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University Press
Lamar University
Sports
Wednesday, April 20,1994
Page 4
Tennis teams competing in Sun Belt tournaments this week
Men hoping to surprise
By Manuel Aragon
UP staff writer
The Lamar Cardinals tennis
team will be facing their last
challenge of the season Thursday
through Saturday when they
play in the Sun Belt Conference
Tournament at the University of
Arkansas-Little Rock.
The Cardinals, who finished
No. 5 in conference last year,
will be seeded sixth. Lamar will
play its first match Thursday at
11 a.m. against the No. 3 seed.
Lamar will play two more
matches, one on Friday and the
second on Saturday.
“I am expecting to go to con-
ference and upset somebody,
preferably Jacksonville or
UALR,” head coach Tim
Calhoun said. “The toughest
opponents to beat will be the
University of South Alabama,
ranked No. 24 in the country,
and Southwestern Louisiana.”
Calhoun also said that in
order for Lamar to do well the
whole team has to work togeth-
er and do its best.
“In the last couple of weeks
our results have been better, so
we should take this momentum
and confidence into the tourna-
ment,” Calhoun said.
The players who will be going to
conference are Karl Davies,
Manuel Aragon, Shardul Kothari,
Simon Vezina, Jon Frost, Gerald
Mathews and Brian Masters.
The key players for the
Lamar team are Davies and
Aragon. They have been the
most consistent players through-
out the spring season.
The senior players at Lamar
who will be leaving the tennis
team after this conference
match are Davies with a record
of 10-10 and Shardul Kothari
with a record of 6-14.
“I hope we do as well, if not
better, than we did last year,”
No. 1 singles player Davies said.
“We have a better team than
last year and I am looking for-
ward to playing good tennis in
my last collegiate tournament,”
Kothari said.
Women hope to stay hot
By Jacqueline Lane
UP staff writer
Photo by Tracy Silverberg
Karl Davies is one of three Lamar tennis players closing out
their careers this weekend. The other Lamar seniors are
Shardul Kothari, on the men’s team, and Kelly Marshall, on
the women’s team.
The women’s tennis season
will culminate this week with
the Sun Belt Conference tour-
nament hosted by the
University of Arkansas at Little
Rock in Little Rock, starting
tomorrow and ending Saturday.
Last year’s honors were
taken by the University of
South Alabama. LU finished in
fifth place with only five
starters, after being seeded sev-
enth in the tournament.
“My expectations are for us
to be ready to play, to give our
normal high level of effort and
intensity, and the results will
take care of themselves,” Coach
Claire Pollard said.
The University of South
Alabama and the University of
Southwestern Louisiana are
expected to hold the top seeds
for the tournament, she said.
According to Pollard, the
Lady Cards will probably go
into the tournament, seeded
sixth.
“The team is playing pretty
good. They have much
improved as the season has
gone on. We’ve made a lot of
progress,” she said.
The Lady Cards are now 4-3
in conference play, but they, in
addition, have chalked up two
wins apiece against the
University of New Orleans and
the University of Texas-Pan
American.
“We’ve done well. I think the
team has done well. We have a
sound team without any stars.
Therefore, it has been hard,
especially for the top, but
they’ve hung in,” she said.
The draw for the tournament
will not be announced until
today.
The women’s team consists of
Jennifer Bensky, Jennifer
Hilton, Ewa Jakubowska, Jacky
Lane, Britney Sandell,
Stephanie Staudt and Kelly
Marshall, the only senior on the
team.
What’s on tap this week
Saturday —
Outdoor track
at Stephen F. Austin Invitational
Nacogdoches
Baseball at Louisiana Tech (DH)
Ruston
All day
1 p.m.
Injuries hamper LU track teams in A&M Relays
By Cleo Browder
UP sports writer
Sports Briefs
Lamar women in first place
The Lamar women’s golf team was in first place with a 17-
stroke lead at the conclusion of the first round of the Sun Belt
Conference Tournament in Nashville Monday.
Andrea Dobson and Melissa Isham of Lamar were ranked first
and second individually, with Bresha Marshall and Karen
Saevarsdottir also in the top 10.
Gilligan-Hall baseball camp
The annual Gilligan-Hall Baseball Camp dates have been
scheduled for this summer.
The camp will feature Lamar head coach Jim Gilligan and
Lamar associate head coach David Hall, as well as a staff of high
school, college and pro instructors.
Four camp times have been scheduled. They are June 13-17
and 20-24, June 27-July 1, and July 5-9.
For further information about the camps, call 880-8974.
Rec sports track meet deadline approaches
The rec sports department will conclude its spring calendar of
events Sunday, April 24, by conducting a track meet.
Deadline to register for the meet is Thursday.
The meet will include men’s and women’s competition.
For further information about the track meet, contact the rec
sports department at 880-2306 or go by the office at 106
McDonald Gym.
The Lamar track teams competed at the
Texas A&M Relays last weekend. There were
some improvements, and there were some
downfalls. Injuries played a big part in a few of
the athletes’ turmoil.
During the start of the 400-meter relay,
sprinter/hurdler Tunesia Ashford strained her
lower hamstring. Quarter-miler Cleo
Browder’s upper hamstring injury has started
to bother her again.
‘These injuries really put us in a bind,”
Collins said.
Even though Ashford was hurt, the 400-
meter relay team placed third, running its best
time of the year. Other participants on that
relay were Rakisha Woods, Carol Aikels and
Catina Crawford. Crawford was second in the
long jump, with a leap of 19 feet 4 inches.
Brandi Williams had a personal record on the
long jump, with a leap of 18 feet 17 inches.
Tiffany Adams was third in the discus, with
her best throw being 138 feet 5 inches.
The men had a pretty good overall perfor-
mance at the meet. Ray Booker placed sec-
ond in the triple jump, with a leap of 48 feet 5
inches. Aaron Paris followed behind in fourth
place with 45 feet 11 inches and got fifth place
in the long jump with a leap of 22 feet 7 inches.
Artha Simpson was second in the 800-meter
run with a time of 1:49.5.
“Art ran a smart race, “ Collins said. “He
ran his best time of the year.”
Matt Brogger finished sixth in the 400, with
48.4. Tommy Negrete was first in the pole
vault. The 400-meter relay team finished sixth
and the 1600 meter relay B-team finished fifth.
LU soccer whips SFA 3-1
Lamar scored three second-
half goals to defeat Stephen F.
Austin 3-1 at Cardinal Stadium
Saturday in the club soccer
team’s final warm up for this
weekend’s Wichita State
Tournament.
The Cardinals missed several
scoring opportunities in the first
half, but played well enough
defensively to maintain a score-
less tie at the half.
Lamar finally began to take
advantage of scoring opportuni-
ties in the second half. The
Cardinals scored their first goal
when Josh Lovoi penetrated the
SFA penalty box and passed off
to Ryan Bishop, who scored the
goal.
Dennis Gasson scored the
second LU goal after attempting
to head a free kick from Lovoi.
A SFA defender also went up
and helped to cause it to fall
near Gasson’s feet. Gasson
kicked it in from there.
The Lumberjacks finally got
on the board soon after that
goal, when SFA player-coach
Sean McMahon, a former Lamar
player, scored.
The final goal of the game
came when Keith Doucet, nor-
mally a goalkeeper, scored on a
penalty kick.
LU goalkeeper Paul
Whitehead stopped two of the
three shots-on-goal attempted by
SFA, including a diving, one-
handed stop of a 25-yard attempt
by McMahon.
Cards drop 2 of 3 at USL
By Robert Thomas
UP staff writer
Despite a series loss to divi-
sion leading USL over the week-
end, Lamar maintained a three-
game lead over Louisiana Tech
for the final playoff spot in the
Sun Belt Conference.
Lamar, despite 13 hits and
two home runs from Bob Rauch
and Morgan Walker, dropped
the first game 15-5.
Lamar didn’t need much
offense in the next game, as Mike
Pasqualicchio pitched a two-hitter
to lead LU to a 5-1 win.
Pasqualicchio threw a com-
plete game and fanned five USL
hitters in picking up the win.
The Redbirds got all the
offense they needed to win, with
Cory Gafford and Bruce Aven
both hitting RBI doubles, and
getting a monster 400-foot home
run by Morgan Walker.
In the final game of the
series, Lamar couldn’t get the
big hit, leaving 10-plus runners
on base, as USL held off the
Cardinals, 5-3.
Included in the defeat, was
the loss of star left-hander Kevin
Lane and Anthony Iapoce. Lane
only pitched an inning as he
aggravated a knee injury he suf-
fered in a automobile accident
earlier in the week. Iapoce
strained a muscle in the first
game on Saturday.
LU drops to 23-16 overall and
10-8 in the SBC with the loss.
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