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heads to England Elkington, a native of Great Britain, recently re-

for new players. turned from his homeland with three English

By Mike Koehler Phoenix Sports Editor

signees. "They're excellent, very

- high level players," Howe When you haven't got said. "They'll be the build-

any players, you'll go to ing block for our team. any lengths to get some. Taking a page out of the

Even across the Atlantic Bacone women's basket- Ocean. ball team's book, which re

Bacone's soccer pro- built its program around gram, which begins its players from Brazil, Howe first season later this said the soccer team will months, will start with a use the English players as core of players from Eng- a nucleus of the team,

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adding Oklahomans to the roster to support them.

"We sold them on coming to America," Howe said. "There are a lot more oppor-tunities. My assistant came here and he doesn't want to leave."

The English players also bring a higher level of play than might typically be found on a junior college team. Most of the players

were close to signing profes-sional contracts before sign-ing instead with Bacone.

"We're going to build around them and that will give the other players a good boost," Howe said. "Soccer is a passion in England. It's a different level of play."

The men's team has a full slate of 20 players going into the start of practice. The Warriors will begin drills on Aug. 14, with their first game on Sept. 4.

Howe is still looking to fill out the women's roster. The Lady Warriors' first game is even sooner, on Aug. 29, but the team is still coming to-gether.

"On the women's side it was a little bit more difficult to recruit them, because there are not as • many women out there," Howe said.

But, that team will also have a foreign core. Howe has lined up a player from

the Nigerian national team as well as a player from Ger-many.

Even women's basketball coach Cletus Green is lend- ing a hand. Green leaves soon for a recruiting trip to Brazil and has told Howe he plans to talk to his contacts about soccer players.

"It's tough with us getting a late start," Howe said. "But I feel like next year, we'll be on a level playing field. That's a plus."

Bacone women win first-ever soccer game From Phoenix staff reports

CONCORDIA, Kan. - The first-ever soccer game in Bacone College history was a rally of a success.

The Lady Warriors trailed 2-0 early, but came back to beat Cloud County 5-2 Tuesday afternoon in the school's first-ever soc-cer game.

Cloud County went up 2-0 early as Bacone was suffering from jitters, coach Matt Howe said.

"But the second half, we took over," Howe said. "We dominated. They didn't expect us coming."

The Lady Warriors got three goals from fresh-man Janice Roley. Marri ana Santos - who also plays basketball - added another and Tiffany Kin-sey - who also is a cheer-leader - scored Bacone's final goal.

Things didn't look good early for the Lady War-riors.

Bacone arrived to the game late and had just 25 minutes to warm up. The Lady Warriors also had

just one substitute. Howe attributed the

team's comeback to three-a-day practices in the bru-tal Oklahoma heat.

"We never ran out of steam, and we never quit," Howe said. "Toward the end of the game, they got tired and we weren't."

Roley's three goals came on breakaway op-portunities.

She scored the game-winner early in the second half.

"They all played great," Howe said. "It feels good to open with a win, and it's a great morale booster.

"This is how I look at it - in ORU's (Oral Roberts University) first season, they had one recruit and scored just one goal the whole year. We have a great core of recruits, and we won our first game."

The women's next game is Monday at Northern at 3 p.m.

The men's team will play their first-ever game Friday at Hatbox Field against Barkley at 4 p.m.

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Matt Howe has been named as the first head soccer coach at Bacone College — as the school continues to add new athletic programs.

Just over a week af-ter Bacone introduced David Ross as the

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• Former Broken Arrow star takes over program.

school's first football coach, Howe joins the athletic de-partment. Bacone plans to start both men's and women's soccer this fall.

Howe played profession-al soccer for the Tulsa Roughnecks in 1996 and 1997 after four years play-ing at Oral Roberts Uni-versity.

Howe, who is just 26, played on the high school level at Broken Arrow, where he was a member of the All-State team and set

Nev Bacone soccer coach Matt Howe said scholarships are available for both men's and women's players. Any play-er interested should contact Howe at 683-4581, ext. 287.

a Class 5A single-season scoring record with 24 goals.

Most recently, Howe was an assistant coach at Bro-

ken Arrow and head coact) of the Broken Arrow Ex-press Soccer Club.

"It's an exciting time to take on this position," said Howe. "Bacone is growing and there are plenty of ex-cellent soccer players right here in Muskogee."

Recruiting for the team begins immediately.

"We'll have a preseason in August and then begin a regular 20-game season in early September," Howe said. "I'm starting a little

behind as far as recruit-ment goes for this first sea-son, but as word gets out, we should have no problem getting both a men's and women's team together for this fall. There's that much interest in soccer around here."

Bacone will compete as an independent team dur-ing its first year, playing against schools like North-ern, Rose State and other teams in Kansas and Texas.

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Bacone women's soccer team rallied from a 2-1 halftime deficit en route to dominating Allen County Community Col-lege on Wednesday.

The Lady Warriors (8-4) trailed two different times before taking the lead for good 14 minutes into the second half.

Allen County scored just five minutes into the game. Fort Gibson's Ruby Garza tied it 21 minutes later on a breakaway goal, but Allen County coun-tered 10 minutes later for a 2-1 halftime lead.

Bacone was playing with 11 players for the first time in three games.

"I think there was an adjustment of learning how to play with 11 again," Bacone coach Matt Howe said. "It took us a little while to work things

out." Janice Roley tied the

game just five minutes in-to the second half on a 30-yard strike. Nine minutes later, Muskogee's Deann Weidel scored the game winner and gave the Lady Warriors their first lead of the game.

It took just three min-utes for Bacone to score again as Garza tallied her second goal of the match. Roley added another goal, this time from 25 yards out, on a direct kick.

Kewanna Maxwell scored the game's final goal with 15 minutes left.

"We played a lot better in the second half" Howe said. "We're still making mental mistakes that are costing us goals, though. But the second half, that's the way we left off before we lost some of our play-ers."

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Baconv is proof even little schools can realize big dreams. VVith an ambitious plan to reach four-year status, the Barone junior college has more than tripled its enroll-ment and become a soccer power right off the bal.

-We've started a lot of sports in an effort to boost en-rollment and give students more things to do on campus," sLi d coach Matt Howe. "We went in that direction and it w(irked. We're growing by leaps and i)ounds and going NA1A is in the works."

Howe's Trien's soccer team entered the week with an • 11-5-1 record after having been ranked as high as 24th nation-ally, "RAC WOrnell arc 9-5 and have been ranked as high as 14th. Not had for a school that never had a whiff of the sport until this season.

"1 started in March to put togeth, team," said Howe, a

basically right out of high school, but I've got a tot of good players and speed is a big factor.

It was tough selling y thing that was not here..., sold it on the vision of our IM ogram."'

Notes: The Tulsa worn, wrapped up second in \VAC with a 5.2 record, their best finish ever. Ranked 10th fl the Central Region, TIJ

receive a first-round bye in the WAC tournament Nov. 215 in Fresno, Calt

TU junior Melissa McCor mick has six assists and needs one more to tie the shoalsingle-season record. She's al- so moved into 12th on the ca-reer ,scoring list with 42 points. She has 10 assists and needs one more to rank in the career top 10. Her 16 goals rank 12th.

Robbie Aristodemo ha, moved into fifth on the Tu men's career assist list with

-With the men I have a 21. His 59 points rank I! Eli strong 11 and I don't have a Ed, Dominguez, who has 62 junior college level learn," he points, is one point shy of said. "My players are older ninth On t he career scoring and more experienced than list. TU is ranked 10th in the those right out of high school. Midwest Region. 'They could play for any team in Oklahoma. My women Iry See standings on 13-4

former Broken Arrow assistant coach. "1 was recruiting for two teams and didn't have a lot of time to do it. I got two guys from England, one from Brazil and two Mexicans. Rub-en Mendoza is the leading goal scorer in the nation with 27. Janice Roley is the wom-en s leading goal scorer with more than 30, -

Much of 1k we teams has been stocked ny Tulsa-area players. Ben Bas- from Union is the goalkeeper with Howe's brother, Sean, coming in from Broken Arrow, Troy Arnold from Bixby transferred in from St. Edwards in ,,,\Astin, Texas, Josh McElroy is from Broken Arrow and Ryan Bush from Sand Springs.

Besides Roley, area women Players include Kew tuna Max well from Union, Heather Kel-logg horn Jenks and Whitney Rooks from Mannford. Howe has one girl from Germany to supply his international flavor.

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Playing with just 10, the Bacone women's soc-cer team fell to Neosho Community College on Wednesday, 1-0.

The Lady Warriors had more than 20 shots, while Neosho had just one.

But Neosho's lone shot was the game winner with less than one

minute left. "We dominated," Ba-

cone coach Matt Howe said. "But it was just one of those days."

Bacone has been play -ing with no subs this sea-son, but has played the last two games with just 10 players as one player left with a family emer-gency.

The Lady Warriors fall to 6-3 with the loss.

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Mountain View no match for Bacone

Mountain View finished with six players and Ba-cone finished with eight goals as the Warriors' soccer team moved to 6-2 on the year on Friday.

Bacone turned a 1-1 game into an 8-1 blowout as four Mountain View players received red cards, and the game end-ed with 10 minutes left when a Mountain View player was injured. Soc-cer rules state a game cannot continue with less than seven players.

Reuben Mendoza took a pass from Darren Haka-mi and scored just 28 seconds into the game for a quick 1-0 lead. Moun-tain View answered nine minutes later to tie the game.

But that's when the carnage began. At the 21:10 mark, a Mountain View player received a red card for punching a Bacone player.

In the women's game, Bacone dominated Moun-tain View in a 15-0 win. The Lady Warriors im-proved to 4-1 on the sea-son.

It didn't take Bacone long to score as Tomica Maxwell scored on a re-bound less than five min-utes in. The Lady War-riors then scored two more goals 32 seconds apart for a quick 3-0 lead.

Goalie Amber Back recorded her second straight shutout and didn't face a shot.

Heather Kellog, Lisa Mounts, Ruby Garza and Whitney Rooks added goals for Bacone, while Janice Roley,

Bacone's leading scor-er, added four goals. Muskogee's Deann Wei-del added two, as did Maxwell.

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The Bacone College women's soccer team erased an early 1-0 deficit to dominate Neosho County Com-munity College 8-1 Wednesday afternoon at Hatbox Field.

The Lady Warriors moved to 4-1 in their first-ever soccer season.

Neosho scored nine minutes into the game on a Bacone mistake.

The Lady Warriors failed to clear the bail on defense, leading to the goal.

But the Lady War-riors responded just one minute later when Ke wanna Maxwell scored to tie it at 1-1.

Bacone played into a stiff, 20 mph wind in the first half, but man-aged to control the ball and the tempo.

Janice Roley gave the Lady Warriors the lead for good seven minutes before half on a pass from Muskogee's Deann Weidel.

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"The goal we gave up you never want to

give up goals on mis-takes like that," Bacone coach Matt Howe said. "But we controlled the ball against the win and did some good things."

It didn't take long for the Lady Warriors to strike in the second half with the wind at their backs.

Whitney Rooks un-leashed a bomb from 40 yards out just three minutes into the second half as Bacone opened up a 3-1 lead. It was the first of six goals in the second half.

Roley, Bacone's lead-ing scorer, added two more goals for a hat trick. Maxwell scored Bacone's sixth goal.

Weidel and Heather Kellogg both scored goals as well for the La-dy Warriors.

Bacone plays Hill College at 5 p.m. on Fri-day at Hatbox Field.

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In its first-ever season, substitutes this season.

"The fact that we step Bacone College's women's out there with no subs soccer team has made and are able to compete is some huge strides. And amazing," Howe said. now, the Lady Warriors "We've lost two games, have added one more but we've beat some good achievement to their ever- teams, and that's why growing list, a spot in the we're ranked." National Junior College Bacone's Janice Roley, Athletic Association poll. from Tulsa, leads the na

Bacone, 6-2 on the year, tion in scoring this sea- cracked the latest NJCAA son with more than 20 poll at No. 14, it was an- goals. nounced on earlier this Howe, a Broken Arrow week. graduate who played at

"I was surprised," Ba- Oral Roberts University, cone coach Matt Howe also coaches the men's said. "To be ranked or to team. The Warriors boast

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Bacone women improve to 2-0

Bacone's women's soccer team picked up its second win in as many games Friday, shutting out Richland, Texas, 2-0.

The Lady Warriors got goals from Janice Roley and Kejuana Maxwell.

Goalkeeper Amber Back had the shutout.

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JUCO SOCCER Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2001

The Bacone College men's and women's soccer te ins re-ceived a boost when Ja es Pe-ters joined the coachi g staff on Monday.

Peters, who will se e as a graduate assistant head coach Matt Howe, coin to Ba-cone from Nigeria. He s rved in numerous positions or the Nigeria Football Ass iation, including the assista t chief coach to the Nigerian ational

also has attended coaching courses in Germany, Brazil and Egypt.

"This is big, very big," Howe said. "To have his experience here is good for the players and good for me. And that's the most exciting part for me."

Peters was the assistant chief coach of Super Eagles when the team qualified for the World Cup in 1998. He also is the first indigenous coach to win the silver medal in the Na-

tions Cup in 1984. Before com-ing to Bacone, Peters served as the deputy director of the Nige-ria Football Association. Peters came to Bacone College be-cause he wanted to come and work in the United States. He heard of Bacone from a former player who lives in Tulsa. He is currently taking classes at Ba-cone.

"This is a good place, and I like it," Peters said. "There is some good talent on both teams."

Peters is a former player for the Super Eagles, but got his start in coaching after an in-jury cut his playing career short in 1973, after just two years.

"The coach saw potential of a good coach in me and pushed me that way," Peters said.

He started attended coaching clinics and received his diplo-ma in football coaching. He now holds the highest level coaching diploma.

"I don't know of any college

at any level that has this set up," Howe said. "We're an NA-. IA school and we have a Niger-ian National Team coach with the potential to bring in the elite Nigerian National play-ers. I don't see any reason why we can't be dubbed one of the most elite programs now. It on-ly gets better from here."

Bacone will hold a small spring soccer schedule starting at the end of March.

And Peters is ready. "I can't wait," he said.

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By Jennifer Green Phoenix Staff Writer

James Peters visited dozens of countries throughout the world as part of his job as technical director for the Nigerian Football Association.

But the new Bacone College assistant soccer coach has spent most of his time in warm places.

His first impression of Muskogee was not good.

"The cold was too much for me," Peters said.

Peters, 48, arrived in Muskogee during a cold snap

"Everybody treats me like a brother or sister," he said. (Continued from Page 5)

"There is no discrimina-tion."

Head soccer coach Matt Howe recruited Peters.

The two shared a home on campus the first few months.

Howe said he and Peters experienced a few cultural differences. Peters speaks perfect British English, but he has a looser sense of time than Howe. He is sometimes late for appoint-ments.

But Howe said he is thrilled to be working with a coach of Peters' caliber. Peters has connections with World Cup national teams throughout the world.

"This guy at this level is not supposed to be here," he said.

Howe began recruiting Peters after a friend and fellow coach in Ohio told him his school did not have the budget to recruit Peters.

The paperwork took

in February. But in the five months since he moved, the weather has improved. He has grown fond of his new home.

He particularly loves the peacefulness. He was used to traffic and crowds of the Nigerian capital city of Abuja. The city has a little less than half a million people.

"I like that this is a quiet area," he said. "I like the envi-ronment."

Peters also loves the family atmosphere on campus.

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about six months to com-plete.

But since Peters has been here, he has had little trou-ble fitting in.

"I think I've been really lucky," he said. "Everything has gone smoothly."

He plans to take classes at the school in the fall.

Recently, Peters' wife, Tera, and three small chil-dren have joined him. The children include Roosevelt, 4, and twins Daniel and Danielle, 2. They are wait-ing for an older child, Roy, 18, to join them.

Howe has surrendered the house to the family.

They haven't had to deal with the cold. But they have suffered significant jet lag.

Peters can't wait until they adjust so he can show them around.

"Muskogee is a good place," he said.

You can reach reporter Jennifer Green at 684-2903 or jgreen@muskogeep-hoenix.com .

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The Bacone College women's soccer team fell behind quickly, but battled back to down Hill College 5-3 on Tuesday in Dallas.

Hill scored two minutes into the game, but Ba-cone's Marianne Lindpevit answered with a pair of goals to give the Lady Warriors a 2-1 halftime lead. Lindpevit would add another goal for a hat trick, and they never trailed again although Hill managed to tie twice.

"We didn't play our best game," Bacone coach Matt Howe said. "It was one of those games where you sink and play to their level. But any win on the road is good."

The Lady Warriors im-prove to 8-3 in their final tune up before Red River Athletic Conference play begins. Bacone will play three conference games in four days, starting with a road game at College of the Southwest in Hobbs, N.M. on Saturday at 3 p.m.

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The Bacone College vol-leyball team, riding a three-game winning streak, jumps back into action tonight when it hosts the College of the Ozarks tonight at the Palmer Center at 7 p.m.

The Lady Warriors, 13-20 on the season, have seven matches left this season, including tonight's. As the season has progressed - the first volleyball season in school history - Bacone has gotten better.

"We've been playing well the last two weeks," Bacone coach Jessica Biltoft said. "Hopefully, we can continue that lev-el of play." Bacone beat Central Bible College in four games on Saturday, 30-22, 30-28, 27-30 and 30-14.

Biltoft said her team played extremely well over the weekend.

"We had an outstand-ing blocking game," Biltoft said. "We've been playing our best volley-ball of the year over the last three games."

Bacone will host NCAA Division II Southeastern on Saturday at 2 p.m.

I First place in the Red River Athletic Conference is on the line when Ba-cone travels to North-wood University today in a pair of soccer matchups.

The Bacone men's soc-cer team is 9-1-1 on the season and undefeated in the conference. North-wood also is undefeated n the conference.

The Bacone women's soccer team is 9-4 overall and is 2-1 in the confer-ence. Northwood is unde-feated, but the Lady War-riors would forge a three-way tie should they win today.

"These are the biggest games of the season so far," Bacone coach Matt Howe said. "Both North-wood teams are the teams to beat in the Red River, and they have a history of winning the conference."

Both teams are coming off big wins over the Uni-versity of Texas-Permian Basin over the weekend.

The Lady Warriors won 7-0, and the Warriors won 5-1, turning a close game into a rout in the second half. Bacone's Troy Arnold scored with five minutes left in the first half to give the Warriors a 1-0 lead going into inter-mission. But Permian Basin had two players ejected in the second half, letting Bacone get the win.

"They lost two key posi-tions, and from there it was over," Howe said. "We had numbers and took advantage of it."

Both teams will then travel to Winfield, Kan., to play Southwestern Col-lege on Saturday starting at 2 p.m.

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nen's soccer team took control )f the Red River Athletic Con-Cerence with a thrilling 3-2 win ver Northwood University on Fuesday. The Warriors battled osti!e conditions and survived

playing a man down to rally from a 2-0 deficit to nab the win.

"They were a really, really good team," Bacone coach Matt Howe said. "They were tough, ind we played in a hostile envi-ronment."

Northwood took a 1-0 lead

midway through the first half and made it 2-0 early in the second before Bacone made its move.

With 15 minutes left in the game and darkness creeping in, Bacone's Matt Dixon scored to cut the deficit to 2-1 as the Warriors were playing with just 10 men after one player got two yellow cards.

And then, with just two min-utes left, Darren Hakami took a pass from Fort Gibson's Jason Moon and tied the match.

In the first overtime, in

which neither team scored, Northwood had a player eject-ed. Minutes later, Bacone had another player collect his sec-ond yellow card to put the game at 9 vs. 10.

In the second overtime, Ba-cone's Troy Arnold dribbled through the defense and played a pass back to Hakami, who put a shot in the goal on the far post.

In the women's game, North-wood took first place in the con-ference with a 10-3 win. The Lady Warriors are now 9-5.

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Bacone blows out Bethel, 14-0

Bacone's women's soc-cer team rolled to a 14-0 win Saturday over Bethel.

Kewanna Maxwell scored four goals and Janice Rolley three in the Lady Warriors' blowout win.

Bacone improves to 6-0 with the win.

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Bacone women still undefeated

The Bacone women's soccer team gave up their first goal of the year, but remained unbeaten with a 2-1 win over Cisco Junior College on Friday.

Bacone got goals early in both halves to gain the win.

The Lady Warriors struck first, 10 minutes into the game, on a goal by Madeline Bjornsen. Cisco countered with a goal to tie it at 1-1 16 minutes later.

Bjornsen struck five minutes into the second half to conclude the scor -ing.

Bacone improves to 5-0 with the win and plays today at home at 2 p.m.

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The Bacone women's soccer team suffered its first loss of the season against NCAA Division II powerhouse Central Ok-lahoma on Sunday.

The Lady Bronchos scored threo times in the first 10 minutes and nev-er looked back en route to a 4-1 win.

All of the scoring took place in the first half. It was the third game in three days for the Lady Warriors.

"They're ranked in the top 20 in Division II, and the game was a lot clos-er than the score indi- cates," Bacone coach Matt Howe said. "We did very well considering that this was our third straight game. Any other day, they don't score that many and we score more. We showed today that we can pretty much play with anybody."

Madeline Bjornsen scored the lone goal for the Lady Warriors.

Bacone is now 6-1 and will play at NCAA Divi-sion I Oral Roberts on

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From Phoenix staff reports Playing against the best teams, yoir schedule will help recruit the best

The Bacone College women's soccer players." team has been dominating its opposi- Oral Roberts and Bacone have tion so far. At 6-1, the Lady Warriors one common opponent - Central have outscored their opponents 60-5. Oklahoma. ORU beat UCO in over- Their only loss was to NCAA Division • time. II Top 20 team Central Oklahoma, a "I've been told they're very aggres- game which was their third in three sive, very physical," Howe said. "It'll days. be a high work rate for 90 minutes."

But now Bacone will step up to an The game is also of special signifi- even higher level of competition - cance to Howe. Howe graduated from NCAA Division I Oral Roberts Uni- ORU and was a four-year starter and versity. Bacone will play at ORU at left as the school's all-time leading 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday. scorer.

The game wasn't on either team's would mean a lot to go there and • original schedule. But ORU lost a play and have success," Howe said. game after the tragic terrorist attacks "There's more to it to me than just

. in New York City and Washington, showing up and playing a Division I D.0 n Sept. 11. school."

"They called us and wanted to see if we could fill in a game for them," Ba-cone coach Matt Howe said. "And there was no question whether we'd

. play them. These are the kinds of . teams we want to play. Any time we . .

can play a Division I team, we well. I'm not trying to hide and shelter my .

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The Oral Roberts Uni-versity women's soccer team collected their fourth win on the season with a 3-1 victory over Bacone College on Wednesday in Tulsa.

Chelsea LoFranco, Hei- di Ritze and Jodi Kirkhuff provided the scoring for the Golden Eagles as ORU improves their record to 4-3 on the sea-son.

The Lady Warriors suf-fered their second straight loss and are now 6-2 on the season.

Bacone's next action is Oct. 6 when it travels to Chanute, Kan. to take on

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Bacone begins conference tournament today

By Kenton Brooks Phoenix Sports Writer

At first glance, the records of Bacone College's soccer teams are not that impressive. The women are 7-7-3 and the men are 6-7-4.

Coach Derek Larkin, though, sees both squads riding a crest of momentum as they begin play in the Red River Athletic Conference Tournament.

Bacone women host North-wood University of Dallas, Texas at 1 p.m. today, while the men travel to Laredo, Texas Wednesday to play Texas A&M International at 2:30 p.m.

"We came around and played well in conference," Larkin said. "Things have started to come together for us toward the end of the regular season."

Bacone's women, the No. 2 seed in the tournament, tied Northwood 0-0 at the end of the regular season. Northwood

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cone women, Tuesday, 1 p.m. •Bacone men at Texas A&M In-

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has been ranked in the Nation-al Association of Intercolle-giate Athletics Top 20 all sea-son and is 14-2.

"Getting that tie was huge for us," Larkin said. "It gave us homefield advantage against

one of the top teams in the country."

Bacone is the defending con-ference and conference tourna-ment champion. Emily Nichol-son leads the Lady Warriors with nine goals.

"We've been under this type of pressure before," Larkin said. "We're comfortable in this situation."

For the Bacone men, their regular season ended late last week with a 3-1 win against Wiley College in Marshall,

Texas. In a win against North-wood, Darren Hakami had two goals and an assist.

"If things come together for the guys, Darren gets hot and some of the other guys step up, we have a chance to get to the regional tournament," Larkin said.

Ruben Mendoza leads the Warriors with 12 goals.

Bacone's teams have to win two games in the conference tournament to advance to the regional tourneys later this

week. "I think we have as good a

shot as anybody," Larkin said. "I feel like we're the team to beat in both the men and women. Basically, both teams are four games away from go-ing to the national tourna-ments."

Both national tournaments will be during the Thanksgiv-ing weekend with the men at Kansas City, Mo., and the women at Santa Barbara, Calif.

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Misses cost Warriors tournament By Kenton Brooks Phoenix Sports Writer

Bacone College's women's soccer team had two chances to score and blinked.

A shot by Emily Nickleson hit off the right post and Blame Bowers' follow-up shot soared over the net. The Lady War-riors came up empty and lost 2- 1 to Northwood, Northwood Texas in the 2 Red River Ath- letic Conference Bticone Tournament 1 semifinal game at Bacone Tuesday.

It was the first time for Ba- cone to lose to Northwood in four games over the last two seasons.

"If we put that goal away, maybe it's a different game," Bacone coach Derek Larkin said. "You've got to be able to put things away when you get those opportunities. They did and we didn't."

"If Bacone scores on that, we're going to overtime," North-wood coach Scott Turner said. "That was team defense. It was huge for us to keep them out of our goal. I thought both teams played a quality game. Bacone is a very good team."

Bacone, the defending RRAC regular season and tournament champion, finishes the season at 7-8-3. The Lady Warriors de-feated Northwood 3-2 in over-time to win the conference tour-nament last year at Muskogee.

A week ago, the two teams battled to a 0-0 tie at Northwood.

"To have to come back here and play them at home, it was going to be tough," Larkin said. "It's tough to play them two games in a row. Our girls are upset right now because th exnecthd to Vet all thp way to

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Soccer sweep: NSU over Bacone

TAHLEQUAH - North-eastern State University's soccer teams swept Ba-cone College Wednesday as both teams won by the identical score of 5-0.

NSU's men, 8-2 for the season, got two goals from Sergio Salinas, while Michael Stewart, Herbert Reid and Tony Douglas had one each. NSU had 12 shots on goal to Ba-cone's three. The War rriors slipped to 3-4-2 with the loss.

In the women's game, Aubrey Meeker, Cassie Morrison, Deborah Brere-ton, Charlotte Dinsdale and Michelle Clark scored for the NSU women (6-1). Bacone (4-6) had just two shots on goal.

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Bacone wins in a soccer rout

Andrew Starr and Ruben Mendoza had three goals each Saturday to lift Bacone to a 9-1 vic-tory in men's soccer at Bacone.

Goalie Sidney Anguilley had four saves for the Warriors, now 2-2-1

The Bacone women beat Friends University on Friday in Wichita, Kan., 3- 2 in overtime. Leslie Hon's goal seven minutes into OT on a scramble in front of the goal was the difference. Beth Dyke and Joy Donahue scored the Lady Warriors' goals in regulation. The Lady War-riors are now 3-3.

Both teams are in ac-tion Tuesday at home against Southwestern. The women start play at 2 p.m. and men at 4 p.m.

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Bacone sweeps soccer matches

Bacone College's soc-cer teams swept a double-header Tuesday, beating Southwestern College of Winfield, Kan., as the women won 5-0 and the men took a 5-1 victory.

In the women's win, Emily Nickleson, an hon-orable mention All-Ameri-ca selection as a fresh-man last year, scored three goals. Amanda Hedgepath and Stephanie Thompson added a goal each as the Lady Warriors improved to 4-3 for the season.

"Emily found her niche," said Bacone coach Derek Larkin, adding Nickleson had two assists.

Ruben Mendoza scored two goals for the men (3-2-1) as the Warriors scored four goals in the second half. Michael Chewey, Tony Cooper and Roy Peters scored the other goals.

"Tony ignited us with a penalty kids and then we got on track scoring in that second half," said Larkin.

Bacone's women play Southwestern State Friday at 10a.m. and the men play Oklahoma City at noon. Both games are in Oklahoma City.

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CHICKASHA - Ba- cone College's soccer teams lost a doublehead- er to University of Arts and Sciences Oklahoma on Saturday as the women lost 1-0, and men lost 2-0.

The Lady Warriors fall to 4-5 for the season, while the men are 2-3-2.

However, the men tied Oklahoma City 0-0 through double overtime, while the women lost to Southwestern State 3-2 in double overtime in Fri-day's action.

Bacone returns to the field in another double-header against Northeast-ern State Wednesday in Tahlequah. The women play at 2 p.m. and the men follow at 4 p.m.

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Bacon e hires soccer coach

The Bacone College athletic department has filled in another open po-sition with the hiring of Cedric Sunray as the new men's and women's soc-cer coach.

Sunray brings five years of playing, coaching and administrative experi-ence to Bacone. Most re-cently, Sunray served as the soccer coach, interim basketball coach and ath-letic director at Mary Im-maculate High School in Key West, Fla.

At Mary Immaculate, he revived a sports program that had not had a team in 17 years. The school fielded seven teams and won a conference title in women's basketball and finished second in soft-ball.

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It will be the kind of season opener that probably has never been seen at Bacone College.

When the soccer season kicks off today with the Lady Warriors welcoming Southwestern State at 5 p.m., the atmosphere surrounding the game has the potential to be as exciting as the game.

That's part of the plan first-year men's and women's coach Cedric Sunray has as he's not only trying to build a team, but develop a program.

You don't go to an NBA game and expect to watch just a basketball game, Sunray said. You don't go watch University of Oklahoma play Oklahoma State in Bedlam just to see two football teams on the field. It's the fanfare. The fans care about everything else going on.

That's why Sunray will have a disc jockey playing live music, barbecue for sale, a raffle and a contest where participants get a chance to kick a soccer ball through a goal for prizes as part of the season-opening activities on the Bacone campus.

Sunray's also going to have his players come out on the field in new cars and have the Cherokee drum song played before the game today.

This is a whole new face than what they've seen before, he said. We're letting the other know they are welcome to our field, but this isn't a scrimmage or a high school game.

Jennifer Haught, a two-time National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics All-American, said she and her teammates enjoy Sunray's excitement about the program.

I was close with (Derek) Larkin (Sunray's predecessor) and I liked him a lot, but I already like this guy. He's got a lot of plans, the junior sweeper/center midfielder said. We're going to be nervous for our first

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Haught is part of Sunray's vision for Bacone. He has posters printed with her and Fort Gibson graduate Michael Chewey of the Bacone men's team and they read: Haught n Soul.

She's as tough as they get in women's soccer, Sunray said. She has all of the skills. Jennifer makes all of the right decisions with the ball. We're absolutely ready to start the season.

The Bacone men open their season on Saturday, Sept. 4 against Harris Stowe College in St. Louis. The Warriors' first home game is Sept. 7 against McPherson College.

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A carnival atmosphere surrounded the Bacone Lady Warrior's home open-er soccer match with Southwestern State. Un-fortunately, the result was-n't as exciting as the sur-roundings.

An estimat- SW St ed record 4 crowd of 300 watched . as Baco Southwestern 0 scored two goals and got - two "own goals" from Ba-cone as Southwestern de-feated the Lady Warriors, 4-0.

"I've been involved in a lot of games where a team had one own goal," said La-dy Warrior coach Cedric Sunray. "But, never have I seen a game where two were scored."

Despite the disappoint-ing loss, Sunray used the contest against one of the top teams in the region as a chance to get a good look at all of his players. Sun-ray played all 16 players in at least two positions.

"By the end of the game, we had a fit of where everyone should be," Sun-ray said. "Elizabeth Dyke was all over the place. She made some hard, hard tackles and did what a sen-ior is supposed to do.

"The team looked worn at the end of the match. But when I see 16 players walking off the field out of breath, I know they left everything out there.'

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Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Baconeloses soccer coach

Derek Larkin, Bacone College's men and women's head soccer coach, has accepted a full-time position as the boys head coach for Tulsa's Bishop Kelley High School.

Larkin guided Bacone the past two seasons. In 2002, the Lady Warriors captured the conference ti-tle, and Larkin was named Red River Athletic Confer-ence Coach of the Year.

Assistant coach Bren-dan West has been named active soccer coach while Bacone pre-pares a search for Larkin's replacement.

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Bacone s women's soccer team lost its final regular season game to Texas A&M International on Sunday, 3-1. The Lady Warriors (5-9-3) can still make the postsea-son, depending on how other teams finish the season.

"There's a good chance we could still be in it," coach Cedric Sunray said. "More than likely we will be be-cause (those teams) are struggling right now."

Kim Denman assisted Alli-son Vopal on Bacone's lone goal. International's two free-kick goals in the second half were the difference.

The Bacone men also lost Sunday, 4-1, but not before playing a solid first half that ended 1-1 - Adrian Franco assisted Michael Chewey, who headed the ball in for the Warriors (1-13-1) only goal.

The men play at 3:30 on Thursday against Southwest-ern Assemblies of God.

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Lady Warriors lose in soccer WICHITA, Kan. - Jennifer Haught found the

nets on a 35-yard direct kick in the game's 86th minute, but it wasn't enough for Bacone College to overcome with Newman (Kan.) University as the Lady Warriors lost 2-1 Tuesday at Newman.

The Lady Warriors slipped to 5-8-1 for the sea-son. Newman scored in the game's 79th and 80th minutes.

Bacone men are in action at home Thursday against Wiley at 3 p.m. and then both teams travel to Dallas to play Texas Wesleyan at 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday.

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Lady Warriors battle to draw

FORT WORTH - Ba-cone's Melissa Ward had an outstanding day with 16 saves for the Lady Warriors soccer team.

But unfortunately, the La-dy Warriors couldn't score against Red River Confer-ence mate Texas Wesleyan baffling the hosts to 0-0 tie in double overtime.

"She's the best goalkeep-er in our conference," said Bacone coach Cedric Sun-ray.

The tie drops Bacone to 5-8-2 overall, but Sunray said the Lady Warriors should make the conference playoffs.

However, they may have to compete without Jennifer Sheets, a center/midfielder, for the Lady Warriors who went down early in the sec-ond half with a knee injury.

"She's at the top of a lot of our stats," Sunray said. "Hopefully we will have her back."

While the women fought to a tie, the Bacone men fell, 3-1, on two late second-half goals. The loss gives the Warriors a 1-11-1 record for the season.

Andrew Starr scored the only goal for Bacone at the 60:00 mark in the second half which put Bacone up 1-0.

Both Bacone teams are in action Wednesday against Friends University. The women kickoff at 1 p.m. while the men's game fol-lows at 3 p.m.

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Bacone women sitting on top

The Bacone women's soccer team (5-5-1) defeat-ed Texas-Permian Basin, 4-2, On Sunday. The win ties Bacone for first in the Red River Conference.

Forward Leslee Hon had a goal and an assist, Alli-son Vopal scored two goals and Joy Donoho added the other goal.

"Everything was clicking for us ... some games we have trouble finishing and this wasn't one of those games," coach Cedric Sunray said.

Jennifer Scheetz and Steff any Thompson each had an assist.

The Bacone men (1-8-1) notched an encouraging tie in double overtime. Mario lvos scored the lone goal for the Warriors.

Bacone has five confer-ence games left and needs to win three of those for a playoff berth.

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Bacone falls to No. 23 Phoenix staff reports

ALVA - Despite a booming goal by Eliza-beth Dyke, Bacone College's soccer team lost 3-1 to nationally-ranked Northwestern State on Thursday in collegiate women's action at Northwestern.

Dyke's goal came in the game's 86th minute from midfield that went over the goalie and just under the crossbar.

"It was a blast," Bacone coach Cedric Sun-ray said.

Ranked No. 23 in the National Association Intercollegiate Athletics poll, Northwestern scored twice and led 2-0 at halftime. Jessica Hunter and Christy Foster scored the goals for the Lady Rangers (10-1-1). The Lady War-riors dropped to 5-6-1.

"We had a bunch of chances to score. It was an evenly-fought game," Sunray said. "I can't single out any player for us. Everybody worked hard on the field. There wasn't any quit in them."

Amy Scheuerman scored Northwestern's other goal.

Bacone returns home Saturday to play a Red River Athletic Conference doubleheader against Northwood University. The women play at 1 p.m. and the men (1-8-1) play at 3 p.m.

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MUSKOGEE, Okla. - Cedric Sunray, the new men's and women's soccer coach at Bacone College is expecting nothing less than Red River Conference championships this year. And to win those championships, he will be relying on 10 Cherokee players and two Cherokee trainers.

Sunray, 30, was recently hired by Bacone after moving to Tahlequah. He received job offers from Sequoyah and Tahlequah high schools, but decided to take over the soccer programs at Bacone College since many of his family members are Bacone alumni.

"This school means a lot to my family," he said. "Since the mid 19005 we started coming out here all the way to Bacone to have an opportunity to go to school and come back and teach here. Bacone has a long history on our reservation."

The reservation Sunray speaks of is the MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians near Mount Vernon, Ala. He is a registered citizen of the Choctaw Nation, but also has Cherokee ancestry.

"The whole reason we (his family) came to Tahlequah is to be involved in Indian education and Indian athletics," Sunray said. "One of the greatest joys I ever had was being on the first-year soccer team that Haskell (University in Lawrence, Kan.) ever had. We went 1-10, and it was probably the best soccer year I ever had in my life as far as being around my own folks."

Now as coach, Sunray will be around his "own folks" again because 40 percent of his players are Native with nine tribes being represented between the two teams, but "Cherokees are always the majority."

The six Cherokee players who will help lead the women's team are Hillary Amstutz, Joy Donaho, Elizabeth Dyke, Amanda Hedgpath, Lizzie Lightning and Steffany Jo Thompson. The four Cherokees leading the way for the men's team are Michael Chewey, Cory Parkes, Heath Ritzhaupt and Thomas Smith. The teams' Cherokee trainers are Barbara Beason and Courtney Garner.

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Despite the 12 Cherokees and five other Natives on the team, Sunray said there aren't enough Indians playing soccer today.

"We're completely under-represented in soccer, which is ironic because when we look into the history of soccer, soccer originated here in North America with a similar game originating in Europe," he said. "I guess we're trying to bring it back."

However, he said he is seeing more Native kids playing soccer as the sport grows in America.

"So just through that, automatically, you are going to have more (Native) kids come in and get exposed to the game more and more," he said. "When they come out and see us play, they are going to realize that any stereotype they have about soccer is going to be erased."

And as the number of Natives playing soccer grows, Sunray hopes more of them will look at Bacone as their college of choice.

"This is not the University of Oklahoma. This is not Tulsa. This is much, much deeper than that," he said. "There were (Indian) kids who were sent here in the 188os and who died in this school, who died on the very field that we are playing on right now. So when they come here, I just tell them, aC -You have to reach up and pull those ancestors down to you because every time you come onto this field, you are representing something that was horrific in the beginning, marginal in the middle and hopefully improving now as far as our controlling the Indian education system. This is a traditionally Indian college."

To honor that tradition, the teams might as well be led by Indians. Sunray said he will be relying heavily on Chewey and Ritzhaupt on the men's teams and Hedgpath on the women's teams.

"Both teams are really strong teams," he said. "I'm not saying that because I'm the coach. These teams are tough, tough teams. We brought in five or six players who are excellent athletes, and people are going to have a tough time with us this year. Our system is going to be a little different than what they ran last year. We're going to be an up-tempo team. We just don't want to be knocking the ball around for 45 minutes. We want to push the ball and get the ball into the net."

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Bacone splits soccer games

WINFIELD, Kan. - Ba-cone College's soccer teams split its two games Thursday against South-western University as the women won 8-0, while the men lost 2-1 in double overtime.

The Lady Warriors (2-1) got goals from Steffany Thompson, Allison Vopal, Joy Donaho, Amanda Hedgpath, Kim Denman, Leslee Hon, Jody Clapper and Beth Dyke.

Meanwhile, the men (1-1) had 50 shots on goal including three off the post, while Southwestern had seven shots on goal. Michael Chewey scored the Warriors' lone goal and he got an assist from Adrian Franco.

Bacone returns to ac-tion Saturday when it plays a doubleheader at Oklahoma City University with the women play at 2 p.m. and the men follow-ing at 4 p.m.

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Sunray makes Bacone his home .1.0. Tradition is reason coach selected Warriors.

BY GLENN HIBDON World Sports Writer

Don't offer Cedric Sunray soc-cer coaching jobs at Oklahoma, Oklahoma State or Tulsa. He won't take them. Sunray has found his home, his niche, as coach at Bacone College.

"I've got an invested interest in this place, and this is my final stop. I'm not going anywhere," said Sunray, a member of the Choctaw tribe from Alabama. "The tradition here completely outweighs OSU, OU and the other schools. ... and the tradi-tion is a big attraction for me."

Sunray was hired to coach Ba-cone soccer two weeks before the season started. But his ties to the school go back genera-tions. Sunray said during the 1950s and '60s in Alabama, Indi-ans who sought schooling came to Bacone, including his tribal chief.

"Many members of our com-munity attended Bacone," Sun-

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ray said. "They came from a black and white school system and the few opportunities for In-dians to be educated came at boarding schools. That's why I understand the tradition here."

Even so, Sunray's route to Muskogee was a long one. He played high school soccer in Key West, Fla., then attended five colleges in five years. He signed and was redshirted at Di-vision II Millersville (Pa.), then moved on to play soccer and basketball at Division III Mary-mount.

From Marymount, Sunray trav-elled to Trent in Ontario, Cana-da, for more soccer and basket-ball. Following an injury, Sunray played soccer and basketball at Haskell Indian Nations Universi-ty in Kansas before transferring to Kansas.

He received his master's de-gree from KU.

Sunray was serving as athletic director and coach at Mary Em-

maculate School in Key West, Fla., before landing the job at Bacone. His Warrior women stand 2-3-1 following a 2-2 tie with John Brown, ranked No. 5 in the NAIA.

His men are 1-4 this season. "I brought in a young man

(Mario Ivos) from Croatia who was part of the revolution there. A lot of his family members were lost. To me, he is one of the best human interest stories you could have.

"He survived the holocaust and machine guns pointed at this family to immigrate to To-ronto and then come here to play college ball. He's a phe-nomenal athlete who has fol-lowed an unimaginable course."

The Warriors lost the services of Daniel Hernandez, who was expected to be one of Bacone's standouts. He was found to be academically ineligible.

Sunray said his women's team is loaded with juniors who won a conference championship as freshmen. Now he's looking to-ward the future.

"My wife is Kiowa and she

was raised in Oklahoma. She wanted to live in Tahlequah and put down permanent roots," Sun-ray said.

"And out of the 45 people in our program at Bacone, 16 are tribal members, the highest of any team in the country.

"The athletic department knows who they've got and they know what's going to happen. This is where I'll be, and I'm go-ing to surround myself with peo-ple who are better than me. A coach wants a staff that is more skilled than himself, the absolute best people. You don't need a head coach who knows it all and wants to be a catalyst for every-thing. I'm just another brick in the wall. 1

"This might not be our season to win, but I can assure you in a season from now, there will be a huge difference."

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Double OT loss for Lady Warriors By Ray Rogers

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SOCCER Bacone women's soccer

Women S()thwest 2. Bacone 1

team tried to win its first Men conference game of the Southwest 4. Bacone 0 cost us the game, but I'm season against the Lady proud of my girls for the Mustangs of College of effort. We just need to fo- the Southwest at home said. cus on the little things," on Wednesday.

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some. Lady Warriors picked it up with junior forward

fell to 2-4-1 overall. But Bacone came up

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In the men's game, Ba-cone didn't get on the

losing 2-1. ing the only goal. board all afternoon and The Warriors started The Lady Warriors

had *chances to win but were blanked by South- west, 4-0. The Warriors slow and trailed at half-

time, 1-0. But according were hurt by mental er- fell to 1-5 overall and 0-1 to Bacone coach Cedric rors, particularly on de- in conference. Sunray, that's how he fense, where failure to Next for the Warriors planned it. support in coverage on is BethanKan

College in

Linsberg, ., on Fri- "The first half I want- the back post led to both ed us to play defensively Southwest goals. day, with the women at 3 as opposed to pushing "It was just simple

mental mistakes that p.m. followed by the men at 5 p.m. the ball immediately," he

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Bacone women pick up two wins

LINDSORG, Kan. - Bacone College's soccer teams had a weekend to remember and forget as the women won both of their games and the men lost twice.

The Lady Warriors, now 4-4-1 for the season, de-feated Bethany College 3-1 and Si Tanka 1-0. The men (1-7), meanwhile lost 4-1 and 2-1.

In beating Bethany, Eliz- abeth Dyke scored twice and Jennifer Scheetz added a goal. Allison Vopal and Jennifer Haught had

Freshman Ashley Bux-ton scored the -Lady War-

riors' lone unassisted goal in beating Si Tanka.

The men weren't as for- tunate. Michael Chewey had a goal and Adrian Franco the assist in the loss to Bethany and Heath Ritzhaupt had the only goal against Si Tanka.

Bacone returns to action Tuesday at Oklahoma Christian with the women kicking off at 6 p.m. and the men follow at 8 p.m.