By Ciara Gaines, KTXT-FM, Sports Director
Here’s your sports update for November 5, 2014.
Texas Tech Junior soccer forward Janine Beckie was named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the year Monday, the conference announced. Beckie, along with five other Red Raider soccer players won Big 12 player awards. Beckie led the conference during the regular season in points (29), goals (13), and shots (103). She is the first Red Raider in program history to receive the award. Seniors Jaelene Hinkle and Paige Strahan, along with Beckie, made the All-Big 12 First Team, while Lauren Watson and Hannah Devine made the second team. Freshman Cassie Conarty made the All-Newcomer team. Hinkle was a unanimous selection to the first team. She has been named to one of the All-Big 12 teams in each of her four seasons at Tech. Tech will open the Big 12 Championship versus Texas at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at the Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City. Zach Curtis will be calling the game live on KTXT beginning with a pregame show at 1:30 p.m.
Tech volleyball is also in action tonight. The Red Raider volleyball team takes on Texas at the USA at 6 p.m.. The Longhorn volleyball team is currently ranked number five. Tech is looking for it’s first win over the Longhorns since the 2000 season, in which the Red Raiders won both meetings. Last time the two teams met, the Longhorns defeated the Red Raiders 3-0. No matter the outcome of tonight’s match, Tech will finish with a winning record, their first since the 2001 season. The match will be broadcast on KTXT, with the pregame show beginning at 5:30 p.m.
The Tech Men’s basketball team kicked off their season Monday night in an exhibition game versus Southeastern Oklahoma State, beating the division II team 79-67. Senior Robert Turner led Tech is scoring with 19 points, while Randy Onwausor (on-wah-sore) put up 13 in the game. The Red Raiders will play their next and final exhibition game on Saturday at the United Supermarkets Arena versus Texas A&M Commerce. Regular season begins on November 14 at 8 p.m.
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson is avoiding jail time after accepting a plea agreement in his child abuse case. The former NFL MVP says he’s ready to move on and pled no contest on Tuesday. Judge Kelly Case placed Peterson on two years’ probation, fined him four thousand dollars and ordered him to serve 80 hours of community service. Peterson was indicted by a grand jury after being accused of using a switch to discipline his four year old son, leaving the boy with lacerations and cuts on his body.
Prosecutors have appealed the conviction and sentence given to South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius. Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison on October 21 for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius was acquitted of murder but found guilty of culpable homicide in September. Under South African law, Pistorius will have to serve at least one-sixth of his sentence – 10 months – before he can ask to be considered for parole.
And finally, WNBA star Brittney Griner was reportedly cut near the elbow by a man in Shenyang, China on Monday. Griner did not need to go to the hospital after she and two teammates were walking from the practice arena when a man with a knife began screaming and swinging the knife toward the women. Griner was caught on the elbow by the knife, which slightly nicked her skin. Her agent said because she was wearing a jacket, the knife barely cut her skin and she did not require stitches.
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