Page 12 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1980
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Ag wall crumbles as
Raiders win. 63-53
By TONY GALLUCCI
Sports Editor
LUBBOCK — Texas A&M
stretched the balloon until it burst
Monday. The men’s basketball team
suffered its first conference loss of
the season, falling to Texas Tech BB
SS.
Coach Shelby Metcalfs men
found out that playing just well
enough to win wasn’t going to cut it
this time. The loss snapped a nine-
game winning streak for the Aggies.
The Ags played just good enough
the first half and took a 30-28 lead to
the locker room. Early in the second
half Texas A&M hit the basket
enough to stay even, but Tech never
let the game get out of hand. Texas
A&M’s last lead came at 40-39 with
eight minutes left.
“The turning point came with the
score 41-41,” said Metcalf. “We
made two mistakes in a row and nev
er caught up again.’’
In that stretch, Ralph Brewster
got a stuff and Rudy Woods fouled
him. Brewster missed the three
point play, but Ben Hill picked up
the rebound and put it back in for a
45-41 lead.
Thiry seconds later came the play
that put the game out of reach.
Vernon Smith was whistled for his
fifth foul underneath the Tech bas
ket. After the foul was called, Smith
muttered something referee Mike
Tanko didn’t like and Smith was
given a technical.
David Little was allowed to shoot
the one-and-one and hit both shots.
Kent Williams sank the free throw on
the technical.
Texas A&M started pressing on
the inbound. Tech went into a four-
corner offense then. Brewster went
to the bucket with six minutes left for
an easy layup, but he was fouled by
Rynn Wright. He connected on the
three-point play to put the Raiders
up by 10 at 51-41.
The Aggies battled back, coming
within four points several times, but
were unable regain the lead.
A final spurt by Tech resulted in
the winning 10-point margin.
Brewster and Jeff Taylor were
stand-outs for Texas Tech. Taylor
was Tech’s leading scorer with 13
points. Williams, Brewster and Lit
tle each had 12 points. Brewster was
the leading rebounder for Tech with
seven points.
“We had a great effort from every
one, ’ said Tech head coach Gerald
Myers, "and our inside people play
ed especially well. We started out
to try and stop them on the inside
game. Brewster, Hill and Little did
an outstanding defensive job.
“I also have to compliment Wil
liams and Taylor on their smart
play,” Myers said. “1 really can’t
single out anybody. It was just a
great team effort.
“We played with a lot more inten
sity this time than we did in College
Station,” said Tech senior guard Wil
liams. “They just tried to overpower
us and they were good at it, but our
defense just did so much for us.
Brewster did an excellent job on the
boards and we were able to get some
fast, breaking buckets.”
Wright was the Aggies leading
scorer with 13 points. He hit six of six
free throws in the last stretch to keep
the Aggies close. Freshman Claude
Riley had another outstanding game,
hitting five of his six shots from the
floor. He also had five rebounds.
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Woods scored eight points Sr
pulled down 11 rebounds inB
game.
“We just didn’t have a good pi
formance,” said Metcalf. “TeellJ
served to win. They played!
than we did. They hadaj
plan and they stayed with ill
They were almost perfectirmJ
free throw line in the second MB?
kept us from catching up.” I Chai
“1 thought we played a goodl asior rei
half, but we just never gotitgoin sib Sysi
the second half, he said. B char
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would have been
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win in Arkansas, but I’ll tala
chances with this team,” MetiM ’
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the SWC lead with 9-1 records.iBellor
has taken sole possession of Bencit
place. Texas A&M’s season raMegan
now stands at 17-6. Barvis
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ball team battled its way to a nine-
point lead over Texas Tech last night
before escaping with a narrow 66-64
Rebounding Britton
Texas A&M Guard David Britton snatches a
rebound against Arkansas earlier this year in
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper, Jr.
DIETING?
The Aggie Ladies, down by as
much as 10 points early in the first
half, slowed the game down with a
deliberate offense and went to the
locker room at the half trailing, 34-
32.
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some,” said head coach Cherri Rapp
of playing catch-up early in the
game. “We were taking some bad
shots, so we just slowed it down a
little. Our press began to work and
our defense looked better. ”
After the early going, the teams
began trading shots. The Aggies’
shots were falling more often,
though. The press wore into Tech’s
running style of play and Kelley Sul
livan came up with two steals and
some important rebounds in helping
the Ags catch the Raiders.
With 43 seconds left in the first
half Cathy Fuller hit a turnaround
jumper to bring A&M within two at
32-30.
To start the second half, the
Aggies came out hot and Tech’s big
center Pam Stone went cold. Sulli
van added two steals early and after
the second fed Peggy Pope under
neath. Pope was fouled on her shot
and hit both free throws to give the
Ags their first tie since the early
going, at 42-all. There was 15:42 left
in the game.
Texas A&M took its first lead at
46-44, two minutes later. Another
four minutes of trade-offs occurred
before the Aggies went ahead for
good at 50-48.
Again, the Aggie press and strong
defensive rebounding began to wear
on Tech and A&M, taking advan
tage, jumped to a quick nine-point
lead at 63-54 with three minutes left.
Tech, though, showed the mettle
that has earned them a 19-7 record.
The Tech ladies, utilizing a strong
press of their own cut the Ag lead to
one point, 65-64, with ten seconds
remaining on a baseline drive by
Gwen MacRae.
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but not the net, giving Texas .tt|
the victory over the state’s foul
ranked Tech team. The Aggies.’
currently ranked fifth in thesljli|
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were Lori Foreman with 16 poii
Pope with 13 points. Baker wit!
points and Trigg Crawford wi
Foreman was Texas A&M’s W|
rebounder with nine.
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