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March 24,2010
From Sports
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BASEBALL .
ENMU: Wildcats score 43 runs in four-game series
Continued from page 8
game that started on Fri-
day. The Wildcats began
the -game swinging, scor-
ing eight runs in the sec-
ond inning to take an ear-
ly lead. Calhoun pitched a
complete game, allowing
only five runs, and the
Wildcats won the game
15-5 via the run rule.
The second i game Sun-
day began with a solo
home run by Aaron Oliver
in the first irining, put-
ting the Wildcats in the
lead. The Greyhounds
scored two runs in the
second and another run
in the third to take away
the Wildcats” lead, but
ACU got back on track af-
ter a three-run hit in the
fourth. The Wildcats con-
That just shows you that this is a
league with a lot of good teams in it.
BRITT BONNEAU
Head Coach
tinued scoring from then
on and defeated the Grey-
hounds 12-5.
The last game of the
day and the series started
slow. The Wildcats trailed
the Greyhounds 3:1 until
the bottom of the fifth in-
ning when Clint Bawker
hit a two-run triple. Tra-
vis Latz followed his lead,
with a two-run home run.
The Wildcats con-
tinued their consis-
tent scoring, and in the
eighth, Calhoun hit a
two-run home run to
end the game 13-3 via
the run rule.
“When you are play-
ing a tripleheader and
you get two 10-run rules,
you get two games that
you shorten up because
you scored n bunch of
runs, that is huge for
our pitching staff,” Bon-
neau said. “It was a good
day for us offensively
and defensively.”
The Wildcats will play
another home series next
weekend against the An-
gelo State Rams.
, The four-game series
is scheduled to begin at
3:05 p.m. Friday.
contact Bailey at
Ijb07a@acu.edu
SOFTBALL
Sweep: Cats fill to TWU
Continued from page 8
of the first. They added a
run in the third to make
the score 4-1, a score
they maintained for three
innings. In the top of the
fourth, though, the Pio-
neers got back two .runs,
cutting the deficit to 4-3.
The Wildcats answered
with three runs in the
bottom half of the inning
and then another run in
the fifth, bringing the
score to 8-3. TWU retali-
ated with three runs in
the sixth and then again
in the seventh to come
from behind and win 9-8.
In the second game,
the Pioneers leapt to a
2-0 lead in the first in-
ning, but the Wildcats
came back when Bri-
anna Fowlkes hit a solo
home run in the second
inning. The Wildcats
were able to tie the
game when Stephanie
Tingle hit an RBI single
to score Shawna Barrow.
The game remained tied
until the seventh inning
when Billie Callahan
hit a triple-scoring run;
Callahan was then bunt-
ed in on the next at-bat.
The Pioneers held on
at 4-2 to complete the
sweep of ACU.
The Wildcats will be
back in action this week-
end in the LSC Crossover
Tournament in Durant,
Okla., where they will
play Southeastern Okla-
homa, Cameron, East Cen-
tral, Central Oklahoma,
Northeastern State and
Midwestern- State. The
games will start at 10:30
a.m. Friday and continue
throughout the weekend.
“We haven’t been play-
ing bad; we aren’t mak-
ing errors,” Wilson said.
“We just haven’t had our
pitching and batting on
at the same time. Hope-
fully with six games this
weekend we can get them
both going.”
■ contact Cantrell at
jrc07f@acu.edu
INTRAMURALS
Volleyball: Champ League
draws fierce competition
TRACK AND FIELD
Sparks: Wildcats place
third at indoor title meet
Continued from page 8
ketball, the tournament
is split into two leagues:
Recreational and Cham-
pionship. The majority
of the teams are in the
Championship League, al-
though 20 teams are com-
peting at the Rec level.
The Champ League,
as in the other sports,
will be highly competi-
tive and sure to attract
many onlookers as the
championship game ap-
proaches. Teams will
play practice games for
three to four weeks until
the actual tournament -
and elimination rounds
- begins in mid-April.
The Rec League is
popular with many so-
cial clubs because of its
laid-back atmosphere.
Morgan Davis, junior
information technology
major from Frisco, plays
for the Trojans Rec team.
This is his first time
playing with the Trojans,'
and he said he is looking
forward to having a good
time. He said he isn’t
counting on making it to
the championship.
“I don’t think it’s too
likely that we are going
to win much,” Davis said.
“It’s just all of us going
and being goofballs.”
The turnout for intra-
mural volleyball is typi-
cally lower than basket-
ball because students
want to enjoy the warm
weather instead of sit-
ting inside, said Kenli
Edwards, director of in-
tramurals. But Edwards
said she doesn’t think
that makes volleyball
any less exciting. Al-
though no faculty teams
are registered for vol-
leyball, almost all of the
clubs have teams signed
„up. Even GATA, which
hasn’t had a team in any
sport this year, put to-
gether a team.
The next games will be
Thursday in Bennett Gym
beginning at 7:30 p.m.
April will be one of
the busiest intramural
months of the spring,
volleyball wraps up mid-
month, and is followed
by four new sports.
Softball sign-ups be-
gin April 5, and the first
tournament is sched-
uled to begin April 19.
The deadline for tennis
signups is April 14, and
the ACU Rodeo is sched-
uled for April 22. The
intramural season ends
April 29 with a softball
tournament.
For information on
how to get involved in
intramurals at ACU,
visit their website www.
acu.edu/campusoffices/
intramura Is/i ndex.html.
Continued from page 8
by about half a foot
over Kiara Jones of
Pittsburg State.
“We really felt he could
win the jump,” said Head
Coach Roosevelt Lofton.
“He was the guy to beat
all along.”
Defending indoor
60-meter hurdles cham-
pion Andrew McDowell
missed a repeat title by
two one-hundredths of
a second when he was
caught at the line by
Jeremy Jackson of Pitts-
burg State.
McDowell and Sparks
had some help from
sprinter pesmond Jack-
son on their way to third
place. Jackson finished
third in both the 50 and
200-meter sprints, earn-
ing ACU 6 points for
each finish.
Traditionally a long-
distance powerhouse,
Adams State took home
the National Champi-
NUMBERS CAME
52-31/4
Ramon Sparks’ distance on the
triple jump at the indoor national
championship meet.
on ship, despite scor-
ing in only six of the 16
events. Adams had run-
ners place in the top five
positions in the mile,
arid in the 5,000-meters,
they took first through
seventh place with the
exception of third -
ACU’s Amos Sang stole
that spot. Those two
events earned Adams
State enough points to
grabj at least second,
and points in four other
events secured the first-
place victory.
The ACU women
weren’t nearly as suc-
cessful, with only three
athletes earning points:
Wanda Hutson finished
fourth in the 60-meter
dash, Jessica Withrow
finished sixth in the
triple jump and Jessica
Blair took home fourth
in the pole vault. Lin-
coln won its second con-
secutive women’s indoor
championship by edging
Ashland and Grand Val-
ley State in the last event
to win the title.
ACU track will have
another shot at a nation-
al title when it competes
in the NCAA Division II
outdoor championships.
“We are definitely go-
ing to have a better shot
at winning outdoor,” Har-
din said. “We are a whole
different team when it
comes to outdoor.”
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agg07a@acu.edu
contact Goggans at
zdg08b@acu.edu
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