Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 31, 1985 Page: 9 of 12
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Palacios Beacon-Thurs. Jan. 31,1985-Page 9
Sharkettes even district record
:■ Coach George Hazel’s varsity
Sharkettes’ emerged with a 3-3
record in district play last week,
having tripped Needville 38-19
and losing to powerhouse Swee-
ny 69-48.
With a 19-3 chart overall, the
Sharkette cagers played at Van
Vleck Tuesday and will entertain
Ifitchcock Thursday starting at 6
ff-m.
:■ Strong performances in the
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second and third period were
enough to lift the Palacios girls to
the win against Needville. The
team had been deadlocked after
the first at 4-4 but then hit for 14
points in the second and added
another 13 in the third. Yannet
Foote hit the hoop for 16 points
and pulled down ten rebounds to
pace the Sharkette attack. Eloise
Segovia tallied eight and record-
ed eight steals.
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Also in on the scoring were
Rhonda Kacer and Vineta An-
thony, both with four and Janet
Brister. Iris Stork and Terri
Kubecka, each with two. Collec-
ting one point each were Karen
Dailey and Valerie Garcia.
The league leading Sweeny
Bulldogs pumped in 23 points in
the first period setting the course
for their 21-point margin victory,
69-48.
"Sweeny had a big first
quarter and it was difficult for us
to recover,” Hazel remarked.
“We had an excellent second
half, the best we’ve played
against Sweeny.”
Palacios scored seven points in
the third and then rebounded to
burn the net for 20 in the final
minutes of play.
“Sweeny is an excellent team.
Their two post players arc both
6-1 and very good,” Hazel
pointed out. “Their two guards
are all-state players. If we had
played the first half like we
played the second half, it would
have been a closer game.”
Eloise Segovia had the hot
hand for Palacios, netting 16
points along with seven steals
and five assists. Foote collected
14 while Dailey had six. Kacer
and Kubecka each hit for four
followed by Anthony with three
and Garcia with one.
Anthony and Dailey were the
team's top rebounders with six
each.
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The Palacios Junior Varsity
Sharks searched in vain for their
first district win of the season last
week, falling to Sweeny 43-33
and being defeated by Needville
60-30.
The two setbacks put the
Sharks at 9-5 on the year and 0-4
in league play. The team hosted
Van Vleck Tuesday and will play
at Hitchcock at 5 p.m. Friday.
Needville wasted little time in
jumping out to a large first period
lead of 12-4. After their slow
start, the Sharks came back with
10 points in each of the final
three periods but were unable to
keep up with the Bluejays.
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points for Palacios while Danny
Mangum tallied four along with
Gabriel Gatica. Rhett Robinson
and Rodriquez each had two.
The matchup was a little closer
against Sweeny. The Sharks
trailed by only 5-4 after the
opening frame. Overcoming a
halftime deficit of 17-9, Palacios
closed to within 29-23 in the
third. The Bulldogs broke away
forjgood in the fourth with a 14
point spree.
The Sharks had a well balanc-
ed‘scoring attack with Mangum,
O'Leary, Gatica and Houston
Herlin each scoring six. Bartosh
scored four with Davidson nett-
ing three and Robinson two.
Jr. High cagers
lose to Crain
Victoria Crain cagers proved to
be too much for the Jr. High
Sharkettes as they defeated the
7th grade 33-16 and handed the
8th grade team a 28-19 loss.
The Palacios squads are sche-
duled to host Travis Thursday
starting at S p.m.
Outscoring the 7th grade Shar-
kettes by seven points, Crain
increased an 8-7 lead to a 17-10
halftime advantage. The margin
increased with a ten point spurt
in the third. Palacios was held to
only six points in the entire
second half.
Shuronda Roy netted six points
with three tallies coming from
both Yolanda Lopez and Barbara
Buckley. Bridgette Loff and
Debra Nelson each scored two.
The 8th grade Sharkettes fell
behind 7-2 in the first period and
despite a strong second period
effort, were never able to over-
come the deficit. Melissa Hail
had eight points during the game
while Lisa Stork netted six and
Laura Sexton four. Diane Kacer
scored one.
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Coastal fisherman
lucky survivor of
rare,deadly virus
[The following article waa
written by Ken Grissom, outdoor
writer for the Houston Poat In
which It appeared recently. It la
being reprinted in the Beacon
through the permission of Mr.
Grissom.]
One lazy October weekend Lon
Gilbert became one of the
unluckiest men alive. Cleaning a
redfish in the surf at High Island,
he pricked his finger on a fin and
wound up having to have his arm
amputated to save him from a
rare, deadly bacteria.
The fact that Gilbert is alive
and recovering makes him a
lucky man. The toxins produced
by the bacteria already had
started to spill over into his torso
when doctors at Methodist Hosp-
ital removed the infected arm,
streaked with decaying flesh,
less than 36 hours after he
pricked his finger. At one point
his fever soared to 108 degrees
and he had to be packed in ice
and his stomach flushed with
cold water. He was hospitalized
45 days, eight of them in
intensive care.
Today, Gilbert, a 40-year-oid
electrical engineer who lives in
Dayton, is battling the crippling
effects of the poison.
"I’m a fairly big guy, 6-1 and
weigh a couple hundred pounds-
or I did,” Gilbert said. “The fact
that I was active and pretty
strong is undoubtedly a big part
of the reason I’m alive today.
Ready to get on with life
‘My legs are about half the
size they were before this
happened, just bones and skin,
and I’m just getting to where 1
can get around with a crutch.
Your muscles can fall apart much
quicker than you can get them
back together.”
Giibert-who said he had his
darkest moment when it became
obvious he was being consumed
by some deadly infection and
doctors at a Baytown hospital had
no idea what to do about it—is
now in good spirits and ready to
get on with his life. Not bitter
over being victimized by what
appears to be an incredible long
shot (there have been fewer than
10 verified cases worldwide in
the five years since the bacteria
was first identified), Gilbert is
anxious to spread the word about
the threat of Vibrio damsela.
He and some friends were
camped out on the Gulf beach at
High Island, between Galveston
and Sabine Pass. About 3 p.m.
on a Saturday, they caught a
redfish in the surf, and while he
was cleaning it, Gilbert pricked a
finger of his right hand on what
he thinks was a hardhead catfish
in the red’s stomach. He wasn’t
any more concerned than
any other man would be over a
hardhead jab. He walked into the
surf and washed out the redfish
and cleaned his hands.
At some point during the night
the injured finger woke him. It
was red and sore. But he went
back to sleep until 8 or 9 a.m.
Sunday, when his hand had
become swollen and the pain
severe. He left to seek medical
aid immediately.
Frantic calls to area hospitals
"1 can’t describe to you how
bad it hurt,” he said. “I can say
this: I was driving over 100 miles
an hour to get back to town, and I
just don't drive like that.”
He checked into the emergen-
cy room at a Baytown hospital,
but doctors there were unable to
check the spread of the infection.
His whole arm was turning black.
Finally, a family member fran-
tically called hospitals in Galves-
ton and Houston and located Dr.
Major Bradshaw, who was famil-
iar with the bacteria. Gilbert was
transported to Methodist by
ambulance. Bradshaw hand-carr-
ied specimens to the lab and
when Vibrio damsela was iden-
tified positively, they amputated
the infected arm at the shoulder.
“I asked the doctors what
would happen if someone got the
infection in a cut on their
stomach or someplace like that
where they couldn't amputate,”
Gilbert said, “and they said that
would be the end of him.”
Of the handful of known Vibrio
damsela victims around the
world, few have lived. And of the
vertified cases, four have occurr-
ed along the Texas coast. A
56-year-old man died of the
infection at a Houston hospital in
June.
The genus Vibrio is fairly
common in salt water. Those bad
Louisiana oysters that popped up
in Houston last year were
carrying a Vibrio bacteria. Many
of the Vibrios are capable of
producing a mild infection, simi-
lar to what Gilbert first exper-
ienced when he woke up during
the night with a sore finger.
Alerting others to the danger
Gilbert hopes his case will
cause physicians to be alert to the
potential danger from a salt-
water-related injury. If the doc-
tors in Baytown were stumped,
you have to wonder how often a
shrimper got infected culling his
catch and died in some back-
water like Delcambre, La., with-
out anyone knowing why. One of
Bradshaw’s colleagues, Dr. Allen
Coffey, is planning to publish a
paper on Gilbert, which will be a
step in the right direction.
But anglers need to be educat-
ed, too, Gilbert said. Anyone who
wakes up in the middle of the
night with a sore finger from a
fish fin, or any skin break
exposed to salt water, should roll
up his bedding and head for town
right then. And he should alert
the doctor to the danger of Vibrio
damsela.
In fact, if you’re going fishing
at an out-of-the-way place like
the Mansfield Cut on Padre
Island or the Chandeleurs in
Louisiana, it would be a smart
move to go to your doctor ahead
of time and try to talk him into
prescribing an antibiotic you
could take with you, something to
fight the infection with until you
can get back to civilization.
Of course, the ultimate pre-
caution is to stay the hell away
from salt water. But even Lon
Gilbert is not willing to do that.
With prosthesis, he plans to keep
on fishing.
"But you can bet I'm going to
get a good pair of waders instead
of walking around out there in
tennis shoes the way I’ve always
done," he said. “And when I
clean fish. I’m going to wear a
good heavy glove.”
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