Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 172, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 6, 1980 Page: 8 of 12
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Danis and Ron Baxter, the
only seniors in Texas’ starting
lineup, poured in a total of 27
second half points.
Danks had a single field
goal, and Baxter, an all-SWC
player who started for the NIT
champions two years ago, had
three fouls and only six points
at halftime.
Danks, popping short Jump
shots from the center of the St.
Joseph defense, scored 17
points in the final period for a
game high of 18. Baxter, the
strength improved with thelp
of 40 pushups each morning
and another 40 each night
before he went to sleep.
He ended the season hitting
.225 overall, but that broke
down to .196 from his natural
right side and .264 from the
left side, and Norman says the
have everything to gain from
this tourament and we have
everything to lose. We will
have to be alert and play our
best ban against them,”
Lowrey commented.
The TexAnns have been
their own best critics in recent
weelfe and worked hard to
correct their weaknesses
during workouts.
It has been a long hard
season; but the best is just
about to start and the TexAnns
have a chance few basketball
teams enjoy.
From now on out, the play is
for keeps and there can be no
more room for error. No one
knows that better than the
TexAnns.
Larvell Blanks replaced
him for a while when Blanks
was inserted into the lineup
and began to hit. Later,
Corrales movbed Buddy Bell
to short from third and put
Eric Soderholm at third to get
more beef into the Ranger
batting order.
Eddie Eagan of the United
States was the only man to win
gold medals at both the Sum-
mer and Winter Olympics. Ea-
gan won golds in boxing and
bob-sledding.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -
Frertmen Fred Canon and
LaSalle Thompson played like
veterans until two Texas
seniors broke loose for a 7M1
victory over St Joseph's
University in the National
Invitation Tournament on
Wednesday night.
Texas’ first-round victory
over the Philadelphia school,
which won the East Coast
Conference, matches Texas
against the winner of Thur-
sday night’s Southwestern
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Texas, third-place finishers
in Um Southwest Conference,
also will have the home court
advantage in its second NIT
game Monday night.
The Longhorns won the NIT
in 1878.
St. Joseph’s held a 30-18 lead
when Carson, a Moot-1 guard,
and Thompson, 6-10, combined
for the final 13 points of the
first half for Texas and a 31-25
lead.
The lead soared as high as
17 points as lefthanders John
“Everywhere we went,
people asked me why we had a
third baseman at shortstop. I
tried not to let it bother me. I
knew we weren’t getting
enough hits, four or five on
night, two the next, six the
night after. The team was in a
slump and needed hitting,”
Norman said. Once Norman’s
switch hitting began to pay
dividens, he worked his way
back in the lineup. He hopes
he’s there to stay.
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like biting off their nose to
spite their face.
“We would have to have
spring training all over again
while playing league games.
We have to support the board
or everything we’ve gained
goes out the window. We
might as well forget the
union.”
Pete Rose, one of baseball’s
highest paid superstars,
described the meeting with
Miller as good and bad. Rose
said it was good in the respect
that the player found out what
negotiations were all about,
and bad because the situation
was more serious than people
think.
“We have to put our faith in
what Marvin Miller has done
in the last 14 years,” Rose
said. “There is no question
that what the owners are
negotiating for will help the
younger players and hurt guys
making a lot of money. But we
have to stick together.”
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP)- Major
league baseball and its
players still were poles apart
today in their negotiations for
a new labor contract as the
owners went to bat under the
leadership of Ray Grebey,
their chief negotiator.
Grebey met with the
owners’ Player Relations
Committee and American
League President Lee Mc-
Phail Wednesday to answer
Tuesday’s strike threat by the
Executive Board of the
Players Association.
Before a 2%-hour
negotiating session in
Clearwater, Fla., Wednesday,
Grebey said be would com-
ment today on the players’
strike threat
“We’re evaluating that”
Grebey said. “We’ll have
some comment after my
meeting with the owners.”
Grebey said he first would
meet with club general
managers, and then with the
owners. He said his statement
move should pay off this
season both in his hitting
statistics and in his paycheck.
“If I can hit I know Hl
make a lot of money and I’ll
make it real fast If I’m only a
good fielder, I know I’m not
going to make any money,”
said the youthful Norman,
who despite playing in his
third major league season
won’t be 22 until May
this past winter, he played
for Aguilas in the Dominican
Republic and batted .301, and
or more than 200 bars, only six
were from the right side.
“No left handed pitchers in
the Dominican this winter,"
Norman said. Ranger
manager Pat Corrales is
By Mary Asm Yarbrough
E-T Sports Editor
The Tarleton TexAnns are
ready for the countdown as
they head in to the Region
SWAIW tournament set this
weekend at Tarleton’s
Wisdom Gym. The tour-
nament will include only three
teams but the two survivors on
Saturday night will have their
blds for the national tour-
nament in their back pocket
The TexAnns, champions of
the TAIAW tournament, draw
a bye in the first round and
await the winner of the Friday
night semi-finals match up
between McMurry and
Centenary College of
Louisiana. Although the
Tarleton women are assured
of a chance at the national
playoffs, they will be playing
on Saturday night for a bye in
the first round and a home bid
in the second round.
The winner from Region IV
will be given a rest in the first
round match up on March 12
and will then be the site of the
second round contest on
March 15. The loser from
Saturday night will host the
first round game on March 12
against some at-large op-
ponent as yet undetermined.
I They will then be on the road
on March 15th; should they
survive the Lrst round.
Second round winners will
play again on March 18th and
the winners from that date
will go to Whitworth College in
I Spokane, Washington for the
four team national tour-
nament on March 20 through
22.
The 24 team national playoff
format is the first one of its
kind for the AIAW since
I starting a Division m this
year.
The regional tournament
this weekend will begin at 7
| o’clock on both Friday and
i Saturday nights.
I Coach Jan Lowrey indicated
I this week that the TexAnns
! have had good workouts and
I appear to be ready for the
I competition. The team took a
I break after losing to Texas
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their last game of the regular
season and came back
refreshed and ready to work
on regionals.
“We have been following
about our same basic routine
in practice,” Coach Lowrey
commented. “We have
worked on a few areas that
have given us problems in the
past and worked on some new
things that may help us later,
should be reach the national
playoffs.”
The Tarleton coach in-
dicates that the attitudes and
have been good and the team
appears to have lost none of
the power that they carried
into the state tournament a
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At times last season, when
Texas Ranger shortstop
Nelson Norman singled to the
outfield, cries would ring out
in the pressbox.
“That extends his con-
secutive • month hitting
streak!”^
Norman was hitting under
.200 at the time. A basketbal
full of breadsticks at a
restaurant were jokingly
mistaken for his Louisville .
sluggers.
It was about that time that
Norman gave in to a
suggestion by first base coach
Fred Koenig that he tryswitch
hitting.
As the season wore on, his
average climbed steadily. His ,/ happy about the development.
“The big thing is that his
problem on balls breaking
away from him. If he turned
around, the same piutches
would be coming in to him.
Hey, this is something he
worked at for two months.”
The Rangers were so
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TexAnns have a good chance i
at meeting their arch rivals,
the McMurry Maidens, for the
fifth time this season in the-
regional tournament finals
and that match up could be a
real test of endurance for the
TexAnns. They have so far
swept the series with the
Maidens in the 197M0 season.
Tarleton will carry a 26 and
eight record into the regional
tournament with a perfect
mark through 13 games
against Division HI schools
(schools with 10 percent or
less scholarships). From now
on out, Division m schools
will be all the TexAnns face.
“McMurry has the ad-
vantage over us in that they
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Baseball openers seem doubtful
as strike threats haunt talks
Ranger shortstop Norman
no joke at bat anymore
Norman handled his glove at
shortstop that they traded
away Bert Campeneris to
California early last season.
Norman made six errors in
the first two road series of last
season in g^nes played Ul , ,
incy weather in detroit and
Cleveland, and criticism from
the press, fans, and
sometimes other Rangers,
rankled him.
Longhorns defeat St. Josephs
in first round of NIT tourney
leading career scorer in
Texas' history, tallied 16
points, including 10 in the
second half. He hit seven of
eight Add goals
Carson, the third southpaw
in the starting lineup, finished
with 13 points and had a team-
high seven assists, and
Thompson scored 10 as the
Longhorns shot 56.9 percent
against one of the better
defensive teams in college
basketball.
Mike Morrow was high for
St. Joseph’s with 14 points but
scored only two in the second
half. Boo Williams, the M all-
East Coast Conference player,
was hdd to eight points.
Williams hauled down 18
rebounds, however, and
Morrow, 1-6, added 16. Their
total of 28 rebounds was one
more than the entire Texas
' team could get.
John Smith and Bryan
Warrick each had 13 points for
St. Joseph’s although Smith, a
62 percent free throw shooter,
made only one of seven
charity tomes.
“It’s been a terrible week
(in practice), and it started
that way tonight. We were just
listless, standing around out
there.... but Carson pulled us
through. He did a heck of a
job,” said Texas Coach Abe
Lemons.
Thompson’s contribution
was recognized by an ovation
when he went to the bench late
in the game.
“I don’t know to get them
(fired) up,” said Lemons. “I
used to deprive them of meals,
but you can’t do that
anymore.”
“It’s sure been a long year,”
he added, "but we’ve gotten a
lot further than I thought we
would.”
Texas raised its record to 18-
10, and St. Joseph’s finished
the season at 21-9.
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probably would be late this
afternoon.
Earlier Wednesday, Marvin
Miller, the executive director
of the Players Association,
made his first stop on a tour to
obtain players’ ratification of
the executive board’s strike
threat. He obtained a 40-0
approval from the
Philadelphia Phillies.
The executive board has
threatened to strike on or after
April 1 if a collective
barganing agreement with the
owners has not been con-
cluded.
Shortstop Larry Bowa,
Phillies’ player represen-
tative, acknowledged that
there was a definate
possibility of a strike that
would delay the April 9
opening of the baseball
sc&son.
Bowa, however, said he
couldn’t believe the owners
would be “foolish enough to let
us go through spriAgjtraining
and then strike. It would be
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