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Softball team looks to return to regionals

January 30, 2009 by Chandler Harris

By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor The Wildcat softball season will begin Thursday at the St. Mary's Tournament in San Antonio. The team will play five games in three days against Rollins, Texas A&M-International, Washburn, Cameron and Midwestern State. The team looks to build on a solid 2008 season in which it finished 34-17 and ... [Read More…]

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Women’s basketball team snaps 11-year losing streak vs. Midwestern State; Men fall to Mustangs

January 30, 2009 by Chandler Harris

By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor The women's basketball team defeated the Midwestern State Lady Mustangs 73-57 Saturday night behind 28 points from senior center Audrey Maxwell-Lively. The victory snaps a nine-game losing streak to the Lady Mustangs that dated back to 1998 and improves the Wildcats record to 13-7 overall and 5-1 in ... [Read More…]

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Track team adds seven more national bids

January 28, 2009 by Chandler Harris

By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor The men and women's track and field teams traveled to Lubbock for the second-straight week Saturday and came home with three more automatic qualifiers and four more provisional qualifiers for the NCAA Division II indoor championship meet in March. The Wildcats competed against such schools as Texas ... [Read More…]

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Mistake leads to interesting discovery: Thoughts from the Bleachers

January 23, 2009 by Chandler Harris

By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor Every little boy has hobbies or pastimes when they are young, like building model cars, skateboarding or reading books. My favorite hobby was collecting baseball cards. Ken Griffey Jr., Mark McGwire and Juan Gonzalez were always popular cards to find in an overpriced foil wrapper known as a pack. I once ... [Read More…]

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Men set Div. II mark in 4×400

January 23, 2009 by Chandler Harris

By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor The men's and women's track and field teams traveled to Lubbock last weekend for the Wes Kittley Invitational indoor track meet. Overall, the teams earned three automatic qualifying berths for the NCAA Division II meet in March and had 12 provisional qualifying performances. The teams competed against ... [Read More…]

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Wildcats travel to Tech for first ’09 track meet

January 16, 2009 by Chandler Harris

By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor The ACU track and field team will travel to Lubbock Friday and Saturday for its first track meet of the semester, the Wes Kittley Invitational. The meet will be indoors on the campus of Texas Tech University. The first meet of the 2009 season will be used as a measuring stick of where the teams are in ... [Read More…]

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Intramurals begin with six sports

January 16, 2009 by Chandler Harris

By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor With a new semester comes a new schedule for intramural sports. The intramural department will offer six sports this spring for students, alumni, faculty and staff to compete in. The sports include basketball, volleyball, soccer, golf, a rodeo and a track meet. "We are very excited to get back to school ... [Read More…]

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