The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 31, Ed. 1, Friday, January 12, 1990 Page: 4 of 6
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By Lucas V. Hendriekson
Sports Editor
The Wildcat men's basketball team
opened its 1990 Lone Star Con-
ference schedule Tuesday night
against Angelo State with some
good news and some bad news.
The good news came on the Tree
throw line where after some early-
season mediocrity the Cats hit 16
of 20 including an incredible 15 of
17 in the first half.
The bad news came from the rest
of the floor where the team sank
only 22 of 60 shots including a
dismal 8 for 28 in the first half.
Bennett
undergoes
intramural
facelift
By Jana Hunter
Assistant Sports Editor
Intramural and athletic departments
have teamed together to improve
Bennett Gymnasium and the major
renovations have been completed' or
are in the process of being com-
pleted. The top priority to finish putting
in the new floor was accomplished
over the Christmas break said
Damon Edwards director of intra-
murals and special activities.
"Wc still need to finish painting
the gym area and give the place an
overall face lift but we did get the
floor finished" Edwards said.
The floor is wooden and has
"ACU Intramurals" painted in the
center circle. Lines are marked on
the floor for a basketball court a
volleyball court and three badmin-
tonpickleball courts.
The intramural and athletic
departments worked together in
providing funds and workers for the
project Edwards said. The athletic
department has an interest in the
renovations because three Lone Star
Conference basketball games will be
played in the facility during Lec-
tureship weekend.
The Lady Wildcats will take on
Texas Woman's University and
Texas A&I University and the
men's team will play A&I in Ben-
nett Gym because Moody Coliseum
will be used for lectures during
game times.
Edwards said improvements to
the gymnasium will continue and
the intramural staff will take on the
responsibility of caring for the facil-
ity. "We hope to make the facility
better each year a little at a time'
Edwards said. "There will be no
more sign-painting or stage-building
in the gym and we have a rubber
floor covering for special activities."
Although the single and double
gyms in the Moody Complex still
will be used for intramural sports
all championship games will be
played in Bennett Gym.
The first intramural sports of the
semester is men's and women's
full-court basketball beginning Jan.
22. The deadline for rosters andthc
entry fee of $45. per team is Mon-
day. The fee includes participation
in the preseason tournament which
will be Jan. 19-20.
Hot Lady Wildcats come up short
in LSC opener against Rambelies
By Jana Hunter
Assistant Sports Editor
The ACU women's basketball team
was hot it) the first half Monday
against Angelo State but the
Rambelies were hotter the second
half as they downed the Lady Cats
88-83.
ASU erased a three-point halftime
deficit to win the first Lone Star
Conference game of the season for
both teams.
Suzanne Johnson senior from
Fort Worth scored 18 of her career-high
34 points in the second
half but it was not enough to over-
come ASU's 61-percent shooting
from the field.
Angelo was 23-of-38 from the
field the second half making up for
poor shooting in the first half when
the Rambelies made only 15-of-40
shots. The Lady Cats made seven of
their first 12 shots en route to a 46-
percent shooting half including 67
percent from three-point range.
Coach Burl McCoy said his team
played well but made mistakes in-
dicative of a young team including
slacking off on defense and turning
The Wildcats' 88-66 loss to the
Rams bring their record to 2-11 on
the season and 0-1 in LSC play.
ASU still struggling after last
year's LSC championship improv-
ed to 5-7 and 1-0.
Wildcat assistant coach Darryn
Shcarmire said the team's poor
shooting performance didn't come
from bad shot selection just bad
luck.
"We haven't been a great
shooting team overall all season"
Shcarmire said. "We get in the
habit sometimes of forcing the shot
but we didn't force against them
they just wouldn't go in."
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Week of Jan. 14-20
Jan. 14 Women: Texas
Woman's at Eastern New Mex-
ico Jan. 15 Men: Central State
at Abilene Christian; Cameron at
Angelo State; East Texas State at
Eastern New Mexico; Texas A&I
at West Texas State
the ball over 18 times.
The Lady Wildcats jumped out to
a 22-7 lead on one of Johnson's five
three-pointers before ASU started
hitting. The Rambelies chipped
away at the lead getting as close as
40-39 before Johnson scored to end
the half.
"I don't think it was good for us
to start so hot and them so cold"
McCoy said. "After a while we let
up and they got after it."
The Rambelies tied the score at
44 early In the second half and
consistently scored two and three
baskets to the Lady Wildcats' one
basket leading 66-54 after eight
minutes. Angelo stretched its lead
to 86-73 with 2:59 left in the game.
ASU's guards Leslie Gooch and
Lisa Klein scored 27 of their 37
points in the second half to lead the
Rambelies attack. Klein led ASU
with 21 points.
Cathe Crow sophomore from
Lovington N.M. scored six of her
14 points in the last 1:20 to help
bring ACU close. Crow and Tiffany
Bryant freshman from Jayton
helped the Lady Cats outrebound
ASU 40-39 by grabbing nlnfc .re
LSC with loss to
Shcarmire said the team's pro-
blems can be traced back to the
holiday break.
"Ever since we came back from
Christmas wc haven't peaked back
up again" Shcarmire said.' "We're
just not clicking as a unit right now
but we played five games in eight
days so there's some mental fatigue
there." b
ASU led by only five at halftime
37-32 but the Wildcats' 15 points
from the charity stripe were tne on-
ly things keeping them in the game.
Shearmire said head coach Dee
Nutt emphasized to the team to be
patient and look of the good open
Hawley jumps for a loose ball with
Women: Central State at
Abilene Christian; Cameron at
Angelo State; East Texas State at
Eastern New Mexico; Texas A&I
at West Texas State
Jan. 16 Women: Texas
Woman's at West Texas State
Jan. 18 Men: Central State
at Bethel College Kan.
Jan. 19 Women: Angelo
bounds each and Bryant added 10
to the scoreboard.
"I don't think their defense or
press hurt us because wc scored 83
points" McCoy said. "It's hard to
win when the other team shoots 61
percent. We just couldn't stop them
from scoring."
The Wildcats dropped to 6-6
while the Rambelies improved to
6-5.
Conference play continues in
Moody Coliseum this weekend as
the Lady Cats play host o Cameron
University Saturday and Central
State University Monday.
McCoy said the two teams appear
even on paper but CSU probably is
the tougher team because of its
maturity.
"Cameron is a very up-and-down
team" McCoy said. "They have a
bad record 3-6 but they've beaten
some good teams. They could cither
have a great night or a bad one. I
picked Central to finish second in
the conference but they don't'secm
to be playing as well right now
"Neither team has a big gun but
both teams have three people scor-
ing 10-12 points a game."
shot in the second half.
"We stressed to them not to come
out and fire it up" Shearmire said.
"Wc wanted it moved to an open
spot to take advantage of the flow of
the game."
The free throw situation reversed
for the teams in the second half.
Angelo State went to the line 13
times in the final period while the
Wildcats went 1 for 3 from the free
throw line.
Shearmire said ASU coach Ed
Mcssbarger took advantage of the
Wildcats' lack or depth on defense
in the second half.
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State at Texas Woman's
Jan. 20 Men: Abilene
Christian at Texas A&I; Angelo
State at East Texas State; East-
ern New Mexico at Cameron;
West Texas State at Central
State
Women: Abilene Christian at
Texas A&I; Angelo State at East
Texas State; Eastern New Mex-
ico at Cameron; West Texas
State at Central State
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Lady Cat Liz Eyans freshman from Anderson tries to block a pass during play In ACU's 88-83 loss to
Angelo State University Tuesday night In Moody Coliseum. The Lady Cats will defend their 6-6 record
against Cameron University Saturday In Moody Coliseum.
their offense; they spread it out and
penetrated and took advantage of
their quickness" he said. "If we get
tired it seems like wc always slack
up defensively and we may score a
point but they come right back and
answer it."
Hunter Cooley junior guard from
Hawley led the Wildcats in scoring
on the night with 19 followed by
Rick Rigsbee sophomore forward
from Littleton Colo with 15 and
Joffery Jones senior forward from
Houston with 11.
Rigsbee led the team in reboun-
ding with 12 followed by Johnny
Cromling freshman forward from
Delegates pass
rules on drug tests
graduation rates
DALLAS (AP) - No revolu-
tionary steps were taken at the
NCAA's 84th annual convention
but college athletics' leaders say the
moves made will prove to be evolu-
tionary. The organization concluded a
rocky four-day session having
adopted small steps in what school
presidents promise will be a large
reform designed to shrink big-time
college sports and give athletes
more study time.
On Wednesday delegates voted
overwhelmingly In favor of harsher
penalties for drug use especially
steroids and a year-round testing
plan for athletes.
The convention also approved
reducing the basketball season by
three games to 25 releasing each
school's graduation rate for athletes
granting scholarships to incoming
athletes for summer school and
relaxing Proposition 42 to allow
athletes who don't meet all the In-
coming academic requirements to
earn regular scholarships based on
need.
Other changes were thought to be
more for show than substance such
as lopping five days off the 20-day
spring football practice season.
"It's purely symbolic. It's not go-
ing to save money or help academ-
ics or anything" said University of
Texas athletic director DeLoss
Dodds.
Small steps however symbolic
were OK with NCAA executive
director Dick Schultt.
Schultz said he knew of no other
convention where so much had been
done for student-athletes and the
NCAA Presidents Commission now
has momentum to work toward
more meaningful reform.
"There is now within the
membership a very strong and
urgent feeling that we need some
reform that we need some change"
Schultz said after the convention.
"This was a good first step" he
added. "What happened obviously
provides momentum for reform."
But few of the reforms approved
here appeared to be chiseled in con-
crete especially the plan to elimi-
nate three basketball games beginn-
ing in 1992-93.
Athletic directors stung by the
loss of revenue from three basket-
ball games said to be up to $1.5
million a year at some schools say
ASU
Oklahoma City with six.
Nutt only used seven players on
the young team during most of the
game sending in Clint Fletcher
freshman guard from Deer Park to
get some experience when the game
was out of reach.
Shearmire said the players on the
bench ore going to have to play a
bigger role in the near future to
meet the team's conference goals.
"Forty minutes for stven guys is
a lot. and it's almost imDossible to
get that kind of quality play out of
seven guys for that long'' Shear
mire saiu. -we can t just use seven
guys and get the speed we need."
they'll try for a compromise to
restore some contests before the
25-game schedule goes into effect in
1992-93.
"It wouldn't be the end of the
world if we got a lot of other reform
and the number was 27. The
number is arbitrary" Big 10 Com-
missioner Jim Delany said.
The year-round drug-testing pro-
gram will begin by checking three
dozen football players at every Divi-
sion I school for steroids and mask-
ing agents. Delegates said the
change is an admission that colleges
don't have drug use in check.
"The punishment must be more
persuasive than it has been" Pitt-
sburgh athletic director Ed Bozik
said. "This indicates we are no dif-
ferent than society (only) a refled
tion of society's problems." j
Schultz told the 1900 delegates
earlier that the tougher anti-drug
program was needed because "we
are only catching the dumb ones."
Under the new drug penalties
first-time offenders could lose an
entire year's eligibility. Those who
test positive a second time for
"street drugs" will lose another year
of eligibility but athletes caught us
ing steroids twice will be banned for
life.
Schultz said the NCAA expects)
court challenges to its program but
also expects to prevail.
The emphasis is on steroids he
said because most of the positive;
tests the NCAA has seen have been
for performance-enhancing drugs.
"Performance-enhancing drugs
are really those ones that make a
competitive difference" Schultz'
said and delegates "wanted to con-
centrate on performance-enhancing
drugs at this particular time because4
they feel that's by far the major
problem."
Presently the NCAA tests only at
championship events and bowl
games. If they test positive NCAA
athletes now face only the loss of el-
igibility for postseason competition
for 90 days.
The year-round testing will cost
the NCAA $1.6 million a year. Itj
was approved for all divisions bu
with enough money only to bcgii
with Division I football players
The year-round program also wo:
approved for only two years wit!
the understanding that it will tx
continued.
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