Texas A&M
The Battalion Sports
December 8, 1982 Page 15
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by John Wagner
Sports Editor
Being a Texas Aggie basket
ball player means never having a
chance to rest — especially early
in the season.
Coach Shelby Metcalf s
squad, fresh off the plane from
Milwaukee, Wis., and Saturday’s
73-58 loss to the Marquette War
riors, are in the New Orleans Su
perdome tonight to take on the
LSU Tigers. Tip-off time is
7:30.
The Aggies, 2-3 on the year,
made New Orleans the third
stop on their whirlwind tour of
the United States, via the basket
ball courts.
Texas A&M began the season
by participating in the Great
Alaska Shootout in Anchorage,
Alaska, finishing seventh out of
eight teams. After making a stop
in College Station to meet Texas
A&I, the Aggies traveled to Mil
waukee for Saturday’s game.
After playing LSU, 1 exas
A&M has tournaments sche
duled in West Virginia, Monta
na and Connecticut. The Aggies
open Southwest Conference
play Jan. 4 against the Houston
Cougars.
LSU is 4-2 this season, after
having lost two dose games. The
defending national champion
North Carolina Tar Heels slip
ped past the Tigers on national
television Saturday afternoon,
47-43. Earlier this year, the Uni
versity of Hawaii defeated LSU
by two points.
LSU beat Loyola of Chicago
Monday night, 97-80.
The Tigers will start junior
Leonard Mitchell and freshman
Jerry Reynolds at forward,
sophomore Steffond Johnson at
center, and senior Howard Car
ter and junior Johnny Jones at
the guard positions.
Texas A&M will counter with
Claude Riley and Roy Jones at
forward, Jimmy Gilbert at cen
ter and Tyren Naulls and Kenny
Brown at guard.
Mitchell, who was hit with a
one-game suspension because
he violated Tiger coach Dale
Brown’s curfew rules, is LSU’s
leading scorer and rebounder.
Mitchell sat out the Loyola
game.
Leading the Aggies’ in scor
ing is Brown, averaging 18.2
points a game as well as shooting
at a 58 percent rate. Riley is aver
aging 15.8 points a game and is
leading the team in rebounds
with 10.4 a game.
Rice shuts down “Machine Gun
Three SWC clubs take victories
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Martens of the Univerity of Alaska-Anchorage Sea-
ivolves moves in on defense. Texas A&M, 2-3 on the
eason, takes on the LSU Tigers tonight at 7:30 in New
Means’ Superdome.
United Press International
For a little while it seemed as if the Rice Owls
basketball team was heading in the same direction
as the football team went this season — straight
down.
But suddenly the Owls are on a streak and
Tuesday night, they put together their best effort
since their surprising triumph last season in the
Rainbow Classic.
Facing one of the best scoring machines in the
country, the Owls’ defense suddenly resembled a
wall.
Rice defeated Texas Southern, a team that had
been averaging 109 points a game, 86-66. At the
same time, Harry “Machine Gun” Kelly could
score but 12 points.
Kelly led the nation last year with 27 points a
contest and was averaging 25 in Texas Southern’s
first three games this year — all of which had been
victories.
Kenny Austin played Kelly man-for-man
much of the night, but Rice coach Tommy Suitts
said it was not just Austin who did the job.
“We played great team defense,” said Suitts, in
his second year as the Owls’ coach. “T his was an
important win for us. We beat a good team and we
played excellent defense doing it.”
While he wasn’t guarding Kelly, Austin fired in
23 points to lead the Owls, who are now 3-2 for the
year.
Baylor stayed unbeaten with a 58-55 decision
over Oral Roberts while the TCU Horned Frogs
bounced back from their only setback of the sea
son to down North Texas, 64-58.
The struggling Texas Longhorns, meanwhile,
came close but finally fell in overtime to Xavier,
66-64.
Baylor attacked the zone defense of Oral
Roberts with the outside shooting of James Stern,
who scored 22 points — all from long range.
Baylor trailed midway through the first half,
ran off 10 straight points to take the lead at inter
mission, fell behind again early in the second half
and then jumped in front by eight.
TCU let a nine-point lead in the first half slip
away and almost let another lead get away near
the end of the game. North Texas closed to within
a point vVith 52 seconds left, but the Horned Frogs
hit seven out of eight free shots in the final 33
seconds to hold off North Texas.
The Horned Frogs are now 4-1, having lost
their first game over the weekend at Long Beach
State.
Texas’ Bill Wendlandt hit two free throws with
two seconds left in regulation to tie the Longhorns
with Xavier, but Texas could manage only two
points in the overtime.
A desperation shot at the end of overtime by
Robert Hughes failed to drop for Texas, which is
now 1-3 on the season under new head coach Bob
Weltlich.
ORAL ROBERTS (55)
Cantrell 6-12 0-0 12, Clement 5-9 0-1 10, Acers 6-14 4-7 16,
McGee 1-3 1-4 3, Gottfried 2-6 3-5 7, Williams 0-2 1-2 1, Perry
3-3 0-0 6, Hill 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-49 9-19 55.
BAYLOR (58)
Baucham 4-10 1-3 9, Glover 4-5 2-2 10, Hall 1-3 0-0 2, Shakir
2-3 1-3 5, Stern 9-18 4-6 22, Heller 1-4 0-0 2, Kaiser 2-2 0-0 4,
Mays 0-2 0-1 0, Dorsey 1-2 2-2 4. Totals 24-49 10-17 58.
Halftime— Baylor 26, Oral Roberts 24. Fouled Out — Can
trell, Acers, Stern. Total Fouls — Oral Roberts 21, Baylor 21.
Rebounds — Oral Roberts 32 (Acers 9), Baylor 41 (Baucham
12). Assists —Oral Roberts 8 (Gottfried 3), Baylor 15 (Shakir 7).
A — 5,150.
TEXAS SOUTHERN (66)
H. Kelly 5-21 2-3 12, (ones 2-3 2-2 6, Franklin 2-3 3-4 7,
Mitchell 3-6 0-0 6, Jefferson 4-8 0-0 8, P. Kelly 2-7 0-0 4, Hillard
6-10 0-0 12, Malone 2-5 0-2 4, Bloodsaw3-4 1-17, Griffin 0-00-0
0. Totals 29-67 8-12 66.
RICE (86)
Austin 9-185-12 23, O’Neal 5-102-2 12, Cunningham 2-83-4
7, Washington 7-11 2-6 16, Petitt 0-2 0-0 0, Bennett 2-3 2-2 6,
Steele 0-2 2-2 2, Johnson 2-4 2-3 6, Barnett 3-5 2-2 8, Shaw 0-1
0-0 0, Witten 1-1 1-1 3, Cashaw 2-4 1-2 3, Semske 0-0 0-0 0,
Miller 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 32-70 22-36 86.
Halftime — Rice 48, Texas Southern 31. Fouled Out —
Mitchell. Total Fouls — Texas Southern 31, Rice. 17. Rebounds
— Texas Southern 35 (H.Keylly 9), Rice 53 (Austin 12). Assists
— Texas Southern 2 (Mitchell 2), Rice 7 (Washington 3). A —
3,000.
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