VOLUME XIX, NO. 1 KINGSVILLE, TEXAS 78363 AUG. 15, 2018 1993 Football Team to Celebrate 25th Anniversary The 1993 Texas A&M- The five losses were close, postseason game. defensive back Keith Pittman and Kingsville football squad that was one by four points, another by Making All-LSC first team Simon. tagged the “turnaround” team will five and one by six points. were offensive lineman Michael Dogins was all-region and celebrate its 25th anniversary this The Javelinas went through Cook, offensive lineman Kevin Holcomb and Pittman were in the fall. the LSC undefeated. Dogins, Holcomb, Phillips, (Continued on Page 19) The Javelinas lost their first In postseason play, the five games of the season before Javelinas beat Portland (Ore.) rebounding for five consecutive State, 50-15, in the first round in victories, winning the Lone Star Portland and the Vikings had Conference championship, downed the Javelinas, 22-17, receiving a bid to the NCAA earlier in Kingsville. Division II national playoffs and The Javelinas downed Returns to Action then reaching the semifinals of the California-Davis, 51-28, in the Kelsey Washington, former national playoffs before dropping quarterfinals before dropping the Javelina volleyball player, is a two-point decision to North two-point semifinal decision. expected to participate in the Alabama, the eventual national Defensive tackle Moke Simon Javelina alumni match Sunday in champion. was named the LSC outstanding the Steinke Center. lineman and defensive back Anthony Phillips was the league’s outstanding back. Phillips would become a third round draft pick of 10 Former Players Expected the Atlanta Falcons. Running back Larry Young For Volleyball Alumni Match was the freshman of the year. Ten Texas A&M-Kingsville volleyball alumni will return to campus Sean Holcomb and Charles Sunday to take on the current Javelinas in the annual alumni match in Miles were selected as captains of the Steinke Center. the team. Match time will be 3 p.m. Honors were number for the Alums expected to return are: Javelinas. Phillips was a five-time …Dedra Brown. Kalinda Graves All-America first-team selection: …Ashley Bukowski. Valarie Moerhig Hill Associated Press Little All- …Krystal Faison. Casey Klobedans America, American Football …Sarah Fountain. Lisa O’Connor Coaches Association All-America, …Bethany Friesenhahn. Alexis Wick Football Gazette All-America, C.M. Faison and Wick finished their careers with the Javelinas last fall. Frank All-America and NCAA The Javelinas will be finishing their second week of preseason Division II All-America. workouts at the time of the match. He was also the Football Five days after the scrimmage, the Javelinas open their fall season Gazette defensive player of the at the Angelo State Invitational in San Angelo, facing four matches in year and all-region. the two days of the meet. Phillips was selected to play The squad takes on New Mexico Highlands and Arkansas-Fort in the Senior Bowl. Smith Aug. 24 and St. Mary’s and East Central Oklahoma Aug. 25. Simon was on the C.M. Frank Summa Cum Laude Graduate The home opener will be Aug. 28 against Mary Hardin-Baylor in an All-America and Football Gazette TAMUK president, Dr. Steven Tallant, with Viviana Ortiz, tennis player exhibition match. All-America first units. from Guayaquil, Ecuador, who was graduated summa cum laude, with Simon also was all-region and highest honor, last weekend.Ortiz received a bachelor of business played in the Snow Bowl administration degree. One LSC Team Javelina Hash In NCAA DII By Fred Nuesch, Coordinator of Athletic External Affairs Volleyball Poll HOW CAN IT be? One Lone Star Conference team was ranked in the NCAA On Monday, I will celebrate my 50th anniversary as a member Division II preseason volleyball of the Javelina athletic staff. poll released last week. It doesn’t seem possible that it has been 50 years since I drove Tarleton State was No. 18 in my Javelina-blue Mustang into town, pulling a small U-Haul with all the top 30. my worldly possessions. Angelo State and West Texas At that time I wasn’t sure why I left as sports editor of the A&M received votes but didn’t Paris Daily News to come to deep South Texas to a school I had crack the top 25. barely heard of. Annual power Concordia-St. Later, as I found my wife Joan here and made thousands of Paul (Minn.) received all but one friends through the years, it had to have been Divine intervention. of the 48 first-place votes and is No other way it can be explained. easily the top-ranked squad. It has been an unbelievable span. Minnesota has the top three As I said, thousands of friends in athletics, in the community teams in the poll. Concordia is and national-wide have been made over the 50 years. No. 1, Southwest Minnesota No. 2 No one has been more blessed. and Minnesota-Duluth No. 3. NCAA Division II I get the question, “What is your favorite moment with the Preseason Volleyball Poll Javelinas?” Selected by the American That’s impossible to answer. There are hundreds of them. I Volleyball Coaches Association don’t think there has ever been a sports information director, at any Rank Team level, who has been able to work with better athletes, coaches, 1. Concordia-St. Paul (Minn.) athletic staff members, administrators and fans than I have at Texas 2. Southwest Minnesota A&I and Texas A&M-Kingsville. 3. Minnesota-Duluth As examples: 4. Florida Southern …There have been three Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees 5. Western Washington and numerous inductions into all of the halls of fame available to a 6. Lewis (Ill.) college athlete or coach. It’s doubtful that any individual SID, and 7. Regis (Colo.) certainly in NCAA Division II, has seen as many of his or her 8. Nebraska-Kearney athletes and staff members get the call from the halls of fame. 9. Northern (S.D.) State Chance Meeting …I have been able to cover the winningest quarterback 10. Rockhurst (Mo.) Luke Womack , right, and former Javelina football player Darrell (Richard Ritchie) in college history and cover the most honored 11. Cal State-San Bernardino Green crossed paths in the Cleveland, Ohio, airport recently. Green 12. Palm Beach Atlantic (Fla.) running back (Johnny Bailey) in college football history. No other was in the area for the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction. He is a 13. Gannon (Pa.) sports information director has had that privilege. member of the Hall. Womack is the son of Luke and Debbie Womack of 14. Arkansas Tech Kingsville and lives in Houston. …There have been national championship teams. Numerous 15. West Florida All-Americans in most of the sports. 16. Central Oklahoma …There have been trips with athletic teams to Austria, Canada, 17. Winona (Minn.) State The Javelina Highlights, France, Germany and Mexico as well as most of the states in the 18. Tarleton State U.S. No other SID has had such an experience. 19. Northwest Nazarene (Idaho) with a weekly circulation …There have been several trips to Hawaii to cover football and 20. Colorado Mines of more than 30,000, women’s basketball games. 21. Ferris (Mich.) State …I was able to serve as secretary of the College Sports 22. Central Missouri is published weekly by the Information Directors of America from 1979 through 2002. 23. Augustana (S.D.) Kingsville Publishing Co. Thanks to this position, I was able to become friends with hundreds 24. Wheeling Jesuit (W. Va.) of SIDs from throughout the country and most of these friendships 25. Flagler (Fla.) Send pictures or continue today. Other teams receiving votes correspondence to: …There has been the opportunity to work with some of the includes Angelo State and West Texas A&M. best sports journalists not only in the state but also nationally. Editor Fred Nuesch, (Bold-faced and italicized But the most important part of my long span here has been the teams are in the Lone Star MSC 114A, friends made. Not only Javelina friends but even those at opponent Conference) schools. Some of my best friends in athletics have been SIDs at 700 University Blvd., other schools. Kingsville, TX 78363 (Continued on Page 3) Upcoming Javelina Events Javelina Hash Aug. 13-17 – Football: Preseason practice in Javelina Stadium, 9:15 a.m. By Fred Nuesch, Coordinator of Athletic External Affairs Aug. 18 – Football: Preseason practice in Javelina Stadium, 10 a.m. General: Javelina Club Annual BBQ in Kingsville, (Continued from Page 2) Northway Coliseum, 501 E. Escondido Road, 5:30 p.m. Aug. 19 – Volleyball: Javelina Volleyball Alumni Match in the Steinke I had no love lost for Southwest Texas State but one of my Center, 3 p.m. best friends is former Bobcat SID Gordon McCullough. And this Aug. 20-28 – Football: Preseason practice in Javelina Stadium, 3:30 p.m. was true even when the rivalry between the two schools was in full Aug. 24 – Volleyball: Angelo State Invitational in San Angelo. swing. vs. New Mexico Highlands, 10 a.m. And there are the student workers I was privileged to work vs. Arkansas-Fort Smith, 2 p.m. with during the 35 years I served as SID. Aug. 25 – Women’s Golf: TAMUK Golf Tournament in Kingsville, L.E. There were more than 100 of these and I still communicate Ramey Golf Course, 8 a.m. registration. Contact with many of them. Stefanie Gray at (936) 645-9136 to register or for An example: David Flores of KENS-TV in San Antonio was a more information. journalism student in my editing class when I was teaching and he Volleyball: Angelo State Invitational in San Angelo.