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THE BATTALION MONDAY. JANUARY 21, 1980 Page 11 —Britton, Ags demolish hapless Owls By TONY GALLUCCI Sports Editor I was concerned that we weren’t ready to play ball, but I felt good after being in the locker room be fore the game. Then, after I saw bow we came out and played de fense the first ten minutes I knew we’d come to play,” said a relieved coach Shelby Metcalf following the Rice-A&M basketball game in Houston Saturday night. Indeed, the Aggies had come to play and ienior guard David Britton layed em in, stuffed ’em through and acked ’em up in leading the South west Conference leading Aggies to [■an 84-65 mobbing of the Rice Owls. The win, coupled with Arkansas’ ome from behind 60-57 victory jver Houston, sets up the battle of he unbeatens Tuesday night when :he Ags host the conference co leading Razorbacks. The Owls pushed the Texas Tech Red Raiders into overtime last Tuesday, and hinted that the Aggies ;hould be prepared to meet a chal lenge. The Aggies met that chal lenge in knocking off Rice for the I4th consecutive time. The teams traded baskets for [bout three minutes before Claude Riley hit two baskets and Britton added three in helping boost the Ags to a quick 22-6 lead with 11:21 remaining in the first half. The game was already a runaway five minutes deep but a little salt never hurts. Rice, employing a variety of zone defenses managed to keep the Ags from getting too far out of hand. After going scoreless for almost seven minutes Ricky Pierce con nected on both ends of a three-point play to narrow the Ag edge to 22-9. Pierce managed to pump in five more before the half for the Owls, but could do little else as the Aggie defense was stifling. In fact, with Rynn Wright and Riley doing a number on Pierce he was able to hit only three of his ten shots in the first half. ‘‘He did a lot of running around,” said Wright about Pierce who ended the night with 18 points and 14 re bounds. “He used a lot of picks to get open and it was kind of hard staying with him. He just turns and shoots in your face. There isn’t too much you can do. If you try to block it they’re gonna call a foul. ” Riley was pleased with his play, “I think that was one of my better games. I got on the board a little more than I usually do.” Metcalf was also happy with the way Riley played, “Over spurts everyone played well but I guess Claude looked about as good as anybody.” And Wright got plaudits also, “When it still counted — when it David Britton was still down there in the trenches I thought Rynn did a fine job.” To open the second half. Rice’ behind 36-22, came out and tested the willpower of an already celeb rant Aggie squad. Smith hit for the Ags to begin the half but five baskets and a free throw later the Aggies were ahead only by five. Metcalf called a timeout and the Ags were back in the game. “We weren’t screening out, you know, making our shots. We started playing a lot of individual ball. We just had to run our offense. Then they went to a man defense and it helped us a lot. We started moving,” said Wright. “They did give us an uneasy time there,” added Metcalf. The Aggies started getting easy points on a four-corner offense and boosted the lead to 73-53 with a lit tle over two minutes to play and Metcalf started using the bench. Eleven Aggies played and nine scored. Britton led all scorers with his 25 points and Smith tossed in 15. Steve Sylestine, Dave Goff and Claude Riley each added nine to the A&M cause. The leading Ag rebounder was Rudy Woods, who nonetheless was not too pleased with his per formance. “I just couldn’t get started; I played in spurts. My teammates played well, though,” Woods said. “He didn’t have an ady cagers oust North Texas Twelve Aggies played and twelve ggies scored as head coach Cherri lapp's basketball team upped their -I'w-'i eason record to 10-7 with an 82-50 lilClll hrashing of North Tex;is State Uni- ersity (NTSU) Saturday. Leading scorer for the Ags was >ri Foreman who continues to aid down the season scoring lead . e seldom beenli r effort is basedi ■'H-VgRi'e^wrest'K ' so ' ^ points Saturday and .i > j [averaging 16.0 points on the sea- "l • ii v'fli' )n ‘ Tammy Grafton was the only iship behind Hi fl _ ^ lege, which k ogram. The pit >d first. — Doufi Crol (her Aggie in double figures, tak- ig home 10 points, but several hers came close. Kelley Sullivan lr *■★★★★★* >ON! 822' 3300 1 n$4 lams imedy hit of the ytti ickey, Kerr at prestigious Ag football star Curtis Dickey ran outstanding 6.18 in the 55-meter ish Saturday in the U.S. Olympic vitational in Madison Square iarden. Running unattached, he nished second in the race, nipped the tape by 60-yard dash record older Houston McTear. McTear in a 6.17 in that race, after having it a meet record 6.16 in his trial eat. Leslie Kerr finished second in the had nine and Trigg Crawford, Pat; Werner, and Susan Kimbro each had eight. Foreman also led the Aggie rebounding corps with seven. Crawford and Grafton each pulled down six rebounds each. A&M beat their fourth opponent in a row by hitting the shots they needed from the floor. The Aggies connected on 32 of 60 shots for a fine 53.3 percent rating while NTSU was 20 percentage points worse at 20 for 60. The Ag ladies also put in 18 of their free tosses (69.2 percent) while NTSU only connected on 10 of their take seconds Olympic Inv. 400 meter race behind Mike Came ron of UTEP. Kerr had a 48.1 clock ing to Cameron’s 47.4. They ran in different heats. Two other Aggies competed at the meet with pole vaulter Randy Hall finishing fifth with a leap of 17-0% inches. Aggie high jumper Jimmy Howard could not continue after injuring his foot early in the meet. — Tony Gallucci 20 charity tosses. A&M led by a score of 43-22 at the halfway mark and came back to outscore the Eagles 37 to 28 in the second period of the game. The Ag gies out rebounded their opponents 51-39 in the contest. Team play and bench strength were plusses for the Aggies as no player spent more than 12 minutes in the game and A&M outassisted NTSU 24-11. The girls will face the Sam Hous ton Bearkats next. The Aggies de feated the ‘Kats in Huntsville last Thursday 94-52. That game is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, immediately prior to the men’s game. 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Jan.21, Time. ...7:30pm Place... .St. Mary’s For interested Non-Catholics & Catholic! especially good game but he’s had three great games in a row — you know — I’m not unhappy with the way anyone played — but we still haven’t peaked yet. We can still play better,” said Metcalf. As for the scare Rice produced at Tech, most everyone was glad to have this game over. The win makes the Aggies, at 5-0 and 13-5, the only holders of three road SWC victories. “You know Rice is coming on,” said Woods. “They’re just not there yet. If they beat us that would’ve made their season. But for us — well we just had to win. ” Metcalf was pleased with the zones the Ags ran — “They got close in that little stretch where we went man so we used three different zones to pick it up. Our 1-3-1 was effective and then we went to the 3-2 which, as it worked out, was ef fective. They had some good shots but missed them. I think it threw them off. They put up a couple of quick shots and we got the bounds; started running and moving on of fense. Everything was under control then. Then we played some 2-3. “And of course, we ran the four corners and had three guards in there,” Metcalf said of the late-game offense. “If you don’t try to score out of it then it’s not going to be very effective. You’ve got to be ag gressive. Basically, you shoot the crip shots and the free throws — and we got several crip shots. And now for the Hogs? “We re just taking them one at a time,” said Riley. “And I’m ready for Arkan- Who’s Hughes? First to develop a synchronous-orbit satellite, Syncom, initiating the whole era of space communications. First in high-technology electronics. Your first employer after graduation, perhaps! 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