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Page 6 College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 6, 1973 THE BATTALION A&MPlays SWC Co-Leader Tonight In Dallas Aggies Face SMU In Must Contest By KEVIN COFFEY Assistant Sports Editor A&M’s basketballers, facing elimination from the Southwest Conference basketball race, travel to Dallas tonight to take on SWC co-leader SMU at 8 p.m. in Moody Coliseum. The Aggies record of 3-3 in loop play means that they must derail the Pony Express if they are to entertain any thoughts of the SWC crown. Chances of the eventual champion sporting four losses are indeed slim. The Mustangs are probably the most talent laden team in the conference. They are also most likely the best team in the coun try with a 8-9 record. SMU has reeled off five straight conference wins after dropping their opener to Texas Tech 76-80 in Lubbock. The Mustangs played almost faultless basketball against Texas Saturday in a 82- 75 victory which, coupled with Baylor’s upset of Tech, put SMU and the Red Raiders atop the league standing with 5-1 marks. The Aggies will have to con tend with the finest frontline in the conference in SMU’s Ira Ter rell (6-8), Sammy Hervey (6-7) and Rubin Triplett (6-7). Hervey is the leading scorer of the three, sporting a 25.2 per game norm in SWC action. Ter rell averages 21.6 per contest and Triplett 11.4. Terrell also grabs 15.6 rebounds per contest with Triplett netting 11.0 and Hervey 10.8. SMU was devastating perfec tion against Texas in their vic tory Saturday. The Ponies com mitted only 11 fouls the entire contest, hit 50.7 percent, and out- rebounded the Longhorns 46-43, something the Aggies were un able to do. The Mustangs, who average 90 points per outing, will start Zack Thiel and Rick Billik at guards to round-out the line-up. A&M has captured seven of the last ten contests with SMU, split ting last year’s duo. The Mustangs have returned nine lettermen from last season’s co-championship team including two starters. The SMU depth was bolstered when they signed Hervey out of junior college and gained one of the most sought after freshman in the country in Terrell. A&M proved it can play bas ketball in Moody Coliseum last year when they dropped a 75-71 contest to the Ponies. The Aggies will counter the highscoring Mustangs with Ced ric Joseph, Jeff Overhouse and Randy Knowles on the front line with Mario Brown and Mike Floyd at the guard spots. 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Mario Brown, the 6-3, 185 pound senior floorleader, played perhaps the finest game of the season in scoring a season-high 24 points. His fluid motion, fancy ball and body control, paired with a fine defensive effort kept the fired-up 6,780 fans in awe. More noteworthy is the fact that Brown had severely sprained an ankle the previous Tuesday against Texas Tech and was not scheduled to play. “Mario played an exceptional game,” Coach Shelby Metcalf said following the contest. “He shot much better and more often than he has all season. I wish he’d sprain the other ankle if he plays that well.” Rebounding was another bright spot for the somewhat inconsist ent Aggies. Cedric Joseph grab bed 15 caroms in leading the Ag gies to a SWC game high of 65. “That was the brightest spot of our game,” Metcalf said. “We really pounded those boards and took it to them in that area.” Free throw shooting finally came around to pre - conference form with the Aggies hitting on 28 of 32 for 87.5 per cent. One problem point, however, was shooting from the floor. A&M hit a very poor 32 of 85 shots; many of which were easy layups and short jump shots. Very few games can be won hitting at a 37 per cent norm. The main reason A&M did win by 19 points was that TCU did worse in that department. The Frogs hit only 28 of 79 for 35 per cent. TCU also did poorly on the gratis line in hitting 17 of 28 for 60 per cent. “Overall I thought we played hard, shot poorly and did a super Men’s, Women’s Swim Teams Impressive In Weekend Action By KEVIN COFFEY Impressive showings by A&M’s men’s and women’s teams high lighted this past weekends swim ming action. The men’s team upped its sea son’s record to 3-2 with a 73-40 victory over Arkansas in P. L. Downs Natatorium. Doug Meaden was the only double winner for the Aggies, capturing the 500 yard freestyle in 5:00.7 and the 1,000 yard free style in 10:15.8. The women’s team captured second place at the TCU State Invitational meet held Saturday in Fort Worth. They were spear headed in their efforts by Jean Collins, who won the 50 and 100 yard backstroke. Collins swam a leg of the first place 200 yard freestyle relay. The men’s team beat Arkansas using their superior depth to cap ture six first places and nine seconds in the 13 events. Other winner besides Meaden included Carl Yates in the 200 yard freestyle in 1:50.6, Steve Moore, 200 Individual Medley (2:04.8), Lester Hamann in the 200 yard butterfly (2:08.7) and Steve Prentice in the 200 yard backstroke (2:03.2). Other winners besides Meaden included a pair of second places by Casey Cutler in the 500 and 1,000 yard freestyle and two sec ond places by Duncan Cooper in the diving events. A&M also won the 400 yard freestyle relay. Coach Dennis Fosdick said he was pleased with the results and the progress of the swim team. “We’re really coming along,” said Fosdick, “Everybody did times that were better than we expect ed. We were really up for the Arkansas meet.” The women’s second place fin ish was a feat for a team that has only been in existence two years. A&M women’s relay team of Shawn Boehmer, Pat Wilkinson, Marth Puckett and Collins won the 200 freestyle relay to bring the total number of A&M’s wom en’s team victory to three. Other finalists for the women in the eight team meet included Terry Chamberlin and Sandy Berg. The next action for the men’s team is this coming weekend against Rice and John . Brown University in Houston. The wom en don’t see action again until Feb. 22. ROTARY COMMUNITY SERIES AND TAMU TOWN HALL Present The National Shakespeare Company in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1973 — 8:00 P. M. Bryan Civic Auditorium A&M Student and Date $2.00 each Patrons $3.00 Tickets & Information — MSC Student Program Office 845-4671 FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED Watch & Jewelry Repair Engraving Diamonds Set In Senior Rings Seiko & Bulova Watches Embrey’s Jewelry “The Friendly Store” North Gate 846-5816 job on the boards,” Metcalf said. “We have to go inside to win games and we finally did a good job of that in the second half. “You can’t discount TCU. They are going to beat some people before the season’s over. They’ve really improved since the season began. I wish we’d already played in Fort Worth. “I was really proud of the stu dent body tonight also. I didn’t really think very many would be out since we lost two in a row but they got out and supported us. I’m real thankful of the stu dent body we have here.” Both teams had five players scoring double figures with Brown leading both with 24. Randy Knowles had 15, Jeff Overhouse with 12, Mike Floyd 11 and Jo seph with 10. Three freshman led the way for the Frogs with Lynn Royal scoring 16, Wayne Wayman 14 and Gary Landers 12. Sophomores Jeff Wright and Eddy Fitzhugh had 11 and 10 points respectively. 6-11 Bill Bozeat, who was thrown out of the contest after taking a swing at Bob Gobin, led TCU with 15 rebounds. TCU led only once, 14-11, with 13:00 left in the first half, but from then on it was all A&M. The Aggies jumped out 6-0 be fore TCU scored and fought back to its lead. With 11:58 remaining in that opening stanza, A&M took the lead 15-14 and never relin quished it while driving to a 15- point advantage, 33-18, with 5:46 left. A&M lost some momentum near the end and finished that half with a 10-point lead, 47-37. TCU never had a chance in the final half as A&M blistered the boards, but still shooting poorly drove to its final 19-point game ending lead. The Aggies travel to Dallas to- night for an 8 p.m. contest against conference co-leader SMU. SWC Standings W L Pet. W L Pet. Texas Tech 5 1 .833 12 6 .666 SMU 5 1 .833 8 9 .470 Arkansas 4 2 .666 11 7 .611 Baylor 4 2 .666 10 7 .588 Texas A&M 3 3 .500 11 7 .611 Rice 2 4 .333 7 10 .411 Texas 1 5 .200 7 10 .411 TCU 0 6 .000 2 15 .117 x-Houston 15 2 .822 x-Not competing for SWC title. Last Week’s Results Tuesday—SMU 100, Arkansas 94, Baylor 82, TCU 76. Texas 88, Rice 73, Texas Tech 68, Texas A&M 67. Thursday—Houston 89, Cente nary 85. Saturday—Arkansas 90, Rice 69, Baylor 66, Texas Tech 57, SMU 82, Texas 75, Texas A&M 92, TCU 73, Houston 90, Cincin nati 85. This Week’s Schedule Tuesday—Arkansas at Texas Tech 7:30 p.m., Baylor at Rice 8 p.m., Texas A&M at SMU 8 p.m., Texas at TCU 7:30 p.m. Thursday—Houston Baptist at Houston 8 p.m. Saturday—Arkansas at Texas A&M 2:30 p.m. (TV), Baylor at Texas 7:30 p.m., Southwestern Louisiana at Houston 12:30 p.m. (TV), Rice at TCU 7:30 p.m., Texas Tech at SMU 8 p.m. TODD CHRISTOPHER Has Joined Arthur Chrysler - Plymouth. 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