Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. [14], No. 15, Ed. 1 Monday, December 11, 1978 Page: 3 of 18
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Burleson Star, Monday, December 11, 1978--3A
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ference consisting of Austin
works well around Wichita Falls, but also in
many other lakes in the state. Wichita Falls
anglers consistently take more than their share
of the cash and prizes offered each month by the
Big Bass of the Month Assn, in Fort Worth.
Tickets for the event are
$5.50 and can be obtained by
contacting Charles Massey
at 295-2211 or Curt Apel at
295-8171.
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Elks Defeat Boswell,
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The Burleson Elks handily
defeated Diamond Hill Fri-
day night to stay alive in the
Everman tournament after
falling to Irving MacArthur,
68-46, in the first game.
Against Diamond Hill, the
Elks more than reversed the
score of the MacArthur
game, rolling over the Dis-
trict 5-3A school, 69-42.
Howard Lackey played as if
he was being watched by pro
scouts, netting 28 points on
the evening. Russell Sea-
wright was close behind with
20 points and eight re-
bounds
Scott Metheny also made
the double-digit club with 10
point.; and Craig Patty had
six points and 12 rebounds.
“Nobody even came close
to foul ng out,” said Head
Coach Phil Edicott,“and we
need to stay consistent on
that, too.”
The Elks jumped out to an
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storm, Williford advised.
Simple falls into the water
can be avoided by not _stamL
ing or balancing in the boat
to start a motor or hunt or
fish.
Williford said game war-
dens will continue to check
boaters for proper water
safety equipment through-
out the winter in an effort to
curb fatalities
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Thursday night, but were
down 20 points at halftime.
“I think we had a little
better effort in the second
half,” commented Basketball
Head Coach Phil Endicott,
who added that the Elks
were particularly hurt on the
backboards. where they
grabbed only 18 rebounds.
“Normally we pick up
30-35 rebounds a game,” he
said. At halftime, the Elks
had only seven rebounds
against the bigger MacArth-
ur team.
Seawright was also the
leading scorer in that game
with 16 points. Metheny had
10; Lackey 6; and Miles,
Patty and Nicholson each
had four points.
“We’re still showing im-
provement,” Endicott noted,
“but we still need a lot of
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Neal Jeffrey will be guest
speaker at the Elks Football
Banquet Saturday, Dec. 16
at 7:30 p.m. in the Hughes
Middle School cafeteria,
sponsored by the Big Red
Booster Club.
Jeffrey was quarterback
for the Baylor Bears when
that ball club won the South-
west Conference title in 1974
and went to the Cotton Bowl.
He was drafted by the San
Diego Chargers and played
for them the last three
seasons.
He is enrolled at South-
western Baptist Theological
Seminary and was president
of the Baylor chapter of the
Fellowship of Christian Ath-
letes.
During his years at Bay-
lor, Jeffrey received many
honors, including All-South-
west Conference Quarter-
back and Associated Press
All-American Honorable
Mention in 1974. He also won
the Kern Tips Memorial
Award as the Outstanding
Senior Athlete in the South-
west Conference when he set
a career passing record of
4,341 yards.
Three Elk football players
will be honored at the ban-
quet: the offensive Player of
the Year, defensive Player of
the Year and the Fighting
Heart Award. Winners of
‘ these awards will be an-
nounced during banquet
ceremonies.
The Burleson Elks blasted
Boswell 76-84 in their first
action last week but didn’t
fare so well in the opening
game of the Everman Tour-
nament, losing 68-46 to Irv-
ing MacArthur.
Burleson increased its lead
every quarter against the
Pioneers, especially in the
final period when they out-
scored their opponent 21-6.
Halftime score was 39-27.
Russell Seawright was the
leading scorer for the Elks in
the game with 18 points.
Howard Lackey and Scott
Metheny each had 14; Rich-
ard Miles had 9; Ken Nichol-
son, 8; and John Lewis and
Craig Patty each had 6
points.
The Elks matched Mac-
Arthur point for point in the
second half of their game
from my chest down was sopping wet now so I
could devote my entire attention to using that
borrowed vaulting pole with the jig and worm at-
tached.
FORMER ELKS-Mark Howeth [41] and
Mike Gollahon [79] sandwich a McMurry
College receiver in a game this season.
Defensive plays like this helped Austin
College become the second toughest team
in the NAIA to pass against this season.
Both Howeth and Gollahon played for
Burleson High. Gollahon was named to the
all-conference team.
early lead and never lost it
during the rest of the game,
outscoring Diamond Hill
every quarter. At half-time
the score was 35-22, Elks,
and they were even stronger
in the third period, out-
scoring Diamond Hill 16-5.
Diamond Hill finally began
to rally in the fourth period,
with their best effort of 15
points. But theElks wouldn’t
have any of it as they rolled
up 18 points of their own. for
the 69-42 final score.
The defeat of Diamond
Hill clinched a consolation
berth for the Elks against
Mansfield at 5:30 p.m. Sat-
urday (Dec.9).
“They’re a pretty good
ball club,” Coach Endicott
said of the Mansfield team,
adding that he hoped the
Elks would play as well
against them as they did
against Diamond Hill.
I was sitting on the muddy bottom of Lake
Arrowhead in 12 inches of water. I was sur-
rounded by a tube float, and had spent the last 20
minutes trashing around trying to either move in
some direction or stand up. I hadn’t been able to
do either.
Now I was made suddenly aware my
trashing had torn a hole in the waders and the icy
waters were slipping in at an alarming rate.
It was then I realized fishing from a tube
isn’t as easy as folks like Woodie Elliott made it
look. Woodie, a Wichita Falls fisherman who has
enjoyed tremendous success from his tube, was
dabbling a jig and worm nearby.
I had asked for it. Asked for the whole thing.
When I had talked with Willard Kazee, another
Wichita Falls angler the day before about a fish-
ing trip up that way, I had said I would like to
find out more about fishing from a tube. He set
up the trip with Woodie since he couldn’t go
himself, and even loaned me the waders and
float.
I was certainly not unappreciative, but I
wondered how in the world I was ever going to
master fishing out of that tube in the log - filled
shallow waters.
At least one problem was cleared away. I no
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pion was John L. Sullivan in 1882.
game and the entire team
performed well, coaches
said. Jory King was the
leading scorer in that 30-22
win with 13 points.
Individual scoring was not
available for the girls game
but the seventh grade won
their game 22-16 and the
eighth was victorious by a
43-19 score.
Only middle school action
over the weekend involved
the eighth grade “A” team
which played in a tourna-
ment at Everman.
In fact, some fishermen feel the tube fisher-
men in B.B.M.A. may have an unfair advantage.
Well, that is hard to say, but I can assure you that
tube fishing isn’t easy. And in some cases it cer-
tainly isn’t comfortable. Particularly when the
water temperature is 51 degrees — inside the
waders.
My floundering continued for several
minutes, but gradually with the aid of a little
deeper water I began to get the feel of the tube
and the flippers on my feet. While all this was go-
ing on, Woodie had consistently been jerking two
to four pound bass into the air with his jigging
pole.
These rods,, all 10 feet, are strickly used to
jig straight up and down in the bass - holding
cover. They are Shakespeare Ugly Stiks, and
Woodie says they are the best for this sort of fish-
ing they have found. The rods are sensitive, light
and strong. Most are fitted with some sort of
spool where extra line is stored, but no reels.
Most of the fishermen who practice this art
prefer to fish with lead jig heads carrying little
or no hair. They are weedless, and fitted with any
one of several favorite plastic attachments.
Currently the favorite of Woodie and Willard
is a smoke colored Twister grub. TTien, with four
to six feet of line out, you simply spend your day
easing around dipping it in and around the right
sort of cover.
“They are taking the bait so lightly,” Woodie
said, “you just have to imagine when they are
there.”
Well, I didn’t imagine too well for most of the
afternoon, but I watched as he extracted several
chunky blacks from the murky waters of Lake
Arrowhead.
That’s the space for this time, I’ll follow up
with another bit on Lake Arrowhead and the tube
fishermen of Wichita Falls next time.
Gollahon, who stands 6-2,
225, was second on the team
in total tackles with 82 and
led the Kangaroos in quart-
erback sacks with eight. AC
head coach Larry Kramer, a
former All-American at Neb-
raska, attributes Mike’s su-
cess to his good pass rush,
his quickness and his natural
football instincts which allow
him to read offensives so
well.
Mike’s pass rushing abilit-
ies were particularity instru-
mental in helping Austin
College to be the number
two defensive team against
the pass in the NAIA this
season allowing only 61.1
yards per game through the
air.
Mark Howeth, a middle
also a former Elk. Mark was
called the most consistent
performer on the AC defen-
sive squad by coach Kramer.
Mark, like Gollahon, also
teamed up on 82 tackles
during the season and was
tied for second in the TIAA
in interceptions with 5.
Howeth and the rest of the
AC secondary tied an Austin
College record by picking off
25 passes this fall.
Mark plans to be out on
the athletic fields of the
College again this spring
when he’ll be handling the
catching chores for the AC
baseball team. Last season,
he was the team’s number
two RBI man and threw out
30 runners in 34 games.
Fishermen tend to follow fads, and this is
often expressed by regions as anglers in a par-
ticular area pick up on a method of fishing that
works well in their area.
In the San Angelo area most of the fisher-
men use one man kayaks for their fishing. In
other areas it may be jon boats, but in Wichita
Falls it is tube fishing all the way.
You see plenty of bass boats around, but
most of them are just for transporting the fisher-
men and their tubes to the fishing grounds.
Over the years they have proved the method
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Mike Gollahon, a junior at |
Austin College in Sherman J
and a former all-district
tackle for the Burleson Elks,
has been named to the Texas
Intercollegiate Athletic As-
sociation first team at the
defensive tackle spot. Golla-
hon is one of nine Kangaroos
to receive All-TIAA honors.
Duck hunters, wintertime
fishermen and other sports-
men who take to the state’s
waters should be aware that
cold weather brings an add-
ed element of danger to linXackeM^ the *Itoos,U‘is
boating, according to the
Texas Parks and Wildlife
Capt. J.L. Williford, sup-
ervisor of the Water Safety
Law Enforcement Section,
said that although Texas
doesn’t suffer as harsh wint-
ers as some other parts of
the nation, the weather gets
cold enough to shorten survi-
val time in case of a fall
overboard.
When immersed in cold
water, the human body loses
heat rapidly and Hypother-
mia may set in. This is,
simply stated, when the
body loses heat more quickly
than it can produce it.
Williford said care should
be taken to not overload
boats with passengers or
equipment and be sure a
personal flotation device is
aboard for every person.
Watch the weather close-
ly, especially when taking a
small boat into large open
fate pJrtat the‘£st of » Tarleton State, Trinity, and
Coach George Moore sauf
that the “A” team played an
aggressive game but had too
many turnovers to win. Jim
Bill Myers was high scorer
with 13 points while Mark
Vann had 9 and Jeff Petty, 8.
The seventh grade “A”
team had an even closer
brush with defeat as they
pulled their game out by a
narrow 24-23 score. Toby
Ford had 10 points and Mark
Hull had 7 in that game.
Everyone played in the
-seventh grade “B” team
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Boswell 47-42 and lost/ to
Trinity 54-31 last week.
Todd Massey was the top
scorer against Boswell with
12 points and D.D. Badgett
had 10. In the Trinity game,
David Jones had 8 points and
Massey and Rickey Bush
each had 7.
In the freshman game last
week with Mineral Wells,
the Elks apparently lost
48-46 although a recheck of
the scorebook actually indic-
ates that both teams scored
48 points in the game.
A loss by a scorekeeping
error would be a tough one
for the frosh as they fought
back from a 16-8 first quart-
er deficit. At halftime they
were down 28-22 and had
pulled to within four points
by the end of the third
period.
Scott Stewart led the Elk
scoring with 16 points;
Royce Jesko had 11; and
Ward Whites had 8.
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Basketball teams from
Pauline G. Hughes Middle
School meet Everman again
this evening and will be
trying to improve on the
record they posted against
the Bulldog teams Thursday.
Of course there’s a limit on
just how much they could
improve on last week’s mark
since they won five of six
games with Everman.
Girls’ teams won both the
seventh and eighth grade
games while boys won
seventh grade “A” and “B”
games and split with the
Bulldogs on the eighth grade
level. The “B” team won
38-36 while the “A” team
was losing 50-30.
In that “B” team game,
Burleson scored with winn-
ing goal_ with about 30
seconds left on the clock andi
then never let Everman get
off another shot.
Greg McShan had 13
points in that game and
Jesse Baker had 12.
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waters and be ready to head Lollege, McMurry College,
Sul Ross State. Next year,
Lubbock Christian College
will also be competing in the
conference. At one point in
the past football season, 3
TIAA schools were ranked
in the NAIA Division II top
twenty, and the conference
champ, Tarleton State, was
ranked sixth in the final
ratings and advanced into
the national play-offs.
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Hutson, Wayne & Moody, James. Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. [14], No. 15, Ed. 1 Monday, December 11, 1978, newspaper, December 11, 1978; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1281586/m1/3/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Burleson Public Library.