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Friday, April 15,2011
Sports
Page 3
Sean Gorman, Sports Editor
sgorman@ntdaily.com
Photo by Stacy Powers/Senior Staffer
Freshman infielder Brooke Foster prepares to catch a hit at the third base. The team will face off against ULM this week-
end at Lovelace Stadium.
UN run-ruled by Longhorns
By Bobby Lewis
Senior Staff Writer
Pitted against No. 3 Texas, the
UNT softball team was shutdown
by freshman pitcher Rachel Fox,
getting one-hit in a 8-0 run-rule
defeat.
Texas (35-4), the winner of 18
of its last 20 games, scored each
of the four innings it was at the
plate before the game ended after
the top of the fifth.
Ashley Kirk started for the
Mean Green (17-24), but was
knocked out of the game after 1.2
innings. She gave up Ave earned
runs on five hits before being
relieved by freshman outfielder
Jackie Miller, who made her colle-
giate pitching debut.
"Jackie has been working on
her pitching for several weeks,"
said head coach T.J. Ilubbard.
"Tonight was a good opportunity
to see her in action. She threw
very well given the situation."
Millerpitched 1.1 innings and
gave up one earned run.
Texas got the scoring started
with two first-inning runs. The
Longhorns then scored four
two-out runs in the second
inning, getting three of those
runs off Kirk.
" [You] certainly never think a
game is a throwaway," Hubbard
said. "I think they'll bounce back
just fine. Texas was [No.] 3 in the
nation. They were tough."
Fox controlled the game from
the pitcher's circle, holding UNT
hitless until senior catcher
Courtney Bradshaw singled
down the left field fine with two
outs in the top of the fifth.
Louisiana-Monroe
UNT will return to Lovelace
Stadium for its first home game
since March 30 when it gets
back into conference play with
a three-game series against
Louisiana-Monroe.
The first pitch will be thrown
at 2 p.m. Saturday to start a
doubleheader. The teams will
wrap the series up at noon
Sunday.
"We are ready for ULM,"
Ilubbard said. "It's important we
play at the level we aré capable
of playing."
The last time UNT played at
home, it defeated then-No. 11
Missouri Tigers 9-2 in the back
end of a doubleheader.
Owning of a3-12 conference
record, UNT has yet to win a
conference series this season.
The Warhawks will likely
trot out redshirt sophomore
Tiffany Mills to the pitcher's
circle this weekend. Mills has
a 3.34 ERA this season with an
11-11 record.
Junior pitcher Jessica Chastka
and freshman pitcher Stephanie
Routzon will likely also hit the
mound. The pitchers have ERAs
of 3.71 and 3.80, respectively, in
32 combined appearances.
Conference tournament
awaits women's golf team
Mean Green
tries for first
Sun Belt title
By Conrad Meyer
Intern
The UNT women's golf team
will try to build on a strong
regular season by winning its
first-ever Sun Belt Title at the
conference tournament in
Muscle Shoals, Ala., Monday
through Wednesday.
The Mean Green enters the
tournament after a season full
of broken records and consis-
tent success.
UNT has finished every
tournament this year in the
Top 5 while notching its lowest
single-round score in school
history at 284. Freshman
Chaslyn Chrismer made Mean
Green history by posting the
second-lowest single-round
score, 67, at the UNLV Spring
Rebel Invitational March 9.
"We've got good depth. Every
player on the team is capable
of shooting low scores, and I'm
really excited about getting
down there and getting in a
good practice round," said head
coach Jeff Mitchell. "We have
been building on success this
entire year, and I think they
feel like they deserve to play
well in this tournament."
UNT goes into the tour-
nament ranked 47th, facing
ranked opponents No. 44
Denver and No. 45 FIU and
10 other Sun Belt opponents.
Although the team has not
faced Denver this year, the
Mean Green beat FIU by 19
shots last fall at The Golden
Panthers' home course during
the Pat Bradley Invitational.
"All three of us are really
close, so it ought to be a really
good tournament," Mitchell
said." [Denver] has such good
history there. They will prob-
ably come into the tournament
with a lot of confidence, and
they are very comfortable on
that course."
Denver's players have
thrived in the tournament
Mean Green ends spring with
annual Green/White game
Thompson
to start at
quarterback
By Ben Baby
Senior Staff Writer
The members of the Mean
Green football team will present
their cases for earning a roster
spot when UNT plays in the
annual Green/White Spring
Game at 1 p.m Saturday at C.H.
Collins Stadium.
The inter-squad scrim-
mage pits the Green team,
consisting of players from first
and fourth offense and defense
teams, against the White team,
including the players from
second and third offense and
defense teams.
1 want to see
how guys perform
in a game-like
situation"
—Dan McCarney,
Head coach
"Whether there's 200 or5,000
people in the stands, it's still a
game-like situation, and I want
to see how guys perform in a
game-like situation," said head
coach Dan McCarney.
The Green team will be
coached by running backs
coach Mike Grant and the White
team will be led by linebackers
coach Anthony Weaver.
Junior quarterback Derek
Thompson will line with
Photo by James Coreas/Senior Staff Photographer
Sophomore defensive back James Tandy runs after catching a pass. The Mean
Green will hold the annual Green/White Spring Football Game Saturday at C.H.
Collins Stadium at 1 p.m.
the No.l offense Saturday, as
McCarney chose Thompson
to be UNT's starter this season
over sophomore transfer Brent
Osborn.
"[Thompson's] just playing
right now like every play is his
last play," McCarney said. "Is he
[former Baltimore Colts quar-
terback] Johnny Unitas? No.
But he's clearly our starter right
now, and I really like the way he's
working."
Marking the end of spring prac-
(ice, the game will be played
with 12-minute quarters and
the White team will be given a
17-0 lead at the start.
recently, as the Pioneers have
won seven consecutive Sun
Belt Titles.
"For us, it is a little more
nerve-wracking because we
have never won a confer-
ence tournament. Right now,
I think [the tournament] is
wide open," Mitchell said. "All
three of us are playing well
right now, and if I can get all
five women playing well at the
same time, we can certainly
win the tournament."
The tournament will be
unfamiliar territory for UNT,
as juniors Kelsey Kipp and
Addison Long are the only
Mean Green golfers who
competed in the event last
season.
"I don't think they will feel
intimidated when they get out
there. I really feel like we will
just get there and go out to do
what we have done all year,"
Mitchell said.
The team will play a prac-
tice round Sunday to acclimate
to the course conditions and
tee-off Monday.
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