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THE BATTALION Page 13 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1980 ports Vill meet;. beat Horned Frogs, 57-48 enersyi saverj ■ Storage u - lock - IT 10 X 20 - $25 693-2339 P-m, inj BY MIKE BURRICHTER a tional d cuss p.m. i )N ic M:\Vill, entations Sports Editor e Texas A&M basketball team wits last home game of the season P-m.Tuesday night, 57-48, to move a me closer to winning the South- squareifSt Conference regular season Emission B !>a m P ionshi P- (neisim A. victory in Houston against the oftgars Friday will give the Aggies e crown, something that has uded them since 1976. The ougars will be coming off an 81-74 jBjto Rice Wednesday night. Four seniors, David Goff, Steve Hstine, David Britton and John chlieher played their last game in iRollie White. A crowd of 5,058 the film lowed its appreciation for the four j. Everyiftfyeral times, climaxing with a Wing ovation when seldom-used mlicher entered the game for the •st time with 1:36 left to play, jtexas A&M coach Shelby Metcalf, ■ got to use all twelve of his play- thletewho»j n ^e win, was impressed with /ie at i:oOi| Horned Frogs. ■CU came down here and made gin atSp.m team the win,” Metcalf said. “They i the MSCtayed a very disciplined offensed ■also good, tough defense. (TCU ill be playi* Killin g swort h is building house Tiril? all > g°od Program up there.” Killingsworth used only six of his ay< i s in the game. TCU is a team Aggie Plavfjthout a senior, and played most of rday andagA ame with three freshmen on the ;ning. Thepimrt Killingsworth said his team diner whick. 0V ed to be a worthy opponent for fbeingmeKe league leaders, r at the doonj“VVe had a shot at them a couple of Bs in the second half, but Brit ton’s three point play that put them back up by 10 really hurt,” he said. “Still, our guys didn’t hang it up after that. I was hoping that our young kids would come in and play well. “Texas A&M is a fine ball club. Everybody pecked A&M to win it and then people said A&M would screw it up somehow. But the Aggies came on and got better as the year went. Shelby did a fine job.” David Britton was the offensive star for the Ags, scoring 18 points, 10 of which came in the first half. He also provided some good entertain ment for the crowd. “I wish I could have done every thing tonight,” the Harlem native said. “I wanted to get a dunk, but it just didn’t happen.” Goff said the team was really up after hearing about SMU’s upset win over Arkansas Monday night, a win that moved the Ags into sole posses sion of first place. “I had given up the thought of win ning it all,” he said. “I was sure we’d end up in a tie. When someone cal led me last night and told me, I thought they were kidding. ” Britton’s 18 points led all scorers. Rudy Woods had 13. TCU was led by junior Deckery Johnson, who had 13. Once again, the front line of Woods, Rynn Wright, who had four blocked shots, and Vernon Smith snagged 24 rebounds, four more than the Frogs. The Ags pulled down a total of 36 rebounds. Texas A&M plays at Houston Fri day at 8 p. m. in a regionally televised game. et at 7:30 p. ers. : study at | apel. 11s will si 'ill have ):30p.m.al Senior John Schlicher cuts down the basket ball net after his last home game with TCU at G. Rollie White last night. The final score was 57-48. The Ags journey to Houston Friday to play the University of Houston Cougars in the last regular SWC basketball game of the sea son. The game, which starts at 8 p.m., will be televised. Staff photo by Lynn Blanco aseball team ins in openers 1 Aggie PlaviJ four teen-i i Italian cy parents try it 7:30 and 9; ; loom ingin A By KATHLEEN McELROY Sports Staff B The Texas A&M baseball team opened its 1980 season Monday by MSC to pi ideating the St. Mary’s Rattlers 8-1 and 8-2 in a doubleheader at Olsen Field. The Aggies were almost as perfect as the sunny, pleasant weather, jenior center fielder Simon Glenn got on base six of the eight times he me to the plate, and Coach Tom Chandler’s inexperienced pitching Staff pitched like veterans. In the first game sophomore starter Bobby Taylor pitched his way t of a jam in the second inning, giving up two runs after loading the [aseswithjustoneout. He gave up two hits in five innings pitched, and as relieved by freshman Robert Slavens in the final two innings. Offensively, Chandler expected histeam tb have spefed thisyfek'r, blit* ;s of the nia no power — but the Aggies demonstrated ample quantities of both. In ie; and tonic lie third inning of the opener, senior right fielder Mike Hurdle broke ifairly forarii open the game with a three-run homer over the left field wall, bringing at midnight in junior first baseman Rodney Hodde and junior shortstop Bryan iLittle. In the fifth. Hurdle also singled in Hodde, who had doubled. —r- In the second game freshman pitcher Rick Luecken threw five no-hit Hinings in his first college start. Lueken completely shut out St. , Blary’s, which has been an NAIA power team for the last two decades. ® /j Lueken struck out five batters while walking three in the innings he ^ 1 Vlf^itched. Freshman David Flores replaced Lueken in the sixth and J.X J.1V gave up the only Rattler run in that game. Hodde led off the second inning of the Final game with a homer over the scoreboard. That was the beginning of a six-run, 10-batter inning for the Aggies. L Chandler had planned to pull out his young pitchers after they threw 60 pitches — he said he didn’t want them overworked early in the ason when they’re not in top playing condition. 5 Glenn, Flores (the designated hitter in the first game), Hodde, and eshman catcher Joe Szekely each batted in a run in the first game. ;e more consl tes widely aore likely to® “Our boys were swinging the bat real well, ” Chandler said after the nes parked iT ction sites at$| Glenn, who has been moved up to leadoff batter, got on base with a ng them hoift^alk and a single to left field in the opener. In the second, he had two alks, a single and reached base on an error. He stole two bases alone >ackshoes, tarj in both games and combined with Little for a double steal in each er machines ^garne. id in Califorij® The next oppenent for Texas A&M is Northeast Louisiana, an inde- >eared. Bywm pendent school that Chandler says has a well-balanced line-up. The achines were ^three-game series will begin Friday at Olsen Field. New Jrsey - - ’ — Tennis team falls to Trinity By RICHARD OLIVER Staff Writer Despite beautiful weather and a vocal Aggie crowd to back them up, the Texas A&M tennis team was trounced 8-1 Tuesday in a dual match against nationally-ranked Trinity University. Trinity, ranked second in the na tion, was paced by senior All- American Tony Giammalva. The first-seeded Trinity player combined flawless passing shots and a steady serve to overcome top-seeded Aggie Alberto Jimenez, 6-1, 6-1. Brian Joelson, a big factor in the • recent Aggie successes including a second place finish in the Pan Amer ican tennis tournament Saturday, provided the lone Aggie victory, 7-6, 6-2, over Eddie Reese. Joelson is a highly recruited freshman from Ore gon. Both players were seeded fifth in this match. 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