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The Battalion Sports
March 5, 1982 Page 9
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by Frank L. Christlieb
Sports Editor
DALLAS — Gary Lewis’ arms
d never felt heavier.
Standing at the free-throw
Be with 22 seconds remaining,
Bwis faced the most difficult
Buation of his freshman season.
Be Aggies held a 63-61 lead,
■th Lewis preparing to shoot
lo free throws.
| Lewis missed the first shot
t made the second, giving
xas A&M a three-point lead.
ie free throw gave the Aggies
4-63 victory over Baylor, but
wis would have preferred a
Terent set of circumstances.
“I thought to myself when I
nt to the line that I’d better
t them in or I’d have every-
dy on my back,” Lewis said,
n the first one, my arm had a
little extra weight on it. The
ond one was real smooth.”
The victory in the Southwest
Conference tournament quar-
finals gave Texas A&M an
^-9 season record, while Baylor
ished with a 17-11 record.
During the regular season,
xas A&M defeated Baylor 47-
in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Baylor defeated the Aggies BB
SS in Waco.
Blexas A&M Coach Shelby
Jetcalf said either team could
ve won the game Thursday, in
ich the largest lead for either
m was eight points.
“Winning this game is like
trying a woman with
ney,” Metcalf said. “You earn
rything you get. It was a
at basketball game and both
ms played real well. We were
fortunate to win it.”
Forward Claude Riley, who
the Aggies with 17 points,
credited Baylor for its intensity
throughout the game.
“They wanted this game as
much as we did,” Riley said.
“This was the type of game
where it doesn’t make any dif
ference if you win by one point
or 20. They would have been
just as happy if they had won by
one.
“We didn’t have a lot of inten
sity during the whole game
“Winning this game is
like marrying a woman
with money — you earn
everything you get. It
was a great basketball
game and both teams
played well. We were
real fortunate to win it. ”
— Coach Shelby Metcalf
tonight, but we’ll get it up
against Houston. We kept fight
ing and never gave up.”
Texas A&M tonight will play
the Cougars, who won their last
eight games to finish with a 20-6
season record. Houston, as a re
sult of finishing second in the
SWC, received a bye into
tonight’s semifinal game with
Texas A&M.
The game will begin 30 mi
nutes after the end of the 7 p.m.
Arkansas-TCU game.
Baylor took an early 5-4 lead
when Terry Teagle scored on a
15- foot turnaround jumper
from the right side of the basket.
Teagle, who had 29 points in the
game, scored 10 of the Bears’
next 14 points to give his team a
16- 15 lead with 8:47 left in the
first half.
Baylor extended its lead to
24-17 with only 5:36 remaining
in the half. However, a 15-2
spurt by the Aggies gave them a
32-26 lead with 43 seconds left.
Leading scorers for Texas
A&M during that stretch were
Reggie Roberts with three jum
pers and Riley with two field
goals and a pair of free throws.
The Aggies led 32-28 at half
time, thanks to two Baylor cold
spells during the first half. The
Bears went without a field goal
during 6- and 5-minute stretch
es, with the latter allowing Texas
A&M to take its halftime lead.
Tyren Naulls gave the Aggies
a 34-28 lead to start the second
half, hitting a jumper from the
top of the circle. But Teagle
scored from 15 feet to cut the
lead to 34-32 with 18:42 left in
the game.
A layup by Naulls pushed the
Texas A&M lead to 40-32, but
Baylor outscored the Aggies 14-
8 over the next eight minutes.
The result was a 48-46 Texas
A&M lead with 9:35 left.
Although the Bears never led
during the second half, they cut
the lead to two points six times.
The Aggies led 63-59 with
2:18 left when guard Milton
Woodley went to the line to
attempt a one-and-one. After he
made the first one, however, the
See SQUEAKER page 11
Teagle sharp
but Bears lose
by Bill Robinson
Battalion Staff
DALLAS — Baylor Universi
ty senior All-America Terry
Teagle looked ready to join the
ranks of the NBA in the Bears
64-63 loss to Texas A&M Uni
versity Thursday night.
Playing in the Dallas Maver
icks’ Reunion Arena, Teagle hit
12 of 23 from the floor — five of
those coming from outside the
NBA’s three-point line.
If three-point shots had been
a part of NCAA rules, Baylor —
not Texas A&M — would be
advancing to the semi-finals of
the 1982 Southwest Conference
Tournament.
But that three-point line has
no meaning in college basket
ball, and Texas A&M will be fac
ing the University of Houston
tonight.
The Aggies won the game
with strong rebounding in the
second half, Baylor Coach Jim
Haller said.
Baylor managed only two
offensive rebounds in the
second period, while the Aggies
pulled down seven, converting
five of those into scores.
“We fought our guts out in
the second half,” Haller said.
“The clock just ran out on us.
We tried our best but just came
out a little bit short.
“There is no doubt the differ
ence in the ballgame was the
second half. Claude (Riley) and
Rudy (Woods) were just too
much.”
Whenever Baylor did mount
a drive, the Aggies would kill it,
he said. “It’s hard to come back
against Dr. (Shelby) Metcalf,”
Haller said.
“The 1-3-1 trap disrupted our
offense. I learned a lot from
Coach Metcalf when I was start
ing out, but we weren’t prepared
for that.”
Despite the loss, a National
Invitational Tournament bid
looks promising to Haller, who
has spoken with the tournament
director this week.
“I told my ballclub that I don’t
think this is going to be our last
game this year,” he said.
Teagle agreed.
“We have a good chance of
going to the NIT,” he said, “so
I’m not thinking about my col
lege career ending.”
Should the Bears receive an
invitation to the NIT, Teagle,
who is the all-time leading scorer
in the Southwest Conference,
should play even better than he
did against Texas A&M.
He has been suffering from
the flu and is just now returning
to form.
“Teagle hasn’t got his full
strength back,” Haller said.
“During the six-game winning
streak, he was poetry in motion,
but it took him a while to get his
rhythm back.”
Teagle’s only complaint about
the game was the Aggies’ use of
their size and weight.
“Everyone tries to bang us
around because it’s embarras
sing to them to have a smaller
team out-rebound them,” he
said.
Ozell Hall agreed.
“It was not really a factor of
height, but more of weight,” he
said. “I feel like we have a chance
to go to the NIT. We will just
have to go back and work out the
wrinkles if we get that chance.”
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