Texas A&M
The Battalion Sports
February 22, 1983 Page 9
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ies defeat lOth-ranked Rattlers
Naulls, Lee lead pack of double-figure
scorers for A&M in 20-point triumph
by Joe Tindel Jr.
Battalion Staff
ore than a complete team of
Btxas Aggies scored in double
figures Monday night to contri
bute to a 96-76 victory over
NAIA power St. Mary’s.
I Senior point-guard Tyren
Naulls led a group of six double
digit scorers with 20 points and
forward Claude Riley snatched
10 rebounds to pace the Aggie
cagers to the non-conference
[victory over the small but quick
Raiders.
■ “It was one of those games
where we were putting it all
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t transfe: eight of 12 from the field and
already four of five from the charity
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boards real good and we were
hitting the open man real good.”
And Aggie Head Coach Shel
by Metcalf got a glimpse of some
positive things that could hap
pen to his team in the next few
years. The freshman guard duo
of Doug Lee and Kenny Brown
combined for 35 points. Lee,
runner-up in scoring Monday
night for the Aggies with a
career high 18 points, saw some
action at point guard as well as
off guard.
“I feel real good playing it
(point guard),” Lee said. “Right
now Tyren’s our main point
man. But I’m ready to step in
there any time Tyren really
needs my help or needs a
breather.
“I think both of us (Lee and
Brown) more or less have just
been outside shooters. I don’t
think we’ve really done as much
as we can to really get inside. But
I think tonight we got more of
our all-around game down.”
Three other Aggies were get
ting their games down too. Riley
hit for 13 points, Roy Jones
added 12 and Lowell McHenry
pitched in 10. Jones also grab
bed eight rebounds.
From the time they control
led the opening tip, the Aggies
took charge of the game. With
the aid of four consecutive free
throws, two by guard Reggie
Roberts and two by Naulls, and a
dunk by Naulls, Texas A&M
jumped out to a 6-0 lead.
The Rattlers never caught
the Aggies.
After St. Mary’s cut the lead
to 10-8 in the first half on a dunk
by all-America forward Ricky
Hooker, the Rattlers had to wait
until the 14:34 mark of the
second half to pull to within
striking distance of Texas A&M.
St. Mary’s forward Gary Gas-
pard stuffed one in and Naulls
fouled. Gaspard completed the
three-pointer to cut the lead to
51-48.
St. Mary’s had a chance to cut
the Aggie lead to one point on
the Aggies’ possession following
the three-point play. The Rat
tlers came up with a steal, but
threw the ball away trying to
force the ball inside.
After Lee hit two free throws
to widen the Aggie margin to
55-50, St. Mary’s couldn’t re
cover.
TEXAS A&M (96)
Riley 3-8 7-7 13, Jones 3-8 6-10 12, Gilbert
0-0 6-1 0, Naulls 8-12 4-5 20, Roberts 2-5
2-2 6, Lee 7-10 4-6 18, Me Henry 3-3 4-5
10, Brown 7-11 3-3 17, Bock 0-0 0-0 0.
Totals 33-57 30-39 96.
ST. MARY’S (76)
Thomas 1-3 0-0 2, Hooker 8-16 2-2 18,
Lacue 1-3 0-0 2, Mahone 7-17 6-6 20,
Roseboro 2-5 0-0 4, Elliot 0-0 0-0 0, Antwi
1- 1 0-0 2, Gaspard 9-14 1-1 19, Manuel
2- 8 5-7 9. Totals 31-67 14-16 76.
Halftime — Texas A&M 45, St. Mary’s
33. Fouled out — Lacue, Manuel. Total
fouls — Texas A&M 18, St. Mary’s 29.
Rebounds — Texas. A&M 35 (Riley 10),
St. Mary’s 34 (Lacue 9). A — 3,549.
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KSt. Mary’s University has been
regarded as a first-class learning
institution for many years. The
student-athletes that choose to
attend St. Mary’s always receive
a[good, sound education at the
Buth Texas school.
I But the Rattlers earned a
Ph D. on the basketball court
Monday night while losing to
Texas A&M 96-76.
■ The Rattlers invaded G. Rol-
lie White Coliseum priming
themselves for the NAIA na-
linal tournament, but by the
time St. Mary’s left the floor, the
; Rattlers were much wiser as far
as road games are concerned.
H St. Mary’s head coach Buddy
Meyer said that even though the
Aggies handed the Rattlers only
their sixth loss against 22 wdns
on the year, playing the taller
and stronger Aggies was a good
exjterience for his lOth-ranked
Rattlers
“We go on the road against
these good major college teams
for a purpose,” Meyer said.
“We’ve got tough conference
and tournament games coming
up and playing these guys on the
road really helps us.
“When you play in adverse
conditions like this you learn a
lot in a hurry. We’re not going to
have the home-court advantage
at the national tournament.”
Despite losing to the Aggies
by 20 points, Meyer’s Rattlers
were breathing down the
Aggies’ necks for almost the en
tire game.
All-American Ricky Hooker
wowed the fans and kept the
Aggie defense guessing with a
full repotoire of dazzling inside
moves and consistent outside
shooting for the Rattlers.
And just when the Texas
A&M defense adjusted to Hook
er, St. Mary’s forward Gary Gas
pard lit up the Rattler score-
board with his owm array of
moves.
But Texas A&M pulled away
from St. Mary’s by using strong
outside shooting from Roy
Jones and Tyren Naulls to take a
45-33 lead at halftime. After the
intermission, however, St.
Mary’s came back to close the
gap to 51-48 at the 14:32 mark
of the second half.
But after that short spurt by
the Rattlers, Texas A&M gun
ners Kenny Brown and Doug
Lee burst St. Mary’s bubble with
long-range bombs and tenacious
defense.
Meyer said the strong play by
Lee and Brown was the deciding
factor in the game.
“I think they really made
things happen for the Aggies in
the second half,” he said.
“Brown broke our back with
those big shots in the second
half. He really helped them off
the bench. I didn’t think we
played a really great game
tonight, but I’m sure A&M had a
lot to do with that.”
Jones was another key factor
for the Aggies’ inside game,
Meyer added, since the Rattlers
did a good job in keeping high-
scoring Claude Riley from get
ting the ball inside.
“We slacked off of him
(Jones) to work on Riley and he
burned us a couple of times,” he
said. “They just had a lot more
depth than we had. We came in
here knowing we would have to
play good defense if we wanted
to win. We told ourselves that if
we held them to 60 or 70 points
we could win the game, but if we
let them score 80 or 90 then we
would lose. And that’s exactly
what happened. We played their
game.”
Another factor working in
Texas A&M’s favor, Meyer said,
was the partisan Aggie crowd.
Although only 3,549 Texas
A&M faithful showed up, Meyer
said the vocal Aggies intimi
dated the Rattlers.
“When the game started we
were very tight,” he said, “and
I’m pretty sure the crowd had a
lot to do with that. Our players
had heard so much about the
A&M crowd that I guess it went
to our heads. We got out of bur
game and we never really got
back into it except for a short
while in the second half.”
Texas A&M freshman guard Kenny Brown skies
over St. Mary’s defender Jai Mahone in action
Monday night at G. Rollie White Coliseum. The
Aggies defeated the Rattlers to raise their record
to 14-12 on the year. The lOth-ranked Rattlers
are at 22-6 on the year after the loss to A&M.
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