The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 36, Ed. 1, Friday, January 29, 1988 Page: 4 of 6
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Lady Cats
aim to stay
in top 20
Dy KERRY COLE
Copy Editor
Women's head basketball coach
Burl McCoy said his team will take
a "business trip" Saturday through
Monday and the Lady Cats must
take care of business to keep their
national tournament hopes alive.
The Wildcats 18-3 overall and
2-1 in Lone Star Conference play
will travel to East Texas State in
Commerce Saturday then make a
drive of approximately 1 1 hours for
a game with Texas A&I Monday in
Kingsville.
ACU is ranked 17th in the latest
NCAA Division II poll and Mc-
Coy said his team must retain its
top 20 ranking to stay in the hunt
for a tournament bid.
"I just really feel strongly that in
order for those people to even look
at us we're going to have to stay in
the top 20" he said. "And I think
our girls realize that."
Texas A&I is 7-8 overall and 1-2
in the LSC with its confereqee win
coming over East Texas State. ET-
SU is 5-13 overall and 0-3 in the
conference.
The Wildcats will have a defen-
sive challenge in both games as they
face the LSC's leading scorers.
Mcshell Graham of East Texas
State leads the conference with 18.6
points per game and is the third
leading rebounder with 8.8 per
game.
Janice Williams of Texas A&I
gets many of her points from the
outside. Williams has hit 38 3-
pointers for an 18.0 average.
McCoy said he plans to concen-
trate on Graham the only Lady
Lion player scoring in double fig-
ures. "We anticipate trying to stop
Meshell" McCoy said. "We could
say 'Well she's going to get a good
many points' and worry about stop-
ping the rest of them. But if she
gets hot there are thingt we can do Grand Slam
Another Eaw-Oexas -player who J'Lynn Knlffen senlorjrom Tyler returns the ball during tennis practice Wednesday. The team 13
conccmsMcCoy is Alice Fortes preparing for Its first tournament of the semester scheduled for Feb. 6 against Baylor University
who plays a physical game that m - w w
could give the women problems.
"You never know what she's going
to do" McCoy said. "We could
hold her to two or three points or
she could get 20."
McCoy said East Texas State is a
difficult place to play because of the
proportions of the gymnasium
which once was an airplane hangar.
"You've got all that open area
and in a place that big you just
can't judge anything" he said. "It's
in your concept of where you are on
the court. When you're passing the
ball. or trying to run the fast break
and you have to throw the long
pass you can overthrow so easily.
You feel like you have to throw far-
ther because it looks bigger."
He said that on a two-game road
trip the tendency is to be better
prepared for the first game. He said
his team probably will not be as
fresh when it arrives in Kingsville
where Texas A&I always plays well
against ACU.
Williams is not the only weapon
in the Lady Javelinas' arsenal. Mc-
Coy said Karen Demerson who
averages 14.8 points per game is
probably A&I's best overall player.
Kelly Armbruster who averages
15.1 'per game and leads the league
in rebounding with 10.9 was the
LSC's Player of the Week last
week.
"That's three players they have
who are good" ne said. "I don't
think their other players are that
good. At least I hope not because
it's pretty hard to stop three. You
can kind of sag ofT those two and
concentrate on three but they'll be
tough especially down there."
By KENNETH R.PYBUS
Oporta Editor
Guard Avery Helms will be up
against an old high school teammate
who happens to be among the Lone
Star Conference's leading scorers
when the Wildcats face East Texas
State in Commerce Saturday night.
The men also will face Texas A&I
on Monday night in Kingsville.
Bennett Fields the ETSU for-
ward who is averaging 20.3 points
per game played as a senior on the
Sweeny High school team with
then-sophomore Avery Helms. That
team won the Texas state champi-
onship in 1985.
Helms now an ACU freshman
said he looks forward to seeing
Fields again.
"He was our top scorer when I
played with him" Helms said.
"I'm looking forward to shutting
him out."
Head coach Mike Martin knows
it will be important to shut out
Fields who also is shooting 46.5
percent from 3-point range the
third .best in the league. Texas
A&I's James Pope is second with
47.7 percent.
The Cats are coming ofTtwo road
losses but Martin said he thinks the
team is prepared for the East Texas
challenge.
Martin often says road trips pull a
team together and build character
but he also knows they sometimes
build losses. A loss to East Texas or
Texas A&I is something Martin
cannot afford if the Wildcats are to
hold on to their LSC champion
status.
Martin said he thinks whoever
wins the conference this season will
not be unbeaten in conference.
Angelo State the only LSC
unbeaten team is 3-0.
Helms said he thinks the Cats can
come out of their two-game slump
in the matchup Saturday night
against ETSU.
"They're a tough team" he said.
"But were ready to but everything
behind us and think conference."
The Lions and Javelinas each
have a player averaging 14.2 points
per game. They arc tied for fourth
in LSC scoring. Both teams are tied
for fourth in the LSC with 1-2 re-
cords. East Texas sports the top LSC
rebounder In Ken Hardy who
brought down 182 rebounds in 17
games averaging 10.7 per game.
ACU is 2-1 In conference second
behind Angelo State. The Wildcats
are 12-7 overall and East Texas
State is 10-7 overall. A&I trails with
an overall record of 9-8.
Forward Emmitt Davis is averag-
ing 14.1 points per game and has
127 rebounds so far this season.
The Wildcat with the top shooting
percentage is Joffery Jones who is
at 56.3 percent.
Avery Helms
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Redskins like underdog role
Leading scorer
tops conference
By BARRY WILNER
AP Sports Wrltor
SAN DIEGO (AP) - While the
bookmakers are playing favorites
with the Denver Broncos The
Washington Redskins are enjoying
the role of Super Bowl underdog.
After all it's been good to them.
NFC champions for the third
time in seven years the Redskins
lost as favorites against the Raiders
in 1984 Washington's last appear-
ance in the Super Bowl. The
previous year the Redskins were
underdogs to Miami and won.
"Let them be the favorites"
linebacker Neal Olkewicz said.
"This team thrives on being the
underdog. It's part of the Joe Gibbs
philosophy to have us thinking we
always are the underdog. It makes
us want to get out there and prove
ourselves even more."
Denver is a 3'i-point favorite for
Sunday's game the Broncos' second
straight Super Bowl. Denver was a
9-point underdog when beaten 39-
20 by The New York Giants last
January.
"We're not uncomfortable in that
role" Steve Watson said. "We
don't pay any attention to point
spreads and lines because they don't
mean anything to. the game. I think
we're favored because we ad to pro
ve something by getting back here. I
don't think we got a lot of respect
last year. It was 'the New York
Giants this and New York Giants
that.'
"This year we did prove
ourselves by getting back a second
time. That's why we're favored not
because we're a better team than
Washington."
The Broncos are having no trou-
ble accepting the role as a favorite
away from home a rare occurrence.
In Denver where they have lost on-
ly one non-strike game in the last
17 the Broncos nearly always are
favored.
"We played so much better the
last sue seven games we really just
came together" Dave Studdard
said. "The chemistry is better than
last year the confidence is higher.
"We may have been overshad-
owed by the Giants but it didn't
bother us. The less publicity the
less pressure.
"Being favored doesn't bother
us" Studdard added. "The drive to
come back to the Super Bowl and
win it this time is what I think they
looked at. That's how they decided
the line."
The Redskins figured they'd be
considered an underdog even
though they are the only team to
qualify for three Super Bowls in
this decade.
"It doesn't matter how we rate or
how they rate" Darryl Grant said.
"It's how we feel about ourselves.
We get told we're too old and too
slow but we wind up back in the
Super Bowl."
As underdogs.
"I like it" Clint Didier said. "I
think Denver deserves to be the
favorite. They played in the
toughest division and came out on
top. They went through the
playoffs scoring a lot of points
beating a really good Cleveland
team."
Since both teams are relatively
healthy and have performed well
under playoff stress in close cham-
pionship games the spread derives
from one factor John Elway.
"He's a game-maker and a
gamebreaker" said Grant one of
the Redskins' massive linemen who
consistently must pressure the Den-
ver quarterback. "He's an awesome
quarterback."
So awesome that the oddsmakers
Elace enough value on Elway that
e means the difference on The bet-
ting sheets.
"Elway is scary" Olkewicz said.
"He's as good as you'll find and he
gets everyone's respect."
Including the oddsmakers?
"Sure."
Tim Howard of Angelo State and
Kelly Armbruster of Texas A&I
have been named Players of the
week in men's and women's basket-
ball in the Lone Star Conference for
games of Jan. 19-25.
Howard 6-6 junior forward from
Fort Worth took over the LSC
leadership in scoring with 20.8 after
getting 54 points in two games last
week. His top game was 32 points
against Cameron and he also hit 70
percent from the field with 10 re-
bounds. Armbruster 5-10 junior from
Houston maintained her LSC lead-
ership in rebounds at 10.9 and
moved up to fifth in scoring with
15.1 points per game. She had 52
points and 36 rebounds in three
Track
games last week.
Other top players in the men's
division last week included ACU's
Floyd Logan senior guard from
Tulsa Okla. Alvin Ellison of Texas
A&I Charles Byrd of West Texas
State Andrea Rubell of East Texas
State and Darwin Pauley of Eastern
New Mexico. Logan has racked up
240 points in 18 games for the
Wildcats.
In the women's division other
outstanding performances last week
came from forward Suzanne
Johnson sophomore from Fort
Worth Teresa Tinner of West
Texas State and Lisa Lewis of East-
ern New Mexico. Johnson leads the
LSC with an 87.8 free-throw percentage.
Both teams compete
at Tech Kentucky
By CODY MOORE
Optimist Staff
lullington retires from ACU after 0 years
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IWally Bullington will leave his
post as athletic director Monday
fond an endowed scholarship fund
Honoring Bullington has been established.
"Garvin Beauchamp vice
Jpresident for special services
lwul assume uuiungtons amies.
iBuUinirton will enter private
business after 18 yean u athletic
rdirector He coached the Wildcat
football team for nine years.
One fund was announced by
tbrV William J Tcague president
Rf the university at a reception
Ihonoiing Bullington and his wlte
lYalrie The fund's goal is
U00.000. After the goal is
reached interest from the fund
KrUrprovide a full athletic schol-
Krstfip fr n ACU student-nthletc.
IBullintton was an all-state
center and linebacker at Athens
IHriv School in Alabama and let-
itere'd in basketball and baseball.
Bullinton came to Abilene
Christian College in 1949 and
played on ACU's only
undefeated team which went
11-0 in 1950. He was selected to
the AP Little All-America team
in 1952 and graduated in 1953
with a BS in secondary education-physical
fitness
Abilene High hired Bullington
out of ACC to work under
Chuck Moser as an assistant
coach of the Eagles' football
team where he helped guide the
team to three state champion-
ships. He received a master's
degree in education from Abilene
Christian in 1956.
Bullington worked as head
coach of the Eagles from 1960-66
and built a record of 40-19-1.
During that time he served as a
director of the Texas High
School Coaches Association.
He served as program coor-
dinator with Herald of Truth for
a little more than a year and
began his work with Abilene
Christian in 1967 as head foot-
ball coach.
During the time he was head
football coach of the Wildcats he
coached six first-team all-
America players: Chip Bennett
Jim Llndsey Wilbert Mon-
tgomery Clint Longley Chip
Martin and Johnny Perkins.
Bullington led his 1973 team
to an NAIA national champion-
ship and won four coach of the
year awards for that season.
His 1976 team was 9-2 and
won the San Jacinto Shrine
Bowl.
During his term as athletic
director ACU also Won national
championships in men's and
women's national track qualified
for national playoffs in seven of
ACU's eight other sports and
won the LSC all-sports trophy
five times. 1
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Wally Bullington
The ACU men's track team will
compete indoors in the Louisville
Ky. Mason-Dixon meet and the
Texas Tech meet in Lubbock
Saturday.
Competing for ACU in the
Mason-Dixon meet will be Ben
Clay sophomore from Dayton
Ohio; Jahan Culbreath senior from
Gwynedd Pa.; Cam Miller junior
from Kansas City Mo.; Ian Morris
sophomore from Sipiria Trinidad;
and Aaron Phillips junior from
Caracas Venezuela.
Competing individually in the
meet will be Jose Salazar graduate
coaching assistant from Abilene
and Freddie Williams senior from
Cape Town South Africa. Williams
completed his collegiate eligibility
last year.
Miller will compete in the pole
vault. Salazar will compete in the
triple jump. Williams will run the
1500 meters. Phillips. Clay
Culbreath and Morris will run in
the mile relay.
"I'm real excited about the mile
relay; this is the first time we will
run it with four of our top run-
ners" head coach Don Hood said.
In Lubbock A.J. Hodges junior
from Carrizo Springs; Mike Mc-
Coy junior frcm Merkel; and Ever-
ton McDougall senior Kitchener
Ontario Canada will compete in
the long jump and in the triple
jump.
Russ Taylor senior from
Bakersfield Calif. will compete in
the highjump. Kriss Grimes senior
from Jefferson Pa. will compete in
the pole vault. Sprinters Marvin
Brown junior from Houston and
Ralph Roberts freshman from San
Juan Trinidad will run in the 55
and 200 meters.
Four will compete in distance
events: Mike Garcia junior from
Anson; James Jackson freshman
from Louisville Ky.; Michael
Moloto junior from Burgersfort
South Africa; and Mohammed
Hitane junior from Casablanca
Morocco. Mike Marsh senior from
Dallas will compete in the high
hurdles and in the shot put. National-class
decathletes Mike Led-
some senior from Early and Joseph
Williamson senior transfer from
Auburn University will compete at
the meet.
Charles Childre sophomore from
Lubbock was scheduled to compete
in the pole vault at the meet but in-
jured his hamstring in practice
Wednesday. Also out this week is
long- and triple-jumper James
Browne junior from Whittier
Calif. Browne is out with the
Chicken Pox.
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