The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 120

Sports singular i £4 A i A' IlL riO' -3Tv "t' liVt 4 dfc il i ft itesm 1 '-yv it? 4 nr' rs TlfeSAtVJfcA vitUJvfrbvli Vtrjsa- ifii victory Dade-Center hitter reverses his fortunes jfL -V vtiSrr -Yjt 'fe 'v v'V-' fcl 1hrx rf "vie A J- FIU coach talk basketball Students invited to free clinics For the second consecutive year Florida International University basketball Coach Rich Walker will take his knowledge to the community through a series of free clinics sponsored by Church's Fried Chicken The clinics which are meant for junior high and and high-school boys and girls will run from 9 a to noon on four consecutive Saturdays starting Saturday at Southridge High School 19355 SW 114th Ave Chicken will provide lunch for all participants The remaining clinics are: May 30 at Northwestern High 7007 NW 1 2th Ave June 6 at Edison High 6161 NW Fifth Ct June 13 at Carol City High 3422 NW 187th St "Our goal is to reach as many youngsters as we can and just try to continue to spread the gospel in terms of basketball" said Walker who will enter his seventh season at FIU in October "We want to get kids involved and not necessarily the blue-chip athletes or the college-bound athletes There are a lot of youngsters out there who like basketball and want to Students of the game will learn the art of basketball through passing dribbling and shooting drills and games and contests "Rich also brings a couple of students along who talk about the importance of staying in school and doing welL If they do well in school they get a chance to play basketball in said Steve Eckhardt coowner of the franchise for Dade and Broward counties Adam Terris holds the Dade-Center records for batting average and walks and tied the school records for hits runs and doubles By MIKE PHILLIPS It raid Sports Adam Terris is back Back from bad grades boredom and a broken wrist All the way back from fetching meat and cheese at Norman Bros Produce to becoming the best hitter in the history of Dade-Center baseball was an experience I feel like back where I started" said Terris who sat out a year and a half before returning to the diamond where he set a Dade-Center record for hitting with a 457 batting average this season He also set a record for walks (48) and tied school records for hits (80) runs (68) and doubles (18) Terris an All-Conference and All-State first baseman was named Monday to the Southeast District team which is composed of the best junior college players from Alabama Georgia and Florida got a good shot at All-American" said Dade-Center Coach Steve Hertz one step away" The awards and applause are part of life now Colleges are knocking on his door again with scholarship offers and his chances of being picked in next major league draft are high It too long ago that Terris was working at the meat section of Norman Bros Produce in South Dade That was after a baseball scholarship at Louisiana State Unversity slipped away with his grade-point average was just immature" said Terris 20 who became academically ineligible after his freshman season at LSU I got to LSU I got too hooked on baseball I just didn't study All I wanted to do was play baseball" Terris the only freshman starter on LSU's 1985 team had to sit out the season He became bored with school dropped out and came home to Kendall it have been for my father I never would have made it" Terris said got pretty depressed He gave me that mental edge worth a lot in baseball A lot of guys have the talent but that mental edge makes the Last September Terris returned to school and joined the Dade-Center baseball team he showed up in the fall it was hard to believe he was the same kid I saw at Killian said Hertz who coached at Southridge High before becoming the Dade-Center coach two years ago just get the bat around I believe how horrible he Hertz thought Terris might be bothered by a broken wrist he suffered in his final game at LSU when he rammed his hand into a catcher's mask while sliding into home Hert2 give up and about the middle of the fall season Terris started hitting "We were playing UM" Terris said I kept thinking about the guys I played against in high school who were with UM They were so far ahead of me It just killed me "It was really brutal I played in a year and a half and I was feeling it Then I started hitting and after that every at-bat was an adventure" Terris hit six homers in the last 12 games of the 20-game fall season and slow down during 42-9 regular season "He hits to all fields with Hertz said is such an intense player thinking the whole game" Batting in the third spot Terris hit seven homers and drove in 56 runs in 47 games The numbers could have been higher is as disciplined a player as ever Hertz said were so many times this year he came to bat with men on base and they would try to pitch around him But he swing at the bad pitch why he got so many walks" Terris also knocked out a 33 grade-point average this semester "I dedicated myself and I didn't worry about the he 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