sports
Ags thrash Horns
in G. Rollie
By MIKE BURRICHTER
Sports Editor
A couple of students brought a
ner to the basketball game at G.
lollie White Coliseum Saturday. It
itnber Jlacl: Beat the Hell out of tu, and
irshipKgie Copeland.”
e d49®' exas basketball coach Abe
(s. Rmons said the Aggies must have
Ipught the whole Texas team was
pde up of Reggie Copelands.
; The Aggies, still maddened by the
Rmory of their loss at Arkansas,
blasted the Longhorns 84-61 Satur-
| I Ky to keep pace with the Razorbacks
•A 4w the race for the SWC basketball
^ Hwn. Not since 1959, when a team
. Bched by Bob Rogers beat them
had the Ags whipped the
J ltorns so easily.
IKopeland was the referree in
Fayetteville Tuesday night who cal-
E a charging foul on Dave Goff at
ssolvedkq final buzzer. U.S. Reed sank the
d and rl|fe throw to give the Hogs a 45-44
of this actory and a share of the league
daily toifed.
c bubMeiflt was great from the standpoint
{bouncing back from the Arkansas
0 degrees Aggie coach Shelby Metcalf
ie gas, ul aid “The team did a great job of
?1 mixtawf™!? themselves up.”
enera! ^Vernon Smith scored 19 points
na the Ags stopped the Longhorn
H break and dominated the boards
j lead at the half, 48-36.
KThey were sagging back on Rudy,
Ring me open to take those shots, ”
^ R Smith, who hit on 9 of 11 shots
Bn the floor in the first half. “I felt
6 Rly good today so when I started
J ftting them I just kept shooting. ”
R^emon is a lot of fun to watch
?xecub' /hen he gets that shooting rythymn
with $ fcwii, Metcalf said.
Kie Ags shot 64 percent in the first
irateca' jtlf and 59 percent for the game. The
ds bigl 4ftghoms hit on only 40 percent for
n force if game. The Longhorns also had
;aid thi ieir problems at the foul line, mis-
overtu ing 10 of 27 free throw attempts,
nembersffcur guys were dead, what else
ing it mi you say,” Lemons said. “Just
e. Togetfck up the stats and they’ll tell the
activeg r ton'. We missed a whole bunch of
-half the tee throws. ”
1 ProduclThe Longhorns, having won five of
op 30 Fjeir last seven games, came into the
Re given a fair chance to upset the
percent iggies. But the only lead they could
ted havejuster Saturday was when LaSalle
tory la* Simpson had a three-point play to
seven «|ve the Horns a 3-2 lead with less
hi a minute gone in the game.
^With the Aggies leading 23-20
loundup
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Arkansas, which had to hold off the
trkedly improved Rice Owls in
mston, 77-73, and Texas A&M
ve 12-2 league records with two
mes left to go in the regular season
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midway through the half, Smith hit a
23-footer from the top of the key.
The Longhorns were never in the
game after that as Smith and the rest
of the team started popping in bas
kets from all over the court. Metcalf
also turned to his bench for help,
sending in Tyrone Ladson, Steve
Sylestine and Claude Riley to keep
the Aggie tempo high. Lemons said
he had nowhere to go in terms of
bench strength.
“Their bench strength was a differ
ence in the first half, at least in the
margin of their lead although it was
still a poor performance for us,”
Lemons said.
Smith and David Britton entered
the locker room before the game clad
in maroon and white tuxedoes in a
ploy to pick up the team’s spirits.
“The team was still kind of down at
practice Friday,” Smith said, “Me,
David and two trainers saw these
tuxes the other night. We wanted to
put some spirit into the team so we
wore them to game.”
It must have worked. Metcalt said
he was surprised to see the team play
so well after a slow week at practice.
“Wednesday we were really
hurt,” Metcalf said. “Thursday we
picked it up a little and Friday we
picked it up by that much more. I
wouldn’t have wanted to play anyone
until today.”
After his hot first half, the Lon
ghorns guarded Smith more closely.
He missed all five of his shots in the
second half but still lead the Ags with
21 points. Court jester David Brit
ton, whose spectacular Julius
Erving-style dunk in the second half
was one of the game’s highlights,
scored 20. Rudy Woods had 15
points and Rynn Wright added 12.
Woods, Smith, Wright and Britton
combined for 27 rebounds, two more
than the entire Texas team. The Ags
pulled down 40 rebounds in all. Ron
Baxter lead all scorers with 22 points.
The only other Longhorn in double
figures was John Danks, who had 11.
The victory gave the Ags a confer
ence record of 12-2 and tied them
with Arkansas. Their overall record
is now 20-7. The Horns fell to 8-6 in
the conference and 15-9 overall. The
Aggies play TCU next in a televised
game at G. Rollie Tuesday night.
Texas A&M’s Rynn Wright goes up for two against the Univer
sity of Texas Longhorns in Saturday afternoon’s game in G.
Rollie White. The Aggies WOn 84-61. Photo by Brian Blalock
Staff photo by Lynn Blanco
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Ags defeat Hogs,
take indoor crown
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FORT WORTH — The 1980
Southwest Conference Indoor track
and field championships Friday
night delivered a taste of things to
come.
Youngsters such as SMU’s
Michael Carter, Texas’ Herkie Walls
and Arkansas’ Stanley Redwine de
monstrated that they had would
probably be producing some heroics
during the next few years.
There were quite a few surprises
Friday night, not the least of which
was Texas A&M’s victory in the team
race over defending champion
Arkansas. The Aggies won the meet
for the first time in its seven-year
history, piling up 103 points to
Arkansas’ 95.
Another surprise came in the 60-
yard dash where Walls shot from the
blocks with a fantastic start and ran
the fifth fastest indoor 60 in history
— a time of 6.09.
Walls thus nipped Texas A&M’s
Curtis Dickey, a world-class sprinter
who had hopes of making the U.S.
Olympic team this year before the
American boycott was threatened.
The Razorbacks lost precious
points in the middle distances —
having to settle for a second place in
the 440-yard dash when Baylor’s
Zeke Jefferson upset Arkansas’ Pat
Mitchell.
Redwine, a freshman from Dallas,
won the 600-yard dash for the Hogs,
but Arkansas failed to pick up as
many points as it had hoped in the
1,000-yard run or in the 3-mile run.
But there was no surprise in the
shot put, where Carter made his de
but in a SWC championship. Carter
had been improving steadily during
the indoor season and he improved
again Friday night, throwing the
shot 67-0 3 /4.
That was the best effort in the
world this year.
“My goal has been to improve,”
said Carter, “and that’s what I’ve
done. I’m glad I got the record (his
toss shattered the SWC indoor mark
by more than four feet), but it was
more important to have improved on
my earlier best this year.”
Two weeks before Carter had
thrown recorded a 66-11 effort in
Louisville, Ky.
Texas A&M’s individual victories
came from Randy Hall in the pole
vault (16-6), Don Jones in the high
jump (7-1%) and Mike Glaspie in the
60-yard hurdles (7.30).
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