ENMU Athletics News
By: Adam Pitterman
Greyhound Men’s Soccer Team Off to a Strong Start On Sept. 1, the Greyhound men’s soccer team visited Colorado-Mesa, a team that reached the National Championship just two seasons ago. James Gutierrez made nine saves for the Hounds, to preserve a scoreless tie. The strong start didn’t stop there. Two days later, Robert Raspudic and Omary Shabani staked ENMU to an early lead en-route to a 3-1 win over Utah’s Westminster College. After the Hounds nearly rallied from a 3-0 deficit against Adams State, they posted a hard-fought 1-0 win over Oklahoma Christian on a goal from Ryan Sinclair with less than 10 minutes left to play.
Women’s Soccer Team Also Makes Strong Debut Although the women’s soccer team has had many strong seasons in its history, the season opener has always been rough for the program. In 2006, ENMU Hall of Honors inductee Megan Dozier found the back of Fort Lewis College’s net, lifting the team to a 2-1 win to kick off the season. Since then, Eastern had dropped the next nine season openers. On Sept. 1, goalkeeper Marissa Torres made her ENMU debut against Western State University and made 11 saves. The performance earned the first tie to open a season for the Hounds and the first season-opening double-overtime game.
Women’s Rodeo Team Wins College “Daze” for Second Straight Year The rodeo teams got off to a strong start this past Sept. with the annual College “Daze” Rodeo at Lewis Cooper Arena. The women’s team finished first for the second straight year with Bailey Harwell and Lindsey Adcock leading the way with second-place performances in the barrel race and goat tying, respectively. The men’s team placed ninth and was led by Shane Hancock’s third-place performance in steer wrestling. The women’s team claimed first place with 320 points, while Tarleton State was the runner-up with 275 points. Weatherford College placed third. After a third-place finish in the first go, Harwell finished second in both the short round and average. With times of 17.75 and 17.66, she placed second out of 160 barrel racers. Adcock split third, fourth, and fifth in the first round but won the short go with a time of 9.0 to place second in goat tying. Celie Vick finished fourth in the event. Tierra Gray finished fourth among 146 breakaway ropers with a total time of 5.8. She placed fourth in both the first and short rounds. Texas Tech won the men’s rodeo with 435 points, while the Eastern men placed 9th.
From top to bottom: Junior Marissa Torres defends the goal during their game against Western State University. Sophomore Lorenzo Juarez pulls away from his competition. Senior Sierra Quinones is one of 13 runners on the women’s cross country team picked first in the LSC pre-season poll. Senior Lauren Frye helped the volleyball team win three of their four first games this season.
