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Page 4 College Station, Texas Tuesday, January 25, 1972 THE BATTi Aggies face defending SWC champions here tonig By JOHN CURYLO Battalion Sports Editor The Aggie basketball team faces the challenge tonight of AJLLEN Oldsmobile Cadillac SALES - SERVICE “Where satisfaction is standard equipment” 2401 Texas Ave. 823-8002 PONDEROSA INN AND RESTAURANT Bryan - College Station Newest and Finest Serving Homecooked Lunches Daily $1.49 All You Can Eat—Catfish Dinner Friday Evenings $1.79 New With Us, After Church Sunday Buffet. 3 Entree, 12 Salads, 10 Desserts. $1.79 Alacarte Dining. Serving the Finest Sea Foods and U. S. Choice Steaks. Introduction to Fine Foods. Clip This Ad. Alacarte Except Friday Even ings. Buy One and Get the Second One For x /i Price. This Special Good Thru Feb. 15, 1972. bouncing back from the 100-89 loss to Arkansas by hosting de fending champion Texas Chris tian in G. Rollie White Coliseum. A&M, now 8-6, had a five-game winning streak stopped in Fay etteville Saturday by the 46- point performance of Razorback guard Martin Terry. Teammate Vernon Murphy tossed in 25. The Aggies are 1-1 in conference play. Texas Christian, also 1-1 in league action, is 7-4 on the year. They defeated Arkansas 95-77 in the conference opener, but lost to Southern Methodist in Dallas 81-71 three days ago. A look at comparative scores and performances reveals what kind of race is expected in the Southwest Conference this time around: A&M beat SMU at home, then lost to Arkansas there; TCU beat Arkansas at home, then lost to SMU there. Coach Shelby Metcalf will start his usual quintet of 6-2 guard Mario Brown and 6-4 guard Bobby Threadgill, 6-4 forward Wayne Howard and 6-7 forward Jeff Overhouse and 6-8 center Rick Duplantis. Expected to fill in for these regulars are 6-3 guard Bob Gobin and 6-6 forward Randy Knowles. Horned Frog Coach Johnny Swaim counters with 5-10 guard Herb Stephens and 6-1 guard Jim Ferguson, 6-3 forward Ricky Hall and 6-4 forward Simpson Degrate and 6-5 center Evans Royal. Top substitutes for the Fort Worth team are 6-2 guard James Wil liams, 6-4 forward Jimmy Parker and 6-6 forward John Hurdle. Degrate is one of the premier players in the conference, with Ferguson tabbed as an excellent playmaker. TCU returns four starters from last year’s title team, but their ace from a year ago, Eugene (Goo) Kennedy is ineligible this season. The Frogs are expected to be physically tough, as usual. The performance of the Aggies Saturday was out of character with the way they had been play ing recently. Usually dominant on the boards, they got the same number of rebounds, 47, as the Razorbacks. Free throws still haunt the Aggies, as they hit but 23 of 38, compared to 36 of 41 for Arkansas. Terry connected on 12 of 23 shots from the field and added 22 of 24 from the charity line. This total of 46 ranks seventh in conference history for individual players in a league game. The Razorbacks had a 49-48 advantage at halftime. The larg est margin was a 27-21 A&M lead wtih 9:14 to play in the period. The score was tied seven times, and the lead changed hands 12 times. The largest Arkansas lead was 35-32 with 5:31 left. The second half was nearly as even, with seven ties and five exchanges of the lead. The Aggies were stifled defensively, since Overhouse, A&M’s rebounding threat, and Threadgill, the man covering Terry, picked up three fouls in the first half, limiting their aggressiveness. The Aggies tied it at 80 wtih four minutes to play, after trail ing by nine five minutes before. The Razorbacks got momentum, though, and capitalized on free throws and A&M errors to finish strong. It was their first home appearance since Dec. 13, and a partisan crowd of 4,675 saw them hit 46.4% from the field, com pared to 47.1% for the Aggies. A scuffle occurred with 2:42 to play when Gobin fouled Terry. The benches emptied and several spectators went onto the court. Each team was charged with a flagrant technical foul, and no one was injured. The scoring: A&M — Wayne Howard, 25; Jeff Overhouse, 19; Mario Brown, 18; Randy Knowles, 10; Bobby Threadgill, 9; Rick Duplantis, 4; Bob Gobin, 2; and Brad Pauley, 2. Arkansas — Martin Terry, 46; Vernon Murphy, 25; Dean Tolson, 6; Joel Heider, 5; Dennis White, 5; Larry Box, 4; Jody Bass, 4; Mike Brown, 3; and Doug Camp bell, 2. In other SWC action tonight, Texas Tech is at Texas, Baylor is at Rice, and SMU hosts Arkan sas. Tipoff time for the A&M- TCU contest is 8 p.m. The Fish meet the TCU Wogs in a prelim inary game at 5:45. The Aggies are at home again Saturday in an 8 p.m. game with Baylor, preceded by the Fish- Baylor Cub battle at 5:!il kansas visits Texas, Rktl TCU and SMU is at :l other action this weekenil Fish host Wogs in preliminary battle By BILL HENRY Assistant Sports Editor TCU’s Wogs will visit G. Rollie White Coliseum in a 5:45 p.m. tilt against the A&M Fish. The Fish will be looking for their second straight Southwest Con ference loop victory while the Wogs stand 0-1 in conference play. SMU has been the common foe of both clubs with A&M scoring an impressive 100-82 win over the Colts, while last Saturday the Colts took the Wogs 85-78 in Dallas. Overall the Wogs stand in at 1-5 while the Fish hold a 4-2 record. “I expect TCU and most of the other teams we play to start pressing us because of our lack of a good ball-handler,” Coach Jim Culpepper said. “We may also start to press because I feel pretty good about our defensive unit. The big problem there, however, is that I would hate to get into foul trouble with our depth problem.” ing a 23-point per game player has got to hurt our play to some extent, but I feel real confident that the kids I have can fill the gap and play good basketball.” The big question in tonight’s contest is whether the Fish can get the offense back together after the loss of top scorer and floor leader Mike Floyd. Without the Rockford, 111., star, the Fish are lacking an outside shooting threat as well as a ball-handler. With Floyd out for the season wtih a broken ankle, the Fish have given much more attention to defense. This was shown in last week’s heart-breaking loss to Hill JC, 69-68, on a last second free throw. Up to that contest, the Hill Rangers had averaged 104 points per game in hustling to a 16-1 season record. That one loss was to San Jacinto in the Ravens’ own tournament two days preceding the Fish contest. “With Mike playing, we defi nitely had a better ball club than we do now,’ Culpepper said. “Los- Bellard announces workout dates Coach Emory Bellard said Monday that spring football training for the A&M squad would start March 20 and con clude with the Maroon-White game on April 22. Cedric Joseph, All-America from Fort Worth Arlington Heights, has been called on to lead the Fish throughout the re mainder of the season in both scoring and rebounding. Joseph, 6-8, 210, has averaged 20.3 points per game and 16.3 rebounds. Webb Williams and Dale Donald son are the only other Fish to average in double figures throughout the first six en counters. Jerry Mercer, 6-9, 210, from Houston Cypress-Fairbanks, has averaged 9.5 points per game, but his biggest asset so far this season has been in his rebound ing. Mercer has copped 72 re bounds for a 12 per game aver age. “I don’t expect to change my offensive or defense play much because of the loss of Mike,” stated Culpepper. “We will have to go to Cedric more in the inside for the bulk of our scoring and play a little tougher defense.” In overall statistics, the Fish have outscored the opposition by an 11-point margin and out- rebounded the foe by 17 per game. The Fish have also hit a respect able 44% of their outside shots compared to 40% for the oppo nents. What has hurt the Fish, if any thing, has been too many turn overs (104) and a cold hand at the free throw line (65%). The Fish will be in action again Saturday when they host the Baylor Cubs in a 5:45 p.m. con test preceding the varsity clash of the two schools in G. Rollie White Coliseum. ERROR-FREE TYPING ERRORITE JayPackage Store Student Discount! With This Ad or Student I.D. At The Saber Inn 701 Texas Ave. AT YOUR BOOKSTORE isoners. 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