Page 10 THE BATTALION
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1978
Metcalf s men
Raiders 78-70
By PAUL ARNETT
Battalion Sports Editor
The Texas Tech basketball team is
like sleep at a piano recital. They
creep up on a team, then slip past
them before the opponent knows
they were even there.
They crept past the Texas Aggies
last Saturday night 78-70.
“They do things in a controlled
manner,” coach Shelby Metcalf
said. “You wouldn’t know you were
behind by 10 unless you toqk a peek
at the scoreboard. They don t do
anything in a spectacular fashion,
but they don’t make any mistakes
either.
The Aggie basketball team can’t
make that claim. Poor shooting and
fouling like it was going out of busi
ness hurt A&M’s chances of win
ning.
“This has been the longest season
of my career,’ an obviously frus
trated Metcalf said. “We’ve lost
many games this season because of
fouls. Tonight we lost because they
didn’t let us cover Russell. When
that happens. Tech is the best team
in the conference.”
A&M had three forwards, all of
whom covered Russell at some point
in the game, foul out. Wally Swan-
Refs’ whistles blow
G. Rollie’s house down
By DAVID BOGGAN
Battalion Sports Staff
It was a basketball game between
three teams Saturday night: Texas
Tech, Texas A&M and the SWC of
ficials. The Raiders ended up with
78 points, the Aggies scored 70 and
the referees called 57 personal fouls,
just eight violations short of the con
ference record.
The refs whistles slowed down,
but didn’t stop the Raiders in their
quest for their tenth conference
win.
“It was a close one. Tech coach
Gerald Meyers said. “It all depends
on the way the ball bounces and
we’ve had some good bounces this
season. It was really a physical
game.”
Physical. That one adjective has
been used more than any other by
opponents’ coaches and players to
describe their games with the Ag
gies. Tech foward Kent Williams is
firmly convinced that the Aggies
play physical basketball. In the first
half of the game, Williams caught an
inadvertent elbow in the jaw from
Willie Foreman. The shot sent
Williams to the floor, but he got up
and scored the Raiders next basket.
He was hit in the jaw again under
the basket and stumbled to mid
court where he fell and was taken
out of the game.
“Everything went black,
Williams said after the game. “I’m
still dazed and I’m in pretty much
pain. I had my jaw come out of place
by Foreman here last year. I guess
he just doesn't like me.’
Fortunately, Williams came back
in the second half. He effectively
defensed Foreman, who hit only
seven of 17 attempted shots — a key
to the Raiders' victory.
“I just tried to press him and keep
pretty close to him, Williams said.
“He’s a good ball player. I was for
tunate to have guarded him this
good.
Another key to Tech’s win was the
performance of Tommy Parks, a
junior who came off the Raider
bench to assist his team.
“Tommy Parks was a key for us,
Meyers said. “He came in and got
some movement and helped break
the press. There for a while we were
breaking the press, but we weren’t
scoring."
The Raiders’ big man, Mike Rus
sell, had some trouble putting the
ball through the hoop, but ended up
as the game’s leading scorer with 22
points.
“It was a typical A&M-Tech
game, Russell said. “Neither one of
us could break it open and we knew
that it wouldn’t do any good to say
we lost a close one. All that gets you
is a handshake and a mark in the
right-hand column.
“We knew we had to keep our
composure, especially after Kent
got hurt. Our motto is, “Pressure
son and Willie Foreman also cov
ered Russell during the contest.
Their foul tally was four apiece.
Russell had only two.
“That’s hard to believe, A&M
guard Dave Goff said. Joey Robin
son had this to say about it. "He
shoves as much as anybody in the
conference, but he only has two
fouls called. It’s impossible.
That’s an understatement. But it’s
also fact.
Another fact is Russell’s perform
ance. He was Tech’s leading scorer
and rebounder with 22 and 13 re
spectively.
“He beats us every game,” Met
calf said. “Although I thought we
did a pretty good job considering
the circumstances. Rut that’s not
why we lost. We lost because we
didn’t play as hard as we did against
Arkansas, Houston and SMU.
One man can be excluded from
that “not playing hard list. And
that’s Dave Goff.
“No one can say the reason we
lost is because we were tired,” Met
calf said. “The reason is because
Goff was still hustling at the end of
the game. If he wasn’t tired, then no
one was.”
But hustle doesn’t always win ball
games. And hustle alone isn’t going
to win the game tonight against the
Longhorns. A&M has found out that
it can t win on emotion alone. It
takes hard work, talent and emo
tion.
This year the Ags have played
with talent and emotion, but often it
appears that hard work has been left
out. The season is winding down,
but some of it can still be salvaged if
A&M can begin a winning streak
carrying them into the play-offs.
Hard work is a necessary ingre
dient.
It will be quite necessary I
row night in Austin. Unlike Ts
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‘O.K. I’m going, I’m going, Gee
why can’t they have services later in
the afternoon and give a man a
chance to sleep, after all even God
rested on Sunday, didn’t He!” This
familiar scene happened to me more
times than I can remember. It
would occur every week, every
Sunday when it was time to “go to
church”.
Go to church”, how these words
2 in my ears. I never knew what
it did for God, but it sure made
everyone around me a lot happier,
and if eveiyone around me was hap
pier, that was good enough for me.
Therefore, without too much com
plaining I’d be there right on time
or maybe a little later. The first
thing I would do would be to look
for some friends of mine and try to
sit with them before the ushers sat
me somewhere else. I never took
anything too seriously and if I wasn’t
completely interested, I would just
make up a game to pass the time.
On Sunday, with a bunch of friends
sitting in the back, the games came
easy. Somehow everything was al
ways funnier when you were sitting
in a pew.
Games, I was full of them. It was
the best way to make an uncomfort
able situation comfortable. Many
times I would go places and do
things I wasn’t suppose to and when
asked where I’d been, I’d make up a
story. And if I were ever caught in a
lie, I would simply put a sad look on
my face, and tell another story. This
went on for a long time. The things I
wasn’t suppose to do got worse and
the stories got better. After a while I
almost considered myself an expert.
It seems pretty bad, but at the time
it was all just a game to me, besides
I was having a good time.
Eventually I came to the conclu
sion that all of life was just a game,
and as long as it was a game I might
as well play according to my rules.
Then one day I met an old friend.
He used to be one of the wildest
guys in the whole neighborhood,
but now he had really changed. We
talked for a long time. He talked to
me about the Lord, but somehow I
didn’t connect it with trying to
climb out of the rack on Sunday
morning. This was something real.
It was tne first time I had heard any
thing like it, and I really wanted it.
The words he spoke excited some
thing deep inside me. I didn’t want
him to know how excited I was be
cause I was still kind of playing
games, but I sure wanted what he
A few weeks later I got to meet
some of his friends. It was the most
wonderful time I had ever experi
enced. They were just normal
people, talking, laughing, and smil
ing, but somehow something was
difterent about them. It took me a
while to figure it out, but then I
caught it. “I know what it is,’’ I
thought to myself, “their smile is on
the inside. They aren’t trying to
smile, they can’t help but smile!”
This was amazing. All these people
were so happy. They were all having
such a good time, it seemed they
were all enjoying the same thing.
That’s when it hit me, “Wow!
THESE PEOPLE ARE ENJOY
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about to pop. “How can I get this?”
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I kept wondering, “If this is for real
I don’t want to miss it.” The answer
to my wondering came rather
quickly — a friendly, serious type of
guy from Virginia asked me if I’d
like to meet Jesus. Everything in
me was saying yes, but I couldn’t
pull my mouth apart to say any
thing. After a few seconds I was able
to nod, and that’s when he told me it
would only take a simple prayer.
Only a simply prayer, but at that
very moment everything stopped.
My past stopped, my future stopped
and all my games stopped. I was
face to face with Jesus. There wasn’t
one game left inside me. I was never
so serious in all my life. The words
came out rather slow, “Lord Jesus,
forgive me of all my sins. I want you
to come and live inside of me. From
now on I want to follow you in a real
way.” What was actually only a few
seconds seemed like hours. I had no
realization where I was. All I knew
was that I had just met Jesus and
when I opened my eyes I had a
smile just like everyone elses,
smile on the inside!
This happened to me almost four
years ago. I only regret that this is
an article. I would rather tell you
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victimized by a lack of recognition
because of our location either. As
time goes along, we ll improve and
get the publicity we deserve by
earning it on the football field.
Tomey admitted that UH s loca
tion does hinder recruiting.
“We never have any problem get
ting high school players to visit our
campus — it’s getting them to stay
that’s tough. Hawaii’s a lot further
from their home than the mainland
colleges.
Because of this, two-thirds ol the
UH football players are from
California. The other third comes
primarily from the Oahu island area,
where Tomey says the high school
talent is quite abundant.
Tomey has a simple approach in
recruiting young athletes to attend
the University of Hawaii.
“I really think an individual has to
experience a program and decide for
himself if it's what he wants. I tr>
hard not to be a salesman. I believe
in what we have going here at
Hawaii and it an athlete is interested
and can help our program, we
encourage him to consider coming.
UH hasn’t played a Southwest
Conference team yet, but has gone
up against opponents from the Big
Ten, Big Eight, Pacific Eight and
Southeastern Conferences. Al
though Tomey says he would like to
play teams from the SWC, he stated
that there were none on the UH
schedule for the next few years.
Fan interest at Hawaii is increas
ing as the program steadily im
proves. Aloha Stadium, site of the
annual Hula Bowl all-star game, is
the football home of the Bows and
the average home attendance in
1977 was 29,000. UH ranked sixth
in the nation in improved atten
dance as they increased their aver
age over 1976 by more than 8,000
per home game.
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