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Page 4 College Station, Texas Tuesday, February 13, 1973 807 Texas Ave. WEDNESDAY NIGHT LOUISIANA CAJUN SPECIAL ALL YOU CAN EAT! BOILED SHRIMP Served family style with tossed salad and fried potatoes. ONLY $325 THE BATTALI! Randy Knowles Hits 42 Red-Hot Aggies Incinerate Arkansas, 108-81 By KEVIN COFFEY When you’re hot you’re hot and the Texas Aggies were on fire as they blew Arkansas out of G. Rol- lie White Coliseum Saturday afternoon, 108-82. No one could remember a finer performance by an Aggie basket ball team and the 5,154 fans and regional television audience saw just how this year’s club is capa ble of playing. The entire game could not have been much different if coach Shelby Metcalf had written the script himself. At points it seemed like A&M could do no wrong as shots kept falling in, BUSIER-JONES AGENCY HOME MORTGAGES INSURANCE FARM & HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: NeVada, Mo. 3523 Texas Ave. (in Ridgecrest) 846-3708 CANTERBURY ASSOCIATION Each Tuesday, 5:30 p. m. 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Coupon will be honored at the advance ticket window at the Astrodome®, at all five Foley’s or on the night of the performance at the Astrodome® February 27, 1973 • 7:45 p.m. • Astrodome The Houston Post We Get There First And Stay All Day 1 I I I I I I I I I I (Additional coupons available at The Houston Post) rebounds bounced into awaiting Aggies’ arms and Aggie after Aggie found himself open on fast break opportunities. Individual stars were too nu merous to mention but consider these performances: • Randy Knowles, shooting from what seemed like the third row of the bleachers, hit 20 of 30 shots and 2 of 3 charity tosses for 42 points. His 20 field goals repre sent an A&M record in that cate gory and his 42 tallies is the most ever scored by an Aggie player in G. Rollie White. He also led both teams in rebounding with 18. • Mario Brown, who controlled the game like he invented it, scored 20 points while tossing eight assists and helped lead a devastating A&M fast break. • Mike Floyd, who helped Brown control the game and lead the fast break, scored 12 points, tossed five assists and picked up four rebounds and numerous loose balls. • Jerry Mercer, who started the game in place of Cedric Joseph, held Arkansas’ inside threat of Dean Tolson to eight first-half points, and just 11 for the game and totally frustrated the Arkan sas big boy tying him up at every opportunity. Mercer also contrib uted six points. • Jeff Overhouse hit 16 points while gathering in 15 rebounds and tossing four assists. The rebounding of Mercer, Overhouse and Knowles, and later Joseph’s started the fast break that Arkansas just couldn’t han dle. A&M got the ball off the boards and down the court to set up three-on-two and four-on-two drives to the basket throughout the game. Even though A&M scored its season high total in the game, it was the tight defense, coupled with the fast break, that broke the game wide open. A&M started defending the tal- A&M Places First Overall In Regional Games Tourney A&M teams in chess, bridge, Ponzio won first individual hon- billiards, bowling and table tennis took first place overall among 20 colleges and universities at the Association of College Unions- International Region XII games tournament. Chess players Carl Childress and Steve Hobart and bowlers Bernie Ponzio, Larry Galvin and Doug Ocker shared or won out right regional championships. TAMU scored 84 points to lead all institutions, from Texas, Ar kansas and Louisiana. The Uni versity of Houston was second with 83 and West Texas State, the host university, scored 70 overall. Dr. Dennis Driscoll, chief ad visor to the Memorial Student Center Recreation Committee, la belled it a major accomplishment. “We have been winning in men’s bowling and chess several years,” he noted, “but winning first over all at Canyon was a major ac complishment. Our people con tributed exceptional effort to win the award, especially the newer groups such as table tennis, bridge, billiards and the women’s teams.” In women’s bowling, the TAMU team of Ponzio, Carole Bauer, Sheila Murphy, Lisa Macias and Cindy Rosenbaum placed fourth. Have Trouble Making- Decisions ? To Overcome This Come To The STEAK HOUSE 7:30 p. m. Tonite A -L L.E N Oldsmobile Cadillac SALES - SERVICE “Where satisfaction is standard equipment” 2401 Texas Ave. 823-8002 ors and paired with Bauer for fourth in doubles. Galvin was the top individual scorer in men’s bowling. He and Ocker were also the ACUI region doubles champion. The TAMU team of Galvin, Ocker, Mike Ste wart, Bill Kettler and Galvan Tomoka placed seventh. Childress and Hobart tied for first in team chess standings. In third place for teams was David Lewis and James Bell of A&M. Childress and Lewis tied for third in individual standings. TAMU’s women’s bridge team of Sherry Hinds and K. M. A. Rahman placed third. Alan Fin- kelstein and James Cermin were seventh. Deb Arcement took sixth and Tom Wilson seventh in billiards. The men’s table tennis team of Timothy Choy and James Zum- walt placed fourth and Betty Goode was seventh in the wom en’s individual standings. TAMU teams were arranged through competitions set up by the MSC Recreation Committee, chaired by James K. Goode. ented Hog duo of Tolson and Mar tin Terry with a zone and switched from man-to-man and back to the zone throughout the contest. Mario Brown ball hawked Terry all over the court and held the frustrated scoreless for the first nine minutes of the game. Arkansas led in the game only twice, at 0-1 and 2-3 but found themselves down by 10 with less than five minutes gone off the scoreboard clock. Knowles once dribbled between his defenders legs and laid it in- Floyd tossed it over his head on a drive and it fell in. Overhouse’s sweeping hook found the mark and Bob Gobin hit a 21-footer at the buzzer to put the rallying Ags up 51-31 at intermission. The Aggies defense held Terry to just six points in the opening stanza and forced Arkansas into 10 turnovers. The Razorbacks cut the lead to 15 early in the second half as Terry began to find the range on short jumpers but the Aggies offense found high gear again as Brown and Floyd broke the Arkansas press and the game wide open. A&M led by 21 with 16:11 re maining and stretched it to 28 with 7:55 left, mainly on Knowles cashing in on some good passes. Webb Williams put the Ags over the century mark with a pair of charity tosses with 2:35 remain ing and the score 100-78. Knowles left the game with 1:10 remaining and 38 points to his credit but Metcalf returned his sharpshooting forward to the line-up so he could break the rec ord. Knowles promptly respond ed with two lay-ups on passes from Mercer and Williams for the last points of the ball game. Knowles’ performance was par ticularly gratifying as his father made the trip from Geneva, Ohio to watch the game. All-in-all, the Aggies hit 49 of 87 for a blistering 56.3 per cent and a school record for field goals and cashed in on 10 of 14 free shots for 71.4 per cent. Arkansas could find the range on only 28 of 73 against the tough A&M defense for 38.3 per cent but the Hogs got 20 more free shots than the Aggies and cashed in on 26 of 34 for 76.5 per cent. Needless to say, Aggies mentor Shelby Metcalf was pleased with the effort of his Aggies, especial ly since they are out of conten tion in the SWC title race. “Everything was just going well for us,” Metcalf said. “We were just hot. “That was the best I’ve ever seen an A&M team play aii| have to give a lot of crs Mercer because he didn’t ltt| son intimidate him.” Metcalf had nothing but j for the play of Brown aadi) as well as Knowles. “Mikeiil ting better every game andlj just played a great ball; This is the first time wi| won on TV since Mario haj here and I am glad thei got to see what kind ofi outstanding player he is, b| Knowles, he is the type ba|j you love to have. He is: and dedicated to the gam I The Aggies face a tougtJ on the road as they tm| Waco tonight to meetBayH Austin on Saturday to m«t!| as in another televised Bulletin Board TUESDAY Society of Automotive Engi neers will meet in Room 203 of the Zachry Engineering Center at 7:30 p.m. to hear Frank Rob inson give a talk on a new con cept in aircraft design. Rio Grande Valley Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 in the Birch Room of the Memorial Stu dent Center. American Society of Agricul tural Engineers will hear a talk by John Sweeten in the Lecture Room of the Agricultural Engi neering Building at 7:30 p.m. A&M Dairy Science Club will meet in Room 112 of Keep Hall at 7:30 p.m. Freshman Class Council will have a mandatory meeting at 7:30 p.m. in Room 305 of the Physics Building. Bio-Medical Science Club will meet in the Social Room of the Memorial Student Center at 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY A&M Sailing Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 107 of the Military Science Building to see a film. Computer Science Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the home of Mrs. Robert Haldeman, 1502 Dominec St. MSC Bridge Committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Me morial Student Center. El Paso Hometown Club will meet in Lounge B of the Corps area at 7:30 p.m. Dewitt-Lavaca County Home town Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 203 of the Academic Building. Management Society will hear a speaker at 7:30 p.m. in Room 202 of Francis Hall. A&M Sports Car Club will see a film on Le Mans at 7:30 p.m. in the Mimosa Room of the old City Hall, 101 Church Ave. Do You Put Things I Be At The STEAK HOUSE Tonite At 7:30p.m,I Study in Guadalajara,! Fully accredltad, 20-yiiitllll SITY OF ARIZONA Summer School offirsJulyl 11, anthropoloiy, art, folklore, geography, hlitoryi eminent, languafa and Tuition $1(5; board androoifi Write: International PropMu varsity of Arizona, Tucson! 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