Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 169, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 29, 1973 Page: 6 of 8
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PAGE 6—LEV ELL AND DAILY SUN NEWS TUESDAY. MAY 29.1973
Baseball
results
PEE WEE LEAGUE
LevellandFarmers’ Co-op Gin
Bees, behind the strong relief
pitching of Da\id Kinnison,
defeated the Atlas Construction
Pc ■ .s 12-6 Monda> night.
Ray Lazano started for the
Bees and pitched the first I and
one-third innings, allowing 6
runs, walking 6 batters, and
striking out 2. Kinnison pitched
scoreless ball the final 2 and two-
thirds innings. Hegaveupone hit,
struck out 7 batters, while
walking two.
For the Ponies, Dewa>ne
Strickland pitched the first I and
one-third innings, allowing five
runs, 2 hits, walking 3, and
striking out 4. Sammy Hightower
finished the game for the Ponies
and was the losing pitcher,
allow ing7 runs on 4 hits, walking
7 and striking out 4.
Kinnison also led ihe hilling
attack for the Bees with a home
run and a triple. Other Bees
getting hits were: Michael
Pinkert, 2 singles; Ricky
Steffens, home run; and Ricky
Bailey, double. Other Bees
scoring runs were: Joe
Shakespeare, Bart Durham.
Rickv Huckebv and Lazano.
Dewavne Strickland had the
only hit for the Ponies, a fourth
inning single. Other Ponies
scoring runs were: Amos Luna,
Ray Rodriquez, Darrel Crumley,
and Wesley Alford.
In other Pee Wee action Walt
Smith ProductionService Wolves
beat the VFW Post 4506 Bears by
a score of 12-4.
Hitting or scoring for the
Wolves were: Johnny Waggoner,
homerun, single; Darren French,
single; Blake Hartline, single;
Mike Ortiz, homerun, single;
Matthew Nicholson; Daniel
Constanuno, homerun, single;
Jeff Jackson; Evaristo Corrales;
Bruce Waller.
Hittingorscoringfor the Bears
were: Spence, single; Kevin
Waller, Cris Wood, and Bobby
Blake.
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“Bonanza Prince’’ won first in the 1970 gelding category Saturday then
wentontowin Reserve Champion in the overall class. The Locfcney lass
and owner of the animal is Karen Latimer. She and Bonanza Prince were
among the more than 150 entries at the first annual Qua rterhorse show held
at South PlainsCollege rodeo arena. The eventwas sponsored by the South
Plains Horseman’s Association. (Staff Photo)
owns the horse. At left is Tommy Buckner, and
daughter Bonnie, on “Interest” the second
place aged gelding. More than 150 entries were
shownat the SPC rodeo Arena. (Staff Photo)
looter Tuff” the Quarter horse on the right,
*.ts selected the Grand Champion gelding
Saturday in the open class of the first Annual
Quarterhorse Show Mike Buckner, mounted
the A s would even consider
as a replacement for retired
pitching coach Bill Posedel —
carefully follows his pitchers
and counts their pitches from
the dugout during the course
of a game
“Sometimes a pitcher will
go out and pitch five good in-
nings and then — bang — run
into trouble," Stock says.
"Well, they (pitchers) for-
get about those five good in-
nings — especially a young
pitcher — so you tell him how
good he was those first five in-
nings and try to tell him he
made those mistakes later.
"My job is mental — to try
to put them back on the right
track.
"Hopefully, this won't arise
again, or I can eliminate it so
it won’t be much of a problem.
“Some pitchers have trou-
ble getting their curve over,
or they’re getting tired and
start pushing their fast ball,
so you remind these guys to
keep their arm up and get
their wrist behind the ball —
to keep good, mechanically.
You keep reminding them ev-
ery day that they’re throwing.
It’s a slow process.”
Pitching is as much a men-
tal game as it is a game for a
man with a strong back and a
whip-like arm.
And a starting pitcher’s
mental preparation — call it
concentration — actually be-
gins the day before he is
scheduled to start.
The pitcher who is throwing
the next day keeps a chart of
which pitches the opposition
was swinging at — whether it
was fast ball, curve slider, or
any other pitch from the se-
lection meant to tantalize and
then fool the batters.
“We keep track of every-
thing, so we know where ev-
ery guy hits and what he hits,
and everything like that,”
Stock explains. “You just
keep trying to learn as much
as you can about every hitter.
"And this is something I try
to impress on the pitchers, to
try to get to know the hitter so
well they know exactly how
they want to hit him out, be-
cause every pitcher has a dif-
ferent idea. Some guys will
try to get you out one way,
where another pitcher will use
a different method.
"This is why pitchers must
know the opposing hitter be-
cause if he’s aettina htan out
for a while and starts getting
hit, then he’s got to change his
routine because the hitter is
out there trying to make a liv-
ing, so if the pitcher is getting
him out he’s got to change his
routine,” Stock says.
SPEAKING OF SPORTS
Some Stock rules
for pitchers
By GEORGE HOWER
Copley News Service
of the body. It isn’t how you
hold the ball. Everybody has a
different way of holding the
ball, but it’s getting the best
mechanical position out of
your body and your arm. This
is the thing I work on.
"You have to say that any
good pitcher has good me-
chanical form, because if he
didn’t he wouldn’t have good
control. It's hard to say any
one pitcher is mechanically
better than the other You
have to get your arm in front
of you, and you have to get it
to do the work. The good
pitchers all do this consistent-
ly. This is the difference be-
tween a winner and a loser.
“A winner puts it together
mechanically every time he
goes out there and he can do
these things over and over,
whereas a guy who’s not a
winning pitcher falls into
faults a lot easier.”
During the progress of a
game, Stock — the only man
PEE WEE LEAGUE
OAKLAND, Calif. - Ben
Hogan — to borrow a phrase
from the golf master — called
it “muscle memory ”
Others call it the "repeating
swing.”
The concept — common to
all sports — was simple: Cre-
ate a golf swing, a way of
kicking field goals, hitting a
tennis ball, or shooting a bas-
ket that is as close to the way
you did it before.
Wes Stock, the pitching
coach for the World Series
champion Oakland Athletics,
doesn’t refer to the physical
act of pitching a baseball in
Httun’s "muscle memory”
terms, bat he’s thinking along
the same line.
“To me,” Stock explains
before a game, “one of the
most important things is
pitching mechanics — the re-
lease of the arm, the position
In the early Pee Wee league
game Monday night the Murrell's
Welding Works and Oil Field
Hauling Foxes won over the
HalliburlonTexacoSteers, 12-8.
The winning pitcher was Ricky
Parks. In three innings he struck
out 8, walked 9 and allowed no
hits. Randy Serenil and Eddie
Salano pitched a half inning each.
Randy walked4 and allowed I hit.
Eddie struck out I, walked 3, and
allowed I hit.
RickyCondrenpitched the first
two innings for the Steers. He
struck out none, walked 6 and
allowed 9 hits. Joe Potter was the
losing pitcher. In the last two
innings he struck out 6, walked
none andallowed only I hit.
, . Getting hits or. rams- tor- the.
Foxes were Rickie Serenil, Eddie.
Salano, Ricky Parks, Tommy
Dirickson, Randy Serenil, Luis
Alanbar, Johnny Huertaz, Ernie
Carranza and Lupe Martinez. For
the Steers it was Ricky Condren,
Rodney Blocker, Mark Kionute,
Joe Potter, Isidro Cruz, Kevin
Osborne and Cody Tanner.
The Major League South All-
Stars rose up to smite the North
Saturday night, 22-18, in the first
game of a best three-out-of-five
regional tournament.
The North Little Dribblers
team led until the fourth quarter
when the momentum began to
change. Jessica Wiley, the
South's star, found the defense to
be awesome. Her scoring output
was cut to 13. She had scored in the
20’s m almost every game during
the regular season. Diane Morris
made the other five points.
Donnie Henderson and Jana
Grant, scoring nine and eight
points respectively, were the big
guns for the victors. Jana kept her
team close for the first two
quarters, then Donnie began to
drive for successful lay-ups.
StaciRush had three points, and
Staci Odell picked up two for the
South.
The teams will play again
tonight following two Minor
League A11 -Sta r practic e games.
In the first Minor League game
at 6 p.m., Levelland North plays
idalou. At 7 p.m. Levelland South
meets Lubbock Cooper.
Saturday night the North "B”
League team beat Lubbock
Cooper, 25-13. Karen Kinnison
scored nine points for the
winners, and Lori Faulkner
grabbed seven. Rhetta McGuire
added five more, and Tracy Wiley
and Carma Cookston both made
two.
Levelland South squad was
beaten, 17-12, by Plains. Julie
Welch scored 10 points, and
Janette Wright hit the other two.
Ifl ana Header ion from Silverton, mounted on Bar-Tie-Two, was Ike first
place winner Saturday in the 13 and under Youth Western Pleasure. There
were more then 150 entries in the South Plains Horseman’s Association
first annual show held atthe South Plains College arena. (Staff Photo)
pains.
But no matter how severe the
discomfort, there is almost
always the urge “to pick up the
ball,” or at least, to see others
pick it up. Most of us are like the
war and fire horses. Despite
infirmities, we attend the haunts
ofearlier loves.
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Whatever the injury sustained,
someway itwas worth it. As long
as we can drag ourselves to the
arena, we’ll watch the youmcri
more physically fitjieroea fight
the “lions.” We are obsessed
with the spritofthe battle, and the
gates of pain cannot prevail
against our rush for life and our
zest for vigorous living.
Old war horses tufned out to The old athlete is similarly
pasture. I have read, used to conditioned. Despite ailments
charge into battle when they which leave the body tired and
heard the bugle blow. Despite aching, the athlete follows his
many of the horses being half game. It’s something like the
blind and lamc.they still had the wild goose following the call of
innerurge to tight. I he spirit was the wild,
willing although the flesh was
weak. I, and many others, have
suffered sprains and bruises and
Old fire horses which had been breaks that have lent themselves
retired for years, once upon a ideally to rheumatism and
time,chasedafter their brothers arthritis. Old injuries get stiff;
and sisters who pulled the fire the joints swell, and the body is
engine clanging down the street, wracked with a dozen assorted
Many of these old horses were so
worn out they could hardly force
theirbodiesalong.
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each, with one of JefTcoa’s being
a homerun. Also hitting safely for
the Yanks were Willie Lockett,
John Perkins, Bill Mitchell,
Tarry Hightower, Bobby Deel,
and Rusty Rose. Deel was
recordedwith the loss.
In the second game the
Cardinals upended the Tigers, 9-
5. Terry Wright and Kelly
Spurlock had two singles each for
the winners. Also hitting safely
for theCards were Russ Phillips,
DavidDunson, Jackie Malloy, Jim
Petty, and James Malloy. Dunson
was the winning pitcher.
Don Yarbrough was the only
Tiger to hit safely, knocking out a
tingle and double. Mark Hamblin
was recorded with the loss.
APPLIANCE
The Yankees banged 10 hits
Monday nightagainsteightfor the
Braves, but the Braves got the
hits when they needed them most
and won the game, 12-11, in two
extra innings.
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Gary Sisson, besides rapping
twosingles, pitched the Braves to
victory. Danny Gomez and Hoile
Shakespeare also collected two
hits each for the winners. Daniel
Contraras and Larry Pugh hit
safely as well.
For the Yankees Mark Jeffcoat
and Kevin Methvin had two hits
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