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of 111 friend i out in Croitj, other. itry, from 4 for rot sal reedon gas an g said 1 ie the® is fro« me ah d on sian atti an ini e up it day naf his stm childrei THE BATTALION TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1979 Page 9 Slow-starting Aggies fall to Texas By DAVID BOGGAN Battalion Sports Editor If Texas A&M basketball coach helby Metcalf were granted three ishes, he might request something ike this: 1. A brand new 16,000-seat col- seum, 2. A big shade tree beside a bass- ailed lake, and 3. A good first half of basketball r his Texas Aggies. Or maybe he would wish for three ;ood first halves of basketball. In the second halves of Texas icM’s last three games, the Aggies iave outscored Arkansas, Texas ech and Texas 31-26, 40-32 and 17-30, respectively. Unfortunately Metcalf, the rules won’t allow for he first 20 minutes to be counted as arm-up. After playing bad first alves and eventually losing to the logs and the Raiders, the Aggies nee again got off to a bad start and ist to the Longhorns 65-57 Monday ight in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Prior to leaving for Fayetteville ist week, Metcalf commented that ree games were crucial, se- ing as how the Aggies could drop lithe way from a first place tie with exas to fourth place in the South west Conference. Monday night be Lemon’s Longhorns brought letcalfs fears to life. The Texas Aggies were just three alves of good basketball away from eingone of the nation’s top teams, “if we could hold Texas to 65 oints every game, I’d be happy,” letcalf said afterwards. “Our prob- m is not on the defensive end. We , ist need to get more offense and r| nnl iJioot a better percentage. “We’ve been kind of passive, asketball players are different, layers like Barry Davis and Sonny arker would play on both ends. Disi .orrupt liked b Englisi ut with some players it’s, “No hit, SWC notes no field.’ They’re kind of like baseball players. Things go bad on the offensive end and they don’t play well on the defensive end.” And things did go bad offensively for the Aggies in the first half. David Britton came off the bench and scored Texas A&M’s first points of the game with five minutes gone. By that time, the Longhorns already had 10 points. Texas A&M shot a cold 34.5 per cent from the floor in the first half while the Horns stampeded to a 35-20 halftime lead hitting 68 per cent of their field goals. “I believe if we ever go into halftime even,” Metcalf said, “we’ve got a damn good chance to win a ball game. We re getting beat in the first half.” The Aggies started chipping away at Texas 15-point lead when Britton took the inbounds pass and drove the lane for a slam dunk to start the second half. “We came out in the second half and everybody was playing 100 per cent,” Vernon Smith said. “Were playing good basketball; we just can’t get a good first half. Our of fense needs to be a little more pa tient. We could be passing around a little more. We’ve been getting lazy. We need to put more move ment into our offense.” Despite Texas’ 13 turnovers in the second half, the Aggies could get no closer than five points. Texas’ Tyrone Branyon ended the game with a salt-in-the-wound basket at the buzzer from downtown Navasota. “They don’t have to work very hard in practice now,” Metcalf said of the Longhorns who have estab lished a stable starting lineup in cluding seniors Branyon, John Moore, Phillip Stroud, Jim Krivacs 'and junior Ron Baxter. Texas’ first five played the entire game for the Longhorns. “Texas last game was last Tuesday. If they’d played at Tech Saturday night, I don’t believe they could play their starting five for 40 minutes. “Were going to see if we can’t get our lineup shuffled somewhat. And we might surprise you, too. We might start Rudy (Woods) at point guard.” That might not be such a bad idea, considering the fact that the rest of the conference has learned how to slow if not stop the big freshman at the post position. Woods, who averages about 15 points and 9 rebounds in conference play, has been held to a total of 19 points and 16 rebounds in the last three games. “The defenses have changed and we re just going to have to make an adjustment,” the Aggie coach said. “They’re sagging on us, playing be hind Rudy now, not in front. Rudy was killing them with his dunks. Now, that’s taken away from him.” Said Smith, “Rudy’s getting a lot of double-teaming now. We can’t get the ball to him as much as we used to.” Another lineup change that might be seen in the future would give Steve Sylestine more game time. In the last two games, tne junior from Clear Lake has come off the bench and scored 22 points. “From a coaching standpoint, he’s the greatest player I’ve ever been associated with,” Metcalf said of Sylestine, who hit four-of-five shots for eight points against Texas. Britton led the Aggies with 18 points while Smith scored 16. Texas A&M hit 40.6 percent from the floor as opposed to Texas’ 59 percent. Moore led the Horns with 23 points, hitting 10-of-12 from the floor. The league-leading Longhorns ily wen other p Razorbacks bomb Bears ms ial ;d gers Coni® United Press International WACO — Arkansas’ Sidney oncrief paced a well-balanced oring attack Monday night and the aorbacks set a Southwest Confer- ice record by hitting 83.3 percent their shots in the second half.to iwn the Baylor Bears, 71-62. J The victory kept Arkansas within lame of front-running Texas in the VC race. Moncrief scored 16 points to head Razorbacks while Steve Schall Ided 14 aad Scott Hastings chip- d in 13. Alan Zahn and U. S. led also scored in double-figures ith 12 each. Arkansas overcame an early defi- : to take a 33-30 halftime lead and len put the contest away with its irrid field goal percentage in the cond half. The Razorbacks shot com® yloniL 14 per cent for the game. Baylor’s leading scorer was the conference’s leading scorer — Vinnie Johnson, who managed 21 points. Johnson became Baylor’s third leading career scorer with his effort Monday night. In addition, Terry Teagle tossed in 16, and Pat Nunley 14 for the Bears. Arkansas moved to 18-4 for the season and is 10-3 in conference play. Baylor fell to 7-6 in conference action and is 13-10 for the year. DALLAS — Ken Williams, who scored 41 points when Houston played SMU earlier in the season, scored 38 points against the Mus tangs Monday night in sending the Cougars to a relatively easy 101-94 victory. The win moved Houston a half game ahead of SMU in the South west Conference standings and into position for a homecourt advantage in the opening round of the league’s post-season tournament. lissionfj ilcox« votes. 29 votj orPrecij rg hull.| until t 1. SintfJ 0111®** „ r e will lissio® 1 ' B chail f* e!l ri l prefl® 1 ! be No'; Dinted t to si ltd th e mt R is j jurl Coni'” 1 ] ■ount) jo )' e2i lyfL .aid n interest] -odayffl al s ° ■wid 11 to but?! e the "j STILL CARRYING THE HOLIDAYS WITH YOU? A lot of folks are still carrying leftovers around from the holidays. ISOS Total Fitness Center has the solution. We can dissolve leftovers, trim tummies, and firm muscles. All this in only minutes a day. 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