Message-ID: <20216211.1075859417686.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 04:27:04 -0800 (PST) From: j.nesmith@prodigy.net To: j.nesmith@prodigy.net Subject: OOPS! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: "JOYCE NESMITH" @ENRON X-To: JOYCE NESMITH X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Mike_Carson_Jan2002\Carson, Mike\Deleted Items X-Origin: Carson-M X-FileName: mcarson2 (Non-Privileged).pst OOPS! Something went wrong! (See below *) Don't forget our big bowl party Saturday, the 29th at 4 p.m. at the SRO in Northwest Mall. We must send our positive vibes to the team in Phoenix at the Insight.com bowl. Hope we see a lot of you folks out to cheer on the team. The first 15 to sign in will receive a special prize! See you next Saturday. In the meantime, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Be careful when out in this traffic! Joyce and Ken Nesmith ------------------------------------------------------------- *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: December 19, 2001 Contact: Doug Dull, Sports Information Director MARTIN SHOOTS WESTERN CAROLINA TO VICTORY MANHATTAN, Kan. - Freshman Kevin Martin finished with 29 points, including six three-pointers, to lift Western Carolina to a 66-64 victory over Kansas State in a men's college basketball game Wednesday at Bramlage Coliseum. The win lifted the Catamounts to 6-3 overall and was their third straight victory. Western Carolina won at Florida State on Dec. 8 to start the winning streak. Martin also had 29 points in the Catamounts' last outing, a home win over Guilford. The Wildcats fell to 5-4 overall. Gilson DeJesus led Kansas State with 18 points, including a 5-for-7 effort from three-point range. Travis Reynolds chipped in with 13 points and 14 rebounds, his third double-double of the season. Larry Reid had eight points and six assists for the Wildcats. A 15-point run in a five-minute stretch early in the second half helped the Catamounts erase a 45-35 deficit. Casey Rogers had a pair of three-pointers and Martin scored five points in the run that put Western ahead 50-45 with 10:14 left. The Wildcats came back to tie the game four times through the remainder of the second half but never regained the lead. Reynolds scored to tie the game at 60-60 with 2:42 to play. But Rogers hit one of two free throws and Freeman converted a basket after a Wildcat miss to push the lead back to three points. Pervis Pasco hit one of two free throws for K-State with 1:15 left, and made only one of two again after rebounding a Catamount miss with 35 seconds left, bringing the Wildcats within 63-62. Kori Hatcher then hit a pair of foul shots for Western with 21 seconds to play before Terence Woodyard stole the ball for the visitors on K-State's next possession. Woodyard hit one of two foul shots with eight seconds left to put Western ahead 66-62. Pasco made the final basket for K-State with 0.2 seconds left. K-State hit just 31 percent from the floor in the second half on 9-for-29 shooting. The Wildcats, who hit 42 percent from the field in the game, were also cold from the line, hitting only 8 of 19 free throws. The Catamounts hit 54 percent of their shots in the second half and finished with a 15-for-18 mark at the foul line in the game. Kelvin Wylie had seven rebounds to lead Western on the boards. Kansas State travels to 15th-ranked Iowa on Saturday before returning home to play Fairleigh Dickinson on Dec. 29 at 7 p.m.