Irving Daily News from Irving, Texas • Page 5

Srrond Krthur Tom Loew and Irving's Pat Curry ran ext to a Paris distance man as start the second leg of the 880 yard run. action took place in Satur, track meet at Carrollton. DAILY NEWS PHOTO By Bruce Bland, Grand ie Daily News. assa, Duke to start I TA baseball nine NGTON Baseball its bow as an mtercol sport for the Cniversi exas at Arlington today le Rebels open the 1969 against Tarleton State henville time is 2 on the diamond juniors, three fresh id two sophomores are starters for Coach easley and the starting will come from a trio hander Jim Abt or a southpaws. Dave Pos Henry Funkerson a 6 3.

184 pound senior Cleburne, Poston a an from Arlington High 4ped lead the Colls to a tournament last year js all district and Fulk from Fort Worth Dia- Hill via Cisco Junior atcher will be junior Merreil. also a Cisco College transfer who high school ball at Fort Richland Another juco McGee of tin College of the South a ill man first base fie irrett 15-18 mier Chevrolet and Inter- Optical had little Northwest Recrea iter Friday, scoring is over First Baptist on Center Friday, easy wins over First and Burger Chef in omen Basketball ac jumped out to an 10 point lead and First Baptist by a 45, while International easy time in sending Chef to a 48 18 set opener Marquitta jred in 14 and Wanda added 13 as Garrett First Baptist. Pat had 10 for the losers. won 17-6 from the 9-6 from the line, second game, Carolyn lg pumped in 20 id Eckey Smith added ternational big in. Iordan paced the los- eight the league will wind at Northwest with In al playing Garrett in opener At 8 45 p.m., Chef will play the old Dusters 45, First Baptist 18 Fitzgerald 5 3 13, Fore 7 Potts 7 0 14, Dodion 1 istubble Oil; Alexander pr.s 0 totals 17 9 45 1 2 4 Mitchell olmes 10 Churchill 0 2 0 0 Hill 0 0 0, McLeroy all 6 6 18 by quarters 15 8 12 10 45 ist 5 7 4 2 18 ional 50 Chef 18 2 2 6, Roberts ulware 0 0 Armstrong noglio 1 I Hankins 0 0 13; totals 20 10 50 Chef Jordan 3 2 8, Wag Wells I 0 2 Rubel 2 0 4, 2, Higginbotham 0 2 18 is from Dallas South Oak Massa at 2B At second will be freshman Joe Massa of Irving MacArthur Shortstop is Grand Prairie sophomore Brent Skill man while Sophomore Ronnie Green, a transfer from Texas Tech.

is at third He played in high school at Dallas Bryan Adams. Ourfielders will be freshman Uwd Sneed in left freshman Duke in center and junior Al Carter in right Sneed is from Prairie. Duke from Irving and Carter from Mount Pleasant ano Paris Junior College. Two other road games are on tap for the Rebels, both against TCT and both in Fort Worth Friday and Saturday Sports Slate TUESDAY Baseball Woodrow Wilton vs MacArthur, Woodrow Wilson Field, 4 p.m.; Irving vs Denton, Lively Field, 4 p.m. Tennis Irvmg vs Carrollton Carrollton Hiqh School Golf MocArthur vv McKinney, Irving Country Club, I 30 pm College Basketball Southern Methodnt vs Rice Moody Coliseum 8 pm, Texos Christian vs Texas A4M Daniel Meyer Coliseum.

7 30 College Freshman Basketball Texas Christian vs Texas Darnel Meyer Coliseum, 5 30 ABA Dallas Chaparrals vs New York Nets, long Island Arena, 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY Tennis Irv High vs Jesuit Jesuit High School Courts ABA Dallas Chaparrals Indiana, Indiana State Fairgrounds Arena, 8 10 pm THURSDAY Golf MacArthur vs Denton, North Tex as Country Club, 1 30 p.m Tennis Irving vi. Grand Prairie, Grand Prairie High School Courts IPAR Men's Church Basketball Irving North Christian vs Wood ridge Baptist, Lee Recreation Center, 7 15 p.m., Holy Family Catholic vs Plymouth Park Baptist, Lee Recrea tion Center, 8 45 p.m Baseball MacArthur Cardinals entered in Arlington Tournament, Randol Mill Field FRIDAY Baseball Irving vs. Denison, lively Field, 4 pm, MacArthur -entered in Arlina ton Tournament, Randol Mill Field and Turnpike Stodium. Golf MacArthur vs, l.D Bell, Diamond Oaks Country Club, 1 30 p.m.

IPAR Women's Basketball Garrett Chevrolet vs. International Optical, Northwest Recreation Cen ter, 7 15 p.m.; Burger Chef vs. C. Gold Dusters, Northwest Recreation Center, 8 45 p.m SATURDAY Baseball MacArthur entered in Arlington Tournament, Randol Mill Field and Turnpike Stadium Track Irving and MacArthur entered annual Possum Kingdom Relays, Graham, 9 a IPAR Northwest 13-15 Basketball Hawks vs Cistercian Prep, North west Recreation Center, 2 p.m.; Hornets vs Rtdgeciest Enco Eagles, Northwest Recreation Center 3 30 p.m. IPAR Northwest 9-12 Basketball Ridgecrest Enco Tigers vs.

Mus tangs, Northwest Recreation Center noon; MacArthur Baptist vs. Tigers, Northwest Recreation Center, noon; Ridgecrest Enco Eagles vs Mustangs, Northwest Recreation Center, 1 p.m.; Lions vs. Raiders, Northwest Recreation Center, 1 p.m. IPAR lee 13-15 Basketball Plymouth Park Baptist vs. Good Shepherd Lutheran, Lee Recreation Center, 1 30 p.m.; MocArihur Baptist vs First Methodist, lee Recreation Center, 3 p.m.

The Friday contest starts at 3 p.m. and the Saturday game at 2 p.m Massa was the starting cen terfielder for the zone champion Cardinals last season as the Irving resident hit 196 on the season In 4-AAAA competition Massa hit.130 on 23 trips to the plate Duke hit 500 on the season for Irving High as a center- fielder The Tiger also hit 524 in district with 11 hits in 21 attempts to win the team batting title. By JAMES DAVIS Daily News Sports Editor MacArthur and Irving track- sters will journey to the Possum Kingdom Relays Satur day after a rather slow start at the Farmers Branch Jaycees meet this past weekend Coach Buffa Fife's Cardinals scored 19 points in the 25 team field as the Tigers managed only two points for coach Bobby Hargraves Pat Curry scratched the Irving points when he took fifth place in the mile run at 4:34 9 Gary Sixkiller ran a 15.6 in the 120-vard high hurdles to place third and then jumped 20-7 for fifth place in the broad jump competition Mike Conners added two points for the Cardinals in the discus with a 143 10 12 toss and Jerry Pittman placed sixth in a strong two-mile run field at 10 40 1 Mac Arthur's sophomore mile relay unit of Ricky Nan- som. Greg Holmes. Ray Morales.

and Mike Cox ran 3:39,8 to take fourth and eight points, Cox also posted a 44.3 prelim time in the 330-yard intermediate hurdles as Wayne Hutchings ran 44 3. Prelims Nanson ran 53.3 in the 440- yard dash prelims while team mate Steve Cannon posted 17 8 in the high hurdles. Bobby Morris cleared 12-0 in the pole vault but failed to place. Paul Carlyle of Irving ran 54 4 and John Cardenas 57.0 in the 440-yard dash prelims while Leslie Morris posted 43.4 and Sam Walker 42 9 in the 330-yard intermediate hurdle prelims. Gary Mays ran a 10.3 to qualify for the 100-yard dash semi-finals while Kurt tenberg posted 10 5.

Walker posted 17.0 in the 120-yard high hurdle prelims in a slow heat while the Tiger sprint relay ran 44.0 to post the seventh fastest qualifying time. Irving then placed seventh in the finals as South Oak (Tiff won in 42.6 Kandy Wilburn, Sandy Painter. Mays, and Lechtenberg r.in for coach Hargraves Leonard Bowers, Mike Miller and Gary Maynard also failed to clear the qualifying heighth in the high jump pit. Coach Hargraves was without the services of Clayton Korver in the discus and James Howard did not take his turn in the high jump competition Korver was taking college entrance exams while Howard's legs are not yet conditioned for the high jump. Both will go full speed this week Greg Colchm.

Derek Hill, and Wright failed to clear the opening 11-0 pole vault heighth also. Top field The Possum Kingdom Relays at Graham will attract many of the top teams from West Texas, Fort Worth, plus L. Turner of Carrollton and other Dallas area entries. The big attraction this week is the Arlington Relays. Coach Fife left sprinters Gary Beach.

Ray Charles Jackson, and Jimmy Garrett at home with illness. Jackson is just coming out of basketball and Fife is concerned about the flu's effect on the probable 9 6 sprinter. If he's still weak and misses most of this week, then it'll hurt his progress," said Fife I think by district that we can be able to compete with any one in the sprints and relays So I'm hoping this is the end of our sick ness and that we can really get to work Coach Hargraves is also excited about his sprint relay foursome MacArthur's Ray Morales takes the handoff from Tom Lowe on a leg of the sophomore mile relay event at Carrollton Saturday. The pair, along with Rick Nanson and Steve Harrison, made up of a team that ran a 3:39.8, good enough for fourth in the event. DAILY NEWS PHOTO By Bruck Bland, Grand Prairie Daily News.

Tigers to host Denton; Cards at Woodrow Wilson Third plare? MacArthur's Gary Sixkiller hits the finish line just inches ahead of second placed winner B. Jones of Bryan Adams. However, the officials placed Sixkiller third at 15 6 in the 120-yard high hurdles. DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY Bruce Bland, Grand Prairie News. Dallas team captures IPAR womens tourney Rain plagued the local baseball season last spring and already the nemesis is at work on the 1969 slate.

MacArthur baseballers are scheduled to journey to Wood row Wilson while Irving is at home against Denton. However, heavy rains Sunday, cou pled with cloudy skies Monday. may force the postponement of the 4 p.m games today. Saturday the two schools opened the season with victories and Irving would like to make it two straight over the Broncos today. Irving czptured its 7-2 win Saturday as senior David Patrick went the seven inning distance, allowing only 10 hits and single runs in the third and fifth innings.

Last season Patrick worked 21 and one-thirds innings and allowed 14 runs and 21 hits while striking out 13. Bio hits MacArthur supplied Richard Towerys four hit pitching with timely base hits in dumping Sherman 11-2. Towery struck out five and walked only three. Teammate Tom Ladusau slammed out two doubles and two RBls while catcher Jerry Rhodes, left fielder John Lee and shortstop Mike Phillips collected two hits each Darrell Hammond also doubled in the 15-hit attack. Coach Ledbetter will send Bruce Gunlash to the mound today as right-hander Tom Ladusau nurses a sore arm.

Ladusau worked 47 innings last season, allowed 14 runs on 28 hits and struck out 14 MacArthur will enter the Arlington tournament Thursday-Saturday while Irving is at home Friday against Denison at Lively Park, Dallas Arnold Taylor came all the way back from a sec ond-round loss to win five straight games Sunday and capture the Irving Parks and Recreation Department Invitational Basketball Tournament. Arnold Taylor. last season's state inner in the Texas Amateur Athletic Federation meet, won its opener over one of the three Irving teams, Garrett Chevrolet, but then fell to co-favorite Wichita Falls Trincettes. But the Taylor team came back in the losers bracket with wins over International Optical of Irving, the Telephone Belles of Dallas, the Dallas Mets. Then they took two straight over the cettes.

Joey Powell was named Most Valuable Player of the meet, collecting 108 points in seven games, including 30 in the final tilt. First round Arnold Taylor opened the meet Saturday at Northwest Recreation ('enter with a 60-29 win over (iarrett. Powell hit 18 points in that game while Judy Boska added 16 Marilyn Grnat added 14 and Nancy Souther scored 11 For the los ers. Wanda Fitzgerald had 15 but she was the only player in double figures. The Trincettes stopped the Telephone Belles in the second game, 41-35.

while the Gold Dusters of Irving won their opener over the Raiders from Mesquite by a 53-34 total. Millie Allen had 16 points and Pat Ramsey 14 in the win while Zelda Russell scored 20 for the Raiders. In the final first round game. the Dallas Mets stopped International Optical by a 61-39 count as Wanda Fuller led with 36 points. Doris Labor added 11 and Betty West hit 10 for the winners while Carolyn Armstrong scored 19 and Verna O'hlausen hit nine for the Irving team.

Garrett Chevrolet was the first team to be eliminated in the Saturday afternoon action, falling to the Belles by a 42-29 score. Early lead Garrett led 9-8 after one quarter but fell back 27-11 by halftime and could never regain the lead. Moses led the winners with 20 points while Wanda Fitzgerald had 14 and Marquitta Potts eight for the Irving squad. International man- aged to stay alive for a while, eliminating the Raiders by a 46-32 count Carolym Armstrong led the win with 15 points while Roberts hit nine, For the losers Russel added 19 Tht Trincettes sent Arnold Taylor into the losers column Saturday evening, holding off a late rally for a 48 41 decision. And the Gold Dusters also slipped into the losers bracket, when they lost a close one to the Mets.

37-34 Wanda Fuller hit 17 points in that game while Millie Allen had eight for the Dusters 10 Falls Arnold Taylor eliminated International Optical in the final game Saturday, winning by a 59-32 score to keep alive. Powell had 13 in that game while Southers had 14. Marilyn Grant hit 12 and Bouska added 10. Armstrong hit 13 for the Irving team. In the opener Sunday morning, the Gold Dusters also left the scene, losing to the Telephone Belles by a 48-28 count.

Moses banged in 27 points for the winners while Ramsey had 11 for the losers. The Trincettes advanced to the finals in the second game Sunday, stopping the Mets 5238 Ann Adams had 25 points for the winners Arnold Taylor then kept in contention with a 62-38 win over the Belles as Southers poured in 22 points and Powell added 14 Taylor stopped the Mets by a 69-40 count in the next game as Grant hit 19 and Powell added 13 That set up the final The Trincettes needed only- one win to take the title while Taylor had to take two straight and the Wichita Falls entry No 2 in the state last year grabbed an early 16-9 lead to put Taylor in deep trouble. Big rally But Powell and Grant rallied the Dallas team and Tay lor trailed by only one, 24-23 at halfpme. Then, Taylor rallied for 29 points in the final half to force one more game. In the final, the 15th game of the tournament, Taylor went in front 26-25 at halftime after battling even in the first quarter Powell then led the big third quarter rally, which saw Taylor go in front 43-36.

and it was all over Taylor finished with a 6-1 core while the Trincettes were 3-2. Adams had 24 points for the losers in the finale, and finished with 87 points in five games. minor wres tic. take Dallas tournament Irving walked off with the junior wrestling championship Saturday at the Dallas Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsored Dallas County boys tour nament at C. Park in Dallas Irving YMCA wrestlers placed 16 junior wrestlers in the finals to win with 170 points, followed by Town North 115, Grand Prairie YMCA 99.

Dallas Boys Club, Inc. 82 and Mesquite 3. Jack Lawrence was the 55- pound champion. Cary Hvden took the 66-pound title. Tim Parish won the 69-pound and Mark Farish the 75-pound class championship.

Barry I.each won at 78 pounds, my Baker 110. Daryl Fulbright 120. and Ronnie Rowe as a heavyweight. Second place medals went to Kddie Nelson at 48, Frank Wilmoth 52. Greg Sturch 58.

Vick Lawrence 69. Benny Milau 72, Tommie Garnier 81 and Larry Beck at 120-pounds. Scotty Gifford took third place at 55 as did Jimmy Pair at 62. Tom Whitaker 75, Ben ton Nelson 98, Gary Beck 88, and David Whitaker 100. This Saturday the Irving 4earn will compete for the Texas YMCA wrestling cham pionships at Grand Prairie and will conclude the season at the Southwest area meet in Dallas on March 15.

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