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As the Richland College men’s 2008 soccer season gets underway, the T-Ducks will start off where they finished last year – as the best NJCAA Division III team in the country.

According to the NJCAA pre-season poll, the defending champions enter this season ranked No. 1.

The T-Ducks, who will be vying for an unprecedented sixth national championship in the past seven years, finished last season with a 16-4-2 record.

Meanwhile, the pre-season poll for the women has yet to be released.

Richland College’s women’s team advanced to the semifinal round of the national tournament last year and has won two (2004 and 2006) of the last four women NJCAA Division III national championships.

The women’s first home game is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 27 against Tyler Junior College while the men are scheduled to host St. Edwards in a scrimmage at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 26.

The first regular season home game for the T-Duck men is at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 12 against Johnson County Community College.  

The chance at possibly winning a fourth NJCAA Division III national championship since 2002 ended Tuesday for the Richland College baseball team, after the T-Ducks allowed Gloucester to score five runs in the final inning, which proved to be the difference in a tough 7-2 loss.

Richland, which finished the tournament in third place, put itself in a position to attempt a comeback in the bottom of the ninth inning after Travis Latz, who finished the game 3-of-4 with one RBI, led off the frame with a single. Two outs later, Latz moved to the third base on a Jeff Sakowski single. However, the potential rally ended there.

Richland, which had an outstanding year, finished the season with a 47-16 record. In the regular season, the T-Ducks had a 24-5 home record and belted 105 home runs as a team.

The T-Ducks were making their seventh apperance at the national championship tournament under head coach Joe Wharton, who coached Richland to three national titles from 2002-2004.

The Richland College baseball team, which is currently ranked No. 3 the latest National Junior College Athletic Association Division III poll, is playing arguably its best baseball as the end of the regular season nears.

With just six Metro Athletic Conference games left in the season, the T-Ducks entered their weekend in first place in the MAC and have won 18 of their last 22 games overall.

Included in the victories were wins in which Richland scored 10 or more runs 10 times.Of the four losses during this impressive stretch, three were to NJCAA Division I teams with two coming from Grayson County College, including Saturday’s 6-4 loss at home. Navarro College also beat Richland.

The T-Ducks are 37-11 on the season.

Richland College baseball team’s winning streak ended Monday after the T-Ducks lost, 12-5, to Navarro College at home.

Monday’s defeat was the second loss of the season to Navarro. It also ended Richland’s eight-game winning streak.

Navarro, which beat the T-Ducks, 10-8, last month, opened up a 12-0 lead before Richland’s late game rally was cut short in the eighth inning when Richland scored all five of its runs.

Richland College’s baseball team combined to score a whopping 64 runs in its three-game series road sweep over Cedar Valley College over the weekend.

The T-Ducks, who as a team had a .391 hitting average entering the weekend, opened the series with a 17-16 win on Friday before taking 29-1 and 18-13 victories on Saturday.

The three victories give Richland an eight-game winning streak – the T-Ducks’ second longest of the season. Richland had a 12-game winning streak earlier in the season.

As of Wednesday, April 2, Josh Christenson and Sean Ablett led the T-Ducks in hitting average, home runs and RBIs. Christenson is hitting .450 with 10 home runs and 52 RBIs while Ablett is hitting .417 to go along with nine home runs and 48 RBIs.On the mound, Casey Mayfield and Phillip Clinard leads Richland in wins with seven and six, respectively.

Richland College’s baseball team won two of three games over the weekend against Eastfield.

After falling 13-10 on Friday to open the three-game series, the T-Ducks responded on Saturday with a 7-0 blanking and a 6-4 victory to improve their record to 4-2 on the young season.

Richard Young of Irving and Phillip Clinard of Rowlet picked up the wins for the T-Ducks, whose next home game(s) is Friday and Saturday when they play a three-game series against Cedar Valley. The First game is Friday at 2 p.m. followed by a seven- and nine-inning game on Saturday starting at 11 a.m.

The T-Ducks also host Hill on Monday at 2 p.m. in a nine-inning matchup.

Richland College’s basketball team picked the perfect time to win their first Metro-Athletic Conference home game on Saturday, when the T-Ducks played arguably their best game of the season in a 100-79 win over Eastfield.           

The 100 points were Richland’s highest-scoring game of the season and the win came against a squad who, at one point early in the season, was the No. 1-ranked NJCAA Division III team.                                                         

Saturday’s victory also snapped a two-game losing streak and improved the T-Ducks’ records to 11-10 on the season and 2-3 in conference play.                 

The T-Ducks were led by Tony Bishop (33 points and 15 rebounds), Antwan Mullins (22 points, 13 assists, five rebounds), CJ Thompson (14 points and nine rebounds).   

Keith Wright also contributed 12 points, seven rebounds, and four assists while Giordan Cole added seven points and six rebounds and Chibuzo Elonu had eight points and six rebounds. 

Richland will try to win its second game in a row when the T-Ducks travel to play Brookhaven in, what on paper, looks to be a tough challenge and, according to T-Duck coach Jon Felmet, “another must-win” conference game.                      

Brookhaven, 19-2 on the season and 4-1 in MAC play, is currently ranked No. 2 in the NJCAA Division III.

Richland College lost its second straight game in Metro-Athletic Conference play on Wednesday, when the T-Ducks fell, 80-76, to Lamar State College. Richland’s back-to-back losses happened for the first time since the first two games in December. The T-Ducks try to get back in the win column at 2 p.m. Saturday, when the T-Ducks host Eastfield.  

For the second time in three Metro-Athletic Conference games, the Richland College basketball team lost a tough game down the stretch at home on Saturday as the T-Ducks fell, 65-62, to Cedar Valley College.

Richland was unable to hit key free throws and make critical plays toward the end of the game and that helped lead to the loss, which dropped Richland to 1-2 in the conference. The T-Ducks were trying to win back-to-back games for the first time since defeating Southwest Christian College and International Sports Federation on Dec. 8 and Jan. 3.

Tony Bishop (20 points, 10 rebounds) and Antwan Mullins (17 points, 10 assists) led the Richland, which travels to Port Arthur on Wednesday to play Lamar State College before hosting Eastfield at 2 p.m. on Saturday.