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Women miss national cut despite 21-6 record
Photo by Martha Brinker
The Lady Rams celebrate victory against
St. Mary's at home on Feb. 22. Their 5-0
record to end the season was not enough
to make the national tournament.
David Slater
~ SPORTS EDttOR
Wesley an's women's basketball team
ended their season with a 19 point demo-
lition of St. Edward's University in Austin
on March 1.
Despite finishing their season with a
five game winning streak, the team's
efforts did not appear to help them as they
were overlooked for a place in the NCAA
national tournament.
In the game against St. Edward's, the
Lady Rams dominated, outscoring the
home side by 12 points in the second half
alone.
The defense of the Lady Rams has
been much improved in the later stages of
the season, and this again proved to be an
important factor as Wesleyan closed
down the opposition.
The game ended as an important 76-
57 win on the road for the Lady Rams,
who did everything in their power to
impress the regional ranking committee.
Jessica Conrad led Wesleayn in
points, with a total of 18. She shot 66% of
her three point attempts in what proved to
be a very successful game for the Lady
Rams.
Fellow sophomore Martha Brinker
was not far behind with a total of 16
points and led the rebounds with 10, also
capping a fine display.
Coach Robin Potera was delighted
with not only the win against St.
Edward's but also with the season as a
whole.
"I'm thrilled with the team. We
achieved the record of 21-6 in what has
proven to be a very successful year. As 1
said before, there aren't many teams that
can claim to win more than 20 games in a
season," she said.
"Over the season we have made huge
strides and have seen some young players
step in and really perform. Against St.
Edward's there were three sophomores on
the court who had great games.
"It has been a season where the team
has put the pride back into Texas
Wesleyan's women's basketball," she
said.
The team narrowly missed out on
selection for the national tournament and
only found out they had missed the cut on
Sunday evening.
Potera commented on the national
tournament saying, "It is very difficult to
make the tournament, but the only sure
way of doing so is to win all your games."
Potera explained that the way that
teams are ranked is based on a list of six
criteria.
Wesleyan had the edge in some of
these over rival teams that made the tour-
nament, but many factors decide the final
rankings.
"Whatever we are ranked, no one can
take away our 21-6 record. It wasn't a
perfect season but I'll take it," she said.
Men end tough season with win
Catherine Weir
STAFF WRITER
After suffering through a long
season plagued by injuries and adver-
sity, the Texas Wesleyan men's
basketball team was down on their
luck.
Despite going into their final reg-
ular season game against St. Edwards
with a disappointing 8-18 record and
last place standing in the Heartland
Conference, the Rams refused to end
the season on a loss.
Playing with focus and inspira-
tion that had been lacking all season,
the Rams avenged an earlier season
loss by beating conference foe St.
Edwards in a close game, 99-97.
The Rams jumped out to an early
11 -2 lead and did not let up from
there. Shooting a combined 47 per-
cent from the floor and 100 percent
from the free-throw line, the Rams
closed out the first half with a 6-2 run
and went into halftime with 47-38
lead.
The second half saw St. Edwards
inch closer as they tied the game with
only 6 minutes remaining. From there
senior Robert Allen and junior
Princeston Parks hit several important
three-pointers to sustain the lead for
the Rams.
The last two minutes of the game
were hard fought and ultimately came
down to the Rams getting crucial
defensive stops and hitting their free
throws, something they had been
notoriously bad at throughout the sea-
son.
Previous conference losses had
been the result of the Rams inability
to stop their opponents from scoring
coupled with their poor late game
free-throw shooting, which was until
then only 65 percent.
However, the Rams made an
astounding 21 out of 25 free throws in
the second half and amassed a record
19 total assists for the game, which
ultimately added up to a 99-97 win.
The Rams inspired play was due,
in part, to their five seniors, Allen,
Erley Jackson, Matt Johnson, Charles
Beaudoin and Aaron Brochmann,
who were playing their final colle-
giate game.
Allen, who helped lead the Rams
scoring effort, with 23 points on 5 for
11 shooting from behind the arc,
acknowledged the influence of the
seniors in their final game.
"We just took it upon ourselves
to go ahead and show the senior lead-
ership that we had really been
needing all year, and it couldn't have
come at a better time."
Allen continues, saying, "The
only thing we had left was pride, and
with the ups and downs of the season
along with the expectations that had
not been met, we just made the season
a little easier to remember. Basically
we just relaxed and had fun."
The Rams were also helped out
by the efforts of Parks, who con-
tributed 24 points and 6 rebounds and
Brian Fulton, who added 16 points
and 4 rebounds.
The Rams finished the season
with an overall 9-18 record.
What you could do with the salary
of a Colorado Rockies' pitcher
—
Carlos
Medina
After spending a week in the high altitudes of
Colorado playing baseball. I know two new things.
First, everyone in Colorado wants to talk to
Texans in hopes of hearing a "yant to" or a "yee-
haw".
The other is that baseballs
really do fly significantly far-
ther in the thin Colorado air. It's
no myth.
Pitching in Colorado is like
dating freshmen, very stressful
and often fruitless.
There's nothing like seeing
180-pound hitters turn into
Mark McGwire at your
expense.
This off season, the ——————————
Colorado Rockies decided to bolster their pitching
staff by adding left-handed starters Mike Hampton for
$121 million and Denny Neagle for $51 million.
But really, why even bother?
The Rockies play at Coors Field, a park also
known as Coors Canaveral.
The best pitchers in the league know that when
you play there, a good day of work is only giving up
five runs.
The Rockies wasted their money to the tune of
$172 million.
Just think of the many ways that you could spend
that kind of cash and get more out of it than the
Rockies are going to.
Hampton and Neagle are good, but Coors Field is
better. Even if you took only Neagle's $51 million,
you could:
-Buy 1.020.000 lift tickets in Vail, Colo., at the
price of $50 a day.
Cj r% \ Depression is a bunch of symptoms
[ ** / exhibited by weak people.
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V. \ Depression is an unbearable suppression
' of brain activity that can strike anyone.
Straightening out all the misconceptions, the correct answer is b'. It's a concept we should all understand and remember, and here's
why. Depression strikes millions of young adults, but only 1 out of 5 ever seeks treatment for it. Too many just drag themselves along
or eventually seek relief through suicide. Why not treatment? Partly lack of awareness. Partly ? •
the unwarranted negative stigma. This is what n£eds fixing This is where we need you to UN T RE ATE D
change your attitudes It's an illness, not a weakness. And it's readily treatable. —^ ^ M
Spreading the word and making this common knowledge is'everybody's assignment. fc * H t*--
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-Get 40,000,000 99 cent Texas Double
Cheeseburgers from Wendy's and wash them down
with 15,200,000 sodas from Wesleyan's soda
machines at 75 cents a pop, no pun intended.
-Grab 17.000 diamond engagement rings at a
mere $3,000. That's one for each of the 340 women
you have who love you in each state.
-Hide out at a Motel 6 for 1,400,(KM) nights at
$35.99 a night and get 153,884 movies at $3.99 a
showing.
-Buy 100,000 Australian Terriers named Matlock
for $475 apiece and still have enough for 389,321 all
you can eat nights at Golden Corral at $8.99 a sitting.
-Send your mother 22,666,666 Hallmark cards at
$2.25 a card. They'd go toward thanking her for help-
ing out with tuition.
Of course, at $37,000 for four years, you could
get 1,378 degrees from Texas Wesleyan University.
-You could get five sandwiches from Quiznos.
-Pick up my $527.00 rent charge for 96,774
months, thereby making you my new best friend in
the entire world.
-Pick up 2,328 Chevrolet Silverado trucks just
like Andy Hughes' for $21,9(X) each.
Or ladies, you could get 3,400,000 dates with
Andy at his usual $15 charge.
-Lastly, you could buy 20 percent of Alex
Rodriguez.
Happy spending.
Carlos Medina is a junior majoring in management
information systems and a staff writer for The Rambler.
Baseball goes 1-3 in Colorado
Donna Haney
STAFF WRITER
The Rams baseball team faced regional rival
Mesa State Mavericks in a four game series at
Colorado during the weekend of March 3.
Despite what assistant coach Pat Hannon called
"excellent pitching," the Rams finished the series 1-
3, bringing their current record to 4-8.
Junior Ty Lowe pitched the first game, which
ended with a Rams 5-6 loss and bringing Lowe's
personal season record to 2-1.
Catcher David Jones hit a solo home run. There
were other outstanding at bats games from center
fielder Lance Newton, who went 2 for 3 and right
fielder Jarrett Lowry, who went 2 for 4 with an RBI.
"It's a long season. Losing against two
Colorado teams doesn't put us out of the season,"
said Jones.
"I noticed the difference in altitude. You don't
think it's going to be that bad, but then you start
playing and you get tired quick. I know I wasn't the
only one," he said.
Junior Michael Bowser was the losing pitcher
of the second game, bringing his record to 1-1. The
final score was a disappointing 2-15. "It was ugly,"
said Hannon. "But it is early in the season. We have
lots of time to pull it together."
The bright spot of the hitting game came from
shortstop Mike Hall, who went 2 for 2 and hit a solo
home run.
Senior Derek Gerald was the pitcher for the
Rams' only winning game of the series, bringing his
record to 1-1.
First baseman A.J. Ramirez was 1 for 3 with a 2
RBI doubles and center fielder James Polk was 2 for
3 with a double. The final score was 3-2.
In the final game of the series, senior Matt
Tecklenburg was the losing pitcher, with a final
score of 18-3. "Teck has consistently pitched out-
standing games," said Hannon.
"Unfortunately, our bats just haven't come
together at the right time to support him. He was the
outstanding pitcher of the last series against the
Metro State team."
Hall hit his second home run of the series, a solo
shot, and Newton went 2 for 3 with 2 RBI's.
"Admittedly, we are off to a slow start and we
wanted to do well against this team because they are
in our region," said Hannon.
"But we have only played 12 games out of a 60
game series. We still have 15 region games left.
Wins in those games can put us in the play offs," he
said.
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