THE BATTALION Page 15
THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1979
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AmCU stall was logical, Somerville says
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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-
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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
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mderson slowly whittled the deficit
to the 25-point performance
{MG leading scorer Vinnie
1 nson and an additional 21 points
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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-
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