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Suzanne Johnson scored a career-
high 35 points to lead the Lady
Wildcats past Central State 84-78 in
an LSC matchup.
The Cats 12-11 overall remain
tied for third in the conference at
6-6 including a 64-49 loss to
Cameron University Saturday.
Instead of making the league
standings clear the weekend games
only made the race more tight.
Three teams still are tied for third
and two games separate the second
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Lady Cat Carla Martin senior from Mason returns the ball during
tennis practice Monday afternoon. The women competed in a dual
Cooley notches career-high 33 at CSU
By Lucas W. Hendrickson
Sports Editor
The Lone Star Conference's
Oklahoma teams gave the Wildcat
men's basketball team and their
own scoreboards a workout this
weekend.
The Wildcats traveled to Lawton
Saturday to face a 112-66 drubbing
at the hands of Cameron University
before moving on to a 141-96 rout
at Central State in Edmond.
The losses bring the Cats' losing
streak to seven including six in a
row in which their opponents have
scored 100 points or more. The
Cats arc 3-20 on the season and 1-
10 in LSC play.
All-LSC guard Carlos Mayes of
Cameron scored 22 of his 31 points
in the first half when the Aggies
jumped out to a 60-34 lead.
Sophomore center Jim Reynolds
playing in only his third game of
the season led the Wildcats with 13
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team from the eighth team with on-
ly four games remaining.
Johnson shot over 50 percent
from the field including 3-of-5
from three-point range to lead the
team to one of its best shooting per-
formances of the year. The Wildcats
made 35-of-70 from the field arid
9-of-13 free throws.
"We just had a good ball game"
McCoy said. "When you shoot the
ball things happen. Our defense
wasn't great but I think they've got
a really good team."
McCoy's team led 37-31 at the
half but CSU went on a 14-6 run
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to take a 45-43 lead with 16:51 left
to play.But the Cats scored 13
straight points in the next six
minutes to jump ahead 56-45.
The Lady Bronchos came back
and pulled to within two at 76-74
but Cara Porter freshman from
Midwest City Okla. answered with
two of her 13 points.
Johnson's defensive rebound and
four free throws in the final minute
of play thwarted the hosts' com-
eback. Michelle McDaniel
freshman from Clayton N.M.
made two free throws with 17 sec-
onds left to seal the victory.
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points followed by junior guard
Hunter Cooley with 10.
Two other Cameron players elso
had more than 20 points. Center
Mezel Prater had 21 points and
t forward Gerry Johnson scored 20.
The Wildcats scored the first nine
points of the second half to cut the
deficit to 17. But when the Aggies
finally took the cover off their rim
they did not look back.
Cameron hit four straight three-
.pointers to extend its lead to 93-60.
Aggie forward Eric Wiley scored
with 3:46 remaining for a 100-62
spread. And Johnson's three-point
lay with 3:15 extended the host's
eadto40.
The Wildcats were behind early
allowing Cameron to run out to an
early 11-2 lead.
The Wildcats shot 29 of 80 from
the field for 36 percent and were
outrebounded 50-41.
Central State scored a .school-
record 141 points and guard Shawn
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Johnson finished the game with
eight rebounds and seven assists
and McDaniel had 11 points and
seven rebounds.
"You don't get any better stats
than Suzanne did last night" Mc-
Coy said.
Porter and Michelle Wyatt soph-
omore from Spur rotated in at the
point-guard position to fill in for
Heidi Chumley sophomore from
Clear Lake. Chumley was out with
a leg injury.
"Cara and Michelle did a very
good job" McCoy said. "They
worked hard scored well and didn't
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Williams hit a record eight three-
pointers Monday night.
The Bronchos' point total was the
most ever scored against the
Wildcats. The scoring attack was
led by forward Sean McCall with
38 points and Williams with 32.
CSU scored 77 points in the sec-
ond half after taking a 64-45 lead
into the intermission.
Cooley led the Wildcats with a
career-high 33 points followed by
freshman forward Clay Halla with
16 and Reynolds with 12.
The Bronchos hit the century
mark with 10:25 left to play when
McCall hit a trey for 102-61.
Central State finished with 65 re-
bounds to the Wildcats' 31. The
Bronchos hit 55 percent from the
field with 56 of 101 shooting in-
cluding 17 of 35 from the three
point range.
The Wildcats' only LSC win of
the season was against Central State
88-80 Jan. 15 in Moody Coliseum.
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noon. The men competed In a dual match against Hardin-Slmmons University Tuosday afternoon at
the ACU tennis courts.
have many turnovers."
The Lady Wildcats were as off
against Cameron as they were on
against Central State explaining the
team's lowest scoring outing of the
year. The team shot only 30 percent
from the field and the physical
Lady Aggie team outrebounded the
Cats 53-43 McCoy said.
The Wildcats led 8-4 early in the
game but 4:53 ticked off the clock
before they scored again. Cameron
took advantage and scored 11
straight points for a 15-8 lead and
led 37-24 at the hair.
The Cats started the second half
Four Cats take first
at Okla. Track Classic
By Lance Flaming
Optimist Stall
James Browne tied a meet record in
the long jump and Ralph Roberts
broke the meet record in the 55-
meter dash last weekend at the
Oklahoma City Classic indoor track
meet.
Two other Wildcats also won
events at the meet.
Browne senior from Whittier
Calif. jumped 24-10 to tie the meet
record in the College-Juco Division.
Browne was fourth in the Universi-
ty Division with a jump of 24-7;
However Browne who has quali-
fied to triple jump in the Track
Athletic Congress indoor meet at
New York's Madison Square
Garden in two weeks strained his
left hamstring on his next-to-last
jump in the University Division.
"1 believe I'll be well by then"
Browne said. "I've been praying
about it. Some people see things
like this as setbacks; I just see it as a
rest period."
Head coach Jerry Dyes said the
trip to New York will depend on
Three more Lady Wildcats
qualify for indoor nationals
By Brian Belt
Optimist Stall
The ACU women's track team
Eicked up qualifiers to the NCAA
ivision II Indoor Championships
in three events Friday and Saturday
at the Daily Oklahoman Classic in
Oklahoma City.
Wendy Ator sophomore from
Burlesop finished third in the high
jump but her leap of 5-9 was good
enough to qualify her for nationals.
Yolande Straughn senior from St.
Philip Barbados ran the 55 meters
in 6.99 to get her into the national
meet in that event.
Also Daphne Harvey senior
from Portland bettered the quali-
fying mark in the shot put with a
toss of 45-5.
Even though she had met the
provisional standard Ator said she
was relieved to go over the NCAA
mark and guarantee a spot in the
national meet.
Ator's jump was a personal best
for her indoors although she has
gone 5-9-34 outdoors. Ator and
head coach Wes Kittley both think
she can go higher.
Two previous qualifiers the mile
relay team and Vida Alexander in
the 800 both ran season-best times.
Alexander sophomore from
Cumuto Trinidad finished third in
2:14.49. The relay team comprised
of Alexander; Pauline Marquis
even colder. The clock showed
11:09 left in the game before they
made a second-half field goal. The
Lady Wildcats hit only .8-of-34
shots in the second half and ended
the game shooting 30 percent from
the field.
"Our posts played pretty well
but we didn't get much help from
anyone else" McCoy said. "We
just didn't have a good night."
Johnson Cathe Crow sophomore
from Lovington N.M. and
Michelle McDaniel freshman from
Clayton N.M. each had 10 points
to lead the Wildcats.
Browne.
Roberts junior from Trinidad
and Tobago ran a 6.31 in the College-Juco
Division to break the old
meet record set last year by Gregory
Williams of Southwestern Christian
College.
Mike Greer freshman from
Rogersville Mo. won the high
jump in the College-Juco Division
with a jump of 7-0.
Wendell Edwards sophomore
from Tennessee Colony rounded
the list of ACU winners with a vic-
tor' in the College-Juco Division
55-meter hurdles. Edwards ran a
7.52 which is just off the NCAA
Division II qualifying time of 7.45.
Dyes said he felt good about his
team's weekend performance.
"I thought we had a good meet"
he said. "Ralph has a lot of talent
and he competed well. Wendell
competed well. He's going to im-
prove all the way through his senior
year.
"Mike competed well. To have
that type of an effort from a
freshman is very pleasing" Dyes
said.
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Tinnell sophomore from Lubbock;
and Straughn came in fourth with a
time of 3:48.41.
Kittley said he was satisfied with
the results
"I was pretty pleased" he said.
"The mile relay team ran much bet-
ter. The track was fast and our kids
were a little fresher. That helped.
Straughn had not entered the 55-
meter dash any other time this
season. Kittley said he had her run
the 55 in hopes of getting more
qualifiers..
"I thought it a way of getting
more points for the team" he said.
"She's mainly a quartcr-miler."
The Lady Wildcats have qualified
eight for the Indoor Nationals but
Kittley is confident more will quali-
fy in the last meet before the cham-
pionship. "We're hoping of course to get
more" be said. rWe have eight and
are hoping to get 12. There are a
few kids that are pretty close."
But even if no more qualify Kit-
tley is confident about ACU's
chances with the women who have
qualified.
I'm not worried" he said. "I feel
we have a great chance to go to na-
tionals and win it.
"We have good quality right now.
There arc only U events so that's
55 or 60 points if everyone comes
through" he said.
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