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Lady Rams dominate tournament
Photo by Khiunphu Bouaphanh
First baseman Danny Hair holds a runner to the bag. The baseball team has lost
five consecutive games. .
By Brigette Guesno
Staff writer
The Lady Rams Softball team was
unstoppable this weekend at the first annual
Texas Wesleyan NAIA softball tournament at
Mike Lewis Park in Grand Praire. The Lady
Rams went undefeated through the tourna-
ment and clinched the championship against
.Oklahoma Christian University (9-0).
The Lady Rams also swept through UT-
Permian Basin (23-4), St. Edward's (12-0)
and Mary-Hardin Baylor (4-3).
Junior Shauna Greaham and senior
Tammi Key were selected as Heart of Texas
conference players of the week. Greaham
batted .700 for the week with seven RBl's,
eight runs and two stolen bases. Key was 2-
0 this week with one save. She only gave up
three hits and one walk, \shile striking out
seven.
The Lady Rams include seniors Brandi
Elliot. Michelle Wiscombe, Brigette Guesno,
Gina Gotcher and Tammi Key; junior Shauna
Greaham and sophomores Christina
Fernandez, Becky Balarin, Sandra Madrid
and Jennifer Osborne
Freshmen on the Lady Rams include
Jennifer Doyle, Kelly Rodenburgh and Brei
Silvia. .
The Lady Rams' overall record is 17-8.
They have been in a transitional period, with
the hiring of a new full-time coach last week.
Carol Pierce now heads the Lady Rams and
said that she is happy to be here and that she
will "demand good things."
Pierce left the Arlington Independent
School District for the position and will be
the first full-time Softball coach at Wesleyan.
She played softball at the University of North
Texas, where she later coached. She has also
coached at Sam Houston State University.
The softball team said they are happy to
have her here and enthusiastic about the full-
time coaching position. The Lady Rams' next
home game is today against Ranger Junior
College at Sycamore Park. •
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Baseball team hits 0-5 win drought
By Greg Bogomol
Stall writer
The Texas Wesleyan baseball
team went 0-4 last week, losing to
I 3th ranked Oklahoma City, 11-1
and 15-9 on Tuesday. On Saturday
they fell to East Texas Baptist, 11-5
and 8-4.
In the second game against
Oklahoma City, the Rams fell
behind 3-0 but rallied for two runs
in the first two innings and one in
the third to take a 5-3 lead after
three. The Rams' then yielded seven
runs in the fourth to fall behind 10-5
and never recovered.
The culprits in the second game
were the 14 walks by Rams pitchers.
The Rams out-hit the Chiefs 12-11
but committed five errors.
On Saturday the Rams lost the
opener 11-5 against East Texas
Baptist University (ETBU). The
Rams committed eight errors which
proved to be costly, as only four of
the opponent's runs were earned.
Both teams scored twice in the
second. The Tigers reached on an
error with two outs, which led to a
run. The Rams tied the score with
three hits and a hit batter.
Designated hitter Young Kim
got a one-out double and with two
outs, catcher Steve Biernacki was
hit by a pitch. Then utility man
Scotty Scott and McCoy followed
with back-to-back singles to drive in
the runs.
The Tigers would seize the lead
for good in the fourth. Back-to-back
throwing errors by pitcher Dean
Blanchette on bunts opened the
floodgates.
The Rams closed the gap to 11-
.5, scoring two runs in the seventh
after two walks and singles by first
baseman Danny Hair and Biernacki.
In game two the Rams jumped
to a 2-1 lead after two and ETBU
tied it at 2-2 after four.
The Tigers blew the game open
in the fifth, scoring five runs on two
hits, two errors and four walks.
The Rams lost 6-5 to Dallas
Baptist University yesterday at
home. They play tomorrow at East
Central Oklahoma.
Krishka, players strive for perfect fit
By Dominick Mastrangelo
Staff writer
It's like a new pair of shoes.
You slip them on and they feel
OK, but you need some time to
walk around in them and get that
good feel.
Watching Texas Wesleyan this
year; you got the feeling that first-
year coach Dennis Krishka and his
team spent most of this year trying
to get that good feel.
Krishka and Wesleyan finished
11-19 this year, but accomplished
more than their record would indi-
cate.
"When w'e talk about goals,"
said Krishka, "I don't talk about
wins and losses. We had three things
we wanted to accomplish this sea-
son. We wanted to establish our
system, establish a team personality
and be a program that gained
respect."
Krishka said his team succeed-
ed in establishing their system and
gaining respect as a program, but
that.the team personality "is some-
thing we have to work on."
The respect that Wesleyan was
trying to earn didn't come by way of
the officials whose calls never
seemed to go Wesleyan's way.
"When you're losing, the one
thing that frustrates you more than
anything is the officiating," said
Krishka. "1 don't think Texas
Wesleyan was given a lot of respect
as far as the officiating crews were
concerned. I think we were getting
some calls this year based on
Wesleyan teams of the past. 1 think
(respect) is something you've got to
earn." said Krishka. who contrasted
the officiating to his last coaching
slop in Hatneline. Minn., where all
the schools in the conference were
close and so was the rapport with
the officiating crews.
The lack of proximity of
Wesleyan to the other schools not
only makes for tough officiating but
also long, draining road trips to
cities like Kerrville.
"Teams that come up.to play us,
we're their vone big trip," said
Krishka who explained the problem
with being the odd school out.
"Incarnate Word flies up here,
St. Mary's and other teams come up
here a day early. If we play St.
Mary's at 3 o'clock we have to
leave here at 6:30 in the morning.
It's not fair to expect your kids to
have to travel and be ready to play.
Our present travel situation is not
conducive to being successful," he
said.
Wesleyan's conference record
of 3-11 didn't do much to show how
far they came this year; especially in
a conference that was highly com-
petitive.
"We thought our non-confer-
ence schedule was very strong and
would prepare us for the confer-
ence, but we come to find out that
our conference was more competi-
tive than we had imagined," said
Krishka.
"It takes you a year through the
league to find out really what your
conference is all about and the com-
petitiveness of it."
Having helped establish
Wesleyan as a young hut spirited
group, the future is now for
Krishka.
"We're not looking at our
future being three to four years
down the road like a lot of people
thought we would after our first
year," said Krishka.
"I think we're a couple years
ahead of that schedule. We think.we
have a chance to be awfully good
next year. We're recruiting with that
purpose in mind," he said.
This year's recruiting class will
be brought in with the idea of curb-
ing problems in the paint and
lighting a competitive fire under the,
•returning players. Krishka's looking
for size and strength inside and a
pressing issue is to find someone to
fill the point guard position left
vacant by Otis Evans.
"1 think we've got a good foun-
dation to build on from where we
were in May when 1 got here," said
Krishka. "I think we're on the right
track."
Krishka praised the work of his
coaching staff graduate assistant
Eric Stockhausen, who followed1
Krishka to Wesleyan, saying, "It's
not a one-man job."
The accomplishments of
Wesleyan this year has set the tone
for good things to come in the next
couple of years. But if you ask
Krishka, he's ready now.
"We started to climb up the lad-
der. Now we want to start heading
toward those top rungs."
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