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Tuesday, March 6, 1984/The Battalion/Page 11
Basketball
Aggies vs. Texas
1st round SWC tourney
G. Rollie White
Cnfe^s ready, to SLAM
Ags play at home tonight
By DAVE SCOTT
Sports Writer
The room is crowded wkh your typical media
types, stuffing their faces with the f ree food pro
vided by the sports information office and talk
ing nothing but sports. They’re waiting for the
start of the Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets
basketball game at the Summit in Houston on
February 2. But for now their attention is fo
cused on a television screen where the basketball
game between the Houston Cougars and Texas
A&M Aggies is being shown.
As expected, the Cougars jump out to an
early lead over the sickness and injury riddled
Aggies. Then No. 21 for A&M takes a pass,
drives down the middle and makes a tremen
dous slam right over 7-0 all-world Akeem Olaju-
won.
The media room erupts with gasps and oohs
and ahhs. It takes something for a bunch of
sportswriters to forget how cool they are.
“Who was that?” they ask one another. “Was
that Gilbert?”
No it certainly wasn’t Jimmie Gilbert, it was
freshman Winston Crite.
“I just closed my eyes and went for it,” Crite
says of the dunk. “If you look at the pictures my
eyes really are closed. I really figured I’d go up,
get fouled and go to the line. I knew it was
Akeem, I thought about it before I drove, but if
he blocked it, he blocked it.”
If that play was the highlight of Crite’s first
year at Texas A&M, then the game against LSU
early in the year was his “lowlight.” In that game
Crite was played in awe of Leonard Mitchell and
was completely ineffective, scoring just four
points.
“I was intimated, I have to admit it,” Crite
It's Lights out
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women come close
The Aggies led the Hogs 33-30 at Mary Ann Swearnign brings the
the half, but still lost the first ball upcourt against Texas Tech
round SWC tourney game. Here, earlier this season.
SAN ANTONIO — The United States Foot
ball League game between San Antonio and
Houston was interrupted at 9:20 Monday night
because of a power failure at Alamo Stadium.
The power failure caused several banks of
lights to go out late in the third quarter with
Ffouston leading 21 -7.
Alamo Stadium, located near Trinity Univer
sity in North Central San Antonio, has been the
subject of lawsuits by residents of the area. The
residents claim the stadium is not suitable for
professional sports.
Both teams are looking for their first win in
the game that was nationally televised on cable.
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Ihe Texas Aggies led Arkansas
held at "(3-30 at halftime, but a red-hot
>-3048 f«i hooting Razorback team shot
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, held at ’P’ l ^ e Agg‘ es 75-66 in the
cctvoneispt r °und of the Southwest
Conference women’s basketball
ournament Monday.
,n ose "!| ■he women built their first
>n cl ''' talflead on 14 points by center
eral . 4khell Tatum and a 21-14 re-
' r,,,atl '’ winding advantage. Tatum
re will f inished with a game-high 23
r at 8 3 nntsand 16 rebounds,
the Pavil- r but Doris Gaiser, who scored
ill of her 13 points in the sec-
Jmti half, and freshman Monica
~ Irown quickly put Arkansas
thead in the second half.
■The Lady Razorbacks, who
tlayed No. 1 Texas to within
ust two points earlier in the
ear, built the lead to 13 points
)n one occasion in winning
“Ctancy I'l'fir 20th game against eight
ears, saysftes.
Econotndj belli Young scored 12 points
, ec(e dto^d Lisa Langston had 12 for
»gist EiWp Aggies, who finished their
f SouthctfBson at 13-15.
glAggie coach Cherri Rapp
Td that in order for A&M to
deal any team Langston must
iy well. Rapp said Langston,
dwho scored well below her sea-
average, may have been
r prepared for the game,
enni Edgar, who was named
SWG player of the week Mon
day, also had a below average
performance. Edgar finished
with 10 points and four re
bounds.
The Aggies were also hurt by
fouls late in the game. Guard
Mary Ann Swearngin and Lan
gston fouled out with less than
three minutes remaining in the
game.
Amanda Holley led the Lady
Razorbacks with 16 points.
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Athletic ticket books are not valid
for admittance to tonight’s game,
rickets for this SWC playoff game
are still on sale at G. Kollie White.
says. “I was forgeting plays, my head was foggy.
All of a sudden I was there, I was stunned. I
thought “you’re really in major college basket
ball, you’re just a freshman.”
Yet perhaps Crite shouldn’t have been
stunned playing major college basketball as a
freshman. He says getting a chance to play is a
main reason why Crite picked A&M over other
schools such as UCLA, Washington State and
use.
“It’s a great honor to go to someplace like
UCLA, but you don’t play as a freshamn,” Crite
says. “I wanted to go where I could play and
help the program. And I think I’ve done that.”
Crite came to the attention of the basketball
coaches in a roundabout way. The football
coaches were actually the first to notice him. The
football coaches were recruiting eventual signee
Rick McLeod while he was playing a basketball
game against Crite’s team. Crite impressed the
football coaches enough that they passed the
word on to coach Shelby Metcalf.
Metcalf has started Crite in 23 of the team’s
27 games and given hitfi an average of 31.1 min
utes per game. Crite has responded by averag
ing eight points and six rebounds a game. He is
also second on the team in blocked shots with 25.
However, it is his 18 dunks, almost half the
teams total, that attract attention.
“I love to dunk,” he says.
He remembers how he felt as a junior high
student when he saw people slam. He likes
knowing there are little kids watching him, wait
ing for Crite to lift his 6-6 frame high in the air
and slam. But more importantly Crite says, it
really helps him to get the feel of the game.
Crite describes himself as an emotional player
and he feels that helps to him play better.
“If I get emotionally involved in a game I play
better,” he says. “I try to be controlled, but I’m
just an emotional player.”
The way Crite plays with emotion makes him
aggressive and competitive and that is what Met
calf likes the most about him, along with his nat
ural talent. Metcalf says that combination of tal
ent give Crite a lot of potential.
“He’s got a chance to be a great one,” Metcalf
says. “He’s has quick feet and he’s an explosive
jumper. He’s got the god-given talent.”
Crite is thankful for the coaches confidence in
him because he says it gives him confidence in
himself. But Crite has never been lacking in con
fidence.“I think I can do whatever I set my mind
to,” he says.
Although Crite has no doubts about his abil
ity, he isn’t arrogant even though people have
thought that of him.
“When I was in high school people used to
think I was cocky, but it’s the people who act
cocky and know what they can do, that get out
and accomplish things,” Crite says.
Crite has the chance to accomplish some more
tonight when the Aggies play the University of
Texas tonight.
Crite feels the team is lucky to play Texas for
a third time.
“We’re fortunate to play Texas, they’re one of
the weaker teams in the conference,” he says.
Gamblers rip Slingers, 35-7
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO—Jim Kel
ly’s scrambling runs and consis
tently accurate passing arm car
ried the Houston Gamblers to
an easy 35-7 win over San Anto
nio Monday night in a game de
layed 48 minutes by a power
failure.
A bank of lights installed
during the past week at Alamo
Stadium went off with 2:58 re
maining in the third quarter
and both teams left the field
while eletricians struggled with
the problem.
Most of the slim crowd that
braved chilly, windy Weather in
the first place abandoned the
stadium when the lights went
out.
The Houston players faced
additional discomfort during
the power failure because the
Gamblers’ dressing room was
locked and no one could be
found with a key. The lock was
eventually broken after the
players had stood in the cold for
25 minutes.
Kelly, enjoying his first pro-'
fessional victory after an out
standing career at the Univer
sity of Miami, scored on runs of
1 and 2 yards in the second^
uarter to put the Gamblers in,
ront.
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With the power failure and
with both teams throwing on al
most every down in the fourth
quarter, the game took four
hours to complete.
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