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ports News Thursday. Feb. is. 1993 1b News Messenger In Brief ETBU to indmet ffouiF into Mall Larry Ostteen Tommy Blake C.F. Kuykendall Richard Jones Four alumni will be inducted into the East Texas Baptist University Athletic Hall of Fame at the annual banquet to be held in conjunction with other Homecoming activities this Saturday.

The banquet, to be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Edwards Conference Center of the Rogers Spiritual Life Center, will honor Larry Ostteen, Tommy E. Blake, C.F. Kuykendall and Richard Jonesi Joe Moore, a resident of Marshall and inductee into the 1988 ETBU Athletic Hall of Fame, will serve as master of ceremonies. The banquet will be preceded by a reception at 5:30 p.m.

in the foyer of the Rogers Spiritual Life Center. These events will culminate a day of athletic activity at the university. The baseball team will host an alumni game at 1:30 p.m., to be followed with a basketball game featuring the Tigers against Schreiner College. All the inductees into the Hall had distinguished athletic careers at ETBU. Larry Ostteen was named All-Conference while playing baseball for the ETBU Tigers in 1973.

A popular student, he was the Dorm Council President, assistant dorm director, junior class vice president, ETBU baseball team assistant student Cool cat His list of accomplishments include: Honorable mention Ail-American as a pitcher in 1967; two-year letterman in basketball, where he played on the Tigers' Big State Championship squad in 1966; first recipient of the Top Tiger Award in 1967; and he was named Mr. Campus Personality in 1966. Jones entered full-time Christian ministry in 1971. He served as chaplain for the Atlanta Braves and Montreal Expos from 1982-88, during spring training. He has served as pastor of Cavalry Baptist Church in Long-view since 1988.

1:30 p.m. Alumi baseball game 3 p.m. ETBU Tigers basketball game vs. Schreiner College 5:30 p.m. Reception for ETBU inductees into Hall of Fame 6:30 p.m.

Banquet honoring Hall of Fame inductees 1 -1 -1 f--y'V y. Spring soccer set for Saturday kickoff Marshall THE MARSHALL YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION will start its spring season this Saturday at 10 a.m. The season will run six weeks and feature 24 teams ranging from Under-6 leagues to Under-16 leagues. Softball meeting set Marshall ON MARCH 1 there will be a mandatory softball coaches meeting held at the Marshall Civic Center. Baseball sign-ups set for early March MARSHALL MARSHALL YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION will hold registration for the 1993 season March 2, 4, 8 and 9 at the Civic Center from 6-8 p.m.

for ages 5-18 if the players are not registered through the mail-in process. Try-outs will be held for ages 7-14 on March 15-16, and all players trying out must be registered by March 9. Rates are $30 for one player, $55 for two players and $75 for three players or more. For more information, call 938-6323. Jefferson warms up for hoops playoffs jefferson THE JEFFERSON BULLDOGS basketball team, 17-9 overall and 7-3 in district play, will prepare for the playoffs by participating in two warm-up games.

Jefferson will host Tenena Friday night at 7 p.m., then take on Avinger in a 7 p.m. game on Feb. 22 at East Texas Baptist University. Jefferson will open the playoffs against New Boston, at Longview High School on Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m.

Kerry Von Erich wanted on warrant Dallas AN ARREST WARRANT has been issued for Kerry Adkisson known in the wrestling world as Kerry Von Erich. Dallas County Criminal District Judge Larry Baraka signed the warrant for Adkisson, following his indictment on a charge of cocaine possession. Adkisson is on 10 years' probation for a drug conviction in September. According to the indictment, which charges Adkisson with possession of a controlled substance of less than 28 grams, the wrestler was arrested by Irving police in January. Police confiscated 1.3 grams of a white powder suspected to be cocaine.

No progress made on commissioner phoenix BASEBALL OWNERS took a tentative first step toward increasing revenue sharing, but made no substantive progress on hiring a commissioner or restructuring his job. The actions taken and not taken during the two days of sessions just before spring training highlighted the drift in baseball's, executive circles since commissioner Fay Vincent's forced resignation last Sept. 7. Revenue snaring was the central issue of the meeting. Richard Ravitch, management's chief labor negotiator, told clubs they need to have a common financial interest in dealing with the Major League Baseball Players Association.

Bo works out SARASOTA, Fla. BO JACKSON took a few more steps in his bid to return to baseball with an artificial hip, working out at the Chicago white Sox camp a day before spring training officially starts. Jackson, who underwent hip replacement surgery last April, ran the bases, took batting practice and fielded grounders at first base during a 40-minute session. informs NCAA of potential fund Dallas TEXAS has informed the NCAA of a prominent alumnus' allegation that a recently banned booster was part of a secret attempt to organize a slush fund for payments to football players. Robert Smith, the Texas vice president in charge of rules compliance, said his office also will Investigate the allegation.

In a letter dated Dec. 26, Dallas businessman and civic leader Larry Ferguson a member of the 12th Man Foundation wrote school president William Mob-ley of the alleged activities of Warren Gilbert Jr. and two other well-known 12th Man members, J.L. Huffines Jr. and Thomas A.

O'Dwyer. Former Eagles owner says casino cost him CAMDEN, N.J.'- FORMER PHILADELPHIA EAGLE3 owner Leonard H. Tose told a ft ury an Atlantic City casino plied him uith Iran rtrlnka and encour aging him to gamble away millions at the blackjack table. shall Tigers the last year of their football program, 1938. He played in the "Oil Bowl" for the Tigers in Wichita Falls in 1938.

After football was discontinued at the college, it became necessary for him to earn an athletic scholarship at another school, so he played football at Sam Houston State Teachers College from 1940-42. He also ran track there. He was the principal of Pine Tree High School in Longview and retired as assistant superintendent of the Pine Tree School District in 1980. He now lives in Tatum, where he was born in 1921. Richard Jones, a semi-pro baseball player for 13 years, starred in athletics at ETBU from 1964-67.

Bills will get shot at Dallas DALLAS (AP) It won't be as good as another try at the Super Bowl, but the Buffalo Bills will get a rematch against the Dallas Cowboys in an Aug. 8 exhibition game in It will be the Super Bowl champions' second trip overseas in as many years. Dallas began last year with a 34-23 loss to the Houston Oilers in Tokyo. The Chicago Bears beat the Cowboys 17-6 in London in 1986. "We are excited to be going to London," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said.

"It's a trip that will not be as physically demandind on our players as last year's trip to Tokyo. But apparently that trip didn't hurt us too much last season." The Cowboys had not played the Bills since 1984 when they routed Buffalo 52-17 in Super Bowl XXVII last month. The and a regular-season game expected to be on the 1993 schedule will make three meetings in a year. Dallas had to rearrange its preseason schedule to fit in the London game. The Cowboys will now open the year with a home exhibition against the Minnesota Vikings on the weekend of July30-Aug.

1. The regular season begins Sept. 5-6. The NFL is not expected to release the league schedule until April. Nolan Ryan will soon be in Port Charlotte, Fla.

At 46, this will be the last roundup for the Ryan Express, who will set his 51st major league record this year by playing in his 27th season. Ryan, it seems, is one of the few players who didn't change teams during the winter. In case you missed reading the transactions column for a day or two, here are some of the stars in new places this spring: Barry Bonds, Greg Maddux, Andre Dawson, Dave Win-field, Dave Stewart, Paul Molitor, Wade Boggs, Doug Drabek, Jimmy Key, Jim Abbott, David Cone and Kevin Mitchell. coach and received the "Top Tiger Award" as the outstanding athlete of 1973. Ostteen coached baseball, basketball and football in Louisiana and Texas following graduation from ETBU.

He is now the vice president and general manager of Ostteen Construction Corp. in Mandeville, La. Tommy Blake starred for the ETBU Tigers in both baseball and basketball from 1971-75. He received All-Big State Conference honors for the 1972-73 seasons in baseball. He was the leading Tiger scorer and rebounder in 1973-74 and was team captain.

Blake got the same honors in basketball again during the 1974-75 season, plus being named to the All-Tour- Ik Nolan Ryan "I don't think I've ever looked forward to a spring training more than this year," Philadelphia Phillies president 1 1 4 ney Dallas Classic team that year. He had 1,463 points and 776 rebounds in his ETBU career. He now lives in Palestine. C.F. Kuykendall played football for the College of Mar- Bill Giles said, echoing the sentiment of many.

So there's no commissioner. So Marge Schott's suspension hasn't taken effect. So George Steinbrenner is about to come back. So contracts have zoomed even more into the millions of dollars. So what? Because starting today, wins and losses will again be counted in the standings, not the salary arbitration charts.

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All rights reserved. ONE COOL CAT The East Texas Baptist University "Tiger" will lead youngsters onto the court during halftime of tonight's basketball game against LeTourneau College for a free throw contest. The Royal Ambassadors, a Baptist church youth organization, will be sponsoring the regional event, bringing children to the game and awarding prizes for its free throw finals. The game starts at 7:30 p.m. (Photowaiien) Spring is in the air Baseball players finally ready to take the field Associated Press The long wait is over, baseball fans.

After another winter filled with too many things that only serve to draw the focus off the field, today is the day that everyone waits for: Spring training starts! At HoHoKam Park in Mesa, at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland and at Hol-man Field in Vero Beach, it's time for pitchers and catchers to report. More than half the 28 teams including the expansion Colorado Rockies begin camp today. By Friday, those clubs will be on the field for their first workouts..