Page 14AThe Battalion/Friday, December 6,1985
Sports
A&M faces
toughest
team yet
Cards derail Ags’ train
with second half surge
Lady Ags to play
No. 17 Oklahoma
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By DOUG HALL
Sports Writer
Last weekend, the Texas
A&M’s women’s basketball team
went to Corvallis, Ore. to com
pete against UCLA, Oregon State
and Cal-State Fullerton in the Big
“O” Tournament.
However, A&M Coach Lynn
Hickey says her 4-1 Lady Aggies
will battle the real Big "O ’ of
women’s collegiate basketball to
night at 7:30 when they travel to
Norman, Okla. to take on the No.
17 Oklahoma Sooners.
“They (the Sooners) will be the
best team we’ve played so far,”
Hickey said. “They're a veteran
club with some really good talent.
We’ll have to play even better
than we did last week (in an upset
win over UCLA) to win.”
Hickey said Oklahoma, which
last week defeated Western Ken
tucky, the No. 4-ranked team in
the nation at the time, boasts five
starters whose scoring averages
are in double figures.
“They’re not real big, but they
can run,” said Hickey, who faced
these same Sooners while coach
ing at Kansas State three years
ago. “They play a tough man-to
man (defense) and are very ag
gressive.”
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A&M’s Tamara Jackson (20) and Lisa Langston (right) hope to apply
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this same type of backcourt pressure against Oklahoma tonight.
Hickey knows the Sooners are
an impressive team, but she said
the Lady Ags have a chance if
thev aren't intimidated and stick
to their game plan.
“We nave to be able to run our
offense,” Hickey says. “We’ll be
one of the quicker teams they’ve
faced all season, so we can’t shy
away.
“t)ne of our goals is to be able
to compete with schools of this
caliber. We are going to learn a
lot. We’re going to find out what
our weaknesses and what our
strengths are ”
By BRANDON BERRY
Sports Writer
HOUSTON — When the time came to climb The
Houston Summit, Texas A&M was the little choo-choo
that couldn’t Thursday night in a 68-59 loss to Lamar.
The Cardinals, on the other hand, were sleek, well-
oiled Amtraks, having as much trouble against the Aggies
in the second half as a mountain climber would have with
a mole hill.
Lamar used a defensive switch (from a 3-2 zone to a 2-
1-2 zone), a three-center lineup and smart ball movement
to widen a one-point half time lead to as large as 11 points.
The game possessed outstanding individual perfor
mances, strong board play and a vocal crowd.
The only problem for the Ags was that the Cards |x>s-
sessed the majority of the above. The only statistical edge
A&M held was the lion s share of turnovers and f ouls.
“The key to the ball game was that we were able to pla\
our three big people in there at one time,” Lamar Coach
Pat Foster said. “That established our tempo and really
put us in control of the game. We controlled the boards
and they were unable to get the ball inside. And in a ball
game like this, you’ve got to get the ball inside.”
A&M Coach Shelby Metcalf agreed and simplified.
“Their inside people just whipped us," Metcalf said.
“They whipped us worse than (ex-Houston center)
Akeem (Olajuwon) used to whip us. They’re a damn good
basketball team.”
The Cards’ frontline outscored their Aggie coun
terparts, 45-24, and out-rebounded them, 40-34. In the
closing two minutes of the game, A&M starters Jimmie
Gilbert and Winston Crite fouled out on back-to-back
plays. Todd Holloway had already founded A&M’s De
jected and Disqualified Club” on the bench by getting his
fifth personal with 2:13 remaining.
Overall, A&M received 28 personal fouls to 16 for La
mar.
“I don’t even want to comment on the officiating," Fos
ter said of the three-man crew.
Metcalf wanted to comment, but found discretion to be
the better part of valor
“They (Lamar) didn’t need three people inside to whip
us, they were whipping us with two," Metcalf said
like we proved tonight, we don’t need threeolfr
would have been much happier with two."
Both Metcalf and Foster were slapped w
fouls — Foster’s coining in the first halfenab
take a six-point lead (28-22), while Metcalfs
the second half.
After Metcalf was slapped with his technical,
converted a three-point play, both technical fod
and three more f ree throws to “officially" burythtl
and take a 61-52 lead w ith only three minutesleli:1
game.
"1 can’t say that my technical foul did us am
Foster said. "But l know it sure had a goodefftcii
when Shelby got his."
Metcalf countered by claiming the official that
his “T” was either extremely attentive, hardoflitti
a Jeanne Dixon impersonator.
“1 didn’t say anything to him (theofficial),! 1
at Winston," Metcalf explained. "The official
mind reader and he w as reading someone else)
ther he thought 1 was yelling at him or 1 wasouttE
(sideline coaching) box. It 1 was out of the box, iksl
was right. But 1 don't dunk I was out of the box. j
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anyway. We just had wav too many turnoversai«li|
awtul job on the boards.
Don Marbury led Aggie scorers with 28 pointiM
bert (12 points) was the only other Aggie in «
ures. Mike Clifford and Crite pulled down 11 lid if
bounds respectively.
An added ingredient to the Cards’successfuldal
was a highly-partisan crowd.
“We had the fans," Foster understated wilhii
smile.
Metcalf agreed, “They had more people heittal
— no doubt. But thev aren’t going to the Cotton So:
ther. Our fans are kind of caught up with footUit
now and that's understandable.
“We just now have to go out and play and do ikl
we can." Metcalf said alluding to Saturday'sroadii;
against Tennessee. “Every game’s different."
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Brown leaves Rice to become Vanderbilt coach
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Football coach
Watson Brown, who gave the down
trodden Rice Owls hope of return
ing to respectability over the past
two seasons, resigned Thursday
night to return to his alma mater as
head coach at Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt Athletic Director Roy
Kramer said in Nashville, Tenn.,
that Brown would assume his new
duties immediately, replacing
George MacIntyre.
Brown, who directed the Owls to a
4-18 record, made the announce
ment late T hursday after meeting
with his coaching staff and team.
“I want it understood this decision
was made on a positive basis toward
Nashville and the university and not
anything negative toward Rice,”
Brown said in a tearful announce
ment.
“Somebody is going to have a
5 ood situation,” Brown said. “If you
on’t believe me, just go talk to those
kids (the Rice players). I sound like
somebody that just got fired. But Til
be excited when the time comes. It’s
just very hard right now.”
Kramer said, “1 am especially de
lighted that for the first time in al
most 40 years, a Vanderbilt alumnus
will be at the helm of the Vanderbilt
football team.”
Brown had just completed the sec
ond year of a six-year contract with
the Owls that was worth an esti
mated $1 million. Brown had l)een
rumored as a candidate for the Van
derbilt job throughout most of the
season. But it wasn’t until MacIntyre
resigned on T uesday that the posi
tion became available.
Brown was offensive coordinator
on MacIntyre’s staff in 1981 and
1982. Brown’s teams set 30 school
records in 1981 and set 27 more the
following year.
Brown, 34, left Vanderbilt to be
come head coach at the University of
Cincinnati and alter ont
signed to accept the Rice
where he also has beenai
sew
rector.
Rice junior linebacker Hit?J
Burgess said the playerswef 11
at the announcement bufK' 1 '
det stood Brown’sdeosift
“He said lie had toM
thought best and he "ad
home," Burgess said. DoPlI
blame him for that, pert'®I
some tears shed and eit!w|
sjxike his piece.”
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