 :W f^-ie ioiiki > urchija THE BATTALION Wednesday, January 13, 1971 College Station, Texas Page 5 aV Si SB AG’S RICK DUPLANTIS (30) goes up for a shot after grabbing a rebound in last Thursdays’ 62-61 loss to The Citadel at Charleston, S. C. Contesting the ball for The Cit adel are John Sutor (31) and Mile Ruddle (30). (AP Wirephoto) Play Lamar Tech Friday... Ags snap losing streak By CLIFFORD BROYLES Battalion Sports Editor Inspired play from sophomores Charlie Jenkins, Bob Gobin and -I Jeff Overhouse provided the high- light for the Texas Aggie basket ball team’s week as they split a pair of road games, breaking a four-game losing string. The Aggies lost to The Citadel, 62-61, when Ben Ledbetter hit two free throws with five seconds left and then snapped their losing streak with a 66-62 win over the University of North Carolina at Charlotte on Saturday. The losing streak came on the y- u -y\/V'' ALLEN OLDS. - CAD. INCORPORATED SALES - SERVICE “Where satisfaction is standard equipment” 2400 Texas Ave. (Kole-3Haan ^ SHOES 3tm ptnrnco unibersitp mnr’s lucar 329 University Drive 713/846-2706 College Station, Texas 77840 road and the Aggies now have a 3-8 record and face their final non-conference challenge Friday night at G. Rollie White Coliseum against an outstanding Lamar Tech team which dumped peren nially tough Southern Illinois 102-83 Saturday. A&M begins Southwest Con ference cage action next Tuesday when the team travels to Waco to face Baylor and returns home Jan. 23 to play TCU in a region ally televised game. The road swing started with a 32-point loss to Tulsa and con tinued with a double loss at the Poinsettia Classic and reached Charleston, S. C., on Thursday and for a half it looked as though A&M was destined to lose its eighth game of the year and sixth by at least 14 points. The Citadel, a top contender for the Southern Conference championship, a team which beat Furman 90-80 (Furman beat A&M 103-83), jumped to a 42-28 halftime lead. Using a full-court press and a lineup consisting of Jenkins, Gobin, Overhouse, Steve Niles and Chuck Smith, the Aggies came back and erased the lead, and a bucket by the fast improv ing 7-footer Niles put A&M ahead 61-60 with two minutes remain ing. The Citadel then turned the ball over and the Aggies, sitting on a one-point lead, controlled the ball until Smith was fouled with 20 seconds remaining. He missed from the line and The Citadel got the ball. Ledbetter was fouled and sank the deciding free throws sending the Ags to their eighth loss of the year. But improved second half play brought new hope. A&M limited The Citadel to 20 ONE DAY SERVICE AGGIE CLEANERS LAUNDRY & ALTERATIONS NORTH GATE BUSIER AGENCY REAL ESTATE • HfSURANCE F.H.A.—Veterans and Conventional Loans ARM A HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: Nevada, Mo. SSSt Texas Ave. (in Ridgecrest) 846-3708 points in the second half despite the fact the home team shot 38 per cent from the field and 83 per cent from the foul line. The Aggies continued their strong defensive play as they toppled the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Saturday, limiting them to 34- and 28-point halves. The Ags enjoyed their best shooting game in ages with a 24 of 46 performance for 52 per cent including a 68 per cent first half. Like The Citadel game, this one was a fight to the finish and it was Jenkins in his first starting assignment who calmly closed the door on UNCC. The sophomore from Ft. Worth Arlington Heights dumped in two free throws with 32 seconds left to ice that one. Rick Duplantis had been fouled but missed on a free throw try six seconds earlier but A&M got the rebound and Jenkins finished it off. “I think we’ve finally turned the corner,” coach Shelby Metcalf said following the UNCC victory. “We’re getting great effort from our players now, and I think we’ll continue getting that kind of effort,” Metcalf said. “We’ve still got a ways to go, but we’re getting there.” Niles’ play on the road trip continued to be impressive as the San Antonio senior trimmed down from 270 to 235 pounds and has been averaging 21 points and 15 rebounds a game in his last 5 starts. Metcalf is expected to send the same five on the floor Friday night against Lamar Tech. Tech will play a style of game similar to that of A&M’s first conference opponent, Baylor, and Metcalf feels for that reason Lamar will be the perfect oppo nent to prepare the Aggies for the SWC opener. The Beaumont based school plays the Universtiy of Houston tonight, and they boast a 96.4 scoring average per game, the seventh best in the nation. The varsity game will be pre ceded by a 5:45 p.m. contest be tween the freshman teams of the two schools. Lamar Tech will field an outstanding frosh team that has a five-game winning streak and 6-3 season record, ex cluding its game with the Hous ton Kittens tonight. Coach Jim Culpepper’s Aggie Fish will be coming off a month layoff since opening their season wtih a very sluggish 55-48 win over Wharton County Junior Col lege in early December. Swimmers at OU meet The Texas Aggie swimming team will face its biggest chal lenge of the season Thursday through Saturday when they travel to Norman, Okla., to swim in the University of Oklahoma Invitational Meeting. The meet will be run just like the NCAA swim meet—all events in the three day meet will be the same ones as in the national meet, run off in the same order on the same days as if it were the NCAA meet. Eighteen events are scheduled for the meet with Coach Dennis Fosdick taking 16 swimmers to the OU classic. The meet will be divided into three relays, two diving events and 13 individual events. Fosdick’s swimmers will take the meet just as if it were an other practice as they will try to reach their peak performance later in the season. “We’ve been swimming about 9.500 yards in the morning and 8.500 in the afternoon since we started back work after Christ mas,” Fosdick said. “We came back from the holi days Jan. 3, and we’ve had two swimming workouts and one with the weights each day. “Before the holidays we were swimming about 7,000 yards a day,” he said. The Aggies swam in a meet at Houston last week, but Coach Fosdick said the rugged workout schedule was not cut down and the swimmers showed their tired ness. That is, all except freshman Steve Prentice of Houston. Prentice came within .5 second of tieing the A&M school mark in the 200-yard backstroke. “Steve didn’t even swim a hard race. He swam relaxed and if he would have known he was that close to the record he would have had it, but he coasted in. He didn’t really push,” Focdick said. The University of Arkansas pulled a surprise last week with an upset of the University of Texas at Austin in a dual meet at Arkansas. “That makes our only home meet look like a real tough one,” Fosdick noted, regarding the Ags’ only appearance at P. L. Downs Jr. Natatorium, a dual meet Feb. 6 with the Razorbacks. Making the trip for the Aggies will be sophomore Eric Wolff, who set school i-ecords in the 200- yard freestyle, 500-yard freestyle, 1,000-yard freestyle and 1,650- yard freestyle last season and Kim Blakeman, who holds school marks in the 100-yard freestyle. Both were members of the record- breaking 400- and 800-yard free style relay teams. Another sophomore, Doug Car- son, has school records in the 100- yard breaststroke and 200-yard breaststroke aside from swim ming on the 400-yard relay team. The Aggie freshmen also have shown great progress this season and they’ll make up the majority of the squad. Martin Litteken, Mike McClel land, Mike Rice, Dan Sonnenberg, Steve Sonnenberg and Bob Wil loughby are freshmen and the only two representatives A&M will have in the diving events, Duncap Cooper and Mike Rippey, also are in their first year. The lone senior on the squad is Tom Sparks, whose 56.4 time is the school record for the 100- yard backstroke. Other sophs on the trip will be Mike Hicks, whom Fosdick said always is dependable for a good performance, and John McCleary, who swam on the 400-yard med ley relay record team with Hicks, Carson, Wolfee and Gordon Tay lor. Aside from having a young team this is the first season for A&M's two coaches. Dennis Fosdick is in his first year as head of the Ag swimmers and Eddy Grant, a captain on the last two A&M swimming teams, has been named diving coach. COURT’S SADDLERY ... FOR WESTERN WEAR OR FOR YOUR MARE. FOR SHOE REPAIR BRING IN A PAIR. 403 N. Main 822-0161 J. C. (Jim) Harris THE BUG SHOP, Inc. 1911 So. College Ave. Bryan, Texas 77801 Phone 822-5383 Bryan's Leading Independent Volkswagen Service HUGE & WILD DISCOUNTS ! STEREO RECORDS & TAPES SPEEDY SERVICE - SEND FOR YOUR FREE LIST* THE STUDENT STORE P.O. BOX 64 REDONDO BEACH. 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