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Wednesday February 8 2006
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Pace 7
Track: Teams compete at University of Nebraska
The men's 4400-mctcr
relay team of Blen-Almc
Pride Elton Garus-Oab
and Cockrell Improved its
provisional time by three
seconds Saturday placing
third overall with a time of
3:14.96. The distance med-
ley relay team posted a new
provisional mark with a win-
ning time of 10.05.
In the field events se-
nior pole vaulter Cory Agul-
lar broke his slump of not
clearing the opening height
by clearing 10 feet a pro-
visional height to finish
ninth. The men's field event
athletes to watch this sea-
son however will be the
Ukrainian tandem of Ycvgcn
l'ashchenko and Vladyslav
Gorbcnko In the long jump
and triple Jump. Friday
Gorbcnko placed first in
the triple Jump with a sub-
stantial provisional mark of
51-3 V. l'ashchenko added a
provisional mark of his own
in the triple Jump placing
third with a mark or 50b.
The senior was eighth in the
long Jump with a provision-
al mark of 23-4 Vi.
On the women's side ath-
letes qualified in five new
events along with one au-
tomatic qualifying mark. Ju
nior Angle Agullar Improved
her height in the pole vault
past the automatic stan-
dard clearing 12 feet 10
V inches to finish fourth
in the competition. Aguilar
made three unsuccessful at-
tempts at 13 feet 4 inches
which would have been a
Division II indoor pole vault
record. Trina Cox was the
only event winner for the
women finishing the 5000-
meter run in a provisional
qualifying time of 16:58.55.
In the same race senior
Olha Kryv'yak posted a pro-
visional qualifying time of
17:16.36 placing third.
The women's distance med
ley relay team - comprised of
Kryv'yak Jessica Hunt Vanes-
sa Whittle and Cox - won Its
race with an automatic quali-
fying time of 1 1:49.56
Of all the events the 400-
meter dash and 4x400-mcter
relay produced the biggest
performances for the Wild-
cat women. Keva Wilkins ran
a near-automatic provisional
time of 55.77 in the finals of
the 400-meter dash to finish
second while freshman Az-
raa Rounds was fourth in the
event with a provisional time
of 55.90. The women's 4x400-
meter relay team - comprised
of Kim Prather Rounds Hunt
and Shawna-Kaye Thompson
- improved its provisional
qualifying time to 3:46.44
amid heavy D-l competition
placing fourth.
Hood said he is pleased
with where his teams are
with two qualifying meets
remaining before nationals.
"We haven't done any
speed training yet and the
times will continue' to fall"
Hood said. "I'm telling them
if they're not running their
best yet Just wait. I think
the best is yet to come."
So far this season the
men's and women's teams
have combined to qualify
13 athletes and four relay
teams either provisionally or
automatically for the indoor
national meet. ACU will re-
turn to action Saturday at
the New Mexico Invitational
in Albuquerque N.M.
"We're hoping to qual-
ify everyone else who has
a chance at qualifying so
that we'll have three weeks .
of real good training be-
fore nationals" What I was .
as impressed with as any-
thing were quality Pac-10 or
Big 12 teams and they beat
many of them. That tells
me that our talent level is
right where It needs to be to
continue winning.
Softball: Five games in three days
and didn't allow any more hits
than actual runs The score
was tied 4-4 until the bottom
of the fourth when Wildcat
Haley Morris scored off of
Jessica's Johnson's line drive
to left field. In the top of the
seventh the Lady Mustangs
scored three runs off of three
hits and again the Wildcats
couldn't catch up.
The first game Friday morn-
ing didn't start out too well ci-
ther. Southeastern Oklahoma
State defeated ACU 5-1 scoring
four of their five points In the
first inning and the fifth and
final run in the second inning
Each team made only one er-
ror each and Jade Wilson hit a
homerun to center field for the
Wildcats in the fourth inning.
Kristine Reristianos pitched
the first two innings giving up
four hits and five runs. Vidalin
came in at the top of the third
and gave up only one hit.
Sophomore Haley Morris
said she's not quite sure why
the Wildcats started off so
poorly.
"There wasn't anything real-
ly specific that we did horrible
at; I think it was mainly Just
nerves and first game Jitters
that we all needed to get out of
our sv stems. After we did that
we plavcd well" Morris said.
"We were a lot more confident
once we got going and finally
started playing our game."
The fourth game against St.
Mary's finally ended the week-
end's losing streak. Scoring
only one point ACU came out
on top with a 1-0 finale. Leal
struck out six batters and gave
up only five hits for the game.
The one run out of six hits that
ACU scored was a homerun by
Johnson in the second inning.
The final game was played
Saturday against Delta State
and ACU pulled out a close win
6-4. With only one team error
for the W ildcats it seemed to be
anybody's game until the very
end. Vidalin pitched the first
four innings and Beristianos
and Leal each pitched one. Del-
ta State's Statesmen and ACU
both scored one run in the first
inning. Johnson scored a run in
the third with Delta State firing
back three more runs.
The Wildcats waited un-
til the fifth inning to return
anything but it was then that
ACU scored three earned runs
to make the score a close 5-4.
They earned one more point in
the sixth to advance the lead by
two. Delta State could not gain
those last couple of points in
the last Inning so ACU gladly
took home another win.
The Wildcats play in the
West Texas A&M tournament
in Canyon this weekend.
"The first games are always
rough because everyone is so
anxious" Morris said. "I think
we will be a whole lot more pre-
pared for our next tournament
Just because we will have had a
few games behind us already
and we all feel more comfort-
able playing as a team."
Tennis: Split teams do
well at all locations
CNtMifctapipl
"I was pleased" Jones
said. "To beat three Division
I schools on our courts was
real nice."
The Wildcat men opened
their season with a disap-
pointing loss to one of the
best teams in Division I
men's tennis Texas Tech.
The Red Raiders won 5-1
with senior George Carstens
picking up the lone ACU win
in the match.
The men rebounded in
their next match-up against
Prairie View A&M with a 6-1
victory. Although the final
score does not imply it ACU
worked hard to beat trie de
fending Southwestern Ath-
letic Conference champions.
Five of the six singles match-
es went to three sets. The
doubles play was also highly
contested.
"I'm really proud of the
men" Jones said.
This week the women take
a three-day tour of Arkansas
to play against Henderson
State Central Arkansas Oua-
chita Baptist Northeastern
State and Southeastern Okla-
homa State. The men go on
the road as well as they face
the University of Texas-Pan
American and Lamar Univer-
sity this Friday.
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Schedule: Wildcats Tarleton: Tough game next for 'Cats
need wins to qualify
for LSC postseason play
run when IDawson was out
but we just couldn't" Rembert
said.
The lead was whittled down
to 11 but would go no further
when Mauro Matal's missed
dunk and blocked shot would
be converted down on the oth-
er end by Dawson with 8 56 left
in the game.
The loss thinned the Wild-
cats' lead on Midwestern State
to one game in the conference
standings and has Joined them
in a tie for the fourth and final
playoff spot in the Lone Star
Conference South with Eastern
New Mexico.
Now the Wildcats get ready
for a showdown with confer-
ence leader Tarleton State in
Stephenville this Thursday and
then rum around for a re match
with the Mustangs in Moody
Coliseum at 4 p m. Saturday.
The Wildcats have five
games remaining with three on
the road All five of the games
will feature opponents still in
contention for playoffs spots
including ACU.
"We need (to win three of
these next five games" Rem-
bert said "and four of them are
very winnable."
Rembert summed it up
when he said "It's there for us
we Just need to capitalize."
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by scoring 11 points and
grabbing sLx rebounds off
the bench.
The loss sets the Wild-
cats back in their attempt
to make the LSC postseason
tournament to a 3-5 record
but Lavender and her team
know they are not out of
contention yet.
"We have to beat teams
we're supposed to beat right
now and it would help if we
picked up a win over Tar-
leton or West Texas" Lav-
ender said. "With some of
the games that we've given
"We have to beat teams we're supposed to beat
right now."
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away it's good that we're
still in for postseason play."
The Wildcats will begin
cycling through division op-
ponents when they travel to
Tarleton State on Thursday
at 6 p.m. In the last meet-
ing the Wildcats played the
division-leading TexAnn's
close but came up short in
a 70-64 loss. After Tarleton
State the Wildcats play five
more games until the LSC's
Post-Season Tournament:
Midwestern State West Tex-
as A&M Eastern New Mex-
ico Texas A&M-Kingsvllle
and Texas Woman's. The
Wildcats went 3-3 against
these teams in the first half
of conference play and are
fighting two teams Texas
Woman's and Midwestern
State for the fourth and
final spot in the postseason
tournament.
In the Wildcats three con-
ference losses since Christ-
mas break the teams' larg-
est margin of defeat was
the 6-polnt loss to Tarleton
State.
"We've played them once
and haven't really been
blown out by anybody" Lav-
ender said. "The games that
are scary are games that you
won the first time. You want
to make sure you don't be-
come complacent."
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