\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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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ploy a 1-2-2 zone.”
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The outcome of the contest
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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.
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