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University Press • Wednesday, March 27,1996 • Page 4
Cowboy Relays
Tracksters take silver, display mettle
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Michael Thibodeaux
UP sports editor
The Lamar Cardinal track teams ventured
to Lake? Charles over the weekend and com-
peted in the Cowboy Relays. The Card and
Lady Card runners returned home with sec-
ond-place finishes in the meet.
In the men’s competition, Sam Barnett
clocked in a time of 15.14 to win the high
hurdles event, while Cason Horn took first
place honors in a Lamar sweep of the 800-
meter race. Horn finished with a time of
1:57.64.
The Lady Cards were led by a gold medal
performance by Yameles Ortiz. Ortiz took
the first place honors in the 100-meter hur-
dles competition with a time of 15.7 and in
‘One out of three ain’t bad5
Cards drop two in weekend series
the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:04.16. Ortiz’
teammate Angie Munoz put up a 33-11 effort to take a rib-
bon in the triple jump event. Munoz also finished third
behind Ortiz in the 400-meter hurdles competition with a
time of 1:07.51.
The Lady Cards were also given another first-place fin-
ish as Brandi Johnston heaved the javelin 119-7 1/2.
Johnston was runner-up in the discus toss with a throw of
130-6 1/2.
In the relay events, the Lady Cardinals finished in first
place in the 4xl00-meter relay with a time of 49.16 and the
4x400-meter relay with a time of 3:54.94. The men’s 4x100-
meter relay team took top honors with a time of 42.9 sec-
onds.
McNeese state won both men’s and women’s events. In
men’s competition, McNeese garnered 159 points to
Lamar’s 125. The Lady Cowboys captured 172 points to
the Lady Cards 114.
Michael Thibodeaux
UP sports editor
The Lamar Cardinal
baseball team compet-
ed in a weekend series
against University of
|Texas-Pan American
and ended up with a 4-
3 win in the first game, a 3-2
loss in the second game, and
a 5-2 loss in a third game
played on Sunday.
The Lamar squad dropped
to 3-6 in conference. This
marked the worst conference
start ever for a team that Jim
Gilligan has coached.
This also marked the first
time that UT-PA won a
three-game series in Beau-
mont since 1983.
UT-PA, now 17-17 and 4-
5, kept a constant attack on
the Cardinals by scoring
three runs in the sixth, one in
the seventh and one in the
ninth. The Broncs relied on a
strong pitching effort from
starting pitcher Kiki Trevino
(4-4) and relief pitcher Rick
Navarro.
Trevino allowed six hits
and two runs in his six
innings of pitching. Navarro
then stepped in and allowed
only three hits while striking
out two.
Lamar fell to 15-12
Sunday as the Cardinals’
starting pitcher for the game,
Randy William, dropped to
1-4.
The Broncs controlled
much of the game, but the
Cardinals tried to rally in the
bottom of the sixth by load-
ing the bases with walks to
Cahd Bunting and Will Cook
and a double by Kevin
Parker. Jason Klam connect-
ed with a run-scoring sacri-
fice fly, while Morgan
Walker added a run-scoring
single to left. Chris Reda
ended the strip with a fly to
center field.
The Cardinals returned to
the mound Tuesday against
the University of Houston.
Irvin lies low
in wake of bust
Dallas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys wide
receiver Michael Irvin sat courtside at the
Dallas Mavericks basketball game
SUnday, his first public appearance since
reports linked him to a woman arrested
on drug possession charges.
-Irvin and his business partner, former
Cowboys tight end Alfredo Roberts, sat
ill, front-row seats at Reunion Arena,
signing autographs and talking to fans.
They brushed off reporters’ questions
and left immediately after the New York
K-nicks beat the Dallas Mavericks 85-79.
Irvin has not been seen since news of
his presence at an Irving drug bust broke
last Tuesday. He is expected to testify
before a Dallas County grand jury in con-
nection with the March 4 drug arrest of
22-year-old Angela Renee Beck.
Police say Irvin and Roberts were
among four people in a Residence Inn
room. Officers arrested Beck in connec-
tion with the seizure of almost three
ouhces of marijuana, more than two
oudces of cocaine and drug parapherna-
lia.rr
The Cowboy’s star has not been
charged and has not commented publicly
about the incident.
No fun without funds
Sports take cuts to make up for losses
You know, when I was
a kid, I used to find it
hard to budget my
money. Somehow this
university has the same
problems now that I had
when I was younger.
Many of the sports at
Lamar have had to take
cuts to their budgets, not
necessarily because they
weren’t producing, but
because the university has to make up
for losses incurred from the basketball
program. Over the past five years, the
amount of losses has added up to about
$1‘250,000. This brings about memories
of the football program that once graced
the university. Just as football began to
amass huge losses financially before it
was cut, the basketball program is now
in the same sinking ship. The only way
to make up for the subtracting funds is
to make cuts in other areas of the sports
department.
The smaller sports have a lot of rea-
sons to complain about the cuts. It’s not
exactly like they were swimming in
money before the budgeting problems.
Just think of what they’re pulling in
now. Simply put,
the lack of money
will make things
very difficult for
other sports barely
making headway in
the collegiate ath-
letic field. It’s a
tough pill to swal- _
low when you’re
playing your heart
out for the university, and your repay-
ment is a cut in funding.
When situations like this occur, peo-
ple tend to point the finger at individu-
als to take the blame. In this situation,
who can you blame? Do you point the
finger at the persons involved with man-
aging the money, or do you blame the
community for not supporting the
sports program? The only other choice
is to just sit back and accept that this is
Opinion
Michael
Thibodeaux
just one of those unfortunate things that
occur.
It’s hard to imagine any immediate
solution for the problem at hand. It’s
easy to see
- where the
problem
started, but
it’s hard to
imagine
where it will
_end. When
- the budget
cuts have
exhausted
much of the money from the other
sports programs, what’s next? What
other cuts will the university make in
order to maintain the basketball pro-
gram? Let’s see, they could raise tuition;
but then again, they’re doing that any-
way. When you try to think of possible
solutions, thoughts tend to shift toward
the worst. The football program was cut
for its constant loss of money. Could the
same fate ultimately fall upon the bas-
ketball program? It’s hard to envision a
university without football — that is
until you come to Lamar. I would hate
to hear the same thing said about bas-
ketball. The main sport for the universi-
ty might end up becoming baseball.
Then a few years down the road, the
baseball program begins to lose money,
and poof, it’s gone. I may be thinking
extreme, but I wouldn’t be surprised to
see a total annihilation of many of the
sports at Lamar. All I see is a systemat-
ic shooting gallery with the various
sports playing the part of wooden ducks.
Honestly, there has to be some other
way to make up for losses other than
taking away from less endowed sports.
The university is playing the part of a
confused Robin Hood. In other words,
they’re taking from the poor and giving
to the, well, poor.
Michael Thibodeaux is UP sports editor
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