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Eastern New Mexico up next

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By Grant Abston, Sports Editor After recording its biggest come-from-behind win of the season, the seventh-ranked Wildcats will look to carry that momentum into this weekend when they travel to play Eastern New Mexico in a four-game Lone Star Conference series. After falling behind 8-3 going into the eighth inning in Sunday's finale against ... [Read More…]

Golf team prepares for Classic

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By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor The ACU golf team travels to Dallas on Monday to compete in the Dallas Baptist Patriot Classic. The tournament will be sponsored by Dallas Baptist University at the Golf Club of Dallas. The Wildcats are midway through their season and currently are ranked fourth in their region. "Our season started off ... [Read More…]

Cats sweep St. Mary’s in doubleheader

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By Grant Abston, Sports Editor Starting pitchers Jacque Gregoire and Kim Partin led ACU to a doubleheader sweep, winning 7-0 and 7-1 on Tuesday over nonconference opponent St. Mary's University, allowing just one run in two games as ACU extended its winning streak to 10 games and improved to 26-9 overall. The Wildcats remain in first place in the ... [Read More…]

Tennis teams return home for Wildcat Invitational

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By Jeff Craig, Sports Writer The ACU men and women's tennis teams will be in action with five games each, all of which will be played at ACU as a part of the 2009 Wildcat Invitational. The men's team is coming off a couple of losses at the hands of Lamar and Louisiana-Lafayette. The squad currently sits at 18-4 and held the No. 20 spot as of the ... [Read More…]

A Triangular Test: Track and field athletes face top Division I schools

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The track and field teams sponsored the ACU Triangular Meet on Thursday afternoon at Elmer Gray Stadium. The meet originally was scheduled for Friday afternoon, but forecasts of inclement weather forced the meet to be moved. The Wildcats competed in multiple events against Texas Tech and Oral Roberts. "Our competition is really high quality," ... [Read More…]

Wildcats fall twice to Division I teams

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By Brandon Tripp, Sports Writer Being a nationally ranked team means everyone wants to beat you; the Wildcats found that out the hard way over the weekend after dropping two matches to Lamar University and Louisiana-Lafayette University. "We were in a tough match, and that's really what it is all about," head coach Hutton Jones said. The ... [Read More…]

Four Cats qualify for outdoor nationals

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By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor ACU javelin thrower Linda Brivule reached an automatic qualifying mark for the NCAA Division II Outdoor National Championship, while three other athletes provisionally qualified with their performances in two separate meets. Decathlete James Hardin traveled to San Angelo on Thursday and Friday for the ... [Read More…]

Baseball team uses late rally to win three of four

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By Grant Abston, Sports Editor After giving up three runs in the top of the eighth inning to fall behind 8-3, the Wildcats used their biggest rally of the season to finish off Southeastern Oklahoma State, scoring eight runs in the bottom of the eighth inning in game four to get the series' win. ACU won three of four over Southeastern Oklahoma ... [Read More…]

Teams looking to defend outdoor titles

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By Chandler Harris, Assistant Sports Editor The track and field teams begin their outdoor season this week as they aim to defend their respective national titles from 2008. The men's team began Thursday as it sent James Hardin to the Angelo State Spring Break Multis. Fifteen men and 16 women will travel to Baylor University on Saturday to compete ... [Read More…]

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