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FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1979
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Aggieland 250
Racers return to TWS
By MARK PATTERSON
Battalion Sports Staff
Load the beer, load the kids and
come a’runnin’. It’s race time again.
The Texas World Speedway kicks off
its 1979 racing season this weekend
with two days full of racing and chili
cooking.
Qualification runs and time trials
for the Aggieland 250 and the Texas
Race of Champions will be held
Saturday beginning at 8:30 a. m. The
two-day affair will be topped off
Sunday with the running of the Ag
gieland 250, bringing together the
top stock car drivers in the country.
The Aggieland 250 is scheduled to
begin at 2 p.m.
The field will be led by local fa-
vaorite A. J. Foyt, the defending Ag
gieland 250 winner. Foyt took a nar
row victory over veteran driver
Bobby Allison last year.
The race this weekend marks the
23rd consecutive year that Foyt has
raced with the United States Auto
Club, since the organization came
into existence in 1956.
In the last three years, Foyt has
competed in all 13 races held at the
local oval, winning seven times.
Last year’s victory started Foyt on
his way to winning another US AC
National Stock Car Championship,
his first stock car title in the last 10
years. He will be driving the same
Camaro in which he won the title
last year.
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico
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I A&M to a 79-68 victory over
few Mexico in the first round of the
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eno, which defeated Oregon State
. ,K1 Wednesday night, in the NIT
- Thfe round Monday.
The Aggies used a zone defense
4 hot shooting from the floor to
kettommand of the game early,
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court teams in the nation,” Texas
A&M coach Shelby Metcalf said.
“I’m very proud of our squad.
“We were patient. We took good
shots. There were times in the first
half when we took a couple of bad
shots.”
The Aggies held a 38-34 halftime
lead and maintained a small lead
until New Mexico’s Larry Belin
connected on a 20-foot jump shot to
give the Lobos their only lead at
53-52 with 9:22 to play.
Wright gave Texas A&M the lead
again with a stuff shot 20 seconds
later and the Aggies never trailed
again.
“I think the team finally got to
gether and played a good basketball
game,” Metcalf said. “They really
had it together and really played to
night.”
New Mexico, which finished the
season at 19-10, was led by Belin
with 13 points.
Texas A&M’s aggressive zone de
fense prevented New Mexico from
getting very many good shots.
The normally high-scoring Lobos,
who had averaged nearly 90 points
per game this year, hit only 38.1
percent of their field goal attempts.
Texas A&M, meantime, got sev
eral easy shots off its fast break and
combined it with the patient offense
to set up short shorts by Smith,
Wright and 6-11 center Rudy
Woods, who finished with 15.
The Aggies, who shot 62 percent
from the field for the game, boosted
their season record to 23-8.
BOX SCORE
TEXAS A&M (79)
Wright 10 3-3 23, Smith 11 1-2 23, Woods 5
5-7 15, Goff 1 2-2 4, Britton 2 2-5 6, Ladson 0
2-3 2, Sylestine 2 2-3 6. Totals 31 17-25 79.
NEW MEXICO (68)
Abney 4 1-2 9, Logan 2 2-3 6, Roby 3 0-0 6,
Jefferson 4 2-4 10, Felix 3 2-2 8, Saunders 4
2-2 10, Belin 6 1-2 13, Stewart 3 0-0 6,
Williams 0 0-0 0. Totals 29 10-15 68.
Halftime—Texas A&M 38, New Mexico 34.
Fouled out—Abney, Logan. Total fouls
—Texas A&M 17, New Mexico 23. Technical
foul—Wright. A—18,038.
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The Texas A&M women’s bas
ketball team ended its 1979 sea
son Wednesday night.
The Aggies lost to Louisiana
Tech 82-75 in the opening round
of the AIAW regional tourna
ment in Tulsa, Okla. Louisiana
Tech was rated fourth in the na
tion.
For the Aggies, who finished
the season with a 26-18 record,
Karen Gentz scored 20 points,
Susan Kimbro scored 14 and Kel
ley Sullivan scored 10.
In qualification runs last year
Foyt set the speedway record for
stock cars, clocking 173.36 miles per
hour on the two mile paved oval.
But the task of repeating as Aggie
land 250 champion will be hard to
do. The best stock car field ever as
sembled at TWS will take to the
AJ.
Foyt
track and try to unseat Foyt and
earn the $6,310 first prize money.
Janet Guthrie will make her Texas
racing debut when the only woman
to qualify for the Indianapolis 500
takes to the track this weekend.
Guthrie will be behind the wheel of
a Camaro built by Bay Darnell, the
1977 winner of the Texas 500 run at
the speedway.
The car, sponsored by Armstrong
Mould and Glass Company of In
dianapolis, was driven to victory
twice last year by two-time Indy 500
winner Bobby Unser.
“With the car she’s driving, Janet
has a very good shot to win this
thing,” Speedway President R.C.
Conole said of Guthrie’s shot at the
title. “The car has been very well
prepared by Bay Darnell and has a
chance at upsetting A.J., Bobby (Al
lison) and Terry Ryan.”
Allison will he trying to roll into
the winner’s circle for the first time
at the speedway. Last year Allison
protested Foyt’s victory, claiming
that Foyt had bumped him on one of
the early laps in the race. It took
US AC scorers a week to review the
race and overrule Allison’s protest,
awarding Foyt the title and the 300
National Driving points that accom
pany the victory.
The running of the Aggieland 250
will be preceded by the Texas Race
of Champions, scheduled to begin at
1 p.m. Sunday. The top stock car
drivers in the state will compete in
the fourth annual contest to deter
mine the top short-track driver in
the state. A second Race of Cham
pions will follow the running of the
Aggieland 250.
And if cars aren’t your fancy, the
second annual Texas World Open
Chili Championship will be held
Saturday, with the winner receivng
an automatic berth into the National
Chili Championships held in Ter-
lingua later this spring. Saturday
night a live band will perform for
the overnight campers on Texas
World Speedway’s infield.
Tickets for the races and weekend
activities are selling for $10 to $25
and may be obtained at the speed
way.
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LUBBOCK — Led by junior for-
ike Woodson’s 30 points, the
igiplihed Indiana Hoosiers de
late! Texas Tech, 78-59, Thursday
i| in an opening round National
ivitlition Tournament game.
The game was tied only once at
•2 vfith 58 seconds gone — as the
in Hoosiers built up a 21-point
f 35-14 with 3:01 remaining in
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ie Hoosier first half 3919 margin,
ut Indiana helped its own cause by
itting 18 of 26 field goal attempts
jr 68 percent.
pie Raiders, by contract, hit 19.4
rcent on six of 31 attempts.
About all Tech could muster be
fore a 10,000 standing-room only
crowd was an 18-16 first half edge in
rebounding.
Three of the Indiana starting five,
which did not include a senior
player, hit for double figures.
Sophomore Ray Tolbert added 18
and junior Butch Carter hit 11.
Texas Tech was paced by
freshman forward Jeff Taylor with 15
points — 11 of them in the second
half. Senior Geoff Huston added
another 14 for the Raiders, now
19-11 for the season.
The Hoosiers took the floor in the
second half and ran off nine unan
swered points to increase the mar
gin to 48-19.
With 5:25 remaining, Indiana led
71-40 in a game that was not as close
as the final score might indicate.
The Hoosiers, 19-12 on the year,
will meet the Mississippi State-
Alcorn State winner in
Bloomington, Ind., on Monday.
BOX SCORE
INDIANA (78)
Woodson 11 8-9 30, Tolbert 8 2-2 18, Turner 0
1-2 1, Wittman 4 0-0 8, Carter 4 3-4 11, Eells 1
0-0 2, Risley 3 0-0 6, Reish 0 0-0 0, Isenbarger
1 0-0 2, Totals 32 14-17 79
TEXAS TECH (59)
Hill 5 0-0 10, McPherson 0 2-2 2, Brewster 2
1-2 5, Huston 7 0-0 14, Williams 2 1-1 5,
Taylor 5 5-6 15, Baxter 3 2-2 8, Little 0 0-0 0,
Parks 0 0-0 0, Washington 0 0-0 0, Sanders 0
0-0 0, Totals 24 11-13 59.
Halftime—Indiana 39, Texas Tech 19. Fouled
out—none. Total fouls—Indiana 14, Texas
Tech 17. A—10,000.
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