Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 12, 1979 Page: 6 of 6
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Athletic Briefs-
Intramurals
Alpha Delta Pi sorority will meet the Pi Kappa
Alpfca little sisters tomorrow at 5 p.m., Morris
Field, in the opening game of the women’s in-
tramural flag football season.
The Kappa Sigma Stardusters are the third squad
entered in the three-team event.
Wednesday Sept. 25, the Kappa Sig Stardusters,
will face the Pike little sisters.
Thursday afternoon, Sept. 26, the Stardusters will
tangle with the AD Pi's.
Men's and women's field goal competition is set
for tomorrow at 4:15 p.m., at Cardinal Stadium,
with participants signing up as they show up.
In men’s flag football action completed Thursday,
the Intimidators blitzed UCF-Methodist Center, 33-
6; Alpha One blanked Psychology, 13-0; and the
Baptist Student Union edged the Catholic Student
Center, 7-6.
In Monday’s confrontations, Shivers halted
AICHE, 12-0; Pi Kappa Alpha No. 1 drummed
Sigma Phi Epsilon, 26-0; Phi Delta Theta belted Phi
Kappa Theta, 27-0; and the Renegades defeated
IEEE via a forfeit, 1-0.
JV Football
The Lamar Cardinal junior varsity football team
fell victim to the University of Southwestern
Louisiana JV squad, 20-3, Monday in Lafayette, La.
Phil Allen, Lumberton sophomore, kicked a 29-
yard field goal for the Redbirds’ only score of the
game. *
The Lamar junior varsity team will host its first
home game of the season Monday when the Mc-
Neese State Cowboys come to Cardinal Stadium for
a 7 p.m., kickoff.
‘Player of Week’
Lamar’s Kurt Phoenix, who moved from safety to
linebacker this season, was named the Southland
Conference’s lineman of the week Monday.
Phoenix, a 6-0, 201 Houston senior, made 19
tackles in the Cardinals’ 20-7 loss to the Baylor
Bears in Waco, Saturday.
Gene Bradley and Anthony Williams, seniors who
accounted for 323 yards of Arkansas State’s 374 total
offense yards against East Texas Saturday, were
chosen the SLC’s co-backs of the week.
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are (bottom) Natalie Moore,
Groves freshman; Diane
Myers, Groves junior; Claudia
Lee, Nederland sophomore;
(middle) Ellen Logan, Beau-
mont senior; Toni Martin,
Port Neches senior; Lisa
Spaulding, Port Neches senior;
Eva Garcia, San Antonio
senior; (lop) Valerie Thomp-
son, Irving sophomore;
Vickie Harmon, Nederland
junior; Melanie Floyd, Neder-
land sophomore; and head
coach Linda Wills.
Photo by CINDY DOWIES
Spikers to start season
Bowling
The Lamar Women’s bowling team will hold its
tryouts Saturday, 9:30 a.m., at the Brunswick
Holiday Bowl, 4500 Twin City Highway, Port Ar-
thur.
For more information, contact Claudia Mc-
Cullough at 727-3929.
Lamar’s new coach Lin-
da Wills knows that one
volleyball scrimmage does
not a season make.
Still, after a practice win
over the University of
Houston, Wills can’t help
but be optimistic about her
team’s chances as the Lady
Cardinals open their
season at the North Texas
State University Tour-
nament Friday and Satur-
day in Denton.
“I was very pleased and
excited with the way the
girls played against the
University of Houston,”
Wills said of the Lady Car-
ds’ 9-15,15-6,15-7,15-9 win a
week ago.
‘‘Houston is one of the
toughest teams in the state
and they’re definitely our
biggest rivals,” Wills said.
‘‘I saw a lot of potential and
a strong indication of what
this Lamar team is capable
of doing. We’re really
looking forward to getting
started this weekend. ’ ’
The NTSU tourney
features the top seven
volleyball teams in Texas
plus outstanding out-of-
state competition of Tulane
University, the University
of Nebraska, Southwest
Missouri State and the
University of Oklahoma.
“I really think we’re
ready for this,” Wills said.
“It’s going to be tough, but
I would like to see us at
least advance to the quar-
terfinals there. This tour-
nament will be a good test
for us this early in the
season.”
According to Wills,
Lamar opens pool play
against Tulane University,
New Orleans, La., at 1:30
p.m. Friday; plays defen-
ding state champion
University of Texas-
Arlington at 4:30 p.m.; and
closes with Sam Houston
State University, Hun-
tsville, at 7:30 p.m.
The Lady Cards meet the
University of Nebraska,
Omaha, at 8 a.m., Satur-
day; then Texas Woman’s
University, Denton, at 11
a.m.
The top two teams in
each pool advance to the
quarterfinals of the tour-
nament.
So far, Wills has decided
on no set Lady Cardinal
lineup.
“This is one of the
strongest teams I’ve ever
coached collegiately,”
Wills said. “I think the ben-
ch is one of the strongest in
the country and we’ve got
so much depth that I have
absolutely no fear of using
anyone and any time.
“If I had to single out any
players, they would be
Melanie Floyd, Nederland
sophomore, for her defen-
se; Toni Martin, Port
Neches senior, for her set-
ting; Tressie Hilbun,
Nederland junior, for her
spiking; and Claudia Lee,
Nederland junior, for her
serving.”
The Lady Cards open
their home slate against
Stephen F. Austin at 7 p.m.,
Wednesday, Sept. 19.
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The baseball which Mrs.
Henrietta “Ivy” Niekro
proudly displayed had writ-
ten on it: “My 200th win,
they are as much yours as
they are mine. My love to
you always, .Phil. May 1,
1979, Braves 5, Pirates 2.”
The ball is one of the
most prized possessions of
Mrs. Niekro and her
husband, Phil Sr., parents
Of the National League’s
Winningest pitchers,
knuckleballing Phil of the
Atlanta Braves and Joe of
the Houston Astros, both of
whom are closing in on 20-
win seasons.
j “Phil got his first win
and his 200th win at Pit-
tsburgh,” said Mrs.
Niekro. “I was there for
both of them and he gave
me both balls."
Lansing, a small mining
community nestled in the
heart of the Ohio Valley, is
little more than an hour’s
drive from Pittsburgh. It is
where the Niekro brothers
and their older sister,
Phyllis, grew up in modest
surroundings, dominated
by love — and baseball.
Those two things — love
and baseball — are still a
very important part of the
Niekro home.
“We’re a close family,”
said Mrs. Niekro. “Phil
always kisses his dad and
me. We’re not mushy, but
there is just something
about it.
“He kissed us once after
a game in Pittsburgh and
Bob Prince (the former
Pirate broadcaster) came
over and said, ‘Of all the
years I’ve announced
baseball, that’s the first
time I’ve ever seen a
player kiss his parents.’”
Although there is no
longer the running from
one game to another to see
the boys perform, baseball
still takes up much of the
Niekros’ time.
“I’ve usually got two :
radios going all the time,”
said Mrs. Niekro, “and if I
can’t get the Atlanta and
Houston games in here, I
go out in the car. I’ll listen
to some game just to get
the scores.
“When baseball season is
over,” she said, “We don’t
have anything to do.”
The elder Niekros used to
attend as many games as
possible when their sons
played in such cities as Pit-
tsburgh, Detroit, Cin-
cinnati, Chicago or Atlan-
ta.
But in recent years, the
trips have been cut by the
illness of Niekro, who un-
derwent surgery six years
ago and has since been
bothered by blood clots.
Niekro, who spent 18
years working in the mines
and a year as an auto
worker in Detroit before
returning to Lansing, was a
top sandlot pitcher in his
younger days.
In fact, it was he Who
taught young Phil how
throw the knuckler at
tender age of 8.
“I had a good arm
nothing up here,” said
Niekro, pointing to his
head, “that’s why I ruined
it. The main thing for kids
to learn is how to take care
to
the
but
of their arm.”
He went to the mound af-
ter some of his former san-
dlot teammates, including
George Butch, who still
visits the elder Niekro
almost daily, complained
their then first baseman
burned their hands when he
threw the ball around the
infield.
“When it came to good
arms,” said Butch, “they
(Phil and Joe) couldn’t
carry his glove.”
“We told him, ‘if you
want to throw that hard,
get on the mound,”’ said
Anthony Niekro, a cousin of
Phil Sr. and another for-
mer teammate. “Once he
got there, he was a pitcher
from then on.”
After injuring his arm,
Phil Sr. learned the
knuckler from a former
local minor league player,
although he admitted, “I
never used it much.”
But he knew enough
about it to teach it to young
Phil, who lost only two
games during his career at
Bridgeport High School,
one of them to Bill
Mazeroski and his Warren
Consolidated team, and
was signed during a
Milwaukee Braves tryout
camp at nearby Bellaire.
“Phil always said he was
going to be a ballplayer,”
said Mrs. Niekro, “even
when he was in the first
grade. In fact, his teacher
still reminds me about
that.
“The kids used to be sit-
ting there beside the house
with their gloves when Phil
Sr. got home from the
mine,” said Mrs. Niekro.
“He would be so dirty that
all you Could see was his
eyes, but he would play cat-
ch with them.”
But that wasn’t the only
parental help the boys got.
They also had their own
trainer.
“I wish I had a nickle for
every time I’ve rubbed my
boys down,” said Mrs.
Niekro.
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Hale, Greg. Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 12, 1979, newspaper, September 12, 1979; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499776/m1/6/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.