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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
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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.
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