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Aggies lose heated contest, 65-61
By RICHARD OLIVER
Sports Editor
“It doesn’t make any difference
where they are, they’re going to
get the calls.”
Texas A&M basketball coach
Shelby Metcalf looked worn. Mi
nutes before, his team had staged
a fine comeback before falling just
short to the 17th-ranked Arkansas
Razorbacks, 65-61, in G. Rollie
White Coliseum in front of only
6,200 fans (capacity 7,500).
After falling behind by 11 with
3:15 left in the game, the Aggies
outscored the Razorbacks 17-10 as
time ran out. But the effort was
just not good enough.
The game was punctuated by
fights and controversial officiating
against both sides, including one
which may have been the turning
point with 1:51 left.
Texas A&M, behind 57-49, in
stituted a full-court press to try
and force a turnover. Hogs’ guard
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U.S. Reed, however, got behind
the coverage and took a fast break
pass over the head of Aggie Jay
McHugh. McHugh chased down
Reed at the free throw line and
shoved him for an obvious foul.
The Arkansas guard continued in
for the layup, and the official cal
led the basket good, giving the
Hogs a crucial three-point play as
Reed sank the ensuing free throw
also.
Metcalf was bewildered as he
faced an equally confused press
corps.
“They don’t have continuation
in college ball, do they?” he said,
referring to the NBA rule that
allows a follow-through basket to
count after a foul. “Hell, I learned
something. I didn’t even know it
(the continuation rule) was in the
game. It’s in — you saw it—it’s in.
(SWC Commisioner Cliff) Speegle
was down here. We shook hands
before the game and he didn’t
even bother to tell me about it.
Now that’s communication.
“I thought it was a smart foul.”
Despite the controversial call,
the Razorbacks showed a regional
television audience that they were
not the same team that started off
the year with three SWC losses in
a row. The Hogs executed well, hit
the buckets when they needed
them, and shut down any Aggie
fast breaks with an excellent full-
court press and man-on-man de
fense. It was their eighth win in a
row, raising their record to a
league-leading 10-3.
Texas A&M fell to 5-8.
The ballgame was physical from
the start, as the players pushed
and shoved. Soon, however, the
officials let that pushing and shov
ing get out of control and fistfights
erupted.
With 7:42 left in the first half,
Arkansas guard Darrell Walker,
who has recently been in hot water
with Head Razorback Coach
Eddie Sutton, took the pressing
Reggie Roberts defense to heart
and shoved the Texas A&M guard.
A fight ensued which eventually
drew coaches and players off the
bench and onto the floor along
with a few athletic officials.
Instead of penalizing the two
players, the referees made the
pair shake hands after pleas by
Sutton and Metcalf aborted an ini
tial inclination to throw them out
of the game.
It took almost 10 minutes to res
tore order. Roberts, who even-
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tually fouled out midway through
the second half with only four
points to his credit, was calm ab
out the incident following the
game.
“He (Walker) had been talking
noise to me all during the game, ”
he said, “and pushing me around.
I’d had enough after awhile. He
pushed me on the chest. I pushed
him back. He started swinging so I
started swinging. It had been
going on all game. Then Hastings
came up from behind and took a
shot.”
Hastings was a name brought
up more than once by the Texas
A&M players after the game.
According to several of them, the
junior center was “a pretty cheap
gay.’*
“Most of it happened away from
the ball,” said Metcalf. “The best I
can tell, it was more (that) things
were being said. I’ve never seen
them (Aggie players) react like
that before. I’ve got to believe
Hastings and Walker were in on it
all.”
With 11:47 left in the contest,
Hastings became the target of
another Aggies’ wrath. Texas
A&M center Claude Riley took a
wild swing at the Hogs’ center and
was thus ejected for a fragrant foul.
With seven seconds left, Aggie
Roy Jones fouled Hastings away
from the ball, falling on top of him
hard after a pass. As he got up,
Jones was kicked by Hastings. No
foul was called on the Arkansas
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court, they (the referees)
there had already been a foil
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isn’t it? I mean, what’s thedi £ten
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“Those are good officials, ii slgot
get me wrong. I’ll take thee
nights of the year. And theyda
care who wins.
“I don’t know why there was:
inconsistency.”
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for the Aggie coach. A repot;
piped up: “This game’ll tnakci ^
old man out of you.”
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coke: "Yeah, it will.
“We had two crucial missedti lam
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Metcalf said the physic
aspects of basketball are pa
game.
center.
“Claude (Riley) was thrown out
on a flagrant foul after a violation, ”
said Metcalf. “It (the Jones inci-
“The sign of a good athlete is
be able to retaliate and noli
caught. We must not have
athletes.”
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The Aggies out-rebounded
kansas, 31-28, as Smith pnh^ ;
down 10. Keith Peterson let
Razorbacks with six.
Hastings led all scorers with
points. Reed added 14 andT«
Brown 12.
For Texas A&M, Rynn Writ £
scored 17, Smith 16 and Jones':
Wright, Woodley and Rohe I
all fouled out and Riley ^ ^
ejected.
The Aggies shot 46.6 peref
from the floor while the Hogs'! T1
60 percent, including a fine' Ark;
percent in the second half.
The Aggies will play ags past
Saturday when they will take
the Texas Longhorns in Austit.
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ARKANSAS (65) — Peterson 3#
Brown 5 2-3 12, Hastings 6 7-9 19,
2-3 14, Young 4 1-2 9, Freiss00-00,^ Pei
0 0-0 0, Skulman 1 0-0 2. Totals 2515-S : ‘
TEXAS A&M (61) — Smith 6 H : HOll
Wright 7 3-5 17, Riley 10-02, Roberts-''
4, Woodley 2 0-0 4, Jones 7 0-114, So®*
0-0 2, Brown 00-00, McHugh 10-02^ |g Q
27 7-10 61. . y
Halftime — Arkansas 28, Texas V|(J|
Fouled out — Wright, Roberts, Wo<g
Total fouls — Arkansas 16, Texas AS');
Technicals — Riley (ejected). A — 6
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