MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER, Sunday, February 17, 1980 Section amo in Tovm By DAVID McKENNA Mav coach looks back on season Ah 4 yC id. Caldwell fires 65 to lead Tucson Open TUCSON. Ariz. (AP) Rex Caldwell, who was playing so poorly he left the tour for a week recently to work on his game, fired an 8-under-par 65 Saturday to take the first-round lead in the rain-delayed, $300,000 Tucson Open golf tournament. The 29-year-old Caldwell, gunning for his first tour victory, began Saturday's play in the middle of the fifth fairway, where he'd hit his tee shot when a storm halted Friday's play.
He was already 2-under-par, having eagled the par 5 second hole Friday. He went on to make two long birdie putts on the front nine, then sliced four more strokes off par on the back. His round over the par 73 Tucson National course gave him a one-stroke lead on Jim Colbert, who had completed the round Friday with a 66. Another stroke back were Keith Fergus, Dave Barr, Dan Halldorson of Canada and Roger Maltbie. Fergus and Barr completed the opening round Saturday, while the other two recorded their 67s before the afternoon rain came the previous day.
Because of the rain, which completely washed out Thursday's play and more than half of Friday's, the second round will be played Sunday, with the final two rounds on Monday and Tuesday. Andy Bean, co-favorite for the $54,000 Tucson Open winner's prize with Lee Trevino, carded a 70 Saturday. 'Old Glory rooters AP Kwrphoto Spectators crowd at a corner of the Olympic speed of the U.S. won skating rink, one waving the American Flag, as minutes for his the men's 5,000 event gets under way. Eric Heiden During Saturday's Olympic action Heiden heads for skating U.S.
hockey team downs With the last game of the season now history and the snow falling like so many 20-foot shots, coach Dan Easley of the Marshall High basketball team had time, after five months, to sit back and reflect on his third year as head coach. Marshall closed out the season Friday night with a 75-62 win over Texas High in Texarkana to bring their season record to 18-11 and their District 14-AAAA slate to 8-6. Marshall went into the season giving nothing atyay except height and in the end that one drawback proved to be the Mavs' undoing against Lufkin and Longview who sport, rosters laden with players! rom 6-4 to 6-8. "We got hurt on the boards because we didn't have size," said Easley. "It's been a good year considering the injuries we went through losing Jimmy Williams and Walter Wilson in district and having several others hurt along the way, but the kids improved a lot and played well.
"The big thing that standsOut in my mind is the kids didn't quit. They stayed after it." Marshall got off to a tremendous start in the first round of district play knocking off Tyler Lee, Nacogdoches and Lufkin in succession before dropping a game to Tyler John Tyler, the first of two they lost to them, and that, said Easley was a turning point in the season. "Those two losses to John Tyler, especially the first one, really hurt," commented Easley. "If we had won that first one we would have tied Longview for the first round lead and it would have made a big difference the rest of the way." The Mavs went on to finish the first round 5-2 after a loss to Longview and started the second half of play on a downward lull that would see them drop three of the first four games. "Every team gets in a down period," said Easley about the losses, "and ours came around the Tyler Lee game (the first game of the second half).
We usually get down around some of the early tournaments but our blah period came then and it hurt us. It wasn't just one guy, it was the whole team. Marshall rebounded from a road loss to take Pine Tree 66-64 at home with a fourth quarter surge that netted 13 points in 42 seconds to snap their string and set the tone for Friday night's season finale. Said Easley, "We had fun against Texas High! The kids were loose and played like they had earlier in the year. We had six of them hit in double figures and Michael Thompson had 15 rebounds.
Lome Dunn was the only one not to get 10 or more but he played a good game handing out nine assists and taking down nine rebounds. I just wish we could keep going now. As far as the district competition, Easley had this to say, "There are just good teams up and down the line in district. The records prove the district is olid and there aren't any patsies in the group, even Texas High which didn't win a game in district. "A lot of teams in this area slow the game down, but not in this district.
The teams play basketball like I like it with shooters taking the shots when they get them and the ball moving up and down the court." Easley says he feels next year will be a lot like this one in the district with Marshall once again smaller than Longview and Lufkin, but with plenty of guards. Returning to the Mavs next year will be varsity players Carl Mitchell "a big plus," John much improved" and Joe Henderson "he had his best game against Texas High with 13 points." Coming up from the JV ranks will be a trio of guards who are varsity material right now, said Easley, among them Cleveland Wilson, Bill Clayton and David Jones. "We're gonna have small guards again next year, the biggest one being Clayton and he's just 5-10 but they all can play. Tom Lee, a 64 junior, could be the answer for us inside and Alton Fortman, a 6-5 junior, should develop into a tough rebounder," said Easley. Easley's sleeper next year could be sophom*ore Oliver Hurd, a 6-1 forward, who could be a good one.
Marshall will lose the services of Dunn, Bobby Jones, Thompson, Charles Floyd and Fred Pryor to graduation, but the group came close to its goal, according to Easley. "We wanted 20 wins and came close to getting them. When I look back at the games we lost by just a couple and the ones we won by just a couple it all seems to balance out. "I'm just real proud of these kids." muscle pull he suffered two weeks ago. The couple left the rink in tears and a controversy developed over a pain-killing shot Gardner took a few hours before the competitioa The American figure skating team was crushed, and Norma Sahlin, a coach for the American team, questioned the wisdom of Gardner's having taken the shot of xylocaine a few hours before the competitioa "He should have gone on without medication, you're better off," she said.
Gardner's mother agreed. "I wish now he had not had any medication. It would have been extremely painful, but he could have done it," she said. The widely-used pain killer is not against Olympic rules and Dr. Anthony Dale, chief physician for the U.S.
team, said it was administered "more for psychological purposes than anything else." "If the shot was mainly for psychological reasons, why give it at all?" asked Sahlin. She added that in his warmups, Gardner looked on his spin jumps as if he had never tried them before. All three U.S. medals through Saturday have come in speed skating the two by Heiden and one in the women's 500-meter race by Leah Mueller. It is on the speed skating oval on Main Street in this Adirondack Mountain village that the LAKE PLACID, N.Y.
(AP) Eric Heiden flashed to his second gold medal of the Winter Games Saturday in the 1,500 meters race und U.S. team hopes grew that he could pull off the first men's speed skating sweep in the history of the Olympics. The U.S. hockey team swept to a 5-1 victory over Norway for its second straight victory in the Olympic hockey tournament and increased its hope for a medal. Marring the American record is a 2-2 tie with Sweden, but a silver medal was certainly possible after Thursday's victory over highly-regarded Czechoslovakia.
The 21-year-old Heiden, of Madison, beat Norwegian Kai Arne Sten-shjemmet by nine-tenths of a second and the Norwegian coach immediately said the American has a chance for an unprecedented speed skating sweep. "We tried today and we didn't succeed and we'll try again but I think he's got a good chance to win five," said Arne Leir. But Heiden's flashing skates didn't erase one of the greatest American disappointments of these Games. Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner, the figure -skating pair who have worked for eight years to get ready to challenge for a gold medal, had to drop out of their event Friday night after Gardner fell three times in practice and aggravated a groin the event in a record time of 7.0328 second gold medal, American team is expected to win most of its medals. No skater has ever swept the men's events.
Ard Schenk of the Netherlands won three gold medals in 1972 in Sapporo when the Games included only four events. The race was added in 1976. A reporter asked Heiden if he thought much about all the talk about the sweep. "It goes in one ear and out the other." he said." I want to skate well. If I give 100 percent and someone beats me.
I'm still happy. I know I ve done as well as I can. But Heiden said his chances are good in the 1,000 and the races next week but the "is pretty much up in the air because there's not been a lot of competition." Heiden won the 1,500 in 7 minutes, 2:29 seconds to Stenshjemmet's 7:03.28. The bronze went to another Norwegian, Tom Erik Oxholm. The Swiss team won its first gold medal of these Games Saturday when bobsled driver Erich Schaerer and brakeman Josef Benz overpowered the two-man field with consecutive times of 1 minute, 2.29 seconds and 1:02.44.
Anatoli Aljabiev of the Soviet Union won the 20-kilometer biathlon event Saturday in a time of 1:08.16.31. Frank Ullrich of East Germany, who finished Q1 5 I A hi i CY i i Mi 2. 'sx 1 )f A sweep, Norway second in 1:08.27.79. protested the result but the protest was not upheld. Aljabiev hit all four targets in the event which combines cross-country skiing with rifle shooting.
Ullrich protested because his penalty time for missed targets was three minutes instead of two. The competitors shoot four limes each, twice standing and twice lying on the ground. They are penalized for missed targets. Eberhard Rosch of East Germany won the bronze medal. In the luge event.
Soviet Vera Zozulya protected a commanding lead with a final run of 39.12 seconds, the fastest time Saturday, to win a gold medal in the women's event. Her combined time after four runs was 2:36.54. Peter Stastnyand Milan Novy each scored two goals, leading Czechoslovakia to a 7-2 victory over Romania Saturday in the Olympic hockey tournament. Sunday's events include the women's downhill ski race and the favorite was Annemarie Moser-Proell of Austria, who posted the best times in training and has won six World Cup ski titles but never an Olympic gold. Also on the schedule were the women's speed skating event, 70-meter ski jumping', the 15-kilometer race, and pairs and ice dance in figure skating.
Aggies demolish UT COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) -Vernon Smith and David Britton combined for 41, points to lead the Texas Aggies to an 84-61 win over the Texas Longhorns Saturday afternoon. jumped out to a quick lead and then dominated every aspect of the game. The Aggies led in rebounding, 40-25, and had 21 assists to Texas' 6. The Aggies sank 59 percent of their snots from the floor, compared to 40 percent for Texas. The game boosted conference record to i2 while Texas dromed to Texas was never able to mount a serious threat after trailing at the half, 48-36.
Texas' Ron "Baxter, the game's leading scorer, hit 22 points, but the senior from Los Angeles could get no help from his teammates. John Danks who hit eight first half points was held to three points in the second half while freshman sensation LaSalle Thompson was held to nine total points. "When this team goes bad, it's contagious. All of them go bad," Texas coach Abe Lerooos laid, "That'll teach 'em for putting it on TV. That must have been a thriller at the end.
People must have been turning over to watch Bambi or Walt Disney or something." Aggie coach Shelby Metcalf called it a great win for his team "from the standpoint of bouncing back from the Arkansas loss." "It showed character in the true Aggie tradition. We shot well, especially in the first half, and we needed such a performance because Texas is a team to be dealt with," Metcalf added. Lemons had little good to say about his Longhorns. 1 1 Art rv is 20-7 for the season, while Texas is 15-9. Smi th sank 19 of his 21 points in the first half, which led by as many as 14 points.
front line, known as "the wall" Smith. Rynn Wright and Rudy Woods. hit 15 of 17 first half field goal attempts and out-rebounded Texas, 20-11. Woods scored 15 and Wright added 12 points for the win. In addition to Britten's 10 first period points, he added three key assists and scored a total of 20 points, while the other guard, David Goff, contributed on five assists and one steal in the first half, Court side celebration Waskom High basketball fans pour onto the court following Friday night's win over Karnack in the District 21-A playoff held in ETBC gym.
Waskom won the right to represent the district in the playoffs with a 79-78 victory. See game story on page 2B..
