PHIL BENNETT
MARK DENNARD
JIMMY KOCUREK
Aggie notes.
The Texas A&M men’s basketball team faces a
very tough two game stretch in the next six days.
The Aggies play at Texas Tech Saturday and return
home to face league-leading Texas Monday.
Texas is 4-0 in conference play and 12-2 for the
season with a home game against Rice Tuesday
before visiting A&M. The Longhorns will likely be
rated high in the Top Twenty when they come to
G. Rollie White Coliseum for a 7:30 p.m. game.
Probable starters for Texas will be 6-1 junior John
Moore, 6-1 junior Jim Krivacs, 6-4 sophomore
Ron Baxter, 6-7 junior Tyrone Branyan and 6-7
senior Gary Goodner.
Aggie coach Shelby Metcalf has been shuffling
his starting lineup in an effort to find the right
combination and may have found it in the second
half against SMU. The Aggies trailed by 12 at the
half, but shot 63 percent in the second half to pull
out the victory. The Aggies will probably go with a
starting five of 5-11 Dave Goff (5.2), 6-4 Karl
Godine (10.1), 6-6 Jarvis Williams (9.5), 6-7 Willie
Foreman (13.5), and either 6-5 Rynn Wright (4.8)
or 6-7 Vernon Smith (15.5).
After a heart-breaking loss to the University of
Houston, 63-62, the Texas A&M women’s baslcet-
ball team takes on tough Stephen F. Austin in
Nacogdoches Tuesday and returns home to face
Southwest Texas Thursday before paying a visit to
Texas Tech Saturday and hosting Texas Monday.
Coach Wanda Bender’s crew is now 9-6 for the
season. Pat Werner continues to lead the team in
scoring with a 10.9 average, but sophomore Von
Bunn at 9.1 and junior Sherry Christian at 8.3
have been playing very well lately.
The Southwest Texas game will be at 7 p.m.
with the Texas Tech game at 5 p.m. in Lubbock
and the Texas game at 5:15 p.m. at G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
Coach Emory Bellard has recommended 54
players for varsity letter awards for the 1977 sea
son and that list includes only 10 seniors. Meaning
that the Aggies will return 44 lettermen from last
fall’s 8-3 squad.
The 10 departing lettermen include quarterback
David Walker, center Mark Dennard and tackle
Frank Myers from the offense; epd Phil Bennett,,
tackle Steve Spitzenberger, IineDackers Kevin
Monk and Jimmy Kocurek, cornerbacks Mike
Williams and Wadine Miles and safety Ralph Bar
rett from the defense.
The Texas A&M men’s swimming team will
compete against UT-Arlington and Iowa in a trian
gular meet in Arlington Friday at 7 p.m.
The men’s and women’s teams both finished
third in the University of Texas All-America In
vitational in Austin last weekend. It was the first
competition of the season for both teams.
For the men, Bob Leland recorded national
level times in the breaststroke events and swam
well in the freestyle and medley events. Shawn
O’Gorman performed well in the medley and
backstroke while Roger Lien had good early times
in the 200 and 500 freestyle. Chuck Burr, Ed
Kahil and Hugo Cuenca placed in the butterfly,
and Tom Ingram and Paul Linck had personal
best times in their events.
The defending state women’s team performed
extremely well for the opening meet. The 400
freestyle relay team of Shirley Hill, Cheryl
Houghton, Jennie Hicks and Debbie Starr qual
ified for the AIAW Nationals. Hill set an A&M
record in the 1650 freestyle with 18:09. Starr had
personal bests in the 100, 200, 500, and 1650
freestyle as well as the 200 and 400 individual
medley. Cindy Hallaran had best times in the 100
and 200 breaststroke.
The next meet for the women will be against
Rice at A&M Jan. 27.
The Texas A&M women’s gymnastics team
opens its spring season this weekend with a pair of
meets. The Aggies will be in Stillwater, Okla.,
Friday for the Oklahoma Invitational and in Tulsa
Saturday for the Oral Roberts Invitational.
Competing in the Friday meet are Oklahoma
State, Washburn, and New Mexico. Oral Roberts
and Washburn join A&M in the Saturday competi
tion.
Coach Jan Fambro will have five entries in
Class I and one in Class II. The Class I competi
tors are Tina Martin, Kathy Pruett, Patti Sloat,
Tanya Hrabal and Laura Shelfer. Cindy Gremill-
ion will compete in Class II.
The team went through three fall meets unde
feated with Sloat going unbeaten in Class I all-
around and Gremillion unbeaten in Class II.
The Texas A&M men’s track-team will compete
in the LSU Indoor Meet in Baton Rouge, La.,
Saturday.
Coaches Charlie Thomas and Ted Nelson will
take a full squad to the meet.
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Fight: turning
point for Hogs
THE BATTALION Page 15
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1978
By DAVID BOGGAN
Battalion Staff
One reporter wanted to know if
Arkansas Head Coach Eddie Sutton
was going to issue Everlast boxing
trunks to his players for the Feb. 9
game against A&M in College Sta
tion. After last night’s contest be
tween the two teams, the question
came as no surprise.
The fisticuffs that occurred mid
way through the first period was
naturally seen in different ways by
different people.
Razorback Sidney Moncrief who
was involved in the initial skirmish,
along with Jarvis Williams, saw it
this way:
“Williams was guarding me very
close when I got the ball at the top
of the key. He reached around and
hit me in the stomach and it wasn’t
necessary. It was a dirty blow.
“My reaction was naturally anger.
I’m not saying that it was right for
me to swing at him, but that was my
reaction. We were out there trying
to play basketball, not trying to
box.”
Ron Brewer, who led the Hogs
with 29 points, said that the fight
gave Arkansas the advantage. The
Razorbacks led 20-18 when the fight
that emptied both benches oc
curred.
“The fight gave us the incentive
to go out and blow them off the
floor,” Brewer said. “Of course. I’m
sure they had the same feelings
which made it a good ball game. But
the fight also stirred up the crowd.
And crowd was on our side.”
Sutton agreed with his two star
players that the fight was the turn
ing point of the ball game.
“I hated to see the fight,” the Ar
kansas coach said. “It hurt the Ag
gies. It gave us spirit and we ran off
from there.
“It’s the first time I’ve seen
Moncrief lose his composure,” he
added. “It was a spontaneous thing.
Williams was grabbing at Moncrief
and he really nailed Williams two or
three times.”
Sutton said that he was not look
ing forward with delight to the Feb.
9 game in G. Rollie White Col
iseum.
“Any time you go to College Sta
tion you’re going to have a tough
ball game, I don’t care who you
are,” Sutton said. “They are tra
ditionally a very physical ball club. ”
The 6-11 Razorback Steve Schall
agreed that the Aggies always play a
physical game. He was involved in
many physical match-ups to estab
lish supremacy under the basket, in
particular with Vernon Smith.
“Smith was just trying to get posi
tion and play good defense,” Schall
said. But it was obvious that he
didn’t approve of the Aggies’ physi
cal manner of play. “If they want to
play grabbing and pushing and shov
ing, then let them play that way. It
just makes us play harder. A&M has
always played that way and always
will.”
Brewer, Moncrief and Marvin
Delph, the work horses for the
Razorbacks, were in foul trouble
early in the game. They each went
to the locker rooms at halftime with
three fouls. The trio managed not to
foul out. But if one of them had, one
wonders what Arkansas would have
done. Shaw had a good night against
the Aggies, but he could not be ex
pected to pick up the slack if Bre
wer, Moncrief or Delph had fouled
out.
The Razorbacks would had to
have depended on their bench.
Considering that no one on the Ar
kansas bench has played more than
125 minutes before last night’s
game, the Razorbacks could have
been in trouble because their five
starters average more than 500 min
utes of playing time.
The A&M-Arkansas game in Col
lege Station promises to be another
bullet burner.
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SMU is 5-9 on the season and 2-2 in
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