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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Sunday, May 7, 1989
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RANGERS WIN TUNE-UP
Chad Pulcher made
the most of a rare
starting assignment
as Sterling defeated
West Orange-Stark
in a bi-district tune-up
Friday. For details,
see Page 2-B.
Sterling prepares second consecutive trip to the Class 5A state meet,
to get off a throw during Region HI shot put com- He placed fifth in the shot put in 1987 and hopes to
petition (left photo), then relaxes while watching Improve on that finish this year,
his competitors in action. Patrick, who placed se- (Sun staff photos by Darron Franta)
cond in regional competition, is preparing for his
Patrick wants better results in state meet
By MIKE SIMMONS
When Shadrick Patrick heads
to Austin May 13 to vie for the
Class 5A state shot put title, he
knows the competition will be
tough. But the Ross S. Sterling
senior won’t concern himself
with other throwers.
“If you get into trying to com-
pete with them, you try to throw
too hard and end up hurting
yourself,” he said. “You’ve just
got to relax and not worry about
the competition.”
It’s a situation Patrick has
found himself in before, since he
earned a state berth in the shot
put in 1988. He placed fifth a year
ago with a throw of 58 feet, 8Vz
inches.
That effort will provide incen-
tive for him when the shot put
competition begins at Austin’s
Memorial Stadium. Having been
there once will also alleviate
some of the his nervousness.
“I feel I can do better this
year,” Patrick said. “I was real
nervous last year. I was anxious
to throw and it seemed like
forever before we started. I
won’t be as nervous this year.”
Gaining a medal at the state
meet won’t come easily, since
the shot put is loaded with
talented throwers. Patrick
knows he’s got some tough com-
petition.
“There’s a lot of pressure go-
ing against the best eight shot-
putters in the state,” he said,
r--. Counted among them will be
Alvin’s Jimmy Golden, who got
off a throw of 63-11'A during the
Region III meet to take first
place. It was an unexpected
development since Golden
hadn’t come close to such a
distance during the season.
“He threw six feet further
than he had thrown all year. He
had a good day,” Patrick said.
“He jumped from 57 or 58 feet to
over 60. Everything was falling
into place for him.”
Patrick hopes the same thing
happens for him in Austin. Given
the nature of the event, he feels
it is possible.
“It’s really technique that
does it,” he said. “You’re not go-
ing to throw better because
you’re stronger or anything. But
if your technique is right, you
can make that kind of jump (in
distance). I hope I can do that at
the state meet.”
He almost made a similar type
Chance to start as freshman
makes Groberg choose USL
By DAVID BERKOWITZ
The opportunity to start for an
NCAA Division I baseball team
as a freshman helped Robert E.
Lee senior Jonas Groberg make
• his decision this week to accept a
scholarship offer from Universi-
ty of Southwestern Louisiana.
Although he will have to prove
himself in the fall, Groberg
believes he has the offensive and
defensive' tools to help the
- Lafayette-based program con-
tinue its rise on the national
> scene.
- “I’m going there knowing I
have a chance to start next
year,” he said. “Getting a
. chance to play right off the bat
: as a freshman is important to
.me.”
According to Mitch Gaspard,
one of two USL assistant coaches
in Baytown for Thursday’s
letter-of-intent signing, Groberg
figures heavily in the team’s
plans for next season. *
“We have a sophomore at
third base now, but we may
move him to first base,”
Gaspard said. “We’d like to
work in Jonas at third or
possibly first. His defensive play
will really help us.”
Despite Lee’s 4-6 record and
fifth-place finish in District 22-
5A,this season, Groberg didn’t
fare poorly at the plate. He was
the Ganders’ top batter with a
.417 average and was among
team leaders in runs scored,
extra-base hits, runs batted in
and stolen bases.
Although he had hoped for bet-
ter things team-wise, Groberg
was pleased with his per-
formance.___
“This year, I think I improved
a lot,” he said. “Last year was
kind of an off-year for me, but
this year was better. I didn’t hit
as many home runs as in the
past, but I got some doubles and
triples and helped us score some
runs.”
Groberg’s performance
caught the attention of
numerous college coaches, in-
cluding those at Arkansas and
Texas A&M. On the junior col-
lege circuit, Lee College and
Panola Junior College showed
the most interest.
The chance to help USL con-
tinue to establish itself as a na-
tional power helped him decide
on taking his talents there.
The American South Con-
ference regular-season cham-
pion for the second straight
year, USL is ranked No. 25 in the
Baseball America poll. At 49-11,
the team has compiled the most
victories of any school in the
poll.
An NCAA regional tournament
berth will go to the winner of the
upcoming American South Con-
ference tournament. Gaspard is
confident the team will receive a
bid even if it is upset in the
postseason event.
He points to Head Coach Mike
Boulanger as the big reason for
USL’s recent success. He is In
his second season at the school,
following 10 years as an assis-
tant at Oklahoma.
“I’m looking forward to being
a part of an up-and-coming pro-
gram like that,” said Groberg,
who intends to play for one of
Baytown’s Palomino League
teams this summer.
Other Texas signees for USL
this spring are pitcher Javi De-
Jesus of Beaumont West Brook,
outfielder Michael Watts of
Blinn College and infielder Tom
Bates of Paris Junior College.
Hogs nip Aggies in marathon
COLLEGE STATION (AP) - Greg D’Alex-
ander’s bloop double in the top of the 16th scored
Scott Pose and Troy Elkund as Arkansas defeated
Texas A&M 11-9 in 16 innings Friday in the longest
game in Southwest Conference history.
The Razorbacks fought off the second-ranked
Aggies for 5 hours and 58 minutes in the come-
from-behind victory and clinched at least a tie for
the SWC championship. The Hogs needed a win in
Saturday’s double-header to clinch its first-ever ti-
tle outright.
The previous longest SWC game lasted 5 hours
and 47 minutes when Texas played Rice for 20 inn-
ings in 1981.
The fifth-ranked Razorbacks Improved to 44-9
overall and 17-2 in conference, while the Aggies
dipped to 48-5 and 15-4 in front of 5,388 fans.
Texas A&M’s Andy Duke tied the game for the
fourth time, 9-9, in the bottom of the 44th with a
single up the middle to score John Byington and
Eric Albright. Duke and Byington are graduates of
Robert E Lee
Rod Stillwell, batting ninth, ripped a two-run
single to right in the top of the 14th to give the Hogs
a brief 9-7 lead. But A&M rallied for two runs in the
bottom of the inning to tie the game again.
The game was marred by eight errors by the top
two fielding teams in the conference — six by A&M
and two by Arkansas.
Byington sent the game into extra innings with a
single to right in the ninth to score Terry Taylor
and make it 7-7. Taylor had drawn a walk.
The Razorbacks had scored the go-ahead run in
the top of the ninth when Tony Gilmore scored on a
wild pitch after doubling and moving to third on a
wild pitch.
of step up at the regional, meet,
but he scratched on the throw.
“I would have been satisfied
with one throw I had that I scrat-
ched on,” Patrick said. “It’s the
best throw I had. They didn’t
measure it because I did
scratch, but it was beyond the 60-
foot line.”
With Golden, defending cham-
pion David Winkler of North
Mesquite and freshman sensa-
tion Ceasar O’Neal of Huntsville
in the competition, Patrick
hopes he can improve on his best
throw of the season, a 6O-2V2 toss
he recorded April 8 at the Dobie
Booster Club Relays.
Winkler, a junior, won the 5A
crown last year with a throw of
63-3%. O’Neal, a 6-foot-8, 360-
pounder, has recorded a 59-1 ef-
fort this season and is going for
the national freshman record of
60-1.
Patrick has been honing
himself for the state competition
with afternoon workouts at Sterl-
ing.
"I’m not throwing that much,”
he said. “I’m working on my
technique and making sure
that’s good. I’ve been doing
some weight work.”
The work, Patrick hopes, will
take him to a level he wasn’t
able to reach when he competed
in the state meet as a junior.
“I hope I can come out with at
least a medal this year, ” he said.
“I just want to go there and
throw the best I can.”
If he can do that, Patrick
believes there will be no need to
worry about the rest of the com-
petitors. r-
a. J**
JONAS GROBERG of Robert E. Lee signs a scholarship to play col-
lege baseball for the University of Southwestern Louisiana. Looking
on as he signs the pact are his parents, Paula and Bill Groberg, and
Lee baseball coach Gary Herrington.
(Sun staff photo by Carrie Pryor)
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beats buzzer,
ousts Rockets
HOUSTON (AP)-Seattle’s 6-
foot-5 Nate McMillan was a
mismatch for Houston’s 7-5
Chuck Nevitt as he tried an in-
bound pass in the final second of
the game.
The roar was deafening as
McMillan finally lofted a pass
toward the basket where the
mismatch turned in Seattle’s
favor.
The Sonic’s 6-9 Derrick McKey
had no trouble grabbing the ball
from 6-2 Allen Leavell to score
the basket at the buzzer for a 98-
96 victory that eliminated
Houston from the NBA playoffs.
Suddenly, it was quiet in The
Summit.
“The place went cold for a se-
cond and then we ran off the
court and everything was so
quiet,” Sonics guard Dale Ellis
said.
Until McKey’s game-winner,
the Rockets had been so full of
hope for an overtime after
Sleepy Floyd dropped in a three-
point basket that knotted the
game at 96-96 with one second
left in regulation play.
But it was not to be.
Houston Coach Don Chaney
admitted he should have left
taller Buck Johnson in the game
to guard McKey.
“There’s no second guessing,
it was just a mistake,” Chaney
said. “Allen, couldn’t stop him
unless he bumped him.
“I was hoping he (McMillan)
couldn’t see over the 7-footer
(Nevitt). It was a perfect pass.”
Leavell found himself out of
his element under the basket.
“He put the ball out of my
range and all I could have done
was foul,” Leavell said. “He put
the bail over the rim.
“I don’t want to talk about that
play. It shouldn’t have happen-
ed.” •
The Sonics won the best-of-five
series 3-1 And now move on to the
second round against the defen-
ding champion Los Angeles
Lakers beginning Sunday.
But Seattle had to overcome
Houston’s late fourth-quarter
charge to get to the second
round.
Trailing 92-83 with 6:25 to play,
the Rockets outscored Seattle 13-
4 to force the last second heroics.
During Houston’s surge, Seat-
tle went 5:05 without scoring a—
basket.
Ellis, who discarded the brace
that protected his broken nose,
scored 26 points for the second
straight game. But he missed a
free throw with 11 seconds to
play that would have made
Floyd’s three-pointer mean-
ingless.
“Those are the shots that you
want so much you think about
them too much,” Ellis said.
Ellis made up for the miss by
setting the pick for McKey to
make his game-winner.
“I knew I didn’t have time to
bring it down and go back up so I
made up my mind to shoot it
when I got it,” McKey said,
McKey came into the game
averaging 6.7 points for the
playoffs but finished with 15
points Friday and the game-
winner.
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Rockets with 24 points and 13 re-
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 161, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 7, 1989, newspaper, May 7, 1989; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1051919/m1/11/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.