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Page 10 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1978 the sports ViOM't THIS S£ASON £M£jR £MO T Happy tHA HKS GIVING drive cnfttmn.r mud come enc* SAtvaoti eon tut game / CUM f BORROW Yotm cute Lime crp to kc.ep my enas- WftRM f Season s last home game Ags host Horned Frogs By MARK PATTERSON Battalion Staff It'S HOLIOHY taHVCL TIM£ POR OTH£R /lG-G-l£ TEAMS MTAIER POLO SUNNY Cf\klfORNiS* POR *ME JVC Ml CMR M Pi ON SMiPS JlJVO BUS MCE TSALL TO SMotor HLHSMCH POR THE SEJltVSLE TOU&MPNPtfJpf ^■^T*** —' tv -~ 'Sf « Listen Up A? Ag’s The Class of ’79 is \ sponsoring Christmas \ card sales from Wed. Nov. 15th - Fri. Dec. 8th. Get yours today in the MSC or the MSC It had to eventually come for Tom Wilson, his first loss as a head foot ball coach. It happened last week against Arkansas and dropped Wil son’s record to 2-1. “That first one really hurts,” Wil son said addressing the press Tues day. "Losing sure isn’t very fun. ” The Aggies will have a chance to rebound from their setback when they take on the TCU Horned Frogs Saturday in Kyle Field. It will be the last home game of the year for the team, and the last home game for the seniors on the club. “I don’t think this team will have any problem getting motivated for the TCU game this week,” Wilson said. "We lost against Arkansas, but we still have our heads up. We re going to correct our mistakes and go on from there.” The Horned Frogs carry a 2-8 season record and a 0-7 conference mark into the game. Yet their poor The SOFT TOUCH ELEGANCE IN LINGERIE 707 TEXAS Aggies edge Eagles 72-71 in home opener If you have money to invest Optional Retirement Plan Tax Sheltered Annuity Deferred Compensation Financial Planning Call Hays Glover GUGGENHEIM GLOVER, ASSOCIATES 779-5555 Two critical field goals and two clutch free throws in the last two minutes of the game by junior col lege transfer Peggy Pope put the Texas A&M women’s basketball team in the lead to stay. The Aggies defeated North Texas State 72-71 in G. Rollie White Tuesday night. The Aggies’ home opener proved to be an exciting, lead-swapping contest in which Texas A&M raised its season record to 3-0. Leading at one time by six points and at halftime by a score of 29-24, the Ag gies had to come from six points down to maintain their winning ways. “We hope not to make the next x 5 W Gburt Yatd ImportensJ^S' purveyors of the world’s finest wines © foods. 43d Garter Creek Pky Bryan.Tx. 77801 779-69T) (Specialty meats and cheeses and Coffees and Idas and dpices and Caviar and Rites and Rista and C&rty trays for special occasions and Bulk olives and Gift baskets and French cookwaie and... The mest orginal kbfoy in the world. Now Open! Battalion Classified Call 845-2611 game this close,” Aggie coach Wanda Bender said afterwards. “North Texas is by far the toughest opponent we’ve faced so far.” Ear lier in the season, Texas A&M de feated Southwest Texas 82-65 and Texas A&I 81-37. Cindy Gough, Lisa Hughes and Von Bunn each scored 14 points to lead the Aggies past the Eagles. Pope was the Aggies’ leading re bounder with 12. North Texas Lisa Risinger was the game’s leading scorer with 29 points. A major factor in determining the outcome of the contest came when Risinger was forced to leave the game with a knee injury with 3:07 left to be played. This weekend the Aggies will play in the Southwest Missouri Tourna ment in Springfield. "We will play Southern Illinois in the first round. Bender said. “They have three starters that are over six feet tall.” The Aggies next home game is on Dec. 4 against Prairie View A&M. showing this season will not give the Aggies a chance to take the week off. ‘‘I’ve told the team and they realize the nature of football, that on any day one team can beat another, ” Wilson said. “This team won’t look past TCU to the Texas game. There have been too many upsets around the country this season to be confi dent about a game. “We re going to approach TCU with concern about our own game. There’s not much we can do about TCU except hope to play up to our potential. This team can’t afford to look past anybody. Anything could happen Saturday.” If the Horned Frogs make things happen Saturday it will be because of quarterback Steve Bayuk, cur rently the third leading passer in the conference with 108 completions. Bayuk has passed for 1,042 yards and three touchdowns on the year while throwing 18 interceptions. The senior quarterback is averaging 10.8 completions a game. “Never mind their record, Bayuk is a dangerous passer,” Wilson said. “And if you remember, he had a good game against us up in Fort Worth last year. “TCU runs the type of offense that spreads people out all over the field. They run a multiple set, and you never know what they’re going to throw at you.” When the Frogs do throw it is usually to running back Craig Richardson or split end Micheal Milton. Richardson is second in the SWC in pass receiving, catching 42 passes for 312 yards on the year. Milton ranks second in the confer ence in receiving yards, totaling 579 yards on 33 catches. The pair have been two of the few Frogs to escape the surgeon’s knife this season. Three more TCU players went down with injuries in last week’s 41-0 loss to Texas, run ning the injury total to 24 on the At the other end of theii spectrum, the Texas Aggies art again a healthy football teat fensive cornerback Darrell Si returned to the Aggie lit Monday after missing last weeli a bruised thigh, marking there of the only starter outoflasUi line-up. The Aggie players rnighlS been at a mental low after theii to Arkansas last week, butwhei Hall of Fame Bowl represeats extended the Aggies a posts bowl invitation even after the the players responded with confidence in themselves. year. “I’ve er had a team get so many major injuries in one season as this one has, ” said F. A. Dry, TCU’s head football coach. “We were had before the Texas game, but now we re worse.” Against the Longhorns the Horned Frogs lost wide receivers Phillip Epps and Steve Williams as well as defensive end Ted Brack to injuries. Epps and Brack suffered knee injuries and will undergo surgery today. Williams crashed into the stadium wall last week after catching a pass and broke his jaw. It was wired shut and he’s out for the year as well. “If the team hadn’t been t pointed after the loss I wont been disappointed in them,1i said of his team's attitude, even after the loss thebowlpi still thought we were wortb bid. "We realize that 26teamsi: nation get to go to post-season and we re happy to beoneob With the bid we can’t helpbnli that this has been a successliil for the team. “It marks the fourth straiglit! appearence for a Texas Aggiel hall team. This could be thesli a new tradidition.” Bait Pix Week 12 David Boggan Mark Patterson CAME TCU-Texas A&M Texas A&M by 29 .Texas A&M by 14 Texas A&M Houston-Texas Tech Houston by 17 .Houston by 25 Houston!)) Texas-Baylor Texas by 14 Texas by 16 Texas!)) Arkansas-SMU Arkansas by 17 Arkansas by 15 Arkansasby Pitt-Penn St Penn St. by 12 Penn St. by 20 PennSt.b Michigan-Ohio St Michigan by 15 Ohio St. by 3 Michiganl) Notre Dame-USC USC by 9. . . .Notre Dame by 10 USCb Washington-Dallas Dallas by 8 Dallas by 7 Dallasb Cincinnati-Houston Houston by 6 Houston by 14 Houston by Atlanta-New Orleans Atlanta by 4 New Orleans by 7 New Orleansl| Last week’s record 7-3. 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But whatever the 1978-79 season will bring it is going to start bringing it Friday. Four SWC clubs open their sea son Friday night, another one starts in Saturday. The conference is coming off its most successful year in history — Arkansas winning third place in the NCAA tournament, Texas capturing the NIT championship and Houston winning a berth in the NCAA event as well. It would not appear that this year’s race could provide as much glory because both Arkansas and Houston lost some of their strength, but four starters are back for the Longhorns and they are the over whelming choice to grab this year’s title. Whatever happens, it will be noticed more by parts of the country which overlooked SWC basketball in the past. “In two or three years we will be as good a basketball league as there is in the country,” said Rice coach Mike Schuler, one of the influx of young enthusiasts who helped gen erate the boost in basketball inter est. “Russ Potts (the athletic director at SMU who came from the basket ball minded Atlantic Coast Confer ence) thinks basketball is ready to exploded here. And when it does the Rice Owls are going to be part of it.” Signs of that explosion are already here. Texas has sold almost every one of its 16,231 seats on a season basis. Arkansas is completing the final stages of its rennovation of Barnhill Fieldhouse. Baylor has boosted its season ticket sales by 1,500. Last season a standing room only crowd of jammed into Autry Court where crowds of 200 commonplace in recent years Last March the SWC posl tournament sold out all three at The Summit in Houston and ference officials were so en< that they have decided to tourney on the road — moving San Antonio for the 1979-80sei This year’s race has lotsof] tial winners, but Texas - deadeye outside shooter Jimli back along with Ron Baxter, I) Branyan and John Moore-»| logical pick. Even though Arkansas lost Brewer and Marvin Delpf Razorbacks still have super li erent g( Sidney Moncrief and Texas has potential superstar Rudy'l : )eaten a ng with The R playing in the middle. Rousts be shorter and quicker than J cent years, but they will be'- mly two perienced. Mas h; At SMU coach Sonny Ale- his son Billy, thought to be# ot of ft the best high school guards e country last year, playing® n the Wash starting unit while Baylor’s 1 Johnson will be back for an® year of amazing ball handling Rice and TCU both hade.® f recruiting campaigns and wills' improve on their poor recoin 1977-78 while Texas Tech hi to a running style of offense The season opens Friday 1 ? with Baylor hosting Austin Cff SMU playing at home agi f Southwestern, Texas i tough trip to Long Beach Texas A&M taking part in the! Tournament. The last team to open its will be the Arkansas Razorl who do not start out until Dec at home against Oklahoma. ere g e i 81 Spaghetti Dinner all you can eat for 95 Comes with salad and garlic toast. Every Sunday Evening 5-10 in the Aggieland Inn Gateway to a great way of life.