Godine’s surgery a success
THE BATTALION Page 13
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1978
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By MARK PATTERSON
After a year’s layoff Karl Godine was going home
to play in front of his hometown fans on Saturday.
But now he'll be just another spectator when the
Aggies face the University of Houston this
weekend.
And his basketball career may be over.
Against Baylor Monday night, Godine made a cut
for the basket and went in for a layup. Not only did
he miss the shot, he was lost for the year with a knee
injury.
Karl tore the patella ligament in his knee, said
student trainer Gary Lamb yesterday. “That sounds
pretty medical, but to put it in simpler terms, he
tore the tendon that holds his knee cap to his knee
bone.
“According to the doctors, the ligament has been
getting thinner and thinner as Karl has kept play
ing, said Lamp. “He’s never had enough rest in
order for it to rehabilitate it.
But Godine will have his rest after the surgery.
The doctor who preformed the surgery declared it a
success and \\ ill keep Godine in a east from his ankle
to his hip for three weeks. But the effects of the
surgery won’t be known until Godine returns to the
basketball court to test the knee.
“The doctor says that Karl ought to be ready to
play again by next October,’’ said coach Shelby
Metcalf. “But you never know what the effects of
something like this will be, especially because an
injury like this takes so long to heal. But we 11 hope
for the best for Karl.
The injury to Godine will hurt the A&M team’s
depth at the position where they need it the most.
“Karl was one of our backups for Dave Goff at the
point guard position,” said coach Metcalf. "And we
have our least depth at that position. But now the
pressure is put on Steve Sylestine and John
Schlieher to back up Goff at the guard position.
And those two players had little to say on
Godine s injury.
“I’m just going to have to keep playing hard if I'm
going to play, said Schlieher. “But that s a high cost
to pay for me to play. I would have rather worked
for it.
Sylestine felt just as sorry for Godine.
“Looking at it logically, the injury will help my
chances of playing but I hate to look at it like that
because of the magnitude of the injury.
“But the team will be hurt most by losing Karl’s
scoring threat. He was just getting back into form
since the Rice game and now he got hurt. We ll miss
his scoring the rest of the year.’’
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With back-to-back Southwest
Conference wins for the first time
his season, the Texas A&M basket-
all is back in the red-hot battle for a
ifth place finish. The No. 5 spot is so
mportant because it means a
romecourt advantage in the first
Ound of the SWC Tournament.
With a 3-6 conference slate, the
\ggies are tied with Baylor and one
;amebehind SMU which A&M faces
Wednesday in Dallas. The Aggies
ire 10-9 for the season.
Senior Willie Foreman, with 59
Joints in his last three games, has
aken over the team scoring lead
olli *rom freshman Vernon Smith,
'preman is averaging 14.1 points per
;ame to 13.6 for Smith.
The Aggies will be without the
ervices of junior Karl Godine for the
est of the season. Godine injured his
eft knee in the 58-56 win over Baylor
mdhad surgery in Houston Tuesday
the t« orepair a ruptured patella (kneecap)
»giesi endon. A&M trainer Billy Pickard
tageii eported that Godine should be
mman eady for next season.
A&M visits the Houston Cougars
5 besta Saturday for an 8 p.m. game
dofheinz Pavilion. The starting
ineup will have Foreman, Smith,
intoll him Wright, Joey Robinson and
)ave Goff. Wright was the hero of
he Baylor game with two free
ree tli hrows with one second left,
and in I
The Texas A&M women’s basket-
' le ^ ball team, ranked No. 7 in the state,
n lf S" ias only one game scheduled this
' revol# veek. The Aggie Ladies, 13-9 for the
eason, meet the Houston
Cougaretts in a 5:45 p.m. contest in
douston Saturday. Houston is 12-6
jL <Kjor the season and is ranked No. 8 in
;he state.
The Aggie Ladies were slated to
day lOth-ranked Texas Southern in
louston Monday, but won by forfeit
dien the officials failed to show.
Coach Wanda Bender’s squad
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earned a big victory over No.
2-ranked Texas last Monday, 59-52,
lost to Lamar in Beaumont Wednes
day, 66-59, and beat McLennan
Community College, 91-78, at A&M
Friday in a game which saw the
Aggie Ladies shoot 53 percent from
the floor and 83 percent from the free
throw line.
Leading scorer for the Aggie
Ladies is sophomore Pat Werner
with a 12.0 average. Sophomore Von
Bunn is averaging 10.3 per game, has
103 assists and 70 steals in 21 games.
The leading rebounder is Susan
Kimbro with a 7-1 average.
Following the Houston game,
A&M hosts Lamar on Tuesday and
Texas Tech on Thursday.
Fifty-four A&M football players
will receive varsity letters at the
Texas A&M Football Awards pro
gram Saturday night in the Rudder
Tower auditorium.
The program, free to the public,
starts at 7:30 p.m. A sound-on-color
movie of 1977 season highlights will
be shown. Highlight of the program
will be the announcement of the
winner of the Aggie Heart Award by
coach Emory Bellard.
Coach Jan Fambro’s women’s
gymnastics squad will compete twice
this week, first at Texas Friday and
then in the SW Texas Invitational on
Saturday.
The five-woman A&M squad in
the Class I compulsories include
Laura Shelfer, Tina Martin, Kathy
Pruett, Tanya Hrabal and Patti
Sloat. Another member, Cindy
Gremillion, is sidelined for three
weeks by a mild compression frac
ture of a vertebrae.
Coach Ellen Buchanan’s women’s
tennis team was scheduled for three
matches this week.
S.F. Austin was due in for a 2 p.m.
Tuesday match. The Aggies play
Sam Houston in Huntsville at 2 p.m.
Wednesday and face Tyler JC here at
noon Saturday.
A&M players include Betty
Shillcutt, Mary Guerra, Debbie
Odum, Elise Richardson, Susan
Schilling, Kathleen Sissom, Judy
Willard and Alexis Hefley.
Coach Richard Barker’s men’s
tennis team was slated to play in the
Lamar Invitational tournament in
Beaumont Thursday through Satur
day of this week.
Robin Baker and Mike Moss are
the only lettermen on the squad this
year. Other squad members include
Murray Blaekshear, Reid Freeman,
Jim Grubert, Julian Hine, Max
King, Roger Pier, Denny Renaldi,
Hendrick Roller, Trey Schutz and
Rick Thompson.
Coach Bob Ellis’ men’s golf team
will compete in the two-day Al Pryor
Intercollegiate tournament in Hous
ton Saturday and Sunday.
Three lettermen are on hand from
last year’s squad that finished second
in the SEC. They are Tim Carlton,
Dave Ogrin and Doug Ward. Three
outstanding freshmen on hand are
Mark Taylor, Jay Kent and Richard
Cromwell. Other squad members
include Biff Alexander, Dale Car
lisle, Rickey Jamison, Jerry Martin,
Russell Orth and Ian Stratton.
Texas A&M s Linda Cornelius,
the women’s national outdoor pen
tathlon champion, will attempt to
add the indoor title to her collection
at die national meet in Albuquerque,
N. M. Friday.
The five events in the pentathlon
are the 880, 100-meter hurdles, long
jump, high jump and shot put.
A&M men’s and women’s swim
squads will take on Houston there at
7 p.m. Friday and then the women
will host LSU here at 2 p.m. Satur
day.
Both Aggie Squads lost to Texas
and Stanford in double-dual meets
last weekend in Austin.
The women lost to Stanford, 90-23
and to Texas, 60-53 and now are 2-2
in dual meets. The men, now 3-2 in
duals, lost to Stanford, 83-29 and
Texas, 90-23.
Shirley Hill qualified for nationals
with a 53.4 clocking in the 100-yard
free-style.
Despite the losses, coach Dennis
Fosdick said he was happy with the
way the Aggies swam.
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