Page 8, Thursday, October 14,1999 News for Southern Colorado County, Texas — The Eagle Lake Headlight n This i i Week's i SPORTS i Action! i 3rd RMC Classic-'a lot of fun on a golf course Date Team, Place & Time i Thurs., Oct. 14 Raider football vs. Hitchcock*, Here, 6:30 p.m. i On Sept. 18, the 3rd Annual Rice Ernie and Lonnie Sommerlatte. Garcia. The gallery of RMC Employee Fit, Oct. 15 Lady Raider volleyball at Hitchcock*, TBA Medical Center (RMC) Classic was 4 th Flight: 1 st place, Buck Fuchik Highest Score: Bill Eide and Wil- Volunteers cheered on the players at Raider varsity football at Hitchcock*, 7:30 p.m. i held at the Eagle Lake Golf Course. and Lynn Williams; 2nd place, Dr. liam Cully. the start of Hole #5. Tues., Oct. 19 Lady Raider volleyball at Stafford*, 5 p.m. i Ninety players from all over the Len Bornstein and Dale Luton; 3rd Second Highest: Joe Lee Perez A special thank you to the RMC Thurs., Oct. 21 Raider non-varsity football at Needville*, 6:30 p.m. i state came out to play in what many place, Barbara Pidgeon and Hector and Bill Phillips. Employee Volunteers who gave of Fit, OcL 22** Raider football vs. Needville*, Here, 7:30 p.m. i described as "the most fun they have their time to make the golf tournament Lady Raider volleyball vs. Needville*, Here, 5 p.m. had on a golf course." Adding fun for not only successful but a lot of fun as - *District competition **Homecoming i the players were special prizes given well! j for hitting a ball in the water at the duck and fish ponds and the "in the circle" holes (putting a ball inside a 10 foot circle on the Par 3 holes). Lady Raiders face Lady Jays, Bulldogs RMC's Myrt Ostrowski, dressed as a Keystone Cop, patrolled the Another district match has come positions that they are not familiar Several other players contributed course issuing tickets for such things and gone. playing, but they adjusted well. We during the match and their work is to as failure to control a drive, putting On Oct. 5, the Lady Raiders trav- fought long and hard, but unfortu- be commended. without a permit, impersonating a eled to Needville for competition. nately we could not hold off the Lady golfer, assaulting a golf ball and legs Looking at the scoreboard, one Jays. It was a great effort by all the The last match of the first round of too ugly for those shorts. Myrt col- might think the Lady Raiders did not players." The score ended up being volleyball was played Oct. 8 when the lected over $350 in "fines" from the show up ready to play, but they did 14-16. Sweeny Bulldogs traveled to RHS for golfers. several things right, said their coach. "Next time we play Needville, we the match. Winners were: Coming outof thelockerroom, the will have the home court advantage The Lady Raiders played hard, but 1st Flight 1st place, Frank Andres girls had the intensity in their favor and we hope that it will payoff. We came out a few points shy of winning and Brad Dumont; 2nd place, Dan and they kept it through warm-up, but want the score to be just the opposite- the match, 10-15,9-15. Moeller and Major Benge; 3rd place, then something happened. Somehow in our favor," she added. According to Coach Dietrich, Randy Ahlschlager and Todd Barton. they lost the spark. "The girls surprised Sweeny with their 2nd Flight: 1st place, James Ro- The team did things the right way, Team leaders for the hard fought efforts to keep the games close." driguez and Jesse Rodriguez; 2nd but they just could not get a break. The match were Jacqueline Thomas, five place, Paul Francoeur and Karl score of the first game was 3-15, kills; Angela Phillips, 12 assist; Shan- Waligura led the team in blocks (3) Doetsch; 3rd place, Danny Dequeant Needville's favor. na Waligura, three blocks; Shelley and in kills (6). Phillips had eight and Les Krancher. According to Coach Dietrich, Boenisch, Patricia Najera and Phillips assist for the match and Janna Janish 3rd Flight: 1st place, Chris Hyek during the second game, the girls had two digs each; and Thomas, Phillips and Najera each had one dig. and Robert Biamet; 2nd place, Rusty Bill McNeal of Lubbock received his ticket from Myrt Ostrowski, RMC's to step it up and overcome some major and Najera also had one service ace a Najera also led in scoring, she had Roark and Bennie Machac; 3rd place, Special Peace Officer, during the RMC Classic. Photo Courtesy of RMC obstacles. "We had several players in piece. six points for the match.

**™%* COLUMBUS HEALTH & Turnovers cost Raiders game against Sweeny Friday night at Raider Stadium, come such a deficit," he added. FITNESS CENTER the Rice Raiders lost to the Sweeny Rice had a couple of sophomores Far Bulldogs 41-13. run the ball with power and desire. Downtown Columbus Halloween came early for the "Jerry Cleveland and Conrad COLUMBUS Raiders as they were tricked and "Beefy" Diggs had good games. Sweeny was treated... treated to six When our running backs play well, turnovers. our line is blocking well. The Raiders fumbled the ball away "We'll put this game behind us five times during the night, killing any look on to Hitchcock," Roark added. chance to bid for an upset against the Hitchcock beat Needville by three 15% OFF Bulldogs. touchdowns Friday, so the Raiders during the month of October, 1999 "We got behind so fast and so far expect another tough game. Come and see our newly remodeled we never recovered," said Coach Hitchcock is very dangerous of- Russell Roark. fensively with three weapons. They recreation center and basketball court. Rice fell behind 27-0 in the first have two receivers and one running quarter and could never regroup back that can go. 'More Bikes, More Treadmills, More Eliptical enough to threaten Sweeny. "We will try to match our best "We played fairly well from the against their best and see who is float- Walkers, New Pool Aerobics Programs." second quarter on. Once the avalanche ing at the end of the game," he con- stopped, we tried to dig ourselves out cluded. and managed to play decent football. Sweeny Rice Call 409-732-8023 They outscored us 14 to 13 in the finaT rarst downs 19 14 for more details! three quarters," Roark said. Rushes/yards 34/319 39/227 Substitutes were put in by Sweeny Comp-Att.-InL 24-1 12-19-1 in the second quarter, but in the third Passing yards 11 65 quarter, Sweeny had all their starters Punts/avg. 2/30 3/32 back in. Fumbles/lost 3/3 6/5 "Their starters didn't score in the Penalties/yards 0/0 7/48 second half. I was glad to see we had enough pride to come out in the sec- Score by Quarters ond half and play hard. It's only a 12 3 4 F consolation, but I was proud of our Sweeny 27 7 0 7 41 young men and their fight to over- Rice 0 7 0 6 13

During a great defensive set at the end of the second quarter of last Friday's game, Rice Raider #12, Conrad Diggs, got to the Sweeny Bull- dogs' quarterback, dropping him for a loss of 13 yards just one play after Raider Dante Fuller had sacked him for about eight yards; giving the Bulldogs third down and over 20 yards to go. Headlight Photo by Jeannine Fearing Johnny Rodriguez appearing at Rudolph's legend Johnny couraged Johnny to fly to Nashville in Rodriguez will be appearing at 1971. Twenty-year-old Rodriguez Rudolph's Place Saturday, Oct. 16, found himself stepping off the plane starting at 9 p.m. Rudolph's is located with nothing more than his guitar in on Spur 529 at 59 South (SW Free- hand and $14 in his pocket Soon he way) in Rosenberg. was fronting Tom T. Hall's band and The guest band will be Chris Chit- writing songs. sey who was born and raised in Austin. Less than a year later, Hall took +++M.US+ + + Chitsey grew up in a town known as Johnny over to the office of Roy Dea 'The Live Music Capital of the and , the record produc- World". His songs are performed with ers of Mercury's Nashville operation, 1DW QS QDown great feeling and depth. for an in-person audition. Dea offered Here's a little background infor- a contract on the spot after hearing mation on Johnny Rodriguez: Rodriguez. "/ Can't Stop Loving \M£EHtfWI O Interest Almost 25 years after he first ar- You" and "If I Left It Up To You." rived in Nashville, Johnny Rodriguez Roy Dea also produced Johnny's is right back where he started coming first session with Mercury before turn- \smmssm 0 Payments Raider #22, Jerry Cleveland, who was commended by Coach Roark for his full circle back to making the kind of ing over the rains to Jerry Kennedy, For Two Years* for 90 Days!* performance Friday night against the Bulldogs, picked up over 25 yards honest country music that he and his who went on to produce the majority on this carry before the defense could catch him down at the Sweeny 19 fans always enjoyed. of the 15 number one singles that fol- +++PLUS+++ yard line. Headlight Photo by Jeannine Fearing Bom Dec. 10, 1951, Rodriguez lowed. The first singles to reach Up to was the second youngest of 10 chil- number one being "Pass Me By". The ^J dren living in a four-room house in song raced up the country charts and *350 IN FREE ACCESSORIES! Sabinal, Texas, a small town about 90 put Johnny in the fast lane of the coun- miles from the Mexican border. try music world. His next single, "You When you buy a Grizzly 600 Automatic, an all-new Bulldogs bite Raiders Growing up in Sabinal, Johnny Always Come Back To Hurting Me", On Thursday, Oct. 7, the non-var- Sweeny scored twice more to take was an A-B student, captain of his didn't stop until it hit the top - the first Kodiak Automatic or the new Big Bear 400! sity Raider football team traveled to a 30-0 lead at halftime. junior high school football team, a of 11 consecutive # 1 records, some of Sweeny, as they started district play The Raiders held their own in the high school letterman and an altar boy which he wrote or co-wrote. RIOUX FARM EQUIPMENT against the Bulldogs. second half, giving up just two more at church. But it wasn'tall innocent. In His debut album, Introducing Sweeny used a quick-strike attack scores, but couldn't get in the endzone 1969, caught with friends stealing and Johnny Rodriguez, went to #1 on all 711 E. Jackson 013 Ave. F against the Raiders as they built a 14- on the offensive side of the ball, as the barbecuing a goat, he took the rap. three major trade charts and by 1973 El Campo 'YAMAHA Bay City 0 lead at the end of the first quarter. Bulldogs defeated the Raiders 43-0. It was this jail visit that gave he was nominated by the Country 409-543-6901 409-245-0303 As the second period started, the 'The Raiders were beaten by Johnny his first break. Music Association for "Male Vocalist

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