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Sports
Tuesday, January 22,2013
Tyler Owens, Sports Editor
tylerwilsonowens@gmail.com
UNT loss ends five-
game win streak
Women's Basketball
Tim Cato
Senior Staff Writer
The Mean Graen faced
Florida Atlantic University
on Saturday for the first time
since the Owls ousted UNT
from the Sun Belt Conference
Tournament quarterfinals last
season.
Despite the; chance; at
payback, UNT fell 79-67.
The loss ended the Mean
Green's five-game win streak.
Meanwhile, the FAU victory
gave the team 11-straight home
wins against conference oppo-
nents.
"When you don't play very
well on either end you're going
to get beat," head coach Mike
Petersen said. "We didn't play
well enough to win this game
and we just made a lot of silly
mistakes."
After UNT (7-11, 6-3) took a
15-4 lead to start the game, the
Owls (10-7, 7-2) came back and
never relinquished the lead,
going up by as much as 13 with
10 minutes left in the game.
FAU's nine-point halftime
lead could have been much
worse were it not for freshman
guard Loryn Goodwin, who
scored 16 of her career-high 25
points in the first half.
In the second half, the Mean
Green was able to get the lead
down to four a few times,
but could never complete the
comeback.
Photo bv James Coreas/Contributing Photographer
The Mean Green women's basketball team celebrates during a win over South
Alabama on Jan. 12. The team lost to Florida Atlantic 79-67 on Saturday,
ending its five-game win streak.
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stopped
our run,"
Goodwin
said. "They
made it to
where we
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push the ball HYDER
as hard. The biggest thing is
that we didn't all play together
and all do the best that we did
in the first half."
Although nine players
received minutes, only five
played more than 20 minutes,
Junior guard Laura McCoy
played the full 40 minutes,
while Goodwin played 39.
"I thought we played hard,"
Petersen said. "We did have a
short bench tonight, but I'm
going to play the people who
are playing Well. It's not youth
soccer. It's not 'get a juice box
and rid© home in the mini-
van.' You're supposed to play
well if you're going to play."
Freshman forward Alexis
Hyder probably would have
played more than her 34
minutes if not for foul trouble
in the first half. She felt her
increased workload factored
into the poor performance.
"Not that that's an excuse,
but you Can tell by how we
started out that we didn't start
out with the same intensity we
did in other games," Hyder
said.
UNT's next game is against
Sun Belt-leading Middle
Tennessee on Thursday at 5
p.m. in the Super Pit.
Mean Green hangs
on in overtime win
Men's Bastketball
Ryne (I wnoi.
Senior Staff Writer
Sophomore forward Tony
Mtchell's 24 points and eight
rebounds led the Mean Green
to a 61-59 overtime win over
Florida Atlantic University
Saturday night.
Mtchell posted one of his
best performances this season
after scoring a career-low zero
paints the game before,
"I really had a break-
through," Mtchell said "Coach
[Rob] Evans has been on my
[case] this whole season. He
kept saying VI***, when am I
going to see Tony Mtchell?'
So basically, before we went
out to play I said, 'Coach, I'm
ready/ and I showed him With
a media time-out, four minutes
left, he said, 'Now that's how
you play."'
Down by two with the clock
draining, senior forward Roger
Franklin put back a missed
three-point shot to send the
game into overtime. UNT (8-12,
3-6) struck first in the extra
period and never relinquished
the lead.
"It was exciting," Mtchell
said. "My heart was beating
fast. It was a good team win
Everybody was playing hard."
Franklin and sophomore
guard Jordan Williams scored
12 and 14 points, respectively,
joining Mitchell in double
figures.
Freshman guard P.J.
Photo Courtesy of University Press
Sophomore forward Tony Mitchell and FAU junior center Justin Raffington
jump for the tip off at Saturday night's game. The Mean Green defeated the
Owls 61-59 in overtime.
Hardwick had only two turnovers
in 45 minutes of play, a signifi-
cant improvement from the eight
turnovers in 25 minutes the game
before.
Hardwick said playing the
extended minutes hasn't tired him
out and he felt the team's Thursday
loss fell on his poor performance.
"I had to make up for the FIU
game," Hardwick said. "I wanted
to come run my team and do a
better job."
UNT's defense held the Owls
(10-10,5-4) under its 648 points per
game average, even with overtime.
FAU senior guard Greg Gantt, the
No. 4 scorer in the nation, didn't
meet his 22-point season average
until the overtime period.
"Defensively, we were really
good," head coach Tony Benford
said. "We did a great job taking
away some of their three point
shooters. Gantt takes so many
shots he's going to make shots, but
we made him make tough shots."
The win over FAU is the team's
first in Boca Raton This is also the
team's first true away game win
this season. They have two road
wins, but those games were played
at neutral sites,
The Mean Green tips off
against Mddle Tennessee at 7 pm
Thursday at home in the Super Pit.
Diver receives recognition after dominant performance
Swimming and Diving
Photo by Harris Buchanan/ Staff Photographer
Junior Rebecca Taylor, a UNT diver, was named Sun Belt Confernce diver of the
week in December. She will be competing in the NCAA Zone D Diving Meet on
March 11,
Audra Stamp
Intern
With first place finishes in
both the one and 3-meter dives
and a second place finish in
the platform dive, junior diver
Rebecca Taylor had the best meet
of her career in December at the
University of the Incarnate Word
Invitational.
Taylor has been a consis-
tent leader in diving meets this
season.
The UIW Invitational took
place in her hometown of San
Antonio, so it's no wonder she
was able to put together such a
dominant performance.
"I was super stoked," Taylor
said. "It was a hometown crowd,
my family was there and it was
like a big hug fest."
Taylor felt comfortable at the
meet because she was familiar
with the pool, the diving boards
and the lighting, which can affect
a diver's performance^ head
diving coach Jim Pyrch said.
At the UIW Invitational, Taylor
earned her highest score this
season with 264.40 points in the
1-meter dive and her second
highest score in the 3-meter dive
with 267.80 points, 24.40 points
behind her top score against Rice
University in early November,:
After Taylor s performance; at
the Invitational, she became the
second UNT diver this season to
be named Sun Belt Conference
diver of the week, only after
junior Catherine Johnson, who
received the honor in November.
In the team's last meet on
Wednesday, Taylor placed fourth
and fifth in the one and 3-meter
dives, respectively.
"She's been having a really
good year," Pyrch said. "She's
learned a lot of new dives and
they have done really well for
her."
With many new dives at high
degrees of difficulty, Taylor
hopes she can capture a first
place finish at the Sun Belt
Conference Championships from
Feb. 27 to March 3.
"We all have our days, but
when she's in the zone, she's
unstoppable," senior diver Delia
Covo said.
Taylor, Johnson and Covo have
already tallied enough points to
qualify for the NCAA Zone D
Diving Meet on March 11.
The UNT swimming and
diving team will travel to Texas
Christian University for its next
meet on Jan. 30 at 6 p.m.
Mean Green leaves Oklahoma on high note
Track and Field
Brett Medeiros
Staff Writer
The UNT track and field team
came home from the J.D. Martin
Invitational in Norman, Okla. on
Saturday with 15 podium finishes.
Juniors Clint Collins, Charleston
Lewis and Shahaf Bareni, and
freshmen Mchaela Williams and
Mona Landry placed first in their
respective events.
Bareni said that she was happy
with the results because she was
sick for the first meet of the season
"We are definitely gettingbetter
and are on the right track," Bareni
said. "Personally, it was a good
opening for me because I was very
sick with the flu and bronchitis for
the Texas A&M meet."
Despite there being only
four teams, competing in the
Invitational, head coach Carl
Sheffield said that he is impressed
with his athlete's individual perfor-
mances.
"It is what it is, but the main
thing is to just get better week
by week," Sheffield said. "If they
finish in the top five or are getting
on the podium and finishing near
their personal best then we are
doing well out there."
The biggest obstacle presented
to the Mean Green in the
Invitational was the fast pace and
layout of the indoor meet.
With events crammed back-to-
back and limited warm-up areas,
the rushed atmosphere threw a
couple of the competitors off their
regular routines.
"Personally, I realized that there
were some areas that were faulty
in my warm-up and I can improve
that for next week," junior hurdler
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Kendria Burton said "For example,
warming up: closer to my event
would help, so I will need to see
how future events are set up so I
can prepare accordingly."
Sheffield said that, compared to
the first meet in College Station, the
J.D. Martin Invitational provided
a more realisticplacement for the
Mean Green on the NCAA totem
pole,
"I was telling someone earlier
that I wish we had started the
season this week because we were
much more prepared," he said.
"A lot of people are close to their
personal best already, so I think
we are all the right trail. We just
need to get back to where we were
before the break."
UNT will head to Houston to
take part in the Houston Indoor
Invitational this weekend.
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