The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, March 2, 1984 Page: 20 of 24
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Roadrunners, Hogs, Cardinals take turns stampeding Owls
by Jay Grob
UTSA 73, Rice 72
For the first time in several
weeks, Rice played well enough to
convincingly win a basketball
game. The Owls outshot the
University of Texas at San
Antonio, played the bigger
Roadrunners evenly on the
boards, and executed a surprising
fast break, one effective enough to
make the Boston Celtics proud.
Unfortunately, the Owls played
five on seven Wednesday in San
Antonio. Two aged, overweight
gents in referees' regalia added
their names to the Roadrunner
roster late in the game, and rallied
UTSA to a 73-72 win over Rice.
The win upped UTSA's mark to
20-6, while the Owls fell to 9-16.
Starlite Williams' two free
throws with two seconds
remaining may have sealed the win
for UTSA, but three questionable
traveling calls around the four-
minute mark and a myriad of
uncalled defensive fouls under the
Owl basket doomed Rice.
Owl forward Pennie Goff,*who
received more than a couple of
UTSA's uncalled fouls, said, "I felt
like I had two refs on me tonight."
On the positive side, Holly Jones
played perhaps her best offensive
game of the season. The Owls
relied on the 6-1 frosh to both
break the press and score. Jones
responded by hitting ten of 14
shots from the field for 25 points
and by grabbing 11 rebounds. In
addition, Jones played a major
role in holding UTSA center
Margaret Martinovich to nine
points.
Dede Brantley, Pennie Goff and
Valerie Ziegler scored 16, 14 and
10 points, respectively, for Rice.
Arkanua 85, Rice 66
Nobody ever taught the
Arkansas Lady Razorbacks the
fundamentals of the textbook
jump shot. Awkward pushes with
one arm and uncomfortable set
shots characterized the Hogs'
efforts against Rice Monday
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Cagers claw Panthers
by Chris Lowrance
Just when you thought it.was
safe to go back to Autry Court,
Uglyball struck again. Rice beat
Prairie View A&M 64 44, but it
was not pretty.
To the thundering apathy of 567
fans, Rice came too close to losing
to the worst team in Division 1
basketball. Prairie View has a
combined 2-24 record on the year.
The scary part was that Prairie
View led for most of the first ten
minutes of the game. The Panthers
came to play, as they scored on
their first four possessions* But
Rice was able to pick up
defensively for the rest of the half,
causing 13 turnovers and limiting
the Panthers to 44 percent from
the field.
Mike Cunningham was the
offensive star of the half, as he
bulled inside for nine points on
three for three shooting.
The second half was not much
better. Rice did improve its
shooting percentage slightly as the
game turned into a cakewalk. With
16 minutes left, Rice stormed to a
16 point lead. Tony Barnett played
well for the Owls, garnering team
highs in both points and rebounds
with 13 tallies and eight caroms.
Coach Suitts was able to play
the entire team, and ten players
spent at least nine minutes on the
floor. Suitts commented, "We
were looking forward (to
Arkansas). When you consider
that we put 12 people in the game
for four minutes or longer, we
played pretty well."
The game was sloppy, and
neither team established its
rhythm. Suitts later put the game
in perspective, "I'm always glad to
win by 20."
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afternoon at Autry Court.
However, a basketball swishing
through a net also characterized
Arkansas' play Monday. The
Razorbacks collection of funny
shots went through the nets 53% of
the time, as Arkansas survived a
first half Owl scare to beat Rice 85-
66. Five Razorbacks scored in
double figures, though the Hogs
played without the services of all-
conference forward Betty Fiscus,
who is out of the season following
knee surgery.
Center Monica Brown paced
Arkansas with 18 points and 16
rebounds while reserve forward
Debra Williams added 16.
Arkansas out-rebounded the Owls
39-26. Guard Tracy Webb,
forward Amanda Holley and
guard Cheryl Orcholski scored 15,
12 and 10 points respectively.
Rice threw an early scare on the
Hogs, however. Ziegler, who
enjoyed her best shooting night in
several years, hitting six of 11 shots
for 12 points, opened the Rice
fireworks with three long bombs
from the left side. Goff followed
with three consecutive power
moves of her arm and the Owls had
an unexpected lead at 14:36, as
Arkansas had yet to figure out the
Owls' half court zone trap. Goff
finished with a game-high 21
points.
But three consecutive and
controversial traveling calls on
Ziegler combined with Hog
baskets by Holley, Williams and
Shiela Burke to give Arkansas the
lead for good, 16-12 at 11:50.
Arkansas led 33-26 at the half.
Says Tucker, "I wasnt sure at all
that those traveling calls were
correct, but they definitely hurt
our shooting confidence."
Tucker continued, saying, "We
played an outstanding first half,
but we lost our intensity in the
second half and didn't regain it
until there were only about eight
minutes left.""
Four of the Owls' starting five
may have lost their intensity in the
second half, but freshman guard
Dede Brantley displayed her best
performance of the year. The
diminutive point guard sneaked
her way in, over, and around the
Arkansas defense for 14 second
half points, hitting primarily from
inside the paint. Brantley finished
with 16 points, four assists, three
steals and only three turnovers in
36 minutes of action.
Tucker praised Brantley, "Dede
has gained a lot of confidence in
her ability. She played an
outstanding point guard. It's
things like her play that help
everybody on the team."
Brantley could not, however,
rally the Owls alone. Brown and
Holley used their height to
advantage on the offensive boards,
as the Razorbacks built a 19-point
lead on several occasions.
The Owls cut the Hog edge to 13
at 3:26 on a pair of Skupin-Ladry
free throws, but it was too little.
too late.
Jones was the other Owl in
double figures with 11 points, and
was the only Rice player to have
more than three rebounds,
finishing with five.
Lamar SI, Rice 77
In a game that was not nearly as
close as the score indicated, the
Lamar Cardinals handed Rice an
81-77 loss Saturday afternoon in
Beaumont.
The 8-15 Cards took advantage
of everything Rice had to offer: a
porous press, pathetic shooting,
sickly rebounding and fatigue
from the rigours of the Southwest
Conference schedule. Before the
Owls could stretch their legs on the
MacDonald Gymnasium floor,
Lamar had a 9-0 lead, a lead they
would never relinquish.
Said Tucker, "Overall, we were
capable of beating them, but we
had a problem with motivation. It
is hard to anticipate what kind of
season you are going to get when
you make your schedule in
advance."
For the record, forward Aundra
Rhone paced Lamar with 24 points
and 11 caroms. Center Kora
Audery had 19 points and 10
rebounds in only 19 minutes of
action. Sharpshooting guard
Teresa Fuxa added 18 for the
Cards.
Goff had 22 points and 12
rebounds for Rice, while Jones and
Ziegler both scored 14 points.
Dede Bratlev added 11 for Rice.
RUGBY
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by Dave Schafer
The 1984 season started strong
for the Rice rugby club. Three wins
in a row raised the club's season
record to 10-5.
For the first game of 1984, the
club traveled to Pasadena to take
on the Texas Chiropractic College.
Good all-around team play
allowed the ruggers to roll to an
easy 16-4 win. Chuck Naudet,
Robert Lain, and Jeff Marnacci
led the scrum play, allowing the
Owls to control the ball for most of
the game.
One week later, a powerful club
from the University of Texas
traveled from Austin to face the
Owls. The Rice club took
advantage of the wet, muddy field
conditions, playing smart rugby,
and defeated the Longhorns 10-4.
The scoring started with a 40-yard
Dave Schafer field goal. Near the
end of the first half, good hustle by
Rice backs Mark Leising, Greg
Byrne and Robert Duffield
produced what proved to be the
winning score. The Horns were
pressing late in the game, but good
defense by Geoff Cox, Steve
Vobach, Mark Tucker and the rest
of the Rice scrum sealed the
victory for Rice.
Last Saturday the club traveled
to Corpus Christi and, in a close
match, defeated the city club 13-
10. The 80-minute match was
locked in a 4-4 tie with only 20
minutes remaining, but a surge by
the Rice club allowed them to pull
out the victory. Ruggers Walter
Keneally, Mike Glass, Bob Grow
and Chip Boland all had fine
games.
This Saturday the club takes on
the Bay Area Athletic Club team at
3:00 on the intramural field north
of the gym. The following weekend
the club travels to New Orleans to
compete in the annual Mardi Gras
tournament at Tulane University.
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