Page 6 ยง The Vista ยง April 26, 1988
Sports Broncho diamond crew drops pair of twinbills
Broncho shotstop Jeff Trost, and second baseman Shawn Shaw try to stop a Phillips' baserunner in a contest in Edmond last Thursday. The runner was safe, and the Bronchos dropped both ends of the twinbill to the visiting Haymakers. (Photo by Tom Gilbert)
Despite out-hitting its foes in a pair of contests last week, the Central State University baseball team wound up without a win in four tries after Phillips University stole a doubleheader in Edmond Thursday, and Cameron University dealt CSU a pair of losses Saturday afternoon in Lawton. Tim Murdock hurled the Haymakers to a 6-0 success in the opener Thursday. The Phillips thrower no-hit Coach Bobby Hunt's Bronchos, and picked up his eighth- straight win this season. Dave Sigler was saddled with his second loss after dealing the PU crew three runs in the third, and another in the fourth. Broncho reliever Bryan Phurrough took over the mound chores in the sixth, but surrendered two Haymaker runs in the seventh. The Bronchos out-hit the visiting Haymakers 19-16 in the
Thinclads third at district meet Earning four individual event championships, and a first-place finish in the 400-meter relay, the Central State men's and women's track teams wound up with a pair of third-place team honors at the District 9 Tack and Field Championships in Shawnee Saturday. Dallas Tice and Tim Martinez managed individual gold medals for the men's crew. Tice, a senior from Yukon, raced to a 21.95 first-place finish in the 200-meter dash. Marinez, produced a 15-8 mark in the pole vault to claim top-honors in that event. Mark Davis, Mike Hogan, Eugene Spears and Rodney Glenn combined talents in the 400-meter relay event to gain another Broncho first-place finish. The unit produced a 42.29 mark. Amber Tilley and Willie Crawford earned the only lady
Broncho first-place finishes in the competition. Tilley, a sophomore from Enid, managed a 127-3 toss in the javelin throw for the individual championship. Crawford, also a member of the lady Broncho basketball squad, finished with a 34-3 first-place throw in the shot put. Tilley, tearing through the field of District 9 women, also placed in six other individual events. The versatile lady Broncho finished second in the long-jump, earned third-place marks in the triplejump and the 400-meter run, finished fourth in the high-jump, and competed on both the lady Bronchos 400-meter, and 1,600-meter relay squads. Jeff Brown, Steve Richardson, and Davis added runner-up points to the Broncho team performance.
Richardson, a Duncan sophomore, earned a runner-up finish in the triple-jump with a 43-11/2 effort. Davis, a senior from Muskogee, sprinted to a 49.45, second-place time in the 400-meter event. Four other Bronchos finished as high as third in the championship meet. Greg Frost managed a 130-1 third-place mark in the hammer-throw. Tice collected a 10.93 third-place in the 100-meter dash, and Glenn produced a 22.06 third-place performance in the 200-meter race. Shelley Parent and Selina Smith, also two-sport competitors at CSU, produced second-place finishes. Parent, a senior who competed for the lady Broncho volleyball team last fall, managed a 111-10, second-place mark in the discus throw. Smith, a
member of CSU's women's basketball team, wound up second in the 200-meter sprint. The lady Broncho thinclads also produced a pair of thirdplace finishes. Terri Bell, a sophomore hurdler managed an individual third-place mark. The 1,600 CSU relay outfit earned the other third-place finish. Smith, Brenda Bergerson, Vonda McEachern and Tilley teamed up for a 4:17.64 time. Overall, the men earned 118 points. Oklahoma Christian College pulled up in second place with 144 points, and Oklahoma Baptist University gained the District 9 title with 149 points. On the women's side, Langston captured the team championship with 137 points. CSU tied with OCC for runner-up honors with 128 points.
nightcap, but Phillips finished on top of a 35-hit slugfest on Broncho field 15-13. Five Phillips pitchers, and three Broncho hurlers struggled through the contest. Batters tagged the mound corps for six homeruns in the ball game. Matt Santos and Jeff Trost blasted their second roundtrippers of the year in the game. The Haymakers managed four homeruns. The Bronchos sufferred another pair of setbacks in Lawton Saturday afternoon. Again the Bronchos managed to out-hit their foes in the nightcap, but came up short in the run department in both games. Cameron collected six runs in the third inning to insure its 10-5 success in the opener. The Aggies added solo-scores in the first-, second-, fourth- and sixth-innings to handily defeat CSU in six trips to the plate. The Bronchos put together a three-run third, and scored a pair in the fourth, but couldn't top the Aggies plate production. Sophomore hurler Jay Sparks was handed the loss. CSU rapped 10 hits in the nightcap, while Cameron collected only seven safties, but the Aggies inched out a 7-6 extrainning win. Cameron jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first to take early control of the contest. The Bronchos scored a pair in the third, and added a run in the fifth, but trailed the Aggies 5-3 after a CU score in the fifth. CSU tied the game with a pair of runs in the sixth and stifled Cameron in its final trip to the plate to force the game into extrainnings. The Bronchos took the lead with a score in their side of the eighth, but Cameron responded with a pair of runs in the bottom of the inning to gain the win.
Lady Broncho netters snare Oral Roberts outfit Coach Baxter's crew tackles D-9 tourney Wednesday Improving its season slate to 7-4, the Central State University women's tennis team toppled visiting Oral Roberts University 6-3 in Edmond Saturday morning. The lady Bronchos handed the Tulsa outfit five-straight singles losses to guarantee CSU a win in the best-of-nine-match. Junior Kathi Swink was the only lady Broncho double-winner in the contest. The two-time district nine singles champion, slammed Haley Gould 6-2, 6-2 in the No. 4 singles match, then teamed up with CSU newcomer Kathy Brunette to handle an ORU duo in the third singles match 8-4. Swink, winner of the District 9 event in the fifth-slot as a
freshman, and the third-bracket Willette pounded out a CSU as a sophomore, will look for her win in her singles match. The third-straight title at the two-day Laguna Beach, Calif. junior topDistrict 9 Championships schedul- ped Cari Camberlin 6-2, 6-3 in the ed to start Wednesday afternoon third-singles contest. at the Oklahoma City Tennis Steady freshman Jennie Biswell added another lady Broncho win Center. in the second-singles match after Two-time All-American Jenny dealing Warwick a 6-2, 6-0 loss. Bautista bested her ORU foe in Biswell was also saddled with a the top-singles match. The defen- doubles loss in the match. The ding top district titlist handed Plano, Texas product combined Karin Malinowski a 6-2, 6-4 efforts with Julie Skelton in the second-doubles match, but setback. couldn't overcome Chamberlin Bautista, along with Raquelle and Gould, and lost 8-6. Willette, suffered a rare defeat in Skelton collected the fifth lady the top-doubles contest. The duo Broncho singles success with a slipped to Malinowski and Becky 6-1, 6-4 win over Janet Strunk in the fifth solo-struggle. Warwick 8-4.
Brunette suffered the only singles loss at the hands of Kelly Kenyon 6-1, 6-4. Coach Francis Baxter's lady Bronchos, District9 runner-ups a year ago, will enter the district
D-9 Tournament Schedule Wednesday
2:30 p.m.-First round, women's singles 5 p.m.-First round, women's doubles
Thursday 9 a.m.-Semifinals, singles 11 a.m.-Semifinals,
event as pre-tourney favorites. The CSU squad topped district challengers Cameron University, and Oklahoma City Unviersity by 5-4 margins earlier this season. singles, first round men's singles 1 p.m.-Semifinals men's singles 2 p.m.-Finals women's singles 3 p.m.-First round, men's doubles 4 p.m.-Finals, women's doubles 5 p.m.-Semifinals, men's doubles
women's Friday 9 a.m. Finals, men's singles women's 11 a.m.-Finals, men's doubles
