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
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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. After that the gals venture to
Austin where they will play the
Longhorn girls squad following the
men’s matchup Saturday at 5:00
p.m.
—Tony Gallucci
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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
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but missed them. I think it threw
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fense. Everything was under control
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“And of course, we ran the four
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very effective. You’ve got to be ag
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and we got several crip shots.
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just taking them one at a time,” said
Riley. “And I’m ready for Arkan-
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