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THE BATTALION Page 15 THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1979 r y AmCU stall was logical, Somerville says mym By SEAN PETTY Battalion Staff |ie Texas Christian University jied Frogs came to G. Rollie |e Coliseum with two things in : one was to beat the Texas Ag- land the other was to slow the i running game down to a slow nade sense and actually worked [half. If the Aggies couldn’t get •all they couldn’t score, right? | for the first 20 minutes of the jthe Frogs put on a passing ex- n, held the Aggies to only 18 scored 18 themselves, and (le crowd and a television audi- Ito sleep. le knew we were coming down ly one of the best teams in the Iry,” said TCU head coach Tim Irville. “We also knew that we jhave the talent to run with the Is so the only logical thing to do |-y and stall. ; didn t play to keep the scor- |own, we played to win the We were very successful in bt half and thought we could leek, it was 18-18 at half and all Id to do was keep it up in the second half. Plus it was the first time we played a stall game all year.” But the Frogs could only bottle up the Aggies’ running and scoring so long. They continued to slow the game down in the second half but soon the Aggie zone-press and the Frogs’ youth caught up with them. ”1 think around the 15-minute mark of the second half is where we lost it,” Somerville said. “Our freshmen made some key turnovers and the Aggies just took off from there. Somerville was right. It was at 15:52 in the second half when the Aggies began increasing a lead they would never relinquish. In fact, the Frogs scored only two points from 15:52 until 7:55 in the second half. “I just wish we could have got Rudy (Woods) out of there sooner,” he said. Woods fouled out with 5:24 left in the game. “Rudy’s slam dunks and rebounding beat us tonight. His performance won the game for the Aggies. He’s just a great player.” The Aggies seemed perplexed as they allowed the Frogs to stall the entire first half. But in the second half Aggie coach Shelby Metcalf in stalled the zone-press which was the straw that broke the Frogs’ back. “I thought they would come out and press us from the beginning of the game,” Somerville said. “I don’t think we did too bad against the press. You know, we only bad a few turnovers in the second half against it.” The Frogs had more than “a few. turnovers” in the second half as they turned the ball over 11 times as op posed to eight in the first half. Although the Frogs’ stall tactics worked well in the first half, Steve Scales, the only senior on the young TCU team had a different opinion on how the Frogs should have played the Aggies. “I don’t like to stall,” said Scales “I thought we could play them head up and run with them. But, regardless of what I think, you have to go with the game plan. “It hurts, man,” he said. “It just tears the hell out of my heart to play slow because I feel ready to play every game. Sometimes I think that everything I shoot would go in. I just think we could have stayed with A&M. We had a good game against Rice and it really helped our confi- #3 C=4 mghorns edge Bears in Waco United Press International I WlACO — Phillip Stroud and Jim hit six free throws in the final Oseconds Wednesday night to fight ffaiflaylor comeback and give the Bthjranked Texas Longhorns a I-7o victory over the Bears. The winning Texas atop the dttthwest Conference Standings ith a 6-1 record and the decision 'as the sixth straight for the streak- ijt Longhorns. BUylor, playing before its largest Icrowd in history, slipped to 4-3 MU play. Bone Branyan scored 26 points 1 uling out with 1:03 and Krivacs added 23 to the attack. pyan and Krivacs combined for ints in the first half as Texas pair of free throws with six seconds remaining, giving Texas Tech a 70-68 victory over the Houston Cougars in Lubbock. Just before Huston’s free throws George Walker had tied the game with two free throws or Houston, now 3-5 in conference and 9-9 over all. The Red Raiders, now 4-3 in Southwest Conference play and 12-5 for the season. In Dallas, Arkansas’s Sydney Moncrief poured in 29 points to lead the Razorbacks to an easy victory over the Southern Methodist Mustangs. Moncrief hit 8 of 15 from the field and 13 of 15 from the line, including four technical foul shots in row, in a game in which Arkansas never trailed. The win gave Arkansas an overall 12-4 record and put them at 4-3 in the conference. The Mustangs fell to 7-9 on the season and 2-4 in the con ference. • ~ B to a 44-35 lead with less than ^ggj e , ^minutes to play in the opening But Baylor scored the last seven y Lee Roy L j n j s Q f g rst including a up shot by Wendell Mays with kirirktrk^ Second to play that cut the Bears’ E DOING ii me deficit to 44-42. Saylor, however, could not score the first 514 minutes of the second fand Texas jumped to a 10-point d. INDRY? ie's do it for you t Frannies mderson slowly whittled the deficit to the 25-point performance {MG leading scorer Vinnie 1 nson and an additional 21 points YLINE Baylor tied the game at 59-59, but M630 Bscored the next six points and snever tied again. eferral Counsi ph 56 seconds to play, Baylor M0:00 p.ifl' itskleficit to one point and for the of the contest the Longhorns jjfyced with making free shots to the lead. rd made two free shots with nds to go, and made two more S seconds remaining, acs made both ends of a one- e situation with eight seconds ling to give Texas a three- dvantange and clinch the con- 846- own *k cwd of 9,200 filled the Heart Is Coliseum, the largest ever in the 27-year-old build- Iher conference action Wed- !y night Geoff Huston hit a Creation? or Evolution? Attend a Debate Program Tonight Hear both sides and decide. Rudder Aud. 8:00 p.m Thurs. 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