Suffer first conference loss
Page 6 THE BATTALI
TUESDAY, FEBRUARYII
Arkansas outlasts Aggies in double overtim
By TONY GALLUCCI
Staff Sports Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The
Aggies went to the hills, Saturday,
and met up with an avalanche. An
avalanche of shots, that is from a
hot-shooting Arkansas team who
squeezed by the Ags 95-89 after two
overtimes.
The Hogs apparently had scouted
the Ags well for they had little trou
ble with the normally devastating
Aggie press. According to Arkansas
Coach Eddie Sutton, “This was the
best game we Ver played all year. It
was not for the Aggies as they were
outrebounded 41-26.
The Razorbacks were in the driv
ers seat most of the way as they took
A&M’s strong defense to ’em. The
Hogs jumped to a 4-0 advantage be
fore the Ags found the backboards.
They led by four until 8-4 when the
Ags began a run that would put
them up by as much as seven points
at 20-13 midway through the first
half. Arkansas then called timeout
and began to beat their way back to
the lead. The game seesawed for
several minutes. Arkansas took a
Barry Davis (12) and Jerry Mercer go for the tip-in against Arkansas.
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three point lead when Ricky Med-
lock hit an 18-footer and widened
that lead to five points which they
held at halftime 37-32. A&M never
led after that. The Hogs took the
wheel again after the half and
quickly jumped out to a nine point
lead, the biggest of the afternoon.
The lead ranged from 4 to 9 for
the next 12 minutes as the Ags tried
to fight back. The Ags hit on 13 of 15
free throws to the Razorbacks four of
six during the regular second
period. But the difference was in
the field goals as the Hogs hit on 10
of 12 during the 12 minute period
for an 83% reading to the Ags 32 per
cent reading for the same period.
The Razorbacks finished the regular
second half hitting 70 per cent.
The overtimes hurt. Barry Davis
first tied the game in the second half
when Barry Davis stole the ball and
went in for a layup. The final tie of
the regular game period came with
40 seconds left when Ray Roberts
connected on an eight-foot jump
shot. Arkansas called time out. The
Hogs worked for the last shot.
Robert Birden missed from 14 feet
with seven seconds left. A&M re
bounded and Thornton missed a
long shot at the buzzer. It looked
like all Arkansas to start the first
overtime, as the Porkers jumped
out to a four point lead and held on
until 36 seconds left when Ray
Roberts layed one in. On the in
bounds pass, Charles Terry over
threw Medlock and the Ags re
gained the ball. Mike Floyd with a
driving layup showed form of two
years ago before he was injured.
That sent the game into a second
overtime. Birden again missed the
winner as his pressure shot at the
buzzer bounced off the rim.
Arkansas owned the second over
time outright as Kent Allison hit off
the tip to put the Hogs up 83-81.
From there on all the Razorbacks
did was go to the free throw line.
The Hogs hit 12 for 12 in the final
period to the Ags two free throws
and three field goals to give the final
six point margin.
The Ags outrebounded the Hogs
36-34 but Arkansas took it’s toll at
the line hitting 27 charity tosses to
the Ags 17.
Leading scorers for the Ags were
Roberts with 20, Floyd with 18
Sonny Parker with 17, and Davis
with 15. Leading rebounders were
SWC STANDINGS
Conference
All Games
w
L
Pet.
w
L
Pet.
Texas A&M
5
1
.833
13
5
.722
Arkansas
5
1
,833
11
7
.611
Texas Tech
4
2
.600
11
7
.611
Baylor
3
3
.500
7
11
.392
SMU
3
3
.500
7
11
.392
TCU
2
4
.240
7
10
.411
Texas
1
5
.166
5
12
.294
Rice
1
5
.166
4
13
.235
X-Houston 0 0 . 000
X-Not competing for SWC title
10
9
.529
LAST WEEK'S RESULTS
Tuesday — Arkansas 56, Texas 52, Texas 72,
Baylor 61, Rice 88, TCU 67, Texas A&M 102, SMU
77.
Wednesday — Houston 113, Texas Lutheran 93.
Saturday — Arkansas 95, Texas A&M 89, (2 OT)
Texas 63, Baylor 62, Texas Tech 80, Rice 66, SMU 88,
TCU 67, Cincinnati 103, Houston 83.
THIS WEEK S SCHEDULE
Monday — Houston at Biscayne.
Tuesday — Arkansas at TCU, Baylor at Texas
A&M, Rice at Texas, SMU at Texas Tech.
Saturday — Arkansas at Texas A&M, Baylor at
Texas, Southern Mississippi at Houston, Rice at Texas
Tech, SMU at TCU 2 p.m. (TV).
Thornton with 5 and Davis with 4. play. For the season the Ags drop- The Ags will host BaylorTu
For Arkansas Birden had 22, Alii- ped to 13-5 and The Hogs raised evening followed by a rematch#’
son 21, and Medlock and Schulte their record to 11-7. Arkansas here on Saturday,
with 18 each. Top rebounders were
Terry and Daryl Saulsbry with 9
each.
The Ags dropped to 5-1 and a
share of the conference lead with
Arkansas also 5-1 in conference
Sport’s programs
ruining America
By ROBERT CESSNA
Staff Sports Writer
For Tim Gray, James Daniels,
John McCrumbly, Ricky Seeker,
Randy Haddox, and Warren Trahan
the dream is finally about to be real
ized.
They have a good chance to be
come graduates of the game known
as the American sports system.,
Every male plays
it and their
chance of win
ning is 1 in 50,-
000. If the prob
ability is so low
why do so many
play?
If you’re born
a male in the Uni
ted States you are
cursed to play the
game. Whey you’re bom your fa
ther sees in you everything that
didn’t happen to him. He goes out
and buys you a football, baseball bat
and basketball. He pictures you as
an All-American candidate, star of
high school, then college and finally
the big apple — the pros. It’s unfor
tunate the American system must
prevail.
Your first taste at competition is
pee-wee leagues or little league. To
be a hero at this level is not hard and
you have been indoctrinated into
something that will probably end
bad. The damage is hard to esti
mate. It’s all psychological and not
many talk about it.
People never ask you in little
league, “Did you have a nice game
Johnny and enjoy yourself? But the
questions go like this: “Did you
win? You didn’t! It must have been
your fault. Did you get any hits?
What, you made two errors to let
the other team win? I told your mo
ther that you would never be able to
play ball!
Fortunately many males drop out
at this stage and luckily so. It gets
worse, if you goon, not better. But
for the ones that show enough
promise they plunge on. The next
stop is high school. If you’re a star
here it’s great. All the girls in the
school know you, the teachers give
you a break now and then and a
smart girl can do your homework.
But your coach is a tyrant. He
hopes to go on and coach at the
college level, he h;is to win. The
community wants to win, they say,
“Johnny blew that game for us.
That might cost us state. I knew
Coach Smith shouldn’t have started
John.” Your parents can’t afford to
send you to college and you know an
athletic scholarship is the only way.
Most of us flunk out at the high
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school level. If we’re lucky web
some smarts and go to college
find a place in this great society,
the ones that relied on high sc
sports to make it and cannot go
college, well it can be sad.
Then comes college. It sep
the men from the Ixws. If you
make it here the pros is the
step on the spiral staircase- As
at fame and fortune. If you can
make it here you may be able
adjust, at least you have that
saying you re educated.
If you fit one of the categories
hove, which flunked out, dont’
bad, you II always have: Mo"
night football, summer softU
leagues, bowling, golf and a hostol
other sports where we can giveit
one last fling.
The class of 1975 is about togral
uate . . . Tim, James, John, Hick
Randy and Warren have a chance*
make it big . . . the 299,994 ufiis
who started out with them ttisl
them luck-
While I write this l can’t helpboi
remember George. George was
Mister Everything in high school.
But when he went the college,)*
was just an average player. George
flunked out his first year. Three
months later he was killed in Viet:
nam . . . damn the system.
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