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Friday, May 15,2009
the Rice Thresher
SPORTS 19
O TENNIS
FROM PAGE 15
Christoph Miiller, a senior, has been
the lone Owl to see his team fall to the
Golden Hurricane every single year. He
has felt the elation of a postseason run
every season, only to see it halted by the
same team with the same faces and the
same colors year in and year out.
"It was pretty frustrating, I have to
say," says Miiller of the loss. "It was
frustrating to see the same picture, [see]
the same team celebrating when you
were always second."
Garforth-Bles, however, makes sure
to point out that Miiller isn't the only
one feeling the pain.
"Losing to the same team, four years
in a row, it's disappointing for all of us,"
he says. "Even though we hadn't played
them all four years in a row... the fresh-
men felt just as disappointed."
Rice had a chance to redeem its sea-
son last week, having earned a spot in
the NCAA Tournament for the seventh
year in a row. Again, the Owls would be
OTRACK
FROM PAGE 18
good hurdlers and you add the 4x100
instead of the distance medley and
that helps them."
Aside from UCF, Bevan also sees
the University of Houston, Southern
Methodist University and host, Tulsa,
as possible foes for the Owls. While
a few team members have sustained
injuries throughout the season, Be-
van expects to have sophomore Ari
Ince vaulting once again for the Owls,
who should be a help in boosting the
Owls' point total.
The conference meet will also be
an excellent opportunity for Rice to
gain a few more regional qualifiers.
Currently Rice boasts nine qualifiers
and Bevan believes six or seven other
girls can reach regional marks.
taking on familiar foes: The team was
slated to face No. 28 Louisiana State Uni-
versity in the opening round in Baton
Rouge, La. The two squads had squared
off earlier this season, with Rice finish-
ing a hair behind in a 4-3 road loss.
This time, however, the match
wouldn't be quite so close. Despite hav-
ing two weeks off, the Owls couldn't
gain any traction against the Tigers.
Doubles went quickly, and Rosa, Gar-
forth-Bles and senior Toby Scheil all fell
in singles as LSU sealed a 4-0 shutout.
The season is not yet over for
some — Miiller and Rosa both head
to College Station, Tex. To compete
in the Division I Men's Tennis Cham-
pionships — but was once a season
full of promise and aspirations has
effectively come to a smoldering end,
crashed and burned by familiar op-
ponents.
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"There's nothing like a confer-
ence meet," Bevan said. "We're done
with school, done with finals, we're
rested, the competition level is high,
the arousal is high and it's a champi-
onship meet so there's a lot of people
who are knocking on the door. Stick
them in a championship environment
and the door can open."
Regardless of how many more Owls
compete at regionals, Bevan also ex-
pects Rice to have six or seven competi-
tors at the national meet in Little Rock,
Ark., June 10-13, and for a handful of
those to earn points for the Owls. That
sort of scoring capability will allow
Rice to be competitive on the national
level and end the season among the top
squads in the country yet again.
After losing starters Karyn Morgan and Jessica Holderness, the volleyball team got its first bit of action in an intra-squad
scrimmage on April 15. As a new senior, Natalie Bogan, spiking, was given the reigns of the squad for the first time.
O DRAFT
from PAGE 16
While the years of hard work have
led to an incredible opportunity to
play in the NFL for the two former
Rice stars, the draft gods were not as
giving to another. Quarterback Chase
Clement knew that his chances of get-
ting drafted were small, but he was
hoping to at least get a chance in the
free agent market.
"1 keep waiting on the phone to
ring," Bailiff said just days after the
draft, "because 1 really think some-
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But the phone never rang, and
Clement, who shares the NCAA record
with Dillard for career touchdowns
between a quarterback and receiver,
may have left the last of his playing
days behind him.
Like many prolific college quarter-
backs, Clement was given the unfor-
tunate label of "system quarterback".
"I think a lot of what they look
at with Chase is that he is six feet
tall," Bailiff said. "If you look at
your squad rosters, you don't see
very many six-foot quarterback in
the NFL. But if he gets that oppor-
tunity, they will see a guy with a
brilliant mind, a brilliant arm and
feet that will be a student of the
game. I believe he just needs that
opportunity."
While each coming day with no
phone call brings his career closer to
an end, there is an unmistakable leg-
acy that he and the teammates have
left on Rice football.
"Now that these guys have
achieved that, we are going to have
guys on this football team thinking
like that," Bailiff said. "They had the
opportunity to watch how hard these
guys worked, and that is the legacy.
I think because of the momentum
from last season and the momentum
of these draft choices, a lot more
young men will think about Rice
who are serious about their academ-
ics and are serious about football ca-
reers in the NFL."
Now, Owl fans will have the privi-
lege to see the newly-signed daftees,
along with the graduated seniors,
perform in a new chapter of their
lives. For Dillard and Casey, that
means potential face-offs in the field
of competition.
"Yeah, I'll probably be doing some
trash-talking when 1 see [Dillard],"
Casrv said. "You know — the compet-
itiveness. He's a real competitive guy
too, but also we're from Rice so we're
going to be on each other's side but
when we play each other, of course,
he's going to be the opponent."
And for other guys, like offensive
line anchor David Berken, who's im-
posing frame will do little to give him
an edge in medical school, that will
mean performing off the field with the
same kind of character and class that
they exhibited on the field of play.
"It is a celebration of those
guys," Bailiff said. "They have
achieved a goal that they set. You
feel like you helped them achieved
one of those goals. You have such
a special relationship with them.
When you see them grow and get
better, it is just nice to see that hap-
pen for these guys."
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Michel, Casey. The Rice Thresher, Vol. 96, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 2009, newspaper, May 15, 2009; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth443193/m1/19/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.