BASKETBALL
Howard picked to Southland first-team
Central Arkansas junior Jordan Howard was named to the preseason all-Southland Conference first team, the league announced Thursday.
Howard averaged 20.2 points per game, second in the Southland last season, while leading the Southland with 3.4 three-pointers made per game. He broke the school record with 95 three-pointers made, while being named a first-team all-Southland player at the end of last season.
UCA, which was 7-21 last year, was picked ninth in a preseason poll of Southland sports information directors and 11th by the league's coaches.
Sam Houston State was picked as the Southland favorite in each poll.
ATHLETICS
UALR Hall to induct 3 athletes, 2 teams
Former women's basketball player Jocelyn Love, former swimmer Ana Tormo, and former coach and current administrator Richard Turner will be inducted into the school's Hall of Fame, along with the 2001 and 2002 Sun Belt Conference champion men's and women's cross country teams, the school announced Thursday.
An induction ceremony will be held Feb. 4 during UALR's men's and women's basketball doubleheader against Coastal Carolina.
Love was UALR's all-time leading scorer when she finished her career with 1,495 points. She's currently fourth.
Torno twice won NAIA national championships in the 200 butterfly and left UALR holding five school records. She was an all-American in 1985-1988.
Turner was on UALR's swimming and water polo teams in the 1970s and served as coach for both teams. He left coaching in 2007 and is now UALR's senior associate athletic director for compliance and student support.
GOLF
Fox, Norwood win Senior Team
Jay Fox and Wyn Norwood, both of Little Rock, teamed Tuesday to win the seventh Senior Team Golf championship at The Hills at Belvedere in Hot Springs.
Fox and Norwood won the tournament with a 4-over 148, a stroke better than Cal Campbell and Ed Tallach, both of Hot Springs.
Little Rock's Bobby Baker and Ralph Williams finished third with an 8-over-par 152, while Don White of Sparkman and Sam McAlister of Bryant were fourth at 153.
The one-day, 27-hole tournament was played in three nine-hole formats -- Four Ball, foursomes and stroke play -- where each players' individual scores are recorded. Fox and Norwood tied Campbell and Tallach in the Four Ball segment with 1-under 35s. The champions were the low team in foursomes, shooting another 1-under 35, while Campbell and Tallach combined for the best stroke play round, a 2-over 74.
-- Democrat-Gazette Press Services
Sports on 10/28/2016