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TCU
track team to compete at Indoor Championships
Five members
of the TCU Flyin’ Frogs track and field team will take part
in the NCAA Indoor National Championships this weekend in Fayetteville,
Ark.
Sophomore Michael
Frater and junior Monica Twum will compete in the 60-meter dash,
senior Eliud Njubi will challenge in the mile run, junior Brandal
Lawrence will look for the triple jump title, while freshman Cleavon
Dillon will vie for the long jump crown.
“Everybody
going has a chance to score and earn All-America honors,” said
TCU head coach Monte Stratton. “All five are talented enough
and ranked high enough going into the meet that they have a chance
to do well. If everybody does their part, a top 10 or 15 final standing
would not be out of the question.”
Women’s
golf team places third in tournament
The TCU women’s
golf team completed play at the Verizon “Mo” Morial Invitational
in Bryan on Tuesday in third place out of 18 teams. The two-day
team score of 633 placed the Frogs behind tournament champion Ohio
State and Michigan State.
Sophomore Brooke
Tull finished in second place with her score of 151. She entered
the day in a tie for second. This showing is Tull’s career
best finish and her second career top-10.
Senior Lori
Sutherland also posted a top-20 finish with her total of 151 that
landed her in a tie for 11th place. This is Sutherland’s season-best
performance and her second top-20 placement on the season. Other
competitors for TCU included Shannon Barr, who tied for 39th, Jennifer
Patterson, also tied for 39th, and Meredith Easley, whose total
posting of 174 tied her for 85th place. The Frogs will compete again
on March 19-20 in the Rainbow Wahine Tournament in Honolulu.
TCU’s
Santee named to C-USA all-freshman team
Memphis freshman
Dajuan Wagner, who is on pace to break former Saint Louis star Larry
Hughes’ Conference USA freshman scoring record, is the C-USA
Freshman of the Year, the league office announced Tuesday.
Joining Wagner
on the all-freshman team are TCU guard Corey Santee, East Carolina
center Moussa Badiane, Marquette guard Travis Diener and Jason Maxiell.
Santee is second
in the league with 5.90 assists per game and is the seventh player
in C-USA history to record multiple 20-plus point, 10-plus assist
games in the same season.
Badiane set
the C-USA freshman record with 84 blocked shots and is tied for
second on C-USA’s single-season rejection list. Diener, whose
cousins, Drake and Drew, play for C-USA American Division rivals
DePaul and Saint Louis, respectively, is third in the league in
three-point field goal percentage at 43.1 percent.
Williams
may have tried to cover up shooting death
TRENTON, N.J.
(AP) — Jayson Williams, charged in the shooting death of a
limousine driver at his mansion, tried to put the victim’s
palm print and fingerprints on the gun, Sports Illustrated reported.
Around the time
the shooting was reported to authorities as an apparent suicide,
Williams and two men also disposed of the bloody clothes the former
New Jersey Nets player was wearing, a witness told the magazine
in an article published this week. The magazine did not identify
the witness.
Williams, 34,
is charged with second-degree manslaughter in the Feb. 14 shooting
death of Costas Christofi.
Prosecutors
have said Williams’ adopted brother, Victor Santiago, initially
reported the death as a suicide.
Christofi, 55,
was hired to drive Williams’ friends from a Harlem Globetrotters
game in Bethlehem, Pa., to a restaurant, and then to Williams’
estate 30 miles northwest of Trenton.
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