The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 27, Ed. 1, Tuesday, December 9, 1986 Page: 4 of 6
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Sports -
"tuesday dec. 9 1986 pago 4
Men extend
streak to 31
wins at home
By KERRY COLE
Sports Editor
ACU combined senior leadership
with the 23-point performance of
freshm&n Vincent Patton for a 75-
62 win over Midwestern State ex-
tending the Wildcats' home win
streak to 31 Saturday night.
The win streak in Moody Col-
iseum which began Feb. 20 1984
with a 97-75 win over Texas A&I
won't be tested again until Jan. 10
against Way land Baptist.
The Wildcats wUl face a stiff test
on the road Thursday night when
they travel to Manhattan Kan. to
face Division I Kansas State.
Patton now avenging 19.6 points
per game pulled down 14 rebounds
in addition to leading four Wildcats
in double figures against
Midwestern. Guard Floyd Logan
scored 14 Roderick Johnson added
1 3 and Anthony Portley had 1 1 .
The determined play of Johnson
and fellow senior James Joseph
who added eight points and 11 re-
bounds was a key element in the
second-half turnaround. ACU
opened the second half by outscor-
ing Midwestern 13-2
"I think our leadership really took
over in the second half" Coach
Mike Martin said. "Roderick and
James just everybody really
wanted to play hard and not lose
that streak. We played with a lot
more intensity that second half."
Johnson said he and Joseph were
compelled by the win streak. "The
win streak was on the line" he said.
"We've been fighting and scrat-
ching to keep it going. We wanted
to show some leadership. James got
on the boards in the second half and
did a great job and we just got
down and played some great
defense."
Martin said his players arej?egin;
iiiag to realise what it takes ttrr
"I think were"icarning to play
hard and that's what we hadn t
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Freshman Robin White applies fierce pressure to Mldwestern's Wynell Martin during the critical con-
clusion to the Wildcats' 62-61 victory Saturday in Moody Coliseum.
A&I back in running for trophy
KINGSVILLE (AP) - Texas
A&I freshman Johnny Bailey is one
of the top three players in the
voting for the Marlon Hill Trophy
awarded annually to the top NCAA
Division II football athlete.
Bailey will go to Florence Ala.
to attend the National Football
Championship banquet Thursday
night when the Trophy recipient
will be announced.
' .The two other nominees arc Jeff
Kentrim North Dakota State senior
quarterback and Jeff Tiefcnthjaler
South .Dakota State senior wide
receiver.
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been doing" he said. "That's what
I was really pleased with the second
half. If you play hard you can make
some mistakes and still come out all
right. But boy you've got to play
with intensity."
Despite that intensity the Cats'
lead was just six 68-62 at the 3:00
mark prompting Midwestern coach
Gerald Stockton to tell his players
"We're still in the thing." But
ACU scored the game's final seven
points to quell any thoughts of an
Indian comeback
MSU senior guard Robert Harris
entered the game averaging "20
points per game but was held to just
three Saturday shooting 1-12. The
defensive pressure of Johnson
Logan and Portley kept the 6-2
Harris in check throughout the
game. "A great scorer like him is
always going to get frustrated when
he can't shoot the ball like he wants
to" Johnson said. "That was a real
big key to the game stopping his
offense."
The inside play of junior Ed
Teal who led MSU with 16 and
freshman Jason LeSueur who
scored all of his 10 points in the
first half caused problems for the
Cats.
Guard Michael Rhinehart scored
nine of his 13 points by hitting 3-3
from three-point range to keep the
Indians close in the second half.
"Our defense hurt us" Martin said.
"It wasn't the points we scored it
was what we allowed."
The Indians trailed by eight 33-
25 with 5:46 remaining in the first
half but LeSueur and Derrick
Jackson paced a 15-2 scoring run
"We just made some mental
mistakes going down the last two
minutes of the half" Johnson said.
MSU scored the first basket of
the second half for a seven-point
kadJjat the Wildcats then took
their mm 'at a rusy outscoring "the
Indians I3'-2'In the- first 5:49 of the
half to take the lead for good.
Bailey who led Houston Yates to
the Class 5A schoolboy state cham-
pionship a year ago averaged 182.8
yards a game for Texas A&I He
averaged 7.4 yards a carry and
scored 18 touchdowns.
In the process he set more than
70 national collegiate NCAA Divi-
sion II Lone Star Conference and
school records.
The 5-9 180-pound Bailey had
2425 all-purpose yards. He rushed
for more than 100 yards in each of
the Javelinas' 11 games and went
over 200 yards in five of the con-
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Triple threat
Mldwestern's Robert Starnes looks for an opening as Anthony
Portley James Joseph and Vincent Patton worK to deny the ball as the Wildcats triumphed 75-62.
Cats face Division I K-
Coach Mike Martin is hoping the
pressure of facing Division I Kansas
State University Thursday will pay
off when ACU faces pressure situa-
tions on the road in the Lone Star
Conference later this season.
ACU played at Kansas State last
season but only two returning
players saw action in the 91-69 loss.
Roderick Johnson scored 10 aad
James Joseph added eight. ACU
trailed by nine 39-30 at balftime.
The only other time the two school
met was in 1982 when Xass"
State took a 52-39 victory. '
KSU's leading scotct latt 'smOrt
6-8 forward Norris Coleman is ac
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.Bentrim broke Walter Payton's
Division II career rushing
touchdown mark with 64. He has a
string of 91 consecutive passes
without an Interception. He has led
the NCAA Division II in scoring
for the past three seasons. He has
led his team to two Division II na-
tional championships and a run-
nerup spot and the Bison arein the
title game next weekend in
Florence.
Tiefenthaler has caught 173
passes for 3621 yards and 32
touchdowns in his four seasons with
South Dakota State.
ademically ineligible until spring.
Coleman scored 23 points in last
year's game.
Kansas State was 4-0 this season
going into Tuesday night's game
with Creighton. KSU has recorded
wins over Texas Tech and
Southwest Texas State.
Martin is concerned about the in-
experience of hk 3-1 Wildcats.
"We're a young ball club" he said.
"I don't know if we're ready or not.
It'll really be good for us because
Jt'll put great pressure on us.
.'.got a new" coach 'and newt enthusiasm."
Women win in tough fight
y JONATHAN WITT
AsaJttani Sport Editor
The ACU women's basketball team
held on to a fragile lead in the clos-
ing minutes to defeat a persistent
Midwestern State University team
62-61 in Moody Coliseum Satur-
day. The Lady Cats 4-2 will play
Mary-Hardin Baylor in Belton
Tuesday at 6 p.m.
Coach Burl McCoy was glad his
team could win a close one but he
did not think the game should have
been close. "It looked like we could
put the game away nearly any
time" he said. "But we'd either
throw the ball away or make some
mistakes or miss some easy ones."
The lead flip-flopped throughout
most of the first half until ACU
took the lead with 5:06 left on the
clock. The Lady Indians would
never see the lead again.
But they would never be out of it
either. Five points would be their
biggest deficit and they would tie
the game five times.
The Wildcats could not relax un-
til just 10 seconds remained in the
game. Donna Radford junior from
Austin decided against trying to
run the clock out and drove to the
basket from the sideline for a short
jumper
ACU led by three and after a
meaningless two-pointer from the
Indians the game was over.
Men netters eighth
The ACU men's tennis team has
been ranked eighth in the nation in
the NCAA Division II preseason
poll for the 1987 spring season.
The Wildcats also have two
singles players ranked in the top 50
and one doubles team ranked in the
top 20.
Lone Star Conference rival East
Texas State is ranked 10th.
California-Davis is the top-ranked
team in the preseason poll which
was conducted for the NCAA by
the Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches
Association.
In singles Neil Bcrryman soph-
omore from Ojal Calif. is ranked
11th and Micky Navarro senior
from Athens is 39th.
In doubles Berryman and Shane
Thompson senior from McAllen
are ranked 10th.
Coach Cecil Eager suid he wasn't
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The Wildcats' defensive pressure
Head coach Lon Krugcr who
played for KSU's Wildcats from
1971-74 is in his first year as head
coach.
Kansas State's 6-9 center Ron
Meyer will lead a physical well-
rounded team against ACU. "We'll
be playing people who are tough
and who are going to bang you"
Martin said. "I think we need that.
It'll be good for us."
Johnson said he thinks this year's
ACU team could fare well at KSU.
"Going back now I know what to
expect from them and how to
prepare for them" the 6-4 senior
said. "The guys we have this year
The Wildcats' leading scorer
Angie Dill sophomore from
Houston had 14 points. She was
also the rebound leader with 13. Pat
Bidwell sophomore from Missouri
City contributed 12 points.
For Midwestern Wynell Martin
scored 16 and pulled nine off the
boards. Mandy Funk shot 6-9 for 12
points.
She was one of the exceptions in
the game though. The Lady In-
dians shot 38.7 percent from the
field and the Wildcats hit an un-
characteristically low 40 percent.
"They took us out of our of-
fense" McCoy said. "We took
shots wc normally wouldn't take.
"We've got good shooters" he
said. "We just didn't have good
shot selection tonight and we miss-
ed a lot of lay-ups. I think it was
more intimidation."
Bidwell said it had to do with
their emphasis in practice the week
before the game. ''Most of the week
we were working on defense" she
said.
Midwestern had 41 rebounds and
19 turnovers. ACU had 40 re-
bounds and 20 turnovers.
With any less defense or offense
the ACU women would have lost
their third straight game to
Midwestern. The Lady Cats were
edged out in two tight games last
year.
"We led this bunch last year 24-
12 at one point and they beat us"
surprised about his team's ranking.
"I participated in the selection
and I was aware that we were
somewhere in that neighborhood"
he said. "I wasn't surprised
Preseason polls are just a guess at
best."
Eager said he is not sure who his
top players will be in the spring.
"There has been some equaliza-
tion going on within the team" he
said. "Some of the players are really
improving. Neil hasn't been as con-
centrated on tennis"
Eager said Beiryman's lack of
concentration doesn't concern him
right now.
"It's not the right time of the
year" he said. "A player can only
maintain his concentration for so
long. I think it is wisi on his part."
The coach said he is not sure if he
will play Berryman and Thompson
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are going to do a lot better than
what we did last year. I think we're
very well suited to playing out
there."
He said playing three Division I
schools last year did make a dif-
ference. "Playing Division I schools with
the height they have and the
pressure or playing at their placerf
helps us a lot" be said. "Going til
play schools like Angelo and
Howard rayne they nave very
rowdy crowd. It helps to prepare
now. so when conference time rolls
araind we'll be better prepared for .
those situations."
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So the team had added incentive!
in winning this time. "We really
wanted it bad this year" said
Bidwell. "During halftime. we
knew they would come outi
stronger and it would be a battle tol
the end."
The next gume against Mary-
Hardin Baylor may not have as in-
tense of a rivalry but if the gamri
goes anything like it did last year1
the final score should make up for!
it.
In the teams' last meeting the!
Cats scored 112 points for a J
women's school record. It came ofi
a continuous full-court press from!
their opponents.
"They're just a real quick real
intense team" said McCoy. "They
run run run You can break their
press four or five times; it doesa t
matter. They'll be right back up
pressing."
In an earlier win against South)
western tins season the Lady Cat
turned the ball over 27 times under -
the nressure of a Dress.
Bidwell said the team will have to
change up its strategy in bringing
the ball down court. "We're going
to have to have a little bit more
passing and less dribbling" she
said.
If the Wildcats do as well as they
have in the past they should do all
right. "To my knowledge they've
never beaten us" said McCoy.
in nation
as his No 1 doubles team.
"We may change doubles around
some this year" he said. "We have
some new players on the team. It's
hard to say. I'm not really sure right
now."
Eager said East Texas State will
be the team to beat this spring.
"They are a good team" he said.
"Right now it Is a toss-up between
us and them. They have some new
players and their team is much
stronger now. Last year we beatf
them 5-4 This year it will be a rear
mp u lucik
One of ETSU's new players is
Steve Enriquer who was recruited
from Angelo State's recently discon-
tinued program. Enriquez was runner-up
ub the LSC last season.
Eager said ETSU's Ken Olivier
who is ranked No. 1 in the nation
will be ACU's greatest threat.
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