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Wednesday, March 7, 1984/The Battalion/Page 13
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By DAVE SCOTT
Sports Writer
■ Do three basketball thrash-
■gs in one season equal one 45-
13 football thrashing? If you
ask the Texas A&M basketball
■am they will undoubtedly an
swer yes.
I For the third time this year
le Aggies crushed the Univer-
■ty of Texas on the basketball
Ramipurt. This lime it was a 75-54
il le (Twin and although A&M won,
^ey did it in a strange, unex-
jpected way.
luggleJ Texas jumped to a b-0 lead
>ak Riid ^hey stayed hot for the en-
dieresjBe first half shooting over 09
testi!» rcen t from the field. The Ag-
psvcho j es were as cold as the Long-
and f®™ 5 were hot shooting 31 per-
183, pm in the first half.
■ Looking at just those two sta
tistics, you might think A&M
■auld be well behind at the
Uf, but the Aggies actually led
bv two, 27-25.
■ The Aggies stayed in the
eet, rtime by controlling the boards.
JT had just two offensive re-
ftunds in the first half and was
said to only 13 shots. On the
eked pcPitr hand, A&M had 15 offen-
rkedor!S ve re bounds while shooting 35
;aienedi! l ' lnes -
■ Texas coach Bob Weltlich
i’t W an; a: ''- his team just couldn’t com-
e the be on the boards.
thelarj'Everybody they (A&M) put
e livij the game was getting re-
|ounds on the offensive end,”
y justd Weltlich said. “Once they knew
Jey could get inside they just
led Jade a committment to do it.”
■ After the game, coach Shelby
■elcalf said he told his team at
plilime not to worry.
“1 wanted to get out to a good
rt,” Metcalf said, “but it
liasn’t that weren’t playing
I 11 hard We were doing what we
^11 had to do.”
■ In the second half, the Ag-
■es really did what they had to
■i.They left their cold hands in
lephorghe lockerroom and shot 72
n’sjugl pent.
lay nigt | Freshman forward Winston
ijrite led the A&M charge fin-
Siingthe game with a career 25
the del joints.
rders, > nt was easily Crite’s best game
■ the year. He was named most
Rluable offensive and defensive
SumisJ a y er of the game by the cable
Lelephojp network televising the
iiique. » me ’
iCrite was 7-12 of the field,
1114 from the free throw line
■id chipped in four assists. De-
Bnsively he had two blocked
r [shots, three rebounds and most
importantly he held the Long-
■irns leading scorer, Carlton
Booper, to four points.
I Metcalf said Crite played well
Sheri!: but may become even better.
depuiitg; “Winston has a lot of god-
jjven ability, but he still works
rd in practice every day,”
etcalf said, “He has the
ance to become an outstand-
g player.”
With this victory, the Aggies
|1 vance to the next round of
the Southwest Conference
Hournament where they will
lay SMU Friday in Houston,
etcalf has nothing but compli-
lents for the Mustangs.
think SMU is probably just
I good a squad as Houston or
Brkansas,” Metcalf said. “I can’t
see how they can miss going to
the NCAA’s with their record.”
i Early in the season thre team
goal had been to just make it to
ouston to play in the tourna-
lent, but now Metcalf says
they're simply going to extend
their goal.
I Guard Todd Holloway said
the team is going to have the at-
jtiiudethat they will win.
“We’re going to Houston
J Ith the attitude that we can
v«n the whole thing,” Holloway
said,“that’s what it’s all about.”
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Winston Crite slams home two of his
game leading 25 points against Texas
Tuesday night. The Aggies defeated
Texas 75-54
Corbett fans 7
in Ag victory
Sherman Corbett struck out
seven batters in as many innings
Tuesday as Texas A&M de
feated North Texas State 3-0.
Corbett’s record improved to
3-1 on the year and Beje Mahoe
picked up his second save of the
season. Chris Lowery, 0-4, took
the loss for NTSU.
A&M improved its record to
9-1 on the year while NTSU fell
to 0-13.
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SWC tourney
Rice whips TOO, 64-52
United Press International
HOUSTON — Mike Cun
ningham’s lb points and a suc
cessful delay game down the
stretch brought Rice a 64-52
win over Texas Christian Tues
day night. It was the Owls’ first
victory in the nine-year history
of the Southwest Conference
tournament.
Despite carrying only a 12-16
record, the Owls will move into
the tournament’s second round
Friday night against Texas
Tech — a 63-48 winner Tues
day evening over Baylor.
The Horned Frogs ended
their season with an 11-17 re
cord .
Rice held the lead most of the
first half and settled for a 29-25
advantage at intermission
thanks to TCU’s 36 percent
field goal shooting and eight
turnovers.
The Frogs tied the game at
33-33 early in the second half,
but a Washington stuff shot
gave the Owls the lead for good
at 37-35.
During the regular season
the SWC used a 45-second
clock, but without the clock in
operation during the tourna
ment the Owls went to their de
lay game with 8:48 remaining
and holding a three-point lead.
Tyrone Washington and
Tracy Steele each scored 14
points for the Owls, who earned
the right to host their first tour
nament game ever by finishing
sixth in the final SWC stand
ings.
Carven Holcombe had 21
joints for TCU, but the Frogs’
eading scorer, Dennis Nutt,
managed just seven. Nutt aver
aged 17.8 points per game dur
ing the regular season.
“I think our guys did a great
job,” said Rice coach Tommy
Suitts. “It’s a group of young
men who dedicated themselves
to having a good year. I’m
proud of them. I’m as happy
For them as I can be.”
Suitte praised the play of
Cunningham and Steele, but
said Washington’s performance
was a key.
“Tyrone has just carried us
from the midpoint of the con
ference season on,” the Owls
coach said. “When we had to
have a play, he got it.”
Jim Killingsworth
TCU coach
Another important element,
Suitts said, was the fact Rice
turned the ball over only eight
times all night.
“We really have kept the
turnovers to the low numbers,”
Suitts said. “I think that is a big
plus.
Bubba leads Tech past Bears
United Press International
LUBBOCK — Texas Tech’s
Bubba Jennings scored 17
points to pace the Red Raiders
to a 63-48 win over Baylor
Tuesday night in the first
round of the Southwest Confer
ence Post Season Tournament.
Tech will meet Rice in Friday
night’s second round at the
Summit in Houston.
Baylor, which finished the
conference in last place at 1-15,
kept the game close through the
first half, leading twice and tra
iling by no more than three
points.
Coming' out from a 29-27
halftime deficit, the Bears hit
the first four points of the sec
ond half witlt Paul Kuiper’s
short jumper giving them a 31-
29 lead.
Tech came back to take the
lead, strengthened by Vince
Taylor’s 16-point night, and
gradually built a 17-point sec
ond half lead.
Kuiper was the only Baylor
player to manage double fig
ures, finishing with 11 points.
With the win, lech
improved its season
record to 17-11. Bay
lor ended the year 5-
23, equaling the
school’s worst loss total
set 60 years ago.
Ray Irvin added 10 points for
die Raiders.
With the win, Tech improved
its season record to 17-11. Bay
lor ended the year 5-23, equal
ing the school’s worst loss total
set 60 years ago.
Tech coach Gerald Myers
said a bye into the tournament,
which could have been obtained
with wins over SMU last Satur
day and of the subsequent coin
toss to decide the third place
finisher between the two, would
have been nice.
Baylor coach Jim Haller said
he felt his team played hard, as
he feels it did all season despite
the record-tying number of
losses.
“The reason they were able
to beat us as handily as they did
was they killed us on the offen
sive board the second half.
They didn’t do that the first
half,” he said.
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