By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor The softball team split its final two games of the South Central Shootout on Sunday, finishing in second place in the largest NCAA Division II tournament in the nation. Overall, the Wildcats finished the weekend 5-1, including victories over No. 19 Central Missouri and MIAA preseason favorite ... [Read More…]
Cats swing four wins in Okla.
By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor The ACU softball team won four games at the South Central Shootout in Durant, Okla., on Friday and Saturday. The Wildcats defeated Nebraska-Omaha 10-2 in five innings. Nebraska-Omaha was selected to win the Mid-American Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA), according to the MIAA Preseason Poll. ... [Read More…]
Softball team gears up for six games in three days
By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor The softball team travels to Durant, Okla., on Friday to compete in the South Central Shootout. The team will play six games in three days in the largest NCAA Division II tournament in the nation. "What we took away from the tournament last week is that the two losses were to nationally ranked ... [Read More…]
Campbell, golf team prepare for St. Edward’s Invitational in Austin
By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor The golf team travels to Austin on Sunday for the St. Edward's Spring Invitational tournament. St. Edward's University will be sponsoring the tournament at Grey Rock Golf Club. The team completed qualifying for the tournament Wednesday afternoon. "I have four people who are going for sure," head coach ... [Read More…]
Men finish first overall at Air Force Invitational
By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor The men and women's track and field teams traveled to the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., over the weekend for the Air Force Invitational. The men won the team competition, and the women finished in fourth. "It was a team-scored meet, so it was a lot of fun to be in a meet that actually ... [Read More…]
Athletes improve national rankings
By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor The men and women's track teams had another successful weekend in which they added four more automatic qualifiers and three provisional qualifiers to an already long list headed to the NCAA Division II National Championship meet in March. The teams competed in the Texas Tech Invitational in Lubbock and ... [Read More…]
Golf team wins by 20 strokes in opener
By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor The golf team began the spring season in the best way possible last week, winning the Dustdevil Open by 20 strokes in Laredo. Morgan Johnson, whose score did not figure into the composite team score because he plays unattached, won the individual title by three strokes over teammate Hilton Funk. The ... [Read More…]
Wildcats take threeof five in San Antonio
By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor The softball team won three of its five games over the weekend at the St. Mary's Spring Invitational in San Antonio. This was the first competition for the Wildcats in 2009, giving them a 3-2 record to begin the season. "I think we had a successful weekend," said head coach Chantiel Wilson. "We beat ... [Read More…]
Softball team begins with Invitational
By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor The softball team traveled to San Antonio on Thursday for the St. Mary's Invitational tournament. The team played its first of the weekend's five games on Thursday against Rollins University. Results were unavailable by press time. Thursday's game was the Wildcats' first game of the 2009 ... [Read More…]
Wildcats gear up for Tech Invitational
By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor The men and women's track and field teams sent a small group of athletes to the Houston Indoor Invitational and Multis last weekend. "We intended to send our multi-athletes, but most of them were injured, so we only sent one," said head track and field coach Don Hood. The team sent its only freshman ... [Read More…]