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Page 6 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, FEiBRUARY 26, 1974 Takin’ it easy- Let me show you the value differences in diamonds. You should know what you are buying. Sleeping fan (right) is caught while waiting in line outside G, Rollie White for Saturday’s A&M-UT cage contest. Below, John Thornton and Jerry Mercer join the ‘Horns Dan Krueger while resting during the game. (Photos by Kathy Young and Rodger Mallison) Carl Bussells “iamond Room (713) 846-4708 Town &. Country Center 3731 E. 29th Bryan, Texas 77801 SHARE THE RIDE WITH US THIS WEEKEND AND GET ON TO A GOOD THING Us means Greyhound, and a lot of your fellow students who are already on to a good thing. You leave when you like. Travel comfortably. Arrive refreshed and on time. You’ll save money, too, over the increased standby air fares. Share the ride with us on weekends. Holidays. Anytime. Go Greyhound. Larrabee leads UT rally Fem roundballers in prelim tonight GREYHOUND SERVICE ONE ROUND- YOU CAN YOU TO WAY TRIP LEAVE ARRIVE Dallas $8.11 $15.41 2:55 p.m. 8:20 p.m. Houston $4.44 $ 8.44 12:45 p.m. 2:55 p.m. Waco $4.49 $ 8.53 2:55 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Fort Worth $8.11 $15.41 2:55 p.m. 7:55 p.m. Port Arthur $9.18 $17.44 12:45 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Buses leave from U-Tote’M store across from campus main gate. Greyhound Terminal 1300 Texas Ave., Bryan 823-8071 JW Greyhound A change for the better By KEVIN COFFEY Sports Editor Give a basketball to Harry Lar rabee against the Texas Aggies and he seems to go wild. It was no different Saturday night. Larrabee, averaging only 13 points a game, poured in a sea son’s high 26 to lead the Texas Longhorns past A&M 88-81. Larry Robinson was his usual all-conference self, hitting 34 points and grabbing 12 rebounds as the Longhorns held on to a share of the SWC top spot with Texas Tech. A&M led by 15 in the first half, 44-29 with 4:19 left. However, they failed to hit another field goal before intermission and Rob inson, Larrabee and Ed Johnson shot Texas back within range. Larrabee hit a 50 footer at the buzzer t cut the A&M lead to 46- buzzer to cut the A&M lead to 46- 42. Longhorn coach Leon Black ad mitted Larrabee’s bucket “provid ed some motivation” for the second half. Just like during their first en counter of the year, A&M’s zone defense was forcing Texas to take outside shots. And just like that first game, Texas hit the bombs with amazing regularity. The Longhorns hit 50.6 per cent of their shots. A&M hit 40. In Texas’ 98-90 win in Austin the Larrabee-Robinson duo was joined by Dan Krueger. Saturday night the UT seniors let Fresh man Ed Johnson in on the act. Texas tied the game at 50-50 much to the dismay of a G. Rollie White Coliseum record crowd of 8,241. Ray Roberts hit five quick points for A&M but Robinson again added five for Texas. Randy Knowles tipped in four points but Larrabee hit two bombs. Thorn ton hit four more to keep A&M just two back 79-77 with 1:42 re maining. Robinson and Roberts again traded buckets but UT’s Johnson hit a three point play to put Tex as on top 84-79. Texas outrebounded the Ags 48- 45. Johnson and Robinson each had 12 while Krueger grabbed 11. Knowles led A&M with 21 points and 13 rebounds. Thornton tallied 16 and Joseph 14. Mike Johnson hit 13, 11 in the first half. Roberts added nine. A&M coach Shelby Metcalf gave full credit to Larrabee for the big UT win. “Larrabee is the smart est player in the conference,” said the dejected Aggie mentor. “He’s an all-American from the should ers up.” Black, who earlier in the season was fighting for his job is now fighting for the conference cham pionship. “You don’t find it any tougher than it was out there tonight,” said Black “You have to play very well to win in College Station and when you do, it has to build your confidence.” Black is not the only coach who has found it hard to win in front of the Aggie home folks. UT’s win broke a 15 game winning streak in G. Rollie. Tonight the Aggies face Baylor here at 7:30. Girls* prelim set TAMU’s girls will play their second home game of the season as a prelim to the men’s game. Tipoff is set for 5:15 with Prairie View A&M providing the opposi tion. This is the first season of girls’ roundball at A&M. KENTUCKY CENTRAL HAS THE PLAN University Key Division C.S. 846-8701 The Texas Aggies bashed out 46 hits and scored 45 runs as they opened baseball action with a four game sweep of Louisiana Tech. A&M blasted the Bulldogs 14- 0, 14-2, 7-1 and rallied from be hind for a 10-9 win in the first weekend series of the year. Today the Ags face St. Mary’s on Kyle Field at 1 p.m. in another doubleheader. This is the last ac tion before Southwest Conference play opens with Baylor here Fri day. A&M’s first action was a pleas ant surprise to coach Tom Chand ler. “We were very aggressive at the plate and our pitching only broke down in one game,” Chand ler said. “We are going to have to improve defensively. We had some impressive pitching per- formances for this early in the year but it is still a question mark.” Clint Thomas, Jackie Binks, Jeff Scheumack and Perry Arth ur all notched wins with Jim Wal lace, David Lockette and Jimmy Juhl turning in impressive relief performances. The designated hitter rule came to the aid of the Aggies. Sandy Bate filled the position well, with five hits and eight RBI’s in Sat urday’s doubleheader. Mike Schraeder and John Woods had big days at the bats for the Aggies. Schraeder had two hits counting for five runs Friday and tallied four RBI’s Sat urday. Woods also hit a homer while collecting four RBI’s for the weekends work. Jim Hacker, Mike Frazier and Paul Miller had productive days at the plate as the Ags ran their team batting average to an amaz ing .392. Tech coach Pat Patterson said the Ags were one of the finest hitting he’s seen in his baseball career. Thomas threw four innings of shutout ball and teamed with Lockette in tossing a six hit shut out. Arthur battled a case of the flu while throwing four innings of shutout ball. Binks performance was marred only by a brief stretch of wildness where Tech scored its only run. Exciting new Starfire styles mastercrafted in 14K white or natural gold. 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