Show ftve6 April 271995 Sports Eagles drop seven of last eight games by Brooke Griffin staff writer Despite (lie told weather and many eaneella-lM'ii- s The College of Eastern I 'tail’s baseball able In pli eight games in two weeks was learn Although they eoiitiniie to stmggle losing seven inme rcioiuil (Mines Coach Eric Madsen says "we aie t malls suiting lorcalizciliat if we liHisen up and use our talent we eould wm hut it's Iihi late " the local team scoreless for the remaining four innings us they had done in the first game Snow tallied eight runs on a combination of two hit batters a base on balls and some solid hitting in the fifth inning The starting pitcher was Oliver who was relieved by Andy Avila in the third Mike Butcher came on to pitch in the filth Beau and Bovcro both went two lor three in the losing cause CEU 3 Ricks 11 CKll 0 Ricks 10 Pitching w as the name of the game in Rexhurg Papa-Dak- is I’Kl 12 CMC 4 CKl' 4 I'NCC 5 (’id ’split with Colorado Northwest-er- CEU 10 Utah Valley 11 CEU 3 Utah Valley 10 The Eagles came within one run of tying Utah Valley during the seventh and final inning on Tuesday April 25 After trailing 2 in the first inning CEU battled back with three runs in the fourth three in the sixth and two in the seventh while Utah Valley was adding two more to their total in the fourth and three in the fifth The fcigles came up one short after leaving Farnsworth stranded on third base following his two RBI triple his second consecutive three bugger in the 6-- game n 7-- hitting and controlled pitching by Danny (ullies The luigles scored 12 runs on hits in this game while --al lowed tes (ii only four mils on seven hits striking out three halters and rzL t walking none Brent Bowers hit three for four scoring three runs while five separate innings - it-'' Dave Paur head coach for the Eagles Brackett and each Tyson Ryan Lay went two for three scoring two runs says The team has no incentive to win as soon as we realized we were out Overall CEU hatted 387 in this wineffort the playoffs we went downhill of ning The second game turned into a pitchOnly two teams go to the playoffs in dual baseball and the Eagles have no hope with decided the ing game being in the bottom of the seventh inning or goals and there is no way to motivate Snow 16 CFU 5 a team that has no goals” Coach Paur Snow 15 CKU 8 also notes that baseball is an team conAlthough CEU scored five runs on cept “All we have left is individual seven hits during the first two innings goals and you can't win with indiof the first game Snow's pitching vidual goals” On the mound CEU'e Jamie Jefforda hasn't had much success Some of the top statistics for the CEU kept the Eagles scoreless during the as his team continues to drop games Photo by DeFrlez remainder of the game In the meanbaseball team include Lewis with a time Snow scored 6 runs on 14 hits 447 batting average and Guy mon with all run men on three home them leads the team with 20 stolen bases with mon bud is of 429 the was The news including Guy outstanding pitching board Gillies was the starting pitcher hut was while Brackett has seven Bowers five and Lewis theirs not ours In two games versus Ricks Colrelieved in the first inning by Nolan Skiby Ben hits four allowed the were Eagles only eight lege Gaddis came on to pitch in the fourth Oliver went Coach Eric Madsen says “it's the most frustratThey managed to score three runs on five hits in two for three and scored two runs Ix'wis batted the first game but were held scoreless on three ing thing in the world to see a team with so much two for four including a home run and also talent not using it" I le docs add that the team has hits in the second Ricks on the other hand scored two runs tallied seven runs on four hits during the third greatly improved their hitting 2 lead the a Snow second built The CEU baseball team has six games left in the During game inning in (he first game The Ricks Vikings had in the top of the third hut the Eagles answered another big inning the fifth in the second game season They Eagles travel to Dixie College on with six runs of theirown in the bottom of the third Scoring seven runs in one inning CEU is not Friday April 28 and their last home game is on I to take an 5 lead lowcver Snow pitching held anxious return to the Ricks baseball field Satuday April 29 hosting Utah Valley 1 1 Ur 1 1 Papa-Dak- i- 1 5-- 8-- “This community is basketball crazy and it's like coming home" smiled newly named assistant basketball coach Junsic Cotton from Chuvl IlillN'C ill replace (iuy Beach who took over of the basketball program lor the Golden Eagles when Ronnie Stubbs resigned in March Cotton w the reigns An award-winnin- g guard he was named and All-Ar- During the second game Utah Valley's bats made strong statements in innings three and four building up a 0 lead They added one additional run in the fifth and one in the sixth while CEU could only produce three runs in the final two innings including Utah a solo home run by Valley pitchers were key in this contest as they scattered only five hits in Community (olle(!e in Rangcly winning the first game with power Formerplayer comes back to EU as an assistant coach is AII-N- C East in high school w hile averaging 21 points per game lie was second leading scorer in the history of his school Cotton played for CEU from 1991-9- 3 season where he was named and in the shinning guardsmall forward poAll-Regi- sition lie continued his education at Utah Stale University where he attended on a basketball scholarship After he used up his cligiblity Cotton served as a graduate assistant for the basketball program where he helped recruit edit films monitor players attending classes spoke at clinics and coach “on the floor" “I am so excited to coming back to EU" Cotton said This community has always been good to EU's ball teams They look me under their wings with open arms and loved me as a son This is a great basketball town" lie first plans to get rcaquainlcd with everyone I know the faculty staff and many community mcmhcrsThis is a job that I have always dreamed about to spend time under a great head coach in a great program lie said his goal is have the team come out every game and play hard They must defend and rebound and we've got a chance to win a lot of games This conference is so good that any team can win on a given night And EU has always been one of those teams who will he in the nice for first place consistently every year Colton plans to bring a new attitude to EU ball 'T am going to stress players going to class If they don't go to class they arc not going to play no matter how good they arc We want to build quality young men" lie plans to unite the team “I'm not going to tolerate an attitude problem Each team member will know their role and accept it or go home" Eagles go scoreless In second half and drop game to Valley CEU soccer fans slid their way to the soccer field last Saturday to watch their learn go with Utah Valley State College for the second time this season The players looked unified the first half working as a team and keeping UVSC from scoring Grant Neath and David Litvack scored theCEU's goals for the half I lowcver for the Eagle team the harsh physical contact was more than they could handle in the second half letting UVSC slip four goals in the net falling behind 4 Neath received a red card in the second half for riding the referee Throughout the duration oftlie game referees gave out several yellow cards along with another red card u to UVSC player even though the game was not that physical head-to-he- ad 12-ma- n 2-- between the teams Many of the fans vocally indicated that this ever game was the least physical game tliey watched Since this is only the second game of the season there wasn't much action on the side lines and the (cam would like to see more fan support at their home games Assistant coach Litvack said there arc a lot of guys on the team who are novices to the sport and continually working hard to improve their game and skills Tlic first lime they matched up with UVSC they tied 2 Chad lopcz came away from that game making both goals Neath with assists The team has been going through some changes after their goalie broke his little finger during tlieir first game however with replacement goalie the team is learning new game plays and skills Soccer is a sport whose players do not receive this scholarships the players have to 2-- pay-to-pl- sport This weekend CEU heads to Logan Assistant coach and player David Utvak moves the ball down the fleldJPhoto by Sitterud |