February 17,1993 SMALLTALK Page7
Sports
Tennis Open To Be Held
by: Cathy Clayton
The first annual Methodist College
Tennis Open will be held on Saturday,
February 27th and Sunday, February
28th at the Methodist College tennis cen
ter. Events planned include men's sin
gles & men's doubles and women's sin
gles & women's doubles. Trophies will
be awarded to all winners and finalists.
This tournament is USTA sanctioned
and aU USTA rules apply. Entry forms
ule. Each player will be responsible for
checking his or her schedule after the
tournament begins. Tournament play
will begin February 27th at 8:00 p.m.
Dr. Warrell welcomes student partic
ipation for this event and also encourages
students to come out and watch. Local
tennis pros will be participating in this
tournament Don't miss it!
can be picked up in Dr. Theresa WarreU's
office in the Golf and Tennis Manage
ment building. Tournament fees are $14
for singles and $20 for doubles. The last
day to enter the tournament is February
22nd.
Players must call 630-7147 on
Thursday, February 25th after 12 noon to
determine their first-round playing sched-
Bills Fall On Yet Another Sunday
by Derek Tang
Wipeout! Blowout! No-contest!
One-sided affair! Absolute mismatch!
All the available superlatives were ex
hausted on Monday, the 1st of February,
as. football fans all over the country
reeled from the Dallas Cowboys' 52-17
trashing of the Buffalo Bills, who went
home empty-handed from the Super
Bowl for an unprecedented third straight
year.
To be brutally frank, "trashing"
would be a relatively mild description of
what transpired at the Rose Bowl on the
Sunday of January the 31st, 1993, most
certainly a date in history that many in
Buffalo will want to forget quickly-if
ever they are allowed to forget.
Bills fans were given a false sense of
anticipation early in the first quarter,
when a blocked punt, a defensive penal
ty, and a Thurman Thomas run gave Buf
falo a 7-0 lead, which turned out to be
the only time they held the lead through
out the game. After that, one unfortunate
event lead to another, and suddenly, the
Cowboys were more than back in the
game—they were taking it over.
Jim Kelly's two interceptions and
one fumble in the first quarter sounded
the alarm bells in the Buffalo ranks. For
Kelly, the final bell tolled when Ken
Norton broke through the Bills offensive
line and practically threw himself on Kel
ly's knee, the same injured knee that he
had barely recovered from. It hurt simply
watching it on television, especially after
watching it several times on slow-motion
replay, and viewers could see fix)m the
look on Kelly's face as he was stretchered
out that he was hurting-not only from
the knee, but also from the awareness
that the "vvindow of opportunity" the
Bills had been talking about all week was
starting to shut on them.
Enter Frank Reich, the architect of
that now infamous comeback against the
Houston Oilers in the wild-card playoff
match-The Greatest Comeback in NFL
History. "Houston was Houston. We're
talking about the Cowboys here," said
the guy sitting next to me. All too true.
Even with the entrance of "The Clutch
Man," as another guy called him, that
foreboding sense of doom for the Bills
still hung over the game.
Half time came, and the contrast was
all too clear. The Cowboys players
trooped gingerly off the field, while the
Bills players retreated with their heads
hung low. 31-10 was the score. And
there were still 30 minutes left in the
game.
After the Michael Jackson extrava
ganza at half-time, the teams re-entered
the field to square off again. Right off
the bat, Troy Aikman, later named the
game's MVP, led Dallas all the way
down the field for anotiier score-38-10.
Then, during the kick-off, Buffalo fum
bled, and Dallas scored yet again-45-10.
Were the Cowboys going to be
stopped? Apparently, Reich still had
something to say about that, and a 45-
yard throw to Andre Reed narrowed tiie
score to 45-17. But it was too little, too
late. Only diehard Bills fans were cheer
ing that touchdown.
So it did not matter too much that
Dallas ran in yet another fumble for a
touchdown to make it 52-10. In fact, it
could have been 5°-10, but for a case of
showboating and a tremendous hustle by
Don Beebe to prevent one final score.
If it was any consolation, the Bills
are now the co-record holders for having
competed in the highest scoring Super
Bowl to date (69 points), but unfortu
nately, they are also the holders of the
dubious record of being the team with
the most turnovers in a Super Bowl witli
9—yes, 9!—turnovers.
Third time UN-lucky, Bills. All
week, talk was rife that Buffalo was go
ing to break the drought, that Buffalo
was fmaUy going to prove themselves a
winning team. Sadly for those who be
lieved, none of those happened. If any
thing became apparent at all after the
game, it was the fact tiiat America's
Team, tlie Dallas Cowboys, had erased
the ghosts of that disasttous 1-15 season
of 1989. Barring a disaster, tiie Cowboys
certainly look to be the team to watch for
a few more years.
Monarch
Player
Named To
All-American
Team
by: Sports Information Office
Rich Jinnette graduated in Decem
ber 1992 with a 2.8 grade point average
and a degree in Business. Prior to his
graduation Jiimette played his senior
year of football undOT the direction of 1st
year Head Coach Jim Sypult His indi
vidual performance on the football field
was a definite bright spot for the 0-10
Monarchs. As a punt returner, Jinnette
finished 2nd in the nation averaging 34.2
yards per return. Jinnette also finished in
the top five in kickoff returns averaging
18.2 yards per kickoff return. These in
dividual efforts allowed Jinnette to place
the team in the top five of both of these
categories. His hard work, dedication,
and never-ending spirit landed the senior
on the Champion All-American NCAA
Division III football team. This selection
marked the first for the Methodist Foot
ball Program.
Coach Sypult commented: "Rich
was a great weapon to have on our foot
ball team. Great return man, outstanding
receiver, and excellent blocker. His se
cret of success in returning kicks was his
great courage (he has no fear) and his
knack for setting up tiie defense. Rich
had a great experience during his senior
year and played to his potential. His de
sire to succeed and his work ethic are
characteristics that helped our younger
players. He was a great example to our
team."
Currently Rich and his wife Mi
chelle, also a Metiiodist College gradu
ate, reside in Sanford, NC where Rich is
in tiie managerial program at Wal-Mart.
The couple is expecting tiieir first child.
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