Page 10 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1979
Longhorns are on the elm
By SEAN PETTY
Battalion Staff
The Texas Longhorns came to the
sacred confines of G. Rollie White
Coliseum where no team had dared
defeat the dauntless Texas Aggies
this season. But the gladiators from
Austin rose up and slew the mighty
Aggie team, thus handing Texas
A&M its third Southwest Confer
ence loss in a row.
The Horns from the west brought
13 of their best to topple the quickly
fading Ags for the second time this
season. But they only used five the
entire 40 minutes to keep them
alive, atop the conference race.
The Longhorn heroes of the game
in the coliseum were not the same
ones who led Texas over the Aggies
in the Superdrum. The Horns
proved again that they are a cham
pionship caliber team by shifting the
Horns beat
ladies
Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
Texas A&M’s Joey Robinson battles for the ball
with Texas’ Ron Baxter in Monday night’s
game in G. Rollie White Coliseum. League
leading Texas won the contest 65-57. The Ag
gies, currently in fourth place in the SWC, lace
TCU and Rice before the post-season tourna
ment. Texas A&M must finish third if the Ag
gies hope to obtain a bye in the tournament.
If you don’t believe the Univer
sity of Texas women’s basketball
team is the second best squad in the
nation, just ask the Aggie Ladies.
Texas defeated Texas A&M 73-48
Monday night in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
“Our girls did play hard,” Texas
A&M coach Wanda Bender said.
“They fought the good fight. Texas
just has excellent shooters. I hope
and pray they win nationals and I
think they have a good chance to do
so. That will make the whole state of
Texas look good. And I won’t feel
near as bad losing to the national
champion.
Texas took a 44-21 halftime lead,
but the Aggies were only outscored
by two points in the second half.
“We decided to go for broke with
our man-for-man defense,” Bender
said. “We played a lot better on de
fense in the second half. They had to
work for the points they got.”
Evwella Munn led the Longhorns
with 17 points while Peggy Pope
was the leading scorer for the Aggies
wi th nine points.
The Aggies host Panola Junior
College at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
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scoring around. The Horns were led
by gita r d Ji m Krivacs and forward
Tyrone Branyan in Austin while
guard John Moore and forward Ron
Baxter carried the Texas banner in
Aggieland-
“This is the hardest place to play
in the conference,” said Texas coach
Abe Lemons of A&M s G. Rollie
White- “ You can’t talk to your team
here and if you haven’t coached
them well before you come here,
you’re in big trouble. It’s hard play
ing on the road, especially against a
good team like A&M.
“I’m really proud of our team be
cause they did most of this on their
own. It was an aggressive, hard
game and made a lot tougher by the
fact that our five starters played the
entire 40 minutes.”
The Longhorns jumped on the
Aggies the first half leading by 15 at
halftifne and shooting a sizzling 68.2
percent from the field. Moore had
11 at half while Baxter had 10.
But in the second half the Aggies
came emt pressing and playing a lot
more aggressively to cut the Horns
lead to five with 3:07 left in the
game- The Horns used a spread-
offense, which is basically a four
corner offense, the second half but
found themselves making turnovers
and mistakes they hadn’t made in
the first half.
“Everytime I looked up, there
were three guys on whoever had the
ball for us,” said Lemons. “We
started.to make mistakes. Then we
weren’t holding the ball as long as
we could and they (the Ags) just
came back on us.
“We used the spread-offense to
draw Rudy (Woods) out of the cen
ter to the front on Phillip (Stroud),”
said Baxter of the Horns’ strategy.
“We were in the right places on the
court to run it, we just didn’t exe
cute properly and made some bad
mistakes in the second half.
But the Longhorns made no mis
take putting the ball in the basket as
they ended the game shooting 59
percent from the field and 72.2 per
cent from the free throw line.
Moore finished the game making 10
of 12 from the field and three out of
five from the free throw line for a 23
point total. Baxter was second lead
ing scorer with 13.
"John Moore played a great
game, just lovely. He was really
charming out there,” Lemons said
jokingly referring to his recent con
flict with Arkansas coach Eddie Sut
ton where the Texas coach used
obscene language. “ Ya see. I’m try
ing to clean up my image. I’m get
ting tired of being in the society col
umn. I use words like gee-whiz,
golly and fiddle-foo.
“Fiddle-foo means anything you
want it to mean. I say it when I hit
my thumb with a hammer. But like
I said, Moore was really lovely to
night. See how my language has
changed,” he said, laughing with
reporters.
"But seriously, I thought Stroud
played just super for us. Lemons
said of the 6-7 center from Houston
who pulled down 13 rebounds for
the Longhorns. T just can’t say
enough about how he’s helped us
lately.”
The most amazing f at .|
game would have to be tin
starting Longhorn five
entire game. They stayed
Aggies’ running game and Wf
out-rebounded 33-29 by tin
cal Ags.
“I’ve got the initiative top
minutes so it’s okay will
Stroud said. “We try
things like this (play the start
entire game) because w e ’
some great guys on the herd
need the chance to play also,]
are all ready to play the who|(
if we need to.”
But it was Moore who]*!
ined up the meaning of
entire 40 minutes of a game,
“Tiredness is a mental stai
said. “You can get yourself
you don’t have the right
Everyone is concerned witf
tioning at Texas and you
yourself in the game, Hey
those sprints at practice, Ilj,
not tired.
“We played pretty well its
But it’s good to know we
better.”
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