LSC Baseball Friday, Saturday & Sunday Nolan Ryan Field Javelinas vs. Eastern New Mexico VOLUME XV, NO. 32 KINGSVILLE, TEXAS 78363 MARCH 11, 2015 Baseball To Host Eastern For Four- Game Lone Star Conference Series The Texas A&M-Kingsville into a Monday afternoon league triples and a home run. baseball team will host Eastern game with Cameron in Lawton, Zach Smith, junior infielder New Mexico in a four-game Lone Okla. from Bridge City, is hitting .352 Star Conference series Friday, The Javelinas won two of the with two doubles and a triple. Saturday and Sunday at Nolan first three games of the series Hayden Vesely, junior utility Field. Saturday and Sunday. player from Victoria (St. Joseph), A single game Friday is set TAMUK had a non- has a .348 batting average with for 6 p.m. and the squads play a conference matchup with St. Mary’s four doubles and two triples and doubleheader Saturday with the Tuesday night in Kingsville. Clint Wallace, senior catcher from first game starting at 1 p.m. Cline Andrews, senior third Corpus Christi (Tuloso-Midway), The final game Sunday will baseman from Sugar Land has a .333 average with five have a 1 p.m. first pitch. (Clements), continues to lead the doubles and a triple. The Javelinas were 11-7 Javelinas at bat with a .354 Brayton Carlson, junior overall and 5-2 in the LSC going average. He has six doubles, two (Continued on Page 13) Seven Indoor Track & Field Athletes Compete in NCAA Championships Seven Texas A&M-Kingsville Arlington, N.Y., are NCAA athletes will participate in the Division II national indoor NCAA Division II Indoor Track & champions in their events. Field Championships Friday and Robinson won the indoor title Saturday in Birmingham, Ala., and in 2013 and tied for first last year two Javelinas enter the meet as but lost a tiebreaker and received the favorites to win. the silver medal. The meet will be held at the Yamoah has been the national Birmingham CrossPlex facility and champion as a freshman and will be streamed live on sophomore. NCAA.com. Both also own outdoor Lutalo Boyce, sophomore national championships. from Westbury, N.Y., and Jeron Yamoah enters this Robinson, senior high jumper from weekeknd’s meet with the 10th best Houston (Travis), enter the height (16-6). competition with the best Amber Perry, senior from performances in their events. Goliad, is an indoor and outdoor Boyce has long jumped 25- All-American in the 400-meter dash. 7.25 and Robinson has cleared 7- She has a 55.06, sixth best Looking For Javelina Friends 2.5. among the entries. These wild javelinas were spotted in a field on Santa Gertrudis Boule- Robinson and Jordan Michal Idziak, junior from vard last week less than a block from the TAMUK campus. Apparently Yamoah, junior pole vaulter from (Continued on Page 6) they had heard there were lots of Javelinas at the school. Jordan Yamoah Javelina Hash Softball On the Road This Weekend Javelina Hash The Texas A&M-Kingsville Kingsville canceled because of The Javelinas go to Lawton, By Fred Nuesch, Coordinator of Athletic External Affairs softball team enters the third week wet weather. Okla., Friday and Saturday for a of Lone Star Conference play and The squads split in a single pair of doubleheaders with LSC THE LONE STAR Conference baseball and softball seasons is still looking for its first complete doubleheader. opponent Cameron. are off to a rocky start. Or should we say a rainy and snowy start. league series. The previous week, the Friday’s first game is set for 1 The Javelinas had two of its Javelinas and Angelo State were p.m. and Saturday’s twinbill will Seldom are there postponements and it has been an extremely four games with Texas A&M- able to play only two of four start at noon. rare occasion when games have been canceled because of the Commerce last weekend in games. The Javelinas are 7-8 for the weather. But this year is an exception. year and 1-3 in the LSC standings. The Javelina softball team has had its two LSC series cut short Karlie Clark, sophomore because of rain or snow. pitcher from Warsaw, Va., leads Four games at Angelo State became only two because of snow the Javelinas at the plate with a and the four-game series with Texas A&M-Commerce in Kingsville .529 batting average. She has two last weekend had to be trimmed to two because of rain. doubles. The softball team meets Cameron this weekend and the Aggies Ariana Munoz, junior will be playing their first league games. outfielder from Alice, is hitting An earlier four-game series between Cameron and TAMUC had .400 with a pair of doubles. to be canceled. Loren Donaldson, junior first Baseball has also seen a lot of shifting. baseman from Alvin, has a .391 Each of the Javelina series has had to be altered because of average with six doubles and two adverse weather conditions. home runs and Rachael Longoria, Can’t remember when the weather has played such a role in freshman infielder from Hutto, is these two sports. hitting .389 with three doubles and a home run. HEIDI SCHEOPNER, WHO was a four-year letterwinner The Javelinas are hitting .308 with the Javelina volleyball team in 2004-07, is the assistant as a team. Clark has the best record in women’s volleyball and basketball coach at San Antonio O’Connor the circle at 2-1. She has a 4.13 High School. earned run average. The volleyball team had a 32-5 record last fall and reached the The Javelina pitchers have a Class 6A regional finals. Home Plate Greeting cumulative 3.92 ERA. Heidi played high school volleyball at Harlingen South High Rachael Longoria (22), freshman infielder from Hutto, is greeted at Cameron will be opening its School. home plate after getting a home run in last weekend’s series with LSC schedule this weekend. The Texas A&M-Commerce. Aggies had a four-game series HANK LUCKE, 88, husband of former Javelina volleyball with Texas A&M-Commerce coach Myrtle Lucke, passed away last week and services will be at Three Javelina Opponents in canceled because of snow. 11 a.m. Wednesday at Faith Lutheran Church in Beeville. The Aggies are 13-2 for the Myrtle was the Javelina coach in the late 1980s and early NCAA Division II Softball Poll year and have been red-hot at the 1990s. plate. Three Texas A&M-Kingsville 8. Dixie (Utah) State In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Faith Lutheran Carly Allerheiligen, junior opponents ranked in the top six of 9. Alabama-Huntsville Church. shortstop from Keller, has a .488 the NCAA Division II national 10. Long Island-Post (N.Y.) average with three doubles and softball poll last week. 11. North Georgia two triples. TWO MEMBERS OF the Javelina staff worked as officials at West Texas A&M was No. 1, 12. Arkansas Tech Paige Daino, sophomore the Lone Star Conference men’s and women’s basketball St. Mary’s No. 5 and Angelo State 13. Wingate (N.C.) designated player from tournaments last week in Allen. No. 6. 14. Caldwell (Idaho) Burkburnett, is hitting .462 with Kelvin Queliz, Javelina sports information director, worked WTAM and ASU are Lone 15. Winona (Minn.) State four doubles and eight home runs. with the statistics crew for eight of the games. Star Conference opponents. 16 Rollins (Fla.) Lauren Renniker, senior Marques Dantzler, athletic compliance officer, kept at the NCAA Division II Softball Poll 17. Georgia College infielder from Lawton, is hitting official table throughout the tournament. Compiled by the 18. Central Oklahoma .455 with a double and eight home National Fastpitch 19. Humboldt (Calif.) State runs and Breezy McComas, Coaches Association 20. California Baptist COLLEGE BASEBALL HAS the low-seam baseball for the sophomore outfielder from Rank Team 21. Indianapolis (Ind.) first time this season and the change is showing up in the long ball. Edmond, Okla., is hitting .419 with 1. West Texas A&M 22. North Alabama After the first 1,708 NCAA Division I baseball games this six doubles and three home runs. 2. Valdosta (Ga.) State 23. Emporia (Kan.) State season, the number of home runs hit was up 31 percent. Tara Martini, senior outfielder 3. Cal State-Monterey Bay West Virginia Wesleyan There were 0.31 home runs hit per game last season and that from Moore, Okla., is the fifth 4. Missouri-St. Louis 25. Augustana (S.D.) figure is 0.51 thus far this year. Aggie hitting .400 or better. She 5. St. Mary’s (Bold-faced and italicized The low-seam ball was adopted to add more offense to the has a .400 average with four 6. Angelo State teams are in the Lone Star game. (Continued on Page 3) doubles and eight home runs. 7. West Chester (Pa.) Conference) (Continued on Page 13) JavelinaJavelina Hash Hash Upcoming Javelina Events Javelina Hash March 12 – General: Santa Gertrudis Academy Junior High By Fred Nuesch, Coordinator of Athletic External Affairs Invitational Track & Field Meet in Kingsville (Javelina Stadium). (Continued from Page 2) March 13 – Baseball: *Eastern New Mexico in Kingsville, 6 p.m. Softball: *Cameron in Lawton, Okla. (DH), 1 p.m. IT WAS A good homecoming for former Javelina football Men’s & Women’s Indoor Track & Field: NCAA Division II player David Montano and former athletic training graduate Championships in Birmingham, Ala. (Birmingham assistant Bobby Kingsley last weekend. Crossplex). Montano is the head coach of the La Marque High School boys Women’s Tennis: Texas-Permian Basin Tournament in Odessa.