THE BATTALION Page 11
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1979
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Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
By SEAN PETTY
Battalion Staff
The SMU Mustangs’ 92-56 loss to
the Texas Aggies was a case of a
father missing his son.
The sad father in this case was
Sonny Allen, head coach at SMU.
The son was freshman Billy Allen,
SMU’s floor leader, second leading
scorer for the Mustangs and the man
who keeps the Mustangs running.
Billy watched from the bench, a
seat unfamiliar to him since he
started playing basketball, as the
Aggies ran the hapless Ponies right
out of G. Rollie White Coliseum.
The Mustangs were as cold shoot
ing from the floor as the touch of
pneumonia that kept Billy Allen out
of the game.
The Mustangs shot a chilling 30.9
percent for the game and didn t
even score a point from the field
until the 12:23 mark in the first half.
They managed only three points on
free throws before that.
But the Mustangs’ cold night at
G. Rollie was not all due to their
inability to put the roundball
through the hoop.
“The Aggies played a great defen
sive game, just a great defensive
ggie Ladies out-hustle Houston 68-61
By DAVID BOGGAN
Battalion Sports Editor
[Texas A&M women’s basket-
lay have been in a slump of
recently. But there’s nothing
Jwith the Aggie Ladies that a
Bustle won’t cure.
t hustle came in the person of
fughes Wednesday night as
0.10,Sdtli*gies defeated the Houston
37 18-2492.
StM 39, SMUij
Fouls — SMC
son 3 5-6
Beverly 24-1
3-0 0, ’sdiieWj
17 22-2756.
»ht 4 0-08, tti
on 4 2-210,
Culton30-05,
Cougars 68-61. Hughes — Charli
Hustle, if you will — was in charge
of running the Aggies’ offense after
both Von Bunn and Lola Baker w ere
sidelined with illnesses. For 40
minutes, the 5-foot-4 transfer from
Panola Junior College was up the
court, down the court and sprawled
out all over the court as Texas A&M
avenged a loss to the Cougars earlier
in the season.
ressure is on Texas
(United Press International
[pressure will be on the 11th-
Texas Longhorns tonight,
tie pressure is off the TCU
Id Frogs.
Istay alone on top of the
[west Conference race the
lorns will have to dispose of
Ikansas Razorbacks tonight in
lat least to this point, will be
pst important league game of
lar. Texas has won eight in a
Id has never lost in the Special
, nts Center, site of tonight’s
fcM although the Horned Frogs
ijong way from the top of the
■base, they have finally won a
Hpnce game, an achievement
|as beginning to look very
W as the season began to
down.
U shocked the Houston
irs in Fort Worth Wednesday
|77-71, to end an eight-game
Istreak. At the same time the
Ited Texas A&M Aggies were
|shing SMU in College Sta-
'2-56.
Il s win boosted the Aggies’
[ence record to 8-2 while
|vill take an 8-1 mark into to-
game with the Razorbacks
Only 2,019 people showed up at
Daniel Meyer Coliseum to see the
surprising TCU win and what they
saw was not a fluke. The Horned
Frogs, who started four freshmen
and a sophomore, shot 56 percent
and fought off a late Houston com
eback.
“We didn’t expect it to be easy,’
said Houston Coach Guy Lewis,
whose Cougars dropped to 3-7 in
conference play. T ve been in Fort
Worth before with good teams and
it’s never been easy. TCU played
hard and did what had to be done.
Other than the Texas-Arkansas
battle in Austin tonight, the Texas
Tech Red Raiders (5-4) will visit
"Lisa Hughes proved what she
was made of tonight,” Texas A&M
coach Wanda Bender said after the
game. “She played excellent man-
to-man defense. She gave Kip An
derson no slack. She did a super job
at her offensive position and she
played the whole game. She must
be tired.
“I’m not tired, Hughes replyed.
“I was tired for a moment, but I
used to play the entire game in
junior college.
Houston is a good ball team.
They are very snappy and they hus
tle all the time. We just had it to
gether tonight. We wanted it bad.”
The Aggies, who led by as much
as 12 points, had a 33-28 halftime
advantage. In the second half, the
teams traded the lead back and forth
several times until, with 6:10 left in
the game, Peggy Pope hit a turn
around-jumper that gave Texas
A&M the lead for good.
"As a total team effort, this is
probably the best game they’ve
played,” Bender said of the Aggies.
“They were up for the game and
they were determined they were
going to win it. They even held their
own pep rally in G. Rollie after prac
tice yesterday.
“We were playing on our home
court. The fans were going our way
Sun Theatres
and they don’t realize it, but that
helps our team effort.”
Pope led the Aggies with 18
points while Margaret Byrne added
10. Cindy Gough and Kelley Sulli
van each pulled down nine re
bounds for Texas A&M.
“We were hurt real bad the first
time we played Houston,” Bender
said. “Our four post girls each had
injuries of some sort. We had a 10-
point lead and they came back with
the 1-3-1 press, just like they used
tonight, and we got beat by one
point. Tonight we gave no quar
ters.”
The Aggies will play in the Mean
Green Classic in Denton this
weekend. It is doubted that either
Bunn or Baker will play in the tour
nament.
game tonight,” said coach Allen. “I
thought the game was going well for
the first 15 to 16 minutes but then
they shut us down for a while with
their defense and we never could
get back in it.”
The Mustangs did finally start
scoring and closed the gap to 23-19
with 4:31 left in the first half. But as
Allen said, after the first 15 minutes
of the first half, it was all Texas
A&M.
“They (the Aggies) came out more
aggressive than they did when we
played them in Dallas,” Billy Allen
said of the 78-76 Mustang victory
over the Aggies in Dallas. “They
pressed us tonight and it really hurt
us because it forced us out of our
offense.
“And once they get going when
they are playing at home, they are
hard to stop.”
“We re 1-1 with the Aggies now,”
said coach Allen. “The time we beat
them we were healthy.
“I’m not saying it would have
made any difference tonight but it
hurts when you have your number
one and two scorers not at full
strength. We haven’t been healthy
for the past two weeks.
“Before we got sick and injured,
we beat two of the top 16 teams in
the country.”
Billy Allen’s absence, along with
some other nagging injuries affect
ing other Mustang players including
their leading scorer. Brad Branson,
added to the Aggies’ run away
victory. Branson, a freshman from
Florida, is averaging 15.6 points a
game and is the leading rebounder
in the Southwest Conference with
10.4 a game.
Allen is averaging 15 points a
game but more importantly, he av
erages 8.1 assists a game. His bal
lhandling talent was sorely missed
as his presence and leadership on
the court usually draws a crowd, tak
ing the pressure off the other guard,
Phil Hale.
“We really missed Billy tonight,”
Hale said. “I was off my game to
night because they were double
teaming me so much. When Billy is
in there, he takes the pressure off
me. We really play well together.
Billy gives us another good ballhan-
dler and is an outside scoring
threat.”
Even Billy’s dear old dad had to
realistically boast about his son’s
importance to the Mustang game.
“They were able to put a lot of
pressure on us defensively because
Billy wasn’t in there to penetrate
the lane,” Allen said. “They could
afford to double team us.”
The Aggies ran the fast break on
offense and shut down the Ponies on
defense at will. Everything seemed
to be going right for the Aggies as
they b uilt up a head of steam
through the first half and coasted
through most of the second half.
“We made a lot of forced mis
takes,” Coach Allen said. “We were
doing what we wanted to do at the
beginning of the game but the
missed shots killed us. They (the
Aggies) just kept coming at us all
night.
“I was really impressed with their
depth,” he said. “They have people
coming off the bench who started for
them last year, so that shows what
kind of depth they have. ”
“We were in it until we started
making all those turnovers and miss
ing our shots,” said center Reggie
Franklin. “Then, the second half
they were just too much for us.”
The Aggies worked the full-court
press to perfection, keeping the
Mustang scoring opportunities to a
minimum.
“Their press hurt us this game
and it didn’t last time we played,” -
Hale said. “It’s hard to keep playing
when you get so far behind but you
just have to forget it and keep going.
“But we couldn’t have stopped
the Aggies the way they were play
ing tonight. Heck, everything they
put up went in,” he said. “They
were making off-balance shots, tip-
ins from eight feet and all sorts of
shots.
The Mustangs are now 3-6 in con
ference play and can only hope to
win enough games to have the home
court advantage in the first round of
the SWC tournament.
But before they do that, a father is
going to have to get his son healthy
and on the court again.
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