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4A —Burleaon Star. Thursday. September 29. 1983
Sports
Elks tackle Colts
By STEWART APPLIN
The Burleson football
Elks, coming off their best
performance in several
years last Friday against
L.D. Bell, will travel to Arl-
ington Friday night to take
on the Arlington High Colts.
The game will be played at
the UTA stadium at 7:30
p.m.
The Elks played a strong
football game last week
against the 1982 state SA run-
nerup but mistakes again
turned what would have
been a close game into a
35-10 defeat.
“I was pleased with the ef-
fort,” coach Larry Heard
said Wednesday morning.
“We’re still making a lot of
mental mistakes we’ve got
to correct.” He said with the
exception of the turnovers
(two lost fumbles and two in-
terceptions) and some
breakdowns in the secon-
dary, the 1983 Bell game was
the best his team has played
since he’s been here.
Heard pointed out that the
crucial play of the game in
the fourth quarter was
caused by a mental error.
Burleson had just inter-
cepted a Raider pass and
trailed 21-10. The coaches
sent in a pass play that re-
quired a correct reading of
the Bell secondary. A wrong
reading was made, the pass
thrown to the wrong re-
ceiver, and it was inter-
cepted and run back to the
Elk-16. Two plays later, Bell
scored a TD and put the
game away. “We’ve got to
be smarter than that,”
Heard said.
THE DEFENSE played
Star Sports Editor
Small is important
THE DIFFERENCE be-
tween victory and defeat of-
ten hinges on some small
things: a few inches, a few
seconds, a fleeting instance
of inattention, a surge of
concentration and execution
has been the chief culprit.
energy at a crucial time,
clarity of thought and deci-
siveness of action amid cla-
mor and tumult.
The line between disaster
and triumph has been fine
indeed throughout history.
The Battle of Gettysburg
that turned the tide of the
MOST OF these turnovers
have occurred deep in the
Elks’ end of the field. Only
two of the 15 turnovers have
occurred in opposition terri-
tory. The other 3 have hap-
pened between the Burleson-
39 and -9.
The mistakes have been
costly. The 15 turnovers have
resulted in four touchdowns,
one field goal, and two mis-
teams have had problems
executing this complicated
offense. Both teams have
been hurt by turnovers: the
Horned Frogs committed
nine turnovers in their first
two games.
Leading Rusher
Civil War revolved around a field goals. Fumbles and
couple of acres of cemetery interceptions deep in your
on top of a hill. The Battle of
Waterloo was resolved and
the history of Europe
changed by some last-min-
ute reinforcements of Prus-
sian troops. A change of a
few votes here and there
own territory are like hand-
ing the other team points on
a silver platter.
The Elk football team
proved last week against
L.D. Bell that it can play
with the “big boys” in the
would have made Richard district. When the Elks play
Nixon president in 1960 and wit*1 emotions and determi-
Hubert Humphrey president
in 1968.
Three football games last
weekend well illustrated this
truism. Each of the three
was decided on a few crucial
plays; each of them proved
that winners are those who
capitalize on these crucial
situations and the losers are
those who cannot.
Several key plays deter-
mined the outcome of the
L.D Bell-Burleson game
nation for four quarters, they
can give any team on the
schedule a run for their mon-
ey. However, when the Elks
do this and also eliminate all
the mental errors and costly
turnovers, that’s when the
victory will come.
The Bell game was similar
in many ways to the TCU-
SMU game played in Fort
Worth Saturday night. A few
crucial plays determined the
outcome. The Horned Frogs
and Mustangs played to a 7-7
SUNDAY afternoon at
Texas Stadium there occur-
red as bizarre a football
game as had been seen in
quite awhile. It was a contest
determined by turnovers and
saw some incredible bad
judgment in the final min-
utes. “It was the most bizar-
re game I’ve ever played
in,” Tony Dorsett said after
the game.
The improved Saints inter-
cepted a Drew Pearson trick
pass and turned it into a
touchdown for a 20-13 lead
with 12:35 left in the game.
The Cowboys fumbled the
ensuing kickoff but New Or-
MIKE JANUSCH
weaker opposition in beating
Richland 17-7 and Weather-
ford 21-0 the past two Friday
nights.
The Colts run a Wing I of-
fense with about a dozen
basic plays. They will
HEARD SAID that the
Elks will try to control the
football and cut down on the
damaging errors that have
plagued the first four games.
“We can play with anyone,
physically,” Heard said.
"But we have to be smarter
than we have been.”
Burleson's Peter Galupi (40) is the leading rasher for the Elk gridders after four
games this season. The senior tailback rushed for 52 yards against L.D. Bell last
week and has 162 yards during the '83 campaign. Burleson had a balanced attack
last week against the Raiders, running for 102 yards and passing for 110 yards.
Burleson plays Arlington at UTA Friday night. Photo by Tern M. Irani
Fishing Report
By Texas Parks and Wildlife
Teens will run in
four-mile race
E.Z.
PAY
AUSTIN-Here is the fishing report
leans returned the favor ag compiled by the Parks and Wildlife
when Kenny Sta bier fumbled Department:
the snap with Larry Bethea ^ „ (eel low.
recovering. black bass good to 6 pounds on worms
The turnovers continued and spinners; striper fair to 8 pounds;
as Johnnie Poe intercepted a crappie no report; white bass good;
Danny White pass and ran it catr“h good
back to the Cowboy-35. On
Friday night. Two of them ana Mustangs played to a 7-7
came in the final three min- after three quarters and
utes of the first half when TCU seemingly had the
Bell was able to snatch two Same sewed up with a field
touchdowns from the jaws of 603* and a 17-14 lead with six
disaster and turned a 7-7 minutes left in the game. But
game into a 21-7 contest. SMU struck back on a 80-
But the final turning point yard TD pass that popped off
of the game occurred in the hands of receiver Ron
third quarter when the Elks Morris up in the air and back
had just intercepted a Raid- into one hand. He raced
er pass at the Bell-40, down down the right sideline to
only 21-10. Turning this op- fPve the Mustangs a 21-17
portunity into seven points
could have made the game
21-17 with the final result
very much up in the air.
Instead, the Elks were inter-
cepted on the very next play
and two plays later L.D. Bell
put the game away with its
fourth touchdown.
edge.
TO SAY that Burleson
missed opportunities in los-
ing a ballgame is a great
improvement over what hap-
pened last year when, with
the exception of the Martin
game, the games were never
THE FROGS came back
and quarterback Anthony
Sciaraffa kept on the veer
option, tightroped the left
sideline, and hit the endzone.
But Sciaraffa was called for
stepping on the end line; the
replay showed that he didn’t
“have” to step out of bounds
because there was no one
within five yards of him.
The ball was placed at the
seven and TCU moved it to
the one on fourth down. On
that last play, Sciaraffa took
fourth-and-one, Bum Phillips
elected to go for a field goal
that probably would have put
the game away. But Ed
Jones blocked the attempt
and Ron Fellows picked up
the ball and went 62 yards
untouched for the TD. Ty-
rone Young blocked Rafel
Septien’s extra point try and
the Saints still had a 20-19
lead with 7:05 left.
Dallas got the ball back
and a Dorsett run put it at
the Saint-15. Instead of run-
ning and playing for a field
goal, Dallas elelcted to pass
and White was intercepted
by Dennis Winston in the
endzone. Winston unwisely
decided to run with the ball
and was tackled at the Saint-
four.
THE SAINTS could have
run most of the clock down
and preserve their one-point
lead but inexplicably the
nearly immobile Stabler
tried to pass on second down.
He backed into his own end-
zone and was quickly sacked
by blitzing linebacker An-
thony Dickerson for a two-
point safety. Dallas also got
CALAVERAS
Water clear, 93 degree, 12 inches
low; black bass good to 8 pounds on
black worms; hybrid striper no
report; crappie no report; blue catfish
good to 19 pounds; channel catfish fair
to 2 pounds on shrimp; yellow catfish
good to 39 pounds on cutbait in good
numbers
CEDAR CREEK
Water clear, 74 degrees, l foot low;
black bass good to 7 pounds on buzz
baits, chartreuse and yellow spinners;
walleye fair to 5 pounds on flasher
trailer; crappie real good in deep
water in brushy areas; catfish ex-
cellent to 9 pounds drifting along slope
banks on cutbait; white bass good ear-
ly and late; hybrid striper good to 10
pounds on Hellbender with 2 oz sassy
shad trailer
FAYETTE
Water clear, 2 inches above normal;
black bass picking up to 5 pounds on
RatLtraps and worms; crappie slow,
catfish fairly slow.
MONTICELLO
Water clear, 80 degrees, normal
level; black bass good to 9 pounds, 12
ounces, in 15 feet of water on purple
and black worms and cranks during
daytime; other fishing slow.
PALESTINE
Water clear, 5 inches low; black
bass good to 64 pounds on worms and
topwaters, crappie slow, some in deep
water, catfish good drifting to 5
pounds on catalpa worms
POSSUM KINGDOM
Water clear, 6 feet low; black bass
good to 54 pounds on topwaters;
striper very slow; crappie good in 15
feet of water in brushy areas white
bass slowing down; catfish good to 47
pounds on trotline
RAYBURN
Water clear, normal level; black
bass picking up schooling early and
late to 5 pounds, many small on
spoons, RatLtraps, cranks; striper,
white bass and hybrid striper good;
catfish good in good numbers on hand
lines and rod and reel; crappie ex-
cellent over baited holes.
RAY IIUBBARD
Water murky. 80 degrees, 30 inches
low; black bass slow to 14 pounds on
north end of lake; striper slow; crap-
pie fair in 12 feet of water around
manna; white bass fair and small;
catfish good to 9 pounds drifting.
TEXOMA
Water clear, 80 degrees, 6 feet low,
black bass and all fishing slow
TOLEDO BEND
Water fairly clear, 7f degrees, two
feet low; black bass gooa to 5 pounds;
striper fair to 17 pounds; crappie
good; white bass slow; catfish slow
WHITNEY
Water clear, 79 degrees. 8 feet low;
black bass good to 74 pounds on
cranks in Steiner Valley area, striper
fair to 12 pounds on live bait; crappie
good to 50 fish per stringer in upper
lake; white bass slow; catfish good to 6
pounds on catalpa worms near dam.
The Sports Medicine
Center of Saint Joseph Hos-
pital will sponsor its first
race Sunday, Oct 2, to pro-
mote running and fitness for
teens. The Four-Mile Road
Race Classic is presented by
the SMC Junior Running
Club and is open to all run-
ners ages 11 to 17 years old,
according to Hector Ortiz,
SMC coordinator of sports
clubs. “We’re promoting
health and fitness and at the
same time helping young-
sters by getting them invol-
ved in their own fitness,” he
said.
The race begins promptly
at 4 p.m. Participants should
report to the Daniel Meyer
Coliseum parking lot at Tex-
as Christian University be-
fore 3:30 p.m. The first 250
registered participants will
receive a free gym bag. In
addition, free SMC frisbees
will be given to all partici-
pants.
Advance entry fee is $6 per
runner. Entries must be re-
ceived by SepL 22. Late en-
try fee is $8. Entries will not|
be accepted after 3:30 p.m.;
on the day of the race. Pro-
ceeds will go to maintaining
the SMC Junior Running
Club and future runs.
For more information about
the race and how to pre-reg-
ister, contact the Sports
Medicine Center at 877-0230
or stop by the facilities at
1350 S. Main. No. 2000.
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race officials have been ex-
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area runners had registered
for the second annual event,
according to Linda McClen-
don.
The advanced registration
closed Saturday but Burle-
son area runners may still
register until the race and on
the day of the race. The fee is
$8.
The 3.1-mile race will start
at 8:30 a.m. from the First
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a couple of plays.
It’s a compliment to the
Elk gridders this season to
say that they played the 1982
state runnerup Raiders well
enough last week that the
game could be decided on a
few big plays.
However, winning “moral
victories” but losing by 25
points still is not good e-
foot of his right guard as he
tried to run the option right,
and was swarmed for a loss.
Again, games are won on
execution and SMU executed
on the big plays and TCU
didn’t.
The TCU and Burleson
football programs have
many similarities. Both have
been on a downswing in re-
and held on to win by one.
Dallas had two lost fum-
bles, four passes intercepted
(three in the fourth quarter),
and seven sacks for 66 yards
in losses. Normally that
would lose the ballgame but
the Saints made their share
of mistakes too.
Brownie Troop 213 and 366
attended a workout of the
Burleson High School volley-
ball team Sept. 21 as part of a
project The two troops re-
cently won two awards in the
BHS homecoming parade.
The leader of the two
troops is Marlane Baker.
In the troops are Trisha
Morelock, Jamie Baker, Suz-
anne Schroeder, Maegen
Griswold, Jennifer Baken,-
Barbara Bartlett, Robbie
Bartlett, Holly Erickson
Aimee Smith, and Meredith
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Lawson, Jennifer Lea, Kel-
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Turnovers have killed the
Elks in 1983. Burleson has
lost the ball 10 times on
fumbles, four times by inter-
ception, and had one punt
blocked. The opposition in
the four games has lost the
ball four times on fumbles
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Most of these turnovers
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hard hits. Six of the 10 lost
fumbles came on fumbled
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