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TOE RICE THRESHER SPORTS FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2001
A&M eliminates men's
lacrosse from playoffs
by Jake Robson
thresher staff
The men's lacrosse team came
into Saturday morning's playoff
match against No. 8 Texas A&M
University in San Marcos with aspi-
rations of a huge upset.
It became evident all too quickly
for the Owls, however, that it wasn't
going to happen. The Aggies jumped
out to a 6-0 lead after the first period.
It was 10-0 before senior attackman
Brian Nash got the Owls on the
board, and the final score was a lop-
sided 27-2.
With Rice unable to control the
ball on offense, the quick, skilled
Aggie midfielders were able to run
their transition game, scoring early
and often on quick sets and motion
plays.
Rice's defense was much more
formidable when A&M was forced
to run set plays, with sophomore
Dave Allahand playing strong denial
defense and sophomore goalie Adam
Gottlieb coming up with several nice
saves.
Injuries affected Rice again in
this contest, with sophomore
George McGuirk, who scored
Rice's other goal, not playing at full
strength. Sophomore defenseman
Andrew Swinick was forced to leave
after the first period with a respi-
ratory infection. However, it
seemed that even a healthy Rice
squad would have had a lot of
trouble with A&M.
"These guys are one of the top
clubs in the nation," junior captain
Ben Amis said. "They are solid in
just about every part of their game.
We expect them to do really well in
the playoffs. This loss is nothing to
be ashamed of."
After beating Rice Saturday,
A&M went on to defeat the Univer-
sity of Texas 14-7 Sunday to ad-
vance to the national playoffs in St.
Louis.
The Owls end the year with a 4-
5* record, but they say there are
still many positives to take away
from the season, including quali-
fying for the playoffs and losing
only a few key seniors to gradua-
tion.
"This year, our goal was to get
past the first round of the playoffs
and to develop some young talent,"
coach Joey Olivier said. "I think we
can Say we accomplished one of
those goals.
"Hopefully, next year the guys
that got a lot of experience this year
will be able to step up and lead us to
that other goal, the second round of
the playoffs."
Women's lacrosse loses in
heartbreaker vs. Texas Tech
by Jake Robson
THRESHER STAFF
Overtime hasn't been a good time
for the women's club lacrosse team
this season.
In Rice's latest overtime game,
the Owls suffered a 16-15 defeat Sat-
urday to Texas Tech University that
eliminated Rice from playoff conten-
tion. Earlier this season, the Owls
lost twice in overtime to Texas
Women's Lacrosse League rival
Baylor University.
Rice went into Saturday's game
extremely shorthanded after se-
niors Alexa Shoning, Whitney Smith
and Hilary Scott were forced to miss
the game to take the eight-hour
Fundamentals of Engineering
exam.
Despite the lack of numbers, the
Owls jumped out to a quick lead, and
sophomore Kirsten Schatz and jun-
ior Dianne Henry led the way offen-
sively. Henry scored a team-high
seven goals as Rice built a four-goal
lead in the final period.
Rice's defense, anchored by
junior Annie Huang, freshman
Christine Liang and senior goal-
keeper Kristin Clopton, restrained
the Red Raider attack the first
three quarters, working to pre-
vent shots and feed the ball to the
offense.
But the lack of fresh legs took its
toll in the fourth period. Texas Tech
clawed back to lead the game by one
goal with seconds to play, but Rice
was able to get the equalizer to push
the game into overtime.
'Hie momentum had shifted for
good, however, and Texas Tech
outscored Rice 2-1 in overtime to
take the comeback win.
"This was a tough loss to a team
that we really thought we would
beat," Schatz said. "But when you
are missing three key players like
we were today, it's really hard to
stay fresh and focused down the
stretch, especially in a close
game."
Rice came back Sunday to pound
Southwest Texas State University
13-1. The Owls' defense was out-
standing, and Rice was happy to fin-
ish its season strong despite the dis-
appointment of missing the playoffs.
"It's too bad to lose another over-
time heartbreaker, especially to a
team that we know we're better
than," Schatz said. "But we feel like
we played well and ended the sea-
son on a really high note."
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Rice fencing coach
leads US. to world title
Mauro Hamza, the head coach
of Rice's fencing team, led the
United States Junior/Cadet Team
to its first-ever world team title at
the World Championships in
Gdansk, Poland April 9-16.
The United States won four
gold medals, three silver medals
and two bronze medals to push
the team to the overall title over 71
other countries.
Hamza took the U.S. team
coaching job two years ago. In his
first year, the United States fin-
ished 32nd, and last year the team
was fifth.
"I have been working very hard
dealing with athletes all over the
country to pick the team," Hamza
said. "Plus, I've been traveling all
around the world to have the U.S.
team have more experience. Fi-
nally we did it."
WAC names 10 Owls
to all-academic teams
Ten Rice student-athletes in
winter sports were named to 2000-
'01 academic all-Western Athletic
Conference teams Monday.
SPORTS NOTEBOOK
Seniors Mike Wilks and Erik
Cooper represented the Owls on
the academic all-WAC men's bas-
ketball team. Both were also
named to the 2001 Verizon/
CoSIDA District VI Academic
team earlier in the year. Wilks was
an academic all-WAC selection for
the second-straight year.
Sophomore Kim Lawson and
juniors Aarika Florus and Jennifer
Rigg were named to the academic
all-WAC women's basketball team.
The honor is Florus' second.
Five members of Rice's swim-
ming team were honored by the
WAC, led by senior and 2000 Aca-
demic All-American J ada Sanders.
Juniors Rachel Armstrong, Katie
Hermann and Elizabeth Williams
and sophomore Mandy Mularz
were also named. This is the third-
straight honor for Williams and
Sanders, who was also named to
the 2001 Verizon/CoSIDA District
VI team, while Hermann's selec-
tion is her second.
A total of 58 winter student-
athletes were recognized by the
conference. To be eligible, a stu-
dent-athlete must have completed
at least one academic year, carry
at least a 3.20 cumulative grade
point average and have partici-
pated in at least 50 percent of the
team's contests.
Brumfield traded to
WNBA's Miami Sol
Former Rice women's basket-
ball star and current Lady Owl
assistant coach Maria Brumfield
will return to the WNBA for a sec-
ond season, but she'll be wearing
a different team's uniform.
Brumfield, who played in 32
games for the Minnesota Lynx last
season and started 17 of those con-
tests at point guard, was traded
from the Lynx to the Miami Sol
Saturday.
The trade happened during the
WNBA draft. Brumfield was traded
for guard Georgia Schweitzer, the
two-time Atlantic Coast Confer-
ence Player of the Year whom the
Sol had drafted in the second round
with the 21st overall pick.
"[Brumfield] is a young veteran
and (has) proven that she can play
at a high level," Rothstein told The
Miami Herald. "Defensively, she is
one of the better guards in the
league, flat out. We felt that we
couldn't pass up this opportunity to
get someone with all those abilities."
Brumfield averaged 3.9 points
and 1.9 rebounds per game last
season for the Lynx and led the
team in field goal percentage at
46.5 percent.
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