The Messenger from Madisonville, Kentucky • 11

Sports The Messenger Madisonville, Friday August 28, 1981 1 1 Christian is a really game Chopper on down tonight on crutches, but hes rid of them now: He cant say when he may be ready to resume football, because the puncture wound from his camp accident is completely well yet. Uniformity: Long-time fans of the Maroons will notice the return to the traditional block decal on the helmets, but new maroon pants will be worn for the first time in Tweddells tenure as coach. Does anyone remember the last time a M-NH or Madisonville High team wore maroon football pants? Seats, please! Blon Burgess, who handles much of the business matters as secretary at Madisonville-North, says that about 500 Of the 927 reserved section seats have been sold already. She also said earlier this week that-many-people still had not picked up those purchased tickets. Also, tonight will be the last night that season -reserved seat ticket-purchasers may buy the full six-game set for $20.

Season tickets will be sold at the gate, tonight. Burgess also says, Good seats ar still available. medium to long range against "'Caldwell. With all of the size in front of him, Tweddell and line coach Jim Hunter see stopping Smith as a key. Backfield coach Jim Biles says that Christians quarterback, Phil Brooks, also poses a bigger threat as a passer than did Hopkinsville.

While the Maroons werent hurt Tiy'the pass by the Tigers, Hoptown did have several people breaking clear-on pass routes, only toJe over- or under-thrown. Last year, the Maroons pass defense was an early plus, and Biles says of Brooks, Hell be a big test for those three seniors (Dwight Carney, Kelvin Gray, and Phillip Nicholson) that I have back there. The Maroons also face a team that will have no starters going both ways, while some five Maroons will be going both ways, once again. The energy levels of the two teams late in the game could be another factor. On the other side of the fence, first-year Christian Countycoaeh Dan Goble, who built a successful, program at Louisville Atherton, a traditional have-not Jefferson County football circles, showed admiration for the He said he is particularly impressed with tailback Terry Mimms, who had 223 yards rushing against Hopkinsville.

He calls Mimms something else. Players of the week Nicholson, defensive back; Bob Herrmann, offensive lineman; -and David Williams, defensive lineman. Tony Dulin was awarded the "best hitter" award. (Photos by Ed Noble) This week's honors for efforts In the Hopkinsville game go to Terry Mimms (above, being congratuated on the season's first touchdown) as offensive back of the week; and (below, left to" right! Phillip Hopkinsville in last weeks openerTTosses on their way to an 0-3 start. By LISA ENGELHARDT Staff Writer Up In the sky I Its a bird; itsa plane.

No, its the Big Maroon Madlsonvllle-North football fans will get a chance to see their mascot in person at approximately tonight as he brings in the game ball in a helicopter. The idea was the brainchild of Big Maroon Fan Club officers in an effort to give their schools spirit a better image. Some people have said we have bad senior Kent i Wade, BMF Club president, said. They say the only spirit 'we can come up with is to cut down the other school. I wanted to get a spirit that is more constructive than destructive.

It was decided something was needed to kick off the first home game for the Maroons. The officers hit upon this idea, and a friend of Wades made the arrangement for the helicopter, to be flown by Don Bowles, Madisonville. It (the chopper) will take off from the Badgett offices, near McDonalds, Wade said. It will land a few minutes later in the football field, discharge its cargo and take off again. It will be right after the players have left the field after their warm-ups and right before the band goes on the field, Wade said.

Use of the helicopter is being donated to the dub. The only thing thats going to 'cost us is to rejuvenate the costume, the president stated, explaining tue costumes papier-mache head had taken more abuse than it could stand last year, so the club made a new one. While tonights event is probably the most ambitious, it is by no means the only effort Wade and his officers will be making to boost spirit, not only in the community, but at MNHHS. Victory dances, sticker sales and free clickers are all in the works, and the president has been trying to publicize his club in the school. We had SO members last year, and we only had juniors and seniors.

We hope to get freshmen and sophomores this year. We hope to have 100 members. An ambitious goal even for the Big Maroon. In another effort to get the old school spirit moving, the Madisonville Pep Club has (decorated downtown store windows with slogans in honor of the game tonight. 4 I4 Hey, If the Maroons are to continue their giddy, new and together attitude, a win tonight would almost be a must.

For one thing, it would be a win over a legitimately good team, and could be the forerunner of good things to come. With all ue talk about improved attitude, improved outlook, and an improved season, a win tonight would, indeed be something to savour. While the Colonels are big, and seem to be able to wear down smaller, weaker teams Tweddell 'sees some other important "factors entering into the game. He said yesterday afternoon that his team can win, but must not continue last weeks flag dropping ceremonies. If his team gets 16 penalties tonight, they may not be able to overcome them.

He thinks that his team must also stop Christians-tailback, Rod but he is far from beingready to-Smith, who had three scores from P- was a ast 'Veek: The Area Schedule: In Big Eight Conference match ups tonight. Union County (next weeks foe) visits Calloway County, Owensboro Senior hosts Evansville Central, Daviess County entertains Tell City, and Henderson County is at Evansville Reitz. Last night, Apollo beat Owensboro Catholic 16-7, the first time the Eagles have ever beaten the -Aces. In other teams involved in the Maroons schedule, Hopkinsville is at Ft. Campbell, Warren Central hosts Warren East, and Caldwell County is at home to play Crittenden County.

Webster County opens at Crit-tenden next week. Frosh Take Scrimmage The M- NH freshmen scrimmaged at Caldwell County last night, and scored four times in a controlled situation, to two for Caldwell. Frosh assistant Joe Kluepfel said that Caldwell head varsity coach A1 Giordano feels this may be his best frosh several years. Each team had possession of the ball from their own 20 several times during the contest, running 15 plays, then giving up the ball. The Maroons scored twice in those situations, once on a fiv-yard run by Steve Baker set up by a 20-yard scoot by T.J.

Combs. The other came on a 40-yard option keeper-by quarterback Ken Bostick; The two teams then went at each other in goal line situations several times, with each team getting six plays inside the other 10. The Maroons scored on a second- down pass from Bostick to Tim Broady, and on a fourth-down 10-yard counter by DeWitt Rhoden. -Caldwell scored one time in each-sequence, both on passes. SEC he added.

Three of the four teams in the NCAA finals (Virginia, North Carolina and Louisiana State) were CFA members, Hagan said, and 10 of the final 16 teams belong to the CFA. The CFA is obviously going to get the creme de la creme and I think the CFA could have one hell of a tourney. Anyway, NBC already has the TV rights to basketball, so theres no problem Hagan said he was not yet concerned about the possibility that UK and Lexington would lose the right to host the 1985 NCAA finals. Thats too far off. We cant be overly concerned about that, he said.

awesome attack of three walks, an error, a fielders choice and a single to score four times and beat the Tigers for the first time in nine tries this season. The As built a 5-1 lead at Boston, only to see the Red Sox rally and take a 6-5 victory on Dwight Evans two-run homer in the eighth. Elsewhere, it was Cleveland 12, Seattle Texas 5, Milwaukee Baltimore 6, California the Chicago White Sox 3, the New York Yankees 1 in a game called in the bottom of the eighth because of rain, and Kansa City 11, -Toronto 5. They could have won by something like 35-0, had they cut their 16 penalties in half and cleaned up their blocking techniques Just slightly. On the other hand, three Hopkinsville fumbles and a blocked punt led directly to two of the three Madisonville-North scores, so the jury should still be Out on just how good the 1981 Maroons can become.

On the other hand, Christian County scored 20 of its 33 points in the fourth quarter, wearing down a smaller, thinner Caldwell County. Two years the Maroons opened with a narrow win over Christian County in the 1979 season opener. The Maroons went on to post a 6-4 season, the first winning season in almost a decade, That was Tweddells first opening win, and his first win over Christian County. Last year, the Maroons gave away a sure first of two heartbreaking Hagan: LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -University of Kentucky Athletics Director Cliff Hagan says self preservation is the Southeastern Conferences top priority during the College Football Associations dispute with the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Hagan also indicated UK officials would vote with the SEC majority to accept the CFAs controversial television contract with NBC. The NCAA negotiated contracts with ABC and CBS and threatened to expel CFA members if they approved the NBC contract. We consider the conference the most important organization were affiliated with, Hagan said. The No. 1 goal is to keep the conference intact.

CFA members tentatively ap UK will stay with He said his defense held Caldwell County to 88 yards on the that he would welcome another effort against the likes of Mimms. -He said that his defense graded well on film, but that the Maroons defense should create problems for him. He said -that the -alignment-is-something you just dont see every day. You have to be big," quick" to play" they (the Maroons) can play it! Maroon Madness: Joe Curry, the promising sophomore tight end from Vincennes, did not dress for last weeks game because his eligibility papers had not cleared yet. However, indications are tha he is likely to see action tonight.

If you wondered who No. 54 was at linebacker last week, it wasnt sophomore Wayne Phillips, but senior Phillip Kittinger. Kittinger was in at linebacker after being the -center on a punt. Since interior linemen1 tackle to Tackier cant" wear a number less than 50 nor higher than 79, even on a punt, the coaches made a jersey to slip on over his regular No. 10.

He was in for severaLplays before he could get out to doff the cover-up. Senior fullback Daniel Morgan has been with the team all week, NCAA its television plan with CBS and ABC is unacceptable. The NCAAs TV revenues would be split among all its members Proceeds from the CFA-NBC contract would be divided only among CFA members. The NCAA has vowed to make CFA members ineligible for tournaments or TV appearances in all sports if they break ranks. That presumably would weigh heavily on Kentucky and other schools with strong basketball programs.

But Hagan said, Were going in with unity from both our football and basketball coaches. Theres no problem with that The prospect of a NCAA basketball tournament with only two major conferences the Big Ten -andthePacific10 respresented is not very appealing, edged Houston 3-2, Montreal bombed Cincinnati 12-0, St. Louis nipped San Diego 3-2 in i3 innings and San Frahcisco trimmed Pittsburgh 5-4 in 13 innings. OK students, the lesson for tonight is: theres no such thing as a sure thing. The Detroit Tigers and Oakland As learned that the hard way Thursday night and the beneficiaries were the Minnesota Twins and Boston Red Sox.

The Tigers, coasting along behind Dan Petry, leading Minnesota 3-0 heading into the bottom of the ninth, saw the Twins use jan By JIM GRIESCH Sports Editor Practice for week number two is over. Once again, it is time to play football. For the Maroons of Madisonville-North, it is a big game. First of all, Christian County, tonights foe (8 p.m. kickoff in Maroon Stadium) is a physically imposing team.

The Colonels are a junior-ladened team that is bursting to the seams with good football players, a new coach, and a tradition of playing well against Madisonville-North. The Colonels can send out an offensive line- with fourstarters who weigh between 190 and 220 in the offensive line, and a couple of 200-pound fullbacks. The defensive line is built around three players weighing between 205 and 245, and a linebacker in Gary Dixon who can destroy running backs with a single blow. The Maroons are coming off an easier-than-it-seems 19-6 win over S- C4 'Vt A Hi ball! proved the NBC contract during a meeting last week in Atlanta. The vote was 6-3 for the contract among SEC schools, with Kentucky abstaining.

Hagan predicted a vote of 8-2 or 7-3 in favor at next weeks SEC meeting. the majority of the conference wants to go with the CFA, you go with the conference or you get out, he said. As far as Im concerned, there is no NCAA without the CFA. Hagan listed four options for the conference and its members First, we could vote together to accept CFAs position, he said. Second, we could vote against CFAs television plan.

Third, we could get out of the conference. Fourth, we could try and get the CFA vote delayed and go tell the Now he is pitching again like he did in April winning his last two starts, including a 6-0, four-hit victory over the Chicago Cubs Thursday night. He also had 10 strikeouts, giving him 137 for the season, the most in the majors, as he improved his record to 11-4. I was trying not to waste any pitches and everything I was throwing was working, Valenzuela, the major leagues first 11-game winner, said through an interpreter. I probably surprised them, I used more fast balls tonight.

In other NL games. New York Valenzuela stumps Chicago, 4-0 By the Associated Press Fernando Valenzuela, already in the running for National League Rookie of the Year, the Cy Young Award and Most Valuable Player, could even make a case for Comeback Player of the Year If that award allowed turnarounds within the same season. The sensational Mexican lefthander had been mired in a terrible slump after pitching five shutouts and compiling an 8-0 record and a 0.50 earned run average in his first eight starts this year. But in his next eight outings, his figures were 1-4 with a 6.51 ERA. Mike O'Berry of the Reds turns his head in mid-air to watch Ray Knight's throw sail past him as Rodney Scott scored one of 12 Montreal funs in a 12-0 white washing of Cincinnati.

He came in on Gary Carter's double. (AP Lasarphoto).