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Tuesday, January 17, 1984AThe Battalion/Paqe 11
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Photo by Dean Saito
Even with the tight defensive play
of Darnell Williams (20) and Mike
Clifford (25), this Texas Wesleyan
player was able to dump the ball
off to a teammate. A&M won the
by a 75-67 score.
game
A&M bench cleared
as Ags parade to win
over hapless Wesleyan
By DAVE SCOTT
Sports writer
Highlights were scarce Mon
day night in the lackluster 75-67
victory for the Aggies at G. Rol-
lie White Coliseum. Perhaps the
most exciting moment was Ro
ger Bock’s slam clunk.
Entering to chants of “We
want Bock”, the 6-10 sopho
more came into the game with
five minutes left and the Aggies
up by 22.
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With the Rams at the free
throw line, guard Darnell Wil
liams took Bock’s place under
the basket. Williams grabbed the
missed free throw and Fired the
down court to Bock on the
fast break. After a little spin
move, Bock drove the ball home.
With the slam and the playing
time, Bock made a contribution.
And that was all he wanted.
“I’ve been ready,” Bock said,
“I told the coaches any time you
see an opportunity. I’m ready.”
Despite the fact that Bock has
averaged only 2.2 points per
game and has seen little playing
time, his substitution brought
the crowd to its feet.
“Everybody pulls for Roger,”
guard Kenny Brown ex
plained,“Everybody likes him.”
Brown was the leading scorer
for the Aggies with 15 points on
5 of 12 shooting. He added five
more in five attempts from the
line.
Brown saw 29 minutes of ac
tion against Texas Wesleyan, a
lew more than he has been get
ting in recent games. He was
glad to see the added time.
“I was happy to be out there
with the rest of the guys,” Brown
said.
Although the Aggies were un
inspired for most of the game,
head coach Shelby Metcalf said
the contest was important for
the team.
“Alter the game with Hous
ton, I knew we would have to win
without emotion,” he said.
Metcalf said the team had to
get the game with Houston out
of their system before they play
SMU Wednesday night. “That
was the reason for scheduling
the game between Houston and
SMU,” he said.
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by BOB CASTER
Senior Sports Writer
The Aggies may not have
looked like the same team that
gave “Phi Slama Jama” fits but
they got the job done Tuesday
night beating Texas Wesleyan
College 75-67 in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
The 3,549 spectators saw an
exibition of Aggie talent as
Texas A&M coach Shelby Met
calf brought all 11 players off of
the benfich for some much
needed playing time.
But the Aggies seemed to be
holding things together with Sil
ly Putty against the Rams, man
aging an eight-point final mar
gin against a team that shot only
35 percent from the field.
“I didn’t think we played with
as much enthusiasm as we did
against Houston Saturday, but I
didn’t exp«r<S us to,” Metcalf
said. “I sort of thought we might
have this kind of game tonight
but I think we got it out of our
system in time for SMU.”
In 40 minutes of play, Metcalf
felt that his Aggies only “played
15 minutes of good basketball.”
That 15 minutes of play came
t he very end of the first half
an <j the first part of die second
* ia The Aggiesjumped ahead by
as (Tiany as seven points at the
sla ,t of the game before the
R aJ tis narrowed the margin to a
tie with 1:54 left to play in
t j ie first half. But Todd Hollo-
wa y, Kenny Brown and Mike
Clifford added six points for the
A K foes in the last 1:30 to give
a 36-30 half-time lead.
Because of the Aggies’ youth,
the turnover problem may he
enough to try Metcalfs patience
as a coach.
“In the Houston game we
only had two turnovers in the
first half,” lie pointed out. “It’s
something that happens physic
ally hut there’s usually some
thing mental behind it.
The Aggies kept things going
j n t pe second half, climbing to a
22-point lead behind double-
figure shooting by Brown, Doug
L ee and Jimmie Gilbert who
each hit for 15, 14 and 10 points,
respectively.
flolloway, the Aggies’ lead
ing scorer after 14 games, saw
li, n jted action in Tuesday’s
gani e because of a sore knee.
A cc £)rding to Metcalf, Holloway
“took some pretty good licks” in
the Houston game.
But as Metcalf began pulling
oul his regulars and sending in
hj s substitutes, the Aggie lead
k e g;in to dwindle and the num
ber Aggie turnovers grew —
to 2l to he exact.
“They just have to keep play
ing — it takes them a while to
realize the seriousness of the
situation. You just have to work
with them.”
Kenny Brown feels that tur
novers are currently the team’s
biggest problem.
“We just need to take things a
little slower sometimes,” he said.
“We needed this kind of game
tonight. It got wild at the end hut
the guys in the game in the last
five minutes had a lot of fun.”
But the fun won’t last long for
the Aggies and Brown is fully 1 '!
aware of that. They face SMUT
Sunday in Dallas for a match*;
that should he every bit as gruell
ing as the Houston game. C
“We needed this win,” Brown !
said. “We really weren’t emo-'
tionally up tonight like we were?
against Houston hut we ll htT
fired up against SMU.”
Lee, who is just now J
approaching full strength after T
an early-season ankle injury, is£;
in no way taking the Ponies*•'
lightly. i:
“I think now (after the Wes- “
leyan game) we’re more pre-JJ'
pared for SMU and well he up®'
for it,” he said. “We can’t let up«u
one bit. They’re a good team—
'don’t think people realize how'vj
good they are.”
The Aggies take on SMU at! •k
7:30 Wednesday night in Moody'
Coliseum.
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