KINGSVILLE, Texas – Coming away with a stellar weekend on both fronts for the Texas A&M-Kingsville track and field and women's basketball programs, redshirt senior
Richard Cervantes (Mission, Texas) and redshirt freshman
Bri-Anna Soliz (San Angelo, Texas) took home the 20th iteration of the IBC Bank Player of the Week honors for the second week of the 2019 calendar year.
Cervantes turned in yet another dominating performance for the Javelinas during the indoor season, this time coming in the form of two NCAA Provisional Qualifying marks at the Ted Nelson Invitational in College Station, Texas.
The Mission, Texas, native took first in the shot put for the second straight meet with a heave of 55-4.25 (16.87m) for his first provisional mark of the day. Cervantes fell just short of his mark at the Crimson & Gold Invitational back in December of 57-2.75 (17.44m), which is currently the seventh-best throw in the NCAA at the Division-II level.
The Sharyland H.S. product followed that performance up with a toss of 58-6.75 (17.85m) in the weight throw to finish fourth in the event, besting his previous mark of 57-5 (17.50m) set in Pittsburg, Kan., to open the 2018-19 campaign. It was Cervantes' second provisional mark of the day, first of the season in the event, and he presently sits 21st on the indoor performance list in the event at the Division-II level.
For the Javelina women's basketball program, Soliz tallied the first double-double for the program in the 2018-19 slate with 13 points on a .800 clip and a season-high 15 rebounds to go with one block in the thrilling 86-84 win over then-No. 2 West Texas A&M on Thursday, January 10. She followed that performance up with a nine points, six rebounds, two steals and a block in the loss to Eastern New Mexico to wrap up the weekend of play.
The San Angelo, Texas, native is currently averaging 5.3 points and six rebounds per outing in 2018-19 for the Javelinas. She is riding a nine-game streak with at least five rebounds and has breached the double-digit plateau in points twice on the year, first in a 90-67 win over Texas A&M International on December 17 in Laredo, Texas.
The Javelina track and field program has the week off and will return to competition on January 25, in Lake Charles, La., for the McNeese State Indoor II meet. The women's basketball program makes the long trek west to take on Western New Mexico on Thursday, January 17, before paying a visit to UT Permian Basin on Saturday, January 19.
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