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_ Texas A8cM m - The Battalion Sports March 22, 1982 /Page 7 ies, Metcalf pleased with 20 victories s havt is wrs sr ley! igns for ?' va l „ a, M»| aryland staff photo by David Fisher Houston’s Akeem Abdul Olajuwon (34, under basket) blocks a shot by the Aggies’ Claude Riley (13) during the Cougars’ 89-76 victory in the Southwest Confer- ind gui ence tournament. Riley is pressured here by UH for ward Michael Young (second from right), while the <ecutnt Tyren Naulls moves in to help. Orasia actioa Georgi )ut 'bij to do -es then in vou mg Maya resirid he Ch day sion o >id th is in tb IS )’ n inal It wd ecurii 1 vear ti s aba donaii rppbii i liert) e up tl See the I ts syst| rage lagAB ncer 's rout> . thes short Itho ligun :efull j. er, n I I t ew clonal estate dititi tuarll :y's tr edh nenti or ten ot eeei4 rt. 9. wli he ling t br •r. by Frank L. Christlieb Sports Editor Shelby Metcalf views his team’s recently completed 20-11 season as a baseball pitcher looks at his record. “I was real pleased with the season,” Metcalf said Sunday. “That’s kind of like winning 20 games as a pitcher — any time you win 20 games, you’ve had a successful season.” After finishing third in the Southwest Conference during the regular season, the Aggies lost to the Final Four-bound Houston Cougars 89-76 in the semifinals of the league tourna ment. After receiving a berth in the National Invitation Tourna ment, Texas A&M defeated Lamar 60-58 and Washington 69-65 before losing 86-68 to Purdue Friday night. With a victory over the Boiler makers, the Aggies would have competed in New York’s Madi son Square Garden NIT semi finals tonight. Even though the team members hoped to qualify for the New York portion of the tourney, they say they’re not up set with the outcome of the season. “We are satisfied with the sea son,” junior forward Claude Riley said. “I was tremendously satisfied when we won that 20th game. You have to say the sea son was a success when you win 20 games. “People had us picked really low, but we still managed to fin ish high.” Riley, who finished with team-leading averages of 16.4 points and 10.3 rebounds a game, said the Aggies wanted to finish high in the NIT after a disappointing finish in the SWC tourney. “I think we played really well considering that we had only a slight chance of being picked for the NIT,” Riley said. “We didn’t play too well in our post-season tourney, but I think we played very well in the NIT. “I think we can look back at this year and the mistakes we made as a team, and work just a little bit harder. I’m sure each player could look backhand see something he did wrong and work to correct it.” Guard Tyren Naulls, in his first year with the team after transferring from UCLA, said the Aggies’ unity proved to be an important factor in their suc cess. ' “The season turned out a lot better than most thought,” Naulls said. “I wished it had turned out a little better — I thought maybe it would. “It was a surprise to every body but us. I guess you could say fate put us in a difficult posi tion when Roy (Jones, out for the season after receiving a knee injury in a game with Rice Jan. 23) got hurt, but Milton (Wood- ley) came in and played real well. We all had to put in a little bit extra.” Naulls said that he considered this season to be the best of his college career, although he added that he didn’t play as con sistently as he would have liked. 1 he 6-4 guard finished the year as the team’s number two scorer averaging 12 points a game. Naulls, along with Woodley and freshman guard Gary Lewis, combined for 283 assists. Naulls set a school record with seven steals in the Aggies’ 81-57 victory over Sam Houston State Dec. 3. Guard Reggie Roberts’ aver age of 11.4 points a game finished third on the team, and the 6-3 sophomore had a team leading 69 steals. But Riley, who led the team in scoring and rebounding throughout the season, put his name into the Texas A&M re cord books more than his team mates. Riley’s SWC-leading 88 percent free-throw shooting, as well as his 81.3 percent season mark, were school records, v Riley set a single-season re bounding record with 309, breaking the record of 286 held by John Beasley and Rudy Woods, this year’s fourth leading scorer on the team at See AGGIES page 9 Aggie track team first in College Station meet by John Wagner Battalion Staff Rod Richardson, Don Jones, nd johnnv Hector led the exas A&M men’s track team to first place finish in the Gollege Station Relays Saturday, and ioach Charlie Thomas said he /as happy with his team’s work. Richardson, who earlier in he week had won the 60-yard ash at the NCAA Indoor Meet, placed first in the 100-meter run ith the fastest time recorded in he nation so far tins year. Phil ip Epps of TCU won the 200- Deter run, also clocking in with he fastest time recorded this first place winner lor the Aggies. He won the shot put with a throw of 59-5 1/2. In the team competition, the Aggies finished fifth with 66 2/3 points. Rice was first with 91 points. The next meet for the Aggies is Saturday, when they will re turn to Houston to compete in a quadrangular meet with Rice, Lamar and Baylor. Jones and Hector qualified or the NCAA Outdoor Meet Deo . vith their performances. Jones w(l >laced second in the high jump, nd Hector won the long jump. On March 13, while several of he Aggies were in Pontiac, dich. for the NCAA Indoor e j lop( deet, the rest of the squad com- t | >eted in the Rice Invitational. Ty lobert Windsor was the only PADDY MURPHY ESCAPES ATTICA, NEW YORK — Offi cials at Attica State Prison re ported last night that the twice convicted murderer - bootleg ger, Paddy Murphy, has once again escaped. Prison officials feel that Murphy s running part ners, William Ward and female companion Darcy “All Nite’ Luker, have masterminded the escape. 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