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ACU jumped out to a qukk lead to
defeat Eastern New Mexico Satur-
day in Portales but West Texas
State's quickness proved to be the
Cats' downfall in a conference
showdown in Canyon Monday
night in Lone Star Conference
women's basketball.
The Wildcats are in second place
in the conference at 6-2 going into
Thursday night's game with
Howard Payne in Brownwood.
ACU center Angle Dill wasn't
given enough room to blink Satur-
day so two dead-eye shooters took
up the slack in a 61-48 win over
Eastern New Mexico In Portales.
West Texas State which took an
overtime victory over ACU in
Meedy Coliseum Jan. 31 blew the
Wildcats cut la Caayoa walking
away wkh a 75-58 victory.
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Stephanie Spring led the way wkh
17 points and Fat Bidwell added 12
to make the Zia' defensive strategy
backfire. Spring was six of Bine
from the field and five of dfht from
the free-throw line aed Bidwell was
six of seven from the field.
Dill who scored 22 in a win over
ENMU Feb. 2 in Moody CoUseuca
managed seven points but con-
tributed 12 rebounds to the Cats'
effort. Twelve ACU players scored
in the win.
"We told the kids that after Angle
bad had three or four good pees
they were Just going to double up
on her" Coach Burl McCoy said.
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Eastern New Mexico and West
Texas State avenged earlier losses in
Moody Coliseum when the Wildcat
men learned the difficulties of play-
ing on the road Saturday and Mon-
day. ACU penned a storybook com-
eback at Eastern New Mexico
Saturday but the Greyhounds
wrote the final chapter burying the
Wildcats in overtime for an 84-76
Lone Star Conference victory
Saturday.
The loss was at the site of the
Wildcats' last LSC loss two years
ago Greyhound Arena.
The Wildcatt then fell to conference-favorite
West Texas State in
AmaxUk) Monday 94-75. ACU wiU
shoot. We felt like our outside peo-
ple were going to have to carry the
load for us and they did."
Bidwell said she was aware out-
side shooting probably would be the
key. "As soon as they closed in on
Angle that left it open for us" she
said. "Coach had warned us that
they might close in on Angle so he
told us to be ready to take advantage
ofit."
The Wildcats jumped out to a
19-8 lead midway through the first
half and increased their lead to 17
27-10 with 4:54 remaining when
Bidwell scored on a break then
stole the ball in the backcourt for
another layup. ACU led 31-16 at
halftime.
The Ziaa closed the gap to nine in
the second half but the Cats went
on a 24-3 scoring run to take their
largest margin at 20 45-25 oa Spr-
ing's short baseline jumper with
13:10 remaining. Eastern tried to
rally but never was within 10 again.
The win avenged a one-point loss
in Portales last season that may
have cost the Cats a trip to the na-
tional playoffs. Bidwell said assis-
tant coach Deonna Shake a senior
on last year's team reminded the
team of the loss.
"That kind of started a fire
underneath the people who were
back from last year" Bidwell said.
Eastern shot only 29.5 percent for
the game. The Ziaa' Robin Bradley
the conference's third-leading
scorer struggled la the game hit-
ting two of seven from the field end
four of 11 from the liae for eight
points. Glynis Whitfield and
LaDawn Schmucker scored 12
play Howard Payne in Brownwood
Thursday night.
The Cats trailed by nine with
1:29 remaining in Portales but
Floyd Logan's eight points and
Eastern's poor free-throw shooting
put ACU in a position to win.
Victor Patton came off the bench
for a three-pointer from the corner
that bounced on the rim four times
before dropping with just two sec-
onds remaining and the comeback
was complete.
Roderick Johnson was fouled on
the opening tip In overtime but
missed the front end of a onc-and-one.
Johnson later missed a shot in-
side under pressure and the
Greyhounds slowly pulled away
"We Just never could get out of
it" Coach Mike Martin said. "It
just wasn't going down for us. Like
Pullsn taking second with a 7-1 3 jump. Freddie Wllllamo took first
(h the 1000-yard Invitational and Cam Miller won the collegiate
pote vault. See P. 7 for related stories.
apiece.
West Texas State's quickness on
the press led to 30 ACU turnovers
aad McCoy estimates that the Lady
Bufis scored on half of those.
"They just beat us the whole
game" McCoy said. "We jumped
out to a food lead on them and
they went into what I might call a
severe press. We never broke the
press the rest of the game. They ran
the entire night."
Vanessa Wells played 34 minutes
scoring 30 points to lead all scorers.
Von. Tucker and Teresa Tinner
scored 12 apiece.
Spring once again led the
Wildcats with 14. Suzanne Johnson
scored nine of her 11 points with a
nlne-of-12 performance at the free-
throw line. Bidwell's two points and
Dill's seven were evidence of the
WT press taking the Cats out of
their game
"The pressure kind of threw
them out of their rhythm took
them out of their offense" McCoy
said. "We're not very much of a
run-and-gun team. We need to set
up our offense do something
smooth. But we may have to learn
to run and gun."
Howard Payne is coming off a
60-55 loss to Texas A&I breaking a
three-game win streak. "Howard
Payne is always ready for us" Mc-
Coy said. "They really want to beat
us." Melanie Mayer and Allison
Lewis are the top scorers in the con-
ference. "I think we'll be all right" Mc-
Coy said "We're usually pretty
good about coming back after a
loss."
in overtime we missed the first
one-and-one missed the fust lay-up.
We had our chances"
The Cats cut the lead to 74-73
but Eastern scored the next eight
points to put the game out of reach.
ACU did well to force the over-
time after a dismal 29-percent
shooting performance that had the
Wildcats behind 28-23 in the first
half. The Cats shot 40 percent for
the game to ENMU's 48. ACU
outrebounded the Greyhounds 51-
37. ACU defeated ENMU 79-70 in
Moody CoHseum Feb. 2. "I don't
think they did anything different"
Martin said. "Tonight was their
night and it wasn't ours. That's
about it."
ENMU's Don Butler who scored
24 In Moody led the Greyhounds
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Winning form
Carol Tabor senior from Csrlsbad N.M. works out Monday on the
ACU courts. The women's tennis team won Its opening dual match
over Baylor 7-2 Saturday at home. The men and women will be In
action Thursday when Mardin-Slmmons visits ACU.
for 94-75 win
with 25 Saturday. Eddie Newell
shot seven of seven from the free-
throw line en route to a 21-point
performance. Ken Butts had nine
assists.
"They just had so many guys
have a good game" Martin said.
"They really played well tonight."
Floyd Logan scored 22 to lead
four Cats in double figures. Johnson
had 14 Anthony Portley 11 and
Victor Patton 10. James Joseph had
nine and Vincent Patton eight.
Johnson led the team with nine re-
bounds. Against West Texas State the
Wildcats trailed by two at the 2:19
mark of the first half but the Buf-
faloes went on a 10-2 scoring run
for an eight-point halftime lead
41-33.
ACU was as dote as two points
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Asototant Sports Eeflter
If former ACU pole vulter Billy
Olson bad jumped like Freddie
Williams ran at The Dallas Morn-
ing News Indoor Game Saturday
world record holder Sergey Bubka
would be wringing bis bands with
worry.
Olson who lost the world indoor
record to Bubka last winter won
the pole vault competition tat Th
Dallai Morning Nttct Indoor Game
by jumping 10-4 four Inches shy
of bis meet record and more than a
foot under bis American indoor re-
cord of 19-5V4.
Former ACU and present Pacific
Coast Track Club teammate Brad
Pursley captured second at the
meet. Pursley who holds the ACU
pok vault record of 18-lOMr faUcd
twice to sMtch Olson's 18-4 mark
but ea the third aad final attesatx
shaved the bar as he fell. The bar
wavered but remained.
Oteoe was dackred the wiener ea
fewer misses after neither could
dear 18-6 V.
Williams victory In the 1000-
yard run was the brilliant bow on a
fairly showy package presented by
ACU runners at the meet.
After the starting gunshot
Williams junior from Cape Town
South Africa dropped into the pack
while rabbit Victor Proctor or the
El Paso Striders sprinted away.
Proctor's energy faded halfway
through the race and at the third
lap Sammy Koskci and Englishman
Peter Elliot led Williams.
He glided along in a smooth
telf-assurcd stride and with one lap
remaining made his move around
Elliot. On the final curve Williams
kicked past Koskel and 'down the
stretch for the victory.
"It worked out the way I wanted
4t to" Williams said.
51-49 with 13:56 remaining in the
second half but WTSU increased
its lead to 10 and held an eight- to
10-polnt lead most of the way.
West Texas State led 78-70 with
2:39 remaining when Johnson pick-
ed up his fifth foul and a subse-
quent technical. David Woods bit
the front end of his one-and-one and
Jeff Morgan made both technical
foul shots. WT retained possession
and Charles Byrd hit a three-pointer
to break the game open.
Byrd who was held to just three
points In ACU's 58-55 victory in
Moody Jan. 31 scored 29 In
Amarillo. The 5-11 guard was five
of six from three-point range
Vincent Patton led the Cats with
14 points while Logan scored 13.
Freshman guard Troy Cobb played
14 minutes and scored 13
The winning time of 2:05.74 was
only .61 seconds off Don Paige's
meet record set in 1984.
Former ACU sprinter Mark
Withmpoon competed In the
yard dash against four-time 01;
pic gold medalist Carl Lewis
60-yard dash world record holder
LceMcRee.
Lewis won with a 6.12. Withers-
poon and McRae were both clocked
at 6.13 but McRae was swarded
second. Lewis holds the meet reconl
of 6.02 and McRae holds the world
record at 5.99
"He's always been fast" said
men's head track coach Don Hood
and Witherrpcon'a former coach.
"'He's improved bis start aad that's
really helped him."
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pressure he received from thkd
place Elvis Ferde was to bkane for
the loss.
"Stanley U just good" he said. "I
just didn't do the right thing at
right time. Now I ve just got
come back case him and beat I
next time. I want to improve and
use the loss to my advantage. You
cftn't win all the time. The only
way to get better and win again U to
lose once in a while."
Harold Madox sophomore from
Cleveland Ohio ran in the 300-
yard dash a new event for the.
Games aad took third with a tiafe
of 30.8 bchlad SMU'a Roy Martin
and Athletics West's Kirk Baptitte.
Martin's 30.31 time established the
meet record for the event.
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The ACU women's tennis team
began Its spring season with a 7-2
victory over Baylor University
Saturday on the ACU courts.
Both the men's and women's
teams willplay Hardta-Simmon.
University Thursday at ACU. ffj
The Bears' two victories Saturday
came in No. 1 and No. 6 singles.
Jennifer Fort defeated the Cats
No. 1 singles player Donna Syket
sophomore from Lancaster 6-3
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Cindy Jaaksy defeated Wildcat j
J'Lynn Kaiffen sophomore fro i
Abilene 7-5 6-2. :
Coach Cecil Eager said he ex-
pected his team to beat the Bears
and said he knew the match be-
tween Sykes and Fort would be -a
tough one. "Their best player Is
definitely a good player" he ftaTV
"Donna played well in spurts. &'
is a good enough player that she
can't afford to relax."
Esger said key matches were in
No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles. ;
No. 2 singles player Kim Gldley
junior from Abilene won her first
set over Mary Lou Castillo 6-2. In
the second set she was down 5-2
though before rallying to win 7-5.
In the No. 1 doubles match
Sykes aad Carol Tabor senior from
Carlsbad NJW. dropped their first
set 2-6 before stepping up their
level of play for 6-4 and 6-1 victo-
ries in the last sets f )
"Donna and Carol are slcfer
starters in doubles" said Eager. "It
disturbs me a little bit. But once
they get rolling they're tough to
beat.r
The other matches ACU won
were Vicky Crookes freshman from
South Africa over Shelley Fowler
6-2 6-1; Tabor over Tamra WUklni
son 6-1 6-2; Lori Miller Junior
from Duncanvllle over Kathy
OToole 6-4 7-5; Knlffen-Gldley
over Fowler-OToole 6-2 6-3 end
Crookes-Millcr over Castillo
Wilkinson 6-1 6-2. gs
Eager said HSU's women's te&J'
is not very strong but the men wil)
be strong. "They were tough last
year" he said adding that they
split their two matches with ACQ
last year.
Eager said the Cowboys' advan-
'tage u that they have already played
two matches this spring whereas
the ACU men have played none. . .
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