The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 31, Ed. 1, Tuesday, January 26, 1982 Page: 9 of 11
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Turnovers cost Wildcats
against Rams 'Jackets
The ACU men's basketball suffered two
more losses in Lone Star Conference play
last week dropping a 74-61 decision to
Angelo State Thursday night and a 66-62
decision to Howard Payne Saturday.
The team played East Texas State
Monday night but results weren't
available at press time.
The Wildcats were closer to the ASU
Rams than the final score indicated as the
Rams were able to build up a big lead near
the end of the game when ACU was forced
to foul to get the ball back.
A large part of the problem one that also
cost them the HPU game was the Wild-
cats' inability to beat the full-court press.
The Rams' press caused numerous
Wildcat turnovers.
Coach Mike Martin came out with a new
lineup in which Craig Williams moved to
guard and freshman Ian Hyslop came in to
play forward. Hyslop responded by
scoring IS points most of them from the
inside and Smith came off the bench to
score a team-leading 18 points his best
night as a Wildcat.
Except for the turnovers the new lineup
looked like it would work. And against the
Howard Payne Yellow Jackets it probably
would have. But there were those tur-
novers again costly mistakes forced by
full-court pressure.
ACU jumped out to a quick 14-4 lead and
were leading 16-8 before HPU Coach
Chester Story called time out and sent his
team back onto the court in its press. By
halftime the Yellow Jackets had tied the
game 35-35 and had brief two-point leads
twice.
The change also allowed the Jackets to
start running more and when they started
running they started hitting more shots.
Until Story called for the press the Jackets
had made only one of seven field-goal
attempts against the Wildcats' zone
defense. -
Free throws kept HPU in the game in the
first half the Jackets hit nine of 10 they
kept ACU alive the entire game as the Cats
hit 24 of 31. But it wasn't enough to make
up for their offensive mistakes.
"We played good except for the tur-
novers" Martin said. "We shot well our
shot selection was good and we rebounded
good we just made too many mistakes.
But we've faced our problems (the loss of
five players at midterm two of them
starters) and we're getting better. I think
you can see it in our play."
Howard Payne led most of the second
half but with about four minutes gone in
the half the Wildcats scored nine straight
points seven of them on free throws to
wipe out a six-point deficit and take a 53-48
lead with 10:36 left in the game.
The Jackets came back to tie the game
at 6:31 when Hyslop was called for
goaltending. He sank a free throw after
being fouled on ACU's next trip downcourt
to make it 58-57 but HPU's Garry Golden
and Frank Rainer hit field goals and the
Jackets never trailed after that.
The Wildcats travel to Commerce
Saturday as the second half of conference
play begins for a rematch with East Texas
State then travel to Brownwood Monday
to try to avenge their loss to Howard
Payne.
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Cramped quarters
ACU's Ian Hyslop finds the going a bit rough underneath the basket in Saturday
night's game against Howard Payne as two Yellow Jackets try to block his shot.
Hyslop made the basket for two of his 1 3 points of the night but the Wildcats lost
66-62. (Photo by Monica Hart)
Women tracksters start
Meet records
Olson jumps to two indoor wins very close to perfection
ACU pole vaulter Billy Olson broke meet
records in Philadelphia and Kansas City
last weekend failing both times to better
the American record he set Jan. 17 and
Wildcat teammate Steve Parker won the
60-meter hurdles in Kansas City against
world-class competition.
Olson vaulted l8-0'2 Friday night in the
Spectrum at Philadelphia setting a
Philadelphia Track Classic meet record
but missed three attempts at 18-634 one-
half inch higher than his record jump. The
old meet record was 17-11 set in 1976 by
Tadeusz Slasurski of Poland.
ACU teammate Brad Pursley cleared
the opening height of 16-6 but because of
problems with the runway was unable to
clear 17-04 finishing sixth. Tim Bright
another Wildcat who was competing in his
first meet of the year also had problems
with the aging runway and was unable to
clear the opening height.
"The runway was old and it gave me
some problems" Pursley said "but I felt I
should have been able to do much better."
Olson agreed that the runway wasn't very
good but added he probably had an ad-
vantage because he's jumped in the
Spectrum several times.
The Track and Field Association-USA
meet in Kansas City was hampered by bad
weather with only 2000 people attending
but several ACU athletes turned in fine
performances.
Parker running his first race of the
year won the 60-meter hurdles in 7.22
seconds Parker beat a fine field of hur
dlers that included former Olympian
Larry Cowling and Dan Lavitt of the
Pacific Coast Club.
The pole vault turned into a marathon
event taking more than four hours. Olson
got his second victory of the week shortly
after midnight when he cleared his
opening height of 18-1 on his second at-
tempt the third time in eight days he had
gone over 18 feet. He then took three more
attempts at clearing 18-6U but again was
unsuccessful.
Olson said he passed until that point
because he was tired from the night before
and was confident of his jumping at the
time. The mark was a meet and stadium
record beating the old mark of 17-64 set
last year by Poland's Wladyslaw
Kozakiewicz.
Pursley finished second with a jump of
17-5 and came close to clearing 18-1 on two
of his three attempts. Bright cleared 16-6
only three inches below his indoor best but
did not place.
ACU high jumper Rick Watkins who
went 7-3 last year was favoring a sore
ankle and passed until the bar was raised
to 7-0:l4 where he narrowly missed all
three attempts.
Pursley and Olson will compete Friday
night in Toronto and Saturday night in the
Dados Times Herald Invitational at
Reunion Arena. Parker also is scheduled
to run in the Dallas meet which will begin
at 7 p.m. The rest of the Wildcat track
team will travel to Lubbock for a meet at
Lubbock Christian College.
By J. SCOTT RUSSELL
Assistant Sports Editor
The ACU women's track team started its
season with an impressive showing in the
West Texas State Indoor Track Meet in
Canyon Saturday as the women took first
place in all but one event to easily outscore
second-place finisher Texas Tech.
"You can't ever expect something like
that to happen" said Coach Burl McCoy
"especially in the first meet of the year.
You always hope for a performance like
that but it doesn't usually come."
The Wildcats scored 180 points followed
by Texas Tech with 126 Angelo State with
61 Way land Baptist with 15 and West
Texas State with 7. Eastern New Mexico
University was supposed to participate but
didn't show up.
McCoy said freshman Teresa Parker
was the one that started things for ACU
with her win in the long jump.
"She was second going into her last
jump and she jumped 18-21 to win it" he
said. "Her win sparked us. I think we
would have won anyway but it helped us
get that winning edge.
Parker also won the 60-yard dash in 6.89
seconds. McCoy was not certain but he
thought the meet record was 7.00.
Freshman MeloDee Byrd was another
double winner taking the high jump with a
leap of 5-4 and the 60-yard high hurdles in
8.80 despite having problems in that event
because the hurdles were set too close
together.
Karen Lambden another freshman.
gave the Wildcats wins in the one- and two-
mile runs. In the two-mile run she lapped
several runners and easily outran the
field finishing in 11:17.09. Teammates
Denise Smith and Maria Espinoza finished
third and fourth with times of 12:09.97 and
12:28.11 respectively.
ACU finished first second and fifth in
the mile as Lambden led the field with a
time of 5:30.49 followed by Cheryl Vinsant
in 5:45.78 in second. Espinoza ran it in
5: 56.22 for fifth.
McCoy was a little disappointed with the
team's results in the 880-yard dash despite
the win.
"We weren't as strong as we should have
been" he said. "We should have been able
to finish first second and third but all the
runners were in a pack and nobody was
doing anything until Laurie Taylor broke
out of the pack."
Taylor's winning time was 2:16.92. Rea
Huddleston finished third in 2:21.25
missing second place by one one hundreth
of a second and Lisa Garner was fourth in
2:23.61.
ACU did sweep the 1000-yard run as
Tina Lopez Taylor and Vinsant took first
second and third with times of 2:4504
2:47.36 and 2:55.93 respectively. Glyna
Beaty won the 300-yard dash in 38.25 and
Brenda Evans won the 440-yard dash in
1:03.37.
The Wildcats won the 880-yard relay by
four seconds the mile relay by- five
seconds and the two-mile relay by more
than a minute as they lapped Tech.
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