EDINBURG — UTRGV rallied from being down 18-12 in the second set to tie Stephen F. Austin at 23. Two quick unforced errors, however, abruptly ended that comeback attempt and the visiting Lumberjacks went on to win the set and the match 25-20, 15-25, 25-23, 25-18 Thursday at the UTRGV Fieldhouse.

UTRGV fell to 8-1 overall, ending its eight-match Western Athletic Conference win streak, and 19-5 overall. SFA improved to 20-3 overall and 8-2 in conference play.

“They did pretty much what we expected them to do,” UTRGV head coach Todd Lowery said. “They didn’t make a lot of mistakes and we did. We hit a lot of balls out of bounds that we haven’t been and I don’t think we served it well in big moments, where it cost us momentum or cost us the set.

“We didn’t handle the things we were supposed to handle very well.”

Sarah Cruz delivered another big night for UTRGV with a match-high 22 kills, nearly half of the team’s 48 total, along with three aces and 11 digs. The next closest offensively was Perris Key with seven kills and Luisa Silva Dos Santos with five. SFA had three hitters with double-digit kills led by Lelan Bradley with 16 on a .353 hitting percentage clip.

“I think we went into the game with a feeling that we were able to win and were going to win, but it just didn’t happen.” Cruz said. “We didn’t convert balls after 20 and sometimes we couldn’t pass, and that caused us lots of problems.

“It was very stressful (being behind a lot) but we were able to catch up, but then just didn’t convert balls and score then.”

The second set was all UTRGV. Tied at 10, the Vaqueros went on a 5-0 run with Cruz serving. She collected one of her aces during that run, and Claudia Lupescu tallied back-to-back kills with sharp cut attacks.

“We played well in Set 2 and it wasn’t even close,” Lowery said. “We handled all the easy balls and didn’t miss a serve. Then the game was really one-sided with us helping them out at big moments that gave them momentum.”

UTRGV led 18-17 in the fourth set on a Santos quick middle attack. After a side out, however, the Lumberjacks closed out the match on a 7-0 run.

“I didn’t think we handled the first touch very well. I don’t think (SFA) hit balls through the floor. Lelan did a good job like she has all year and we knew that, but we didn’t do well against the others.

“They swing hard when they are in system. We didn’t make them pay for all the easy balls that they sent us. We knew they were going to send us easy balls and we didn’t side out when they sent us those easy ones, and that was basically the difference.

Utah Valley’s win over Tarleton puts it in a tie for the conference lead at 8-1. Following SFA is UT Arlington (7-3) in fourth place. UT Arlington and UTRGV play at 2 p.m. Saturday at the UTRGV Fieldhouse.

EDINBURG — Ray Spalding was a force for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers during the 2019-20 season.

He, along with three other familiar names amidst a group of eager new faces, hit the floor for the first day of training camp Monday at the Vipers’ practice facility in Edinburg.

Joining Spalding as returners include Trhae Mitchell, Khalil Whitney and Shawn Occeus as the Vipers, affiliates of the NBA’s Houston Rockets, begin their quest to defend their NBA G League championship and win a league-best fifth crown.

While the other Vipers were running intense drills and scrimmaging, the 6-foot-10 Spalding was hitting the floor in a much different way — running plenty of court sprints.

Spalding ruptured his Achilles just a week after signing a two-way deal with the Houston Rockets in February 2021. He played two games before the injury and then-Rockets head coach Paul Silas said, “Prognosis is not good.”

“Everything is good now, and I was cleared three months ago to fully play,” said Spalding, who was the 56th overall pick by the Philadelphia 76ers during the 2018 NBA draft as an early entry candidate from Louisville. “It’s truly a blessing to be back here. I know I missed last season after the injury but I’m looking forward to playing hard, working hard on my body and ball-handling and jump shot — just looking to expand my game and do what it takes to help my team win and grow every day.

His regimen has included seemingly never-ending calf raises, plenty of time in the weight room and working with his masseuse and massage therapist, he said.

“It has been a grind, but the main thing is to get through it. A lot of people back home have helped me,” he said.

During his last venture with the Vipers, Spalding weighed 225 pounds. Now, he said, he’s at 252. His time in the gym shows physically.

“It’s been hell,” he said about the road to his return. “I really feel like the weight room has been huge for me in the offseason, gaining weight, eating more and lifting and staying consistent. But those things have been pretty easy to stay on with my trainer staying on me.”

Spalding averaged 15.4 points, 8.4 rebounds, 1.9 assists, 1.9 blocks and 1.2 steals during 20 games for the Vipers in the 2019-2020 season. He upped his scoring to 18.5 during the two games in the 2020-21 season before signing with Houston, pulling down 13 rebounds per contest and showing the powerful weapon he could be for the Vipers.

Now he’s working to regain that form and more.

“There have been frustrations along the way,” he said. “There are times when I want to go run (with the team) like now, but I know my conditioning isn’t there fully and I don’t want to be out there and hurt myself or do anything I shouldn’t be doing. Frustrations just come with wanting to be out there but smooth and steady win the race.

NEW ROLES

While the Vipers have 16 players on the training camp roster, only Mitchell, Occeus, Spalding and Whitney have experience with the Vipers’ fast break, shoot often, score a lot style of play.

Last year, Mitchell did a bit of everything, averaging 10 points, 7.5 rebounds and filling in the stat sheets across the board. His defense, however, was critical to the Vipers’ championship run.

“Coming back, I feel like I have a bigger responsibility and will play a bigger role on the team,” said the 6-foot-6, 195-pound workhorse from South Alabama. “They want me to be more aggressive on the offensive end, but I’m also going to stick to my principles and let my defense lead to offense.

“I also gotta be more of a mentor to the new guys. I have a big responsibility but but I think I’m good for it.”

VETERAN VIPERS

Willie Cauley Stein, a 7-foot veteran of 422 NBA games and the No. 6 pick by the Sacramento Kings during the 2015 NBA draft is also on the Vipers training camp roster but did not take part in Monday’s session.

Stein has averaged 8.7 points, and 5.9 rebounds during his NBA career with Sacramento, Golden State, Dallas and Philadelphia. His best statistical years came with the Kings in 2017-18 with 12.8 points and 7.0 rebounds per contest, and in 2018-19 with 11.9 points and 8.4 rebounds per contest.

The Vipers play their first home game at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11, at Bert Ogden Arena in Edinburg against the Birmingham Squadron. The night will also consist of a ring ceremony for the reigning NBA G League champions.

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MISSION — More than ever this year, Mission Veterans girls volleyball head coach Diana Lerma has emphasized placement and points over power.

Right-side hitter Chloe Kosillo put those words into action late in Saturday’s match against a fiercely hungry Roma squad, placing a kill down the line to give the Patriots a 24-22 fourth-set lead that stopped the surging Gladiators en route to a 25-13, 20-25, 25-19, 25-23 victory at Mission Veterans High School.

The win improved Mission Veterans to 29-5 overall and 11-0 in District 30-5A, with a two-game lead over Laredo Cigarroa. Roma fell to 6-5 in district and in fourth place, two games ahead of La Joya Palmview for the final playoff position and one game behind Laredo Nixon for third with three district matches remaining.

After trailing 20-14 in the fourth and looking dejected, the Gladiators found life scoring on attacks from junior middle Elaiza Martinez and freshman hitter Madelyn Garcia. An ace from Ali Salinas and a double called on Vets brought Roma back into it, down 22-20. But too much damage had been done, and the Patriots halted any discussion of a fifth set.

Powerhouse Rylie Barnett led Vets with 29 kills and 19 digs, Kathryn Villarreal added 12 kills and Kosillo had nine. Evelyn Vela had 45 assists for the Patriots.

Martinez posed a big threat throughout the match, offensively attacking, but also setting up her teammates, making smart plays and blocking. Barnett said the team knew who they were facing.

“She’s a really good player, and we challenged our blockers to do more and the defense to be ready for everything she does,” said Barnett, who is closing in on her 2,000th career kill. “But our biggest challenge is ourselves. We need to play to our potential every second of the game. I think we’re doing better with that each and every game — we just need to be more consistent and not get in those holes.”

Lerma said the game was a bit of a roller-coaster ride in terns of intensity.

“I tell the girls if they play like this in the playoffs, well, only the strong survive,” Lerma said. “We have to realize that every point counts and play like that, not only at the end but from the very beginning.

“The girls have to understand it’s not just a hitting game but a placement and points game. It doesn’t matter how good they look killing the ball. It comes down to whether they got the point or are they playing for the other team?”

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McALLEN — Kenisha Martinez, America Hernandez and Kassandra de la Garza combined for 31 kills and Sharyland High won its 25th straight match, beating McAllen High 25-18, 25-21, 20-25, 25-15 in a District 31-5A match at McAllen High.

The win improved Sharyland to 8-0 in district play, the only undefeated team. McHi drops to 5-3. Both teams have one match remaining to complete the first half of district play.

McAllen Memorial swept McAllen Rowe also on Tuesday to improve to 7-1 in district, one game behind the Rattlers. Rowe also dropped to 5-3.

Martinez and de la Garza, both sophomores, tallied 20 and five kills, respectively, and Hernandez contributed six kills and three aces. Martinez led the team with four aces, including one in the fourth set that barely cleared the net and looked like a baseball line drive that found a gap as McHi defenders could only look at it. It gave the Rattlers a commanding 22-14 advantage, and one play later she added her final kill of the night from the back row.

“She is just a terrific player who does whatever is asked of her,” Sharyland head coach Raul Castillo said. “She also brings so much energy and keeps everyone up and ready.”

McHi served hard throughout the match, an area that at times has been its forte. Gabby Estringel and Katherine Wiliamson had big days attacking on the outside for the Bulldogs, and the defense made the Rattlers swing on multiple occasions to earn points.

Martinez said the team prepared all week for McHi and its intense serving.

“They have great servers over there and we knew that was something they were going to do,” the sophomore hitter said. “So we practiced extra long on serve returns.”

McHi went on a 5-0 run at the end of the third set after being tied at 20. Williamson dropped a long return straight over the net and registered a pair of kills during the run, and Yaneli Rocha served up an ace to keep the Bulldogs in the game.

“We were up 2-0 and sometimes the girls don’t come out as intense after that,” Castillo said. “I told them they had to keep swinging and stay focused.”

They were plenty focused in the fourth set, jumping out to leads of 9-3 and 12-6, including a 4-0 run and an ace from Sharyland’s Ava Garza. McHi closed to within six until Sharyland put together another 4-0 mini run to extend the lead to 20-12.

Estringel, a freshman lefty, led McHi in kills with 11, while Williamson added 10 kills and a pair of blocks.

Castillo said last year is a reminder that keeps the team motivated. The Rattlers finished 7-7 in district play and missed the playoffs by one game.

Before the season began, Castillo talked about how for the first time in a while, the Rattlers were returning everyone for this season and the expectations were high.

Sharyland High closes out the first half of the district season against Sharyland Pioneer. The Diamondbacks are alone in third place with a 6-2 district record.

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McALLEN — There’s no secret to what McAllen Memorial is going to do come match time. It’s OK because they’re not trying to hide it.

Swing. Swing hard. Swing a lot. If one arm gets tires, use the other, but keep swinging. The goal — beat the opponent into submission.

The Mustangs unleashed their full arsenal Saturday, defeating city and district rival McAllen High in four sets 25-17, 25-16, 21-25, 29-27 at McAllen Memorial to improve to 3-0 in District 31-5A, tied atop the standings with Sharyland High. McHi dropped to 2-1.

Memorial’s Amare Hernandez slugged her way to 20 kills, and teammates Leah Garcia and Madisyn Sosa managed nine kills apiece.

The Mustangs established their dominance at home but the young McHi team did anything but submit, sending shockwaves through their opponents and jumping out to a 10-1 lead in the fourth set.

“I call them our hiccups,” Memorial head coach Ashley Doffing said. “I was proud of the girls, though, for fighting their way out of that and regrouping.”

After a dominant two-set lead, they had a little time to figure out those kinks. But they may have taken a bit too long, dropping the third set.

Doffing told her team after the third set “they disrespected us on our home court. It’s time for us to do the same thing. This isn’t going five (sets).”

It almost did, however as both teams squandered set point down the stretch in the fourth set.

The teams were tied at 27 when Kaitlin Martin came up with the biggest block of the day for a 28-27 lead. Hernandez flowed with a thunderous Thor-like kill to secure the win. Prior to the final points, McHi’s Katherine Williamson and Memorial’s Garcia put on and above-the-net a display of power. Garcia got the final of the tradeoff, slamming back-to-back back sets from Madison Amaya to set up Memorial for its final run. After the match, the Mustangs celebrated Amaya’s 1,000th career assist.

“I was so mad at the beginning of the fourth set, and it was burning my soul to sit and watch on the bench,” Garcia said. “I had to wait to get in but I knew where I wanted to put the ball and just went blank. I knew what we needed.”

Williamson paced McHi with 12 kills, but Memorial won the attack category with 50 kills compared to 32 for the Bulldogs. Gabby Estringel and Kayla Salinas each added six kills for McHi.

Memorial had a strong day defensively at the net. Alicia Ziegler tallied four of her team’s 10 total blocks.

Sosa was also a menace from behind the service line, collecting a pair of aces but, more importantly, keeping the McHi serve/receive off balance with her powerful jump serve that drops quickly and heavily to the floor, keeping defenses unable to attack successfully off of it.

With Sosa serving in the second set, Memorial went on a 7-0 run to grab a 22-13 lead en route to the 2-0 set advantage.

“I’ve been in the gym working a lot on my serve and that topspin,” Sosa said. “From the beginning, I felt like it was going to be a good game.

“Hopefully this shows people what we are made of and what we can do.”

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PSJA North wanted a taste of the District 31-5A victories that have taken place during the preseason across the Valley and the state. They earned that Saturday, downing Grulla, Rio Grande City and district and city rival PSJA Memorial en route to the Hidalgo eighth annual volleyball championship.

Along the way, North head coach Lisa Lancaster also picked up her 100th career victory.

Senior Victoria Rodriguez was named tournament MVP. The hitter led the Raiders with 14 kills during the 25-27, 25-19, 15-11 victory over the Wolverines. She added 13 kills in the semifinals against Rio Grande City and 13 again in the first round of the gold bracket against Grulla.

“I think the wins are a reflection of the hard work the girls have put forth in a short time period,” Lancaster said. “They’ve had to do learn the way I want things and my approach to the game. It’s challenging enough but to also apply it simultaneously is rough for anyone. So it’s really a testament to them wanting to get better.”

District 31-5A is regarded as the toughest district in the Rio Grande Valley. Five of its teams each won at least 30 matches last year. During redistricting, perennial playoff team Edinburg Vela and a highly improved PSJA North were added to the mix.

“It’s definitely a confidence boost. It’s a really competitive district that we’ll need to find our place in,” Lancaster said.

The PSJA North coach is in her seventh year as a head coach, leading Progreso for two years and Lyford for four. She said she was looking forward to earning win 100.

“It’s a stepping stone in my coaching career,” she said. “Looking up to Laura Cavazos (Sharyland Pioneer) who just got her 300th and Diana Lerma (Mission Veterans) at 700. I didn’t want the girls to win for me because it was a plausible 100th win. I want the girls to want to work hard for each other and play whistle to whistle. The points will come, the wins will follow.”

ON THE ROAD

McAllen High (20-5) captured the silver bracket championship in the Seguin tournament, defeating the host team 25-21, 29-27 to earn the title. The Bulldogs defeated San Antonio Christian before dropping matches to San Antonio Taft and St. Agnes Christian on Friday. They defeated Burbank and McCollum to advance to the silver finals.

“It’s always great to get out of district and be able to give all the girls a chance to showcase what they can do,” second-year head coach Michael Smith said. “Now we turn our focus to the toughest district in the Valley and get ready to battle night in and night out.”

Mission Veterans and McAllen Rowe both competed in the Laredo tournament. The Patriots, winners of their pool, were eliminated by Laredo Alexander in the quarterfinals on Saturday. Rowe, winners of their pool, advanced to the semifinals with a win over Highlands before also falling to Alexander, who also defeated McHi early in the season.

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McALLEN — Down set point during the first set of the McAllen High 16th annual Poundfest Volleyball title match, it wasn’t much of a secret as to who McAllen Memorial was going to seek refuge from.

Junior Amare Hernandez slugged three of her match-high nine kills during the final points of that set as the Mustangs remained poised and powerful to claim a 28-26, 25-15 win over the Bulldogs and capture the early season tournament crown against possibly the most competitive lineup the tournament has put together in recent years.

Memorial recovered from 7-1 and 20-14 deficits throughout the first set before Hernandez came to life, aided by bullet serves from Madisyn Sosa as the Mustangs overcame the slow start. Hernandez finished the match with nine kills and a pair of aces, and Sosa contributed seven kills, two aces and delivered several high-pressure serves.

“I’m mainly thinking, ‘Push it out, push it, out,” Hernandez said regarding wanting the ball down the stretch. “I want my setter to trust me to put the ball away, and that’s what I want to do.”

McHi, with five freshmen playing significant roles, streaked early to a 7-1 lead behind a monster kill from Gabriela Estringel and a solo stuff block by fellow freshman Katelyn Pritchard against Hernandez.

“Dang, these freshmen are good,” Hernandez said about a young McHi team. “They’re way better than what we were when we were freshmen. It’s a big responsibility, but they’re doing it.”

Memorial led 12-10 during the second set before going on a 7-2 run to gain some breathing room. A pair of McHi attack errors coupled with a Sosa kill and Hernandez block highlighted the run. Memorial pushed the lead to 22-13 on a double block from Kaitlin Martin and Leah Garcia, then later put the match away following a Garcia kill down the line and a Sosa attack.

“I saw the line open, it was open all day,” Garcia said. “But it was hard to get that perfect set because they have really good hitters and kept attacking.”

“Leah had a great game. Defensively, she puts up a huge block,” Memorial coach Ashley Doffing said. “I’m also glad that Sosa came in and came out of nowhere. That little kid can fly. We’re trying to work on our first line of offense, which is our serves, and they performed well today.”

The tournament gave a glimpse of what will be some tough district battles, especially in 31-5A, where five of the eight teams in the championship bracket play.

“I’ve been saying this since they realigned our district, I’m so excited for Valley volleyball, it gives us great competition and gets us ready for playoffs,” Doffing said. “Coming out of this showed me where we are weakest, but also that the girls have grown.”

Memorial bounced back from a three-set loss to Los Fresnos during the second day of pool play to defeat Sharyland High and PSJA High before facing its city rival. McHi went 6-0 during the first two days and defeated Edinburg Vela and McAllen Rowe to advance to the championship.

PSJA High defeated Rowe in three sets to capture third place.

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EDINBURG — After dropping the first set of the new high school volleyball season, Edinburg Vela head coach Araceli Ortega made some adjustments.

During that time, the SaberCats took the net away from city rival Edinburg North, slowed down the monster power hitting of North’s Etsel Ramirez both with timely blocks and a strong defense, and unleashed a variety of hitters.

Then, of course, there was Fey Vasquez, who, once unleashed, did the rest of the damage as the SaberCats claimed a 21-25, 25-20, 25-20, 25-17 victory over their city rival in the mutual season opener for both schools at Edinburg North.

Vasquez, a 5-11 senior, tallied 10 kills and seven kills to pace Vela. She started the match slowly, but dominated during the final two sets. Emily Gonzalez and Emma Lucio each added seven kills.

“I saw the block coming in more and our set was on, so I could really hit better than sending it over on a roll shot,” Vasquez said. “But it was definitely my teammates where the openings were. We have a lot of hitters this year, toward the end we connected with our setters and it made a difference. I think we learned a lot about connecting with our setters.

The SaberCats led early in each set but showed their early season rust with attack or coverage errors during spells that kept letting North back into the game. The Cougars won the first set after trailing 14-9, going on a 16-7 run to secure the win Etsel Ramirez, Maye Espinoza and Abriana Cubriel.

“We really had to step up our game on the net, because we couldn’t give them easy access to what they had in that first set,”said Ortega, whose team was realigned to the powerful District 31-5A this season. “(Ramirez) was picking us apart with different types of attacks.

“A lot of it was also us trying to do more things when the ball is on our side of the court. We started recognize they were double blocking our middle and seeing what side they were coming from. Something we need to take advantage of is where are the points and trying not to rally so much.”

The SaberCats not only showed a plethora of hitters, including Samantha Villalobos, Lucio, Gonzalez and Vasquez, but also showed glimpses of running a 6-2 offense at times instead of a 5-1, working with sophomore returning setter Abigail Zamora and freshman Lauren Hanson. The changeup in the rotation also allowed Vela to use more of the hitters.

“Fey holds the block a lot of times and teams know who she is,” Ortega said. “But her selling that block gives us chances to split their block when we send it to the outside.

“We are trying to see what is going to work for us,” Ortega said. “And see where we can get more of our strengths from.”

Vela returns to action for three matches Thursday at the McAllen High Poundfest Tournament. Edinburg North plays at the Donna ISD Tournament, also beginning Thursday.

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UTRGV will host the 2022 Western Athletic Conference Tournament after playing a schedule that features 29 matches, including 11 at home, the school announced Thursday.

This is the second time UTRGV has hosted the WAC Tournament after doing so in 2017. UTRGV welcomed two of the nine largest crowds in program history during that tournament, including a then-program record 1,634 fans for the championship match against CSU Bakersfield, a total that now ranks second, and 1,256 fans for the semifinal match against Utah Valley, a figure that ranked third at the time and now ranks ninth in program history.

In total, the Vaqueros will host 19 matches at the UTRGV Fieldhouse, including matches as part of both a non-conference tournament Sept. 9-10 and the WAC Tournament from Nov. 17-19.

Season tickets, which include tickets to all 19 matches, are on sale now and can be purchased at UTRGVTickets.com, by calling (956) 329-0884 or (956-222-2935), or through email at [email protected].

“We’re super excited to be hosting the WAC Tournament.” UTRGV head coach Todd Lowery said. “The last time we hosted we had a super fun environment, and it was great for our young women to participate in that. I think for the community to see a weekend of championship-style volleyball is so much fun, and to have it here on our campus is great.”

UTRGV opens the season at the North Texas Invite with matches against UNLV, Jacksonville, and North Texas Aug. 26-27 before playing the home opener against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi as part of the South Texas Showdown on Aug. 30.

UTRGV closes out non-conference play with the Red Raider Classic against SMU, host Texas Tech and Oral Roberts on Sept. 16-17 and a trip to UTEP on Sept. 20.

“It’s important for us to have a really competitive non-conference schedule to get ready for WAC play,” Lowery said. “As the WAC continues to develop, we need to continue to develop our non-conference schedule to keep up with it. Having teams like Texas Tech and UTSA on the schedule will be fun. Louisiana just continues to get better. I expect them to be at the top of the Sun Belt Conference this year. We have the showdown against Corpus Christi and a match at UTEP as well. Those were tremendously competitive matches last year. There are a lot of fun matches on the schedule that are going to get us ready for WAC play.”

UTRGV opens WAC play with three straight home matches, including Sept. 24 against Incarnate Word, Sept. 29 against Utah Tech and Oct. 1 against Southern Utah.

UTRGV closes out WAC play Nov. 12 at home against Tarleton.

The top eight teams advance to the WAC Tournament. The winner earns an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

UTRGV won the WAC Tournament in 2016, advancing to the NCAA Tournament for the first time. The Vaqueros returned to the postseason last year, taking part in the National Invitational Volleyball Championship.

	UTRGV 2022 Volleyball Schedule
Date	Opponent	Time
	North Texas Invite
Aug. 26	UNLV at Denton	1 p.m.
Aug. 26	Jacksonville at Denton	4 p.m
Aug. 27	North Texas at Denton	2 p.m.
Aug 30	vs. Texas A&M Corpus Christi	6:30 p.m.
	Sawyer Camillo Memorial
Sept. 2	UTSA at Lafayette, La.	Noon
Sept. 2	Louisiana at Lafayette	7 p.m.
Sept. 3	Ark.-Pine Bluff at Lafayette, La.	9 a.m.
Sept. 6	at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi	6:30 p.m.
	UTRGV TOURNAMENT
Sept. 9	Prairie View A&M vs. Montana	2:30 p.m.
Sept. 9	Montana	6:30 p.m.
Sept. 10	Prairie View A&M	11 a.m.
Sept. 10	Montana	2:30 p.m
	Red Raider Classic
Sept. 16	SMU	10:30 a.m.
Sept. 16	Texas Tech	3 p.m.
Sept. 17	Oral Roberts	11 a.m.
Sept. 20	at UTEP	8 p.m.
Sept. 24	Incarnate Word*	2 p.m.
Sept. 29	Utah Tech*	6:30 p.m.
Oct. 1	Southern Utah*	1 p.m.
Oct. 6	at Sam Houston*	6:30 p.m.
Oct. 8	at Lamar*	1 p.m.
Oct. 13	New Mexico St.*	6:30 p.m.
Oct. 20	at Grand Canyon*	8 p.m.
Oct. 22	at California Baptist*	3 p.m.
Oct. 27	Stephen F. Austin*	6:30 p.m.
Oct. 29	UT Arlington*	2 p.m.
Nov. 3	at Seattle U*	8 p.m.
Nov. 5	at Utah Valley*	2 p.m.
Nov. 10	at Abilene Christian*	6 p.m.
Nov. 12	Tarleton*	2 p.m.
Nov. 17-19	WAC Conference Tournament
	at UTRGV Fieldhouse
Dec. 2-17	NCAA Tournament

* Indicates Western Athletic Conference Match