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Jn/Page 10 )er 29, sports Battalion/Page 11 November 29, 1982 11 A.ggie basketball team learns, grows, ages on trip to Alaska by Frank L. Christlieb Sports Editor ANCHORAGE, Alaska — dany people say that with age me learning and experience, ut the Aggie basketball team ^ discovered that with the feat Alaska Shootout, come , learning and experience. Returning to Texas A&M niversity after a five-day stay n the “Land of the Midnight iun,” the Aggies aren’t hanging heir heads about losing two of hree games in the 1982 Shoot- lut. Take it from coach Shelby detcalf — there’s loads of ex- erience locked inside his play- r'sheads at this point, and what ies ahead must be positive. ‘‘Five of our top ten players re new to the team,” Metcalf aid after the Aggies defeated ill probablvt*) he University of Alaska- inchorage 93-65 Sunday for terbackCm eventh place in the Shootout. Hector’s fun. n he has M ars. SophoiMn in, who has»! plavingtimelt- ure will be a Iff Aggie often®! ibiak’s repW ohn Elkins,ail ohn Mazur ig in the irac lieir stuff, f ny Hector will have anvil lented backs! We learned a lot and we solved bine problems. There’s a lot note unity now than there was then we came up here.” After losing to Clemson 82-79 n double overtime Friday night md 72-70 to Illinois Saturday, he Aggies combined to shoot 61 latent from the field in trounc- the winless Seawolves. Led ut, but die lit# the deadly shooting accuracy George Smi# freshman guard Kenny and Ronai pwn, whose 62 points in three pmes netted him all-tourament onors, the Aggies placed five (layers in double figures. T he Seawolves, plagued by ice-cold shooting throughout the tourney, managed only 35 percent accuracy against the Aggies. UA lost its three games — to Washington, Florida and Texas A&M — by a total of 60 points. Meanwhile the Aggies, taking advantage of the three-point shot throughout the tourna- See related story and pictures in Tuesday’s Battalion. ment, shot 51,45 and 61 percent in three games. Forward Claude Riley led all tournament shoo ters with his 21 of 31 from the field. Riley also had 31 rebounds in the tourney, as he led the Aggies with 24 points and 13 re bounds against the Seawolves. In Sunday’s victory, the Aggies opened up a 27-17 lead on Freshman guard Doug Lee’s 18-foot jumper with 7:47 left. Lee, who chipped in with seven rebounds, had eight points dur ing the game. A three-point shot by Rainer Greunke and two free-throws by Luke Dallafior cut the Texas A&M lead to 27-22. But the Aggies increased the lead to 39- 33 by halftime, as Lee scored on a layup and Riley put in a dunk off an offensive rebound. The Aggies shot 55 percent and the Seawolves shot 31 per cent in the first half. Brown led Texas A&M with 11 points, while Gruenke and Mark Book er each had nine for UAA. Baskets by Tyren Naulls, Riley, Brown and Roy Jones gave the Aggies a 47-35 lead at the 15:57 mark of the second half. Two straight layups by freshman center J immie Gilbert and a 5-footer by Naulls moved the score to 53-35. After Texas A&M built the lead to 19 at 60-41, the Sea wolves came back to within 14 at 65-51 on three-point jumpers by Sloan Carlson and Pete Adams, and two more baskets by Adams. For the game, Adams sank three of three from the three-point range and led the Seawolves with 21 points and five re bounds. A fadeaway 14-footer by Riley, as well as a bucket and three freethrows from Naulls, gave Texas A&M a 72-51 lead with 9:10 left. The closest UAA could get after that was 75-57 with 7:08 remaining, as the Aggies went on to take a 28 point victory on late baskets by for ward Lowell McHenry and guard Reggie Roberts. Riley, who scored 14, 12 and 24 points in the three games said the Aggies learned about team togetherness while at the Shootout. “I feel like we really learned about unity,” Riley said Sunday. “The first two games we played real hard against good teams but we lost. Today, we picked up our intensity and played well. There was no selfishness on anyone’s part and we all passed to the main jersey ... to the open man. “Sometimes it’s hard to get into the flow of the game when you're getting the season started because you tend to be a little nervous. But you lose your tight ness and settle down after that. I believe that judging how we played here and from how we know we can play, we’ll learn from this ... and get better. We have to use this to learn from.” Metcalf, in his 20th season with the Aggies, said the team played a more relaxed game against the Seawolves. “I think we needed to play more relaxed,” he said. “I think it’s going to make us a better ballclub. We brought five old players and five new players up here and played well.” Seawoll coach Harry Lar- rabee, who played his college basketball at the University of Texas, said the Aggies simply outmanned his team. “We need a rebounder,” he said. “We’re going to be a decent rebounding team in (NCAA) Di vision II, but A&M really plays about 12 feet above the floor. So all we could do was feel their numbers. “I was real proud of our play ers, though. Even though we got beaten substantially, we could have lost by a lot more because A&M has some great shooters. We didn’t win a game in the Shootout last year, so we don’t put a whole lot of emphasis on (the tournament) in terms of vic tories. 1 think we played our best overall game of the season today. “We had a chance if we’d done better in the first half,” Larrabee said. “I think A&M was really kind of sluggish in the first half. We had a lot of shots that rolled around but didn’t go through. 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