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Sports Update For Week Of Oct. 8
BEARKATS POST VICTORY AT JACKSONVILLE STATE
Freshman Alex St. Peter kicked a 27-yard field goal with 40 seconds remaining to give Sam Houston State a come from behind 26-23 victory in the Bearkats' 2000 Southland Football League opener in Jacksonville, Ala., Saturday afternoon. The victory upped Sam Houston's season record to 4-1, the Bearkats' best season start since they were 5-0 in 1994. Albert Bradley led the Bearkat offense, passing for 201 yards and one touchdown and rushing for 77 yards and another score.Sam Houston State's punt defense special team produced its fifth punt block in as many games this season in the game's biggest play early in the second quarter. With SHSU trailing 10-0, P. J. Traylor blocked a punt and Keith Davis picked up the ball at the 12-yard line and ran in for the score. St. Peter kicked a 43-yard field goal with no time remaining in the half to tie the score 10-10.
The Bearkat offense rolled up 16 points in the fourth quarter after Jacksonville State took a 17-10 lead in the third. Bradley directed an 84-yard drive that climaxed with a 25-yard Bradley to Jermaine Henderson touchdown pass to tie the score 17-17. After a failed fake punt by JSU, Bradley hit Jaron Dabney on a 50-yard screen pass. Then Bradley scored from the one-yard line to put SHSU up 23-17. But the extra point attempt was wide. When Jacksonville scored to tie the game 23-23 with 6:03 remaining, Kevin Mohr blocked the Gamecocks' extra point to keep the game deadlocked. Facing third down and 14 from his own 16-yard line, Bradley turned a busted play into a 50-yard gain as he passed to Henderson again. That set up the winning field goal by St. Peter.
Following the game, Bradley was named Southland Football League "Offensive Player of the Week."
The Bearkats travel to Nacogdoches for a 2 p.m. game this Saturday against rival Stephen F. Austin, before returning home for games against Troy State and McNeese.
VOLLEYBALL SQUAD RETURNS HOME THIS WEEK
The Sam Houston State volleyball team returns to Johnson Colisleum this Thursday and Friday as the Bearkats play host to Northwestern State and Louisiana-Monroe, respectively, in a pair of Southland Conference matches. Both matches will begin at 7 p.m. Sam Houston State lost to Texas-San Antonio 15-2 15-4 15-4 in San Antonio on Friday and to Southwest Texas State 15-2 15-4 15-9 in San Marcos on Saturday. Sam Houston State is 2-15 for the season and 1-8 in Southland Conference action.
GOLFERS HEAD TO ARKANSAS, LUFKIN
Both the Sam Houston State men's and women's golf teams will be in action on Monday and Tuesday (Oct. 16-17) as the fall intercollegiate golf schedule nears its completion. The women's team travels to the Arkansas-Little Rock Invitational at Maumelle Country Club in Maumelle, Ark. Sam Houston State placed seventh in its last tournament, the Arkansas Razorback Invitational, Oct. 2-3. Vicky Resnick leads the women golfers with a 79.1 stroke average. SHSU won the Lamar Cardinal Invitational Sept. 25-26 in Beaumont.The men's golf team travels to Lufkin for the annual SFA Crown Colony Classic at Crown Colony Golf Course. Freshman Jon Antunes and sophomore Ryan Polzin continue to lead the Bearkats with stroke averages of 72.6 and 72.9 respectively. The men opened the season by winning the Nebraska Fairway Club Invitational Sept. 11-12, then finished eighth at the SMU Stonebridge Shootout and ninth at the Colorado State Ram Invitational.
CROSS COUNTRY AT TEXAS A&M
The Sam Houston State men's and women's cross country teams travel to the Texas A&M Invitational at College Station Friday in the Bearkats' final meet before the Southland Conference Championships Oct. 30 at Nacogdoches. In their last competition at Oklahoma State, the women were led by Kacey Phillips who placed 24th with a time of 18:55 in the women's 5000 meter race and the men were paced by Tony Vining who finished 64th with a clocking of 26:35 in the men's 8000.
TENNIS TEAM BEGINS COMPETITION
Rain ended the competition before its completion Saturday, but the Sam Houston State women's team rolled up several impressive victories in its first competition of the fall season at the University of North Texas Invitational in Denton.Ivette Andrade, who earned Southland Conference "Newcomer of the Year" honors last season, reached the flight one third place finals with a three set victory over Brandi Mathews of Northwestern State. SHSU freshman Kim Gardiner defeated Jessica Beauchene in three sets to qualify for the flight two fifth place finals. Another freshman, Stephanie Sutton, defeated Megan Taylor of McNeese to make the flight three third place finals. The Bearkats will play in their second of four fall tournaments this Friday and Saturday at the Stephen F. Austin Invitational in Nacogdoches.
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Oct. 8, 2000
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