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f THE BATTALION Page 15 MONDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1979 'uvusur im minis^ R e s would l the world. weredtopaji led. seking a release old •nternatjoj efore Is| ai and Clarenj onimittee i if e.xploralop i pound Sit id outside tlj just ta erdisavo ‘cause he >n oursidr illionlraiiuj of special 11 -e on thel'J Ags crush Catamounts, 98-66 u>/» By SEAN PETTY Battalion Sports Editor The Texas Aggies were a little for ward Saturday in defeating the Ver mont Catamounts, 98-66 in G. Rollie White Coliseum. In fact, they were a lot forward as Dallasites Rynn Wright and Vernon Smith, the Starting forwards for the A&M team, combined for 40 points (20 points each) as the Aggies coasted by the smaller Catamounts. Wright led the Aggies to a 42-31 halftime lead with his 14 first-half points and seven rebounds. Smith took over in the second half as he scored 16 points and pulled down five rebounds. Wright led the team in rebounds with nine; Smith had seven and center Rudy Woods had six. The Aggies dominated Vermont from the opening tipoff with their aggressive defense and monstrous front line of 6-8 Smith, 6-6 Wright and 6-11 Woods. The Catamounts rarely worked the ball inside and could manage only five points in the first seven minutes of the game. “We’ve improved a lot but still need a lot of work,” said A&M Coach Shelby Metcalf. “We had a chance to do a little polishing and I think we’ve gotten better each game. “I thought our shot selection was a lot better than it has been in the past. “Everybody played well but the guys that impressed me the most were the guys on our scout team. Those guys play hard in practice, they really enjoy playing and they represent the school well when they’re on the court.’’ The Aggies’ full-court press gave Vermont fits throughout the first half. “We watched films over and over to see what we had been doing wrong,” Metcalf said of the A&M press which had not been very effec tive before the Vermont game. “When you can watch yourself and see your mistakes over and over, you have a tendency to correct the mis take.” The Aggies didn’t make too many mistakes on either end of the court. And they improved their shooting percentage as they shot 54.1 percent from the field and 66.7 percent from the free-throw line. Vermont shot 43.8 percent from the field and 72.7 percent from the free-throw line. Freshman Claude Riley continues to show improvement as he scored 14 points, pulled down eight re bounds and blocked two shots. One of the things that didn’t show Longhorns to battle DePaul much improvement was the attend ance. There were only 4,647 fans at the game and 35 of those fans were young boys from the Bryan Boys Club who were brought to the game by members of Mclnnis Hall. The Aggies started looking like the team that is picked to win the South west Conference. The Aggie bench is much stronger this year with the addition of Riley, Rob Wright, Bruce Sooter and Jay McHugh. Senior co captain David Britton and Wright can supply the spark to fire the Aggies up if starting guards Dave Goff and Steve Sylestine can’t get the team moving. The Aggies play the Sam Houston State Bearkats tonight at 7:30 in G. Rollie White. “Just tell everyone they can come out and watch us play and they can still catch the second half of the Houston-Pittsburgh game,” Metcalf said hoping that more fans would show up to support the Ags although the Oilers and Steelers are on television tonight. VERMONT (66) Nocera 1 2-3 4, Evelti 4 4-5 12, Beynnon 1 1-2 3, Brown 6 3-4 15, Wielgus 1 1-2 3, Thode 4 1-2 9, Cor- rell 1 2-2 4, McKenzie 2 3-4 7, Baker 0 4-4 4, Vigeont 1 3-5 5, Woodlee 0 0-0 0. Totals: 21 24-33 66. TEXAS A&M (98) Smith 9 2-5 20, Rynn Wright 10‘ 0-1 20, Woods 3 2-2 8, Goff 3 0-0 6, Sylestine 4 12 9, Ladson 0 2-2 2, Riley 3 8-11 14, Rob Wright 2 0-0 4, McHugh 1 0-0 2, Britton 3 0-0 6, Sooter 0 0-0 0, Buford 0 1-2 1, Vorlop 1 0-0 2, Surman 1 2-2 4, Kleb 0 0-00. Totals— 40 18-27 98. ;< Halftime — Texas A&M 42, Ver mont 31. Fouled out — Beynnon, Vermont. Total fouls — Vermont 28, Texas A&M 28. Technical foul — Thode, Vermont. A — 4,647. organizen Army' to restore ) the Pears laid. yet where be buried r, who was me to Fm wn by a idence was the ■rial family It ic Revolutio! to capture or > of the topp the poster Vail. uan vast o * Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Wright inflight Texas A&M forward Rynn Wright goes high in the air as he takes a shot against the Vermont Catamounts. v ilers looking for Earl break Steel Curtain United Press International The highlight of the young South west Conference basketball season comes tonight in the cozy gymna sium that the DePaul Blue Demons call home. Coach Abe Lemons and his Texas Longhorns, who last week played in the Boston Garden, will be in Alum- nai Hall tonight — a bandbox gym nasium in which the nation’s win- ningest active coach hangs out. “I’m asking for volunteers to go to DePaul,” said Lemons. “Anybody who wants to sign up and go is fine with me.” Texas is 3-0 thus far and DePaul, ranked 10th, has won its only game of the year — a 90-77 decision over Wisconsin. DePaul went to the Final Four of the NCAA last year, eventually finishing in third place. The Blue Demons return three starters from that team, including the nation’s leading freshman scorer from 1978- 79 — Mark Aguirre. Meyer will be going after his 599th victory as a college coach, a career dating back to the 1940’s. The other games on the Southwest Conference slate tonight have Rice (1-4) at Tulane, Texas A&M (3-2) hosting Sam Houston State, TCU (1- 1) at home against Illinois and Texas Tech (3-1) traveling to the Air Force. Arkansas (4-0) will meet the Athletes in Action at Little Rock in a game that will not count in the sea son record. The action during the middle of the week will be light, but Houston and Texas A&M will take part in tournaments next weekend. Houston, which lost twice at home last week (including a one-point stunner to Texas A&I), will be in the Albuquerque Cage Classic where the host University of New Mexico has had its basketball program rip ped to slireds by scandal, and Texas A&M will be in the BYU Classic. Other than Arkansas and Texas, the only unbeaten club in the SWC is Southern Methodist, which last Wednesday night surprised the 18th-ranked Kansas Jayhawks. SMU will not play this week until Saturday night when they go after win No. 5 at home against Texas- Arlington. 520.., io( 7t'i United Press International 10USTON — Not even Earl npbell has run up 100 yards inst the Pittsburgh Steelers de- se, but the fortunes of the Hous- Oilers tonight are riding on that tier being broken. ’hat chore is not easy. Witness number of 100-yard rushing 16th cent! Jes against the Steel Curtain this ,varm ofcuii son ’ ^ T one. ut there are other factors in the AFC Central battle in the Astro- ne which indicate Campbell, the Is leading rusher through 14 lies with 1,454 yards, can do it. is the good health of Oilers arterback Dan Pastorini, who had aainful right shoulder when he pleted four of 16 passes earlier in season at Pittsburgh. The Steelers won that game 38-7 § 1 held Campbell to 38 yards. n We knew Pastorini had some arm national >blems,” Joe Greene said. “We a-agua —whe’d missed some games. We >rflowed 4 tlike he couldn’t get the ball to his rough #11 divers so we just stacked up on >rn Nicaras d; We took away their one pie horn* apon ” „ y Since then, however, Houston has 'renotimn* lr t'hed to six wins in seven games cp of noorcJ ls Pastorini has thrown sharply and datedsccrr Aed off defenses. ^■Campbell, in his second year, got • „ an( |iiit«fast start against the Steelers. At mttled to 1 Nburgh early last season, he tjcopteftii phet! for 89 yards in a 24-17 Hous- >n victory. “You’ve got to make sure to cut off Is running lanes and not just at the lint of attack,’’ defensive lineman jo m Banaszak said. “People on the [ck side have got to do their jobs o.” There were other factors in Camp- sll’s favor. His rushing totals in his ily Monday night games have been 199, and 120 yards. His rushing totals in his last three games against the Steelers are deceptively low. He was held to 41, 62 and 38 yards in the three subsequent meetings, all Steelers wins. But two of those were blowouts in which Houston was forced to throw more, and in the other one Campbell was injured af ter amassing 41 yards in the first quarter. He still remembers the Donnie Shell blow which separated two ribs last year, and Oilers tight end Mike Barber can give a graphic descrip tion of Mike Wagner’s blow to his knee in the AFC Championship game last year. But there does not seem to be any animosity surround ing any recent Oilers-Steelers games. 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