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Monday, January 16, 1984/The Battalion/Page 15
By BOB CASTER
III Sports writer
1'Ifwebeat Houston it will be
[ional sports news,” Texas
5 |M basketball coach Shelby
■calf said before his team’s
aich-up with the Cougars
aiurday. “But it could
ipen."
t didn’t happen, though,
re was no stunning upset f or
'““fyming Aggies, but there may
nieat “ victory of sorts hiding in the
i4 defeat.
(The Aggies, suffering from
cute identity crisis going into
fcithwest Conference action,
118 bvhave proven to themselves
ll0 ^l tothe rest of the world that
^ pcanplay with the “big boys.”
are nlt(the Houston game) was a
le we couldn’t wait to play,”
ai ell Williams said. “I was
ling forward to it and I feel
10l 01 Id about it. I feel like we’ve
uifvi |noverlooked.”
eipju IVilliams, a junior college
transfer, seemed to personify a
sense of optimism that is shared
by his teammates.
“When you gel down you just
have to dig harder — never give
up,” he said. “Any team can be
beat. We were picked to be in the
basement but I think we can fin
ish in the lop three. No one’s
going to go undefeated.”
I hat’s the attitude the Aggies
will have to keep for the rest of
the season. That’s the attitude
that will compensate for the
Aggies’ youth and lack of ex
perience — which is no secret to
them or anyone else.
And Metcalf sees that atti
tude in his players.
“You’re gonna get as good as
the competition you’re playing,”
Metcalf said. “You can’t simulate
a Houston in practice — there’s
nobody who has a second team
like Houston’s first team. But
there’s no doubt that if we play
that hard every night we’ll win
some ballgames.”
Akeem blocks
Aggie victory
By KAY MALLETT
Sports writer
The unstoppable Akeem
Olajuwon showed his “star sta
tus” Saturday night, leading the
Houston Cougars to a 70-64 vic
tory over Texas A&M.
Olajuwon strolled into Col
lege Station with a name and a
reputation and left with added
respect from an awestruck
crowd at G. Rollie White Col
iseum.
“He has star status,” said
A&M coach Shelby Metcalf,
“and I think he’s earning it.”
Olajuwon proved to be the
overriding factor in Houston’s
win, topping everyone on the
court in statistics and intimida
tion with 27 points, 13 rebounds
and 10 blocked shots.
His role in Houston’s win was
realized in the first minute.
After the Aggies won the
opening tipoff, Winston Crite
took a jumpshot which was in
stantly blocked by Olajuwon and
pitched down court.
Houston forward Rickie
Winslow instinctively took the
signal for the entrance of Phi
Slama Jama and performed a
perfect fast-break slam dunk.
Not a good start for the
Aggies.
Houston fired up its man-to-
man defense and kept A&M
from scoring until four minutes
into the first half. A Kenny
Brown jumpshot put A&M on
the scoreboard, and seemed to
inspire the Aggies — especially
freshman Todd Holloway.
H olloway, seemingly un
daunted by the Coogs, reversed
the game’s momentum in
A&M’s favor with his steals, ball
handling and outside shots.
The Aggies lied the score 10-
10 with 11:45 left in the first half
compliments of a baseline jump-
shot by Brown, and the lead then
changed hands six times in a
matter of five minutes.
See AGS page 16
oung comes up cold,
ut ‘cool’ Cougars win
By DAVE SCOTT
Sports writer
Only Houston’s Michael
est,! 1 ''? could lean back against
fessotl' oc k erroom wal l> stretch his
sloralfr ame , across a dirty clothes
penis FP er ’ S 'P a E)r Pepper and
ply explain to a crowd of
rts writers why he shot so
judjfi an( ^ * low h e was,1 ’i wor-
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j ll J usl wasn t my night,” the
ior member of the Phi Slama
^ 'a fraternity said. “My team
mates really came on and I knew
they would pick up the slack.”
Young hit just 3 of 14 from
the field — 21.4 percent — while
scoring just eight points — a far
cry from his team-leading 21.5
per game average.
But only a Top 10 team like
Houston, ranked fifth and
seventh in the UPI and AP polls
respectively, could have its top
scorer be colder than a frozen
cougar and still walk away with a
six-point victory.
See COOGS page 16
t'noto by
Doug Lee is back at full strength
after an early season ankle injury.
Photo by Bill Hughes
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