Indoor Track & Field Sends Nine to NCAA Championships
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Good Luck To Indoor Track & Field Athletes at Nationals VOLUME XVI, NO. 31 KINGSVILLE, TEXAS 78363 MARCH 9, 2016 Indoor Track & Field Sends Nine To NCAA Championships Nine Texas A&M-Kingsville Robinson and Jordan the fourth best height of the athletes will compete in 10 events Yamoah, senior from Arlington, season (17-2.75). Going For at the NCAA Division II national N.Y., have won national indoor Javier Lopez, junior from No. 3 championship indoor track and titles. Cordova, Spain, has the second Texas A&M- field meet Friday and Saturday in Robinson took the high jump best time in the 60-meter hurdles. Kingsville pole Pittsburg, Kan. championship in 2013 and Yamoah He has run a 7.73. vaulter Jordan Pittsburg State is host for the was the pole vault champion in Kaina Martinez, senior from Yamoah, senior event. 2013 and 2014. Seine Bight, Belize, qualified in from Arling- Two of the Javelina men enter Yamoah enters the meet with (Continued on Page 3) ton, N.Y., will the meet with the best marks in the be going for division. his third gold Lutalo Boyce, junior from medal at the NCAA Division Westbury, N.Y., has the best long II champion- jump at 25-11.5, and that ranks as ships this one of the best in the nation, any weekend in classification. Pittsburg, Kan. Likewise for Jeron Robinson, Yamoah was senior from Houston (Travis), in Big Victory the indoor the high jump. He has a best of 7- Sebi Palacios, champion in 6. junior from 2013 and Boyce is the defending Premont, got 2014. champion in the long jump, having the first victory won the gold in 2015 with a leap of of the Lone Star 25-7.25. Conference last weekend as he pitched a 9-0 Baseball Hosts Our Lady of the Lake shutout over previously The Texas A&M-Kingsville Friday’s single game with Saints will be at 4 p.m. at Nolan undefeated baseball team goes to San Angelo ASU at First Community Credit Ryan Field. Cameron at this weekend to battle Angelo Union Stadium will have a 6:30 The Javelinas are 10-4 for the Nolan Ryan State for first place in the Lone p.m. start time, Saturday’s year and 3-1 in the LSC standings. Field. Palacios Star Conference standings, and doubleheader starts at 4 p.m. and ASU is 11-6 overall and 4-0 in pitched eight the Javelinas return home Sunday’s single game will be at 1 the conference standings. innings, allowed Tuesday for a non-conference p.m. The Rams lead the five hits, struck game with Our Lady of the Lake. The Tuesday game with the conference after the first weekend of play and the Javelinas are tied out 13 and gave Perry LSC Hitter of the Week with West Texas A&M in second up two walks. place. Texas A&M-Kingsville outfielder Dalton Perry was named the Lone Dalton Perry, senior Star Conference hitter of the week last week. outfielder from Lake Jackson Perry, senior from Lake Jackson (Brazoswood), had a .583 batting (Brazoswood), leads the Javelina average in the Javelinas’ three-game sweep of nationally ranked St. hitting with a .392 percentage. He Mary’s. has six doubles, two triples and He had four doubles, two home runs and six runs batted in. three home runs. Perry is in his first season with the Javelinas. (Continued on Page 2) Baseball Battles ASU Javelina Hash (Continued from Page 1) hitting .368 and two doubles and By Fred Nuesch, Coordinator of Athletic External Affairs Jimmy Roche, junior first two home runs. baseman from Corpus Christi The Rams hit .309 as a team. Bryce Zak, senior THERE ARE THOSE who feel the Lone Star Conference is (Calallen), is hitting .378 with three righthander from San Angelo, has excessive in having all eight of its men’s basketball teams take doubles and a triple. Hayden Vesely, senior utility a 4-0 record on the mound and his part in the postseason tournament. player from Victoria (St. Joseph), is ERA is 2.64. He has pitched 30.2 They would argue that it’s a waste of time and only the top hitting .3473 with three doubles, innings and has 48 strikeouts. four should advance. five triples and two home runs and The ASU pitching corps has The Javelinas came close to proving that theory wrong at Zach Smith, senior second an ERA of 3.98. last week’s tournament in Allen. baseman from Bridge City, is Our Lady of the Lake had a 9- The Javelinas, seeded No. 7, came within a point of hitting .357 with a home run. 12 record going into this week’s upsetting No. 2-seed Angelo State in the opening round. The The Javelinas are hitting .290 play. The Saints will play five Rams took an 87-86 win. as a team. games before coming to Kingsville TAMUK trailed by 16 points (78-63) with 3:43 remaining and Shane Veeder, freshman next week. outscored the Rams, 23-8, in the remaining time. lefthander from Houston (Cinco Garrett Harrison, freshman The three Javelina seniors went out with a bang. They led Ranch), has a 3-1 record on the third baseman from Victoria the Javelinas in scoring and each hit double figures. mound and his earned run average (West), has a .350 batting average D.J. Weathers and Jamar Goodwin each had 16 points and is 2.12. with a double and a triple. Troy Jones had 13. Sebi Palacios, junior Anthony DeJesus, senior They were also the three top rebounders, Jones getting 14, righthander from Premont, has a 1- catcher from Sugar Land (Austin), Goodwin 10 and Weathers five. 0 record and a 1.80 ERA. He has has a .324 average and four It was the third time the Javelinas had met Angelo this struck out 27 in 20 innings pitched. doubles, two triples and a home run. season and all went to the wire. The Javelina pitching corps The Saints are hitting .240 as The Rams defeated the Javelinas on a last-second three-point has a 3.69 ERA. a team. shot in San Angelo and took a 90-84 victory in Kingsville, using Sam Kohler, senior infielder from Dripping Springs, leads the J.B. Martinez, freshman last minute free throws for the final margin. ASU hitting with a .410 batting righthander from San Antonio The LSC will have two new men’s teams next year when average. He has two doubles and (Macarthur), has a 3-2 record on Texas-Permian Basin and Western New Mexico become full-time Two Doubles a triple. the mound and his ERA is 1.86. members, giving the league 10 men’s squads. Jimmy Roche, junior first Tyler Coolbaugh, junior The OLLU pitching corps baseman from Corpus Christi shortstop from Grapevine, is has a 4.26 ERA. THE REGION IV-4A boys basketball tournament in the (Calallen), had two doubles in the Steinke Center last weekend had more of a Javelina touch than Javelina baseball team’s 3-1 just the meet site. victory over Cameron Saturday at David Montano is head coach of La Marque High School and Nolan Ryan Field. he is a former Javelina football player. Bobby Kinsley, the LaMarque athletic trainer, is a former Midwestern Men, Javelina student trainer. Angelo Women Terry Greenup, the Beeville head trainer, is a former Javelina Take LSC Titles student trainer. The Midwestern State men La Marque won the title for the second consecutive season and Angelo State women won the but won’t be back to defend next season. The school will be Lone Star Conference postseason dropping to Class 3A. tournament titles last week in Allen. Midwestern defeated Angelo WHEN OUR LADY of the Lake comes to Kingsville next State, 88-72, in the men’s Tuesday for a 4 p.m. baseball game with the Javelinas at Nolan championship while ASU beat Ryan Field, two members of the Saints’ coaching staff will be West Texas A&M, 68-65, in two coming home. overtimes. Jeremy Flores and Jake Mendiola are assistant coaches at Midwestern and Angelo OLLU and both played collegiate baseball with the Javelinas. receive the LSC’s automatic berths Flores is in his second season with the Saints and was on in the NCAA Division II national the Victoria Generals’ staff of the Texas Collegiate Baseball playoffs. Attend Reunion League before going to OLLU. Midwestern won the LSC title Bill and Bonnie Carter returned to campus recently for a reunion of this season and West Texas was He holds a bachelor’s degree from TAMUK. the 1995-96 men’s basketball team. Carter was head coach of the Mendiola is in his first season with the Saints. the women’s champion. Javelinas in 1991-97 and two of his teams, including the 1995-96 After receiving his degree from the University, he played The league titles are group, won Lone Star Conference championships and played in the with the Amarillo Sox of the American Association of determined during regular-season NCAA Division II national playoffs. He is currently head boys coach at (Continued on Page 3) play. Brackettville High School. Upcoming Javelina Events Javelina Hash March 9 – Women’s Golf: Texas-Rio Grande Valley Invitational in McAllen. By Fred Nuesch, Coordinator of Athletic External Affairs March 11 – Softball: *Cameron in Kingsville (DH), 3 p.m. Baseball: *Angelo State in San Angelo, 6 p.m. Men’s & Women’s Indoor Track & Field: NCAA Division II (Continued from Page 2) Championships in Pittsburg, Kan.