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Palacios Beacon. Mar. 1, 1989-Page
Palacios Beacon
Sports
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Shark thin cl ads garner
medals at first meet
It was medals all-around for varsity and junior
varsity Shark tracksters last weekend as they
competed in their first meet of the season at
Brazos.
"I was real pleased with the way all our athletes
performed, considering it was their first time out
this season," commented Shark track coach Bill
Fort. "Everyone brought home a medal.”
The varsity squad finished 8th in the 15 ream
field with 22 points. Philip Pinkston captured sec-
ond in the shot put with a toss of 49'-7 1/2" and
then took fifth in discus with an effort of 130'-8”.
Pinkston teammcd up with Scott Koch, Adam
English and LeJon Giles to place fourth in the 400-
meter relay with a time of 45.1. Giles posted a
solo fifth place finish in the 100-meter dash at
11.76.
Roy Guerra, Giles, English and Koch earned
sixth place medal in the 1600-meter relay with
The junior varsity Sharks finished seventh ii
their division out of a field of 13 teams with $
points.
Robby Lewis took top honors in the 200-mete
dash by posting a time of 25.4. Richard Stou
claimed third in the 110-meter high hurdles at 19.
while Gilbert Moctezuma also took third in th<
800-meter run at 2:20.
the team of Stout, Lewis, Moctezuma am
Shawn Boyd garnered a third place medal with;
time of 47.0 in the 400-meter relay.
Both the JV and Varsity Sharks will compete a
the Yoakum Bulldog Relays this Saturday.
Buckley, Roy win gold at
Sharkettes' opening meet
Aerial cage assault
TAKING TO THE air, Tidehaven's Larry Sanford (22) sails toward the basket
while the Cobra's Craig North (5) swoops in in a vain attempt to block the shot.
The rampaging Tigers ran their record to an impressive 26-6 as they shot down the
Cobras 71-46 in bi-district action. Coach Jerry Maine's tagers were to face
Benavides in the area 2A playoffs Tuesday in Aransas Pass. The winner advances
to this weekend's regional tournament in Victoria. (Beacon Photo by Nick West)
Evangela Roy and Barbara
Buckley both picked up first
place medals as the Palacios
Sharkette track team opened its
1989 season by competing in
Saturday's Bobby Goff Relays
in Port Lavaca
Coach Luz Arredondo's thin-
clads, along with Coach Bill
Fort's Sharks, will be at Yoakum
this Saturday. Field events will
begin at 9 a.m. followed by the
running preliminaries at 11:30
a.m. The finals get underway at
5 p.m.
The Sharkettes finished fifth
in the team standings of the 12
school meet. Palacios tallied 56
points to place behind Calhoun
(144), Rockport-Fulton (72),
Brazosport (65) and Sinton (61).
"This is the first year that we
have started actual competition
this early in February," pointed
out Arredondo. "Everything
considered, we did a good job."
Roy won the shot put event
with'a toss of 35'-10” while
Buckley beat the field in the 400-
meter dash with a time of 63.39.
Senior Ann Herlin turned in
good performances in the dis-
tance events-as usual-placing
second in the 3200-meter run at
12:41.79 and in the 1600-meter
run at 5:49.46.
Roy came back to capture the
bronze in the discus with a dis-
tance of 104'-5". Also eaminj
third place honors was the 1600
meter relay team consisting o
Natasha Davis, Valerie Hebert
Buckley and Herlin with posted
time of 4:29.32.
In the 200-meter dash. Buck
ley finished fifth with a 27.67.
Stork, Ripke win doubles
Redden captures singles
The Palacios High School Shark and Sharkette tennis teams
opened up their season on the right foot last week as the captured two
first place trophies at the Van Vleck Tournament over the weekend in
Bay City.
The girls' doubles team of Lisa Stork and Felicia Ripke took top
honors as they easily defeated Stafford's Irma Perez/Aida Garcia, 6-
1, 6-3.
First place in boys, singles went to the Sharks' Eddie Redden with
a 6-4,6-1 victory over Stafford's Sung Bo Shirn.
Palacios will play at Industrial on Thursday.
TIGERS
Which, according to Haines, arc
experienced and talented playoff
cjubs.
: Last season, the Tigers had
traveled as far as the regional
battle where they fell to San
Antonio Cole 63-55 to finish
the year at 24-5.
t Industrial, for all practical
purposes, lasted through only
the first 90 seconds of last
Thursday's showdown with the
Tigers before be laid to waste
Tidehaven's devastating ball
handling, steals and pin-point
bucket accuracy. While ball
handling may have been a Tiger
forte, it was a liability for the
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Cobras who found most of
passes lobbed to unoccupied
parts of the court or sent sailing
into the packed bleachers.
After pulling ahead 4-1 with
six minutes remaining in the
first period, the Cobras were
left in the dust as the Tigers,
much to the delight and
expectation of their hundreds of
faithful followers, canned eight
straight with Grice punching in
the first six. The club finished
the period with a 23-2 scoring
advantage which provided an
insurmountable 24-6. During
that stretch, Tidehavcn slammed
through 13 unanswered points
in the final four minutes.
For the remainder- of_t.be .
game, it was just a matter for
the clock to run out as the
Tigers held comfortably to the
lead. After building the margin
up to 27 at 35-8, Tidehaven
settled for a 22 point advantage
at the half. The Cobras fared
little better in the second half as
the Tiger cagers continued to
strike at will.
In addition to Grice's 33
markers, the ace eager also
hauled down 17 rebounds.
Teammate Larry Sanford added
11 points with Chris Grice col-
lecting nine and Ken Johnson
connected for six.
Registration for
girls softball
Registration for girls softball
is available at Palacios Auto Parts
(972-2516) during regular busi-
ness hours or by contacting Es-
tella Alamia at 972-2278. Girls
age 8 to 18 may register to play.
League age is determined oy the
child's age on or before July 31,
1989 The divisions are 8-12;
13-15; and 16-18 league ages.
Any division that does not form
will have their equipment users
fees refunded. There will be no
tryouts for girls softball.
Girls softball is under the
Charter of Texas Mid-Coast Lit-
tle League, and is part of the Lit-
tle League Baseball, Inc.'s na-
tional program.
Baseball coaches
needed locally
WALKER
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With board president Herlin and
tWo legal counsels to get their
opinion on whether the situation
surrounding Walker's resigna-
tion would qualify as appropriate
ih justifying an emergency
rheeting. He said that the meeting
irould qualify under the
unrest, coaches aren't going to
know what their status is, and
there's just going to be all sorts
of dissention."
She said had the board not
acted promptly, but waited until
its March 13 regular meeting then
"there's going to be speculation:
pccted the kind of publicity it
(the resignation) got," remarked
Herlin. "Maybe we were naive
about it. It's not something I'm
used to handling."
Blessing and Palacios are both
in need of managers, coaches
and umpires for the summer's
Little League program. Anyone
who can help is encouraged to
contact any of the league officials
to obtain a position. Little
(reague can exist only with the
support of local volunteers. It
would be a shame to cut a child
out of playing because there is
not enough managers, coaches,
or umpires to form all the needed
teams.
would quality unaer tne meres going iu oc spccuiuuou.
‘reasonably unforeseeable situa- what's happened, what's going
tions” section of the Texas Open t0 happen, what should have
Meetings Act dealing with emer-
gency meeting. That section
states that "Cases of emergency
?nd urgent public necessity are
limited to imminent threats to
public health and safety or rea-
sonably unforeseeable situations
requiring immediate action by the
governmental body,"
"In every community (where
Something like this happens)
there's the pros and cons. It be-
comes a big deal and the longer
something goes on, the bigger
deal it can become," Herlin to the
Beacon after the meeting. "We
fplt like we needed to act, if we
were going to act, quickly. Just
tb drag it out is going to be the
pits." She added that if the matter
was left unresolved for a long
period then "there's going to be
happened. We felt that the easiest
way to placate them would be to
go ahead and deal with the
matter."
Even though Walker held a
highly visible post in the com-
munity as athletic director and
head football coach, both Reaves
and Herlin indicated they were
surprised at the publicity
Walker's resignation generated
among area media. The posted
notice of the emergency meeting
also mentioned the publicity as a
prime factor in necessitating the
meeting. The notice stated that
"resultant publicity afforded the
resignation has created an
unforeseeable situation of public
urgency requiring immediate
board action."
"I don t think anybody cx-
Littie League Tryout and Draft
Schedule
All children playing on minor league teams and those eligible
for major league drafts of league ages 8-12 must tryout. The
schedule for trvouts will be as follows:
Palacios March 4
9 a.m - age 8
10 a.m.- age 9
11 a.m.- ages 10 to 12
March 11
9 a.m.-age 8
10 a.m.-agc 9
11 a.m.-ages 10 to 12
Blessing March 4
1 p.m.-age 8
2 p.m.-age 9
3 p.m.-ages 10-12
March 18 9 a.m.-age 8
10 a.m.-age 9
11 a.m.-ages 10 to 12
Palacios will draft the minor and major league teams on Sunday
March 12 at 3 p.m. at the Palacios Library. Blessing will draft
March 18 following the tryouts on that day.
Palacios Tee Ball teams are drafted and closed to registration.
Tiger trouble
SHAWN KACER (21) and Carl Grice (10) epitomizes
the Tidehaven Tigers' tenacious defense as they team-
up to block an Industrial Cobra. The Tigers roared to a
24-6 first period lead last week euroute to a 71-47 bi-
district win. (Beacon Photo by Nick West)
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