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Page 4 College Station, Texas Tuesday, January 19, 1971 THE BATTALION Offensive line Aggies test Baylor Bears coach resigns lii™ By CLIFFORD BROYLES The Texas Aggies—hoping they have at last found the key to victory—travel to Waco tonight to tackle the Baylor Bears in the 1971 Southwest Conference open er for the Ags at Heart O’Texas Coliseum at 8. The Aggies, at one time strug gling with a 2-8 record, have reeled off impressive wins in their last two starts with a new lineup that includes three soph omores, compared to the team which started opening night against Stephen F. Austin with four seniors in the lineup. Baylor is annually the quick est starting SWC team and this year is no exception. The problem is the Bears of past years have faded in the late season just as quickly as they rose at the out set. In the past three SWC cam paigns, the Bears have started off with 6-1 records twice and a 7- 1 mark once. They finished the season with 8-6, 8-6 and 10-4 rec ords and didn’t win a conference title. This year Baylor rolled to an 8- 4 non-conference mark, and last Saturday opened their league slate with a 77-70 victory over the University of Texas at Aus tin in Gregory Gym in Austin, The Bears may have the best individual player in the confer ence in 6-5 senior Willie Chat- mon. Chatmon, one of the top field goal shooters in the nation, is famous for his shooting touch on a short fallaway jump shot that is almost impossible to block. He got 23 against UT-Austin and had a high game of 41 this season. He leads the Bears in scoring with a 24-point and 13 rebound average. The Bears’ green and gold col ors have a flare of the black and gold of Tyler Junior College with Chatmon the most prominent fig- Two members of last year’s TJC team (that went to the Na tional JC tournament after beat ing San Jacinto in a playoff at G. Rollie White Coliseum) joined the Bears this year: Roy Thomas and Bobby Thompson. Thompson who missed two games early in the season with a small case of mononucleosis, still is averaging 13.3 despite not hav ing a spot in the starting lineup. Thomas is netting 9.6 for Bay lor Coach Bill Menefee and Men- efee has changed his style to a more running type offense that has scored over 100 points five times in 14 games. Three other top returnees for Baylor are Tommy Friedman 9.7, Jerry Hopkins 11.5, Tom Stanton 11.5. 6-7 junior Pat Fees is the Bears seventh player and he is aver aging 10 a contest. The Aggies have changed their style to a slower type game after poor outside shooting caused them to lag behind in a fast breaking type game. A more aggressive defense has accompanied the new style and the Ags limited Citadel Univer sity of North Carolina at Char lotte to 62 points and Lamar Tech—the nation’s highest scor ing team—to 82 points in the three games. The lineup for A&M includes sophomore Bob Gobin at the point with sophomores Charlie Jenkins and Jeff Overhouse on the wings and Steve Niles and Chuck Smith at the posts. Niles really has been impres sive lately, and the 7-0 senior leads the Ag attack with 16.5 points and 10.8 rebounds. Over house had an outstanding game against Lamar Tech Friday with 17 points and 13 rebounds and has the second highest average with 10.2 points and 7.3 rebounds. Gobin is averaging 7.0, Smith 8.9 and Jenkins 3.0, but none has started all season and Jenkins has started only the last three games. Senior guard Pat Kavanagh still is sidelined with a back in jury and will not make the trip. 6-7 Rick Duplantis is scoring at 9.1 clip for the Ags and Bill Cooksey 6.0. Both will see plenty of action for A&M. and are led by Lee Griffin, one of the leading cage prospects in last year. Griffin, one of the top five high school recruits in Texas last year, is scoring at a 28.6 rate. The Cubs fell to UT-Austin 103-93 on Saturday and their other four games were against junior college teams. The Aggie fish have been strug gling with a lack of shooting. As a team they're hitting only 32 per cent with Randy Knowles hitting for 15 points a game. Mark Stewart is scoring at an 11.5 clip and Johnny Mayo 10.0 points a game. Prentice breaks Athletic Director Gene Stallings announced Monday that offensive line coach Charlie Bradshaw has resigned to accept a similar job with Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. “Charlie not only is an out standing football coach but he and his wife, Martha, are close, per sonal friends of me and my wife, Ruth Ann,” Stallings said. “They were anxious to return to their home area and we wish them well in their new location.” New Aggies sink Lamar Cardinals Aggie swim mark Bradshaw said, “I spent 18 years as a player and coach in the Southeastern Conference and it is like home to me and my family. It was a difficult decision to make but it was an opportunity to return to our home area.” Freshman Steve Prentice con tinued to set a hot pace for Aggie swimmers last weekend when he clipped off a school record time of 2:02.4 in the 200-yard back- stroke at the University of Okla homa Relays in Norman. Prentice, who came within a half second of the mark in a practice meet two weeks ago in Houston, snapped the mark of 2:0i).l set by one of his team mates Mike Hicks last year. The Aggies placed fifth in the team division and three of the four teams that placed ahead of them are nationally ranked. Southern Illinois University won the meet. The University of Texas at Arlington was second and the University of Kansas took third. In a preliminary contest, the Aggie fish try to get untracked with a 1-1 record against Baylor. The Cubs are 2-3 for the season Doug Carson swam a 2:20.3 time in the 200-yard breaststroke. “That’s an outstanding effort for this time of year in that event,” Coach Dennis Fosdick said. The Aggies faired extremely well in the relays, where they entered two teams each in the 400-yard freestyle, 800-yard free style and 800-yard medley relays and both the A and B squads placed in the top twelve. Fosdick considered the fifth place finish outstanding. “We weren’t interested in plac ing for points. We just came to swim against some competition. “I thought we surprised our selves a bit by doing as well as we did. Overall I was pleased, but a little disappointed with some of the relay times.” The only senior on the team, Tom Sparks, placed in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle and in the 100-yard event swam a 49.6 which is only two-tenths of a sec ond off the school record of an other teammate, Kim Blakeman, who clocked a 49.4 last year. Steve Sonnenberg placed in the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke and Fosdick said that was ex tremely encouraging. “Steve got his time down for the first time this year. He came down in the preliminaries and then beat it again in the finals. “Until now he had been swim ming sort of fatigued from the workouts and had really been pressing when he swam.” Other top performances includ ed: Freshman Bob Willoughby in the 100-yard and 200-yard but terfly; Mike Hicks in the 200- and 400-yard individual medleys and 200-yard backstroke; Dan Sonnenberg in the 100-yard back- stroke; Eric Wolff in the 100- yard freestyle and three relays; Kim Blakeman in the 50-yard freestyle and three relays; Mike McLelland in the 200-yard but terfly; and John McClerary and Martin Littekin in the three re lays. The Aggies’ next action will be next Tuesday when they swim at Rice University in Houston. The Aggie basketball team plays the Owls that night and will be a big day all around for A&M. Bradshaw returns to Vanderbilt next Monday. After playing under Coach Paul Bryant at Kentucky, Brad shaw started his coaching career at a high school in Birmingham, Ala. He served as an assistant under Blanton Collier at Ken tucky and under Bryant at Ala bama before becoming head coach at Kentucky where he served sev en seasons. He joined the Texas A&M staff a year ago. Intramural meet slated Wednesday All athletic officers will have a meeting Wednesday to discuss spring intramurals, the intra mural office announced Monday. The meeting will be held in room 232 of G. Rollie White Coli seum. Corps athletic officers meet at 5 p.m. and civilian of ficers meet at 5:30. Any officer who can’t make the meeting is urged to come by the intramural office as soon as possible. Wrestling weigh-ins begin Thursday and last through Mon day for Class A and C. The locker room of G. Rollie White Coliseum will be the location for the weigh- ins. They begin at 5:00 on Thurs day and Monday with the Friday weighings from 3:00-4:30. Basketball finals for Classes A and C begin Thursday. Early next week will be the start of ping pong finals. Class A and C volleyball will begin next week. By JOHN CURYLO Assistants Sports Editor It was quite apparent Friday night in G. Rollie White Coli seum that Coach Shelby Metcalf had taken the new year theme to heart by making some im provements and adding newness to the A&M cagers who defeated Lamar Tech in the last non-SWC contest for the Aggies. The final score was 87-82, but there were many factors making the victory significant for the “new” Aggies. First, Lamar, seventh in the nation in scoring, is a contender for the Southland Conference title this year. They came into the game averaging 96.4 points per game and had scored over 100 five times this season. This game was viewed as a true test of the team that started slow, but picked up momentum since New Year’s Day, losing a close game to The Citadel 62-61, and beating North Carolina at Char lotte 66-62. The “new look” consists of some new starters, a few changes in the other starters, a new style of play, new uniforms, and new shoes. This all adds up to making them look like an entirely differ ent team than the one appearing on the court a month ago. Regulars on the squad now consist of three sophomores and two seniors. Charlie Jenkins, Jeff Overhouse, and Bob Gobin are the sophomores, while Chuck Smith and Steve Niles are the seniors. Jenkins proves to be an excit ing ball handler and a quick de fender. In the next 14 games or more of the season, it will not be unusual for fans to see him make a number of steals. Over house, 6-7, does a good job on the boards, grabbing 13 rebounds and scoring 17 points Friday. Gobin, a blue chipper in football and basketball, shows aggressive de fense also. He scored 10 points against the Cardinals, and proved to be a fine passer. The most pleasant change is in Steve Niles. Niles, a seven-footer, went from 270 pounds to 235. He moves better, is more aggressive, and dominates play as a pb his size should. He scored points, got 16 rebounds, and Ik Lamar’s leading scorer, Adams, to five points in theft half. Should he play the rest the season as he played Friit he will be one of the mostexciti players at A&M in years. Chuck Smith was also a performer Friday. He scored points, hitting on six of ninelu the field and three of six ft throws. Tech got off to an early la stretching the score to 6-1 x 18:12 left in the first hall minute later the score wasti as Niles hit two successive! ups and a free throw. Us came back again and built another lead of five at 17-12» 12:48 left in the half. Two minutes later the lead sawed back and forth, but' 9:40 left in the half, Overha was used scored on a layup with an as from Duplantis, and Lamar never to lead again. The bigp margin of the half was eight,! the score at halftime was ft The Aggies came out ini second half and scored five pc in a row before the Cardin could get on the board, then hi hit a free throw and mads layup with an assist from I kins to raise the lead to nim Tech whittled away at theli the rest of the half, tying it with 2:40 left and again 47 seconds remaining. Smith and Cooksey each hit« and-ones, giving A&M an ft edge with 0:34 left Duplu hit a free throw, and the Cir Adams countered with a goal, but Niles ended it all* still another layup. In the preliminary, Tech’s Little Red overwheb the Fish 82-64. It was the sets game of the year for the Apps following a layoff of h 1 /* to The second half was more the same, with the Lamar le jumping to 28 with 6:34 left play. Randy Knowles led theF with 22, and Mark Stewart# tributed 17. The Aggies onlys 32.8% from the field, and ill turned the ball over 27 times. •r’ A: . •' ; • ■.* - INFORMATION REGARDING DORMITORY TELEPHONE SERVICE Every student who lives in a dormitory room equipped with a telephone will have to sign a new student LD telephone agreement card. One student in each room will be designated by the Telephone Company as the Account Manager and responsible for payment of each bill. Only those students who have signed the cards will be authorized to place and charge LD telephone calls to their room telephone or place LD telephone calls from other telephones and charge them to their room telephone number. A telephone bill will be generated for each dormitory working telephone number on Campus with charges appearing for all calls placed or charged to that particular number. If no long distance calls were charged to that number then zero balance will be reflected and shown on the bill. 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