Wednesday, August 27, 2008
To the naked eye, the ThunderWolves’ men’s and women’s tennis team essentially travelled 1,000 miles to get pounded into the pavement, losing most of the matches they had in the four-day-long tennis free-for-all.But the Pack tennis teams, taking on foes that were among the tops in the country, held their own all weekend long, tennis […]
The Pack lost their second straight game Saturday night in Durango, Colo., 55-71, to the number eighth ranked team in the nation, Fort Lewis College.
The Pack were led in scoring by Jonnie Draper who had 14 points, and Michelle Ambuul who had 10, but couldn’t muster enough offense to stay with the sharp-shooting Skyhawks.
When ThunderWolves’ ace Juan Gomez gave up two homers in the first inning in his first start ever in the thin Colorado air, the San Bernardino, Calif. native didn’t panic. Nor did his teammates.
When the ThunderWolves’ Ashley Aldrich and Bo Nuanez managed to uncork back-to-back jacks in the seventh inning of the Pack’s second game against Adams State Saturday, it didn’t generate the kind of excitement you would expect.
Though wins weren’t easy to come by, the CSU-Pueblo men’s tennis team were taking solace in the fact that they were getting their licks in against some of the nation’s best, getting shut out by Sonoma State tenth-ranked Abilene Christian in competitions held here Friday.
Number-two singles player Julie Wainwright was nearly able to come away undefeated in the ThunderWolves’ first two matches of play in Phoenix, winning three matches in doubles and singles play on Thursday and Friday.
The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference has announced that CSU-Pueblo’s men’s and women’s number-one singles players, Ricardo Oaxaca and Jamie Raun, and the women’s number-two, Julie Wainwright, have been named to the RMAC preseason all-conference tennis teams.
The ThunderWolves led by as much as eight early in the second half of their game with Western State Saturday, but a good second half by the Mountaineers allowed them to outlast the Pack to claim the 63-59 overtime win.
Before the first pitch of Sunday’s games at the CSU-Pueblo Preseason Softball Tournament, an almost spontaneous cloud of fog rose from the eastern plains like a phoenix, setting on the Rawlings Sports Complex and sitting for the rest of the day.
The CSU-Pueblo women’s basketball team couldn’t have been more enthusiastic coming into the ‘06-’07 basketball season. With a little bit of luck the Pack improved drastically acquiring 6-foot 2-inch Lindsay Black from the University of New Mexico to be a presence on the inside.
