Thursday, April 3, 2014
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
UA strength/conditioning coach resigns
David Deets has resigned as the strength and conditioning coach for Arkansas’ basketball team to go into private business, Razorbacks Coach Mike Anderson said Wednesday.
Deets followed Anderson from Missouri to Arkansas.
“David was with me for eight years and did an unbelievable job,” Anderson said. “It’s amazing the things he did.
“All the things I wanted our guys to be, he did a tremendous job. The guys that needed the weight, he put that on them. But more about the explosiveness, flexibility that was what I wanted. The things he did were more basketball specific. As we move forward that’s the type of guy we’re going to get in here.”
Anderson said the opening hasn’t been posted yet but that he expects to have a lot of interest in the job.
BASEBALL
Delta State defeats Arkansas-Monticello
Senior Tyler Caruthers went 3 for 3 with 2 RBI, but that wasn’t enough as Arkansas-Monticello lost 7-3 to Delta State on Wednesday at Boo Ferris Field in Cleveland, Miss.
The Statesmen (22-6) took a 7-1 lead after six innings, but UAM (24-11) managed only two runs in the top of the seventh.
Junior Turner Neely (2-1) took the loss after giving up 4 runs, 3 earned, off 8 hits in 4 2/3 innings. Delta State’s Casey Greene (1-1) gave up 1 run off 6 hits in 4 innings.
SOFTBALL ATU sweeps doubleheader
Courtney Colunga went 3 for 3 and drove in 2 runs in the opener and Chelsea Reeves drove in the only run of the game with a single in the bottom of the eighth inning in the nightcap as Arkansas Tech swept a doubleheader against Northeastern (Okla.) State, 9-1 and 1-0, Wednesday in Russellville.
ATU improved to 18-18, while Northeastern State fell to 24-16.
Sports, Pages 21 on 04/03/2014