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I'age 6/Thursday, March 10, 1994/ The J-TAC
Sports-
Tony Farago
Razorbacks
predicted
to do well
in the SEC
Now
that the
Southwest
Conference
has
disbanded
we can all
be honest
with
ourselves
about how
t h e
quality of the conference has
declined over the last five years.
The SWC had it's day and it's day
is now gone. No more free
victories for Texas and Texas
A&M just a pleasant memory of
how easy it once was and how
long the road ahead is.
A few years back the Arkansas
Razorbacks left the SWC for the
Southeastern Conference for the
higher level of competition and
respect. I believe Aikanas had an
excellent insight into the future of
the SWC. Since leaving, the
Razorbacks have enjoyed great
success in recruiting and, most of
all, winning. The lack of national
exposure has made it hard for
teams within the SWC to recruit
high quality athletes even from
'with in. the suite of Texas.
With this transition from
conference to conference some
schools will fade away while
schools like Rice and Texas Tech
might very well flourish. Schools
like Texas Christian and Southern
Methodist'are left to pick up the
pieces and rebuild a new tradition.
The University of Houston is kind
of left out ii} the cold. They no
longer want to belong to the SWC,
but were not picked up. by the Big
8 conference like the other SWC
teams. The University of Houston
is a definite risk for any conference
that is willing to take the risk
because of their history of
recruiting violations and high
coach turnover.
This could be the best thing that
has happened to Texas collegiate
sports in a long time. Finally, the
state of Texas will'be able to keep
its talent here at home and not lose
it to more highly exposed division
I schools.
The state of Texas has a great
sports tradition both professionally
and collegiate. Texans expect
success from their collegiate sports
and hopefully by going to a more
exposed market like the big 8, it
will start a whole new era in Texas
sports.
Track runs in Border Olympics;
Hardee qualifies for nationals
Ginger Grider
Staff Writer
Tarleton Track is in full effect!
The men's and women's track teams
attended their first meet last weekend
at the Border Olympics. ;
. The teams loaded up for Lonido,
Texas at 8:00 a.m. Friday morning
and didn't' return until 12:30 a.m.
Sunday morning.
Tarleton was the only NAlA
college in attendance arid the rest of
the competition was Division I
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The Texans are running in the E^lue Bomiet Relays today in Brownwood,
schools. Coach McMullin said, "The
competition was tough and overall I
am pleased with the times this early
in the year".
The Texans 400 meter relay
placed fifth with a time, of 42.7 sec-
onds. Miller, Martin, McBride and
Hancock participated in the race. The
1600 meter relay placed sixth with
Martin, Gamer, Jones, and Thomas
running a time of 3:19.
Individually, Chad Jones placed
sixth in the 110 high hurtles with a
time of 15.01 seconds. Joey Green
placed in the discus throwing for 127 x
ft Spivey Thomas ran a 48.4 for third
place in the 400 meter run.
The TexAnns 1600 meter relay
placed second with a time of 3:57.94.
The relay members were Ward, Bier-
man, Roy and Colon. Three of the
relay runner also placed individually
in the 400 meter run.
Audra Bierman placed third run-
ning a 57.8, Patrina Roy placed fifth
with a 59.8, and Carman Colon placed
sixth with 62.0.
Debra Rice placcd fifth in the
100 meter hurtles with a time of 15.6
seconds. Gracinda Brown placed
fourth in the 400 meter hurtles with a
time of 69.4 seconds.
Belinda Hardee placed first in the
shotput, throwing for 43 feet and 11
inches. Hardee has already qualified
for the nationals on her first time to
competition, . . _
Coach McMullin predicts that
the 1600 meter relay will also qualify'
for nationals in the near future. ;
Tarleton will compete today in
Brownwood in the Blue Bonnet Re-
lays,
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Texans head to Idaho
to face Huron University
in national tournament
Chris Givens
Junior Chris Givens was one of two
Tarleton State basketball player to be
elected to the Southwest Regional
team.
Charles Crittenden
Sports Edtior
Today the Texans will be play-
ing in their third national tournament,
the Texans will face Huron, South
Dakota at 9:30 in Nampa, Idaho.
Tarleton is one of 20' schools the
will be trying to claim the NAIA
Division n National Championship.
The tournament will be hosted
by Northwest Nazarene College. This
is their second year to host the'tourna-
ment.
The Texans are the Southwest-
em Regional Champions. They de-
feated the College of the Ozark s to
claim the title.
Tarleton defeated the College of
the Ozarks by the score of 75-73.
Tarleton also hiul two players to
be named to the NAIA Division II
Men's Basketball All-Southwest
Regional team.
Sean'Walker received Player of
the Year in 1994. He lead the team in
scoring and in rebounds averaging
22.8 points and 10,8 rebounds.
Junior Chris Givens also was
elected to the regional team, Givens,
21.2 points and had 75 assists on the
year.
Coach Lonnie Reisman was
named Southwest Regional Coach of
the Year for 1994. Reisman has been
coaching at Tarleton since 1988.
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TEXANS
Keep your eye on the ball
The tennis team defeated Concordia Lutheran last Saturday. They will play
their lasttennis match today at ; 3 p.m.
llarleton State defeated
By Roderick Richardson
Managing Editor
The Tarleton State University
men's and women's tetfflis; .teams
continued their winning ways .over-
all last Saturday as they' defeated
both teams of Concordia Lutheran.
In the women's singles, Andrea
Pope and Lana" Morris each came
short of winning two very grueling
matches. Pope lost Hi a tiebreaker
from the third arid final set to Rose
Hurley 8-6. The final result of the
m^tch was 1-6, 6-2, 6-7. ■■■
Morris, also lost. a. tiebreaker set
in her rnatch againstCyntliia Prclke.
Tte tiebreaker was in the first set; it
endexl with the score 7-4. The final
result of that match was 6-7, 6-2, 5-
7.. The rest of the women's singles
resulted in defaults by Concordia
Lutheran,
In doubles competition, Leigh
Ann Bowman and Pope teamed
together to face Hurley/Frelke team
of ^CLUv^ie: Bowman/f^
won. in straight sets 6-3, 6-3. The
other two doubles matches resulted
in defaults by CLU. ■ \:
In the men's singles, TSU's top
seed Pat Tomberlain did not fair
well against David White, CLU's
top seed. Tomberlain went toe-to-
toe against White, but the unforced
errors plagued his game. Tomber-
lain lost in straight sets 1-6, 0-6.
The remainder of the men's singly
matotes went the Texan's way. Je-
sus Gtierrero defeated Kevin Smith
: 6-1, 6-0. Chris Schulte defeated
Will Schreil'er 6-0, 6-1, and Mich-
eal lhackmon defeated Phi Nguyen
6-L.6-0.: The rest of the singles
: ; matches; resulted in defaults by
Concordia Lutheran,
In men's doubles, the TSU team
of Toinberlain/Guerrero defeated
White/Smith in straight sets 6-3, 6-
ly and the team of Troy Cannon/
Scott Carlisle defeated Schreifer/
: Nguyen 6-0, 6-0,
: ; The rest of the doubles matches
resulted in defaults.
: :: In recent team face^offs in Tarle-
\ ton, the visiting team usually appear
with a shortage of players. Today,
Tarleton :will compete against Austin
College at 3 p.m., and with them,
comes a whole team.
: "[Concordia Lutheran] had prob-
lems getting their team together to
go oh road trips," said Steve Maupin,
graduate student coach of the Tarle-
; ton team, "but tomorrow, [Austin
College] should have a full squad
for both men and women."
. lTus| wili be the last home match
for Tarleton. On the road, they will
go head-up against lough teams such
as Navarro Junior College, Hardin-:
$immons University, Howard Payne
UnivcDiity and Texas Wedeyan. Ac-
cording to. Maupin, Tarleton should
be ready for the challenges.
"I feel like our players are playing
with; more confidence. We've had
time to improve in areas we needed
to and prepare for these tough
matches," said Maupin.
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