El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 54, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 29, 1982 Page: 13 of 37
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EJ Campo Leader-News, El Campo, TX, Wed., Sept 29,1982 Page l-p
Sports
’Bird Spikers
Take Third
In El Campo
The Ricebird volleyball team finished third Satur-
day at the Ell Campo volleyball tournament they spon-
sored. Van Vleck, the only team to beat El Campo at
the tournament, took first place. Forest Brook finish-
ed in second place.
The El Campo junior varsity took first place in the
JV tournament also held in El Campo. The JV
Bicebirds lost only one game while claiming the El
Campo championship.
The varsity Ricebirds took third place after beating
Yoakum in two close games, 16-14, 15-12. Lee Anna
Shimek had six points in the first game while Felisha
Estell came off Coach Diane Matula's bench for five
points in the clincher.
“We played pretty well,” Matula said. “We set up
the ball. We served the ball well. We were more con-
sistent spiking and got the uull in more.”
The Ricebirds also played well in their 15-11,10-15,
15-6 loss to Van Vleck The Lady Leopards simply
played better.
“They just outplayed us,” Matula said. “They were
getting it to the front and put it to us.”
The Ricebirds came back in the second game
against Van Vleck behind the spiking and serving of
Loressia Allen. Allen had five points in the second
game and combined with Kelly Korenek to do a good
job blocking the larger Lady Leopard spikers.
Korenek, who had four spikes in the first game, also
did a good job setting up her teammates.
Terri Kieth also did a good job at the net in that first
game and led the Ricebirds with four points. Van
Vleck went ahead 8-0 in the third contest before the
Ricebirds began to comeback with successful blocks
by Kieth and Allen. Van Vleck quickly regrouped to
win going away. Tracey Howray led the Ricebirds in
the third contest with three points.
El Campo won their first tournament match Friday
night when they came back against Calhoun for an
8-15,15-5,15-4 victory. Kieth had five points in the fust
game and six in the third to lead the Ricebirds.
Korenek also did a good job serving as she scored six
points in the second game and five in the third.
The El Campo junior varsity won their champion-
ship by topping Smiley 15-8, 15-9 in the finals. Sandy
Emshoff had six points in the first game before Robin
Prihoda led the way in the second game with five
points.
El Campo reached the finals with a 15-5,10-15,15-8
victory over Calhoun Kim Washington was El Cam-
po's high scorer in each game as she served for four
points in the first and second games and five points in
the third.
“Kim did an excellent job serving against
(gee SPIKERS, Pg. 2-B)
Fearnome Five gome
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I
EC, Santa Fe
Clash Friday
Super Spike
Ricebird spiker Loressia Allen blasts a spike at a Van Vleck opponent at
this weekend’s El Campo Volleyball Tournament held in Ricebird Gym-
nasium. Allen and her teammates lost to Van Vleck but came back later
Saturday to claim third place.
By JONATHAN FEIGEN
The El Campo Ricebirds and Santa Fe Indians havd
a lot in common heading into Friday’s confrontation
at Ricebird Stadium.
Both teams are coming off disappointing losses in
which they they handled the ball as if it were radioac-
tive. Both teams have hard-hitting, swarming
defenses and potent, run-oriented offenses. And both
teams have a healthy respect for each other heading
into what could be a close slugfest in the mold of last
season’s 7-8 El Campo victory in Santa Fe.
“We have a lot of respect for El Campo,” Indian
Coach Steve Jamail said. “We feel that last week wa4
just one of those games that happens to everyone
sometimes. Our people think El Campo has a bettei)
team than last year. It should be an interesting, rough
and tumble game.”
The Ricebird mentor, Buzzy Kieth, felt the same
way about the 2-1-1 Indians. “Santa Fe’s a good foot*
ball team,” the El Campo coach said. “They play real
good defense and they have a real big football team.
Their fullback (Carl Matejka) is a real good athlete
and the tailback (Daniel Smith) has a lot of speed.”
Santa Fe runs Matejka, Smith and Travis Owens
out of an I-formation with Matejka providing much
more than the usual blocking duties of an I-formation
fullback.
The junior fullback keys the Indian defense and
either carries the ball himself or leads a tailback on
most Indian running plays. He was a two-way starter
last season and earned a unanimous all-district selec-
tion at linebacker.
“We try to use our fullback as much as possible iii
the I,” Jamail said, “but were not just quick-hitting.
We run a lot of sweeps and leads.”
Smith leads the Indians with 375 rushing yards
while Matejka has picked up only 78 yards this
season. Jamail would like to get his fullback attack in
gear but first must get his Indians to hold on to the
football.
Wharton shut out Santa Fe last week, 7-0 as the In-
dians turned the ball over seven times. The Ricebirds
went one better (or worse) last week, committing
eight turnovers to help Columbia shut them out 27-0.
Two losses would be very damaging in a district race
and especially costly coming against contending
teams.
The Santa Fe line has some good size with tackle
Kenny Moody (230) and guard John Manuscalco
(195). Center Judson Foss (190) and Scooter Wythe
(190) also do a good job on the front line.
Darren Kemmerline starts at quarterback and will
throw the ball enough to keep the Ricebirds honest
Like Ricebird signal-caller Greg Swoboda, Kem-
merine is not very large (155) but has excellent
quickness.
The similarities between the Indians and Ricebirds
(See BIRDS, Pg. 7-B)
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The Louise Hornets upped their
record to 4-0 and their average
margin of victory to 15 points
Friday when they rolled over
district 28-AA foe Danbury 27-6 in
Louise.
After a slow start in which
Danbury dared the Hornets to
pass and scored first, the Hornets
took over with a potent offense
and dominant defense.
“I was really worried about this
game. Hornet Coach Bill
Johnson said. “You worry more
about games you think you ought
to win especially when the other
team has people that can hurt
you. I’m glad it's behind us.”
Danbury got on the board with a
three-yard Bobby Scott run with
9:15 left in the first half Danbury
recovered a fumble near midfield
and marched quickly downfield to
take their only lead of the game.
The point-after-touchdown failed
The Hornets wasted little time
in taking a lead as they scored on
their next possesion on a three-
yard Howard Callis run Callis
picked up much of the yardage on
the MO-yard Hornet drive Homy
Robinson kicked the extra-point
With the Danbury defense still
-tacked on the line to stop a potent
Leuise running attack. Johnson
had his troops attack by air The
plan worked as Elton Callis tossed
two touchdown passes in the last
44 seconds of the half to give
I,ouise a commanding 20-6
halftime lead
Bobbie Vaidns caught Callis'
first touchdown pass a 23 yarder
Mark Rodriguez was on the
receiving end of Callis' second
scoring pass, a 60 yard bomb with
just five seconds left in the half A
■h*hn Francis interception at the
Louise —yard line set up the
ptay Robinson booted the extra
point
(aHis "got creamed' on the
pass to Rodriguez as the laiuiM-
quarterbark never saw his
re<eiver catch his pass SO yards
duwnfietd
Those late touchdowns were too
much for Danbury to overcome as
the Hornets got their ground
game rolling in the second half to
eat up much of the half and keep
possession of the ball. The Hor-
nets had 190 yards on the ground
with the bulk of that yardage
coming in the second half
"It took our passing game to
loosen things up for our running
game,” Johnson said. “I think we
were looking at a 10-man front.
Their safety man looked real
lonely and he was only about 10
yards from the line
"We were happy to be able to
take advantage of what they gave
us ”
Callis completed another pass
that appeared to be a touchdown
by Timmy Ochoa early in the
fourth quarter That play was
called back however because on
an offensive interference penalty
that the videotape of the contest
showed to be incorrect.
The final touchdown of thg
game came with 1:57 left to play
when Ray Charles Hardaway
scored from the 11-yard line
Elton Callis completed four of
seven passes for 111 yards,
Hardaway picked up 101 yards on
17 carries while Howard Callis
ran for 100 yards on 23 carries
The Hornets will face
Bloomington next week before
(See HORNETS. Pg. 4-B)
In Retrospect:
an analysis of El Campo football
W Columbia 27 H Campo 0
Tim Parma had « 67 yard punt
return and a 40-yard punt to the
one foot line in the first quarter
against West Columbia last Fri
flay I jtcr in the game, he helped
lead a Ricebird march to the
Roughneck eight yard line
So much (or the El Campo
highlights The rest of last week s
game at West Qilumbia's Griggs
Field belonged to the
Koughneckx El Campo commit
ted eight turnovers ax West Col
umbta got their first win of the
1982 season 27 O The loss dropped
the Ricebird record to 2 2
Everything went wrong lor the
Ricebird* and (i>arh Buuy Kieth
The final play of the game an Kl
Campo fumble r«cfrverrd In ( m
wan Davis in the end zone,
typified a frustrating and very
long night that the Ricebirds
would like to quickly forget
“When you have that many tun
novers," Kieth said, “you're go-
ing to have problems You can t
afford to turn the ball over that
much If you're going to turn the
bell over that much, you better be
a whole lot better than the other
team
The Ricebirds were not “d
whole lot better' Friday night a*
Went Columbia played a game
that belied their O.I record
The wing T and double wing at
tacks of Coach Ed lomrh one-
upped F.l Campo all night as the
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Barbee, Chris. El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 54, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 29, 1982, newspaper, September 29, 1982; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1006895/m1/13/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Wharton County Library.