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SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1981 4B Sports Tdlay- Former Lee star Hunt ljc fBtmtonmrry ALABAMA JOURNAL were Eric Wright, finishing second in the shining as A catcher shot put; Felder, placing third in the high hurdles and Eric Arms, landing fourth place in the high hurldes. JOHN Lumber is in second place with a 2,570. Birmingham's Glenda Glenn leads all-events scratch with with 1,681. Action continues Sunday with singles and doubles at Bama Lanes and team competition at Montgomery Lanes. The GMWBA's delegate weekend concludes Sunday.

The group's delegate dinner was held Friday night with former state treasurer Annie Laurie Gunter delivering the keynote address. The GMWBA also held a memorial service for all it's members who died during the previous year. The GMWBA held its annual Hall of Fame inductions Friday night. Inducted were Frances Gray, Amanda Jensen, Evelyn Lathan, Margie Weldon, Alois Smith, Dorothy Stansell and Christine Streit. Cargile Journal Sports Editor 01 Jeff Davis wins meet OPELIKA Jeff Davis turned in the record-breaking performances but Opelika turned in the points in Saturday's third annual Opelika Invitational track meet.

Jeff Davis' Reginald Huffman jumped 6-9 in the high jump for a meet record to get things started and his teammates followed suit. Steve Holloway ran a 49.5 400 meters, Luther Orum ran a 4.15 1,500 meters and the mile relay team of Holloway, Melvirt Taylor, Alex Huntley and Sam Tatum ran a 3:30 mile realy. All were meet records. TUSCALOOSA Randy Hunt, 21, once a shortstop on a Robert E. Lee baseball team, was transformed into a catcher in junior college and now is considered one of the best receivers in the South.

At least, that is the way the New York Yankees look at the 6-foot, 185-pounder who now plays for the University of Alabama baseball team. One of the biggest weekends in Hunt's young baseball career is here. The top Yankee scouts were in Tuscaloosa Saturday and will be Sunday as Alabama meets Mississippi State University in a three-game series. The scouts want to check once more on the athlete they drafted in the third round last summer. They will find him hitting .345 with four home runs and three triples to his credit already in the young season.

Hunt is a late bloomer. When he was at Lee High School, Hunt felt his best sport was football. "I thought baseball was my weakest sport," he said. He came mighty close to signing a football scholarship at Troy State. He didn't know he was good enough in baseball until he went to Birmingham to play in the annual North-South game his senior year.

Chattahoochee Valley Junior College coach B.R. Johnson saw Hunt and asked him to come and play baseball. Little did Hunt know he would become a catcher until he went to Chattahoochee. In his first game, Chattahoochee met Gulf Coast Junior College, known for its good, young players. All Hunt did that day behind the plate was throw out 13 base runners.

"It never dawned on me until that game that I might be a good catcher," he said. "After that game a scout talked to me." It was at that moment Hunt began looking at professional catchers. He started studying them on television. He learned a little bit from a Montgomery Rebels coach. Mostly it was just hard work, though, that helped him develop as a catcher.

"My arm got strciger in junior college," he said. "I never really had a strong arm, but in November and December my sophomore year, I got out in the outfield and threw balls as far as I could throw them. We had old balls and some were heavy. When I would pick up a new ball it felt so light I could throw the heck out of it." Hunt's catching fundamentals got better also. He learned to block pitches in the dirt.

As a hitter Hunt was hitting home'runs instead of singles and doubles. His sophomore year at Chattahoochee he had 11 home runs. Those statistics were enough to get the attention of the Detroit Tigers. The Tigers drafted him in the fifth round of the secondary phase, but it was last June's draft that Hunt liked even better. The Yankees picked him in the third round.

Yankee scouts wanted to see how well he could do against good college pitching and asked him to play summer baseball in the Valley League in Virginia. Hunt went to Virginia for the summer. Central took third in the meet, Carver got fourth, Auburn was fifth and Lanier took sixth. Briefly Selma edges Lee 2-1 Selma High School's Eddie Jones singled in two runs in the fifth inning and Saint pitcher Clifford Jordan stranded 11 runners in beating the Lee Generals 2-1 Saturday afternoon at Pete Lee Field. Lee took a 1-0 lead in the third inning when Randy Hooks scored on a single by Johnny Morgan.

General pitcher Danny Wachs pitched well enough for that to stand up, but a costly error enabled Jones, Selma's ninth-place batter, to hit his winning single. David Evans reached on an error to open the fifth. David Lipham laid down a sacrifice bunt, but the Generals threw the ball into right field putting runners on second and third. One out later, Jones delivered. Jordan, 1-0, was in constant trouble the last three innings, but he stayed ahead by stranding two runners in the fifth inning, two in the sixth and three in the seventh.

Lee had the bases loaded with one out in the seventh but Jordan fanned two straight batters to end the game. Wachs, 0-2, allowed only four hits and two walks while striking out 11. Lee, 1-2, will play Huffman Monday afternoon at 3:30 in Birmingham. SELMA OHO I I 4 I LEE 001 000 I 1 7 3 Jordan and Jones; Wachs and Selph. W-Jordan (1-0); L-Wachs 10-2).

3B-Manning (Lee). Lady Tiders win meet TUSCALOOSA The University of Alabama women's track and field team captured eight of 15 first places to win its third consecutive Alabama Invitational meet here Saturday. AUM signs Fencher BIRMINGHAM Barry Fencher, a 6-foot-6, 200-pound center from Lawson State Junior College, has signed a basketball grant-in-aid with Auburn-Montgomery. Fencher, who played at Wenonah High School, averaged 22 points and 11 rebounds as a sophomore at Lawson, scoring in double figures in all 31 games. He shot 68 percent from the floor and had a season-high 43 points against Alexander City, and was named All-Alabama Junior College Conference.

"Barry gives us our first true center," said Senator coach Larry Chapman. "He will make our other frontline players better because they now can play facing the basket. "We feel fortunate to sign a player of Barry's ability. Not only is he a fine player, but he is also a fine person and a good student." Oldfield, Floyd lead U.S. TOKYO (AP) Shot putter Brian Oldfield and sprinter Stanley Floyd led American athletes to 13 victories in the Sunkist International Indoor Track and Field meet Saturday.

France, Italy and Sweden won one even each in the one-day meet held on a special track built over the 1964 Olympic swimming pool. Thirty-three athletes from nine countries competed against a select Japanese It was almost a disaster. i Scouts came down to see him play. In a doubleheader, Hunt cracked four home runs and threw out several base runners. But in the last game of the summer, Hunt ran out a ground ball to first base.

When he stepped on the base he felt his knee give. He had to have knee surgery. The Yankee scouts did not give up on him. "They offered me a contract, but they wanted me to wait out the rest of the year. I talked to my parents about it.

It was a big decision. I knew I might get another chance (to be drafted). I thought I could go to school and have something to fall back on. I had an opportunity to go to Mississippi State, Florida State and Alabama. Alabama was just beginning to sink more money into its baseball program.

It is going to get stronger and stronger, so I chose Alabama." He has not disappointed the Crimson Tide or Yankee scouts. With the Yankees showing a lot of interest still, Hunt had one person he could talk to about the organization. It just so happened that Oscar Gamble plays outfield for the Yankees and lives in Montgomery. "Oscar's brother and my dad work together," said Hunt. "Oscar has got a gym in his backyard.

We got together a couple of times and worked out. Oscar is really impressed with the Yankee operation." Hunt feels he might stand a real good chance of playing in the Yankee organization, even as soon as this summer. "Their minor leagues are not filled with catchers," he said. "I would have a better chance with them than some other clubs." A couple of good weekends, with Yankee scouts watching him, and Hunt could be on his way up in June. A team is not allowed to offer a college player a contract until the school season is over.

"My knee feels good as new. All I need is a couple of good weekends. I could be hitting .400. "I have never started out strong at the beginning of a season, but I am far ahead of the game this year. I usually end up stronger at the end of the year." With a good year, Randy Hunt could be wearing those pin striped Yankee uniforms in early Trinity girls lose Trinity High School's girls tennis team dropped a pair of season-opening matches to Mobile schools Friday and Saturday.

J.T. Wright swept the doubles matches en route to a 6-3 win over the Wildcats while St Pauls Episcopal downed the hosts by the same count. Wright moved to 2-0 while St. Pauls advanced to 4-0. Trinity travels to Hopeville Monday for a 2:30 p.m.

match, singles Tavlor (W) def. Anderson J-6. 6-1. Montgomery (T) def Kedderman 7-. 7-5.

Stiegler (W) def. Fox 14. 6-4; Noblin IT) def. Torbet 7-8. $-3; Carringlon (T) def.

Yelverton 8-1, 6-4; Weinacker IW) def. Ashurst 6-1. 60. DOUBLES Fedderman-Tavlor IW) def. Anderson-Fo 4-6.

8-1, 6-0; Stiegler-Torbet iW) def. Montgomery-Noblin 7-5, 82; Weinacker-Powell (W) def. Ashurst-Carrington 84, 1-6. 83. SINGLES Tavlor ISP) def.

Anderson 6-2. 8-3; Wilson (SP) def. Montgomery 6-1. 6-3; McDonough ISP) def. Foi 82.

3-8. 8-2; Lee runs Saturday in the Berry Relays in Birmingham. Jeff Davis wins net title Jeff Davis High School narrowly edged Montgomery Academy for the championship of the first Montgomery high school tennis championship Saturday at O'Connor Tennis Center. Jeff Davis scored 45 points in the six singles events (a win was worth two points) and three doubles events (a win was worth three points) while Montgomery Academy totaled 41. Kyle Anderson won the No.

1 singles championship, defeating David Baggett 6-2, 6-3. Huntingdon golfers second MOBILE The Huntingdon Hawks golf team shot a 305 to finish second in a three-team match here Saturday. Spring Hill fired a total of 301 to take first place, while South Alabama shot 306 to round out the field. Marty Kennedy of Spring Hill had the best round, firing a 69, while Fred Frost was Huntingdon's medalist with a round of 74. Huntingdon will participate in a tournament hosted by Jeff Davis Junior College In Brewton Thursday.

Perkins leads JD win TROY Jeff Davis' Al Perkins slammed a solo home run in the top of the seventh here Saturday to break a long 1-1 deadlock and give his team a 2-1 win over Charles Henderson. Both teams scored a run in the first inning and could not get a run across until Perkins' homer. Tommy Wachs, 2-0, was the winner as he hurled seven innings, giving up six his and striking out one. Mike Lott drew the loss for Charles Henderson. Jeff Davis 106 Mt 1 1 1 1 Hendersoa 106 6O0 1 6 Wachs; Lott.

W-Wachs (2-01. L-Lott (0-1). 2B-(JD) Perkins. 3B-IJD) McEnerny. HRs-UD) Perkins.

Palmer wins spring run Ed Palmer toured the course in 25:29.6 to win the Montgomery Track and Running Club and South YMCA's five-mile spring run. Claudia Ellis ran the course in 34: 13 to win the women's segment. Bobby Parrish won the two-mile run with an adjusted time of 11:06 and Rochelle Heiss was the top woman runner with a time of 12:58. A total of 173 runners ran the five-mile race and 108 ran the two-mile race. The Montgomery Track and Running Club team of Jim.DeBartoli, Hardwick Gregg, Bill McGee and John Chappell won the team title.

Tide spring training spirited TUSCALOOSA Alabama's second day of spring football training on Saturday was spirited, but not very exciting, Coach Paul Bryant said. The coach said he missed seeing some of last year's senior players, adding, "We're a long, long way from Tip-perary." Bryant said the practice was satisfactory, and, "We went through some learning periods and worked on fundamentals. We will continue to pep it up as we go along." The Tide resumes drills on Monday. Defense marks Reb scrimmage OXFORD, Miss. (AP) Defensive whallop kept the scoring low as the University of Mississippi football team held its first spring scrimmage Saturday.

On the TV channel refers to that cable SUNDAY. MARCH 22 Basketball NBA Basketball. 12 noon I WCOV -Channel 2) St. Joseph vj. Indiana, 12 noon (WSKA-Channel 11) Wichita State vs.

LSU, 2 m. IWSFA-Channel 11) Tenuis Noblin IT) def Mostellor 6-1. 8-2; Carringlon (T) def. Knight 6-4. 4-8, 8-4; Myers (SF) del.

Ashurst 84. 6-1. DOUBLES Taylor-Wilson (SP) def. Anderson-Fos 82; iTi def. McDonough-Mostellor 8 5, Knight-Myer (SP) del.

Asnurst-camngton 82. Hi. Edgewood romps 19-1 AUBURN Edgewood Academy opened its baseball season in fine style Saturday as it blasted Lee Academy 19-1. Edgewood banged out 11 hits as Joel Allen hurled a no-hitter in three innings and Joey Morris floowed up with two innings of no-hit ball. Todd Pelham led his squad with a home run and a single and Billy Hen derson added a single and a double.

Barracudas 19th ATLANTA The Montgomery Bar racudas found themselves in 19th place going into Sunday's action here Saturday night in the Region 3 swimming cham pionships. Heidi Nelson placed 20th in the 50-yard freestyle, John Stem placed 18th in the 200-yard breastroke and Beth Haney placed eighth in the 100 and ninth in the 200 freestyles. Troy State wins two TROY Danny Cox fired a three-hit shutout here Saturday afternoon as Troy State University won its 11th straight game 6-0 and completed a Gulf South Conference doubleheader sweep of the team in 17 events. Oldfield started the U.S. winning spree, capturing the shot put with a heave of 69 101 1 inches.

Floyd, ranked the top sprinter in the world, won the mens 60-meters in 6.61 seconds, with Guy Abrahams of Panama second in 6.82. Then Dedy Cooper's won the men's 60-meter hurdle in 7.84. Washington won the women's 60-meter hurdleds in 8.37, beating four Japanese, and Jeannette Bolden took the the women's 60-meter dash in 7.21. Tide trackslcrs win 6 events TUSCALOOSA Mississippi State won seven events and Alabama claimed first place in six in the non-scored Alabama Invitational Track Meet on Saturday. The outdoor meet featured 12 collegiate teams from Mississippi and Alabama.

Participating were Alabama. Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Southern Mississippi, Mississippi College. South Alabama. Troy State, Jacksonville State, Jefferson State and Lawson State Junior Colleges of Birmingham, the Alabama Track Club and the Marine Corps. Jacksonville State Gamecocks.

Outfielder Mike Rolfes went 3-for-4 and drove in four runs, leading Troy State a 9-6 win in the first game. World Championship Tennis, 12 noon (WKAB-Channel 4) Golf Troy State, 11-3, will host Tuskegee Tournament Players Championship, 3 (WCOV-Chan- nei a i Hockey Sunday in a 1 p.m. doubleheader. Jack sonville fell to 8-6. llama splits double-header New York Rangers vs.

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1 Eipn March 21. 1Mt SERVICE $21 95 Shocks EXTRA HEAVY DUTY TUSCALOOSA Mississippi State and Alabama split a rain-shortened Southeastern Conference baseball double-header on Saturday night. The Bulldogs came from behind to capture the opener 5-3. Alabama grabbed the four-inning nightcap 2-1. Alabama leads the SEC West Division with a 4-1 record and is 13-3-1 in all games.

Mississippi State now is 14-4 overall and 4-3 in the league. Lee track team 3rd PRITCHARD The Robert E. Lee Generals tallied 58 points to finish third in the Pritchard Invitational Saturday in a high school track meet. The Davidson Warriors of Mobile finished first with 76 points, with Murphy of Mobile placing second with 60 points. Rounding out the field were Vigor with 37 points, Williamson with 36, McGill-Toolen with 33 and Blount with 6.

Citronelle and Shaw also participated but failed to score. Lee, behind the foursome of Abe Ball, Edwin Bradford, Rolandra Bradford and Orlando Jones, won the two-mile relay with a time of 8:16.9. Lee also took firsts in the sprint medley and in the mile relay Ball, Jones, Rolandra Bradford and Perry Williams were instrumental in the Generals' winning the sprint medley, with Ball, Jones, Williams and Tine Felder composing the mile-relay team. Also making a good showing for Lee Women Avon Championships. 6 30 (USA-Channel 101 Women's Avon Championships.

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Sandra Franklin is third in singles. Julia Joseph retained her lead in the scratch segment of singles with a 618. Atmore's Doris Jones and Gladys Quails retained their doubles lead with a 1,340. Greenville's Ann Swindle and Geraldine Crenshaw are second at 1,335. Joyce Ammons and Karen Ward of Andalusia moved into first place in the scratch segment of the tournament with an 1,124.

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