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12 LEVELLAND * HOCKLEY COUNTY NEWS-PRESS, Wednesday, March 1, 1989
SPC track team prepares for national meet
The South Plains College Texan
track team will take a contingent of
17 runners and field men to the
NJCAA Indoor Championships set
to begin Friday on the campus of
the University of Kansas-Law-
rence.
Qualifying rounds in running
events begin at 1 p.m. Friday with
finals set for 1 p.m. on Saturday.
Field events will begin at 11 a.m.
on Friday with finals set to begin at
11 a.m. Saturday.
SPC enters the meet as a top
contender for the national indoor
title, according to SPC track coach
James Morris. The Texans finish-
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ed third last season with 43 points.
Blinn College, Brenham, amassed
197 points to claim their second
consecutive indoor championship.
Odessa College finished runner-up
with 70 points.
Morris is optimistic that his
Texans could repeat their 1986
performance that earned them their
first-ever national track champion-
ship. "If we do what we’re sup-
posed to do, we’ll be in the top
three or four teams," he said. "If
other teams have some sub-par
performances, then we could slip
in and win the meet."
As defending champion, Blinn
enters the meet the favored team,
although Morris believes Blinn
will not run away with the meet
like they did last season.
Morris will rely on the perform-
ance of several nationally ranked
Texan runners. Mbarak Hussein,
the 1988 NJCAA cross country
champion, enters the meet with the
best recorded time in the mile run
and the 1,000-yard dash. The
sophomore from Kenya has posted
a 4:13.04 in the mile and a 2:10.4
in the 1,000.
Thomas Koech, another sopho-
more from Kenya, has posted a
64.42 in the 500 M dash to hold
down the No. 1 spot in juco reports.
Freshman Jorge Pacheco, a native
of Mexico City, is ranked No. 1 in
the two-mile run with a time of
9:18.19. Pacheco has also qual-
ified for the mile and three-mile
runs with marks of 4:16.4 and
14:31.8.
SPC’s two-mile relay and
distance medley relay both have
turned in the best recorded juco
time this season. The two-mile
relay, comprised of Hussein,
Koech, sophomore Naftal Gichaba
and freshman Scott Beasley, has
run a 7:51.18. SPC holds the
NJCAA meet record in the two-
mile, 7:37.76 set in 1987. Morris
hopes his team will set a new
record on its way to a first-place
finish.
The distance medley relay team
has run a time of 9:59.8 to qualify.
The team is comprised of Beasley
on the 800 meters, Koech on the
400 meters, freshman Paul Mal-
donado on the 1200 and Hussein
on the mile. SPC also holds the
NJCAA meet record in this event,
9:53.24 set in 1986.
"If both our relay teams run as
they are capable of running, we
could set two new meet records,"
said Morris.
The team’s mile relay has turned
in a qualifying time of 3:14.04,
good enough to nail down a No. 2
ranking. That team is comprised of
Koech, sophomore Paul Gonzales,
and freshmen James Strom an and
Darren Bailey.
Other Texan qualifiers include
Beasley in both the 800 meters and
1,000 yard dash. Beasley, a prod-
uct of Kingwood High, was a
fourth place finisher in the 800 at
the state 5-A meet last spring. He
has run a 1:555.6 this year in the
800 M and a 2:15.9 in the 1,000.
Gichaba, who ran on SPC’s
indoor relay teams last season, has
also qualified in the 800 M with a
1:55.4. Bailey, a freshman from
Texans encounter
Ranger at regional
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The South Plains College
Texans enter the first round of the
NJCAA Region V Tournament
Thursday for the fourth consecu-
tive year, facing Ranger Junior
College at 12 noon in Highlander
Gym on the campus of McLennan
Community College.
The Texans, ranked No. 10 in
the NJCAA, bring a 28-3 season
record into the tournament along
with high hopes of winning the
regional championships.
"Our players have a very posi-
tive outlook about the tourna-
ment," said Texan head coach Ron
Mayberry. "We have a great
chance to win, and we real! feel
good about the bracket we’re in."
SPC’s second-place finish in the
Western Junior College Athletic
Conference placed the Texans
opposite of conference champion
Odessa College and third-place
finisher Midland College.
The Texans have already beaten
Ranger once this season, defeating
RJC 73-65 in the SPC McDonald’s
Classic in November.
"It was a very close game, and it
Tourney
deadline
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The deadline for entering the
Hockley County Women’s Bowl-
ing Association City Tournament
has been extended to March 15,
according to association prsident
Sarah Williams.
The tournament, which will be
held the first two weekends in
April, will have competition in the
single, double and five-woman
team categories.
The entry fee for the tournament
is $9 per event, with a special $1
cost for extra prize money in an
All-Events division.
All bowlers must be sanctioned
by the HCWBA, which is a mem-
ber of the Women’s International
Bowling Congress, the governing
body of women’s bowling in the
United States.
For more information concer-
ning the tourney, contact Williams
at 894-5609 after 4 p.m., or contact
Wilma Samsel at 894-5775, Kay
Wheeler at 894-8669 or Mary
Stephens at 894-5479.
came down to the wire. Ranger has
a small, quick team much like New
Mexico junior College. Their
biggest asset is their ability to
shoot the ball," Mayberry said.
That comparison with NMJC is
of special concern to Mayberry, as
the Thundcrbirds dealt the Texans
an 89-84 upset last week. "We have
a hard time adjusting to small,
quick teams. We can’t let our guard
down or they will sneak up on us,"
he said.
Mayberry said the txeans will
rely upon their defensive strength
and their ability tr rebound against
Ranger. The Texans led the confer-
ence in team defense all season,
allowing on;ly 75.2 points per
game. SPC also led the conference
in team rebounding, averaging
16.3 offensive rebounds and 30.3
defenrive rebounds.
SPC’s 91.1 points per game
offensively is fueled by four
players in double figures. Sopho-
more post Keith Stewart is averag-
ing 16.3 points to lead the Texans.
He is followed by freshman post
Jeff Stem who is hitting 14.4 points
per game. Sophomore guard Ron
Shields is averaging 12.6 points
and sophomore forward Earl
McKinney is averaging 10.4.
In the rebounding department,
Stewart and McKinney are averag-
ing 10.4 and 7.8 caroms, respectiv-
ely.
Thursday’s game will be broad-
cast live over KLVT Radio.
Amarillo High, has qualified in
both the 400 meter and 500 meter
dashes. He has run a 64.7 in the
500. i
Dennis Cunningham, a fresh-
man from Levelland and a state
finalist in the 300 meter hurdles,
has qualified in the 500 M with a
time of 66.3. James Stroman,
another blue chip freshman from
Andress High in El Paso, has
qualified in the 400 meter with a
49.2.
In the short sprints and high
hurdles, Alfie Bethel, a transfer
from Bishop Slate Junior College
in Mobile, Ala., and Paul Gonza-
les, a sophomore from Lazbuddic,
have qualified for competition.
Bethel has run the 55 meter dash in
6.2, and Gonzales has run the 55
meter hurdles in 7.5.
In distance events, SPC will be
paced by All-American cross
country runner Tomas Ramos who
has qualified in the mile with a
time of 4:31.7.
SPC has qualified some depth in
the field events, a factor that was
lacking for the Texans last season.
Joe Don Brown, sophomore from
While Deer, will compete in the
high jump. Brown has jumped 6-8
in indoor competition.
In the pole vault, two Van High
School products have qualified for
the Texans. They include Bobby
Cotton with a best vault of 15-0
and Chris Carrell with a mark of
14-0. Michael Saldivar, sopho-
more from Olton, has qualified in
the shot put with a best of 50-8.
Morris will be relying on field
event qualifiers to give the Texans
an edge in scoring team points.
"That’s the main difference be-
tween our qualifying team this
season and last," he said. "We
have some more depth in the field
events, plus we have added depth
in the 1000,600 and the 800."
The fact that the Texans have
qualified 17 athletes for competi-
tion, five more than last year,
speaks to the depth Morris refers
to. "We are going to have to be
competitive in all events and we
are going to have to place in all
three relay events," he said. "That
will be the key to a top finish for
us."
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