Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 1980 Page: 3 of 4
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Cards up record to 39-12-3.
UNIVERSITY PRESS April 18, 1980*3
The Cardinal baseball
team closed its regular
season home-play Wed-
nesday with two victories
over Stephen F. Austin
State University,
Nacogdoches.
The Redbirds shutout the
Lumberjacks 10-1 in the
opening contest, and then
routed SFA 14-4 in the
nightcap.
Lamar pitcher Joe Brett,
Klamath Falls, Ore.,
junior, raised his record to
3-0 as he hurled a two-hitter
against the Jacks, while
SFA’s Keith Neill’s record
dropped to 0-2 on the year.
Neill gave up six runs
and five hits before
retreating from the mound
after 11 3 innings.
Two Redbirds collected a
pair of runs apiece in
Lamar’s 10-hit effort. Alan
Marr and Luis Collazo,
Brooklyn, N.Y., seniors,
each pumped in two runs,
while the center fielder
Collazo also had two RBI
for the game.
Redbird baseballers chop Lumberjacks
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A Marr homer on the fir-
st pitch of the game set the
mood for the rout that was
the second contest.
SFA’s Kerry Walker,
who donated the home run,
was the first of five pit-
chers for the Lumberjacks
to play in the contest.
Walker gave up six hits
and four runs before being
relieved in the fourth.
Lamar’s Bruce Rice,
Houston freshman, upped
his record to 2-0 on the 14-4
victory as he pitched three
innings of the nightcap.
Rico Sutton, Paducah,
Ky., junior, led off Lamar’s
five-run fourth with a
single. The left fielder was
injured on the play,
however, and Paul Rojo,
Nederland freshman, came
in to run for Sutton.
Designated hitter Earl
Hathaway, Cleburne
junior, then slammed a
home run over the left-field
fence for two runs.
Ricky Williams took over
the pitching duties when
Walker walked LU’s Jim
my Castino, Groves senior.
But Williams picked right
up where Walker left off,
and walked Marr.
Collazo came up next,
and singled to right to send
Castino in for the Birds’
fourth run of the game.
Williams shot a wild pit-
ch to Kerry Christensen,
Louisville, Ky.,
sophomore, and Marr
came in as Collazo took
third. Kerry popped a
single to center field and
sent in Collazo for the stan-
za’s final run.
The Lumberjacks got
thier first run of the two-
game series in the top of
the fifth as designated hit-
ter Mark Townsend
slugged a solo homer over
the left-field fence.
The Cards had another
big inning in the fifth as
they collected six runs.
Hathaway, Rich Bailey,
Forest Hills, N.Y.,
sophomore, and Castino
were all granted walks to
lead off the stanza and load
the bases. That series
brought a new SFA pitcher
to the mound as Rich
Walters stepped in to
replace Williams.
Hathaway and Bailey
picked up runs when Marr
singled off the new moun-
dsman, and an error on
SFA’s right fielder sent
Castino in.
Pete Romano, Brooklyn,
N.Y., freshman walked.
And before Mark Cum-
mings, Queens, N.Y.,
senior, could triple,
Walters tried to pick off
Marr at second, and a
double error scored Marr
and Romano.
The Cards would pick up
three more runs before the
contest’s conclusion to
raise their record to 39-12-3
on the year.
This weekend, the Red-
birds will travel to Lake
Charles, La., to meet
Southland Conference foe
McNeese State in a four-
game series.
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Red- White gam
set for tonight
By LARRY GOING
of the UP staff
Five weeks of hitting and blocking,
bumps and bruises, sweaty jerseys and
mosquitoes will climax tonight with the
Red-White spring football game, begin-
ning at 7 p.m. at Cardinal Stadium.
But with all the extra additions to the
contest, you would almost think that it
was Super Bowl weekend at Lamar.
Preceding the contest, head coach
Larry Kennan and his staff will conduct
a father-son clinic for area youths to en-
courage more awareness to the basics
of football.
During the contest, coaches from
area high schools are to be special
guests of the LU coaching staff to see
how some of their local products have
adapted to college ball.
The halftime show won’t feature the
marching band, but rather, the people
from the news media. The local media
representatives will engage in a punt,
pass and kick competition, with the
winner earning the honor of devising
the Cards’ first home-game plan.
And sandwiched around all this
hoopla will be the annual game itself,
culminating one of the most optimistic
spring seasons in recent years.
No doubt that the surprise of Lamar’s
turnaround last season (to a 6-3-2
record) has given some new life to
practicing football in mid March, but
Kennan says much progress has been
made during the workouts.
“I’m very pleased with our progress
this year,” Kennan said. “The effort
the players have put out this spring has
been great. They’ve all gotten better in
their positions and they all have a good
attitude to the upcoming season.”
Although there have been some
special moments by the players during
the weekly scrimmages, Kennan
doesn’t want to single out any specific
person.
“There are many players who have
made lots of progress during the
workouts that it’s hard to single out any
one special player,” kennan said. “Our
plan has been to bring the younger
players along and get them into the
system, and I think they’ve made a lot
of strides in that direction.”
Kennan does admit that, while the
team has accomplished some of its
goals, there stands room for more im-
provement.
“I think we’re learning to play hard,
and not everybody is bom with that
ability,” Kennan said. “It’s something
that you have to work at, to learn, and
that’s what we are beginning to do.
“Of course, we need to get better in
all areas,” Kennan said. “We’re not
concerned with the other people and
who’s number one, but everybody
needs to make improvements.”
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Lamar
signs
Wallace
Mike Wallace, the fifth-leading
scorer among the nation’s junior
colleges during the 1979-80 season, has
become Lamar’s first signee of the 1980
basketball recruiting season.
A 6-5, 210-pound forward, Wallace
averaged 28.9 points and 13.8 rebounds
last season for Howard County Com-
munity College in Big Springs.
“I’m very pleased to have a player of
Mike Wallace’s caliber join our
program,” said Pat Foster, who is only
in his second week as Lamar’s head
coach. “He’s a great rebounder, and
has tremendous scoring ability.
“Mike should be able to step in and
help make our program prosper even
more so in the next two years. Another
thing that makes me happy to sign Mike
is that I’ve been as impressed with him
as a person as I have as a basketball
player.”
Wallace, a concensus JC All-Am erica
this season, shot 57 percent from the
field and 75 percent form the free throw
line in the past season.
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Birds to meet SWC foes
Netters play Baylor today
“I thought the University
of Houston would be our
toughest match this spring,
but it looks as though those
Aggies are even stronger
than we had planned.”
Ron Wesbrooks will find
out how true his words are
when the Lamar netters
meet the two Southwest
Conference foes in dual
matchups Saturday and
Monday.
Houston was a pre-
season favorite in the SWC
race along with Arkansas,
Fayetteville, but Texas
A&M, College Station,
made its presence known
earlier this week by sur-
prising the Cougars 5-2.
“Texas A&M really put it
to them,” Wesbrooks said.
“They got rained out with
two of the doubles matches
still in progress, but the
Aggies already own the vic-
tory since they were up 5-
2.”
Lamar will get an early
Golfers ready for SLC meet
test against the SWC
names when it meets
Baylor today in Waco at
2:45 p.m. The Cards
knocked off the Bears last
fall in their own LU In-
tercollegiate Tournament,
6-3.
“We should be able to
beat Baylor again since
they have three strong
players in the top position,
but they are somewhat hur-
ting in their bottom part of
the lineup,” Wesbrooks
said.
After visiting Baylor, the
Redbirds will trek to
Aggieland on Saturday for]
their spring re-match with
Texas A&M in a 1:30 p.m.
shootout. The nationally-
ranked Aggies set back
Lamar for its first loss of
the year, 6-3.
“I just wish we were
going into the A&M match
physically ready, but with
Jose (Llamas) sick and
Olav (Foss Abrahamsen)
still having shoulder
problems, we could be in
for a long afternoon
Satruday,” Wesbrooks
said.
Coach Dan Rogas and his
Lamar golfers are plan-
ning a trip to Calhoun, La.,
with a mission of ending a
seven year drought.
It’s been that long since
Lamar has won a
Southland Conference golf
championship, but the Car-
dinals will enter Monday’s
first round in Calhoun as
slight favorites to take the
1980 crown.
The Cardinals will enter
the 54-hole conference tour-
nament with the top two
golfers in the league, five of
the top 12 and the best team
average.
■ “I’m not sure we should
be considered the
Lamar will end its 1980
home campaign Monday at
the Cardinal Courts when it
hosts 13th-ranked Houston
in a 1:30 p.m. matchup
before departing next
weekend for the annual
Southland Conference tour-
nament in Ruston, La.
Despite the possible
losses of Llamas, Mexico
City freshman, and Abrah-
msen, Oslo, Norway junior,
the Cardinals will still have
their 20-match winner in
the frame of No. 1 Tom Op-
sahl, Oslo, Norway junior.
Along with Opsahl, the
Cards line up Brace
Helgeson, St. Cloud, Minn.,
sophomore; David Broer,
Johannesburg, South
Africa sophomore; Joe
Langner, West Columbia
sophomore; and Roberto
Arouesty, Mexico City
junior.
The Lamar netters upped
their season count to 19-9
Wednesday when the Birds
had no problems in shut-
ting out Houston Baptist 9-0
at the Cardinal Courts.
Helgeson started off the
blitzing in the No. 1 singles
position as he stopped Rick
Redding 6-3, 6-3, and No. 2
Broer belted the visitors’
Don Shriver 6-0, 6-1.
In the third singles slot,
the Cards’ Langner
whitewashed Fred Daniel
6-0, . 6-0, while Arouesty
breezed past No. 4 Sharad
Hosteti of HBU 6-0, 6-1.
The last two singles
positions also belonged to
Lamar. Willie Blackbird,
Pasadena freshman, eased
past No. 5 Glen Perry 6-1, 6-
1, and No. 6 Mike Conroy,
Newton, N.J., freshman,
dumped Salem Kahleh 6-3,
6-0.
Broer and Helgeson
whipped Redding and
Shriver in the No. 1 doubles
meeting 6-3, 6-2, and the
No. 2 Lamar combo of
Arouesty and Langner
ousted Daniel and Hosteti
6-1, 6-0.
Blackbird and Conroy
completed the afternoon’s
drubbing with a perfect 6-0,
6-0 win over No. 3 Kahleh
and Perry.
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long dry spell and it would
be nice to end it,” Rogas
said in evaluating his
team’s chances for the
meet to be played over the
7,200-yard Pine Hill Coun-
try Club course. “We’ve
played against some of the
best competition in the
country in our prepatory
meets, and our guys have a
lot of confidence in the
ability to score well.”
Juniors Kent Hilburn and
Ronnie Black possess the
conference’s best averages
going into the three-day af-
fair, with marks of 74.4 and
75.2, respectively.
Hilburn, a 165-pounder
from Sour Lake, has the
Cardinals’ lowest com-
petitive round this season,
a 69 fired on the first day of
the prestigious All-
America Intercollegiate
tournament two weeks ago
in Houston. Black, a
Lovington, N.M., native,
has a low round of 70, also
carded on opening day in
the All-America tourney.
The Cardinal’s com-
posite average of 304.1
strokes is easily the best in
the conference. South-
western Louisiana,
Lafayette, is second at
308.2, while McNeese State,
Lake Charles, La., is third
a 310.2.
The golf tournament will
kick off a week-long slate of
activities for the SLC’s an-
nual spring meet.
On the agenda for later in
the week will be the con-
ference’s tennis and track
meets along with athletic
directors’ meetings, foot-
ball coaches’ meetings,
basketball coaches’
meetings and other events.
Lamar has won the last
two SLC track crowns, and
despite being hampered by
injuries and poor con-
ditions in most of their
early meets, coach Sonny
Jolly’s thinclads are
favored to make it three-in-
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