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First half hurts Elks in 35-0 loss
BY STEWART APPLIN
Taking advantage of good
field position, four Burleson
interceptions, and a blocked
punt, the Lamar Vikings
rolled to a 35-0 victory over
the Elks Friday night at
Cravens Field.
DISTRICT 7-5A
Football Standings
Arlington (5-2)
L.D. Bell (5-2)
Trinity (5-1)
Lamar (4-2)
Haltom (3-3)
Sam Houston (2-5)
Richland (2-4)
Burleson (0-6)
The win improved La-
mar’s overall record to 4-2
and district mark to 3-1. The
Vikings will have to win at
least two out of their next
three games against Hal-
tom, L.D. Bell, and Arl-
ington to have a shot at a
playoff berth. The loss was
the sixth this season for
Burleson in as many games.
The Elks are 0-5 in district
and have lost 30 straight
district football contests.
A sloppy offensive perfor-
mance in the first half gave
Lamar an insurmountable
lead. Burleson did not have a
first down the entire first
half; it was 29 minutes into
the game in the third quarter
before the Elks recorded
their initial first down or
penetrated Lamar territory.
First-half statistics showed
Burleson with 22 rushing
yards and three passing
yards.
The Elks began to play
better offensive football in
the third quarter, but by that
time Lamar had a 21-0 lead.
Burleson, stung by two in-
terceptions in the first
BURLESON-LAMAR STATISTICS
Burleson Lamar
7
First Downs
12
31-50
Rushes-yards
38-168
56
Passing yards
94
6-18
Completions/att.
5-12
4
Interceptions
1
0-4
Fumbles-lost
2-5
5-24.0
Punts-average
3-28.7
6-50
Penalties-yards
5-54
25:33
Time of possession
22:27
quarter, played conser-
vatively in the second stanza
and did not attempt a pass.
But the Elks put the ball up
in the air 14 times in the se-
cond half for 53 yards and
managed seven first downs
in the final 19 minutes.
Near Block
Lamar’s Butch Waterbury (67) nearly blocks Burleson’s Mike Johnson’s (16) punt
in the first quarter of Friday night's game at Cravens Field. The hard rush helped
produce a 33-yard punt that the Vikings took at their 49 and marched seven plays
later for their first touchdown. Lamar later blocked a Johnson punt, recovered at
the Elk-eight, and scored another TD. Photo by Terry M. Evann
Junior varsity blanked
* The junior varsity Elks put
:on a much better effort
^Thursday night against La-
mar than the week before
against Arlington but still
came up on the short side of
the score 21-0.
The Lamar JVs had a
shaky 7-0 edge at halftime
but put a touchdown on the
scoreboard in both the third
and fourth quarters. All the
Lamar TDs came on Burle-
son fumbles in Elk territory.
“We played a pretty good
defensive ballgame,” coach
Steve O’Quinn commented.
“The effort was much better
than the game before.”
O’Quinn praised the defen-
sive play of linemen Tim
Owens, Paul Perrin, Clayton
Pharris, and Scott Robinson
and defensive back A1 Raus-
chuber.
The Elk JVs will be at ______________
home next Thursday at 7:30 haul in the nass
p.m. against the junior var-
sity squad of Trinity.
Volleyball
standings
DISTRICT 7-5A
Volleyball Standings
Defensive Play
Arlington
Burleson
L.D. Bell
Sam Houston
Trinity
Richland
Martin
Lamar
Haltom
The Elks’ offense finally
showed some life in the third
quarter, gaining a first down
on a Daryl Bullard-to-Mike
Janusch pass. But, on a
fourth-and-two at the
Viking-36 (the deepest
penetration of the game for
Burleson), Peter Galupi was
held for no gain.
Twenty-five seconds later,
Janusch intercepted a
LeRoy pass and the Elks had
the ball at their 15 after a
questionable clipping call. A
pass interference flag gave
Burleson a second first down
but an interception ended the
9 drive.
9
Good defense has been one factor in the Burleson High
volleyball team’s 11-1 record going into the last week of
district action. Sophomore Jan Nicholson (3) makes a good
play in action from the second game of the Oct, 11 match
against Sam Houston. The Lady Elks play at unbeaten Arl-
ington Tuesday night and return home for the final district
home match Thursday versus Richland.
Photo by Stewart Applin
Thursday's Matches
Arlington beat Trinity 15-8,.
15-8.
L.D. Bell beat Sam Hous-
ton 15-9,15-4.
Haltom beat Lamar 15-6,
156.
Martin beat Richland
1510,1516.
The visitors again got the
ball back with 1:05 to go in
the third quarter when Kelly
Kerr jarred the ball loose
from Greg Gardner and
Steve Coder recovered the
fumble. Burleson gained a
first down on a 10-yard run
by Jeff Erwin but bogged
down. Lamar called three
timeouts to try and force the
Elks to punt against the wind
before the end of the third
period. Burleson did punt
with three seconds left and
Johnson’s boot was blocked
by Hensel and recovered at
the Elk-eight.
TWO PLAYS after that
LeRoy ran five yards over
right tackle into the endzone
for Lamar’s fourth touch-
down.
For unknown reasons,
Lamar kept its first offen-
sive unit in the game in the
fourth quarter and the Vik-
ings scored a gratuitous
touchdown with 6:45 left in
the game as Williams broke
several tackles on a 29-yard
run. Tim Clarke kicked the
last of his five extra points
for the final 35-0 score.
Burleson had one more
shot at some points with
three minutes to go in the
ballgame. Parkinson hit
Coder On a 10-yard pass to
the Elk-30 and, on the next
play, connected with
Janusch on an 11-yard pass
near the right sideline to the
Burleson-41. But two plays
later, Lane picked off an
underthrown Parkinson pass
at the Elk-47.
LeRoy topped Lamar
rushers with 111 yards with
Williams adding 35. Peter
Galupi, the Elks’ leading
ball carrier, had 30 yards on
14 rushes.
LeRoy was five-of-12 for 82
yards and one interception
for Lamar. Bullard was
three-of-six for 29 yards and
one interception and Parkin-
son was three-of-12 for 27
yards and three aerials pick-
ed off. Janusch, the Elks’ top
pass catcher, had two recep-
tions for 31 yards. Scott
Porter also had two catches
for nine yards.
Burleson 0 0 0 0 — 0
Lamar 7 14 0 14 — 35
LAMAR PLAYED without
the services of the district’s
leading rusher Matt Gurley,
who had 733 yards in five
games going into last week.
Gurley suffered a bruise on
his leg and Lamar coach Ed-
die Peach held him out of the
game. The Vikings, averag-
ing 247 rushing yards a
game, were held to 168 yards
on the ground by the Elk
defense which generally
didn’t play all that badly.
Four of the five Lamar
touchdowns came on drives
that started at midfield or in
Burleson territory. Two of
the drives started at the
Elk-19 (an interception) and
the Elk-eight (a blocked
punt).
The Vikes passed sparing-
ly except for the second
quarter where they aired the
ball seven times. Lamar
receivers found the Burleson
zone defense surprisingly
porous and the Vikings com-
pleted four of the passes for
82 yards and missed several
other open receivers.
Neither team could
generate much offense in the
first seven minutes of the
game until the Vikings rush-
ed Burleson punter Mike
Johnson who barely got off a
short punt to the Lamar-49.
Quarterback Rickey LeRoy
connected with Mark Hensel
on a quick slant pattern to
the 37 and on the next play
fullback Charlie Waters
broke tackles to the 22. The
very next play say LeRoy
keeping around right end to
the nine. Three plays later,
Bryan Williams, subbing for
Gurley, hit the endzone over
right tackle.
One minute-46 seconds
later, Lamar put its second
TD on the scoreboard after
intercepting a Kai Parkinson
pass that was tipped at the
line of scrimmage and
returned to the Elk-19. Three
plays later, the first play of
the second quarter, LeRoy
hit paydirt from one yard
out.
BURLESON’S offensive
problems continued and the
Vikings got the ball at the
Elk-49 following a short punt
into the stiff southerly wind.
Lamar needed only three
plays to score with Williams
jumping into the endzone
with 5:59 remaining in the
first half. A LeRoy-to-Greg
Lane pass of 47 yards set up
the third TD. There were two
Burleson defenders with
Lane on the deep route but
they played the man and not
the ball and Lane was able to
Unfriendly Crowd
For Parkinson
Elk quarterback Kai Parkinson (9) takes the bail on a "naked" keeper around
right end and runs into an unfriendly crowd of Lamar defenders in second-quarter
action from Friday night's district football game. Lamar players are Mike Waters
(12), Scott Davidson (19), and Jody Roberson (64). Lamar won the game 35-0.
Photo by Terry M. Evans
Freshman red team wins thriller
The freshman football
teams at Burleson High won
one and lost one Thursday
night against the Cleburne
ninth graders. The red team
pulled out a 6-0 victory on a
late touchdown while the
black squad was engaged in
a scoreless tie until late in
the third quarter and ended
losing by a 22-0 count.
The red team used a long
drive of 55 yards that con-
sumed most of the fourth
quarter to score a touch-
down. Billy Brink snuck into
the endzone for the score.
Runs by Steve Dalton great-
ly aided the scoring drive.
Because Burleson had no
timeouts and there was a
mixup on the conversion try,
the PAT failed.
Cleburne got the ball back
with seconds left in the game
and moved downfield with a
passing game. But the BHS
freshmen ended the drive
and won the game when
lineman John Pruitt tipped a
pass and Steve Vargas made
the interception.
“It was a good nip-and-
tuck battle,” coach Charlie
Cox said of the game. “They
all played real well.” Other
red team players singled out
were Chuck Connally and
Jason Abring.
The black teem had held
Cleburne to a scoreless con-
test until there were three
minutes left in the third
quarter. Cleburne lofted a
long pass on fourth-and-nine
that went for a touchdown.
Burleson fumbled at the Elk-
40 on its next possession and
another long pass made the
score 14-0 early in the final
period. Unbeaten Cleburne
scored again later in the
fourth quarter.
TOP PLAYERS in the con-
test were Wes Tatum, Greg
Mason, Jason Manry, Gary
Laughlin, Roy Lovelace.
Robby English, Beau Stark,
and Philo Waters.
The two freshmen squads
will travel to Irving Thurs-
day evening to take on the
Nimitz ninth graders The
first game is scheduled for 5
p.m.
Football
scores
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FOOTBALL SCORES
District 7-5A
Lamar 35, Burleson 0
Arlington 12, L.D. Bell 10
Richland 23, Sam Houston 21
Trinity 14, Bryan 10
Dallas Jesuit 35, Martin 15
District 4-4 A
Cleburne 28, Brownwood 13
Crowley 17, Joshua 15
Everman 27, Stephenville 6
Granbury 21, Mansfield 20
Keller 7, North Side 0
Brewer 35, Grapevine 14
Carter-Riverside 26, Castle
berry 14
Poly 38, Diamond Hill 6
Other Scores
Alavardo 17, Cedar Hill 7
Midlothian 67, Kennedale 0
Blooming Grove 21, Glen
Rose 18
Itasca 7, Grandview 6
Meridian 42, Rio Vista 0
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Soccer Returns
Oct. 8’s rains washed out soccer action for the Burleson Independent Soccer
Association but the boys and girls will be hitting the fields again this Saturday.
Photo shows action from a soccer match between Los Charros and Crowley at
Bartlett Park.
Photo by Stewart Applin
Steve Carlton is the only
man to win the Cy Young
Award while pitching for a
last-place team. He boasted
a 27-10 record for the Phillies
in 1972, almost half the vic-
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