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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1979
Aggies begin second half of SWC season tonight
By DAVID BOGGAN
Battalion Sports Editor
The first half of the 1979 South
west Conference basketball season
is history, but for the Texas Aggies
there is no time to reminisce. The
future begins tonight.
Texas A&M, which travels to
Waco to play Baylor at 7:30 this
evening, finished the first half of the
SWC season by defeating Rice in
Houston Saturday 81-62. The Ag
gies are presently in second place in
the conference with a 6-2 record,
one game behind front runner
Texas.
“It has gone by fast,” Aggie for
ward Vernon Smith said after the
Aggies reached the midcourt stripe
of the season. “I’ve always thought
that this year would be our year to
win the conference. We all have.
“Baylor is going to be one of the
toughest games of the conference
this year. It is not going to be as easy
as people might think.”
The Aggies made it look easy in
Autry Court Saturday afternoon
with all five starters scoring in dou
ble figures for the first time since
the season opener against North
Carolina State. Smith and Dave
Goff each had 10 points, Rynn
Wright scored 12 points and Rudy
Woods and Tyrone Ladson scored
18 points a piece to lead the Aggies
Monday
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“Tyrone got hot outside and that
opened up everything,” Goff said.
Ladson hit seven-of-seven field
goals in the first half, including two
steals that he converted to layups
and four shots that arched in from
somewhere close to downtown
Houston.
“It was just a matter of getting my
rhythm down,” said Ladson, who
started in only his second game for
the Aggies. “I needed a good game.
I hadn’t had one in a long time.”
Texas A&M coach Shelby Metcalf
said that Ladson’s play in the Rice
game was indicative of the kind of
performance the Kansas State trans
fer is capable of.
“I was less surprised with
Tyrone’s seven-of-seven shooting in
the first half than I was when he shot
2-of-13 against Texas,” Metcalf said.
“We saw a truer picture of Tyrone
Ladson today.
“Our whole first unit looked ex
tremely sharp. They were mentally
ready to play.”
The Aggies played to a 36-21
halftime lead, hitting 60 percent of
their shots from the field. Metcalfs
men held off a Rice rally early in the
second half and the Owls could get
no closer to Texas A&M than 12
points.
“In the second half, everybody
(for Texas A&M) got hot,” Woods
said. They (Rice) had to go out (and
pressure the outside shooter) or get
blown out. That’s when I go to
work.”
Woods did indeed go to work in
the final period, scoring 14 of his 18
points in the last 20 minutes. The
Aggies hit 57.1 percent of their field
goals in the game while the Owls hit
only 38.5 percent. The Aggies had
their best performance of the season
from the free-throw line with David
Britton hitting Texas A&M’s only
free throw attempt with 7:01 left in
the game.
“Hopefully, we re getting some
thing started again,” Goff said of the
Aggies, who have won two games
straight, bringing their season rec
ord to 17-4. “We’ve got to win the
rest of our games and we’ve got to
play well on the road.”
The Aggies will have to play well
in Baylor’s Heart O’ Texas Coliseum
tonight if they hope to stay hot on
the hoofs of the Texas Longhorns,
who play five of their last eight
games in the Super Drum. Baylor’s
Vinnie Johnson, who scored 31
points Saturday against TCU, will
play against Texas A&M for the first
time this season. Johnson was in
New York at his mother’s funeral
when the teams met on Jan. 8.
“You’ve got to fear him,” Metcalf
said of Johnson, one of the nation’s
top ten scorers. “He’s probably one
of the greatest seniors this confer
ence has produced. And, of course,
they’ve got that great freshman,
Terry Teagle. And Wendle Mays
always hurts us.” In the Aggies’
77-64 victory over the Bears earlier
this month, Teagle scored 16 points
and Mays scored 18 points.
“It’s going to be a high- and fast
scoring game,” Woods said. “They
believe in putting it up just like we
do.”
When Ladson heard that Metcalf
planned to have him defense
Johnson tonight, a big grin came
across the New Yorker’s face.
“That’s going to be good,” Ladson
said. “I playe^l against him in high
school. We played in different con
ferences but <ve played each other
about twice in the playoffs.” Ladson
and Johnson are both from Brook-
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“The only thing Vinnie’s got on
me is he jumps a little higher,” Lad
son added. Several players had some
thoughts on what the next eight
games will hold for the Texas Ag
gies:
“What ever we do is up to us,”
Woods said. “Talent-wise we have
the best team in the conference. But
it is hard to stay up for 16 games.”
“We’re going to have to play
every game as hard as we can,”
Wright said. “It’s now or never; do
or die.”
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BOX SCORE
TEXAS A&M (81)
Smith 5 0-0 10, Wright 6 0-0 12, Woods 9 0-0
18, Ladson 9 0-0 18, Goff 5 0-0 10,1
1-1 5, Sylestine 2 0-0 4, SchlicherOi]
Pederson 0 0-0 0, Culton 1 0-0 2,1
0-0 2, Baird 0 0-0 0. Totals 40 1-181.
RICE (62)
Darden 8 1-1 17, Rieke 3 5-6 11, McCip Ticken
8, Wilson 3 0-0 6, Tudor 3 2-3 8, DeCti id was
6, Bums 1 0-0 2, Hubble 1 2-2 4, Modi .ntion f
Miller 0 0-0 0. Totals 25 12-16 62
Halftime — Texas A&M 36, Rice 2U
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Rice 8. Technical Fouls — Wright. A-
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