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UNIVERSITY PRESS September 12,1979*$
Sports
Baylor/vo lleyball/Nie kros
Bears’ comeback ruins Lamar debut, 20-7
By CYNTHIA SHIELDS
UP Sports Editor
WACO, Texas—Baylor
quarterback Mickey Elam
passed for two second-
quarter touchdowns that
contributed to the Bears’
hard fought 20-7 victory
over an unrelenting Car-
dinal football squad Satur-
day night.
Twenty-five thousand
fans were on hand in
Baylor Stadium to see the
underdog Southland Con-
ference Redbirds take on
the Bruins of the Southwest
Conference in the season
opener for both teams.
LU’s Mike Marlow,
Arlington sophomore,
kicked off for the Birds to
begin the contest and
Baylor’s Frank Pollard put
the play into action when
he rushed for three yards to
the BU 25 before being
brought down by Lamar’s
Ruben Jordan, Tyler
junior.
Elam led the Bears to a
38-yard drive on their first
possession before choking
at the LU 40 when a late
decision to keep the pigskin
gave Lamar’s Kurt
Phoenix, Houston senior,
and David Jones, Lake
Jackson senior, the op-
portunity to tackle him for
a Baylor loss of seven yar-
ds.
Lamar got its first
possession of the game
with 9:41 left in the first
quarter, as Cardinal quar-
terback Larry Haynes,
Liberty senior, demon-
strated his prowess with
new head coach Larry Ken-
nan’s Pro I offense.
Haynes’ first pass of the
season was to Mike Ellis,
Frankston junior, who was
stopped at the LU 11 for no
gain by Baylor’s all-SWC
linebacker Mi,ke
Singletary.
Lamar’s first possession
proved unrewarding as the
Cardinal’s failed to get
their third first down.
Another unsuccessful,
Baylor drive, and Lamar’s
Floyd Dorsey, Tyler fresh-
man, took the spotlight.
With 2:35 left in the first
quarter, the 5-11,1851-back
cut to the left of the Baylor
defensive line and outran
backs Earl Thomas and
Cedric Mack for an 80-yard
Lamar touchdown.
Dorsey’s run was the
second longest touchdown
rush in Cardinal football
history, and with Marlow’s
PAT on the board, the Red-
birds led Baylor 7-0.
The Bears’ first score
came in the second quarter
when Elam pitched to Mike
Lively who evaded the Car-
dinal defense and ran into
the end zone for a Bruin
goal. Robert Bledsoe
kicked the Bears extra
point to tie the score 7-7
with 10:11 left in the first
half.
Elam again passed for a
second quarter touchdown
when he, completed a 45-
yard pass 'to Raymond
Cockrell who "broke away
from tile Cardinals’ Lin-
coln Wheeler, Crockett
sophomore, and ran into
the end zone for BU’s
second touchdown.
Lamar’s last possession
of the half showed some of
the work Kennan and his
new staff have put into the
Cardinal squad as the Red-
birds started their drive at
their own 20 and drove to
the Baylor 11 before losing
the ball in an unsuccessful
field goat attempt.
After Haynes made an in-
complete pass to Ellis on
the Lamar 48, Marlow took
the field for a punt for-
mation but the Cardinals’
Keith Gilchrist, Nederland
senior, took the short snap
and tossed it to Ellis who
rushed for 38 yards and a
Redbird first down.
The exciting surprise
play was followed by two
incomplete passes by
Haynes, and an un-
profitable-' field goal at-
tempt kicked by Marlow at
the BU 11.
In the third quarter,
Lamar began a 94-yard
drive beginning at the LU 1
and ending at the BU 5 af-
ter three failing attempts
to move the ball.
Baylor’s final score
came in the fourth quarter
when freshman quar-
terback Mike Brannan han-
ded off to Dennis Gentry
who ran for a 37-yard
touchdown.
Bears’ kicker Bledsoe
missed his first PAT in
three years giving the con-
test its final score with
Baylor leading 20-7.
The final seconds of the
game summed up the Car-
dinal’s attitude for the
evening as Gilchrist sear-
ched for a way around the
Baylor defense to gain 11
yards and a first down for
the Redbirds in the game’s
last play.
The game was the first of
three to be played against
head coach Grant Teaff
and his Baylor Bears and it
also marked the beginning
of Lamar’s contests with
the Southwest Conference.
Baylor led the game in
first downs with 24, while
LU collected 15. The Bruins
also gained the most yards
rushing with 327 Compared
to the Redbirds’ total of
200.
The Cardinals led the
evening in net yards passed
with Haynes’ total of 132
and Elam and Brannon
passed for a total of 113.
Saturday, Kennan and
the Redbird grid squad will
trek to Bowling Green, Ky.,
to face Western Kentucky
University at 2 p.m., in
Smith Stadium.
6Cardinal 9
proves to be real
By MANUEL MORENO
UP Sports Writer
Man for man, Baylor was bigger.
Heart for heart, there was no com-
parison.
The Lamar Cardinal football team
made believers out of doubting
Thomases everywhere Saturday night
as the heavily favored Golden Bears
fought for dear life to hold off the upset-
minded Redbirds, 20-7.
UP sports editorial
From the time the Cardinal band
marched into Baylor Stadium playing
the “Big Red Fight Song” until the final
whistle when the appreciative Lamar
fans chanted “We are proud of you! ” to
the dejected Redbird gridders, Lamar
displayed pride and character both on
and off the field alike.
On the battleground, coach Larry
Kennan and Co., answered the awed
Bears with the first score of the evening
with Floyd Dorsey’s 80-yard scamper in
the initial quarter, while the excited
Lamar onlookers of 1,000-plus sent
“Cardinal Craze” into action with vocal
cheers.
The close loss to Baylor is considered
by many as a moral victory for the Car-
ds, but the Redbirds will be the first to
point out they weren’t out on the
gridiron just for an ego builder. The
Bears found out Saturday night the 1979
Cardinals meant business.
Lamar spectators were out for vic-
tory in the stands yelling continuous
“LUs!” throughout the contest, giving
their reincarnated Redbirds the needed
confidence to perform as winners—and
indeed, they did just that.
Following the Dorsey touchdown,
Baylor finally managed to make its ex-
pected comeback, but the Cardinals
continuously frustrated the Bears with
three final quarters of close football,
more than the Waco crew had an-
ticipated.
Pre-game predictions had listed the
Golden Bears as much as 23-point
favorites, but someone obviously had
failed to clue this information to the
visiting Birds.
The University of Texas, Austin,
currently ranked the No. 4 team in the
nation, was embarrassed by practically
the same Baylor team last fall in Waco
in the Bears’ final outing, 38-14.
After Baylor quarterback Mickey
Elam hooked the Horns in the style he
did last year, the Bears were expected
to do much the same damage to the
Lamar eleven. The Cards proved to
many pessimistic know-it-alls, the 1979
Redbirds are a reality.
The final score of 20-7 is irrelevant to
how close the contest really was. After -
Baylor led late in the second quarter,
Lamar missed an opportunity to
narrow the gap to 14-10 before the half-
time intermission when Mike Marlow,
Arlington sophomore, misfired a 29*"s.
yard field goal attempt, f * •"
Later in the third quarter, the Car-
dinals drove willingly downfield for 94
yards to the Baylor five following a
Bear punt to the LU one, but all was for
naught.
With a second-and-one situation at
the Bear five yard line, the Cards failed
three other downs to gain the necessary
first down and a possible 14-all count.
Films of the game showed Lamar had
gained the first down on the initial run-
ning play, but the referee was forced to
turn away from the play and marked
the ball mistakingly back at the five-
yard stripe.
Coach Kennan and his staff should be
more than congratulated for their
team’s effort and positive performance
Saturday evening against the South-
west Conference name of Baylor
University. This is a season many of us
in Cardinal Country have been waiting
for a long time.
However, the Lamar Cardinals can-
not wih without the support they en-
thusiastically received Saturday night.
If “Cardinal Craze”, is to continue,
there are still ten games left in the
season to prove it to be a success. I
think it already is.
Jesse Cavil (No. 11) and Howard Robinson (No. 25) lead the Lamar Redbirds into an en-
thusiastic mass of “Cardinal Craze” supporters.
Photo by CINDY DOWIES
DORSEY PERFORMS—Lamar back Floyd Dorsey,
Tyler freshman, dances around left end to elude Lester
Ward, Baylor linebacker, in late third quarter action
.which witnessed the Cards’ 94-yard drive failing to
capitalize. Dorsey’s run was one of 11 carries in his 113-
yard performance Saturday night in Baylor Stadium,
Waco. The Bears won the season opener for both teams,
20-7.
Photo by MANUEL MORENO
Opsahl nets quarters
in University Games
Cross country team treks to McNeese
By LARRY GOING
UP Sports Writer
Lamar’s cross country
team struggled to a fourth
place finish in the
Southland Conference last
year, but this year they
hope to move up higher in
the standings.
Head’ track coach Sonny
Jolly and his assistant An-
dy Senorski will find out
just how far they may
move up when they travel
to Lake Charles Monday
for the McNeese State In-
vitational. :
Tuesday afternoon, the
team went through a little
rehearsal for the upcoming
season in a dual match with
the University of Houston
at Houston.
“We’re hoping to place
better than last year,”
Senorski said. “We’re bet-
ter no doubt. We’ve got
depth, quality and we’re in
better shape than we have
ever been.”
Veterans returning to the
team are Bob Linzmeier,
Chicago senior; Joe Ortiz,
Nederland junior; Russell
Deshotel, Port Arthur
junior; David Dial,
Nederland sophomore; and
Frank Montebello, Toron-
to, Canada, sophomore.
Linzmeier was a 1978 All-
SLC member placing
eighth in conference cross
country while teammates
Deshotels and Dial finished
15th and 20th respectively
in conference action.
The cross country team
also boasts some new faces
on the LU roster. The Car-
dinal recruits include
Canadian freshmen Rob
Montgomery, Mike Plumb,
Bruce Chadwick and Brad
Ross.
MEXICO CITY—Lamar
tennis ace Tom Opsahl,
Oslo, Norway junior,
reached the quarterfinals
of both the men’s singles
and doubles draws of the
World University Games
which ended Sunday at the
Club Britannia in Mexico
City.
Opsahl gained the quar-
ters with three victories
before bowing to eventual
finalist Sean Bal of India in.
a three-eet marathon, 6-7,
6-4, 6-3.
Enroute to the final list of
eight, Opsahl spanked
Eliaili Moustafa Ab-
delrahman of Sudan, 6-0, 6-
0, in the opening round, and
then ousted Juan Her-
nandez of Mexico in the
round of 32, 6-4, 6-1.
In third round action, the
Norwegian left-hander and
All-Southland Conference
performer shut down fifth
seeded Sandi Ahkmerov of
Russia, 7-6, 7-5.
After drawing a first
round bye, Olav Foss
Abrahmsen, Oslo, Norway
sophomore, dropped a 7-5,
6-3 decision to Tehiro.
Nakanini of Japan.
Opsahl and Foss Abrah-
msen combined their ef-
forts in the doubles
pairings to reach the quar-
ters with two wins, but fell
to the third seeded duo out
of Indonesia, 6-3, 6-4.
The Lamar twins collec-
ted a 6-2, 6-1 triumph over a
JteASt, fram Lebanon tand
then outlasted a colnbo
from Kenya in the second
round, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2.
“I thought Olav and I
played really well,” Opsahl
said. “It was the best I’ve
played on hard courts in a
long time and a great ex-
perience to face all those
other international
collegiate players.”
Approximately 32 coun-
tries took part in the World
University Games tennis
meet, which is similar to
the Pan American Games
held prior to the Olympic
Games.
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in giffitfdflnger of disappearing. But,
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The simple devout church in the Acts of the
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