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-- Defendve-Mihded Westchester Strong Again --
Frustrated ‘CatsTake Aim On Ross
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By MIKE MANN
The Ross S. -Sterling Rangers might
consider it fortunate that they did not
beat Spring Branch Westchester in 1979.
k The Wildcats are a bit frustrated.with
me showing last year, and appearready
to take affirmative action In 1980. _
ing Ranj^^ deal u's hard t0 determine the stren^m “Stinson was'the best last year," the
at' 7:30 p.m. Friday in Stallworth of thteir passing gafne.” - Ross boss said. "He had great speed.
Stadium The Wildcat offense will be .hard- Jamisonismore phy'sical.He’sadif-
A year ago the Wildcats battled Spr- pressed to be the strength of the ferent type player: From what the col-
ing Branch Memorial to a scoreless tie .Westchester football team. Last year, lege .recruiters'say. he’s going tb be a
and ended up staying home while the hiany fell liKMke Wildcats had.the best great one." * • , ■ . • ~
Mustangs went to the Class AAAA finals defense in the state before season s end, Jamison is one o{ the state's to& bro- -
In 1980, many of last year’s frustrated ftonDer'un^ are hack'^ ^*ntS °* spects already, aiS-Coach Beff Treated* The tfilf casualties of the scrimmage
-Wildcats return with the'goal of repay- nn:,tpn1w ',ha has compared him to former University appeared to be junior varsity linebacker
i^g last year’s debts. . ^dTrexa^ommy^bpr- .
"From what our scouts say, they did a outstanding returnees are (tackles) Last season, the Rangers were limited 77? J 7 wlth a strain-
good job against Angleton (in a scrim- Scott Hulgan,. Steve Burttschell and ’ to only three yards rushing andl42 yards. • . . : ■ _
mage won by Westchester, two (linebacker) Alan Jamison,” f and eight.first downs overall in their 7-3 The Rangers wgrked Friday trying to.
touchdowns to one),” Sterling poach A1 A year ago, Steve Stfcison and Jamison*, loss to the Wildcats: Considering, that correct tlje^ mistakes of Thursday’s
Dennis Said. “They moved the ball with anchored the Wildcat defense from their -Ross was sjiut out by Alvin in last week's scrimmage, and moved on to situational
‘1 r ’' —Tgyg the beSt scrimmagerSl^lmg^bWfisrisTaced^obi^^^^^^^^^^^^*;
too. Trcalek will have the services of two
experienced quarterbacks in Branan
Huthnance and Jeff Lewis, who battled
each other for the job last year before .
succumbing to injury 1 > .
Running backs Kelly Schmalhousen
Jptjjjvid Trice also looked good in the
scrimmage.'•Both their backs ran real
well,” Dennis said.
Dennis said that Wide receiver Joe
Alexander would be promoted to the var- .
sity-' Alexander worked with the varsity
•against Alvin, catching two passes for 18
yards.
,icria?.mpSft.they didn't throw a'great year,” Dennis said.
The Wildcats' offense looks sturdy', day.
Good Side Of Football
HOUSTON (Sp).—Robert E Lee
grads ■ Alvin Ruben and Micky
Thompson have fasted.tire good
and the bad of football. They’re
ready td get back on the good side.
Ruben knew the good times as a
“I don't let stuff like that go to
‘my head." Ruben said. ‘‘I .just
came in playing as hard as I can." -
For Thompson, the college foot-'
hall life hasn’t-been much, since
Micky’s career has consisted of a
Spring Branch Continues Air Attack On REL
Those sirens you hear ing attack, they alwayst !lieJs .the best running- Branch pretty ’wejl average, size, probably “We’re Just going tCLdo
near Robert E. Lee High have and We knew they quarterback they’ve had dqminated, 1 think they averaging around 200 what we did in the scrim-
School are. signalling an would. in s&nen years.” , looked better than they’ve pounds,” Kramer said, fnage," Kramer said,
air raid. . "In their scrimmage Un-like.manyteams, the looked in five or six "They -have Jexcedlent "We’ll try and execute
The Gander, football (with La. Porte), they Branch Bandits usually years!” speed in their wide" what we'think we can ex-
team Will fade its secorid threW very effectively, don’t require a lot ottlme . receivers and their "ecute. There are certain
They had the same to warm up. "Traditional- 7? tJ* tho 777 tailback (Kyle Juergerts) plays
quarterback (Kyle Todd) ly, they’re a very fas
______x,.„ v.. „r....0 who started last year, starting football team
Branch at 7:30 p.m. Fri- He's stronger and showed Kramer Said. “They?
aerial bombardment in as They had the same to warm up. "Traditional- That s a 1 kinds of bad tailback (Kyle Juergerts) plays we’ll favor over
many weeks when the quarterback (Kyle Todd) • jy, they’re a very fast- n*ws,or. tne Maroons- and fullback (Ron Dor- Others. We’ll try to take
Maroqhs take on Spring who started . last year, starting football' team,” '-^buftein^lrmn' last #b) are very Suited to -what they’ll let us. Weill
pason year s Class- AAAA j T 1,7?, u„,„ .,a
— .. -1--__niL..] "... t__JJiNkT. •i.fcrw-l-tvr'..
lineman for Robert E. Lee, where , fight for a place on the team as a
as he says, he won "nearly every—Walk-on kicker. >' - —-
honor you could receive.” Micky’s father, REL defensive
Aftersigning with the University -coordinator Bill Thompson
of Houston to play football. Ruben existed his son to kick for the ’
begah to taste the bittersweet part' --Ganders before his junior season,
of college football. « and Micky handled REL’s chores
He reaehid a personal rock- two years before trying his hand at
bottom lamseason when he was UH.
redshirted, mut entering his junidr By a strange quirk of fate,
year as a Cougar in.1980’ he’s set to 1 Thompson was again enlisted, this
Todd showed plenty of, game. They aiways play
poise the last time he took us tough.”
Dorman play's
in addiEfon, thWTJSnders *
fgSSSBSk
get back on the winning side.
"Last season was disappointing,
really,” Ruben said. “I learned a
lot, though. Right now, I'm getting
my mind ready to play football.”
. The Houston coaches are ready
.for Ruben to play, too.- The REL
,,grad is projected in the preseason I
depth charts as the starting right
defensive end.
- "He (Ruben) has the chance to
be awesome over .there,” skid
Houston defensive assistant coach
Don Todd.
Ruben wjll be part of a defensive
line that contains two preseason
' All-Americas in tackles Hosea
Taylor and Leonard Mitchell. "
"I feel like we will probably have
a very strong team-,” Ruben said,
"I think I'll be stronger, personal-
s' ly.” I.
- Last spring was the first .that.
Ruben went through complete spr-
ing training with the football team.
During hjs ' first two springs.
FiiVxon time uiArbmrt
Ruben was working out with the
• Cougar baseball team.
« "I think going through spring
training helped strengthen me. At
: first I was trying to play baseball,
too,” Ruben said. “The coaches
felt like it would be better for. me to
: concentrate on football 100 percent.
"Over the past year,Tee gotten another deep-snapper, while the
stonger. but I think I'm just' as Coogs signed Klein’s Jeff Schaeffer
quick." he added. _ , to do their kicking.
- -During the summer, Ruben stood • ‘ , :
6-4l/2: and weighed 238.However, he The Cougabs have been picked by
hopes to play'at 230. “i’ve grownT^ TP*as Football’s sports writers’
We’ll justfcait and see. I can still poil to wm the Southwest Con-
time for deep-snap help at prac-
tice. He ended up deep:snapping
for the junior varsity at: Houston
and suited up for four or five games
in 1979. ■-
Though Micky did kick five point-
afters in a rout of Rice, his big
chance-came when he was called to
Bowl victory over Nebraska
Both kicking and snapping call
for cool under fire, so fieri wasnT
much adjustment in that regard.
“It’s about the same pressure, if
not a little more,” Thompson said
of his deep-snapping. "1 was ner-
vous (in the Cotton Bowl), but 1 felt
like I could doit. T " : "
“It!s tough, knowing and an-
ticipating that the team may punt
at any time, but I’m rooting for the
team to make that first down:
‘ 'There’s a lot of pressure on me,
and I have to reach back into my
.Christian life. You have to put it in
somebody’s' hands besides your
-own.” * . ■ •■-'. ' :
This year, things look pretty
good as far as deep-snapping is
concerned. “I thinkI’U have a pret-
ty good shot at it,” Thompson said.
"Kicking is pretty much open, and *
it's an asset for me that 1 do both."
Linebacker Terry Humphries is
scrimmage with Port
Ne.ches-Groves” whose yuioc uic mat umc uc VUUR us tuugu. usually UU1I .i laic iuu. well .... . ..
Donnie Schemider lit- ' on the Ganders, rallying . La Pbrfe found - Out on the road against Spring .y*- ? . ®
tered the air with passes Spring Branch from a 14; about Spring Branch’s Branch. A 14-7- win over „ rpfli M M6S
worth 147 yards. More of point deficit in game’s form when the Bears shut the Bears in 1978 0 ator' j
the sameis expected from last five minutes .last down the defending Class represents REL’S only The Ganders “worked
the Bears Friday*. « year. Luckily, REL was AAAA regional finalists’ victory ever on the Tally Friday afternoon and
“AH I can say is that we . able to sjtjatch a 17-15 vie- f-i r s t team,- two. Stadium turf, and the last Saturday morning and
' better get ready for a ball tory from the Bears. touchdowns to,one. ' Lee triumph at Spring planned a photo session
game,” Kramer said. _ But Todd is a year older , “They looked tough,' Branch before that came Monday morning before a
."They’ll jack it up. They and wiser, not to mention tough, tough,” Kramer in 1959. > Mondayafternoon prac-
have an oUstanding pass-.' better. “They feel like said of the Bears. “Spring "They have, very tice.‘
Area Roundup - -
Coaches Primed For Season Openers
Sun area got their final match up against District Coach Bob Edwards, did the week before, and Winnie. *
chance to play around 20-AAA's best when The “Hamshire has a real we did’em against a much ContfiTUed imp'rove-
with nothing on the line Hill s c r i m m aged good ball club, .They were stronger team ment made Crosby Coach
last week, and, the, real'-yamshire-Fartnett, the29 tough and we had to play (Hamshlre-Fannett). I’m George Dean feel good,
’hing begins Friday : AAA favorite. - pretty good to'stay on the real pleased with it. too. The Cougars scored
Class AA’AAA schools Xhe EagleSi tabbed se- field with them.” ' .- three touchdowns to one
had their firstand only -cond behind Wilhs in the Running back •Mik^- WorLonSo^ S 'K'".!
teams went through the touchdown in their scrim- retuGned to actibTFriday s®a‘ w5h0urblocks ’’ ' ° ha,"
second such tuneup, mage Friday, one by The and- sparked some im. SW wun our blocks. week before I would th nk
Around the area, the Hill’s first unit and the proverftent in the. Eagle • Barbers Hill takes, on we improved our-running
prognosis was generally other by Hamshire's^offenSe,“I think it’s still another strong District 20= and passing, and our
good. " reserves. got a ways to go,” Ed-. AA4squad'at 7:30 p.fc,^ blpcking was better -too-
Barbers Hill got a no- “f thought it was real wards said. “We did a lot Friday when the Eagles' .i Dean was pleased wlth
attack, see haw they ad-
just and go from there."
......, I , ' —MANN
maneuver at this size.”
..At Robert' E. Lee, Ruben split
lime between footballand baseball
effectively, as he earned second-
team all-state honors and- was
named to several prep All-America
teams for his grid efforts.
Howeyef, Ruben said all his high
school honors didn’t bother him
when he started playing, for the
, Cougars. * ' *
•"poll to win the Southwest Con-
ference championslilp for the
fourth time-in five years* of con-
ference membership.
Houston returns five offensive '
and four defensive starters from-
last season’s 11-1 Cotton Bowl
champs, but will he without All-
American linebacker David
Hodge. -
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Virdon: Maybe The Cubs Were Due
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CHICAGO (AP) -■ before the Cubs went- to .•‘again, I’d have left Niekro two-run shot by Jose Cruz.
“Maybe,.” said Manager work agaiiikt Frank inthere."*', in the first and a solo blast
Bill Virdon of the Houston LaCorte,8-4. There was .some q.ue|- by - Enos Cabell in the
Astros, “they were due to ' Ivan DeJesus singled tion about Morgan being- third.
Win one.” ‘ > and one out later, Bill able to make a play on They were , the first
-Due” is putting it Buckner singled. Cliff Blackwell’s grounder. But homers off starter Rick
mildly'afW the Chicago Johnson and Larry Biitt- Virdon dismissed it by ReuschelsinceJuly6,-
Cubs rallied for three runs ner tied it with' run- saying; j‘He was moving. “Anything wrong
in the ninthInnihg Sunday scoring singles. But to his left and the ball was Rick?” a reporter asked-
to-defeat the Nalional, LaCorte fanired Jerry bit decently:Then it took “Nope, my kid could
League West division- Martin befoie Tim/ & hop. Ordinarily he have hit one out of there
leading Houslbn-Astros 8- Blackwell dribblejJ^a makes the play, but the today,” said Reuschgl.in
7 ' j single off Joe Mdrgan’s ball got away.”- ... reference to a 12-rnph,
The Cubs had lost 11 of glove to score the winhing “I ' was watching the wind blowing out.
their last 12 games and run. ball all the way and1 was .
were 911 this season “That’s the first ninth- talking to it, trying to get' where thev
against the Astros, ■ one inning tally I can it to go through,”,
defeat afway from becom- remember since taking Blackwell said.. “No, I PjfaL in a doublehe'ader
ing the first team in over,” said Manager Joe ■ didn’t waht extra innings: MonlaV ine thP Cnh
modern league'history to Amalfitano, who relieved, Our record in extra inn- Monuay’ wnue tne LUDS
be swept by another. Preston Gomez right after,
the Astros were close to the All-Star break,
completing the sweep. “Rallies like that were
They led 5-3 in thp .sixth patented around here in
when pitcher Joe Niekro 1978 and 1979 ” “
drove In two runs with a , Virdon pulled Niekro in
tie-breaking single. the eighth inning aftejv,
they added another in Johnson led off and reach/
the eighth for a 6-3 lead, ed on an error.
the success of his moving
Rennie Matthews from
quarterback to tailback,
putting Frank'Johnson at
quarterback.
(See AREA, Page 2-B)
Monday, while the Cubs
ings (2-12) isn’t very await the holiday invasion
g0®d,, , of the red-hot Atlanta
Houston scored its first Braves
three runs on homers, a 1
CHICAGO .
b r h bi lb r h bl
5 0 0 0 DeJeiU) sn- 51 2 0
but the Cubs closed in on “I didn’t take him out . {{j J BRua* • } \ {
Morgan 2b
Cabell 3b
Dave Kingman’s two-run because of his pitching,”
pinch double. Terry said Virdon. “He had a
Puhl’s run-scoring single corn lanced day before
il r1
‘uz -If
in the ninth made it 7-5
Ross Pigskin
Preview Set
For Tuesday
The Ross S. Sterling
kickoff program is slated
for 7 p.m. Tuesday in the
Ranger auditorium.
Tickets for the fete are
$1 each and will be
available at the door.
yesterday and I kiiew It
was hurting him although
he wouldn’t admit it.”
Bergmi
Ashby c
Pujols c
LaCorte in the bullpen,
the move was logical
since the two held a com-
bined record of 16-6 with
23 saves. Sambito gave up
Kingijian’s double In the
Pigskin. Preview football ^ the loss in the ninth,
kickoff Drocram is slated *
jCfui -ir ) 11.2 Johnson lb. 3 m
Cedeno cl ; 5) 2 0 Thp&on • pr 010 0
Walling lb 4 2 2 0'Blltt'ner ri 513.2
;mn lb 0 0 0 0 Martin cl 5 0 0 0
2 0 Jl (f Blackwel c 513 1
110o.tyaop 2b, .5121
Landsty u 4 011 Kngmn pb 10 12
LaCorte p 000 0 Kellehr 2b OOlfo
JNiekro p> 3 0 2 2 Reuschel P 2011
, n Sambllo p .0 0 0 0 Vail ph
With Joe Sambito and Reynids >• mo mow p
713,7 TOUl, ,
1 0 0 0.
000
40(11
Houatoo
Chicago
Two
201 002 011-7
^ 100 300 023- ■
out whefl winning mn scored 't
E-JCrtu, DeJesus, Cabell. DP-Cblcifci 1.
LOB-Houiton 7, Chicago 0. 2B- Tyson,
Reuschel, Kingman. HH-JCrm (1), Cabell
(2). SB—Walling. S-Reuachel. f '
V H RER BBSO
..HouOdn. .1______________:... ,V » —
JNIekro % 1 4 3 2 1
Sambllo 2-3 2 1 10 1
LaCorte U4 . 1 1 3 3 0 2
Reuschel
Tldrow
1 1
2 1111
4-.
“Our bullpen has been
good in general all
season,” said Virdon, who
then laughed and added, wp-sombiio. PB-smby m:oo
“OK, if I had to do it over w
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REL Ross
Ducats On.
Sale Tuesday
, Tickets for the Ross S.
Sterling and Robert E.
Lee 1980 season openers
go on sale at 8 a,m, Tues-
day at the athletic office
beside Memorial
Stadium. / •
Sterling opens against
Spring Branch
Westchester.at 7:30 p,m.
Friday'rn'"'sraTrw5fTFr'
Stadium, the same time
REL takes on Spring
Branch inTully Stadium.
The athletic office will .
be open from 8 a.m. to 5
p.qn. through Thursday,
aiid from 8. a.m. to l p.m.
Friday, for the ticket
sales.
Tickets for the. both
bouts are $3 for reserved
seats and $1, for student
tickets. Student ducats
will not be sold at the gate
ineithergame. .
General admission
tickets are available for
$2.50 for the Sterling
game. ’ -‘T. ., .
ftir more information,
call 427-4789.
BAYTOWN ATHLETIC CLUB
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WEIGHTLIFTING CHAMPIONS
Competitive Weightlifting and Boxing Teams
, BASIC FUNDAMENTALS
Olympic lifting, .V Controlled Boxing,
Weight Training, Defensive Skills,
Advanced Training v - Proper Footwork,
EFFECTIVE WEIGHT HOW TO PUNCH
TRAINING TO IMPROVE WITH AUTHORITY
ATHLETIC SKILLS . AND PRECISION,
4 DEVELOP EXPLOSIVE ENERGY V
Open Mon. THryfri. J-8p.ili.SM. 1-6 p.m. '
Adults: $6 per month _ $60 per year
Under 18: $4 per month $40 per year
107 West Texas Ave. Baytown, Texas L
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The Community Devdopment Program of the City, of.
Baytown will hold a Public Hearing at 7:30 p.m..,
September 4, 1980/ at Our Lady of Guadelupe Church,
1124 Beech Street. At the Public Hearing, comments from
citizens will be solicited concerning the performance of the
Community Development Program in carrying out .1979
Community Development Block Grant projects. All in-
terested persons are urged to attend. • ~ ‘
Persons interested in commenting on the Community
Development Program's performance shouldy prior to the
opening of the meeting, ask to sign the roster and will be
called On in the order their name appears on the roster.
Comments may also be submitted in writing to the bffice of
the Community Development Program, 1722 Market
Street, Suite 4, telephone No. 428-7636.
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