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Texas A&M iry I v^XvJo / aOMVI The Battalion Sports February 1, 1983/Page 11 ir ickandn ma comt try wouH with a day,of e in the when Ji exas ft r. beaut, ■dnesdai &M rolls past Texas Tech, 78-63 Riley, Roberts combine for 38 points by Joe Tindel Jr. Battalion Staff In some cases, statistics don’t Iwavs tell the story of a basket- anv all [game. Monday night’s con- iusee\t 5s t between the Aggies and iineout r exas 'r ec h ( however, wasn’t ' irea( ’f <ne|of those cases. , 1 Given the Aggies’ 64 percent I P,' ield-goal shooting to Tech’s 7.5, as well as Texas A&M’s 36- ;2 rebounding edge, it’s simple o understand the conclusion — Igmg v l78 ' 63 Aggie victor y- )l hers l| From the outset, one could and n, ell ®it would be Claude Riley’s d anyth: vening. The Aggies’ 6-10 >undu enior forward was responsible i\ mien or the first four Aggie points, around Jid when it was all over, he and kids Pedi s Bubba Jennings shared putting ifl ;o places jp the game-high 20 points. After Riley opened the scor ing with a 13-foot jumper from inside the lane, Tech guard David Reynolds’ 15-footer tied the game for the last time at two. From then on it was all Texas A&M, with Riley and forward Roy Jones acting as masters of ceremonies for the first half. Jones scored all 10 of his points in the first half, usingjust about every kind of shot imaginable. “We came out with a lot of intensity tonight,” Jones, the 6-7 senior said. “That’s always the key. That’s what Coach (Met calf) always tells us.” The crowd might have be come bored if the Aggies hadn’t thrown in a few alley-oop dunks along with some fancy ball handling to keep things going. But even without such enter tainment, Coach Shelby Met calfs cagers still would’ve chalked up their fifth confer ence victory in eight outings. Junior guard Reggie Roberts and senior guard Tyren Naulls picked up the show for Jones and Riley in the second half. Naulls, who finished the contest with 13 points, scored the open ing points of the half on a layup, stretching the Aggie lead to 44- 31. Roberts scored 11 of his 18 points in the second half and stole the show late in the game with some impressive behind- the-back dribbling. Freshman guard Kenny Brown got in the game often enough to contribute 8 points to the Aggie cause. Brown, known for his long-distance jumpers, hit from 28, 23, 22 and 25 feet. While four Aggies scored in the double figures, only Jen nings and sophomore forward Vince Taylor, with 17 points, en tered two digits for the Red Raiders. Their shots kept the score respectable but did little else to counter the Aggie onslaught. Aggie coach Shelby Metcalf spoke highly of his team’s im provement— improvement that has helped the Aggies win five out of their last seven outings. “We wanted to be disciplined, and we are getting better all the time and our shot selection is getting better,” Metcalf said. ” I think the team has made great progress in January.” The Aggies will open the second round of conference ac tion when the Houston Cougars, unbeaten in SWC games and ranked 11th nationally, will in vade G. Rollie White Coliseum Saturday. The game will be tele vised regionally by NBC. The Cougars blasted the Aggies 84-61 in the first round, but Metcalf said he’s expecting quite a shootout this weekend. “The Cougars haven’t lost a game since we played them, and they’ve played everybody in the league,” Metcalf said. “I think we’ll be better prepared than last time.” ■ Red Raiders still ‘holding together’ herimsP; 1 ( s ( J impossi itherinij Igill cI(m[H it burn / b y Frank L. Christlieb ! Battalion Staff It had been over a year since he; Aggies had defeated the 1 Texas l ech Red Raiders. In two . James during Tech’s 17-11 sea- as ,f ; on in 1981-82, Texas A&M lost n " hls ( >8-64 in G. Rollie White Col- ' seum and 91-82 in the chilly ' K (l ;onfines of Lubbock Municipal j'I’F 1 Coliseum. ,ul ' ' And to make the Raiders even nore confident of their chances 50 n tf success against the Aggies, ;invca, 3oach Gerald Myers’ Texas ' F C( Tech teams had won four of °1 bu f heir last five against Texas p/" \&M. Make that six of their last ■thwe" Or even nine of their last reoldf' i2. What about 12 of their last etheok dating back to the 1975-76 iea son? At any rate, no matter where e, am: [he games have been played, the Aggies have had their troubles iainst the Red Raiders. ■ Myers, who’s been a Texas ENT | t 11 r y s i0 ;VENT 1983 Tech mainstay for the past 12 seasons, made a drastic move in early January when he kicked starters Charles Johnson, Joe Washington and Dwight Phillips off the team for disciplinary reasons. The team promptly lost its next two games — to SMU 94-77 and TCU 59-57 — as Myers tried to choose his start ing five from a group of eight players. But 5-10 guard Bubba Jen nings, the team’s scoring leader all season, says the Red Raiders haven’t decided to roll over and play dead, even with a 6-15 re cord overall and a 3-5 record in the Southwest Conference. “I think we’ve made a little progress, if anything, since we lost those players,” Jennings said after the Aggies defeated the Red Raiders 78-63 Monday night in the coliseum. “It really hurt losing the guys we did, but we’ve held together. I think that’s going to help our younger players a lot.” Progress or not, Jennings said, he and his teammates had decided beforehand that they could give the Aggies a close game. But the strain of Saturday night’s 58-57 road victory over Baylor in Waco may have been a bit much for the Red Raiders, he said. “The Aggie came out real hot and were getting a lot of shots inside,” Jennings said. “I felt like we didn’t play very good defense at all in the first half (when the Aggies connected on 20 of 29 field goals). I think we may have been a little tired mentally from that tough road game, but we weren’t tired physically, because we’ve gotten some rest. “We thought that since we beat Baylor on the road, it would give us some momentum com ing in here. We knew we hadn’t lost to the Aggies in a while, so we came in confident. But we weren’t overlooking them.” As it stands, the Raiders may experience a losing season for the first time since 1968-69, when they finished 11-13. Myers, who has a 215-130 re cord in 12 seasons at Texas Tech, has but the second half of the season to turn his team to ward the .500 mark. Myers said the Aggies, who outrebounded the Red Raiders 36-22, merely took advantage of his team’s missed opportunities. “A&M just got us playing their game right off,” Myers said. “They were extremely hot and hit well in the first half. Any time a team hits that high per centage (A&M’s 69 percent in the first half), your defense isn’t playing too well. “We needed a slower-paced game and a lower-scoring game on the road, but the Aggies play ed very well, and they were in spired and ready. After the first five minutes, our guys were a little complacent. I think after that win at Baylor, they just couldn’t play real hard. But they never threw the towel in. They didn’t give up — they’re that See RAIDERS page 13 staff photo by David Fisher Kenny Brown looks for help from his teammates as Texas Tech forward Vince Taylor defends. 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