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10 to 5 at the end of the initial
period before rallying for a
slim 18 to 17 halftime lead. ,
Patti Dunlap led Moran with
snared a 6-yard pass another
as Wheeler beat High island,
33-21.
In other schoolboy playoff
games Friday night,
McGregor beat Edna, 14-7;
Van edged Childress 13-9;
Hull-Daisetta upset Troup, 22-
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The Moran girls won the
consolation trophy with a 46 to
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Seagraves, 16-9.
- Van and McGregor will play
next Friday night in Mesquite
for the 2A championship while
China Spring and Hull-
Daisetta will collide the same
evening in Bryan for the Class
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IRVING, Texas (AP) -
Things were so bad not even
Tom Landry thought there _ As the NFC team with the
was much hope.
But quarterback Roger
Staubach saved the day Sun-
i year with the school and in
I getting the Jackets used to the
F fast paced style of play he
prefers.
i “We have seen a lot of areas
where we heed to work and we
I have also seen a lot of good
things,’’ Allen commented.
“We want to be the surprise
team in district this spring
and I think that by the time the
district schedule starts we will
Lingleville boys win
first in tournament
the Sidney fems 11 to 5 at the
end of the first quarter. With
Sidney keying heavily on
Lingleville’s Marsha Rice and
Teena Riddell, the Cardinal^
just couldn't get anything go-
ing and Sidney protected a 14
game win streak.
Sidney was led by Diane
Reed with 13 points. Teena '
Riddell had a game high 16
points for Lingleville and
Becky Moon added 10 points.
The real difference in the
game came at the free shot
line where Sidney out shot
Lingleville 16 to 5.
The Gorman girls defeated
Tolar 50 to 38 for the third
place trophy in the tourna-
ment. The game was tied at 19
at the half and was still a close
33 to 30 at the end of the third.
Gorman outshot Tolar 17 to
seven in the final period to
secure the win.
best record, the Cowboys get
the right to play-a wild card
team the first .round, but
should Philadelphia beat
Chicago, Dallas would play
Los Angeles instead to avoid a
replay between Eastern Divi- .
sion teams.
Washington, which com-
pleted the season with a 10-6
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seventh national title
of four times Central State
moved inside the Texas At! 20
but came up empty handed.
“That interception return
really hurt us,” said Central
State’s Steve Tate, the game's
leading rusher with 152 yards
on 21 carries. "Things just
wouldn’t click for us when we
got down dose to the goal line.
They made errors, but we
made our share, too.”
Texas AU lost six of seven .
fumbles, but the Javelinas in-
tercepted five Bronco passes.
Texas A&I won national L
NAIA titles in 1959,1969-70 and
1974-75-76. Harms was offen-
sive coordinator when the
Javelinas won in 1974-76, then
took over similar duties at
Baylor for three years before
being hired last August as
head coach at Texas AU.
GRAHAM-The Stephenville
Yellow Jackets captured the
consolation trophy in the
Possum Kingdom tournament
this past weekend as they
. defeated the Burkburnett
junior varsity 66 to 44 in the
finals on Satunlay.
TheJackets had been sent to
the consolation bracket by a
first round loss to a very im-
pressive Sidney team. The
Jackets then defeated the
Graham junior varsity in a
breezy 88 to 50 game on Friday
to set up the consolation
playoff.
“The Burkburnett game
really wasn’t as easy as some
might expect it to have been,”
Coach Steve Allen com-
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Texas A&l claims
By The Associated Press
Arkansas and Southern
Methodist remain the only two
unbeaten basketball teams in
the Southwest Conference
forays against intersectional
foes while the Texas Aggies
own the distinction of being
the biggest mystery team.
Both Arkansas and Southern
Methodist are 5-0 thanks to the
Razorbacks’ 67-59 victory over
Mississippi Saturday night
while the Mustangs were
outlasting Texas-Arlington 77-
66.
Meanwhile, the preseason
favorite Aggies were losing
yet a second game in the
Cougar Classic at Provo,
Utah, 66-61 to Cai-Santa Bar-
bara after dropping a game to
haSalle the night before.
Sophomore center Rudy
Woods scored 24 points but
high-scoring Vernon Smith
was held to six. The Aggies on-
ly got 13 points from their
guards.
Texas, now 5-1, crushed Bis-
cayne College <88-63 and now
has won 33 of 34 games playeds-
since the Super Drum opened
in Austin. Frosh LaSale
Thompson had a game high 20
points.
SMU received a scare when
All-SWC forward Brad Bran-
son jammed his hand through
a glass dr >r and needed 10 stit-
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points.
The Gorman boys had an
easy time getting their con-
solation victory over Strawn
as they claimed a 77 to 34 vic-
tory. Gorman led 22 to 2 at the
end of the first quarter to set
the runaway pace early.
Gorman’s Tommy Keith hit
an incredible 40 points before
being retired in the' third
_______ quarter. Ricky Holder led
poor night shooting and trailed * Strawn with 14 points.
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winning touchdown in a title
game, and I feel real good.”
Preston Pearson was asked
why he is such a money*
player, and he said: “Partly
because I need the money.”
The. Cowboys won despite a
patchwork lineup that includ-
ed Springs started for injured
Tony Dorsett offensively and
Dennis Thurman subbing for
Randy Hughes on defense. , •
- “We just never quit,” said
Staubach..
“Even after that 17-point
lead they had, we got a lot of
momentum going. We still had
a confidence factor, because
we’ve been in big .games
ByALANSAYRE
Associated Press Writer
A combination of two speedy
touchdown dashes and a
mistake-plagued Bay City of-
fense brought the state Class
3A schoolboy football cham-
pionship to McKinney for the
- first time ever this weekend.
James Harris ran for two
touchdowns and Bay City
turned the ball over seven
times including six times on
interceptions — as McKinney
posted a 30-7 win Saturday at
the Astrodome.
Harris outran Bay City
punter Pat Franklin on both of
his first-half touchdown runs.
“Our line was holding their
guys up at the line,” Harris
said. “There wasn’t anybody
to touch me. And there isn't
anyone in the sfate that can
stop me one-on-one. ’’
Kevin Korompai, a walk-on
kicker, booted a 27-yard field
goal in the second quarter to
lead Temple to a 3-6 win Satur-
day over Lewisville in a Class
4A semifinal game.
The Wildcats meet Houston
Memorial — a 22-8 winner
over Alice — at Waco's Baylor
Stadium next Saturday for the
Class 4A state championship.
“We had serious kicking
problems early in the season,”
Temple Coach Bob McQueen
said. “We couldn’t even make
an extra point. But then dur-
ing the sixth week of the
season Kevin just walked in,
said he played soccer and
could kick, and thought he
could do it for us.”
Christmas.
“This is the greatest victory
I’ve ever been in, bar none,"
said Dallas linebacker D.D.
Lewis.
Staubach said; "J've never
played in a game like that
before. I can’t remember
when I ever got so excited at a
football game.”
The Redskins didn’t die
after Dallas went ahead. They
charged to the Dallas 42,
where time expired before
they could call time ot and get
long-distance field goal kicker
Mark Moseley into the game
for what would have a 59-yard
effort.
Washington coach Jack
Pardee said, “There we were,
34-21, with 6:54 to play after - divisional champions with 40
seconds to play, then nothing.
L’m just heartbroken. Not just
for myself but for the
players.”
Pardee said. he,didn’t feel ~
safe after Riggins’ touchdown
run.
“When John gave us that 13-
point lead, I still didn’t feel
be able to do some unexpected
things "
The Yellow Jackets will be
<1 playing in Gatesville on Tues-
day night and then travel to
Weatherford on Friday night
before closing down for the
Christmas break. They return
to action on December 31st
against Comanche. District
starts January 11th for the
boys against Brownwood.
LINGLEVILLE--The
Lingleville boys picked up
their eighth straight victory
Saturday night as they down-
ed Pottsville 64 to 48 to claim
the top trophy in their own
tournament. The Lingleville
girls were defeated in the tour-
nament finals by Strawn 46 to
41.
Scott Smithwick led the Car-
dinals in their championship
victory by sinking a game
high 24 points. The Cardinals
led 14 to 9 at the end of the first
quarter and 32 to 24 at the half.
The game was fairly close
through the first half but
Lingleville made some ad-
justments in the second half
and the game was never close
after that.
Judd Hare had 16 points for
Lingleville while Scott Stevens
had 12 and Mondo Vazquez
had 10. The Cardinals hit on 14
of 16 trips to the free shot line.
Pottsville was led by
Micheal Hooper with 13 points.
The real thriller for the Car-
dinals and the highlight game
of the entire tournament came
on Friday night when the
Lingleville boys edged out
Tolar 75 to 74 in overtime in
the semi-finals match up.
Lingleville trailed by five
points with less than a minute
left in the game but battled
mented. "Burkburnett has an
outstanding varsity team that
is made up almost entirely of
seniors. Therefore their junior
varsity has primarily juniors
onit.” •
The Burkbumkett JVs had
some good size with several
athletes equaling Stephenville
junior Kenny Weldon in size.
The Bulldog junior varsity has
lost only two games on their
schedule thus far this year.
Allen called the game Satur-
day one of the best offensive
performances his team has
had all year. The Jackets were
shooting well and they quickly
built a strong lead.
- Scott Wilkins led the -
Stephenville scorers with 18
points while Kenny Weldon ad-
ded 14 points. Scott Manley
finished with 12 points.
Allen said that he felt the
tournament had been very
worthwhile for his crew and
that had it not been for the
— overwhelming win by Snyder,
the Jackets could have played
with anyone in the tourna-
ment.
"We set out to accomplish a
few things during this early
part of the season and I think
we did pretty well toward
' reaching those goals. We
wanted to win a trophy in
every tournament we entered
and we achieved that,” Allen
explained.
The Jackets* were third
place winners in both the
Stephenville and Comanche
tournaments prior to bringing
home the consolation brass in
the Possum Kingdom tourna-
ment,
Allen indicated that the ear-
ly part of the schedule had
been dedicated primarily to
getting the team accustomed
to him as a coach in his first
All tournament Bees
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henville Roney Bees
placed three girls on the
all tournament team at
the Possom Kingdom
tournament after the
Bees breezed to an easy
win over Sweetwater in
the tournament finals.
Honey Bees Wynell
Pack, Tracy Lowry and
Leslie Gandy were all
named to the all tour-
nament selections.
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shooting hand. He hit only
• three of 13 field goal tries and
was guilty of seven turnovers.
Doctors gave Branson an in-
jection to help the pain.
“I couldn’t Teel the ball,"
Branson said. “I thought I'd
be able to but I just couldn't. I
won’t get the stitches out until
late this month.”
There’s a busy slate _pf
games this week with the
highlight featuring Arkansas
versus LSU at Little Rock
Thursday night.
SMU has to travel to the
Kentucky Invitational while
the Texas Aggies get no rest at
the Nevada-Las Vegas touma-
frient.
Rigglps thundered 66 yards
for a touchdown on the longest
run of his National Football
League career.
The Redskins; who knew
they had to beat Dallas to get
into the playoffs because they
had lost the wild card to
Chicago, had the game won r--------,-----—
until Clarence Harmon fumbl- safe about the game. Staubach
ed, and Dallas recovered on> just had a great game. He is so
its 42 with 3:49 to go.
Staubach took Dallas to a
score in three plays, hitting
rookie Ron Springs on a 26-
yard throw for the touchdown
with 2:20 remaining.
Dallas charged 75 yards for
the game winner on an 8-yard
touchdown pass to Tony Hill
with 39 seconds to play, and
Rafael Septien kicked the vital
extra point,
deserved a better fate. ”
The Cdwboys, who finished
with an 11-5 record, will be idle
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“We did nothave any idea,
by anybody’s stretch of im-
agination, that we would be
here. We had 12 lettermen
back at the beginning of the
season and a lot of young
players. Our young players
have simply played better
than anyone expected them
to,” Hanns said.
The first A&I turnover let
Central State move in for an
early touchdown on Clifford
Chatman’s 5-yard run. Ail
marched 80 yards for a
touchdown in the second
quarter, then took the lead on -
a short drive after Central
State fumbled the ensuing
kickoff.
The 100-yard interception
return nailed down the vic-
tory, although Central State
got a late touchdown on the
board on a 72-yard pass.
McALLEN, Texas (AP) —
Texas Ail coach Ron Harms
wasn't tod happy when he saw
cornerback Emmuel Thomp-
son run out of the end zone
after making an interception
in Saturday’s NAIA Division I
championship game with
Oklahoma Central State.
“I was about to chew him
out. I wasn’t pleased at all to
see him try to run it out,”
Harms said.
But the Central State
players apparently couldn’t
believe be would try to run it
out either, and Thompson ran
untouched 106 yards for a
touchdown that iced away a
20-14 victory for the Javelinas’
seventh national NAIA title.
Central State quarterback
Scott Burger marched the
Bronchos inside the A&l 10 for
what would be the go-ahead
touchdown, in- the third
quarter, but threw into a
crowd in the end zone.
"When I picked off the pass,
I noticed that most of their
players were headed to the
bench, thinking I was going to
down the ball in the end zone,”
the Ail cornerback said.
“1 hesitated just a moment
and saw a big hole open up on
the left side off the field, so I
took off. I knew I could make it
at least to the 20, and that’s-
where we'd get the ball any
way if I downed it.”
Harms quickly decided not
to admonish Thompson.
"He hesitated a moment
and was ready to drop down,
and then he saw it open up, so
he took off. That was real
heads-up football,” ?aid
Harms.
Thompson’s return was one
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Dallas trailed 17-0 late in the
second quarter when the
year-old former Hejsd
Trophy winner orchi'
two touchdown drives.
The second touchdown came
with only 9 seconds to play in
the half when Preston Pearson
made a diving catch of a 26-
yard pass from Staubach to
narrow the deficit to a field
goal. %
Dallas went ahead, 21-17, on
Robert Newhouse's 2-yard run
' to open the third period.
Moseley hit a short field goal
to bring. Washington to within
21-20 before safety Cliff Harris
was flagged for interference
in the Dallas end zone.
Riggins punched out a J-
yard touchdown run, and
Washington led 27-21 with
10:18 to play. Then he ripped
off his 66-yarder with 6:54 to
go, and it- looked dark for the r before, but it was really a
. strange game,” he said.
Redskin assistant coach
Fred O’Connor said, “All I’ve
got to say is that if there has
been a better football game
another receiver, but when I 1 played in the last 10 years, I
lined up, Lemar Parrish was want to hear about it.”
Mswday, December 17,1979
Landry even doubted that
Ha
Cowboys had another miracle
stalled at the Temple 21. But a
low snap forced Steve Berhart
to boot it low and wide.
Paul Morales and Ben
Heinrich turned two early
Alice turnovers into
touchdowns in Houston
Memorial’s semifinal win.
A bad snap from center on a
punt attempt gave Memorial
^the ball on the Alice 12, and
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Mustangs an early lead. Alice
fumbled again later in the first
quarter, and Todd Kissner
connected with Heinrich on a
63-yard halfback pass the next
play.
Wheeler had to overcome a
21-19 halftime deficit to earn
the state Class B champion-
ship Saturday. Benny Baker
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day with perhaps his greatest
magic act of his 11-year pro
career, to salvage apparent
disaster and give the Dallas
Cowboys the National Cbn-
ference Eastern Division title.
Dallas defeated the __________________
Washington Redskins, 35-34, .. record, will be home for
and some of the Redskin
players were still looking at
the scoreboard after the game
was over like they couldn’t
believe it.
Staubach threw two
touchdown passes in the final
2:20 of the game and Landry
said, “What else can I say
about Roger? He’s done this
before.”
But the Dallas coach admit-
, ted, “I wasn’t too optimistic
after John Riggin’s second
touchdown run. Roger was
down on himself because he
had thrown an interception,
and if we hadn’t won, he pro-
bably wouldn’t have slept for
two or three days.”
The Cowboys were trailing,
ehisive; he was ducking under
our linemen and getting the
passes off. I thought briefly
about a long field goal there,
but we decided to throw one
more pass. I’m not going to
say too much about it. ... It’s,
over and that’s that.”
Some of the Redskin players
were laughing on the sidelines
after Riggins’ run. Defensive
tackle Coy Bacon was scream-
ing at the fans in the stands,
“Don’t panic... don’t panic.”
Staubach actually was
Lewisville — which saw
three scoring drives ended by
costly turnovers — had a
chance to tie the game in the
Amy Warren led Gorman at . fourth quarter, after a drive
the bucket with 24 points while
Kathy'Parker led Tolar with
12 points.
Tolar took the third place
trophy in the boys tournament
with a 64 to 59 win over Moran.
Tolar had a big 39 to 22 lead at
the half before Moran rallied
, in the third and came very
close to catching up with the
Rattlers. Ricky Ives led Tolar
with 16 points while Tommy
back and tied it at 66 all at the Hallmark guided Moran with
end of regulation thanks to a
bucket by Kevin McLeam
with 13 seconds left. The Car-
dinal sub would later put in an
Jackets claim consolation victory
in Possum Kingdom tourney
Mondo Vazquez sank eight
3 points during the overtime
period to keep the Cardinals in
the game and with the game „---------r .
tied at 74'all Lingleville in- 18 points while Marla Morgan
bounded with four seconds of Carbon hdd a game high 22
left. They didn’t get the
bucket, but McLeam was foul-
ed while trying and with no
time left on the clock the’ cool
youngster went to the line. He
missed the first end of the two
shoter but dropped the second
through to give the Cardinals
" the win and send them into the
Saturday night finals.
In the girls championship
~~ game, the Cardinals "had a .
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