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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1978
Hope it’s basketball and not
By PAUL ARNETT
Biittalion Sports Editor
Texas A&M and Texas Tech have
already had close encounters of the
first and second kind this sports sea
son.
In football. Red Raider quarter
back Rodney Allison had the first
encounter with A&M safety Carl
Grulich. The second encounter oc
curred in basketball between for
wards Kent Williams and Willie
Foreman.
Everyone hopes a third
encounter can be avoided during
the basketball play-off game be
tween the two schools tomorrow af
ternoon.
“We don’t anticipate any trou
ble,” coach Shelby Metcalf said.
“Our guys are going to Lubbock
with the idea of winning a basketball
game. We’re not interested in pick
ing any fights.”
Foreman, whose elbow broke
Williams’ jaw, backed up his coach’s
sentiments.
sentiments.
“I’m going to Lubbock to play
basketball,” Foreman said. “And I
don’t plan to do any fighting. I’m
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still going to play my style of bas
ketball, which is physical. I won’t be
intimidated by the team or the
crowd, but I won’t pick a fight
either.”
But the Red Raider crowd may.
Extra security has been assigned to
the game just in case. In the past.
Red Raider crowds have been
known to be on the rowdy side.
“We have good crowd participa
tion,” Tech coach Gerald Myers
said. “I’m sure they won’t welcome
Foreman with a standing ovation,
but I don’t expect that there will be
any trouble.”
The season has been trouble-
filled for coach Metcalf. His young
team has lost many games that they
should have won. But a win in Lub-
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pain.
“It has been a long season,” Met
calf said. “But we’ve played well in
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surprise some people. Let’s face it,
nobody expects us to win. And that’s
when a team with potential can be
the most dangerous.”
A&M has potential. Dallas
freshmen Vernon Smith and Rypn
Wright have proven that fact. The
two men have steadily improved all
season. But they face a stem test
tomorrow afternoon. They’ll be
guarding Mike Russell.
“The guy beats us every game,”
Metcalf said. “I know our two
freshman can do the job if the refs
let them play. In our last game the
referees didn’t let us cover him and
he killed us.”
Tomorrow afternoon many Red
Raider fans entertain the thought of
killing the Aggies. And maybe in the
literal sense. But if the Ags can keep
Russell off the offensive boards, the
killing may go the other way.
There will be a close encounter of
many kinds tomorrow afternoon.
Hopefully they’ll just be close.
By MARK PATTERSON
Battalion Sports Staff
If there is a good woman standing
behind every good man, who stands
behind the A&M basketball team?
Mike Owen and Gary Lamb are a
vital ingredient in the makeup of the
team. Though neither puts on a uni
form the day of the game, they’re
both on the bench ready for action.
Owen is the student manager and
Lamb is the student trainer for the
Aggie’s basketball team. Both
juniors and in their their third year
of working with the team, they had
experience at their jobs before com
ing to A&M.
“I was the basketball manager at
Fort Worth Pasehel before I came to
A&M,' said Owen about his qualifi-
A&M guard Karl Godine (No. 24) has been
missed this season. His injury against the
Baylor Bears earlier in the year caused the
Mike Owen and Gary Lamb
On the sidelines but ready
cations for the job. T tried to play
basketball in high school but 1 was
too small. At 4-8 you re not a big
threat. At the end of try-outs my
coach knew I wanted to he around
the team and he asked me if I d like
to be the manager. So I took it.
“My senior year I heard that
there was an opening here for a
manager. I applied and was told that
if I got accepted, I could be the
manager. I wanted to come here
anyway so getting the job was a
benefit for me.
Gary Lamb had a little different
reason for coining to A&M. He
leaned toward the training aspect
and knew A&M was a good place to
come and learn the art.
T quit playing sports when I was
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in the ninth grade in Mississippi. I
knew I couldn’t play in high school
and I didn t try. So l talked to the
coach and asked if 1 could become
the manager of the teams. Up there,
if you were the manager, you did
everything a manager does for all
the teams, plus you were the trainer
too. That’s where I got my first taste
of being a trainer. One of the
coaches showed me how to tape ank
les and I’ve been doing it ever since.
“But my junior year my family
moved to Abilene. 1 thought that if I
became a trainer there it would be a
good way to meet people, being the
new kid on the block. I told the
•coaches at Cooper (High School)
that I had some experence in train
ing and they gave me the job.
“When I graduated 1 had to
choose between coining here or
North Texas. I was studying indus
trial arts and those two schools were
highly recommended to me. But
after I came down here I didn t need
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