THE OCCASIONAL ORBITER
Tuesday September 3, 2002                                         Vol.86

    Hi, hello and welcome fellow Cowboypersons of the Space variety to this 
highly intesified edition of your occasional reading.


                  **** 'Boys Lose Number Two (2) ****

    The Space Cowboys dropped their second game of the season last Tuesday 
night when they fell to the "thuggy thuggs" of the Smokies sixty-two (62) to 
fifty-two (52).
    The 'boys pretty well kept themselves in the "thick of things" for the 
majority of the contest.  They just could not get over the proverbial hump 
to gain any ground on the defending champs (times two), the Smokies.  Once 
they pulled the lead out to ten points, midway through the first half, it 
remained that way until the final buzzer sounded.
    The Cowboys, as a team, did struggle quite a bit though from the field.  
This game was only the second time in which they failed to shoot at least 
forty (40) percentn (%) from the floor.  Both times resulted in a loss.  In 
a season when the home team is on pass to break the club record for field 
goal percentage, they need to keep their heads up and play smart even 
against tough competition.  That has been somewhat hard to do of late, with 
the "complete" team not being present for a few weeks now.
    "Big Man" Ben Keene's absence finnally caught up to them.  Without any 
sort of inside presence, they become even more a one dimensional three poit 
shootingn team.  Come back BMBK, come back.


                 **** Box Score September 3, 2002 ****

Name        No.   Fgm   Fga   3ptm   3pta   Ftm   Fta   TP
K.Lubbers   10     0     1      0      1     0     0     0
N.Lubbers   23     7    13      3      7     2     2    19
Jeffries    24     4    11      4     11     0     0    12
Ash         30     3    10      3      9     0     0     9
Boyer       33     2     8      1      5     0     0     5
Schickling  34     3    13      1      7     0     0     7
Keene       44     -     -      -      -     -     -     -

Totals     198    19    56     12     40     2     2    52

                     34%          30%          100%

Attendance: 5 (Batsche, Elsbernd, Moser, Sears, Thomas)

Season Attendance: 38

Special Thanks to Scorekeeper Christina Batsche



          **** Next Game (today) Tuesday September 3, 2002 ****

    The Space Cowboys will renew their rivalry with "Elite Eight" aka 
"thuggy thuggs of the mmmrrrr variety" tonight, Tuesday September 3 at 9 
P.M. at Sports of All Sorts in Florence.  Theses two clubs will be making 
their second appearance against each other this season and third overall.  
The Space Cowboys are up two (2) wins to none (0) including a fifty-three 
(53) to thiry-nine (39) victory in the first game of the Summer Season.
    This rivalry has a little more history to it than just those two (2) 
games though.  To start off with, John Rasp, a member of the "Elite Eight" 
was made an offer to remain with the Cowboys through this Summer Season.  
Mr. Rasp declined and was immeadiatly placed on waivers.  Soon thereafter he 
joined up with his current team with hopes of more playing time and scoring 
opportunities.  There are also two other members of the Elite Eight who were 
at one time "Space Cowboys".  Jeff "MMrrrr" Elsbernd and Daniel Gerwe were, 
years ago, part of what would become the Space Cowboys.  With that and all 
mojority of the rst of the team "aquaintances" with the home team, this is 
bound to be a very intense matchup.
    So come on out to the "big arena by the highway" to enjoy some 
fundamentally sound fantabular and spectaculous basketball.  It all goes 
down tonight, Tuesday September 3 at 9 P.M.  Doors will open at 8:29 with 
pregame festivies following at approxamatly 8:48.


                        **** News and Notes ****

    It has been confirmed that "Big Man" Ben Keene will be making his 
triunphant return to the Space Cowboys in tonight's matchup....Jeremy 
Jeffries put a temporary end to his shooting woes with his 4/11 
night....Lance Schickling struggled terribly for the first time as a cowboy. 
  He is expected to make a strongn return....Upon reaching the Elite Eight 
for a comment on tonight's game all that was understood was, 
"MMmrrrrwewanttowinmrrrr."



    We here at the Occasional Orbiter would like to apologize for the 
tardines of this edition.  Due to circumstances beyond our control we could 
not get your occasional reading out for your viewing pleasure any earlier.  
We will do our best in the fiture to avoid this problem.  Thank you.
    That will be all for this edition, but you can gurantee you won't have 
to wait a week for the next one.  If you just can't get enough fo the Space 
Cowoys check them out on the web at http://www.geocities.com/spaceranch2001.



                             Editor-in-Chief

                           Nick "Stud" Lubbers

                                mmmmrrrrrr