Page 4 College Station, Texas Tuesday, December 5, 1972 THE BATTALION Ags Take UTA, Angelo State Joseph, Knowles Lead Aggi Y ictories Following the rebounding and scoring of Randy Knowles and Cedric Joseph, The Texas Aggies ran their record to a perfect 3-0 by beating UTA and Angelo State 88-84 and 90-81 respec tively. Knowles collected 27 points Friday against UTA and man aged to haul down nine rebounds while Joseph led the scoring as sault on Angelo State with 19 points and collected a school rec ord 23 rebounds. Knowles man aged to contribute 18 points to the A&M cause. In Friday night’s gamfe with UTA, the Aggies blew a first half lead of 15 points, 25-10, with 11:28 remaining while hold ing the Mavericks to only two points in the first five minutes of action. With 4:22 left in the opening stanza, UTA rallied to within two of the Aggies 36-34, while A&M suffered a shooting and turnover slump as the half ended with A&M on top, 45-40. Keeping the Mavericks in the contest was the shooting of their two big inside performers, Larry Moore and Perry Littleton, each scoring 11 points in first half action. For A&M, it was. it’s tremend ous height and rebounding ad vantage with Randy Knowles leading the way with nine ca roms while Cedric Joseph and Jerry Mercer pulled down six each. In the second half, as in the first, A&M built up sizeable leads only to let it slip away to the never-give-up visitors. The Aggies built up a 49-40 lead early as UTA pulled up within one, 49-48, with less than five minutes gone. It was Knowles’ fanatical play in the middle of that final half IMPORTED 3 & 10 SPEED BIKES Sales - Service - Accessories PRE-CHRISTMAS Reduction On 10-Speed English Dawes Galaxy. CENTRAL SUPPLY 715 S. Main Bryan 822-2228 Closed Mon. VISIT us ... . We Know About Budgets So Check Our Prices And Our Quality On Christinas Trees Premium cut trees and living trees to plant after Christmas. 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UTA had its final chance to pull the game out with 3:59 left, gaining a tie, 77-77, but A&M’s nine straight points in the next two minutes put out any flame the Mavericks had flickering as the Aggies coasted in for the 88- 84 triumph. Knowles finished the game leading in both points, 27, and rebounds, 14, for both clubs. Big gun for UTA was Moore hitting for 24 points and grabbing 11 re bounds before fouling out late in the game. Six players, three on each team, were fouled out as 49 fouls were called. Three A&M inside men, Jeff Overhouse, Jerry Mer cer and Joseph, fouled out while UTA lost two inside men, Little ton and Moore, as well as top scoring guard Ronnie Marsh. Viewing the game was the largest crowd ever to see a non conference game at A&M with almost 5,000 fans on hand. Spir it and enthusiasm played an im mense portion in the game, coach Shelby Metcalf felt. “I felt we improved,” Metcalf said of his team after its second victorious encounter. “The press hurt us late in the first half be cause we are not in good enough physical shape yet to keep pres sure on the other team. “I was impressed the way neither team gave up. Both played hard the entire game and by the look on the players faces, you couldn’t tell who was ahead. “I was real proud of Randy Knowles’ courage in the game. He fought hard all the way and was our driving force. I thought this UTA team was much better than the team that beat us here two years ago.” Monday night Metcalf didn’t have quite so much to be happy about. The Aggies were any thing but impressive and except for the inspired play of Joseph, the hustling Angelo State Rams might have handed the Aggies their first loss of the season. The Aggies had good balance in scoring against Angelo with all five starters scoring in ble figures. Besides Joseph’s 19 Knowle’s 18, Chuck Tone Jeff Overhouse collected 14 with Mario Brown adding 12. A&M jumped to a 10-4 lead on the shooting of Knowles, but the Rams closed the gap to 24- 22 with 8:35 remaining in the first half. The half ended with the Ag gies leading 38-37 as Angelo used the sharp shooting of Char lie Williams to keep the game tight. Williams totaled 12 points in the half and contributed 19 points to the Ram cause. At the start of the second half, Joseph took things into his own hands and threw in 6 straight points as the Aggies managed to stretch their lead to 50-44. Joseph scored again and shuf fled a pass to Wayne Howard for a score, and A&M threatened to break the game open leading 62-48 with 11:00 left in the ball game. Joseph totally dominated the boards and Howard played his finest game of the season as the Aggies held off the constant Ram attack led by Robert Black. Black forced the Aggies into numerous turnovers with his ball hawking defense and contributed 11 points to bring Angelo to within five points at 78-73 with just 2:49 remaining to be played. Joseph hit on a three point play and another tip shot to keep the Rams at bay and the Aggies had their third win of the season. The Aggies next action will be Wednesday night when they travel to Tulsa, Okla., to com pete in a doubleheader honoring Hank Iba against Oklahoma State. dou- and and Randy Knowles avoids two UTA defenders on way to two of the 27 points he scored Friday night. The Aggies won the contest with UTA and defeated Angelo State last night in G. Rollie White Coliseum to run their record to 3-0 on the season. (Photo by Mike Rice) Two Aggie Defenders Named To All-SWC Academic Team Two more members of A&M defensive unit were singled out Saturday being named first team on the All-Southwest Conference Academic team. Seniors Kent Finley, lineback er, and Max Bird, defensive end, were named to the 1972 team. Aggies named honorable men tion were sophomore quarterback Don Dean and defensive safeties A1 Thurmond and Larry Ellis. Finley posted a 3.4 grade-point average in physical education while Bird had a 2.8 in science. Leading the conference was Tech receiver Jeff Jobe with a perfect 4.0 average in land man agement and Texas Longhorn safety Tommy Keel with a 3.88 in mathematics. Other top scholar-athletes on the 1972 team include SMU line backer Cleve Whitener, who boasts a 3.8 average in electrical engineering; SMU safety Andy Duvall, 3.75 in pre-law and busi ness; TCU center Scott Walker, 3.7 in accounting; SMU wide re ceiver Rufus Shaw, 3.7 in inter national public relations; Texas wide receiver Pat Kelly, 3.5 in business; and SMU All-America safety Robert Popelka, 3.5 in management and finance. All grade-point averages are for the last full school year at the Southwest Conference school the student-athletes are now at tending. No grades transferred from other institutions are ac cepted and the athletes must complete one full year at their SWC school before they’re eli gible for consideration on the team. SMU paced the 25-man squad (13 defense, 12 offense) with six first-team selections, followed by Texas and TCU with four each and Baylor with three. Rice, Ark ansas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech each claimed two first-team spots. 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