Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Times
Saturday, February 5, 1977, page 18 (of 24)
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SPORTS
18 TIMES/GUIDE Weekend of February 5/6, 1977 SPORTS
sports briefly UM holds free baseball clinic
All people regardless of age are invited to a free baseball clinic at the University of Miami's Mark Light Stadium on Sunday, Feb. 6 at 6:45 p.m. The clinic is sponsored by the University of Miami baseball program and will feature the Hurricane coaching staff and all the UM baseball players. Players planning to participate should bring their glove and shoes (no metal spikes).
Boating class
The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary will sponsor classes in basic seamanship and boat handling starting Monday, Feb. 7 at 610 Perrine Ave. at 8 p.m. Classes will be held every Monday and Wednesday for four weeks. For further information call 248-9711.
UM football
The University of Miami's new football coach Lou Saban has set March 14 as the beginning of UM's football practice schedule. Practices end April 7. All practice sessions will be at the UM field. The Public Preview game will be Saturday, April 2 at 2:30 p.m. at the Orange Bowl.
People
Jon Feinberg, a member of the Kings Bay Club, has just turned golf pro and will start a mini-tour this month. Feinberg, 20, won the Junior Orange Bowl Golf Tournament a few years back, hitting a drive on the ninth hole that measured more than 350 yards. Curtis Leeper, a forward on the Florida International University soccer team, was selected by the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers (formerly the Miami Toros) in the second round of the recent North American Soccer League draft.
Jaguar women open spring tennis season at Moore Park
When Julie Cohen led his 1977 Miami-Dade Community College South tennis team into their spring schedule Friday, Feb. 4. in a quadrangular tournament at Moore Park, he wasn't concerned with team inexperience or a lack of talent on his squad. In fact, he may have been watching five of the top six performers from his 1976 team, which finished fourth nationally, when the tourney got underway with Miami-Dade North, Miami-Dade New World Center, and Florida Atlantic University. "We're a lot stronger this season than last," says Cohen, "and the competition for the top six singles slots is wide open. Even Steve Rogul will have to play up to his capabilities in order to remain at singles." Rogul, the 1976 state junior college singles champion who narrowly missed winning the national title last May in dropping the third set of his match for the title by virtue of a 5-2 tiebreaker, joins four of his teammates in returning to attempt to bring Miami-Dade South its first national title ever. Hans Muench, who teamed with Rogul to win the state doubles championship, is currently battling four sophomores and two freshmen for the singles position. Muench and Rogul also finished a respectable seventh in national doubles play, good enough for All-American recognition by the NJCAA. Diego Valencia also returns to challenge for the spot. Valencia was a state doubles and singles runner-up and also competed in the national competition. Other sophs who will be gunning for the second position are: Lewis Vallejo, a transfer from St. John's University and metropolitan New York's collegiate singles champion as a freshman; Ford Oliver, Ruben Zarate, and Bob Neinken, a Miami Beach High grad. The two freshmen who will be challenging for the spot and places in the top six singles positions are Sergio Campos and Peter Knispel. "This may sound like an old NFL cliche, but every one of these guys is capable of beating any other on any given day," Cohen notes. Cohen admits his toughest task will be trying to put together doubles teams, as the players are so close in talent. "Singles position can be more easily resolved by direct challenge," says Cohen. The Miami-Dade South tennis program, on the rise since the former University of Miami basketball star took over four years ago, is now attracting talent from all corners of the western hemisphere, including three players from Canada, two from Mexico, one from Colombia, one from Bolivia, and five from the United States. "I guess the success we've had has bred success in our recruiting," says Cohen. "The Miami-Dade South name in tennis is being passed by word-of-mouth among junior players on the Canadian circuit and in some of the other countries, and we've even started getting inquiries from places like New Zealand, Australia and Europe." Other roster players who will be challenging for a place on the doubles teams and possibly a singles spot include Southwest High's David Snyder, Andy Bergvalds and Sal Pellegrino, all sophomores, and freshman Mauricio Navarro.
South Dade youngster wins bowling match's jr. class
Twelve-year-old Mike Wesley rolled a 693 set to win the Junior Divison of the first A.J.B.C. Tournament of the year at Bird Bowl, 9275 Bird Rd. With 55 entries in his division, young Wesley's set score was only nine pins over second place. In the junior girls, Miriam Rivera's 600 set took high honors, and Bantams Robert Sanchez (538) and Paulette Shadle (541) captured the Little One's Division. Seniors Bruce Brown's 720 set and Bobbie Exter's 682 set won easily in their division. Brown's closest opponent was 79 pins behind him, while Mrs. Exter's was 88 pins behind her.
Lady golfer play in Pro-Am tourney
Evelyn Field will represent the Biltmore Women's Golf Association in the Ladies Professional Golfers' Association's Pro-Am Tournament to be played at the Kendale Lakes Country Club Feb. 9. Mrs. Field and Mary Anne Peck had tied with a net 70 in a Satellite Tournament hosted by the women's association to determine their representative to the L.P.G.A. tourney. In the playoff match, Mrs. Field beat Mrs. Peck by four strokes.
Sailing
classes for men and women 16 years and older are offered at Matheson Hammock Park, 9610 Old Cutler Rd.
SM High golfer clinches win
Jim Phelps shot a four-over-par 40 to help South Miami High School to a 3-2 win over Miami Beach in a golf match at Crooked Creek Golf Course. South Miami raised its record to 3-1.
High school roundup
Tennis South Miami's Joe Lampi and Ed Murphy took an 8-4 victory over Southridge's Chuck Fisher and Jay Turner in No. 1 doubles in South Miami's 6-1 victory. South Miami is 2-0; Southridge is 0-3. Soccer Goals by Ricky Bernstein and George Maysonet pushed Killian's soccer team over Palmetto, 2-0. Killian, is 8-4-2 and Palmetto is 7-5-1. Wrestling Coral Gables took a 31-15 victory over host Columbus with help from Frank Zagarino who pinned Roberto Lopez with 14 seconds remaining in the 171-pound match. Gables raised its record to 8-4. Columbus dropped to 5-7. Basketball A combined 22 points by Maureen Nolan and Maria Rodriguez helped St. Brendan defeat Deerborne 26-19.