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Coach Kenny Bizot enters his fifth season as head coach of the University men’s basketball team looking to key returners to lead the team to a win in the first round of the American Southwest Conference tournament.

While the Patriots qualified for the conference tournament in 2010 after going 12-14 overall and 11-9 in the ASC, Bizot and company were forced into a first-round exit by the hands of The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor.

“A first-round loss is always bothersome,” Bizot said.

The men’s soccer team concluded the 2011 Homecoming Week with a 5-0 shutout of the East Texas Baptist University Tigers on Saturday.

Earlier in the week, the Patriots led the LeTourneau University Yellow Jackets 1-0 until a power outage forced officials to declare the game a no contest.

The theme of the week for the Patriots was ball control, and they displayed plenty of it between their two games.

Although faced with a new season and new players, the men’s soccer team keeps the same consistent attitude that led them to three American Southwest Conference victories.

Under the reign of Kenny Jones, head coach, the men’s soccer team has been projected to repeat as ASC men’s soccer champions through a preseason poll.

The Patriot tennis squads ended the 2011 regular season with an unblemished record in the American Southwest Conference, defeating the University of Texas at Dallas and Mississippi College over the weekend.

For the men, this is their eighth consecutive ASC east division conference title.

The University baseball team may have just opened American Southwest Conference play, but they are already in midseason form, collecting their 18th win of the season over East Texas Baptist University.

On Friday, the Patriots won 7-4 and completed the sweep during the double header on Saturday, winning 4-0 and 3-1.

Nick Clifton led the way with four runs batted in for the Patriots.

“It was a huge weekend because the conference season is critical for seeding,” head coach Paul Wyczawski said.

After one season with the University, Joanna Rathbun resigned as the head volleyball coach. The team posted a 16-17 record overall in 2010 and finished 8-9 in the American Southwest Conference.

“We had to start looking for a new coach right away,” Dr. Howard Patterson, vice president for auxiliary services and intercollegiate athletics, said. “The spring is not an ideal time for recruiting or finding a new volleyball coach for next season.”

SAN ANTONIO-The University's men's soccer held the top ranked team in the country to a scoreless battle, only to fall 4-2 in penalty kicks to Trinity University on Saturday night in the second round of the NCAA national tournament.

Jeff Chandler's dominating performance Saturday morning led the University's men's cross country team to their fifth American Southwest Conference title. The Patriots women's team finished third.

The most-recent addition to the Patriot men's soccer team from the Shipman family has Head Coach Kenny Jones seeing double.

The source behind Jones' double vision happens to be Elijah and Enoch Shipman, identical twins, who are freshman this year at the University.