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\l BATTALION lary 17, ir ct is finann Wednesday, February 17, 1971 College Station, Texas Page 5 SMU Mustangs stay in chase by thumping Aggies 1 * CLIFFORD BROYLES Wtalioa Sports Editor The Texas Aiggies continued heir terrible outside shooting and W § dded ice-cold foul shooting to at Moody Coliseum in Dallas 'uesday night as the SMU Mus- egionalpln a ngs stayed in the Southwest 'ork withtl lonference race with a 85-78 1 win. sistance i A&M has hit on less than 40 hnical adriHer cent of its shots in the last hree games, and the Ags made ject fundij t four in a row, while adding 'hich $30,! o that to only 10 of 24 foul shots. 'he Mustangs, with great outside technoluj jring from Gene Phillips, Bobby ransportatin filings and Larry Delzell, jump- ling will | d to a 12-point halftime lead and cond proj« [though not really with a safe Radke,# ead were never in serious trou- pneer it tl le in the second half. Institili The Aggies outrebounded the unity leais { us tangs 60-31 in their first regional * iee ting at College Station. But jes, serai© m p r0 ved work inside by the Mus- ial investijt an g S trio of David Miller, Steve services. Ih ^an an( j Clayton Korver help ’d them outrebound the Aggies n federal a ^ seven j n the first half as SWC race still close SMU built its lead and finished the game with 62 rebounds to 50 for the Ags. Late in the contest the Aggies were forced to foul the Mustangs, who began to sit on a nine-point lead in the final four minutes. But SMU, with a 76 per cent team average at the foul line, hit on eight of nine and the closest A&M could get in the second half was a game-ending seven points. SMU won the game at the foul line where it hit 29 of 35. In the two games with A&M this year they hit 62 of 70 free throws. Wayne Howard put on a late spurt by hitting 11 points in the final four and one half minutes but two free throws by Miller, two by Delzell and four by Phil lips nullified that. SMU started quickly and jump ed to a 9-0 lead and threatened to make it a runaway before the 6,893 crowd. A turn-around baseline jumper by Rick Duplantis got the first A&M points and then, after SMU built its lead to 13-2, Howard nar rowed the gap with two straight buckets and Overhouse added a field goal as A&M ripped off seven straight points to trail only 13-9. SMU jumped to its biggest lead of the half with just over a min ute to go when Delzell popped a jumper to end a string of six straight in A&M points and give SMU a 46-30 lead. Buckets by Bob Gobin and Bill Cooksey cut the lead to 46-34 at the half. Cooksey hit a hot streak mid way through the first half to keep the Aggies going. He hit three straight field goals as they battled from a 23-16 deficit to narrow the SMU lead to five. In the second half, the Mus tangs began to work their fast break with crisp passing. Early in the half, for example, Miller got a layup on a pass from Phillips; the next time down the floor it was Delzell on an as sist from Phillips. Then on the next SMU possession Phillips ze roed in on a snowbird after he and Miller exchanged passes twice while driving down the floor. Korver then gjot two short buckets shortly thereafter and the Mustangs had equalled their big gest lead of the night with a 61-45 bulge. Steve Niles, who has been hav ing his problems in the last three games — having scored only 17 points in those contests -— sat out much of this one for a simi lar reason and Coach Shelby Met calf inserted him in the lineup midway through the second half to stop some of the work in the middle. The Aggies also went to a full court press which did little more than slow down the Mustang pace. With Niles in the middle, the Aggies were able to keep the Mustangs out and quickly narrow ed the SMU lead by eight, to 61- 53, before Mustang coach Bob Prewitt—seeing things get a lit tle out of hand—called for a time out. The lead stayed at between 10 and 12 for the rest of the night until the Aggies were to within 7 at 77-70. The improved play of the big men for SMU had to be a key factor in this one. In the first meeting of the two teams Put nam, Miller and Korver scored between them 16 points and had six rebounds. Tuesday night, Put nam scored eight and had 11 rebounds, Korver scored 9 and 11 rebounds and Miller scored 11 and had 5 rebounds. Their work inside slowed down the Aggies. By comparison Du plantis had 20 points and seven rebounds in the first meeting and 15 points and five rebounds last night. Jeff Overhouse had nine points and 13 rebounds in the first game and 12 points and 6 rebounds last night. Niles had 15 points and seven rebounds in the first meeting and six points and six rebounds last night. Chuck Smith, playing despite a sprained ankle suffered in the Rice game had only one point and three rebounds as compax-ed to a 17 point 12 rebound effort the first time around. The loss mathematically elim inated the Aggies from any chance at the Southwest Confer ence crown and leaves the Mus tangs as one of six teams with a shot at the league title. Scoring in the SMU game. A&M — Chuck Smith 1, Jeff Overhouse 12, Steve Niles 6, Charlie Jenkins 2, Wayne How ard 23, Rick Duplantis 15, Bob Gobin 5, Bill O’Brien 4, Bill Cook sey 10. SMU—Gene Phillips 24, Jack Trout 3, David Miller 11, Bobby Rollings 14, Larry Delzell 16, Steve Putnam 8, Clayton Korver 9. George Mehaffey, Riee coach: this Owl is really an Aggie TCU, Baylor, Tech and SMU all win will assists accessary xbligations i >f existing It .ract new is Bradley, k conomics ul B)’I0RN CURYLO of the Ten ^ TCU stayed out in front of the sion Serviti jack and Rice was virtually elim inated from the race as the South- i will w«t ff est Conference picture cleared lustrial C« somewhat after being cloudy for r cities toll jo long. d with» The Horned Frogs of Fort t propii (y or yj had a 34 p 0 j n t lead at one nder $18,D [j me j n (.h e se cond half, but Coach from fedffl Swaim cleared his bench and TCU finished with a six point rictory over winless Arkansas, 1 92-86. ClI Uu Eugene “Goo” Kennedy broke the SWC rebounding record with ' i his 28 caroms, and added 13 (j lO points to his team’s total. Simp- I son Degrate was the leading scorer with 29 tallies. TCU hit in 54.4% of its shots from the field. While SMU was moving its record to 6-3 with the 85-78 win nor junior j« t been nan er Fund, ith the sck> een given 111 the fourth loss for the Houston school. The winning margin for the Bears came as guard Tom Stan ton was good on a layup after dribbling through all five of the Rice Owls with four seconds re maining. The leading scorer for the Bears, now 6-3, was William Chatmon, who scored 27 points. Gary Reist, the Owl senior guard, led his team with 24. Texas, already thwarted of any title hopes, was shoved further from the top by Texas Tech in Austin, 70-55. The Longhorns went almost nine minutes without scoring af ter tying the game in the second half, and this was the downfall of Texas. The Red Raiders hit lor, SMU or Tech would eliminate that team from the race. Also, if TCU loses, that means that they would be tied with any of the three second place teams that wins. SMU and Baylor clash in Waco, and the alternatives for the two squads are simple: the winner is still a contender and the loser is no longer in the race. Texas Tech will be on its home court in Lubbock for a televised battle with the Aggies. If the Red Raiders cannot handle A&M, whom they beat a few weeks ago, they are out for the year. To stay ahead, TCU needs to win against Rice, who won over the Frogs two weeks ago. Should the Owls do the trick again, there could be a three-way tie for first Consolidated vs. Carver tonight in schoolboy playoff game The A&M Consolidated Tigers take on Aldine Carver tonight at 7:30 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coli seum in the second game of a best-of-three playoff for the Dis trict 10-AAA championship. Carver won the first game, 65- 49, but tonight’s contest should prove to be interesting, since the Tigers defeated Aldine earlier in the year in a tournament game. Jim Foreman, the head cage coach for Consolidated, said yes terday that he thinks his team can take the game and that they will be prepared for Carver. “When they beat us, we just had a poor night,” he said. “I guess they were just better pre pared than us. I think things will be different this time.” 0 scholars!] over A&M, Baylor and Texas Tech were assuring themselves of a second place tie with the Mustangs by beating Rice and •k as a f Texas, respectively, ononeofi,! As a result of its 73-71 win vspapers. . over Rice, Baylor all but shut i of Mr. ini off the Owls’ hopes of repeating . of Mania!last year’s championship. It was lisher of! ews. Fund is st| nes and 0 Wall Slit mal Obseri onal Busk dy- f 60 studei for the fa 1 copy-editii 52 percent of their floor shots, while the ’Horns were good on only 38.3%. place. SWC Standings Should Consolidated win, the third and final game will be played at Prairie View A&M. If Greg Lowery was Tech’s high Team Won Lost Pet. Aldine Carver comes out victori- point man with 20. His teammate, TCU 7 2 .778 ous, they will be the district fin- Gene Knolle, had 17, Billy Black SMU 6 3 .667 alists. led the opponents with 12. The Baylor 6 3 .667 Tickets for the game were sold win was Tech’s fifth straight over Texas Tech 6 3 .667 at a reduced price until 3:30 this Texas. Their all-time series is Rice 5 4 .556 afternoon at the principal's of- now even at 20 games each. Texas 4 5 .444 fice at Consolidated High School. Each of this Saturday’s games Texas A&M 2 7 .222 All tickets at the gate are $1.50 is important, since a loss by Bay- Arkansas 0 9 .000 each for both students and icond com as A&M jou received s« similar an to David Mi on, who is nd serves ilion. tsident of { t body ani versity's Sti oard. Hepri . staff wils rve his nil* the Widii' tune 28. Prt sas paper,! :-week com diting attli ska. rove n-pli undaf Texas on of Form* a $1,049,1! ring the a® tcil Med® ded $599,12 i annual g® dual schol«i niversity 8,1 liversity 8111 stricted g® projected | dub and i 1 " ,, direct gif' Endow 6 les L. Sew e ! final repo* nd present* K. Willi 81 * ut the fi sCl associ&t^ ding e ‘ ins with ¥• college 8, William dent’s sc I,0, ' mainder c ' Get the Texas A&M University Directory for your • Student Listings • Student Senate • Civilian Student Council • University Calendar • Campus Map Faculty-Staff Listings Board of Directors Corps of Cadets Commanders Athletic Schedule Available At Student Publications Office Shaffer’s University Book Store Exchange Store adults. Texas A&M students will not be admitted on their activity cards. Foreman indicated that the game should be good for spec tators and fans, and that the two teams use different offenses and defenses. The no grab style of play of the two clubs is entirely different. “Carver uses the fast break a lot,” Foreman said. “They press, too. They use what is known as a zone press. Usually they em ploy a 1-2-2 zone.” The Tigers, on the other hand, have a disciplined offense. They try to play for the percentage shot. Their defense is a pressing man-to-man. The outcome of the contest should be determined by A&M’s ability to slow down and confuse Aldine Carver. Shooting percent ages should be a factor, and exe cution of the game plan is most important for both squads. A and C Wrestling champs announced Class A and C wrestling ended last Thursday with 10 individual champions being determined. Class B and D wrestling begins today in G. Rollie White Coli seum. The champions, according to weight class, are: 123 lb., Mike Mahone; 130 lb., Mike Bavaro; 137 lb., James Paryzek; 145 lb., Pete Amaral; 152 lb., Bill Comp ton; 160 lb., Robert Fitzpatrick; 167 lb., John McNevin; 177 lb., George McCarroll; 191 lb., Joe Russo; heavyweight, Orlin He- cox. E-l won the Class B handball championship last week by oust ing G-l. The intramural office an nounced Monday that an open soccer tournament will be held. Anyone wishing to enter a team must do so by March 1. They added that no team points will be given to the winners. By JOHN CURYLO Assistant Sports Editor Fans at Saturday’s game with Rice probably couldn’t help but notice the tall Rice assistant coach. In fact, many people know him as the guy who’s always stand ing up, protesting a call by the officials or encouraging his players. But what few Aggies realize is that George Mehaffey is one of us. A 1957 A&M graduate, Me haffey was cage captain and sec ond team All Southwest Confer ence that year. In addition, he was a Distinguished Military Student. Mehaffey is in his second year at Rice. His freshman team was 9-3 last year, and so far has lost but one in this campaign. Before going to the Owls, he was the head coach at Lee High School in Houston for seven years. He graduated from another Houston high school, St. Thomas, where he was All-State TCIL. Mehaffey served in the Air Force from 1958-60, at which time he played pro ball in the Eastern League in the Pennsylvania area. His service obligation interfered with any plans he may have had to play for the St. Louis Hawks, who had drafted him for the Na tional Basketball Association. Here’s the true test of an Ag gie: How can one coach for an other SWC school but still re main true to his alma mater? This is an interesting problem, particularly in light of the repu tation for loyalty which Aggies are supposed to have. Well, on Jan. 23, those who noticed found out. TCU was in G. Rollie White for a televised game with the Aggies. Rice had an open date that night, so Me haffey and Don Knodel, the head coach at Rice, were here to scout the two clubs. Before the opening tipoff, Me haffey rose to his full six feet, five inches, wearing his blue blazer with the Owl emblem on “Spirit of Aggieland.” Here he was, obviously a rep resentative of another school, here to do a job for that university, but he still had the love for A&M to stand and sing with the rest of the Aggies. A&M doesn’t play Rice again this year, but when the two teams meet again, the tall guy in the blue coat will be as vociferous as ever in pulling for his charges and admonishing the referees. But he’s proven more than once, that regardless of where he works, he’s still an Aggie. ALLEN OLDS. - CAD. INCORPORATED SALES - SERVICE “Where satisfaction is standard equipment” 2400 Texas Ave. COURT’S SADDLERY . . . FOR WESTERN WEAR OR FOR YOUR MARE. FOR SHOE REPAIR BRING IN A PAIR. 403 N. 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