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PORT
Bulldogs blitzed early, fall short on rally
Gabler hits 22, Eaker nets 21 to lead Altus scoring
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Woodward in a 6 p.m. game.
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8 12 13 12 - 45
Reeves says Falcons will
lake noise over weather
Sooners trip
And there's no question brace to protect an injury.
Chamblee holds one-shot lead
under 260 at the final Hawai-
ALTUS TIMES
Altus
Ardmore
early in the fourth quarter as
Taylor Tims hit a three-point-
er and sophomore Marty
Tucker knocked down back-
to-back treys to fuel an 11-2
in the playoffs for the first
time in his 11-year career. "I
spent a lot of time with bad
teams."
There's no question that
these two teams are the best
in the NFC — the Vikings were
15-1 in the regular season
and set an NFL record by
scoring 556 points.
in the conference.
The Lady Bulldogs, 11 in
the league and 4 6 for the sea
son, will face an even tougher
assignment Tuesday when
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Gabler led Altus with 22
tallies and 16 rebounds before
fouling out with 42 seconds to
go. Eaker was right behind
with 21 and Willie Williams al-
so hit double digits with 10 for
the Bulldogs.
Ardmore's superior quick-
ness. depth and free throw
shooting was the difference.
The Tigers got 17 points from
their bench compared to two
for Altus and cashed 14 of 20
charities to just seven of 12
for the Bulldogs.
Altus will return to action
Tuesday at home in a 7:30
Marple goes 5-0 to claim
third mat title of season
Bullpups third
in tournament
at Weatherford
Lady Bulldogs' scoring woes
continue in loss to Ardmore
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Please see *CHAMBLEE, page 5
Rebounding: Altus 35 (Peters 5. Tims 4,
A. Carney 4, Harris 4, C. Carney 3. Karner 3.
Fisher 2, Marple 1, Woolbright 1, Team 8).
Ardmore 23 (Hendricks 6. Blackburn 4.
McGee 3. Anderson 2, Stiles 2, Wallace 1.
Team 5).
Steals: Altus 9 (C. Carney 4, Tims 2. A
Carney 2. Roberts 1). Ardmore 13 (McGee 4.
Harrell 4, Wallace 2, Hendricks 2. Anderson
1.
Turnovers: Altus 21, Ardmore 21.
SUNDAY
Basketball
12 noon - Oklahoma State at Texas Tech (NBC. 4).
Football
11:30 a.m. - NFC Championship: Minnesota vs. Atlanta
(CBS. 6 & 9).
3 p.m. - AFC Championship: Denver vs. New York Jets
(CBS. 6 & 9).
MONDAY
College Basketball
1 p.m. - Women's: Connecticut at Louisiana Tech (ESPN,
25).
6:30 p.m. - Men’s: Syracuse at Rutgers (ESPN, 25).
8:30 p.m. - Men’s: Texas at Kansas (ESPN, 25).
11 p.m. - Men's: Utah at Hawaai (ESPN, 25).
Winter X Games
3 p.m. - Snowboarding, snowmobile racing (ESPN, 25).
ARDMORE 45. ALTUS 29
Girls
ALTUS - Tims 1 -9 0-0 6. C. Carney 1-91-5
3. Karner 0-2 3-4 3. A. Carney 0-2 0-0 0. Pe-
ters 1-2 0-0 2, Fisher 0-1 1-5 1, Harris 2-3 0-3
3. Marple 1-3 0-0 3. Matthews 1-1 0-0 2. Tuck
er 2-6 0-0 6. Totals 9-38 5-17 29.
ARDMORE - Blackburn 3-6 2-2 8. Wal-
lace 4-8 0-0 10. Harrell 2-4 0-0 4. Hendricks 5-
7 4-4 14, McGee 0-1 3-4 3. Banks 1-3 0-1 2.
Anderfson 1-4 0-0 2. Wilkinson 0-1 1-2 1.
Stiles 0-0 1-2 0. Warren 0-0 0-1 0. Totals 16-34
11-1645.
3-point goals: Altus - Tims 2, Tucker 2
Ardmore - Wallace 2.
Golf
2 p.m. - Women’s: HealthSouth Inagural (ESPN, 25).
7 p.m. - Hawaiian Open (ESPN, 25).
Bowling
11:30 a.m. - PBA national senior doubles competition
(ESPN, 25).
Courtesy photo
Jody Marple of the University of Central Oklahoma
recently won his third wrestling tournament of the sea-
son with five straight victories in the Midwest Classic in
Indianapolis, Ind.
The course is tougher.
The Altus Middle School
seventh grade boys basketball
team brought home the third-
place trophy from the Weath
erford tournament last week.
The Bullpups nipped Clin-
ton. 37-35. in overtime in the
opening round, then bounced
back from a 49-39 semifinal
loss to Weatherford with a 53-
22 victory over Woodward in
the third-place game.
. The Altus-Clinton game
was close throughout. The
Bullpups missed five free
throws in the fourth quarter,
including two with six sec-
onds left in regulation.
This was the fourth over
time in eight games for Altus.
Brandon Bush converted a
layup off a long pass from
Kirk Jackson for the only
points in the extra period.
Clinton missed a layup and
a follow shot at the final
buzzer.
Bush and Jackson led Al
tus scoring with 13 and 12
points, respectively.
In an earlier game this sea-
son, Altus had dealt Weather-
ford its only defeat of the sea-
son in the Clinton tourna-
ment on a buzzer-beater by
Mark Shelly. But there would
be no last-minute heroics in
the semifinals of the Weather
ford tourney as the hosts
outscored Altus 17-0 in the
first quarter and made that
lead stand up, although the
Bullpups managed to cut the
margin to six points early in
the fourth quarter.
Jackson topped Altus with
16 tallies.
2 In the third-place game. Al
tus jumped to an early 8-0
. lead and never looked back in
a posting the win over Wood-
: ward.
3 Jackson and Bush again
- spearheaded the Bullpup at-
:tack with 14 and 11 markers,
respectively.
S
Snow slows
p.m. non-conference rematch
with Woodward. The 11th-
ranked Boomers beat the
Bulldogs at the start of the
season in the Woodward Fes-
tival.
Following the Woodward
encounter, the Bulldogs will
host their 28th Annual Short-
grass Invitational tournament
Thursday through Saturday.
The Shortgrass field will in-
clude Lawton Eisenhower,
MacArthur, Stillwater, Yukon.
Choctaw and the host Bull-
dogs along with the Altus and
MacArthur junior varsity
that the noise that Reeves so
gracefully accepts will play a
major part — even the Vikings
think it sometimes gets too
loud.
"It can be a problem for me,
too," Minnesota quarterback
Randall Cunningham said.
There are times after we
make a big play that the noise
is so loud that I can't hear the
play coming in from the side-
line."
Both teams are relatively
healthy, although Minnesota
wide receiver Jake Reed was
deactivated with a pulled
hamstring. But coach Dennis
Green said he expects
Matthew Hatchette to fill in
well behind Randy Moss and
Cris Carter, as he did when
Reed was sidelined with a
back injury the latter part of
the regular season.
John Randle, Minnesota's
all-Pro defensive lineman,
said he was ready to go, al-
though he may wear a knee
in the opening period and that
ignited a 13 0 outburst that
propelled them to a 22 9 lead
early in the second stanza
Ardmore led by 15 points
(41-26) at halftime and scored
the first six points of the third
quarter to build its biggest
bulge at 21 points (47-26).
However, the Bulldogs
outscored the Tigers 14 7 the
remainder of the period and
were within striking distance
at 54 40 heading into the final
frame.
The Tigers rebuilt their lead
to 18 points (60-42) with five
spurt that trimmed their they host fourth-ranked
• NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The
Oklahoma Sooners had
deficit to 35-22.
But any hopes of an Altus
comeback were quickly
dashed as Ardmore answered
with 6-0 spree that rebuilt its
spread to 19 points (41-22)
with a little more than three
minutes remaining.
The Lady Bulldogs shot on-
ly 24 percent from the field,
netting just nine of 38 at-
tempts, and they managed
only five of 17 free throws.
No Altus player scored in
double figures as Tims and
Tucker led with six points
each.
Texas Tech-bound Nikki
Hendricks, the 6-1 senior, tal-
lied 14 and Loryn Wallace
added 10 for Ardmore, which
moved to 7-2 overall and 4-0
By KEITH FLOYD
ALTUS TIMES
By KEITH FLOYD
Ain S TIMES
ARDMORE - There’s no
doubt about it. Altus High's
Lady Bulldogs are having
trouble scoring this season.
Lots of trouble.
Friday night at Ardmore the
Lady Bulldogs scored just 11
points through three quarters
and never challenged in a 45-
29 Southern Conference girls
basketball loss to the fifth-
ranked Lady Tigers.
Ardmore got off to a lack-
luster start, leading only 8-3
after the opening period and
12-7 midway through the sec-
ond quarter. But the Lady
Tigers went on a 19-0 scoring
binge in a seven minute span
overlapping the end of the
first half and start of the third
quarter to erase any doubt at
31-7.
Trailing 33-11. the Lady
Bulldogs showed a little spark
minutes left, but Altus kept
chipping away behind the
scoring of Randy Gabler and
Jason Eaker until it had cut
the margin to eight (70 62)
with 27 seconds to go.
That’s as close as the Bull
dogs could get, however, as
Ardmore deposited four free
throws in the final seconds to
( lose the door.
Andrews, a 62 junior
transfer from Kansas, topped
all scorers with 24 points and
sophomore Deshawn Hender-
son tossed in 19 lor the
'Tigers.
ARDMORE - Class 5A s
third-ranked Ardmore explod
ed late in the first quarter and
rolled to a 74-65 victory over
Altus in a Southern Confer-
ence boys basketball shootout
Friday night.
The win kept Ardmore un-
beaten in the conference at 4-
0 and boosted its season
record to 8-1. The Bulldogs
slipped to 6-4 overall and 0-2
in the conference.
The Tigers broke a 9 9 tie
on Merrill Andrews' three-
pointer with 1:35 remaining
HONOLULU (AP) — Brandel ian Open set a PGA Tour Somebody got mad and grew ■
Chamblee should get a good record for 72 holes. the rough. 1 don't know what ■
look at how John Huston is Also at 4-under 136 are kind of grass it is in the rough, ■
playing in the third round of Craig Stadler and Len Matti- but if 1 had it in my yard,
the Sony Open. ace. would kill it. I'd get the weed- ■
Chamblee came out of the in today’s pairings. Huston killer on it.” s
early morning pack Friday to will be two twosomes ahead of All kidding aside, he added, ■
fashion a 4-under-par 66 and the leaders, which means "It’s playing the way they want ■
hit the 36-hole mark at 134. Chamblee will be able to get a it to play." 1
That's good enough for a one good look at the leader board "The fairways are the hard- ■
stroke lead over first-round to see how the record-setter is est on the tour. They are firm ■
leader Tommy Tolles and faring. and narrow and with the wind ■
Mike Hulbert. "We’ve been cussing John and doglegs, you can easily ■
But right behind them is in the locker room all week for roll it through the fairway." 1
Huston, whose play here a what he did last year. We told Huston has been taking the ■
year ago might have prompted him. Thanks a lot, John, ribbing about the redesigned |
the revamping of the Waialae You’ve ruined it for every-
Country Club course. His 28- body,'" Chamblee joked.
can do what all nine teams
that played in the Metrodome
didn't do — overcome the
noise that creates illegal pro-
cedure and delay of game
penalties.
One reason, of course, is
that the Falcons also play in a
dome and have had an inordi-
nate number of dome games
this season. Sunday, in fact.
will be their ninth straight
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As game inside and they've won
the Atlanta Falcons' plane de- them all in a season in which
scended. Dan Reeves looked they finished 14-2 and elimi-
out at ice fishermen on the nated San Francisco in their
lakes and the snow-covered first playoff game.
terrain and decided he really Friday was the last formal
didn't care about noise. meeting with the media for the
"When 1 looked out of the two teams, who will play the
window. I decided I’d take the first NFC title game since
dome over the weather." said 1992 not involving San Fran-
the Falcons coach, who went cisco. Green Bay or Dallas,
so far as to complain to the Minnesota hasn't played in a
NFL this week about artificial title game in 12 years and At-
noise at the Metrodome, lanta has never been in one.
where Atlanta will play the "I kind of like to see the
Vikings on Sunday for the power shift because we re part
NFC title. of the shift," said Atlanta
Yes, the Falcons think they quarterback Chris Chandler,
planned to catch an 11:10
a.m. flight Friday to Cincin-
:nati, arriving in plenty of time
: or practice and rest before
Saturday’s nationally tele-
vised game with the No. 3
Bearcats.
But bad weather in the
East kept OU's plane on the
ground in Syracuse, N.Y., and
ft wasn’t until 9 p.m. that the
Sooners left Will Rogers World
Airport in Oklahoma City.
3 "If we re going to get there
at 9 or 10 (p.m.). that’d be un-
fortunate. but not that big a Els holds two-stroke lead in South African PGA
problem." said OU coach
Kelvin Sampson "But if were JOHANNESBURG. South South African compatriot
not Doing setinhere until Africa (AP) - Ernie Els shot a Richard Kaplan, who bogeyed
2 in the morning, ra rather bogey-free 69 for a two stroke two of the final three holes for
they lust cancel the came It's lead midway through the a 70.
not lair to the players ne T5 $655,000 South African PGAAnother shot back was
Tipoff is setfor 11:07 a.m. Championship. Zimbabwe’s Mark McNulty
CST Saturday inside the Mvri Els’ three-birdie round left (70) and first-round leader
Shoemaker Center^6 the him at 8-under 136. ahead of Nico van Rensburg (74).
of the season.
EDMOND - University of Marple is 22 4 on the sea-
Central Oklahoma senior son and improved his career
wrestling star Jody Marple record to 88-35. leaving him
turned in an outstanding per four wins from moving into
formance last week in win- the school’s career top 20 win
ning the 157-pound champi- list.
onship at the Midwest ( lassic Marple will wrestle an exhi
in Indianapolis. Ind bition match against Okla
The Bronchos finished homa State University’s Jim-
third in the final team stand my Arias in the National
ings. Wrestling Coaches All-Star
:Dual on Feb. 1 in Stillwater.
Marple, a national runnei,
1 . Arias was an NCAA Division I
up last season and ranked NO.
1 this year, went 5-0 to cap- All American last season and
ture his third tournament title is ranked No. 6 this year.
teams.
ARDMORE 74. ALTUS 65
Boys
ALTUS - Eaker 8-18 3-6 21, Gribble 2-10
0-0 6. Williams 3-5 2-2 10. Gabler 11-23 0-1
22, Mills 1-3 2-3 4, Tennell 1-3 0-0 2. Totals
26-62 7-12 65.
ARDMORE - Andrews 9-16 3-4 24, An-
derson 1-6 1-2 3, Henderson 7-13 5-6 19,
Smith 3-6 0-0 6. Godwin 2-8 0-0 5. Williamson
1-4 1-2 3. Poteet 2-8 4-4 9, Cantley 1-1 1-2 3.
Edwards 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 27-64 14-20 74
3-point goals: Altus - Eaker 2. Gribble 2.
Williams 2. Ardmore - Andrews 3, Poteet
Altus 9 17 14 25 -65
Ardmore 16 25 13 20 -74
Rebounding: Altus 41 (Gabler 16.
Williams 5. Eaker 4. Tennell 4. Gribble 2.
Mills 2. Wilcher 1, Team 7). Ardmore 33 (An-
drews 9. Henderson 9. Anderson 2. Godwin
2, Poteet 2. Smith 1. Williamson 1, Cantley 1,
Team 6).
Steals: Ardmore 12 (Andrews 4, Godwin
3, Henderson 2. Smith 1, Williamson 1. Po-
teet 1). Altus 7 (Eaker 3. Gabler 2. Tennell 1.
Wilcher 1).
Turnovers: Ardmore 13. Altus 18
4 ALTUS TIMES, Sunday, Jan. 17, 1999
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