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SPORTS
National No. 1 seeds could be at stake in Big 12 tournament
arrival for the Big 12 Conference Oklahoma State (40-15) will enter much. You just want to go out and
le'’ue games, the Cowboys went position to do different things, I postseason. Hopefully, we’ve had
14-2 thereafter and would have think you kind of get out of your
another honor as junior shortstop 17) and Texas (34-19). Missouri
Western to play
PBA is on its way - Again!
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that bad stretch and we’ll put it
behind us.”
Texas A&M also claimed
the tournament on the biggest roll, play well. If you try to identify this
After losing six of their first 10 or that, or try to put yourself in a
baseball tournament had been
slowed because “we limped all the
way here," a nod to his team's six-
game losing streak.
4 • Wednesday. May 21,2008
tUtua Times
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -
Texas A&M coach Rob Childress
joked Tuesday that the Aggies'
stretch before dropping its last
five.
He said if the losing streak had
to happen, "I want it to happen in
the regular season and not in the
By Kenton McKnight
Town & Country Bowling Lanes
ing with a 3.96 ERA. Of course,
the two league leaders in the latter
category are Oklahoma State
(3.81) and Texas A&M (3.94).
As Oklahoma State, Texas
A&M and Nebraska seek national
No. I seeds, other teams in the Big
12 tournament simply want to bur-
nish their NCAA tournament cre-
dentials, including Missouri (37-
Wednesday, could be a vital factor enough, things will take care of straight league games in one
Altus High School athletes honored at All-Sports Reception
Altus Times Photo: Ashley Anthony
The Altus All-Sports Association Reception, honoring Altus High School athletes, was held Tuesday night. Left: Dashaniece Harris was named the winner of the Cletus B. Street Award, which is sym-
bolic of the top girl student/athlete. Presenting the award was Louis Street. Middle: Trent Harvick won the Mitch Windle Award, symbolic of the top male student/athlete. Master of Ceremonies Jack
Diltz made the presentation. Right: Former Altus High wrestler, now federal judge and author of the book "Cowboy Up," was the featured speaker at the event.
golf, racing, and other great sports, pins, it counts as a strike. There
points allow you to compete in the are two squads, one at 5:00 PM
top ranked Lenoir
The Western Oklahoma State College Pioneers
finally know who they are going to play in the first
round of the NJCAA World Series.
Top ranked Lenoir Community College, N.C.
defeated Frederick Community College, Md. 5-2 on
Tuesday to fill the final slot in the World Series.
There is no seedings in the World Series. The first
round matchups were pre determined by regions
which had the champion of the Southwest Super
Regional (Western) playing the champion of the Mid
Atlantic Super Regional (Lenoir).
That created a matchup with the top ranked Lancers
and the fourth ranked Pioneers.
Other first round games will have Grand Rapids,
Mich. (25-22) going against 10th ranked Monroe
Community College of Rochester, N.Y. (38-13); Elgin
Community College, Ill. (31-14) playing defending
national champ Longview Community College, Mo.
(35-25) and 11th ranked Des Moines Area
Community College (48-16), Iowa facing LSU-
Eunice (48-12).
The full bracket has still not been released.
Four games are set for Sunday. Two games will be
played both Monday and Tuesday. Single games are
on tap Wednesday, May 28, Thursday, May 29 and
Friday May 30 if necessary.
Falcons sign Ryan
ATLANTA (AP) — For the second time in eight years, the
Atlanta Falcons opened the vault and dropped a ton of cash on a
franchise quarterback.
Matt Ryan, the No. 3 pick in last month’s draft, signed a $72
million, six-year contract. The announcement of the new deal
came with smiles, confident talk of the future and no mention of
Michael Vick, the first pick in 2001 who signed a $130 million
extension, the richest in the league at the time, in December 2005.
Blank and the Falcons were especially eager to sign Ryan,
avoid a holdout and help the franchise move away from the Vick
era with new general manager Thomas Dimitroff, nev coach
Mike Smith and now a new quarterback.
most prestigious meets for greater and 7:30 PM and is open to any-
As you might have seen, money. So, you can see why the one. We will be having a youth
Professional Bowling has been on professional bowlers want to be division with trophies and the adult
TV this winter season on Sunday’s here. division will award prize money,
at noon. Some of these very same On Friday June 6, the profes- Saturday morning at 8 a.m., the
big name bowlers that you saw on sional bowlers arrive and have a professional tournament begins.
TV were actually here in Altus last practice session from 1:00 PM - The bowlers will be divided into
year. Wes Mallot and Mark 3:00 PM. This will allow the pro- squads and allocated a time to
Scroggins actually bowled in Altus fessionals an opportunity to check bowl. Each professional will bowl
Oklahoma. Well, I can t believe it out the bowling center conditions 8 games hoping to advance to
was a year ago the Professional on our lanes. This is a good oppor- Sunday’s competition. So if you
Bowlers were in town and Yes, tunity for spectators to get auto- come out any time from 8:00 AM
they are coming back on June, graphs and see what professional through 8:00 PM, you will see the
Our community will be hosting bowling is about. From 3:00 PM best bowling.
the second Professional Bowling to 5:00 pM we will be having a 4 On Sunday starting at 8:30 a.m.,
Tournament on June 6,7, Sth. This garne “sweeper” tournament. This the top 1/3 bowlers from Saturday
will be exciting event that every- tournament is open to anyone will bowl a 5 game qualifier. This
one in our community can experi- interested in bowling with and will align the bowlers for the finals
ence. This is a wonderful oppor- against the pro’s. I expect many starting at noon. These finals will
tunity to showcase our city and bowlers from Altus, Lawton, and determine the winner of the 2nd
surrounding communities. This Wichita Falls to bowl in this. Altus Open.
tournament will draw 108 profes- Friday night we will be having a There is no admission at the
sional bowlers from Colorado, Pro-AM tournament. This touma- door but donations to the Youth
New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, ment will be a very exciting and Scholarship fund would be appre-
Arkansas, Louisiana, and fun because you will have one pro- ciated. We also will be having a
Oklahoma. We expect some big fessional bowler each game on Lunch special of BBQ sandwich,
names from the National Tour to your set of lanes. The standings Chips, and Soda for $3.75.1 would
be here, too. This event will be an are calculated by adding your encourage one and all to come to
exciting time for all of us and I am score with handicap with the pro- Town & Country and come have
honored to be the host for this fessional bowlers score so you are lunch and to see these profession-
event again. not bowling against the pro’s but in als bowl and experience what it is
Professional Bowlers compete a double’s event with them. This like to be a professional bowler.
in Regional Tournaments like ours tournament will be a 9 pin no tap,
in an effort to collect points. As in or basically, if you knock down 9
be enough to land Texas A&M one season. 2005 and has lost eight straight Jose Duran was named as the Big has the league’s pitcher of the year
of the coveted eight national No. 1 Oklahoma State won two of games in the event, but the 12’s player of the year. The junior in junior Aaron Crow, a Wakarusa,
seeds — not with two of the three'' games against Texas A&M Cowboys came within a game last from Fort Worth, Texas, who Kan., product who is 12-0 with a
Aggies’ Big 12 brethren also in the and Nebraska and also claimed season of reaching the College transferred to Texas A&M from 2.66 ERAand has 111 strikeouts in
mix. series wins against Missouri, World Series. North Central Texas College, hit a 91 1/3 innings this season.
Four national polls have Texas Texas and Oklahoma. Both Texas A&M (42-14) and league-best .397 and drove in 61 Baylor coach Steve Smith said
A&M, Oklahoma State and Anderson said that while he Nebraska (39-12-1) ended the sea- runs, third in the league. the Bears (31-24) likely need to
Nebraska - which finished 1-2-3 tries to shield his players from son on the wrong end of sweeps — Nebraska also harbors hopes for win the tournament to make the
in the Big 12 — ranked in the top media reports, they are aware of the Aggies falling at home to a national No. 1 seed, even as NCAA field. The same also is the
10. Childress and Oklahoma State the ramifications of what happens Texas, with Nebraska dropping coach Mike Anderson noted his case for Kansas State (27-27) and
coach Frank Anderson said two during the Big 12 tournament. three straight at Missouri, team’s modest preseason aspira- Oklahoma (32-23-1), although the
Big 12 teams might receive two “It’s out there,” he said. “I’m Childress, named Tuesday as tions. Sooners might have a slim chance
national No. 1 seeds and that how more worried about playing good, the league’s coach of the year, said Nebraska ranks last in the Big at receiving an at-large berth with
the three teams fare in the league clean baseball. If you do that, most the season has been cyclical for 12 in team batting with a .261 a strong showing in the tourna-
tournament, which starts of the time, if you’re talented Texas A&M, which won 16 average but are third in team pitch- ment.
in determining which two. themselves.
Of the three top teams, “You really can’t control too
Despite that skid, the Aggies shared the title with Texas A&M element.”
still won the league's regular-sea- except for a loss to Oklahoma on Oklahoma State hasn’t won a
son title, but that won’t necessarily Sunday, the final day of the regular Big 12 tournament game since
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