Lady Chaps face quick turnaround to host Oklahoma Christian
The Lubbock Christian University women, ranked No. 8 in NCAA Division II basketball but tied for seventh in the Lone Star Conference, are back home on Monday to make up a rescheduled game.
LCU (17-4, 6-3) hosts Oklahoma Christian (0-14, 0-5) at 5:30 p.m. at the Rip Griffin Center. The game originally was scheduled for Jan. 8. Oklahoma Christian has lost 15 games in a row dating to last season.
LCU started the season 11-1, but suffered three losses in an eight-game stretch from Dec. 31 through Thursday. That cost the Lady Chaps a No. 1 national ranking and position in the conference standings. They now trail two LSC teams with one conference loss and four teams with two conference losses.
LCU is tied in winning percentage with Angelo State (7-10, 4-2), which upset the Lady Chaps on Thursday in San Angelo. LCU won 83-61 on Saturday at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin behind a career-high 24 points from senior Channing Cunyus.
Senior guards Allie Schulte and Ashton Duncan lead the Lady Chaps with scoring averages of 12.6 and 10.5 points per game, respectively.
Oklahoma Christian's Brooklin Bain, despite playing on a winless team, is the conference's fourth-leading scorer. The freshman guard averages 16.0 points per game.
SPC basketball
South Plains College will try to tighten its grip on second place in the Western Junior College Athletic Conference men's race when the Texans take on New Mexico Military Institute at 7:30 p.m. CST Monday in Roswell, New Mexico.
South Plains (12-8, 6-2) trails Odessa College (18-5, 9-0) at the top of the WJCAC and is two up in the loss column on the teams tied for third: NMMI (13-9, 5-4) and New Mexico Junior College (13-10, 5-4).
South Plains beat NMMI 78-73 in a Dec. 4 conference opener in Levelland. Monday's game is the third of four in a row on the road for the Texans, who visit Howard College on Thursday.
Sophomore guard Kieves Turner leads South Plains in scoring at 17.1 points per game. NMMI's top scorers are a pair of sophomores: 6-foot-4 guard Latik Murphy (15.9 ppg) and 6-5 swingman Chris Bready (15.5 ppg).
Tech men's tennis
COLLEGE STATION — No. 23 UCLA edged Texas Tech 4-3 Sunday in an ITA Kickoff Weekend consolation match with No. 1 singles player Drew Baird rallying past Tech's Isaac Arevalo 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 in the deciding match.
Tech trailed 2-0 and 3-1, but came back with wins by Reed Collier, Ilgiz Valiev and Dimitrios Azoidis at Nos. 5, 2 and 6 singles, respectively. The three-set victories by Valiev and Azoidis made up the 3-1 deficit.
UCLA improved to 2-1. Tech dropped to 3-2.
On Saturday, No. 12 Arizona downed Tech 4-1, the Red Raiders' only win coming from Arevalo at No. 1 singles. He beat Jonas Ziverts 6-4, 6-1.
Tech women's tennis
COLLEGE STATION — Jayci Goldsmith and Gianna Pielet each were part of a victorious doubles team and won their singles matches, leading No. 13 Texas A&M to a 4-0 shutout of Texas Tech in a round-of-32 match Sunday in the ITA Kickoff Weekend.
A&M (8-0) won the best-of-three doubles point with a pair of 6-3 victories, and Pielet, Carson Branstine and Goldsmith finished it off with straight-set wins at Nos. 5, 1 and 4 singles, respectively.
Branstine beat Margarita Skriabina 6-1, 6-1, dealing Tech's No. 1 player her first loss of the season after six wins.
Tech dropped to 3-1.
On Saturday, Tech beat South Carolina 4-0 in a first-round match. Skriabina, Olivia Peet and Metka Komac won their singles matches after each was part of a doubles victory — Komac and Peet as partners in a 7-5 triumph and Skriabina teamed with Christina Tiglea for a 6-2 victory.
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: College basketball: Lady Chaps face quick turnaround hosting Oklahoma Christian
