Oklahoma State University Athletics
Oklahoma State Athletics Enters A Busy Week
November 08, 1999 | General
Nov. 8, 1999
Men's Cross Country
This Week: Saturday at District V Championships in Savoy, Ill.
Last Week: idle
Oklahoma State's men's cross country team will try to win its fifth consecutive District V Championship this weekend. The Cowboys have captured the title the previous four years, while coach Dick Weis won district coach-of-the-year honors each year.
Senior All-Big 12 runner Chuck Sloan, who finished third at the Big 12 Championships on Oct. 30, will lead the Cowboys in the 10k race. Sloan finished third in 30:04.80 at the district meet last year.
The men's part of the meet is set to begin at 11 a.m. on the UI Blue Golf Course in Savoy, Ill.
Women's Cross Country
This Week: Saturday at District V Championships in Savoy, Ill.
Last Week: idle
Oklahoma State's women's cross country squad, led by junior Hanna Smedstad, will compete in the District V Championships in Savoy, Ill. on Saturday. Start time for the women's race has been set for 12 a.m.
After finishing sixth in the Big 12 Championships, Smedstad will vie for the district V medalist honors.
Men's Basketball
This Week: Wednesday vs. Athletes First (exhibition), 7:05 p.m.
Six scholarship seniors will lead the OSU men's basketball team into its first competition of the season Wednesday at 7:05 p.m. when the Cowboys face Athletes First in an exhibition contest at Gallagher-Iba Arena.
The Cowboys, ranked 25th in the preseason ESPN/USA Today Coaches' Poll, have been picked to finish third in the Big 12 by the league's coaches and media.
Both polls picked Desmond Mason as a preseason first-team All-Big 12 selection, and the media listed Doug Gottlieb on their second team.
Fans and media attending Wednesday's game and all OSU men's and women's basketball games this season are encouraged to arrive early due to extensive construction on the arena, which has limited the public ingress to one entrance on the east side of the building.
Women's Basketball
This Week: Friday vs. Arvi Vernitas (exhibition), 7 p.m.
Last Week: Won at home vs. Norrkoping (exhibition), 98-58
Oklahoma State will face Arvi Vernitas, a club team from Lithuania, on Friday at 7 p.m. in Gallagher-Iba Arena in its final exhibition game of the season. The Cowgirls will open the regular season on Monday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m. in the first round of the Preseason Women's NIT in Gallagher-Iba Arena.
Oklahoma State's Cowgirl Basketball team picked up its first win of the 1999-2000 season with a 98-58 victory over the Norrkoping Flamingos in Stillwater on Sunday afternoon.
Senior Jennifer Crow led all scorers with 21 points while dishing out a game-high seven assists. Junior transfer Tari Cummings showed off her talents in her first Division I basketball game with 16 points and 14 rebounds.
The freshman point-guard duo of Shelby Hutchens and Chantoya Hawkins did quite well, both recording double-figure scoring totals. Hutchens started the game, and poured in 10 points, while Hawkins scored seven of her 13 in the first half.
Sophomore Jessica Spinner scored 11 points in the game.
Equestrian
This Week: Fri.-Sun. at Texas A&M
Last Week: idle
Oklahoma State's Cowgirl Equestrian team will travel to College Station, Texas this weekend to compete in the Texas A&M Show, which will consist of three hunt seat shows.
In their last action, the Cowgirls finished first in one western show and second in two hunt seat shows and a western show to finish second overall in their home debut as a varsity sport. The Cowgirls were led by Audrey Buck and Jackie Skibicki in the hunt seat classes and Summer DeHart and Alyssa Allen in the western shows. Buck received high-point rider honors in the first hunt seat show, and Skibicki won the reserve high-point award. In the second western show, DeHart was the high-point rider and Allen received reserve high-point honors.
Earlier in the season, Oklahoma State won the first western show at Texas A&M and finished second in two other shows to place second overall for the weekend. Oklahoma State is also the only team to beat Texas A&M this season, winning the first western show in College Station and the second western show at home two weeks ago.
Football (3-5 Overall, 1-4 Big 12)
This Week: Saturday vs. Kansas, 1:30 p.m.
Last Week: Lost at home vs. Texas, 34-21
Oklahoma State makes its final 1999 appearance on Lewis Field this week as the Cowboys face Kansas. O-State heads into week No. 9 of the regular season looking to snap a three-game losing streak and build momentum for the final two games of the regular season at Baylor and at Oklahoma.
Just before OSU and Kansas kick off Saturday afternoon, the Cowboys will honor 28 seniors who will be making their final appearance in front of the home crowd. Included among the 28 seniors are 21 players who have spent their entire collegiate careers at OSU. These seniors and their parents will be honored in pregame ceremonies Saturday afternoon.
Saturday's game between Oklahoma State and Kansas is scheduled to kick off at 1:30 p.m. CST. Oklahoma State will carry an overall record of 3-5 and a Big 12 Conference mark of 1-4 into this week's game. The Cowboys have not won since Oct. 9 against Texas Tech. Kansas will come to Lewis Field with an overall record of 4-6 and a league mark of 2-4.
The Jayhawks, after losing three of their first four, have split their last six, winning two of their last three (Missouri and Baylor).
Men's Golf
Last Week: at Golf World/Palmetto Dunes Tournament 9th/18
Charles Howell returned to his low-scoring ways, but the third-ranked Oklahoma State men's golf team dropped two spots and finished ninth Sunday at the Rolex/Golf World/Palmetto Dunes Collegiate Invitational.
Howell, who had entered the tournament with a school-record streak of seven consecutive rounds in the 60s, was human in the first two rounds at Palmetto Dunes, carding a 74 and a 72. However, he shot 4-under-par 68 Sunday to move up 29 spots and finish 30th. Sophomore Anders Hultman was OSU's top individual finisher in 20th place with an 4-under-par final score of 212.
The Cowboys finished 12-under-par as a team, Georgia won the tournament with a 27-under final score. Individually for OSU, Landry Mahan tied Howell for 30th at 2-under, and Edward Loar and J.C. DeLeon tied for 41st at even par.
The Palmetto Dunes event concludes the Cowboys' fall 1999 season. OSU, currently ranked first in the Golfweek/Sagarin ratings but third in the MasterCard Collegiate Golf Rankings, will next be in action Feb. 16-18 at the John Burns Invitational in Kaneohe Klipper, Hawaii.
Women's Golf
Last Week: at Road Runner Invitational
Oklahoma State's Cowgirl Golf team won the team title Wednesday afternoon in the Roadrunner Invitational, hosted by the University of New Mexico. OSU barely won by a single stroke over second-place New Mexico State, which shot the best round of the tournament with a 287.
Cowgirl freshman Linda Wessberg took the individual medalist honors shooting a final-round score of 69, the only sub-70 score of the tournament. Although her birdie on the 18th didn't clinch the team title, it did contribute to the win.
Junior All-American Maria Boden, however, did shoot the tournament-winning birdie on the 18th hole, clinching the tournament with an 885, one stroke ahead of the NMSU Aggies. Boden finished with a 221, good for fifth place individually.
New Mexico finished third as a team with a 893, while Washington finished fourth at 907. The Big 12's Oklahoma and Texas Tech both tied for fifth with a 911.
OSU freshman Christi Cano finished tied for 13th with a 225, while senior Natasha Rowe tied for 25th with a 229. Sophomore Emma Zackrisson tied for 32nd after shooting a one-under-par 71 on the final day.
Oklahoma State will return to the golf course next spring when they open the 2000 season February 7 at the Regional Challenge in Palos Verdes, Calif.
Women's Tennis
Last Week: at Rolex Regional Tournament in Salt Lake City, Utah
Ashleigh Dolman and Maria Galoustova defeated a familiar foe en route to the doubles title at the Rolex Regional in Salt Lake City on Sunday. The fifth-seeded duo faced their OSU teammates Marketa Chmelova and Linda Faltynkova in the championship match.
Dolman and Galoustova defeated the event's second-seeded team, Brigham Young's Eline Chiew and Gee Gee Garvin to set up the all-Cowgirl finale. Chmelova and Faltynkova and Faltynkova, the tournament's eleventh seed, upset the eighth-seeded team, Monica Poveda and Jana Sidovic of Tulsa, in the semifinals to advance to the final.
The Cowgirls also had two players competing in the semifinals of the singles draw. Galoustova dropped her match to seventh-seeded Natalie Alekhova of New Mexico in straight sets, 6-1, 6-2.
In the top half of the bracket, OSU's Dominika Olszewska lost a three-set battle to the top seed, New Mexico's Ana Friganovic. Olszewska came into the tournament as the fourteenth seed.
Wrestling
This Week: Thursday host Orange and Black ranking matches, 7 p.m.
Oklahoma State wrestling will hold its annual Orange and Black ranking matches Thursday, Nov. 11, at Ponca City High School.
Head Coach John Smith's Cowboys will face off against each other to determine the starting lineup for the 1999-2000 season.
November
| 10 | MBB | Athletes First (Exh.) | 7:05 p.m. |
| 12 | WBB | Arvi Vernitas (Exh.) | 7 p.m. |
| EQ | at Texas A&M | ||
| 13 | MCC | District V Championships | 11 a.m. |
| WCC | District V Championships | 12 p.m. | |
| EQ | at Texas A&M | ||
| FB | Kansas | 1:30 p.m. | |
| 14 | EQ | at Texas A&M | |
| 15 | WBB | Northern Iowa | 7 p.m. |
| 17 | MBB | Global Sports (Exh.) | 7:05 p.m. |
| 18 | WR | at Missouri | 7 p.m. |
| 19 | MBB | Appalachian State | 8:40 p.m. |
| WBB | Lamar | 4 p.m. | |
| EQ | at West Texas A&M | ||
| 20 | MBB | Idaho | 8:30 p.m. |
| EQ | at West Texas A&M | ||
| FB | at Baylor | tba | |
| WR | at Cliff Keen Open | ||
| 21 | EQ | at West Texas A&M | |
| 22 | MCC | National Championships | |
| WCC | National Championships | ||
| 23 | MBB | at Arkansas-Little Rock | 7:05 p.m. |
| 27 | MBB | North Texas | 8:05 p.m. |
| FB | at Oklahoma | tba | |
| WR | at Oklahoma Open | ||
| 28 | WBB | Tulsa at Norman | 6 p.m. |
| 29 | WBB | Oral Roberts at Norman | 6 p.m. |
