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April 21, 1977
SPORTS
Doubleheader Loss Puts
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fell to the well-executed game
plan of the San Jacinto Jacks.
San Jacinto took the first
game of the doubleheader 5-1,
and came back with a second
win of 4-2.
Jerry Smith started the
pitching for the first game, but
was later replaced by Bill Eady
who Coach Lodes said, “Did a
good job.”
The loss for Smith was his
first for the season making his
record 5-1.
Ken Swinson had the only
RBI for the Leopards in the first
game.
Starting pitcher for the sec-
ond game was Jack Holmes who
was replaced by Mark Ball in
the fourth inning. Ball went on
to pitch a no-hitter in the last
four innings.
Rusty Culbreath got two hits,
and one RBI. John MarQuardt
got the other RBI for the
Leopards.
Coach Charles Lodes said the
loss to San Jacinto has “put our
backs to the wall.”
The Leopards are still in the
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Golf Coach Jim Brown said
the scores could have been
lower except that “we had over
30 m.p.h. winds both days. We
also had a light rain the first
day.”
TJC sported two teams in the
tournament, the first and sec-
ond teams. The second team
finished last with a 355-338-693
showing.
Looking Forward
MCC’s Mark Knutson won
the individual honors with a
”72-73-145 total while Cook fired
an 80-68-148. His second round
was four under par.
Brown said the team is now
looking forward to the National
Junior College Athletic Asso-
ciation qualifying tournament
to be held April 25-17 in Tyler, ~
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J. D. Cook placed second in
individual competition and
TJC’s first team placed third in
team competition in thg 36th
Annual TJC Men’s Invitational
Golf Tournament held April 4-5
at Killeen’s Municipal Golf
Course.
McLennan Community Col-
lege won the 36-hole event with
a team total of 305-299-604 and
Wharton Junior College placed
on the strength of a
Cook
Yount
Kehlenbeck
Barnes
Schuster ...
Guillen 83-81-164
Wade 89-86-175
Bloodworth 93-87-180
Chandler 90-88-178
Smith 97-84-181
Men’s Conference Standings
Wharton
TJC
Schreiner
San Antonio
San Jacinto North
Laredo
San Jacinto South
“Many of the players are
pushing themselves too hard,
causing them to make costly er-
rors,” said Lodes. He added that
“regrouping self-confidence is
going to be the key for the Leo-
pards.”
Venner Named All-Tourney
Leopard catcher Gary Ven-
ner was presented a trophy for
making the all-tournament
team at the Cotton Classic Invi-
tational Baseball Tournament
by baseball Coach Charles
Lodes April 13.
in the last 16 years and once
more won’t hurt,” said the
veteran mentor Brown.
Team standings for the 36-hole 16th
Annual TJC Men’s Invitational Golf
Tournament held at Killeen’s Municipal
Golf Course April 4-5:,
Team
MCC
Wharton
TJC No. 1
Paris
Weatherford
Schreiner
Grayson
San Jacinto N
UT Freshmen
San Antonio
Laredo
San Jacinto S
Richland
Cisco
TJC No. 2 355-338-693
Individual Scores
TJC No. 1
we only won two games in the
tournament. It’s something to
be proud of, though,” said the.
freshman.
Only 11 people made the all- second
tournament team, including 312-296-608 performance,
two pitchers, eight fielders and
one designated hitter.
“He got the award for clutch
hits,” said Lodes, citing at least
one homer that proved to be a
game winner.
The South Lake Carroll,
Tex., native is batting .273 on
the year and alternates with
sophomore Kenny Swinson at
the catcher’s slot.
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Leopard basebailer Rusty
Culbreath was presented the
1976 Rawlings Big Stick Award
April 13 by Scott Schumaker, a
sales representative of the
sporting goods company.
Culbreath won the award on
the strength of his league lead-
ing .433 batting average last
year for the Leopards.
“I knew I had a pretty good
chance,” the sophomore first
baseman said after he received
the award.
The hard hitting slugger
went on to say, “If you hit it
well, it’ll go ... I don’t swing
hard.” .
The award is given to the top
hitters in each of the eight base-
ball regions of the United States
as well as the three collegiate
divisions.
Until two years ago when
Rawlings bought the Adiron-
dack Bat Co., the award was
known as the Adirondack Big
Stick Award.
Gary Thwett, a former Leo-
pard, won the award in 1975
with a TJC school record- .451
batting average. He also won
the award at the University of
Oklahoma this year in Division
I competition.
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Although injuries have been
a big factor to game losses,
Lodes said, “The other players
need to pick up the slack.”
The Leopard’s loss was due
to a “lack of offensive punch,”
said Lodes. He added that San
Jacinto executed “two well--
played games.”
“The team is stronger than it
has been all season,” said
Lodes. He also forsees a first or
second finish in the conference,
adding that, “it’s going to take
much dedication and hard
work” to finish high.
The tournament was held at
Central Arizona College in Casa
Grande, Ariz.
Lodes said Venner went “six-
for-fourteen, about .451” for the
Leopards. He appeared in five of
the six games the team played.
“I’m proud to get it. I didn’t
think I’d get it though because
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Lodes for making the all —tournament team at the Cot-
ton Classic Invitational Baseball tournament in Casa
Grande, Ariz. (Photo by Vito Zavoina)
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Leopard baseball player Rusty Culbreath. Culbreath
lead the league last year with a .433 batting average.
Men Golfers Take Third In Killeen
Tex.
He said the top two teams
from that tournament will go on
to the 54-hole national to be
held at Ft. Meyers, Fla., this
season.
“We’ve been there 12 times
Baseballers Split
Tuesday 2-Gamer
Returnees from the injured
list effected the outcome of
Tuesday’s double-header split
as the Leopards baseball team
took the opener from the Blinn
Buskaneers 1-0 and dropped the
nightcap 4-0.
Kenny Swinson stroked a
single to center field with two
out that scored shortstop Pat
Garcia in the second inning of
the opener. Garcia returned
April 12 after missing 17 games
with a»leg ailment. Bill Eady’s
three-hitter boosted his record
to 4-2.
Blinn came back in the
nightcap to shutout the
Leopards 4-0 as pitcher Mark
Ball, 2-4, four-hit the Bucs but
committed two errors and John
MarQuardt committed another.
Ball’s start was his first since
being removed from the injured
list.
Scott Schumaker presents Rawling Big Stick Award to
TJC’s Back To the Wall
By Kim Hawkins running for a first place in the
Sports Editor conference but the players
In the doubleheader, played “need to regroup their self con-
April 12 at TJC, the Leopards fidence.” Lodes added that “it
comes down to a mental game.”
“The players have lost some
self-confidence due to many inj-
uries throughout the season,”
said Lodes.
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