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Index Sports
Mineral Wells index, Friday, July 23,1982, P<e 3
Preseason favorites
Bryan, B'wood state repeaters?
BABE RUTH LEAGUE — 13 - year - old All • Stars finished
5th in the state tournament this week in Graham. The team
won the district title over Stephenville and Granbury teams.
Pictured above (back row • I to r) are Coach Rodney
Bullard, Trey Hooper, Mark Young, Ben Geeding and
Kenneth Bullard • manager. Front row (1 to r) are Craig
Lusk, Lloyd Barham, Clayton Evans and Bobby Culmer.
Not pictured are team members Floyd Goatcher, David
Rammage, Tommy Rammage and coach Jesse Montalvo.
Schoolboy basketball
South wins All-Star Classic
HOUSTON (AP) - South
Coach Donnie Victorick
pulled a page from his own
Shook basketball playbook in
Hofheinz Pavilion and it had
Alvin Franklin’s name on it.
.Franklin, a blue chipper
from LaMarque, completed a
three - point play with 32
seconds to play Thursday
night to rally the favored
South to a 92 - 91 victory
over the North in, th#; Texas
High School Coaches
Association AU - t Star
basketball game at Hofheinz
Pavilion.
It, was a Snook - like
victory over Victorick, who
has led the Bluejays to three
straight state Class A titles
using a style that often
includes dramatic comeback
victories.
Snook also goes for the
high percentage shot, but
Victorick will take what
Franklin gave him.
“Alvin’s drive was about a
50 - 50 chance, he makes it,
and we win,” said Victorick,
whose teams have lost only
10 games in three years. “We
had .to make the foul shots
and the game was ours. We
didn’t rebound well and that
made the game close.”
The game was not close
with 5:35 to play when the
underdog North had taken an
83 - 78 lead, the biggest
margin of the* game.
Gary Heyland of San
Antonio Churchill narrowed
the North’s lead to two
points at 87 - 85 with 2:29
left.
Two free throws by
Graford’s Tim Ford and a fast
break basket by Kennan
DeBose of Killeen with 2:04
to play put the North back
on top 91 - 85.
But Edwin Mitchell of
’ Diboll, the South’s most
valuable player, and Ivan
Petit of Bay City hit baskets
to pull within two points and
set up Franklin’s game -
winning three - pointer.
It was the second straight
one - point victory for the
South, which won last year’s
game in Dallas, 100 - 99. The
victory also cut the North’s
overall lead in the series to 19
- 18.
The favored South fell
behind early in the third
quarter on the shooting of
Ryant Greene of Plano, who
scored 15 points and earned
most valuable player honors
for the North. \
Bryan Essary of North
Mesquite scored 13 points for
the North, but missed a pair
of free throws with 41
seconds left in the game that
would have given the North
the lead. DeBose missed again
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Reagan and Low left New
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leaving behind the Secret
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cover the president’s son.
About 140 miles south of
St. Louis, the boat ran out of
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the engine.”
The 38 - foot racing hull
limped across the Iron Street
finish line at about 55 mph
on two of its three engines
after cracking the casing of
one on a log about 12 miles
south of St. Louis. Two other
engines were repaired en
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The old record of 26 hours
Reagan’s
now holds
with 11 seconds to play.
Mitchell added 18 points
for the South and Greene
finished with 15.
“We had the game won
if we had just hit free
throws,” said losing North
Coach Keith Kitchens of
Shallowater. “They hit free
throws late and it cost us. We
played good and had a chance
to win.”
Mitchell, who will attend
Angelina Junior College, was
surprised by the game's
outcome.
“1 expected us to win by
20 points, but their quickness
surprised me,” Mitchell said.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Despite
dangerously high water and
- treacherous driftwood,
President
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speedboat record for
i;027 mile run on
Mississippi River from
Orleans to St. Louis.
Reagan, a mechanic, and
pilot Mike Low shaved an
hour and 39 minutes off the
old record, completing their
trip in 25 hours, 11 minutes.
“There are a lot of logs in
that Mississippi,” Reagan said
before joining his father at a
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banquet for the U.S. Olympic
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HOLSTON (AP) - The
Class 5A Bryan Vikings are
the pre - season favorites to
change their playoff luck and
win it all. according to a poll
conducted by sports writers
attending the Texas High
School Coaches Association
Coaching School.
Coach Merrill Green’s
Vikings have a 76 ■ 24 - 2
record over the past 10 years,
but only two playoffs
appearances because of
perennial losses to Temple.
The Vikings were ranked
No. 1, however, in the
writers’ balloting with seven
first place votes. Bay town
Sterling got the runnerup nod
and Port Arthur Jefferson
was ranked third in the pre •
season balloting.
Defending state Class 4A
champion Brownwood,
meanwhile, was favored to
continue its string of
championships. The Lions ate
favored to give Coach Gordon
Wood his eighth state title
team.
Bryan has 13 starters
returning from last year’s 9 •
1 finish. Lewisville was
ranked fourth followed by
San Antonio Jay San Angelo
Central, Odessa Permian,
Austin Reagan, Conroe
McCullough and Houston
Oiler rookies open camp
Washington.
Brownwood returns nine
starters from last season’s 13 •
1 campaign. Gainesville, with
two first place votes, was
second followed by Stafford
Willowridge, a state finalist
last year. Andrews was fourth
followed by Bay City,
Cleburne, Huntsville, Flour
BLuff, Belton and
Grorgetown.
Lining up behind Post in
3A were Refugio, Luling,
McGregor, Van Vleck,
Bonham, Kermit,
Daingerfield, Navasota and
Cedar HUI.
SAN ANGELO (AP) -
Houston Oiler rookies and
free agents working out for
the first time today will get a
closer look than recent Oiler
newcomers • some may even
win starting assignments.
“We’ve got people coming
in who are legitimately, not
just cosmetically, competing
for starting jobs,” Head
Coach Ed Biles said Thursday
prior to greeting about 55
of Texas Tech, running back
Stan Edwards of Michigan
and linebacker Robert
Abraham of North Carolina
State.--—-———
Luck, drafted in the
second round, and Reeves, a
10th round pick, will
compete for the No. 2
quarterback job behind
Gifford Nielsen.
“We don’t expect Luck
and Reeves to come in and
rookies.
Kicker Toni Frisch, 38, the
oldest Oiler, was the first to
report. “Toni’s here so it
must be time to get started.”
Biles said.
The Jackson State
backfield of the early 1970s
had players like Walter
Pay ton, Ricky Patton, Ricky
Young and Rod Phillips, all
future NFL performers.
Eastland and Tidehaven
ranked two and three on the
Class 2A list followed by
Frisco, Trinity, Clarendon,
Shallowater, Dublin, Kress,
for 10th.
In Class A, Eden ranked
No. 2 followed by Runge,
Rocksprings, Agua Dulce,
Ropes, Throckmorton,
Meridian, Bremond and
Valley Mills.
players. “It should make our
practices more exciting.”
The Oilers got 11 players
in the National Football
League draft that included
their first No. 1 choice since
1978.
First round draft choice
Mike Munchak of Penn State
is expected to challenge John
Schuhmacher for a starting
offensive guard position.
“Mike will get plenty of
individual attention,” Biles
said. “We want him far
enough along to be
comfortable with the
fundamentals when the
veterans report.”
Rookies and free agents
were due 4n camp Thursday
night to begin workouts
Friday. Veterans will report
Wednesday and begin work
on Thursday.
Biles also will have a
special interest in
quarterbacks Oliver Luck of
West Virginia and Ron Reeves
start so we can afford to
bring them along at the right
pace,” Biles said.
“Obviously, if something
happens to Gifford on down
the line, that would create a
different situation. But we’re
not approaching it from that
standpoint.”
Abraham, a third round
draftee, could challenge Daryl
Hunt at strongisde inside
linebacker and Edwards,
another third round pick, will
be given a chance to replace
Adger Armstrong at running
back.
Biles says some younger
veterans will start work with
the rookies including Avon
Riley, who will push Ted
Washington at a strongisde
outside linebacker and Bill
Kay, who will challenge
cornerback J.C. Wilson.
Former starting guard
George Reihner, coming off
one - year’s retirement, also
will begin work with the
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