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Ags halt losingstreak 88-72
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By PAUL ARNETT
Battalion Sports Editor
The drought has ended. Texas
A&M 88—TCU 72.
“We needed this one,” a happy
coach Shelby Metcalf said after the
game. “I think our guys got rid of a
lot of frustrations out there on the
court. And they wanted to prove to
TCU that they could play basket
ball. It wasn’t one of your more pic
turesque basketball games, but a
win is a win. ”
Actually the final score wasn’t a
good indicator of how thoroughly
the Aggies defeated TCU. Midway
in the second half A&M led the
Horned Frogs 71-38. A tough full-
court press by the Aggies, that
caused 36 Horned Frog turnovers,
was the main reason for the big lead.
“The main reason the press
worked so well was because we
were so depressed, Metcalf said.
“We’ve lost some games this year
that we shouldn’t have.
“Tonight our press worked really
well. We played the zone as well as
we have all season. All our starters
did a great job on defense and on
offense.”
Senior Willie Foreman finished
his last game in G. Rollie White as
the high-point man. The Houston
Wheatly graduate scored 21 points
and collected six rebounds. The
Dallas duo, Vernon Smith and Rynn
Wright, had 17 and 16 points re
spectively.
“You just can’t say enough about
those two freshman,’’ Metcalf said.
“They’ve done everything that we
have asked of them this year. Rynn
has really come on for us late in the
season, and Vernon has played well
all year.
Wright and Smith finished first
and second in rebounding. Wright
grabbed 10 rebounds, while Smith
collected eight. The two freshman
are leading the club this year in re
bounding.
“Rebounding is something you
can t really teach a guy, Metcalf
said. “You just have to have a knack
for it. There’s no doubt in my mind
those kids have that knack.”
The Southwest Conference has a
knack of its own. Last night three
officials were assigned to the game
by mistake. The conference trans
formed this mistake into an experi
ment and Metcalf liked what he
saw.
“I think it is something we as a
conference need to look into,” Met
calf said. “They’ve been doing it in
the Big 10 all year and it has worked
out real well. Tonight I think the
refs did a good job. It’s my contin
gent that three are better than two. ”
The Aggies have a long rest be
fore their final game of the regular
season against Rice. It’s a rest Met
calf feels is long overdue.
“Our guys are tired,” Metcalf
said. “We play Rice in Houston*
Tuesday night and then play
Tech or Houston in the play-offs
think tonight’s game will
help the team’s attitude forii (
play-offs.”
Will
Right now the guys areh,
last night’s victory and the I
rest, it has been a long dry iff ^
since the last win.
Ladies win last home gam
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Feb. 18, 1978
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The Aggie Ladies were victorious
in their last home game of the sea
son, defeating Wharton Jr. College
78-51.
The women had a good, if un
eventful game, shooting 39 percent
of their field goals and 71 percent
of their free throws.
Three women scored in the dou
ble figures. Sheree Christian, the
high-point scorer in the game, con
nected with 26. Von Bunn, a
sophomore from Victoria, bucketed
20 and Julia Crawford, a freshman
from College Station, contributed
15.
The Ladies had two reasons for
wanting to win.
“We had to win tonight for our
seniors,” Crawford said, “and we
had to win our last home game.
Bunn agreed with Crawford.
“The team was up for this game
because of Denise Bettis and Karen
Muskiet, our seniors. ’
The Ladies picked up momentum
with eight minutes left in the half
and went into the locker rponui
a 44-31 lead.
Aggie Lady coach Wanda Bens
said her talk at half time stress he
that the women could not lea
playing sloppily since they \st he
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ahead, but must continue theirt
nosed defense.
“It’s hard to keep the momenta
going when you have a
she said, “and I didn’t want our j )ee
fense to get lazy.”
Taking a big lead can go two w. y ra
Crawford said. “Sometimes yon a ; tj]]
take that momentum and slam (
opposing team into the grout
Other times, there is alotofsuk
tutes that come in and the
cold.”
But the Aggies did not get coll
or lazy. In the second half, tin :oa
were consistently aheadbyl5.il
Ags also had an impressive nigh
the boards, grabbing 39 rebound
Bender said the had been n
ing on a new free-lance offense J
past week
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The two graduating seniors,)!
kiet and Bettis, agreed thattl
was no place in the world lit
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play.
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game.”
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A&M will be well-known lor
women’s basketball team in tie
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