THE BATTALION Page 13
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1979
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By MARK W. PATTERSON
fe, Rosalvtf Battalion Sports Staff
3 to Thai Jjmove as sudden and hard hit-
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|nes has quit the Texas A&M
all team.
s, a sophomore out of Austin
High School, made a fast
home and left the Aggies two
'before they open play this sea-
mes left the team for reasons
[e still not clear to head coach
Metcalf.
came in and told us he was
for personal reasons,’ Met-
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forward. “He told me that he had
played basketball for his family and
friends all his life and now he was
going to do something that he
wanted to do.
“He said that he had been think
ing about quitting the team for about
a month. Bob (Gobin, assistant
coach) and I both talked to him about
the decision he made but we didn’t
try to talk him out of it. Once some
one decides that he doesn’t want to
play, I don’t try to talk him into
playing.
“But I can’t get concerned about
it. My concern is with the team and
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Battalion Sports Staff
i A&M’s women’s gymnastics
|vill host Texas Woman’s Uni
in a dual meet tomorrow at 6
G. Rollie White Coliseum,
ie than any other collegiate
[gymnastics involves a never-
change in its overall format,
|ing scoring, intricate routines,
increasing risk factor in many
laneuvers.
!constant changing adds more
end excitement to the sport,
it also puts added pressure on
1'innasts to keep up with the
t developments and newest
s.
jetators will get a chance Fri-
Isee A&M’s gymnasts keeping
Hi the times as two team mem-
. ,, [lerform a couple of firsts for
animals
at * n ly Mahle, a 4-foot-9 freshman
[Bryan High, will do a standing
ionatedbvl lip on the balance beam. The
nth wester. River was first brought onto the
tion at Ann-national scene during Olga Kor-
lected G«s memorable performance in
wanted as 72 Olympics,
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;ies wrestling
Rollie
Texas A&M Wrestling Club
)e hosting the Maroon-White
tonight in the wrestling room
Rollie White Coliseum,
matches will be between
lembers competing for 10 var-
:am positions.
ipeting in the matches will be
returning state champions, Bill
jy, John Sweatt, Curtis Tem-
i wrestling will be two Dallas
Iters, Phil Schuer, and Jay
Iman, said Santini, the club’s
first for A&M — an aerial walkover
on the balance beam. The freshman
from Stratford is taller than the aver
age gymnast, and because of her long
legs, she appears very elegant on the
beam and in floor exercises, A&M
coach Jan Fambro said.
Pratt was a qualifier for the 1979
United States Gymnastics Federa
tion (USGF) State and Regional
championships. USGF is the pre
dominant governing body of gym
nastics. Pratt ranked seventh All-
Around at USGF State, and sixth
All-Around at the Houston City
Championships.
Mahle placed fourth All-Around at
the Texas State High School Cham
pionships last year.
Two other freshmen competing
for A&M will be Kay Mann from
Dallas and Linda Philips from Gar
land. Mann finished in the finals of
two events at the Texas State Cham
pionships last year, and was also a
USGF State qualifier.
Philips was a USGF State, Re
gional and Senior Western Cham
pionship qualifier.
Returning from last year’s squad
are senior Kathy Pruett from
Washington, and sophomore Tracy
Shearin from San Antonio. Pruett, a
three-year letterman, is strongest on
the uneven parallel bars and on the
balance beam, Fambro said.
Last year A&M took third at the
State championship, five-tenths of a
point behind second-place finisher.
University of Texas. TCU won last
year’s state meet, and with all of its
team returning plus two new mem
bers, it is still considered the top
team in Texas.
we have to go with the people that
we have here.”
Jones was unavailable for com
ment Wednesday, but his mother
said her son hasn’t said a thing about
why he quit the team.
“We’re in the same boat as every
one else,” she said Wednesday
night. “He hasn’t said a thing to us
about why he came home. His father
and I aren’t going to back him into a
corner and find out why.
“He’s old enough to make his own
decisions.
“As far as we knew, everything
was fine. But we re here (in Austin)
and he was up there. The first time I
heard about it was when he called
and said he was coming home. We
didn’t ask why.
“When he gets ready to say some
thing about why he came home, he’ll
tell us. Right now, he seems com
fortable just being home.”
Jones played a backup role last
season at the wing and forward posi
tions in the Aggies’ offense. In the 18
games he appeared in, the 6-foot-7
freshman scored 58 points and pul
led down 24 rebounds.
“We were looking to Roy to give
us depth inside this season,” Metcalf
said. “We were also considering the
possibility of developing him into a
second guard in our offense. He was
playing good ball for us. He was
doing fine this season.”
Jones’s sudden departure left his
teammates confused as well. His
roommate, freshman Claude Riley,
was as shocked as everyone else on
Jones’s decision to quit basketball.
“I found out about him quitting
two days before he left,” Riley said.
“He never did discuss anything ab
out it with me. He said that he
wanted to talk to his mother before
he said anything to anyone.
Roy
Jones
“He shocked me. He said that he
just wanted to get away from it (bas
ketball) for a while because he wasn’t
enjoying it like he used to.
“He never did say he didn’t want
to play here. I know that no one on
the team was a problem, or the
coaches, either.”
Rudy Woods, the other freshman
on last year’s squad besides Jones,
tried to talk to Jones before he left
A&M. Woods’s attempt to persuade
him to stay were in vain.
“It shocked me when I heard his
decision,” Woods said. “I heard ab
out him leaving and I had to see if I
could say anything to keep him here.
“I thought we were pretty tight
but I found out that we weren’t. He
didn’t even say a thing to me about
FAftME&S MABEET
it. The first I heard about it was when
Coach (Metcalf) called us together at
the end of practice and told us about
Roy leaving. ”
Jones’s days as an Aggie may not
be over. Metcalf said he talked to
Jones about transferring to a junior
college, playing for a year and re
turning to A&M to finish his college
basketball career.
“I would definitely like to see him
go to a junior college and come back
here,” Metcalf said. “A&M is the
only NCAA Division I school that he
could play for, without graduating
from a junior college first.
“He talked on the phone to two
junior college coaches in my office
before he left. He can’t play this year
but he could transfer and play at a
junior college next year and return to
A&M.”
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