Show w Thursday December Men's basketball team heads into regular season on a good note V r 1 I- -- by Jake Shewmakc men's sports co-edit- or The men's basketball team had a great experience the last two weeks going 1 in the Rick's Tournament winning a home game big then placing third in the Valley of the Sun Tournament over Thanksgiving 1-- CEU 106-Ric- ks 104 Leon "LcCov" CovThe team started off on a great note beating Rick's 106-10- 4 20 The next "Smoke" and Leonard had 34 night they lost a Langdon ington points hcartbreaker to SLCC A Hail Mary shot went in at the buzzer to end the game Nelson "Stretch" Stewart had 32 points while Steven Jennings had 13 points and 8 assists Three players made the team "Smoke" averaged 17 points and 4 12 assists "LcCov" averaged 23 12 points and 5 12 rebounds and "Stretch" averaged 23 points and 18 rebounds CEU Wyoming 75 The Eagles then headed home for a show against Western Wyoming That's what and breakaway dunks the game ended up bcing- -a show There were lots of alley-oo"Stretch” had 30 points and "LeCov” 20 as the Eagles New out the Spartans 104 --73 bus ride That night at 1 1:30 the team headed for Phoenix Ariz a 104-Weste- rn ps 12-ho- ur 76 CEU The team arrived in plenty of time to get refreshed before the first game against the 88-Phoe- host team Phoenix on Nov 23 They throttled Phoenix 88-7- 6 Covington had 23 points Langdon 21 and Jennings had 10 assists On Thanksgiving the team enjoyed a meal at Luby's a restaurant in the Metro City Mall They had a great time and made their own version of DJ Jazzy Jeffs video "Parents Just Don't Understand" They then had a playoff game with UVCC to see who would play for the championship The Eagles lost 113-9- 3 and had to settle for third or fourth the next night Mexico 56 CEU "Smoke" had 21 points and 1 1 rebounds and David Baldwin had 14 points and 7 rebounds as the Eagles thrashed New Mexico 74-3- 6 to finish third overaIl"Stcvcn Jennings and 'Smoke' both played very well" commented coach Beach and went on to say "the Utah teams dominated the tournament with UVCC finishing first and Snow second" in what he called the "Utah tournament" The team is back and should all be healthy and ready to play Friday Dec 2 at SLCC and Saturday Dec 3 at UVCC These are the teams first league games and should be battles The team's two following games are home games against Dixie Dec 9 and Snow Dec 10 74-Ne- w Masters of the Universe and House II finally crowned as champions after controversy by Stacee Pene women's sports co-edit- or The intramural football and volleyball seasons ended in November with House II winning the football championship and Masters of the Universe taking the volleyball crown The championship volleyball was played Nov 10 between Masgame ters of the Universe and Daymen's Demons after a controversial semi-finround The first game of the round pitted Masters of the Universe against Student Government at 6 pm but neither team had a full team show until 6:30 pm The officials wanted to call a double forfeit and claim the winner of the next game as the champion but they consented to the pleas of the two teams and the game was over quickly in two sets The next game featured Daymon's Demons against Session's The match was a long struggle and went a full three sets with Daymon's Demons as the vic al tors The final game was another long three set match with the Masters of the Universe winning the battle Members of the team are Bccki Piacitclli Kelly Branch Ragun Larkin Phyllis Jorgensen Stacee Pene Shawn Buchanon Greg Williams James Lauri-tse- n Kirk Williams and Brad Pace The first game of the semi-finround of football had House II against Student Govcm-mcn- L Student Governand House II moved on ment The next game scheduled The Dukestcn against Masters of the Universe and was forfeited by the Masters of the Universe House II met The Dukesters in the final game the next day It was a long game of turnovers and rough play and House II won 4 Members of the team are Timi Bisqucra Kim Murray Tonya Doutis Darlene Dillcy Todd Funderburk Cory Andcr-pn- n Lance Nielson James Doyle Roney Kctts and Lynn Abplanalp David Ba!dwin(45) Jams Spartans the bal hard as "Stretch "(44) fights for position against the Photo bv Kirsten Christensen al for-feit- ed 16-1- t Oavalasslg shows axdtemant as ha hugs Eagle mascot AngriynAdam8Ptop by 1988 |