April 1st, 2009
Texas Lutheran Athletics Notes for April 1, 2009
Baseball
The Texas Lutheran baseball team holds a one-game lead in the American Southwest Conference West Division entering this weekend’s three-game series against Sul Ross State.
TLU (19-11, 8-4 ASC) travels to Alpine, Texas for the series with the Lobos (4-26, 3-9 ASC). Game one of the series is set for a 7 p.m. start Friday. Games two and three are part of a noon doubleheader Saturday. All three games will be played at Kokernot Field in Alpine.
Seguin radio station KWED 1580 AM will have the live broadcast of Friday night’s game. Friday’s game also will have a live webcast of the KWED broadcast on www.seguintoday.com.
Sul Ross State will provide live stats of all three games from http://www.sulross.edu/pages/6719.asp.
Men’s Golf
The third Golf World/Nike Golf Division III Coaches’ Poll of the spring season has been released, and the Texas Lutheran Bulldogs are ranked 16th in the latest poll. The ranking combines the resources of Golf World magazine, Nike Golf and the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA).
TLU is one of four American Southwest Conference teams in this week’s Golf World/Nike Golf Top 25. The University of Texas at Tyler is ranked ninth. The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and the University of Texas at Dallas are ranked 19th and 21st, respectively.
The winner of the American Southwest Conference Championship Tournament, to be contested April 20-21 in Anna, Texas, receives the automatic berth to the NCAA Division III Championships. At-large berths are awarded by a national committee.
TLU plays this coming Monday and Tuesday at the West Region Invitational in Georgetown, Texas. The tournament will be played at Teravista Country Club.
Softball
The Texas Lutheran softball team hosts Concordia Texas on Friday and Saturday at TLU’s Morck Field in a four-game conference series. The Bulldogs (9-13, 4-4 ASC) sit in fifth place in the seven-team American Southwest Conference West Division. Concordia Texas (13-9, 5-3 ASC) is tied for second with Howard Payne (17-5, 5-3 ASC).
The doubleheaders on Friday and Saturday each start at 1 p.m.
TLU will have live webcasts from www.tlu.edu/athletics of all four games. Live stats from www.tlu.edu/athletics will be available for Saturday’s doubleheader.
Women’s Track & Field
The Texas Lutheran women’s track and field team posted 15 personal or season bests during competitions Friday at the Rice University Victor Lopez Bayou Classic and Saturday at the University of Texas-San Antonio Relays.
In Houston on Friday, TLU’s Tiffany Wetz set a new school record in the 10,000 meters with a time of 41 minutes, 18.99 seconds. Wetz finished second in the race. She broke the school mark of 42:20.00, set by Molly Lasater in 2002.
At the UTSA Relays, Bulldog senior Staci Jackson won the 400 with a time of 56.80. Jackson was second in the 800 (2:17.69) and ran on the Bulldogs’ second-place 4x200 relay (1:44.22), third-place 4x100 relay (48.97), and fourth-place 4x400 relay (4:02.34).
Tennis
The Texas Lutheran women and men’s tennis teams host Hardin-Simmons at 2 p.m. Friday and Sul Ross State at 9 a.m. Saturday. Both dual matches will be played at TLU’s tennis courts.