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Season Off to a Good Start for Basketball Bears Bear Talk The newsletter for athletics at Southwest Missouri State University Volume 17, Number 2 January 1999 Randy Ball named new head football coach andy Ball, the winningest coach in Bears. Ball's appointment was approved in the sernifmals. Western Illinois history, the archi­ unanimously by the SMS Board of At WIU, Ball's teams in nine seasons R tect of three straight appearances Governors Dec. 18. Ball receives a four­ had a winning record against every by WIU in the NCAA Division I-AA year contract with a base salary of $87,000. Gateway club except the Northern Iowa playoffs, and the winningest I-AA coach teams to which WIU finished second five in the nation over the past three seasons, times in the 1990s. Ball has a 5-4 record has been named the new head football "We have watched the against the SMS Bears. coach at SMS. Leathernecks represent our "We are very pleased with Randy Ball's Ball was named the successor to former league in the playoffs, and each decision to become our new head football Bears' Head Coach Del Miller after being coach," said Director of Athletics Bill selected from a field of 4 7 applicants. year Coach Ball has taken his Rowe. "It is never easy to get involved in Miller resigned Dec. 4 after compiling a team one game deeper." the movement of a head coach with a 21-23 record in four seasons wi th the member of your own conference, and we Bill Rowe, director of athletics are most appreciative of the understanding of the athletics administration at Western Illinois to grant Coach Ball the opportuni­ The new SMS mentor, the18th man to ty to talk with us. We asked the Western serve as the Bears' fo otball coach in the lllinois athletics administration for permis­ school's 90-year gridiron history, comes sion to talk to Coach Ball about our to SMS after a 16-year association with coaching position upon the conclusion of SMS Gateway Football Conference rival his team's play in this year's I-AA play­ Western Illinois. Ball is the dean of the offs. We have watched the Leathernecks current Gateway Conference head coach­ represent our league in the NCAA playoffs es. Ball served as offensive coordinator each of the past three years, and each year and offensive line coach at WIU from Coach Ball has taken his team one game 1983-89 under head coach Bruce deeper into the playoff bracket. He bas Craddock, and Ball was appointed the represented his school and our conference Leathernecks' head coach beginning with in an exceptional manner, and we are z the 1990 season after Craddock died of excited that he has elected to bring his tal­ ~ " cancer in February of 1990. ents to SMS. We will work with him in New Head Football Coach Randy Ball met members of Ball's tenure at WIU was capped Dec. the coming weeks as he plans and makes the press at the Dec. 19 press conference. A native of Muskogee, Okla., Ball played for three MIAA champi­ 12, 1998, as the Leathernecks recorded his move to Springfield, begins the organi­ onship teams and lettered three times in a four-year their best-ever finish in the NCAA zation of his coaching staff here at SMS career from 1969-72 at Truman State. Ball graduated Division I-AA playoffs. WIU beat and begins interaction with the returning from Truman State in 1973 with a degree in physical Montana and Florida A&M in the first two players within the SMS football program education and earned his master 's degree in 1977 from the University of Missouri. rounds before losing to unbeaten, top­ i:o prepare for the 1999 season." BT ranked and top-seeded Georgia Southern Season off to a good start for Basketball Bears ins over the University of the Classic: transition defense and rebound­ Key assets in all four: speed and quick­ Missouri and the University of ing. The guys paid attention to what needed ness, a trend that's become evident with W Missouri-Kansas City, along to get done and went out and did it." this year's impressive list of newcomers in with a tourney title, highlighted an early Moore reached another milestone the SMS program. BT season getaway for the basketball Bears. early : he broke Danny Coach Steve Alford's quint, the first Bolden's free throw record of Missouri Division I school to play the 4 14 that had stood since 1967. other four in-state Division I schools in As the team raised its record to one season, opened its Show-Me Series 5-1 , Moore made 39 free with a big 72-69 win at Missouri. throws in 46 attempts. Led by Kevin Ault's 20 points, the "That free throw record of Bears had key performances up and down Moore's is pretty amazing, con­ the roster as they handed Missouri its first sidering he set it five games loss to an in-state school since 1970. into his third SMS season," Five nights later, in the Bears' home Alford adds. opener, they defeated UMKC 74-68. The Bears' lone loss in the Danny Moore, who began the season early going was at Stanford in 14th in SMS career scoring with 1, 148 the NIT second round. points, poured in 28 points. The Bears conclude non­ The Bears won their fifth straight Pizza league action Jan. 2 at Saint Hut Classic by beating Texas Southern 77- Louis, then play Missouri 47 and previously undefeated Louisiana Valley Conference foes the rest Tech 86-60. of the way. Moore, who had 24 points and eight In November, Alford received rebounds in the finale, was tourney MVP commitments from four current and moved to 11th in all-time SMS scor­ high school standouts: 6'7" ing. Ault and guard William Fontleroy Steve Ausler from Morrilton, were also All-Tourney. Ark., 6'9" Matt Engstrom from What pleased Alford the most about the Mahomet, ill., 6'5" Kurt Bears early season play? Spurgeon from DeWitt, Iowa, Senior forward Ken Stringer, one of four returning starters and five "Our transition defense," he says. "We and 6' 5" Travis Walk from returning seniors, has started in all eight games so far this season. In had two things we focused on going into Wichita Heights, Kan. the No v. 14 contest against Butler University, Stringer was the top rebounder on the team with seven rebounds. 1 Mental toughness prepares Lady Bears for MVC action fter a hectic but eventful string of Missouri Valley Conference action. In the team's season opener, Stiles non-league games, the Lady Bears January shapes up as an especially crucial tied Melody Howard's single-game A can now tum their attention to month for Coach Cheryl Burnett's young record 41 points. and exciting team. Nine league games are Three days after the improbable win at on the agenda- four at Hammons Student Baylor, the Lady Bears came up with anoth- Center and five on the road. er "stunner." As Stiles struggled (nine The preconference portion of the Lady points, all in the second half), Roshonda Bears' schedule was both exciting and stress- Reed, Tara Mitchem and Kimberly ful , especially the late November, early McDowell came up huge. Reed had 24 December span of four games, all on the points and 12 rebounds, Mitchem tallied a road, that included enough emotional highs career-high 16 points and McDowell (like and lows to last a season. Stiles and Mitchem, only a sophomore) For starters, the Lady Bears split a pair of scored 14 points as the Lady Bears won 74- games at Cancun, Mexico, defeating 55 and upped their record to 5-2. Southern California before losing to nation- Although it was a roller-coaster four-game ally ranked Old Dominion. skein, Burnett notes, "We showed the type Three nights later, at Baylor University in of mental toughness that we have to have if Waco, Texas, sophomore sensation Jackie we're going to meet our season's goals." Stiles scored 52 points, a new single-game The challenging non-conference schedule Lady Bear record, as SMS came from a included teams from a number of the dozen points back in the waning minutes to nation's major conferences, including the win 87-86. Big East, Big 12, Southeast, Big 10, WAC In an incredible performance, Stiles and Sun Belt. Three of the opponents scored 17 of the team's last 22 points - played in last year's NCAA tourney- Old including_ a 3-pointer to tie the game 86-all Dominion, Arkansas and Florida with 2.6 seconds remaining. Fouled on the International. shot, she converted the ensuing free throw Meantime, one of the state's top prepsters, for the fmal margin. 6'2" power forward Melanie Fisher of In raising her per-game average to 33.5, Principia in St. Louis, has signed to play for Sophomore guard Melody Campbell, who ranked Stiles hit 19 of 26 shots from the field, the Lady Bears next year. She averaged 16 fifth on the team last season with 39 assists, had an including five of eight 3-pointers and all points and 11 rebounds as a junior. BT individual high turnover rate Nov. 24 in the contest nine of her free throws. against Arkansas State, with seven turnovers. Awards banquet closes football season on positive note n many ways it was a record-setting tackle Tony Flint, sophomore defensive St. Louis and Emeterio.
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