THE BATTALION
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1979
Page 9
Crucial games ahead for Ags
By DAVID BOGGAN
Battalion Sports Editor
Ah, it’s that time of year: the mis
erable weather of February, the re
freshing swimsuits of Sports Illus
trated and the crucial games of the
Southwest Conference basketball
race.
If you don’t believe that Texas
A&M’s conference contests are cru
cial, just ask Shelby Metcalf, who
can see a championship glow at the
end of the SWC tunnel.
“When you’re playing for the
championship, there’s no way there
should be a letdown,” the Aggie
coach said after his team got off to a
slow start in its 66-58 victory over
Houston Saturday. The victory gave
the Aggies a 9-2 conference record
and also gave Texas A&M the dis
tinction of being the first major team
in the nation to win 20 games this
season. “No, I don t think there was
a letdown. Houston played ex
tremely tough. They just came out
and put the fight to us.”
If Metcalf believes that the
Cougars were tough, well, he ain’t
seen nothing yet. The Aggies, who
share the conference lead with
Texas, must travel to Arkansas
Tuesday and to Texas Tech Saturday
before hosting the Longhorns one
week from today. Talk about crucial
games!
The Cougars were tougher Satur
day than they were the first time
they played Texas A&M this season.
On Jan. 10 in Hofheinz Pavilion,
Texas A&M defeated Houston 69-43
as the Coogs shot only 27 percent
from the floor and managed only
five points in the second half.
“They were a better team today,”
Aggie forward Vernon Smith said of
the Cougars. “The first time we
played them, it was just one of those
nights. I knew it wouldn’t happen
two times.
The Aggies slow start left them
behind by eight points twice in the
first half.
“We just couldn’t get our running
game going,” said Smith, who had
an outstanding game for Texas
A&M. The Dallas sophomore led
the Aggies with 24 points and 12 re
bounds and had four assists, two
steals and one blocked shot in his 33
minutes on the court. “Coach Met
calf called a time out (with Texas
A&M down by six) and we started
talking. We realized that if we
wanted to win, we couldn’t continue
to play like this all day.”
With 3.5 minutes left in the first
period, Rynn Wright stole a Hous
ton pass and flipped the ball to
Tyrone Ladson at midcourt. Ladson
took the ball down the right side of
the lane and made a layup that gave
the Aggies a 28-27 lead. They never
fell behind again.
“We was down today,” David
Britton admitted. “In the locker
room we was even quiet today.
“Yea, he was even quiet,” Rudy
Woods said of Britton. “And when
he’s quiet, you better look out.”
But Britton was anything but
quiet on the court.
“We started slow, then I saw it —
NBC — and something clicked in
me,” the New York native said.
Britton proceeded to make it his
self-appointed duty to taunt, tease
and harass Houston’s Kenny “Juice”
Williams in any manner that he
found effective.
“I was just talking to him out
there and he’s just totally upset with
David Britton,” Britton said of Wil
liams. “I just told him he wasn’t
going to get 30 points and I re
minded him that he went I-for-11 in
our first game. But tell Juice that I
like him.
Obviously, Britton had fun
against Houston. But Woods saw
the game in a different light.
“I lost my composure out there
today,” Woods said, indicating that
he was unhappy with some of the
physical play that the Cougars got
away with. "That’s something I hope
to never do again for a long time.
That’s not me.
“Kenny Williams was playing
street ball and I played street ball
Strength coach hired
fhe brow
yas done#
iber stii:l enm Athletic Director Marvin
^inounced Saturday that Mike
irdinatom 31-year-old weight training
ildsonVP'T has been added to Texas
of him; i!f ' s a ^ et ' c department staff as a
naldsor-f 111 p coac h •
dson” pd football coach Tom Wilson,
ire fromt* ec0m 111 e 11 ded Flynt for the
rsatP ,)n > sa’ch We felt like we
^ t ocoi® to stress weight training and
I litioning more* to improve our
s Jm and we made an extensive
n opene® fr |r the best man available,
iiddn [-^excited about securing some-
las capable as Mike Flynt for the
bte said Flynt will serve as
m*! Bth coach for men and women
Jll Worts.
flynt, who grew up in Odessa
Baduated from Permian High,
■lead strength coach at the Uni-
Bit' of Oregon one year before
■ting the job at Texas A&M.
olerenW| to that he served as assistant
Olins fr* pgtli coach two years at the Uni-
1, tsity of Nebraska,
oss oftbBis is a fantastic opportunity for
Olins 0 ®said Flynt, who will start the
inrent’fall 0 ff. season conditioning
hefts, ogram today. “Strength builds
ence and that combined with
i^feat talent at A&M should re-
)doned#B n g rea t er athletic success
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Permian’s first state championship
football team in 1965. He was re
cruited by Arkansas and played
freshman football there. He drop
ped out of school one year to help
with the family business in Odessa
and then finished his education at
Sul Ross College, where he was a
linebacker. Flynt and his wife, Ei
leen, have a four-year-old daughter,
Delanie.
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will begin today at the Athletic De-
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with sales to the general public be
ginning Feb. 12.
The price for a reserved season
ticket is $54 for 18 dates. However,
faculty and staff may buy up to four
season ticets at the discounted price
of $36 per season ticket.
All season tickets must be purch
ased in person at the ticket office.
No phone or mail orders will be ac
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by the purchaser, and the priority
for those seats will remain in effect
as long as the season tickets ar
purchased each year and the
employee remains on the Texas
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Season ticket sales will continue
until Feb. 23. the two-time defend
ing Southwest Conference champ
ion Aggies open the season Feb. 22
in an exhibition game against Hosei
University of Tokyo, Japan. Season
ticket holders will be admitted free
to this game if they present a ticket
to the LSU series whieh begins Feb.
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with him and that’s just not my
game. I was acting like a child, but
that’s just the freshman in me.”
Britton sees a different side of his
6-foot-11 teammate.
“Rudy has learned how to handle
himself, he said. “The other day I
was looking at his scrapbook and
earlier in the season he looked like a
high school kid playing college ball.
Now, he looks like a No. 1 college
center. He’s intimidating.”
With the crucial schedule the Ag
gies face in the coming week, it is
going to take more than intimidation
for Texas A&M to stay on top in the
Southwest Conference.
BOX SCORE
HOUSTON (58)
Walker 6 4-5 16, Ewing 6 0-1 12, Williams 7
0-0 14, Ciolli 1 1-2 3, Hamilton 1 0-0 2,
O’Neall 0 0-0 0, G. Smith 0 0-0 0, Gibson 0 0-0
0, Sauls 4 3-4 11. Totals 25 8-12 58.
TEXAS A&M (66)
V. Smith 11 2-2 24, Wright 4 2-5 10, Woods 4
3-3 11, Goff 2 1-2 5, Ladson 4 2-2 10, Britton 3
0-0 6, Gulton 0 0-0 0, Sylestine 0 0-0 0. Totals
28 10-14 66.
Halftime — Texas A&M 37, Houston 31.
Folded Out — none. Total Fouls — Houston
15, Texas A&M 14. Technical Foul —
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