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The Battalion Sports
January 21, 1983 Page 9
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Aggies to face ‘new and improved’ Mustangs
by John P. Lopez
the House l) Is Battalion Staff
nt of Hugo Be-' A vear ago, the Aggie basket-
d on this as tl >all team always breathed a sigh
m.” if relief when they glanced at
lied Berlanga heir Southwest Conference
integrity and chedule and saw the letters S-
C wellwv»L .
ihersandhast*rhose letters stood for a lot
ct.” noire than Southern Methodist
t. 34, said M n versit y- T hey stood for rest,
with Lewisi hey stood for cakewalk, they
icre of teamwlM io1 ' ">‘ine to lielp my stats”
md they stood for a mark in the
er we will Lexas A&M “win” column,
ly to promotrlS[ hose da y s are S one -
>mic conditi(iinBrhe SMU basketball team is
for all Te\ wcpably the most improved
quad in the conference, which
, a six-vear nakes man y A Sg ies nww g r '-
i served on th n 4 e w ^ en lhe y see tlie letters
Natural R ’-M-U on the schedule.
^HWhen the Ponies invade G.
iollie White Coliseum Saturday
it 7:30p.m., Aggie coach Shelby
Metcalf said it will be just like
) I I d IVny other SWC squabble — a
■[fight.
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Mustang coach Dave Bliss
has much-improved squad
“ They are greatly improved,”
Metcalf said. “They have a year
of experience behind them and
they have good team speed and
quickness.”
Metcalf said there isn’t any
one player that has made the dif
ference for the Mustangs, but
rather the whole team has im
proved.
“I guess (Larry) Davis and
(Jon) Koncak are their two best
players, but their talent is really
spread out,” Metcalf said. “We
need to handle their press and
have a good shooting perform
ance if we want to win.”
Senior forward Claude Riley
agreed:
“They have some good
guards, so we need to match up
with them and we need to hit the
boards real hard. And I think if
we deny Davis and Koncak the
ball we’ll do good.”
Davis and Koncak, on the
other hand, will be trying to con
tain Riley, who admittedly is due
for a good performance after a
lapse of mononucleosis.
“I feel like I’m ready to go 100
percent,” Riley said. “I’ve been
doing things in practice that I
wasn’t able to do when I First got
out of the hospital, so I think I’ll
do a lot better.”
Riley’s progress on the court
spells relief for Metcalf.
“We need a good game from
Claude,” he said. “I didn’t know
how long it took to get over that
stuff (mono), but he’s finally get
ting stronger and I’m glad to see
that.”
AGGIE FACTS: Texas A&M
guard Doug Lee will not see ac
tion for the Aggies Saturday af
ter injuring a foot in the Baylor
game. Lee should start practic
ing again next week ... SMU 7-
foot center Koncak should be a
stellar force in the middle for
the Mustangs Saturday night.
Koncak currently leads the
Southwest Conference in re
bounding...While the Aggies
have to contend with Koncak,
the Ponies will have to deal with
Texas A&M’s scoring power —
from all angles.
Sophomore leads Ladies in scoring
Edgar’s work well-rewarded
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Hospital, cil
1 T uesday.
White will leal
Memorial faa|
ilication of sef
Nelson, direr!
irs for Scott i. ®
& White, a 5W Frank L. Christlieb
jened in 189:1- . aatution StafT
ial, a 140-W® urln g lhe , 98 , 1 - 8 2 ,f ason ’
gni ^gg ie women s basketball coach
Ipprri Rapp experimented with
Ily we have ier lineup more times than an
nstitutions. 'inventor would test his latest
a task force'brainchild.
The instituii -Using several different sets of
hroughthep: itarters throughout the team’s
tion the rarJ-20 season, Rapp found ability
; programs ocrinithe court, but the gears we-
ita Fe facilit) ?en’t meshing as precisely as she
ivould have liked.
On the other hand, w hile each
the terms of i of her teammates had an oppor-
ed Monday, b tunity to start at least one game
etain theirre> tiutof 29, freshman Jenni Edgar
waited for her chance. By the
end of the season, Edgar hadn’t
started a game, but she averaged
5.3 points and 3.2 rebounds
during 16 minutes played each
game.
But Edgar wanted to start,
and she wanted it badly. She’d
started throughout high school
on the Dallas Bryan Adams var
sity, so it wouldn’t be anything
new.
So the 5-foot-8-inch Edgar
decided to get busy. She worked
... and worked ... and worked
during the off-season until her
wish came true.
When the Aggie Ladies
opened the 1982-83 season
against Southwestern in G. Rol-
lie White Coliseum, Jenni Edgar
was one of the starting forwards.
“I didn’t think it was fair that
everybody got a chance to start a
game last season,” Edgar said in
an interview Thursday. “If I’m
starting, that means the coach
has confidence in me and thinks
I can get out there and do the
job. It hurt me, because coming
from high school, being ‘it’ and
‘the one’ and then coming here
and being nothing just plain
hurts.
“I knew that as freshmen, col
lege players aren’t going to get
to play. But when I came down
here and saw that I had as much
ability as the people who were
starting, I just blew it off and
decided to work harder.”
And work harder she did. An
all-district performer for four
years in high school, Edgar had
to make a slight change between
seasons.
“Last year, they were really
expecting me to play point
guard, but I’m not a point guard
— I’m a short forward,” she said.
“They really kind of hesitated
about putting me at forward. I
was rebounding pretty well, and
I think they were surprised.
“But during spring training, I
just played ball like I knew how
See EDGAR page 10
Aggie guard Tyren Naulls and Arkansas
guard Darrell Walker spar under the
basket during the Hogs’ 66-64 victory
in G. Rollie White Coliseum Jan. 13.
photo by Donn Friedman
The Aggies are home Saturday against
the SMU Mustangs in a game starting
at 7:30. The Aggie Ladies will host
SMU also, with a 5:15 starting time.
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