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Q&ererlep Q&rahp College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 29, 1972 BATTALia I9U/ TLXAL AVhNUC BRYAN TtXAS 78GD1 Os ^rzZA Saw 0 /<S)&eA^ J l-Po} 5 Vo <£(»,' Mi "t u>&{. a/SUcA 'yPt&fcjle// Zart) yb&cA&t 'Au/zZtnqf &usi \oanZi. f tyy 0c /$<e&U, fyjeeA, m v/ Fish beat Rice, finish season against Texas By BILL HENRY Assistant Sports Editor Cedric Joseph scored 28 points and grabbed a team record 26 rebounds to lead the A&M Fish to a 95-72 romp over the Rice Owlets here Saturday afternoon. The Fish will finish their 16- game schedule Tuesday against the Texas Yearlings, who stuck one of the two Southwest Confer ence losses on the local quintet, 69-59, in Austin, at 5:45 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Four of the five A&M starters hit in double figures with Joseph leading the cause. Mike Floyd scored 21 points, Webb Williams got 20 and Dale Donaldson had 12. Rice had three of its starters in the teens with Danny Carroll heading the attack with 18, Tim Mortiarty 16 and Paul Scott 14. The Owlets’ record now stands at 2-10 and 1-3 in SWC play while the Fish upped their season mark to 11-4 and a 7-2 conference mark. Rice held the lead but once, 4-3, with a little over a minute gone in the first period and were never in the contest from then steals which turned into easy fast break lay-ups. It could have been much worse early in the game except for the usual number of A&M turnovers. With 15:27 left to play in the opening stanza, A&M picked up a 10-4 lead with two heads-up Then, Owlet Coach George “Spider” Mehaffey, a basketball letterman for A&M in 1955-57, was called for a technical foul, hoping to fire up his team. It didn’t work and the Fish jumped out to a 16 point lead with 2:11 remaining in the half. The technical did seem a bit out of place since Mehaffey was sit ting on the bench and not making a commotion or disturbance. Netters split weekend action After a disappointing 4-3 loss to Oklahoma University, the A&M tennis team hung on to take two out of three in the con solation bracket at the Corpus Christi Invitational Team tennis tournament. Victories came against Lamar Tech, 4-3, and Arkansas, 5-2. The other loss came at the hands of highly-touted Oklahoma City Uni versity, 7-0. Trinity, whom the Aggies take on Saturday afternoon in San An tonio and are ranked second in the nation, won the team trophy in the single elimination tourna ment. Southern Methodist took runner-up honors, followed by Corpus Christi University, whom the Aggies play in Corpus Christi Friday, and Pan American. Against Oklahoma, the Big 8 champion, B a y n t o n defeated Dickie Fikes, A&M, 6-4, 6-1, 7-6; Dan Courson, A&M, defeated Hughes of Oklahoma, 7-5, 7-6; Hess defeated Billy Hoover, A&M, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4; Lashly defeated Bill Wright, A&M, 5-7, 7-6, 6-3; Tom my Connell, A&M, defeated Quig ley, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4; Fikes and Con nell defeated Baynton and Hess, 6-1, 6-3, and Hughes and Lashly defeated Hoover and Wright, 6-4, 2-6, 7-6; to give Oklahoma the 4-3 victory. In A&M’s 4-3 victory over La mar Tech, Fikes defeated Baraldi, 6-4, 6-2; Gomez defeated Courson, 2-6, 6-2, 7-6; Wright defeated Hernandez, 6-7, 6-1, 6-0; Jenkins defeated Hoover, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3; Jordan defeated Lawton Park, A&M, 6-2, 6-2; Fikes and Courson defeated Baraldi and Jordan, 6-4, 6-2; and Wright and Hoover de feated Hernandez and Jenkins, 6-2, 6-3. Oklahoma City shot out the Ag gies 7-0 with Coombes defeating Fikes, 6-3, 0-6, 6-1; Straney de feated Courson, 7-6, 6-1; Power defeated Wright, 6-3, 6-0; Ar- gyriou defeated Hoover, 6-1, 7-5; Dawson defeated Park, 7-6, 6-1; Power and Dawson defeated Fikes and Courson, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4; and Coombes and Straney defeat ed Wright and Hoover, 6-3, 6-3. A&M wrestlers stay in first by defeating Pan American Against Arkansas, A&M took a 5-2 decision with Stout defeat ing Fikes, 4-6, 7-5, 6-0; Courson defeated Rizza, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2; Wright defeated Borders, 7-5, 6-2; Hoover defeated Beauchamp, 6-2, 6-4; Clark defeated Connell, 6-1, 6-2; Fikes and Courson de feated Stout and Clark, 6-1, 6-2; and Wright and Mills defeated Rizza and Beauchamp, 6-1, 4-6, 6-0. “Losing to Oklahoma really hurt us in the first round,” Coach Omar Smith said. “If we would have won we would have played Pan American, whom we defeated in a dual meet once before and we would have been in the cham pionship category. But we ended up in consolation and had to play a super-tough Oklahoma City team.” The Aggie netters’ next match will be this Friday when they take on Corpus Christi Univer sity. Saturday, A&M meets sec ond-ranked Trinity in San An tonio. Then, on Tuesday, A&M will host its first tennis match in more than a month when the Big 10 champion, Michigan, rolls into town for a dual meet. “I’ve had about 2,000 T's in my coaching career and that had to be the cheapest I’ve ever gotten,” he said after the first half came to a close. The period ended with A&M holding a 12 point bulge, 45-33. Thirty more personal fouls were called in the second half, Mehaffey was given another tech nical foul and A&M had one of the greatest scoring sprees of the season. In the beginning, it looked as though Rice was going to give the Fish a run for the money by scoring 12 points to A&M’s five with 16:10 remaining and the score 50-45. With 12:47 left, Floyd picked up his fourth personal foul. Thirty-four seconds later, Don aldson got his fourth also. Things looked uncertain as the Fish be gan to miss free throws after hitting 13 of 15 in the first half. It all started with about five minutes left and A&M holding a 14 point lead, 76-62. The Fish scored 12 straight points in two minute span with brillian ball-stealing and heads-up pas ing down court on fast breaks, When the buzzer sounded, Ail had hit on 33 of 69 shots fro the field for 47%, 20 of throws for 72%, grabbed 67 rt bounds and committed 25 personal fouls. The Fish also won the lat. tie of turnovers with 22 to 15 (« the Owlets. Rice finished the contest wi4 a 31% outside shooting averaji hit on 26 of 36 free tosses, grat bed by 41 recounds and committal 24 personal fouls and two tei nicals. The scoring: A&M—Cedric Joseph, 28; Mill Floyd, 21; Webb Williams, 21; Dale Donaldson, 12; Jerry Memi, 7; Bill Allen, 3; Ronnie Cornelia, 2, and Lee Billingsley, 2. Rice—Danny Carroll, 18; Taj Moriarty, 16; Paul Scott, 14;Ket. in Adams, 8; Wayne Yakes, S; Paul Inman, 6, and Mike Clay' bum, 5. Owls edge Ag tracksters in first dual meet, 70-6(> Pan American College fell to the Aggie wrestling team 57-0 Saturday, as the A&M squad re mained in the number one spot in the state. In an informal match, Ray Shepherd (167) downed his op ponent with a pin in the second period to begin the match for the Aggies. Glen Burt, lightweight of the team then pinned his oppon ent in the first round. J. P. Jones (126) and Jerry Jeanes (134) both got pins in the AGGIE PLAQUES Plaster Accessories Finished - Unfinished Working Area Free Instructions second period of their matches, while Lance Rutherford (142) de feated his opponent in the only decision match of the day, 4-2. Bob Fitzpatrick (150), Andy Beck (158), Mike Trehan (177) opened the next series, each gain ing pins over their opponents. The next two weight classes were for feited by the Pan American team to give A&M first places in all events. The A&M wrestlers will host a double dual meet with Le Tour- neau and Stephen F. Austin this weekend in G. Rollie White Coli seum. Pioneer launching postponed again CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. OP) — The liftoff of Pioneer 10 toward Jupiter has been postponed again, this time until Wednesday night. The National Aeronautics Ad ministration came within five minutes of launching the explorer rocket Monday night, but a late weather report showed winds of 115 miles per hour 43,000 feet above the launch site. 1 High altitude winds and a pow er failure also forced postpone ment of a planned Sunday night liftoff for Pioneer 10 and its Atlas-Centaur booster rocket. A&M almost did to Rice what Rice did to A&M last spring in the Southwest Conference track meet. Saturday in Houston, A&M and Rice squared off in the first dual outdoor meet of the season. Rice was a solid favorite to take the honors, returning such stellar performers as Ken Stadel, Dave Roberts, Randy Wadley and Darryl Hughes. The Owls did win, but barely, 70-66. The biggest surprise for A&M and the biggest disappointment for Rice was in the high jump. The Owl’s Glenn Ray, who has cleared 6-11 twice this year, cleared only 6-6% for a third place finish. Marvin Taylor won the event with a 6-8% jump and Johnny Mayo took the runner-up spot with a 6-6% jump, but he beat Ray because of fewer misses. Rice took more first places than A&M with a nine-to-Mw margin. The Aggies took to in the 440-yd relay, Edgar Hsr- vey in the 120-yd high hurdla, Doug Brodhead in the 440-yii dash, Taylor in the high jump, Willie Blackmon in the 880, ati the mile relay. Rice’s Ken Stadel and Paul Geis were the only double wie ners in the meet. Stadel tool the shot put (55-11) and discus (181-2 1 /4), while Geis won the mile (4:13.5) and the three-mile | (14:33). Other blue ribbon perform-1 ances for the Owls were from Jim Pearce in the javelin, Mike Cronholm in the 440-yd hurdles, Randy Wadley in the 220, Darryl Hughes in the long jump and| Dave Roberts in the pole vault, The Aggie track team returns I to action this weekend when they participate in the Border Olym- [ pics at Laredo. BARKER PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO 405 University Dr. Phone 846-2828 FINE Wedding Photography AT Reasonable Prices GIFT - A - RAMA Redmond Terrace College Station OUR SPECIALTY 1/5 Carat Eye Clean Diamond For Senior Ring, $40 plus tax C. W. Varner & Sons Jewelers North Gate 846-5816 ALLEN Oldsmobile Cadillac SALES - SERVICE “Where satisfaction is standard equipment” 2401 Texas Ave. 823-8002 NOW OPEN! ADULT LIBRARY CLUB 333 University Drive ADULT ART MOVIES Open 7 Days A Week 3 p. m. Till Midnight Escorted Ladies l /z Price Monday Bring Date or Friend Free. 2 Full Features 16mm Color Sound. Features Change Every Thursday. 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