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| MT roundup: Lady Raiders at coaches show; tennis opens |
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Posted: Monday, February 1, 2010 10:29 am
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The Middle Tennessee women's basketball players, coming off a record-breaking 119-51 win Saturday against North Texas, will be in attendance Monday at the weekly Rick Insell LIVE! radio show at Coach's Grill in Murfreesboro.
The weekly show, hosted by Blue Raider play-by-play voice Dick Palmer, is broadcast live from 6-7 p.m. on WMOT-FM (89.5) in Murfreesboro and WBRY AM-FM (1540/96.7) in Woodbury. It also is re-broadcast on WGNS AM-FM (1450/100.5/101.9) in Murfreesboro from 8-9 p.m.
The women's team will be there to sign autographs and take pictures with their fans and supporters, who have helped the squad to a 15-5 overall and 10-1 Sun Belt record thus far in 2009-10. The event is free and open to the public.
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Middle Tennessee performed well again on a cold Sunday morning at the ITA Kick-Off Weekend but fell to Texas Tech 4-0.
Texas Tech won the doubles point but the Blue Raiders performed well for the second straight day. Juniors John Peers and Victor Melo, ranked No. 23 in the current ITA poll, were leading No. 19 Raony Carvalho and Rafael Garcia 7-3 when play was suspended after the Red Raiders won the doubles point.
Sophomores Richard Cowden and Matthew Langley fell 8-3 to No. 35 Andre Stabile and Gonzalo Escobar while junior Kyle Wishing and freshman Shaun Water lost their match 8-3 to David Pace and Vitor Manzini.
In singles action, four players forced a third set in their matches. Melo won his first set 7-6 over Escobar but lost the second 6-2. The third set was 2-0 when play was suspended.
Waters performed well in just his second collegiate singles match. Waters lost the first set 7-5 but won the second 7-6 and was down just one set, 3-2, when play was suspended.
Senior Alex McCann fell to Manzini 6-0, 6-3 while Langley lost his match 6-0, 6-4 to Stabile as the Red Raiders took a 3-0 lead in the match.
Peers battled against No. 25 Carvalho losing the first set 6-3 but rebounding to win the second 6-4. In the third set the two fought to the end before Carvalho pulled ahead 7-5 for the win and gave Texas Tech the match.
Middle Tennessee will be back in action on Wednesday, Feb. 3 when it travels to Knoxville, Tenn., to face Tennessee.
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Brittany Cox continued her dominant senior campaign at the Rod McCravy Memorial meet as she broke her own school and conference records in both the shot put and 20 lbs. weight throw.
The Antioch, Tenn., native's toss of 52-10.75 (16.12m) in shot put bested Melissa Gibbons of Louisiana Tech's Sun Belt indoor standard of 50-10.75 (15.51m), thrown nine years ago. With this throw, Cox moves to ninth on the 2010 NCAA descending order list with her second NCAA Provisional in the event this season. Also, her mark of 66-8.75 (20.31m) in the weight throw breaks her own Sun Belt record of 62-8 (19.10m) set last weekend at the Blue Raider Invitational and places her fifth in the NCAA on the descending order list.
Zamzam Sangau won the 800 meters in 2:10.32 with teammate Kayla Bryan placing 18th in 2:31.05. Sangau also placed fifth in the mile run in a time of 4:53.72. Stephanie Smith placed 24th in 5:11.38 for her fastest time of the season.
Marla Bailey placed seventh in the 3,000 meters in 9:59.73 smashing her career best of 10:23.36 set a week ago. Jackie Serem placed 14th in 10:21.63, setting a lifetime best.
Nyeisha Wright finished fifth overall in the triple jump with a mark of 38-11.5 (11.87m). The Colorado Springs, Colo. native, ran her fastest 200 meters of the year in 25.0, placing 11th. She also placed 16th in the 60 meters in 7.77. Cherice Robertson came in eighth, and Kortney Thurman placed 11th in the triple jump with respective marks of 37-0.25 (11.28m) and 35-4 (10.77m). Robertson came fourth in the high jump with a leap of 5-6 (1.68m).
For the men's team, hurdlers Roscoe Payne and DeRay Sloss finished eighth and 11th in the 60 meter hurdles. Payne finished in a time of 8.34 with Sloss clocking in at 8.43.
Freshman Vincent Johnson was third best collegiate finisher in the long jump, recording a leap of 22-0.5 (6.71m) for a career best.
Festus Chemaoi placed ninth in the mile run, finishing in a time 4:09.67. The Kenya native also ran the 800 meters in a 1:54.95, placing 12th. David Emery came in 14th and Isaac Biwott finished 26th with respective times of 4:13.79 and 4:20.91.
Chris Mason ran a career best 8:45.68 in the 3,000 meters, finishing 28th.
"Overall it was a good team performance," said head coach Dean Hayes. "We had some good showings technically and in the placings that will help us for the Sun Belt Conference meet next month."
The teams will return to action next weekend as they will host the Middle Tennessee Classic at Murphy Center. Full results and coverage will be available post meet on goblueraiders.com.
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The Middle Tennessee season-opening women's tennis match, scheduled for 4 p.m. Friday at Belmont, has been postponed due to inclement weather. \
The two teams have announced they will now meet at noon Wednesday at the Nashboro Village indoor facility.
The Blue Raiders will then continue their 2010 spring slate at 1:30 p.m. Friday against Chattanooga at Nashboro Village. It will be the first of consecutive-day home matches for Middle Tennessee, as it will play host to UT-Martin at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, also at Nashboro Village. |
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