Page 4 College Station, Texas Friday, January 22, 1971 THE BATTALI^^N Aggies need a win against TCU Frogs By CLIFFORD BROYLES Battalion Sports Editor The Texas Aggies—trying to avoid two losses at the start of the Southwest Conference race— and the Texas Christian Univer sity Homed Frogs, the surprise team in the league, meet Satur day at 12:30 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum in a very impor tant league contest. The importance of this one really sticks out for the Aggies, since their opening loss to Bay lor, and for the Frogs it could Bob Gobin mean a run at the title in a year which they weren’t supposed to do it. at Fort Worth Christian, is keep ing up the pace with 20.7 and 15.9 marks this year. He hit for 23 points and a sea son high of 24 rebounds against Tech and his season shooting per centage is an amazing 60.2, one of the best in the country. Simpson DeGrate, a native of Marlin who starred at McLennan Community College, is the Horned Frogs’ second leading scorer with a 14-point mark and also is netting 8.6 rebounds. He scored 27 points a game last year for McLennan. Only one starter is back of last year’s team, Ricky Hall. Hall will be one of the forwards and has a 12.6 average this season. Coco Villereal, who started part time for the Frogs last year will be the other forward. Then it’s playmaker Jim Fer guson out front. Ferguson is scoring at a 9.4 clip but leads, the Frogs with 41 assists. Last year at Long Beach City College he set a school record of 251 assists, an average of nine per game. Beyond that, Swain has only two other main players. Sopho more James Williams has a 6- point average and he backs up Ferguson. Evans Royal, a 6-5 junior letterman, is a top reserve forward. TCU will run a more disci plined game than Baylor, a style similar to the Aggies, but that doesn’t mean it will be to the Aggies’ advantage. “TCU’s a much more physical ball club than Baylor and that will make up for that,” Coach Shelby Metcalf said. Bill Cooksey, senior guard from Houston who has been used as a reserve most of the season, will draw a starting assignment in place of Charlie Jenkins for the encounter. “We are going to start Bill to get his experience into the game,” Metcalf said. Cooksey is averaging 6.1 points a game. Alongside him will be sopho more Bob Gobin, who has been starting for the last four games. Gobin and Jeff Overhouse, two top sophomores, have been pleas ant surprises and Metcalf classi fied their performances as well above the average you get from a sophomore. Gobin carries a 7.2 average into the game and Overhouse, who leads the Aggie scoring with 19 and rebounding with 13 against Baylor will carry a 10.8 point and 7.7 rebound average into the game. Seniors Chuck Smith and Steve Niles will join them in the start ing lineup. Smith is the team’s third lead ing scorer with a 9.4 norm and rebounder with 6.1 a contest. Niles leads in both categories with 16.3 points and 10.5 re bounds a game. TCU trimmed Texas Tech 85- 71, Tuesday night in Fort Worth to move its SWC record to 1-0 and season mark to 5-8. The win was impressive be cause it showed that the Frogs had reached the point where they are together. They started the season with more junior college transfers and sophomores than returning Jeff Overhouse squadmen, and most observers felt the only chance they had was to get their JC boys broken into the TCU system by the time league play came around. It took a painful 4-8 record to do so, but the win over Tech proved it has been successful. Three of those transfers will start Saturday in the game that will be telecast regionally. The freshman teams of the two schools will meet in a preliminary game at 10 a.m. Eugene Kennedy, a 6-6 center, is the Frog who has raised the most eyebrows since transferring from Fort Worth Christian Col lege. Kennedy, who averaged 22 points and 22 rebounds last year perma-crease Westbury Slacks Jlim Gtnvncs 1 umbersitp men’g toear 329 University Drive 718/846-2706 College Station, Texas 77840 1970 TOYOTA $1830.00 BRAZOS VALLEY TOYOTA INC. We Service All Foreign Make Cars Cavitt at Coulter Phone 822-2828 Fish to meet Wogs in game tomorrow By JOHN CURYLO Assistant Sports Editor The Aggie Fish are back in action tomorrow, and they’ll be trying to continue in the winning ways of Tuesday night when they defeated the Baylor Cubs 66-65. The opponent this time will be the TCU Wogs, who have com piled a 1-2 record against three junior colleges. Fish Coach Jim Culpepper describes them as be ing a fast team, but not with a lot of size. “We’ll play our normal game,” Culpepper said. “They like to run, and we’ll try to show them bet ter defense than they’ve been up against. To beat their outside game, we need to get on the boards and limit them to one shot.” The Wogs show a fairly bal anced scoring attack through three games among the members of their starting lineup. Bill Ma- rano, 6-5, from West Islip, New York, leads the team with 24 points and 10 rebounds. Mitch Alexander is close behind with an average of 23. He is also 6-5, and is from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Roosevelt Brown, from Fort Worth Terrell, is 6-5. His average is 13 points per game. Also from Fort Worth (Wyatt), Jeff Wright is 6-1, and he has a 12 point average. The other start er is Carey Vann of Houston Sam Houston. He is 6-2 and averages 10 points. The Wogs started the season with two pre-holiday games, los ing to Navarro Junior College, 108-94, and beating Temple Jun ior College, 94-92. After a long break, they lost to McLennan Community College Tuesday by a score of 81-72. Culpepper said that the Fish seem to be getting back into good physical condition after their long vacation. He added that he was pleased with Tuesday’s win over the Baylor Cubs. “They didn’t lose poise when they were under the gun,” he said. “For the length of time they’ve played, that’s real good. When they get consistent, they’ll be pretty good. We need to win against TCU.” Culpepper cited the play of Bobby McKey and Randy Knowles in the Baylor game. They con tributed 19 and 22 points, respec tively. Knowles sank some clutch free throws late in the game to seal the victory. He also hit on a long jump shot at the buzzer. 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