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Page 6/Summer Edition/The J-TAC
Cowboys "Hoop It Up" With
Tarleton State Alumni Team
A look back at
Tarleton sports
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By Roderick Richardson
Sports Editor
The basketball showdown of
the Dallas Cowboy Hoopers and
the Tarleton Alumni, Thursday
June 10, was unlike any other
sporting event in recent time.
The Dallas Cowboy Hoopers
featured six of our Super Bowl
XXVII champs in action outside
the gridiron and onto the hard-
courts of Tarleton's Wisdom
Gym. The Tarleton Alumni
(coached by Texan head
basketball coach Lonn Reismen)
consisted of TSU coaches and
Texan basketball players of recent
past.
The game was a success in
spite of the absence of the event's
main attraction, star wide receiver
Micheal Irvin.
Wide reciever Alvin Harper
took TSU by surprise in the open-
ing minute. Harper flew over the
defense, and dunked the ball with
authority. Harper showed that his
athletic talent goes beyond foot-
ball by scoring over 40 points
Thursday night. The Mavericks
should consider signing him up
for next season.
Other key players from the
Hoopers included linemen Kevin
Logan and Nate Newton. Logan
and Newton made the infamous
Twin Tower's seem like pedestles.
TSU guards Rodney McFarren
and Edward Milton found that out
the hard way during their solo fast
breaks. The two Hoopers were
large enough to run a full zone
defense by themselves.
Thursday's game had other en-
tertaining aspects in it to make it a
worthwhile event. Newton was
labeled as the clown of the game
with his humorous outburst to-
wards the officials and the crowd
as well as his "talents on the hard-
court".
But even Newton was no
match against the wit of TSU ath-
letic director Ron Newsome.
Newsome was the annoucer of the
game, and no player (or coach)
was safe from his very humorous
sarcasism.
The Dallas Cowboy Hoopers
were a good team, but the
Tarleton team was not like the
Buffalo Bills. Consequently, the
Hoopers were trailing through
most of the game. At halftime,
Tarleton was leading by more
than 20 points.
Top scorers of Tarleton were
McFarren, Jim Moreno, Tracy
Guy, and football secondary
coach Willie Williams.
Both teams played for fun up
until the second half. The score
was 75-56, Tarleton leading. The
tone of the game changed to a
more competitive level.
What seemed like a dull sec-
ond half ended.in cliffhanger fash-
ion. In the final stretch of the
game, the Hoopers rallied from
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Golf misses shot at nationals
By Roderick Richardson
Sports Editor
Irony left a bitter taste in the
mouth of Coach Jim Johnson and
the Tarleton golf team June 1 at
the NAIA National Championship
Golf Tournament in Ponte Vedra
Beach, Fla.
In the District 8 tournament,
they upset the favorite Hardin-
Simmons team by one stroke, and
in the national tournament, that's
how much they missed the cut.
After finishing the first round
Tuesday in 18th place with a 308
(the top 17 teams advance includ-
ing ties), the Texans improved
their score, shooting a 304 on
Wednesday. Despite their out-
standing efforts on the green, the
. Texans still missed the cut by one
1 stroke.
' Texan golfer, Matt Dill was
the only player from Tarleton to
make it to the individual
championship round as he slid in
the cut in 26th place. Players had
to be in the top 40 to make the
cut.
Two other Tarleton golfers,
Scott Waltrip and Tyler Lovell,
missed the individual cut by a to-
tal of three strokes.
"This is like any other golf
tournament," said Jim Johnson,
head coach of Tarleton golf. "We
won at the District 8 Tournament
over Hardin-Simmons in Abilene
by one stroke, then miss the cut
here at nationals by one.
"Golfs a game of one stroke
and we've lived and died by that
one stroke."
Individually, Dill shot 78 the
first day, then countered with an
even-par round of 72 to advance.
Lovell, who led the team after the
first round with a 73, had slight
problems Wednesday as he fin-
ished with a-79, leaving him out
of the individual cut by one
stroke.
Waltrip, who fired 81-72—153,
(see Golf page 7)
Sanders has signed with
the Philadelphia Phillies
By Roderick Richardson
Sports Editor
Many great players walked out
the doors of Tarleton, and into it's
hall of fame. Texan pitcher Lance
Sanders could be the next in line.
Sanders was signed as a free
agent to the Philadelphia Phillies
this summer. He moves to
Martainsville, Virginia to play in
the Class A South League. A
mixed league with a one to two
year program with rookies, and is
considered a very high "A"
league.
It was fate that got him into the
ranks of the South League.
Recruiters from other teams came
to take a look at the pitcher, but
his pitches were not clocked with
impressive speed under the radar.
It was not until a game situation
in Galvaston when Sanders got
picked up, and the rest is history.
"[Lance Sanders] is not im-
pressive when it comes to speed,"
says Jack Allen, head coach of
Tarleton baseball. "He has good
pin-point control and a great
change-up. You have to see him
pitch in a game to be impressed
by him."
In his two years as pitcher at
Tarleton, Sanders played in 19
games. Out of those games, .he
pitched in 70 innings. Sancfcrs'
career record in Tarleton is 6-5-1,
and has a 3.96 in earned runs.
Sanders struck out 61 players, and
walked 27.
An elbow injury his junior
year interrupted his play that
season; his injury continued to
bother him this past season. Will
he be able to make the big times
despite his problems? Only time
can tell according to Coach Allen,
"If things go right he'll make
it," said Allen. "Pro baseball is so
unpredictable. He could make the
team, or be cut tomorrow...he'll
make the best of it if they give
him the opportunity."
Editor's note: Ifsnot how
good you look during the game.
It's whether you win at the aid
Over the past severa
Tarleton Athletic Program has
been one of the most successful
NAIA programs in the state, in-
deed, the nation. During the past
five years, an average of over 320
different student-athletes have
participated in Tarleton's 14 sports
each year.
For the last two years, Tarleton
has been an independent member
of district 8 of the NAIA. In the
first year as an independent, TSU
won more than any other District
8 university in history. Tarleton
won district championships in
men's and women's basketball, in
men's tennis, in baseball, and in
volleyball.
The basketball teams advanced
to the national tournaments, as did
the tennis team. This past season,
TSU won three district champi-
onships—men's and women's bas-
ketball and golf with each of the
teams advancing to the national
tournaments. Prior to
independent status in the NAIA,
Tarleton's athletic teams
participated in the Texas
Intercollegiate Athletic
Association, a non-scholarship
athletic conference made up of
colleges and universities in Texas.
During the final three years of
membership in the TIAA, TSU
athletic teams won 23 of 30 con-
ference championships, and no
team finished lower than third in
league championship races.
Perhaps the highlight of the last
several years in Tarleton's athletic
history is the fact that Tarleton
and Stephenville have hosted
three.... national championship
Tarleton's "Oscar Frazief frack-
was the site of the 1990 and 1991
NAIA National Outdoor Track &
Field Championships, the largest
college track and field meet in the
world. In 1992, Tarleton's
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TSU intramural softball team wins state
Press Release
The Devils, a team sponsored
by the Tarleton State University
Intramural program, won the State
Collegiate Intramural Softball
Championship in Killeen recently
and will advance to the national
competition scheduled September
23-26 in Midland.
The Devils won the state tour-
nament by a run differential when
persistent rains shortened bracket
play.
Tarleton State is the first
school to repeat back-to-back
state collegiate championships
since the start of the intramural
tournament in 1988.
Not even the rain could
dampen the enthusiams as teams
from across Texas Collegiate
Intramural Softball Tournament.
The Tarleton State Devils
opened the competition by defeat-
ing DPHIS of Southwestern
University, 17-2.
Rains delayed the tournament
until the next afternoon when the
Tarleton Devils met The Beast
from the University of Texas at
Austin. Tarleton's winning mar-
gin in that game was 10-4. .
A third softballl contest,
scheduled for 3 a.m., Sunday
against the Bearcats of Sam
Houston State University was
rained out. But a tournament
play-off elimination determined
Tarleton as the winner.
At the national tournament,
Tarleton State will play in the
ASA Class C National Softball
Tournament. The Devils will play
against teams from businesses,
recreational and city leagues as
well as intramural teams who
have won their state meets.
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Members of the TSU
Devils include (front,
from left): Brad
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Gilmore, Calvin Cook
and Rob Nimmo.
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members Travis
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