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"Muy Grande" Deer
Contest celebrates
25th anniversary
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By Michael Marbach
Sports Editor
It all started 25 yars ago as a
marketing gimic to get people to stop
at a gas station. However, it turned
into the biggest deer contest in the
country seeing over 5,000 contest-
ants last year.
The contest is the famed "Muy
Grande" Deer Contest which is held
in Freer, Texas each year. Last Sat-
urday marked the twenty-fifth year
of the event
Leonel Gar/a, a native of Freer,
started the event out of his small
filling station in 1966. The first prize
ever given was a wrist watch.
However, prizes today range from
rifles to guided hunts totaling
$10,000. Quite a difference in the
past 25 years.
The appeal of the event has at-
tracted a number of celebrities as
well as the most important everyday
hunter. George Strait, Nolan Ryan,
Tye Detmer, George Bell, Jim Acker,
Bob Lilly and Janie Frickie, to name
a few, have entered the contest
The contest is open to all, with a
men, women, and youth division.
Prizes are awarded in several cate-
gories. Largest Muy Grande Buck
scored (a point variation of the over-
all antler), longest drop tine, longest
tine, longest spike, freak of the year,
longest main beam, most joints ,
widest spread, heaviest buck and
heaviest doe. There are also events
for largest hog, jayelina, bobcat and
mountain lion.
Garza still heads up the contest
and is currently able to lease land to
hunters in Texas and Mexico.
Daniel Adami, ,i close friend of
mine here at TarJeton, invited me to
tag along to partake in the events.
Freer was not a new experience to
me; I had been there several times in
the past This time was different, as
it would be the first time I would take
pen and paper to throw together this
piece of "art"
Departing Stephenville was de-
finately not a problem and five hours
later, the wheels stopped turning on
the Chevrolet. A quick kiss on the
ground was assured with Adami's
driving.
After a quick bite to eat, I was
curious to see the Muy Grande Vil-
lage and take in it's surroundings. I
knew things would be slow with the
deer season being completed almost
two months earlier, but the gears
began tuning in my head when I
glared at the fine wall mounts and
pictures inside the store.
If you have never been to the
Muy Grande Village it is quite and
experience, but South Texas is even
a bigger one.
What doesn't stick you is sure to
bite you in the hot dusty South Texas
region and the area has definately
stuck on me.
Saturday night, the awards cer-
mony was held. I was hoping to take
in a few big buck tales. I didn't have
to lode far or listen too close. The
stories were everywhere.
\ The one I was most interested in
was the overall winners tale. Law-
rence Anzaldua of Missouri City,
Texas, took a large 10 pointer which
See Muy Grande pg. 7
1960
Lawrence Anzaldua displays his "Muy Grande." Anzaldua
went on to place first in the event with this buck. The buck
grossed 176 B&C points.
Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer and his father display
a nice buck they took this season on a guided hunt in South
Texas.
the J-T AC/Thursday, March 7, 1991/Page 5
NAIA track tourney
comes to big close
By Ricky Jordan
Reporter
Tarleton's men's and women's
track teams completed their indoor
track season at the NAIA Indoor
National Track and Field Champi-
onships in Kansas City, Missouri.
Those men and women who
were able to qualify for the meet left
last Wednesday and competed
through the weekend at Kansas City's
municipal auditorium.
The women competed in the two
mile relay. Linda Garcia, Tami
Martinka, Jenny Newton and Carmen
Colon finished thirteenth in the na-
tion. Their time of 10:28:31 broke
their previous school record by 14
seconds. They were the first women
to represent Tarleton at the indoor
national.
The men had an experienced
group participating. The distance
medley relay team of Jamie Jenkins
(800 m), Chris Johnson (400 m),
Javier Garcia (1200) and Daniel
Jonah (1600), finished ninth.
The best finish at the meet came
from the two time All-American mile
relay team. Runners Jeff Smith,
Spivey Thomas, Pat Jones and Tom
Green finished third in the nation
with a time of 3:23:13. Seniors Smith,
Jones and Green have been All-
Americans five times indoors and,
outdoors in their careers at TSU.
Coach Pleasant said that he was
very pleased with his team's per-
formance. This was the largest
number of qualifiers for an indoor
track meet Tarleton has ever had.
Pleasant said that he feels the team
represented TSU and Stephenville
very well and is extremely proud of
his runners.
The outdoor track season began
with a meet at East Texas State.
Tarleton had some high finishes in
the meet which they were competing
against many scholarship teams.
Tarleton will be at Howard
Payne Thursday competing in their
second meet of the outdoor season.
Curtis steals
the spotlight
By Angela Spradley
Sports Writer
She stole the spolight and then
went on to steal the show," If you play
basketabll in the Texas Intercollgiate
Athletic Association women's con-
ference, she will steal the ball.
Tarleton State's Kristin Curtis,
all 5'6" of her was named the TIAA
Most Valuable Player of the year
during the 90-91 season. Curtis
obviously deserves MVP; her per-
sonal record at TSU proves it
* Most steals in a game-14 against
Austin College, beating the previous
record held by Patti Phillips at 12.
* Most steals in a season. Curtis
captured 102. The previous record
was held by Kay Cole at 101.
* Highest scorer on the team, aver-
aging 15.5 points per game.
Curtis, a standout from Geor-
getown Texas High School, has been
playing basketball since the age of
five. She was influenced by her
father who taught her the fundamen-
tals.
Curtis will return to Tarleton
next year as a senior guard carrying
a 2.8 overall grade point average.
She plans after graduation to pursue
a job coaching women's college
basketball.
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