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4—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Spring*, Two*, Mondoy, March 24,1980.
...Wade gears up for possible record
By JERRY TITTLE
N«wt-T«logram Staff
Wildcat athletic director Don
Poe and offseason coordinator
Randy Reed have been im-
pressed recently with the
overall progress of their off-
season training program. And
Saturday at the Bishop Lynch
High School Powerlift Tour-
riatnent in Dallas a delegation
of eight Sulphur Springs
powerlifters showed why Poe
and Reed are impressed.
I>ed by top point getters
Tommy Wade and John
Sheffield the Wildcat lifting
crew won the team cham-
pionship trophy over recently
acquired powerlift rival,
DeSoto, and seven other teams.
DeSoto is in its third year of
powerlifting whereas Wildcat
lifters are in their infant season
of actual weightlifting com-
petition. But wherever Sulphur
Springs competes DeSoto is
usually there and usually one of
the top two finishers. In the
first annual Sulphur Springs
Powerlift Tournament earlier
in the month DeSoto’s Gerald
Bradley found himself locked in
a day-long battle with Wade for
the top spot in the 148-165 pound
class. Bradley and a Rockwall
lifter nudged Wade into third
place in that tournament but
Saturday the Sulphur Springs
sophomore returned the favor
by lifting more weight than
anyone in the tournament,
regardless of weight
classification.
“Because the tournament
was divided into only four
weight classes we had to bump
Tommy ("Wade) to the next
higher class,” Reed said. “We
were only allowed to enter two
lifters in each class and we
already had James McMahan
and Jerry Calhoun in that
middle weight class. Therefore,
knowing Tommy’s strength and
his capabilities, we just entered
him in the next class up and he
answered by outlifting
everyone else there," Reed
said.
In the 125-150 class a Waco
Reicher lifter won the top prize
wth 924 pounds combined
weight in the three required
lifts but Sulphur Springs’ Steve
Littlefield finished second with
847 pounds and Jeff Chester
finished sixth with 803 pounds.
Iittlefield is splitting spring
time duties between baseball
and offseason training.
Chester met the 150 pound
maximum weight restriction on
his third and last weigh-in and
only then after jogging off two
pounds prior to the tournament
start.
Representing Sulphur
Springs in the 150-175 class,
McMahan finished third with
957 pounds behind DeSoto’s
Bradley with 1,120 and a Waco
Reicher lifter with 979. Calhoun
finished fifth with 935.
In the 175-200 class Wade
captured the first place medal
with 1,144 pounds md Olan
Nash finished fourth with 979
pounds. DeSoto was second and
Rockwall was third in this
class.
And Sheffield brought home
the top prize in the over 200
class with a combined total of
968 pounds, followed by a
Bishop Lynch lifter with 957
and a Rockwall lifter with 902.
Sulphur Springs’ Tim White
finished sixth in this class with
803 pounds.
“As originally planned,
White was to battle Chester for
the right to lift in the 150-175
class but Damon Dixon, our
other over-200 lifter could not
make the trip so we just en-
tered White in that class and he
did very well," Reed said.
But it was the 164 pound
sophomore, Wade, who caught
the glance of tournament of-
ficials right off, especially in
the bench press.
All the other contestants in
Wade's group were out of the
competition before he at-
tempted his first lift at 307
pounds. And before he was
through he successfully ben-
ched 363 pounds.
According to information Poe
and Reed now have, Wade is in
line for a shot at a national
bench press record for 16 year-
olds and when the Wildcats
return to the DeSoto tour-
nament May 3 he may get that
chance.
“Our information shows the
national record for 16 year-olds
to be 333 pounds in his weight
class for the bench press,
currently held by a youngster
from Indiana,” Reed said,
“and Tommy is 30 pounds
better than that now, But in
order for everything to be of-
ficial the tournament has to be
sanctioned by the AAU
(Amateur Athletic Union) with
an AAU judge present,” he
said. “And DeSoto’s May 3
tournament will be just that, so
we’re just playing it by ear
right now.”
Final team standings for
Saturday’s event included:
Sulphur Springs with 53 points,
DeSoto with 40, Bishop Lynch
with 32, Waco Reicher with 26,
South Grand Prairie and Rock-
wall with 11, and Axtell,
Burkner and Bishop Lynch B
with no points.
The next tournament is
slated for April 19 at Lake
Dallas and Reed says it should
include all 10 weight classes
which would accomodate a
large number of Wildcat
weightlifters.
“I don’t think I’ve ever been
associated with a group of kids
with more character than this
bunch of offseason kids,” Reed
said. “When each one of them
reaches his respective stopping
point in each event, he gets
mad and sad at the same time.
He thinks he should be able to
lift that weight just because it’s
there.”
Adair, Burney, Cooper
lead Wildcats in relays
By JERRY TITTLE
News Telegram Staff *v
Sulphur Springs cindermen
got the help Saturday they have
been looking for from the field
event representatives but
Wildcat runners were paired
against too much speed at the
Bonham Relays to balance the
equation. The results paint a
cloudy but not completely
dark picture for local thin clads
in the 7 AAA meet April 18 in
Liberty-Eylau.
In a field of nine teams the
Wildcats finished fifth with 47
points. Sherman nudged Mount
Pleasant by Mi point, 102-101 W
for the top spot and Paris was
third with 92. Gainsville was
fourth with 76 Mi points.
"I was very impressed with
Mount Pleasant’s and Paris’
speed,” coach Mike Groves
said. “Of course we expected
Sherman and Gainsville to be
tough but we were a little
surprised at the other top
finishers.”
In the field events senior
Mike Debase finished sixth in
the long jump with a leap of 20-4
M feet and got fifth place in the
high jump with 5-10.
Newly recruited Randy
Cooper, usually consistent in
the 150-plus range with the
discus, could only reach 137-4 Mi
Saturday but that was good
enough for second place
And Jay Young and Tommy
Beck both recorded 11 feet
heights in the pole vault but
Young maintained a fourth
place finish by virtue of fewer
misses. Beck finished fifth.
Senior distance man Greg
Adair won the mile in 4:36 with
no real competition, a fact
which in itself explains Adair’s
inability this far to reach the
4:20 mark, a goal he set for
himself before the season
started.
“I expect four or five milers
from our district and region
this year to hit the 4:20 mark
and I’m setting that as a per-
sonal goal,” Adair said some
time ago. But by the same
token, he recently said, “I’m
the type of runner that has to be
pushed; someone has to stay on
me every step and so far this
season I just haven’t been
pushed but I will be soon.”
‘Soon’ will be Saturday in the
Rockwall Relays when Adair
will meet an old rival from
Lancaster for his first real test
this season.
Groves was also hoping for a
one-two finish in the 880 run
from Adair and senior Butch
Burney but Adair got boxed in
early in the race and could not
get outside. Jacobs from
Sherman won the event in 2:02
with Adair second in 2:03.5 and
Burney third in 2:04.
And the 400 meter relay
sprint relay team of Debase,
Don Hall, Donnell Franklin and
David Bowman turned in its
fastest time yet of 45.04 but it
was only good enough for sixth
place, while open quarter man
Sam Wright pulled up short
again in the 400 meters with a
nagging hamstring injury.
Other sprint hopefuls in-
cluded Bowman in the 100
meters and Hall, Bowman and
Debase in the 200 meters but
Bailey from Gainsville won the
100 in 10.7, while a 10.8 finished
second, a 10.83 third and 10.84
fourth, Bailey also won the 200
in 21.7.
Also in the 300 intermediate
hurdles Wildcat hopefuls Jerry
Riley, Tony Reed and Kevin
Givens did not place. Wilson
from Sherman won the event in
40.4.
And the 1600 meter relay
team of Burney, Franklin,
Wright and Givens finished
fifth with a time of 3:38. “But”,
Groves said, “there were two
heats in this event and the
winning time was 3:21 from
Sherman and I'm pleased with
our improvement there.” I,
Saturday the Wildcats will be
among 12 other teams com-
peting in the Rockwall Relays.
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Powerlift tournament champs
Pictured »rt mtmbtrj of the Wildest powerlifting teem which
won the Blthop Lynch High School Powerlift Tournament
Saturday In Dallas. Back row from left are: Jett Chester, John
Sheffield and Tim Whita. Middle row from left: Tommy Wade
and Olan Nath, and Jama* McMahan seated. The other two
members of Saturday's team, Jerry Calhoun and Steve Lit
tlefield were not present (or the picture. Offseason coordinator
Randy Reed rated the day's effort ''super and a direct Indication
of the training progress these kid* are making."
lt»H photo by JOHN QORE
UCLA must clear one
hurdle: Darrell Griffith
Trojans win Blue Ridge
relays; new marks set
For the third week In four
attempts the Cumby Trojans’
track team captured the first
place trophy while the Cumby
girls cornered the third place
spot for the second time this
season.
Saturday in a field of 15
teams at the Blue Ridge Tiger
Relays In Allen the Trojans
piled up 80 points, followed by
the second place finish of host,
Blue Ridge, with 65 points.
And again the Trojans were
led by standout hurdler, senior
Calvin Cunningham, who set
both meet and school records in
the 110 meter hurdles with a
time of 14.92. The Trojans'
Brian McCasland finished
behind Cunningham in the 110
hurdles with a clocking of 15.44
as well as winning the long
jump with a leap of 19-8.
Other standout Trojan
performances were turned in
by the sprint relay team of
Mark George, Paul Clubine,
David Baxter and Cun-
ningham, who finished second
with a time of 45.90. And the
mile relay team of Cun-
ningham, McCasland, Randy
Baxley and Baxter also
finished second in 3:40.5.
Baxter won the second place
medal in the 100 yard dash (this
event was run In yards instead
of meters because of the
shorter sprint track) with a
time of 10.1. David Higgen-
botham was second in the 300
meter high hurdles in 43.27 and
Geary Almon was a close third
in the same event with a
clocking of 43.50.
David Petty also finished
fifth in the shot put with a throw
of 40-8.
The Trojan girls, "unique in
that there are only five
members on this team, yet they
keep on winning week after
week,” coach Rick Frazier
said, were paced by junior
standout sprinter Robin Jones
who continued a record setting
pace. For the third week in a
row Jones set two meet records
in both the 100 yard dash and
the 200 meter run. She posted a
time of 12.2 in the 100 (for a new
school record as well) and ran
the 200 in 26.88 for two gold
medals.
This Saturday the Trojans
will be hosting the Hopkins
County Relays at the Forrest
Gregg Track in Sulphur
Springs.
First draft completed
for summer program
Following is a complete
listing of the Farm League
draft for the Hopkins County
Boy’s Baseball Association for
1960. The Farm League was the
first of the leagues to complete
drafting with the Minor League
and Little league scheduled to
draft this week. Those results
will be printed at a later date.
The first ball will be thrown
out Friday night, May 2, to
officially open the summer
program.
Tltt Hopkins County Boys
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FARM LEAGUE
NATIONAL LEAOUE
Como Lof lononoirot
Eddie McGreuor, couch
It yetr-olda: Jurat Burra, Dean Ctaut.
Junes DeForrestll, Shane Jumper. David
IfeGlamary, Jason McGregor, Scott Moss.
Tarry Ray Shear and Jarry Rodney. 1
year-olds: Ronald Todd Daniel, Ray
Flora, Chad Fohnar, Jeffery Matthews
and Donnie Powers.
JAR Tiro Company
Jim McCaffrey, coach.
10 year-olds: Charles Askew, Anthony
Deboe, Mike McCaffrey. Caney Sims.
Danny Joe Wade, and James Wright. 0
year-olds Trevor Allan, Chris Clark,
Robert Hooted, Jon lenders. Shawn
Massey, Robert Mosher. Gary Pogue and
Brandon Scott.
Pratt Packing
Dave Davidson, coach.
10 year-olds; Jerry Burton. Shane
Davidson, Jamie Foster, Clay McCoy,
Dale Perkins, Cody Stewart, Joey
Thomas, and Kerry Wright 0 yearolds:
Chris Barton, Chris Foster, Bruce Stinson,
Scott Taylor, Rick Phillips and Johnny
Ray Wright
Janas Livestock
Gary Maynard, coach.
10 year-olda: Nathan Bailey. Keith
Edwards, James Foust Larry Gamer,
Johnny Maynard and Shane Watson. 9
year-olds: Chid Attenbaumer, Benji
Brown, Shape Gtliean, Rodney Harris.
Chris Miles, Phillip Sartin, Chip Sima and
Bobby Underwood.
S S Sports Confer
Clyde Alexander, conch.
10 year-olds: Jon Crowson, Todd Hicks,
Marcus HtU, Tyrone (very. Lance Norria,
Steven Pruitt and Byron Pryor 0 year-
olds: Marlon Alexander, Robert Cody,
Christopher Ivery, Jeffrey Jeter, Jimmy
Johnson. Clark Rogers and Lewis Thomas.
Maw Feeds
Freeman Ethridge, conch.
10 year-olds Corey Ashby, Matt Bell.
Brad Ethridge. Mike Gamer, Junell Hill
and Joe Vicars. 0 year-olds: Brent Bar-
clay, Michael Blanks, Joseph Crook, Rusty
Daniel. Mark Friddle. Mike Gtrrhon and
Wesley K ilium.
AMERICAN LEAOUE
American Legten
Billy WrighL coach.
10 year-olda: James Arnold, Brad Carr,
Rodney Clark Jr., Lance Cook, Joey
Flournoy, Kevin Monk, Chris RatUff and
Nicky WrighL I yonr-olds: Bo Allen,
Michael Bowen, Steve Brum ley, Louis
Mabeny, Dave Mowat and Jody Ratliff.
American Legion Peat M
Alec Bridges, coach.
10 year-olda: James Day. Reggie
Jackson. Craig Johnson, Billy Lobki.
David Pickett, John Pickett and Davey
Pinson. I year-olds John Bolts, James
Brice, Stephen Bridges, Rodney Clayton,
Ronny JotUn, Kevin Moreland end Jason
Oxford.
Grandma's Fried Chicken
Bill Sachs, coech
10 year-olds: Keith BeU, Bred Burgin,
Jason Dtetxe. Eric Hyatt. Carey Moore
and Chad Sachs. 9 year-olds: Ronnie
Courte, Daryl Faulks, Samuel Hill, Danny
Ray Payne, Michael Phillips, Roger
Roberts, Lance Simpson and Grant Sewell
Production Credit Assoc
Mac White, coech.
10 year-okli Prince Beachum. Brian
Busby, Marty McKenzie, Jeral Poskey,
Rodney White and Jim Womack 9 year-
olds: Stsn Aulsbrook. Allen Colbert,
Jeremy Ferrell, Bubba Fite, Paul Gillitm,
Jim Brennan Smith, Chuck Vltitow and
MikeWyly.
Sulphur Springs Livestock
Kenneth Hyde, coach.
10 year-olds: Jeffrey Ethridge, Toby
Hood, Steve Jackson, Calvin Robinson,
Harold Sims and Stephen Sutton 9 year-
olds: Jason Bailey, Rodney Brantley,
Brian Follis, Heath Hyde, Stephen Olson,
Jon Robbins, Brian White snd Donald Wulf
Jr.
First National Bank
Ralph Oldham, coach.
10 year-olds: Gary Crawford, Jerry
Crawford, Kenny Ivey, Jason Oldham,
BUly Spa taro and Melvin Syrte 9 year-
olds: Johnny Flanagan, Tibbert Hayward,
Corey Maples, Chris Moore. Robert
Randall, Ty Russell and Steven Spencer.
ByALEXSACHARE
AP Sport* Writor
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -
UCLA, the Cinderella surprise
of the NCAA basketball tour-
nament, has one All-American
hurdle to clear before it can go
to the ball: Darrell Griffith.
"Griffith is a super player,
one you look to in games like
this," said UCLA Coach Larry
Brown, who sends his unranked'
but undaunted Bruins after the
school's 11th national cham-
pionship in tonight’s NCAA
final against No.2-rated
Louisville.
“Griffith reminds me so
much of David Thompson,”
added Brown, comparing
Louisville’s 6-foot-4 All-
American to the star guard he
coached in the pro ranks. “He’s
gonna score, I don’t think
anyone can stop him. But I hope
he’s gonna have to work for his
points.”
The challenge of an opponent
with an All-American in its
lineup is nothing new for the
Bruins, who have clawed their
way from an 8-6 start to within
one win of their first NCAA title
since 1975, when they won the
last of their 10 championships
under Coach John Wooden.
They limited Player of the
Year Mark Aguirre to 19 points
on 8-for-18 shooting in beating
top-ranked DePaul 77-71 in the
West Regional, and they held 7-
foot-1 center Joe Barry Carroll
to 17 points and eight rebounds
and forced him into six tur-
novers in defeating Purdue 67-
62 Saturday in the semifinals.
Brown told a news con-
ference Sunday that he was
unsure who he’d match against
Griffith in UCLA’s aggressive
man-to-man defense. “I
wouldn’t be surprised if
everyone got a chance to play
him,” said UCLA’s first-year
coach.
Griffith was awesome in
Louisville’s 80-72 semifinal
victory over Iowa In Saturday’s
opener, scoring 34 points on 14-
for-21 shooting. He was equally
effective inside and out, hitting
high-arching jumpers from 20
feet and soaring over taller
opponents with his 48-inch
vertical jump to score from in
dose
“You stop Darrell Griffith by
getting two balls-and-chains
and hooking them onto both
legs, because I don’t think one
would be enough,” suggested
Iowa Coach Lute Olson. “He is
one great player.”
How would Griffith guard
Griffith?
“That’s a tough one,” replied
the senior and team captain,
who has dedicated this tour-
nament to a boyhood friend,
Jerry Stringer, who is stricken
with cancer. “I guess I’d have
to say don’t let me get the ball,
because once I get it, you’ve got
to respect me.”
Griffith's play has earned
more than respect. He’s
Louisville’s all-time leading
scorer and a sure-fire pro first-
round draft choice.
“He’s the best college player
in the nation, and he’s going to
make some pro coach awfully
happy,” said Louisville Coach
Denny Crum. “If it were not for
Darrell, we would not be here.
We start three sophomores and
a freshmen, but Darrell has
been our stabilizer. He plays
with so much confidence, It
rubs off on everyone else
“Everyone knows he can
shoot and score, but he's also
unselfish. That's the mark of a
great player.”
UCLA starts 6-1 Rod Foster
and 6-3 Michael Holton in the
backcourt, with 6-7 Darren
Daye in reserve. All three are
freshman. Holton and Daye
might take turns guarding
Griffith, or 6-7 senior James
Wilkes, a forward who is
UCLA’s top defensive player,
may draw the assignment.
UCLA's scoring leader is Kiki
Vandeweghe, who averaged
19.5 points per game during the
regular season and had 24 in the
victory over Purdue, including
four clutch free throws in the
final minute. "I wish Kiki
would look in the mirror one
day and see how talented he
really is,” Brown said of the 6-8
senior.
The Bruins’ other starter is 6-
6 sophomore Mike Sanders,
whose insertion into the pivot
slot in midseason was one of the
keys to UCLA's turnaround.
Since then the Bruins have won
14 of 17.
For Louisville, Griffith starts
in the backcourt alongside
sophomore playmaker Jerry
Eaves. The forwards are a pair
of sophomores, Derek Smith
and Wiley Brown. Freshman
Rodney McCray is the starting
center, a job he’s had since his
brother Scooter was injured in
the third game of the season.
This is Louisville’s third trip
to the Final Four in Crum’s
nine seasons, but it’s first time
as a finalist. Ironically, the
Cardinals lost both previous
times to UCLA - 96-77 in 1972
and 75-74 in overtime in 1975.
If UCLA, 22-9, wins, it will be
the losingest champion in the
NCAA’s 42-year history, sur-
passing the 25-7 mark of the
1977 Marquette team. If
Louisville, 32-3, wins, it will be
the second winningest cham-
pion ever, behind only the 1948
Kentucky team that went 36-3.
UCLA, which finished fourth
in the Pacific-10 Conference
and got an NCAA bid only
because the field was expanded
to 48 teams this year and the
rules changed to permit bids to
more than two teams from a
conference, has beaten Old
Dominion, DePaul, Ohio State,
Clemson and Purdue on the
road to the final.
Louisville posted overtime
victories over Kansas State
and Texas A AM and then beat
Louisiana State and Iowa to
gain the final.
Host team wins;
Lady Cats last
“As long as my girls lower
their times or improve in their
individual events each week,
that’s all I can really ask for,”
Lady Wildcat track coach
Angela Hamm said after she
and only eight members of the
girls track team returned from
the North Lamar Relays
Saturday.
In the field of seven schools
North Lamar captured the top
prize with 110-V4 points followed
by Texas High wth 94, Winn-
sboro with 851-3, Pittsburg with
71, Leonard with 61 1-3, Red
Water with 10 and Sulphur
Springs with 2.
In the field events Lady
Wildcat Carolyn Gilbert
competed in the long jump and
Linda Powell, Kim Otting and
Rene Sharber competed in the
discus. The winning throw was
100 feet from Pittsburg.
Lady Wildcat runners in-
cluded the 400 meter relay
team of Nancy Goldsmith,
Gilbert, Susan Townsend and
Powell, running this week for
the first time as a team. They
recorded a time of 59.11
compared to the winning time
of 51.0 from North Lamar.
Gilbert did not place in the
100 meter hurdles but posted an
improved time of 17.17. The
winning time was 15.59 from
Pittsburg.
Tonya Rushing recorded a
3:10 in the 880 run. The winner
was from Leonard in a time of
2:24. And in the 100 meter dash
Townsend posted a time of 14.58
while the winning time was
12.52 from North Lamar.
Townsend also ran the 400
meters in 1:11.44 whereas the
winning time was from North
Lamar, 60.15.
In the 220 dash Gilbert was
clocked in 30.27, Goldsmith ran
a 31.56 and Rushing posted a
time of 36.53. The winner was
from North Lamar in 28.68. And
Townsend was clocked in the
mile run In 6:25 while Powell
ran a 6:49, compared to the
winning time of 5:25 from
Leonard.
Next Saturday the Lady
Wildcats will attend their last
non-district meet in McKinney
before the district meet In
Mount Pleasant on April 8.
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