Page 10 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1978
Aggies travel to Houston to play Qwli
By PAUL ARNETT
Battalion Sports Editor
The basketball game tonight be
tween Texas A&M and the Rice
Owls won’t be drawing national at
tention. But for the Ags it’s as im
portant as a national championship.
“It’s important because we need
to have momentum carrying us into
the play-offs, coach Shelby Metcalf
said. “A victory would give us the
lift we ll need for the play-off game
this weekend. If that means Texas
Tech, then this game is very impor
tant. After the Willie Foreman inci
dent, you know the Red Raiders will
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be sky high.
A&M will travel to Lubbock this
weekend, unless the Red Raiders
defeat the Razorbacks tonight in Ar
kansas. Texas Tech won’t be flat if
the Ags are coming to town. Since
Foreman broke Kent Williams jaw
during the College Station contest,
the Raiders have hoped for another
shot at the Ags.
“You know nothing would please
coach Myers more than getting to
play us,’ Metcalf said. “Hell have
no problem with motivation. His
kids will be ready to play; the fans
will be ready for anything. It should
be a good game when and if it oc
curs.”
First things first.
The game tonight with the Owls
will be no easy task. Rice has played
well at home this season and it was a
close contest in Aggieland. A&M
defeated the Owls 74-70, with the
outcome of the game in doubt until
the final seconds.
“We could have won that game.
Rice coach Mike Schuler said. “But
a few things went against us in the
closing moments and we just
couldn’t overcome them. We ll play
the same kind of game that we
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played the first time. The only dif
ference may come in the substitut
ing.”
Coach Shuler and substituting
have become one and the same.
Against the Ags in College Station
he had 56 substitutions.
“It’s a good way to play when you
don’t have an abundance of talent,
Metcalf said. “It slows down the
tempo of the game, which works to
the Owls’ advantage. Many coaches
in the conference have been critical.
But I think it’s good, smart basket
ball.”
The Owls are a smart ball club.
Only guard Alan Cunningham can
be considered a good basketball
player. In the first game against the
Aggies Cunningham had 24 points.
“He is a good outside shooter,"
Metcalf said. “If it hadn’t been for
him, I think we would have won the
game with ease. But everytime we
threatened to pull away, he would
make some long outside shots. We ll
have to play tighter defense on him
in tonight’s game.
And tonight's game is important.
A victory would mean momentum.
And momentum is something the
Aggies have to have.
The national championship won’t
be determined in tonight’s game.
But a berth in The Summit may.
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Rugby team finishes thin
By Gerard A. O Donovan
The Texas A&M Rugby team
travelled to LSU last weekend for
the Collegiate National Cham
pionship. Though the Aggies were
disappointed in not winning the
tournament, they should be well
pleased with winning consolation
honors and finishing third.
The winner was Palmer College
•who beat host LSU in the final.
Texas A&M downed the University
of Georgia in the consolation final.
Kentucky, Oklahoma and Miami of
Ohio also took part.
The Aggies were considered un
lucky to have drawn the home team
in the first round as the concensus
was that either Texas A&M or LSU
would have made it to the final. But
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since Texas A&M is slow to get go
ing, LSU was read) to take im
mediate advantage.
LSU opened the scoring after five
minutes of play when they scored on
a power play following a penalty.
The two-point conversion was good
and LSU led 6-0. As it turned out
that score held up, even though the
Aggies won 14 of 21 lineouts
throughout the game.
In the first half the Aggie pack
won only three of eight set scrums
and even though the forwards held
their own with the bigger and
slower LSU team, it was not enough
as the Aggie backs dropped too
many balls to win a game of this
class.
In the second half the Texas A&M
pack came back to win six of 1 1 set
scrums, but frequently had to cover
for errors and shoddy tackling by
the backs. Outstanding for Texas
A&M was John Patrick who saved
three of four tries with last ditch
tackles.
LSU was the better team on the
day and deserv ed to win, but any
one who saw the Aggies play later in
the tournament regarded them as
much better than their effort against
LSU suggested.
With little time to regroup the
Aggies next played the University of
Florida and the team looked like the
Aggies of old. Craig Belew w as back
in form after having a tentative
game against LSU. He had been
nursing a severe ankle sprain all
week and did well to play at all.
The Aggies pressed Florida from
the start and scored after 10 minutes
following a fiv e-yard scrum, the try
being made by Curt Reutner. The
conv ersion w as no good and the Ags
led 4-0.
Florida pounced right back and
tied the score after winning a line-
out at the 30-y ard line. The Aggies
tightened up defensively as their
backs began to tackle and Erf
again put them ahead to slap!
he recovered a hop-kick foul
fhe conv ersion attempt waswii
the Ags led 8-4.
In the second half Floridan
game of it winning the sals
for the game (21 of 37). Altai
missed tackles and with thcli |7
A&M last line of defenseoiilofi
tion Florida scored again ton
14-8.
Winning 22 of 35 lineonlil
Texas A&M pack was able I
their backs often enough tnWj|
pressure on Florida.
Paul Rutledge kicked aW
recov cred the ball at the
line before passing to MikeFrn
who could hav e scored himsillj
instead sent Robert Moorman!
for a well taken try. The final st
was 18-8 as A&M rested belbiTfl
ing Georgia in the consolation(ii
Indeed it was the Aggieilnl
nance in the lineouts thatkeptlll
in the game: the Ags \vona«li|May
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ping 30 of 33 throw-ins. F>' (l â„¢lngj
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found Fren/.iel at the five-;aid !fe
as the wing forward gallopedi
near the posts. Jeffrey poked
Aggies into the lead, fi-4, williT '
conversion.
The game was closely could
the rest of the way as Texas Aq
managed to win 17 of 29set
hut gav e away a nmnhcrol peiial
which could have hcen coslli
Georgia had an accurate kicker.
Follow ing a penalty against &
gia, Billy Goodrich made like!
Simpson as he sprinted ovei'li
the five. Jeffrey put it on icewilli
conversion as the tired Agsi
12-4. This made the long busn
hac k to Aggieland much more
ant.
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