Del Rio News Herald from Del Rio, Texas • Page 7

DEL RIO (TEXAI) NEWHERALD, Thurntey, II, 1J74-7 Oval And Round Football and basketball fans can parlay their respective sentiments here this weekend since both grid ana cage contests are on the community scene. This evening at 6 p.m. the Ram frosh kickoff with the incoming Crystal City Javelins and after we win that one our JV Bucks battle the B-team Java and we should do better than the two-point decision we had when the two units met in the Spinach Capital. Then on Saturday the varsity Rams visit Edgewood Stadium for that bout with the Kennedy Rockets in a 7:30 p.m. contest and in spite of the fact that the bus company did not have a vehicle for charter this weekend, there should be a goodly group of Queen Citizens at San Antonio.

In the interim here Saturday morning the doors to Cody Wardlaw Gym will be wide open for a game-like scrimmage between our varsity basketball units. The session, somewhere's around 10:30 a.m. will be complete with Val Verde County SBOA officials calling the shots and should be an interesting introduction to the 1974-75 cage prospectus. You'll be looking at nine lettermen from last year's vanity squad and there 11 be some talent which was developed on the JV Whiz Kid crew which went 22-2 and the Frosh Zizz Kids who went 14-0. Since the coming of Jim Harris as head coach for the cage sport a year ago, the Ram basketball program has initiated a solid off-season dedication and it will show even earlv this time around the country's hardwood courts.

The big Rams open the pre-district campaign with a trip to Corpus Christ! to face King on Nov. 15 and Carroll on Nov. 16. The JV's open on Nov. 19 at San Angelo Central and the Ram Soph team gets baptism on Nov.

22 at Laredo Martin. Saturday's free scrimmage at the downtown Cody Wardlaw will afford the fans a look at varsity, JV and Soph players in action against each other. The gym entrance is on West Martin Street with a gate also to be open for access to the parking lot on the Junior High campus. For the folks who can't make the trip to San Antonio and the Ram versus Rocket contest, there's a Peewee Football League doubleheader at Memorial Stadium here Satuday afternoon. The little fellers will again start the twinbill with a 1 p.m.

kickoff. Different Format Fans here who saw the Kennedy-Del Rio contest last year recall that the Rockets filled the air with no less than 39 passes and hit on 20 of them but lost 21-14. The reason the Rockets went upstairs was two-fold. First they had no place to go on the turf as the Ram defensive unit shut them off for a total of 39 yards all night. Secondly they brought that youngster named Oscar Arcos, a slick receiver, and their strong-armed quarterback Roy Soto to the Queen Citv.

Both are gone 'from the white ranks of the Rockets and we'll prooapiy oe looKing at more run than pass Saturday night in the Edgewood Stadium. This year's signal caller for JFK was last year's defensive standout, Greg Rodriguez and he's the second best scorer in the district so he must option a lot. Put the lock on the key Rocket and you can be 3-2 in district Saturday night, fellers. The game format also should be different from most past performances by our own Rams. With all hands healthy this week and some snappy sessions in the work week the Rams could go on from that 37-0 victory to another decisive decision at San Antonio.

S'true that the Rockets are big but we have the stuff to turn the corners or pass around or over the front line. Such tactics were in the practice mill we attended the past two evenings here. Yup, I'm optimistic and confident. One of the Queen City keys will be Mike Paolini, the 180-pound lineman who will be initiated to double duty Saturday since Randall Favor moved out of town this week. Paolini is 30 pounds heavier than Favor and has dedication in huge quantities plus ability.

He has been a player who acted like he wanted in on every down. Now he's to have that opportunity and the Saturday baptism at dual duty will be his challenge and a test of his endurance. Coach C.D. McFadin, who with Coach John Kallinger, handles the unsung linemen, believes Paolini has the stuff to make the grade on a fulltime basis against Kennedy. So do we after watching him operate in practice sessions this week.

All-Weather Tourney Eddie Hollingsworth, prexy of the Amistad Bass Club, said this morning, "What's with this norther. We have the Chamber of Commerce team tournament set for this weekend." So what, Senor President, go fish in it, says we. Hollingsworth will angle for some of that three thou-plus prize dough with partner Red May field. Both are good bassmen plan will be to use topwater lures early and then go deep. To ready themselves for the big event they poured a special batch of plastic worms red with black heads.

They also have a tune-up run set for this afternoon and what they'll probably do is to toss worms and topwaters only to affect the hits and not to bring anything to net. You just might see Hollingsworth rig up a surface lure today that would give you fits unless you knew what he was up to. He'll probably extract the trebles from the topwater and fire it out there seeking a strike. Red will cast his worm, let the fish pick it up and then vibrate the rod slightly causing the bass to spit it out. All the Hollingsworth-Mavfield combo care about between now and tourney day Saturday is to establish some kind of honey holes.

They believe if they can locate some fish today, they'll go after "em with vigor and sharp hooks on tournament days. It may pay off for these two crafty cats, That's 30. Having Difficulty Obtaining Auto lisuranci? Rockets Threaten Rams With Beefy Blockbusters IRON MIKE-When the Del Rio Rams visit Edgewood Stadium to play the Kennedy Rockets Saturday night, Mike Paolini, 180-pound lineman will be starting offensively and defensively as Del Rio seeks to surpass the .500 mark in District 32-AAAA play. The Rams are 2-2 and Kennedy is 2-1 in loop action. (News-Herald Photo) Six count 'em linemen wearing the green and white of the John F.

Kennedy Rockets are young but beefy players the Del Rio Rams. AH. six hit 200 pounds or better with the average at 209. To add to the heft the Rockets have three more 195-pounders before dropping down to 185 and 180. Del Rio has just come off of whupplng up on one of the Rockets' fellow townmen, the Lanier Vote, but the 37-0 victims didn't have any beef and very tittle tallow.

In fact the whole 31 player squad at Lanier averaged out at a modest 149 pounds; extremely light for a Class AAAA unit. JFK's Rockets, mildly successful this year with an overall record of 3-3-1 and a District 32-AAAA mark of 2-1, are fresh from a 20-0 victory over Holy Cross of San Antonio's 3-AAA Catholic District. The Rockets' red glare is Greg Rodriguez who occupies the 32-4A runerup scoring slot. At a new post this year Rodriguez directs the Kennedy dan from the signal calling slot after earning monograms at defensive secondary positions the past two seasons. Coupled with the convert are 196-pound halfback Jimmy Agulrre, 170-pound fullback George Garza and 150-pound tailback Juan Rodriguez.

From scouting reports and a Kennedy film the concensus of opinion held by Del Rio and head coach Claude Fest and his staff rate the Rockets at the "best fundamentally executing SCHOOLBOy POLL Cuero Gobblers Now Rule Roost By The Associated Press The Cuero Gobblers, ing state Class 3A champions, emerged as the king pin in The Associated Press Schoolboy Football Poll this meek after a full scale shakeup in which all 10 ranked teams changed positions. Cuero replaced Beaumont South Park at the No. 1 team in 3A after South Park managed only a 6-0 victory over West Or. anton 28-0. Other shakeups in 3A resulted fromaWharton's 13.13 tie Sweeny and No.

4 Mount ant's loss to Texarkana Liberty Wharton dropped from third to eight and Mount Pleasant hung in as No. 10. Other teams moved up with Donna taking over as No. 3 and Brownwood moving up to fourth. The rest of the classifications had more settled weekends withWichitaFails Rider ing its Class 4A lead, shire-Fannett leading in 2A, Aledo ahead in Class A and Big Sandy to dominate Class B.

Longview improved its standing from fifth to third in Class 4A after whipping Texarkana Bryan, moved back intothe top 10 as 9, replac ing Texarkana. Deweyville, ranked fifth last week, and Crdwell, 10th, dropped out of the top 10 after losses in Class A. Meridian disappeared from the Class rankings after its second loss. By Tht Associated Press Here Is the Associated Press Schoolboy Football Poll with first place votes In parentheses, season records and points based on 10-9-8-7-6-S-4-3-2-1: Class 4A Wichita Falls Rider (IS) 2. Odessa Permian (3) 3.

Longview 4. Fort Worth Arlington Hts. 5. Piano 6. San Antonio Churchill 7.

Tyler B. Brazoswood 9. Bryan 10. Lufkin Class 3A 1. Cuero (5) 2.

Beaumont South Park (12) 3. Donna U) 4. Brownwood 5. Brazosport 4. Snyder 7.

Pecos 8. Wharton 9. Uvalde 10. Mount Pleasant Class 2A Hamshlre-Fannett (16) 2. Newton 3.

Comanche (2) 4. Freer 5. Kenedy 6. Hooks 7. Van Vleck 8.

Dimmitt 9. Floydada 10. East Chambers Class A 1. Aledo til) 2. Rankln (6) 3.

Brookshlre.Royal (1) 4. Scnulenburg 5. Falls City 6. Jim Ned U) 7. Grapeland 8.

Knox City 9. Whltewrlght 10. Memphis Class 1. Big Sandy (19) 2. Wortham 3.

Bronte 4. Runge 5. Celina 6. Sundown 7. Groom B.

Paradise 9. Axtell 10. Meridian 7-0 7-0 7-0 7-0 7-0 7-0 7-1 7.1 4.0-1 6-1 8-0 8-0 7.0 7-1 7-1 6-1 7.0 7-0-1 8-0 7-1 7-0 6-1 8-0 7-0 7-0 6-1 7-0 7-0 7-1 8-0 7-0 7-0 6-1 6-0-1 8-0 6-0-1 7-0 6-1 7-0 8-0 7-0 7-0 7-0-1 7-1 7-1 6-1-1 7-1 7-0-1 BE SURE YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE COMPARE LITTON MICROWAVf OVENS WITH ALL OTHERS BEFORE YOU ONLY LITTON HAS THESE FOUR IMPORTANT FEATURES: Insurance is available regardless of Driving Record. UUMAKTEZ MS, WEHCY 400 East Gibbs 775-2480 Del Rio, Texas 775-9319 I Ewquivl Jr, BUY NOW FOR CHRISTMAS DEL RIO ELECTRIC AND APPLIANCE COMPANY team of the San Antonio five-school district contingent." Gary Malesky, the head mentor at JFK, had the Rockets pretty sharp the last time the Del Rloans met them. The Rams came away with a seven-point margin after the two squads battled here for 13 first downs each and Kennedy piled up a total of 305 yards, 266 via the passing game.

JFK's aerial attack went 20 of 39 and produced both Rocket TD's plus the two bonus points. Saturday night's game this year won't have the Del Rio muscle which gaints Rusty Chalk and Steve Quinoncs worked up last year behind rugged seniors like Tom Caldwell, George McFnrlcn, Andy Falls and Ruben Cardenas. The current Rams, a much lighter unit, have been able to establish a decent defensive record with just 26 points allowed over the four district Doc Tops Merchant Keglers 186 165 128 124 123, 93 67 50 36 18 170 167 127 119 18 81 68 59 18 186 15S 151 134 9B 76 58 52 30 21 179 170 153 96 92 89 74 33 29 25 With an opportunity to blow his own hom since he is the reporter and city bowling secretary, Wibbert simply said "High game of 264 and high series of 637 were turned in fiv me." He didn't elaborate on the fact that he had found his bowling form to be a bit 'off as recently as a week ago when he sent a substitute to roll in his place in the same Merchant's League. Nor did he over-emphasize the fact that he didn't do anything "different" this Wednesday than he has over the past. He reported the simple facts with much less elaboration than he does when some other bowler of this particular league was high honors in both solo and series events on game night.

Wibbert also reported that Steve Sedbrook rolled 244 and had a 610 total for second high laurels Wednesday. In the team play Border Credit Union shutout Jolly Locker 4-0; Standard Components whitewashed Ricky's Charcoal Grill 4-0; Lakeway Buick-Olds zipped the National Bank 4-0; Del Rio Pharmacy blanked the Mexican Kitchen 4-0. In other games DiMarco's Oarage won 3-1 over Border Auto; Pepsi-Cola creamed the Aduana crew 3-1; Los Banditos beat Caldcron's 3-1 and the Bank and Trust tripped State Farm Insurance 3-1, Wibbert explained today. games but save for lut WMk'l a viua shutout ovw MpMfS the Del Rio Lanier, Del Rio avenged ten than a TD ptr loop engagement. Part of the impotency ww due to a rash of injuries which not only crippled the quarterback corps but plagued the line and some of the ball carriers.

At the moment, however, the Rams an In the best shape of the season and went through snappy work sessions all this week. Coach Fest ordered an escalated practice for this evening after a lengthy one which rang with the sting of live contact Wednesday. In view of a Border Conference twinbill here today, the vanity will conic out running after the 3:05 p.m. bell and wind up In time to attend the 6 p.m. kickoff between the Ram frosh and the greenies from Crystal City and remain in the stands for the JV game at 7:30.

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