October 12, 2015
VOLLEYBALL: JACKSON, Miss. (10/10/15) - Playing for the first time since Tuesday night, the East Texas Baptist University volleyball team claimed a straight-set win at Belhaven University on Saturday afternoon inside of Rugg Arena. Set scores for ETBU were 25-15, 25-15 and 25-6. With the non-conference victory, ETBU pushes to 16-3 overall, while Belhaven slips to 7-13 this season.
ETBU opened the match with a .229 team attacking percentage in set one, but Belhaven hit exactly .000 with 10 hitting errors in that set alone. In the second set, ETBU dropped slightly to a .225 hitting percentage, but Belhaven committed seven attack errors in posting a .061 hitting percentage in set two. Mallory Sanders had the set-sealing kill for ETBU. The third and ultimately final set saw ETBU hit .529 with zero attack errors, while Belhaven sunk to a -.074 attacking percentage with eight hitting errors.
Sanders led all players with nine kills, while Reighanna Guzman paced ETBU with 15 assists. Bailee Moore chipped in a half dozen kills. For Belhaven, Kelly Aholt had a match-high 21 assists, while Jackie Gunderson had a match-best 14 digs.
ETBU competes against LeTourneau University on Tuesday night, October 13th, for senior day in the final home match of the year at 7:00 p.m.
#TIGERSWIN: Soccer Rallies To Upend Louisiana College, 2-1
SOCCER (M): MARSHALL, Texas (10/10/15) - Trailing by a 1-0 margin after 75 completed minutes of play, the East Texas Baptist University men's soccer team scored twice during the closing 15 minutes in regulation to top Louisiana College, 2-1, on Saturday afternoon at Cornish Field. The victory moves ETBU to 2-9 overall and 2-2 within American Southwest Conference match play. Louisiana College goes to 1-11 this season and 0-5 in ASC competition.
Deep into the 76th minute, Brett Forbus served a ball from the near-side corner and teammate Danilo Martins finished with a kick into the back of the net to tie match at a goal apiece. Later on during the 88th minute, Pablo Jaimes sent a corner kick from the far side into the Louisiana College box, and teammate Pedro Guerra headed in the ball for what proved to be the decisive goal in the match.
Earlier on during the run of play, Louisiana College struck first in the 16th minute. Charging upfield toward the ETBU goal, Daniel Delva met sliding ETBU goalkeeper Juan Perales. The ball bounced away out of Perales' grasp, and Delva continued rushing ahead and kicked in the ball to put Louisiana College in the lead, 1-0.
In all, ETBU fired off 35 shots, including 13 shots on-goal. Louisiana College goalkeeper Nathan Gautreaux made 11 saves.
ETBU is on the road for the next match at 7 p.m. on Thursday at No. 13-ranked Texas Dallas.
Soccer Earns Second-Straight Victory, Bests Louisiana College, 2-1
SOCCER (W): MARSHALL, Texas (10/10/15) - In a matchup between American Southwest Conference programs, the East Texas Baptist University women's soccer team prevailed over Louisiana College, 2-1, on Saturday afternoon at Cornish Field. With the second-consecutive win in as many afternoons, ETBU improves to 4-7 overall and 3-2 in ASC matches. Louisiana College falls to 3-11 this season and 0-5 within ASC competition.
All three goals in the match were scored within a 16-plus-minute span during the first half. In the early moments of the 22nd minute, Nathalia Lomax kicked in a deflection inside the Louisiana College box to make it a 1-0 lead for ETBU. Kristyn Alfaro and Heather Brady each were credited with an assist on the goal.
Later on during the opening half, Erin Miller dribbled toward the Louisiana College goal and then sent a high feed across the middle. Amber Campbell headed in Miller?s high pass near the left side of the box for a 2-0 ETBU edge in the 31st minute. Louisiana College would slice deficit to a single goal in the 38th minute. Following a foul assessed against ETBU, Shannon French softly served the free kick into the ETBU box, and teammate Jayme Harmon finished with a kick to put Louisiana College on the board.
ETBU completed the match with a 21-to-6 advantage in shots, including a 12-to-3 edge in shots on-goal. Christina Salas made a pair of saves in net for ETBU, while Haley Clark stopped 10 shots in goal for Louisiana College.
ETBU competes next on the road against ASC opponent Texas Dallas at 5 p.m. on Thursday.
Slow Start Dooms ETBU at Home
FOOOTBALL: MARSHALL, Texas (10/10/15) - A sluggish start by the East Texas Baptist University football team led to a 55-27 loss to Texas Lutheran University. ETBU fell behind 17-0 by the beginning of the second quarter and had to play from behind the rest of the night.
ETBU had only 253 yards of total offense and was led by Jourdan McNeill's three rushing touchdowns and 65 yards rushing. Kendall Roberson added 42 yards rushing. Tyler Bates caught only three passes for 47 yards. Josh Warbington was 17-of-25 with an interception for 162 yards.
Scoring on their first two possessions of the game for a 10-0 lead, Texas Lutheran's offense had control the entire game. ETBU threatened on their first possession when they were trailing, 7-0, driving to the Bulldog's 12-yard line but didn't convert at fourth-and-one. Dominic Haggerty put ETBU in great field position after he took the kickoff back 76-yards to the Texas Lutheran 21-yard line. Four plays later, Texas Lutheran stopped an ETBU fourth-and-one and took over on downs. They then marched 88 yards to the ETBU 13-yard line and finished with a 30-yard field goal making it 10-0. On Texas Lutheran's first possession of the second quarter they made it 17-0 when they went 87 yards for a touchdown.
From that point on ETBU could not match the Bulldogs offensive power. ETBU punched in their first touchdown with 11:22 left in the second quarter from eight-yards out on McNeill's first touchdown of the night. After Texas Lutheran made a field goal at the 4:20 mark, ETBU responded with their own drive. They went 12 plays and 68-yards ending with McNeill's second touchdown as 1:13 was left to play cutting the lead to six, 20-14. That is all the closer ETBU would get as Texas Lutheran would score 35 points in the second half. ETBU would go scoreless in the third quarter and then add 13 points in the fourth quarter.
Sam Williams had a defensive highlight in the fourth quarter with a pick-6. He grabbed an interception at their own four-yard line and jetted 96 yards for a touchdown. That score made it 41-20 with 10:58 left to play. Five minutes later McNeill scooted in from two yards out for his third touchdown of the day.
ETBU finished with 253 yards of total offense while Texas Lutheran had 649 yards of total offense. ETBU's defense did have three interceptions with picks by Williams, Garrett Gibson, and Marcus Harris.
ETBU travels to Brownwood, Texas, next Saturday facing Howard Payne University at 2:00 p.m. in American Southwest Conference play.
Men's Cross Country Competes At Mississippi College
CROSS COUNTRY (M): JACKSON, Miss. (10/10/15) - Although they did not have enough participants to have an official score as a team, the East Texas Baptist men's cross country team still left a mark at the Watson Ford Invitational at Mississippi College. Only four runners took part for ETBU at the 8k event Friday afternoon as Landon Price was the top runner.
Competing with 114 other runners in a meet that featured some of the top Division I and Non-Division I teams, Price led the way once again by clocking in with a time of 28:19, good enough for a 52nd place finish. Ian Spencer followed behind with a 78th place finish at a time of 29:16. Beau Billings finish his race in 111th place at a time of 31:30. Seth Powers rounded out the quartet of ETBU runners with a time of 33:38 and a 125th place finish.
The men will continue their season by traveling to Irving, Texas to take part in the University of Dallas Invitational this Saturday at 10 a.m.
Women's Cross Country Competes At Mississippi College
CROSS COUNTRY (W): JACKSON, Mississippi (10/10/15) - Competing in a field of 158 runners from Division I and Non-Division I schools, the East Texas Baptist women's cross country team came away with a 9th place finish out of 14 Division II and Division III teams by tallying up 250 points. The women finished 89 points behind Wiley College, but did finish 34 points ahead of Millsaps.
Shelby Taylor once again led the women's squad and cracked the top 20 by placing 17th place and clocking in at 24:36. Chloe Hudson would check in at 73rd place at a time of 27:30. Shelby Sparks came in with a time of 28:14 that was good enough for 89th place. Seven spots later was Megan Merrill, who crossed at 28:42. Hannah Crisp (106) and Courtney Stevens (107) came in four seconds apart with 29:54 and 29:58 times respectively. Vicky Gutierrez (33:57) and Caroline Lowe (39:00) rounded out the group with 128th and 145h places respectively.
ETBU will continue their season with a trip to Irving, Texas to take part in the University of Dallas Invitational.