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STILL A FEW IHSA SHOWS LEFT IN CALENDAR YEAR Though the Holiday Tournament of Champions contains schools from 23 colleges, 18 regions and 8 zones, their are still some schools competing in normal, regular season IHSA shows in other locales this weekend. Purdue, the high point hunter seat team for the year in whatever region they have been a part of since the 1991-92 season, find themselves trailing St. Mary of the Woods for the lead in english points headed into a pair of shows hosted by Taylor University this weekend. The Zone 9, Region 1 hunter seat battle is far from over, as five shows will take place in early 2005. Oklahoma State hopes to catch Texas A & M at a pair of stock seat shows. The cowgirls, who were high point stock seat team in Zone 7, Region 2 last season, host this weekend. While Oklahoma State hopes to make up the 17-point deficit, Stephen F. Austin and West Texas A & M look to lasso the cowgirls, who lead SFA by a point and the buffs by three points so far in 2004-05. Though they have been out of action for over a month, Stock Seat riders in Zone 4, Region 1 gather again at Clay Hill Stables for a pair of shows on Sunday. American University will host the opener while Johns Hopkins will host the second show. The University of Maryland has EASILY won this region every season since Western was introduced four years ago, though St. Mary's College of Maryland is making strides, trailing the equiterps by only 16 headed into these shows. Southern California is the site for western on Saturday and english on Sunday. Shows have been postponed in Zone 8, Region 2 due to weather issues on more than one occasion so far this season. If all goes well, San Diego will try to chip away at the Cal Poly - Pomona lead on Saturday while everyone will stay in the race on Sunday. Twelve points separate first from sixth in the Region 2 hunter seat team standings, though Sunday's show will be only the second for english riders in 2004-05. Perhaps the most interesting show of the weekend will be at Paterson Stables in Penfield, New York. Though we at Campus Equestrian do not have solid information, there is a rumor that Syracuse was leading Zone 2, Region 2 through the first two shows hosted by Alfred. If the orange are still ahead, it would mark the first time a team other than Cazenovia or Saint Lawrence led the region after more than one show. Keep in mind that Cazenovia hosted a show on November 20th, the results of which we do not know and that Saint Lawrence will host the next-to-last IHSA hunter seat show of the calendar year next Saturday (The University of San Diego will host a day later, closing the book on IHSA shows until mid-January). Information on the Tournament of Champions can be found elsewhere on this site. We at Campus Equestrian would be remiss if we did not mention that three current and former IHSA riders will also be in action this weekend. However John Pigott of the University of Vermont, Jessica Long of Boston University and Amy Lowrey of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will be many hours ahead of us, riding in the World University Equestrian Championships in Tokyo, Japan. In the most recent preliminary show in Hamburg, Germany, the USA team of Pigott, Long and Lowrey placed fourth out of sixteen teams. All in all, a pretty busy weekend for the IHSA considering the turkey was finished over a week ago. ---Steve Maxwell
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Regions Holiday Tournament of Champions at Centenary College
Equestrian Center, Long Valley, NJ 9:00AM ENGLISH ONLY
Zone 7,
Region 2 Oklahoma State University (Host) on campus at the
Animal Science Arena, Stillwater, OK 9:00AM WESTERN ONLY