Page 12 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1980
Aggies overcome sluggishness to beat TSU, 61-50
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
Aggies Rynn Wright (35) and Claude Riley (13)
jump for a possible rebound Tuesday night
against the Texas Southern University Tigers.
Texas A&M took their second win of the young
season, 60-51.
By MIKE BURRICHTER
Battalion Staff
Texas Southern University tamed
“The Wall” for half the game Tues
day night, but forgot about a little
freshman guard named Reggie, as
Texas A&M University stormed back
from a one point halftime deficit to
take a 61-50 win.
A&M coach Shelby Metcalf, given
the unenviable task of replacing all
conference guards David Britton and
Dave Goff after last season, says ev
erything is beginning to fall into
place in his backcourt.
“The way it’s working out,
Tyrone’s taking Goff s place and Reg
gie is playing the role of Britton.”
Metcalf was talking about Tyrone
Ladson and Reggie Roberts. Ladson,
a senior, has always been the team’s
best ball handler since his arrival two
years ago. After the departure of
Britton and Goff, most eyes shifted
to Ladson as heir to the backcourt
throne. The big question was, and
still is, who can play the other guard,
or, should the Ags stay with one little
man?
Metcalf may find the the answer to
that question a little easier after
Roberts’ performance Tuesday
night. After watching Ladson run the
show for most of the first half, the
all-district shooting guard from
McKinney High School made his en
trance. After sinking a couple of long
jump shots, Roberts had changed the
tempo of the game, and the 14th-
ranked Aggies came back from a 25-
24 halftime deficit to record their
second win in as many games.
Roberts, a scoring guard in high
school, says he’s adjusting to his role
as a passer quite well.
“He (Metcalf) brings me in late, so
I can get used to the game,” he said.
“I don’t mind (not shooting as much).
I’m just coming in to get it to the big
men now. That’s a good enough job.
I’m trying to learn their styles. I’ve
got to know where they want it (the
ball). I’m working on hitting the right
spots with my passes. I’ll be shooting
more later in the season.”
The big men — Rudy Woods, Ver
non Smith, Rynn Wright and Claude
Riley — were stymied in the first
half, though they scored all 24 A&M
points. Wright, guarding Harry
“Machine-Gun” Kelly, the nation’s
third leading scorer last year, had a
miserable first half from the floor,
hitting only two of nine shots, which
may have overshadowed another sta
tistic: Kelly, who averaged over 29
points per game last season, was held
to 11 hard-earned points against the
Aggies. Most of his points either
came late in the game or with Wright
all over him.
Smith was the only bright spot in
the Aggie front line during the first
half. He hit five of nine shots from
the floor, most of which were in the
20-foot range. Smith brought the
near capacity G. Rollie White crowd
Tennis team scatters
for various tourneys
AGGIES!
By RICK STOLLE
Battalion Staff
Three members of the Texas A&M
University men’s tennis team will
travel to Fort Worth Friday for the
National Indoor Qualifying tourna
ment.
The winner of the tournament
wins the right to advance to the
NCAA National Finals in Houston in
January.
Reid Freeman, Brian Joelson and
Trey Schutz are three of 32 players
who qualified from the Southern re
gion. A committee of coaches nomin
ated players on the basis of their fall
play.
The region includes the southern
half of Texas and Louisiana.
“It is a great honor and all three
are real excited about the tourna
ment, said coach David Kent.
The rest of the men’s team
traveled to Houston Tuesday to com
pete in the Yonex Pro tournament.
The tournament will end Sunday.
The Ags competing in this tourna
ment are Max King, Jim Grubert,
Ron Kowal, Tom Judson, Leonard
Smith and Genero Fernandez.
“We will need some great effort, ”
said Kent. “Our top players will be
competing in Fort Worth and the
team will be at about half strength. ”
The doubles teams will be drastic
ally rearranged due to the players in
Fort Worth. Kowal-Judson, Smith-
Fernandez and King-Grubert are
the teams listed for the Yonex.
Kent said the Yonex is a good tour
nament and will be a good learning
experience for the team. The players
who come to compete in this tourna
ment are very good, he said.
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to its feet when he knotted the game
at 15 with a two-pump top of the key
jump shot with nine minutes left.
Center Rudy Woods had a frus
trating first half, but not by his doing.
Woods was smothered by TSU’s big
front line and didn’t get the ball
much. He did score six points, but
snared only one rebound. Napoleon
Johnson, the Tigers’ 6-9 center and
his backup, 7-footer Pat Cavenall
clogged up the middle, making the
Aggie shot selection poor. Woods
pulled no punches in his synopsis of
the first half A&M effort.
“We didn’t do anything right in
the first half, ” the Bryan junior said.
“We were taking terrible shots. We
weren’t working on offense, we we
ren’t working on defense, we just
weren’t working on anything. In the
second half, the difference was our
defense. We didn’t change our
strategy, but each player dug in and
decided to play better.”
So far, the much talked about
Aggie forwards are pleased with the
play of their guards.
“Roberts came out in the second
half and made a couple of baskets
that really fired the team up,” Riley
said. The 6-11 sophomore didn’t
have such a bad second half himself,
three of five shots from the floor,
ending up with a total of 14, includ
ing a perfect six for six slate from the
free throw line.
Metcalf maintains it is still early
for his team to start taking things for
granted.
“We have no reason not to give
everybody respect,” he said. “We’ve
only played two games. We haven’t
done anything; we’ve had our mo
ments, but we still have a lot of work
to do.”
One change Metcalf may make be
fore his team takes the court again
Monday night here against Sam
Houston State is his press defense.
“We re going to have to take some
of the big men out while we run the
press,” he said. “At one time we had
Rynn out there trying to defense a
guard ... I thought our 1-2-2 (de
fense) went pretty well.”
Another guard turned out to be a
pleasant surprise for Metcalf. Milton
Woodley, a junior transfer
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