Texas A&M
Battalion Sports
December 13, 1982 [Page 11
A&M finishes second in tourney
Marshall ‘herds’ Aggies, 60-58
by [ohn Wagner
Sports Editor
Coach Shelby Metcalfs Texas
Aggies are getting close.
After a disappointing finish
in the Great Alaska Shootout
and two straight losses to Mar
quette and LSU, the Aggies
finished second in the Marshall
Memorial Tournament this
weekend, beating LaSalle Friday
night but losing the champion
ship game Saturday to tourney
host Marshall, 60-58.
Close, but no cigar — at least
not yet.
In the championship game of
the tournament, Aggie forward
Roy Jones missed a 20-foot jum
per with 5 seconds left in over
time to give the Thundering
Herd the victory.
The Aggies are now 3-5 on
the season.
Marshall, which led for most
of the game, had a 41-34 lead
with 11:57 remaining in the
second half but the Aggies ral
lied to tie, pulling to within four
with a minute to play.
Freshman center Jimmy Gil
bert then hit two free throws and
guard Reggie Roberts sank a 20-
foot jump shot at the buzzer to
tie the score and send the game
into overtime.
Claude Riley selected to
Marshall all-tourney team
Herd forward LaVerne
Evans, who tallied a game-high
14 points, scored Marshall’s first
six points of the overtime
period. The junior from Lock-
port, N.Y., had 12 rebounds and
was named the tournament’s
most valuable player.
Evans rallied Marshall from a
54-52 deficit in overtime by tos
sing in threejump shots. Gilbert
then tied the score at 56-56 on
two foul shots with 2:07 to play.
Reggie Roberts selected to
all-tournament team also
Evans’jumper with 1:29 left
put Marshall ahead 58-56 and
Sam Henry sank two free throws
to give the Herd a 60-56 lead.
With 14 seconds remaining,
Tyren Naulls brought the
Aggies to within two at 60-58 by
netting a 20-foot jump shot.
The Aggies then fouled
Evans in an attempt to get the
ball back, and with 12 seconds
left in the overtime, Evans mis
sed a free throw that gave the
Aggies the chance to tie.
Jones then missed the shot
that would have tied the game
again, and Evans grabbed the
rebound to secure the victory.
Riley was the leading scorer
for the Aggies with 12 points.
Gilbert finished the game with
10 points and four rebounds, his
highest scoring total of the year.
He also blocked five shots.
In Friday’s opening round,
Roberts scored 24 points to lead
the Aggies past the LaSalle Ex
plorers, 82-/4. The junior from
McKinney hit seven shots from
the field and sank 10 of 11 free
throws, scoring 19 of his 24
points in the second half.
Texas A&M scored eight un
answered points with 7:42 re
maining to break a 57-57 tie, and
LaSalle could never regain the
lead. The Explorers pulled to
within 76-72 and within 78-74
with 29 seconds left, but that was
as close as they could get.
The score was tied six times
and the lead was exchanged 10
times in the first half alone, but
the Aggies outscored LaSalle 11 -
6 in the last four minutes of the
first half to capture a 37-31 half
time lead.
Texas A&M had leads of 47-
35 and 49-37 with 13:30 left in
the game before the Explorers '
surged to tie at 57.
Texas A&M shot 48.3 per
cent, while LaSalle shot only ;
36.2 percent. The Aggies led in •
rebounds 44-36.
AGGIE FACTS: Riley and !
Roberts were both named to the
all-tournament team for their |
efforts. Roberts scored 31 points
during the tourney, while Riley
led the Aggies with 12 points !
against Marshall ... The LaSalle J
Explorers, who lost to the ;
Aggies in the opening game of
the tournament, defeated}
Brown 61-59 Saturday to cap- \
ture third place. The tourna- ;
ment winner, Marshall, now 4- ;
1, won its ninth Marshall Memo- ■
rial tourney and its second !
straight. This was the 13 th tour-1
ney the Herd has hosted ... The
Aggies have this week off for
finals, but it’s still too soon for
Metcalf to throw away his road
map. Texas A&M will be in Mis
soula, Mont., for the Champion
Holiday Classic Friday and"
Saturday. Also included in the
tourney are Portland, West
Texas State, / and Montana^
Texas A&M opens against thd •
Portland Pilots Friday at 10 p.mj;
GST. The Aggies begin SW(£ .
See AGS page 12
UH off to Japan to play Virginia
photo by Michel Chang
r rnMiiirasl>S* e sen i° r Roy Jones stretches for two points against
"ar?lndp T exas A&KI in the Aggies’ 91-70 victory over the
Jjilvalinas. The Aggies, now 3-5 on the season, lost to the
>es EasW Marshall Thundering Herd 60-58 in the final game of the
s 693-589S T^ ars ^ a M Memorial Tournament. Texas A&M defeated
“Salle Friday to reach the finals.
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United Press International
Most good teams would go to
great lengths to get a shot at the
No. 1 Virginia Cavaliers, but the
Houston Cougars are going to
extremes.
The Cougars were scheduled
to get on an airplane in Houston
early Sunday and, about 18
hours later, arrive in Tokyo.
Then, at 3:45 a.m. Texas
time next Thursday (6:45 p.m.
in Tokyo), the Cougars will run
into the Cavaliers and Ralph
Sampson in the Suntory Classic
— a three-day, round-robin ses
sion of basketball that will also
feature the Utah Utes.
Houston officials are not ex
pecting the smoothest trip in the
world since they have already
been given six different starting
times for their game with Vir
ginia.
“I don’t think we will know
when we are going to play until
we actually tipoff,” one member
of the Houston athletic depart
ment said Sunday.
The trip to Japan is a spinoff
of the Cougars having made it to
the Final Four last March. Offi
cials of the tournament signed
up Houston while the team was
in New Orleans for last season’s
national semifinals.
Sponsors of the Japanese
tournament are paying for th^
Cougars trip across the Pacific
and are paying them $50,000 on
top of that.
That will go nicely with the
$100,000 paycheck Houston
brought home from its televised
meeting with Syracuse on Satur
day — a game that ended in the
Cougars’ first loss of the year,
92-87.
To make the trip to Japan
little less taxing, Houston h^i
postponed a game that was ory
ginally scheduled for tonight ip
Hofheinz Pavilion. The game
which was to have been playefcf
against Southwestern LouisianiJ
has been pushed back to Jan. 1(V.
Houston was one of three
Southwest Conference teams to,"
suffer close losses on the roacp-
See SWC page 13
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