Show imuiwHBnawr ? JiursdaVUfbruar1131i2g I' Eagles drop two on road by Richard Nielsen sports editor player in double figures was Jason Martin with 20 As a team CEU shot just 35 percent from the field The Bruins from SLGC did not prove to be welcome hosts for CEU the following night as the Eagles again struggled against a team that they are capable of defeating In January CEU defeated UVCC and SLCC by 21 and 19 points respectively To win on the road in Region a team has to play their best This past weekend the Golden Eagles travelled to Orem and Salt Lake City for games with Utah Valley Community College and Salt Lake Community College and played far from the best basketball that they have played this season and as a result came away The Eagles were again unable to with their two biggest losses of execute their game plan and could the year not overcome a SLCC six point Friday night's matchup was lead late in the game as the Bruins billed as the southern champicoasted to a 12 point win 88-7- 6 onship as UVCC and CEU were The loss was the second time of battling for rights to host the rethe year that CEU has dropped two gion tournament A large continconsecutive games as the Eagles gent of Eagle supporters ventured over the hill to see the downfall of fell out of contention in the race for first place in the south CEU CEU as the Wolverines soundly now stands at 8--S in the confer88-7defeated the Eagles 0 ence and 20-- S overall heading into Utah Valley and CEU played final home games of the vear evenly for most of the game as the the Couen again led the Eagles in teams battled to gain the advantage scoring with 21 followed by going into the final minutes The 17 points and Hill's 14 Selvie's Wolverines were able to take CEU Kurt Schneider came off the bench out of their normal game plan to score nine and grab a team-hig- h while drawing five fouls on Kris seven rebounds The Eagles Hill and Johnny Selvie managed only 31 rebounds which Hill was held to a mere five is well below their average points and 10 rebounds both well The Eagles will look to rebound below his average Junsie Gotten this weekend as they play host to led the Eagles in scoring with 29 Snow College Friday and Dixie points while shooting SO percent College on Saturday Both games from the field and 90 percent from start at 7:30 in the BDAC the line The only other CEU 18 Community College Johnny Solvlo goto a vlow of tho ball going through (photo by Garth Frandaan) tha nat from abova tha basket CEU fall to UVCC 80-7- 0 At Utah Vallay n Losses continue for Lady Eagles by Richard Nielsen sports editor When things go bad for the Lady Eagles they really go bad After winning their first conference game of the season against Colorado Northwestern Community College the Lady Eagles have dropped 12 straight league games This past weekend UVCC and SLCC became the latest recipients of the dumping Eagles The Lady Wolverines forced 33 turnovers and came away with a 26 point on Friday The victory 92-6- 6 UVCC team came d into the game with only one loss and were never threatened by CEU sixth-ranke- The only bright spot in the game was the outstanding play of sophomore forward Slcflani Carpenter and freshman center Staci Myers The two combined for 39 points (Carpenter 20 Myers 19) as they hit on 17 of 27 shots (63 percent) Carpenter also pulled down a team high 12 rebounds and added a slot and a block for CEU Myers scored her 19 points while grinding out a team high 36 minutes of playing time Kelle Hansen contributed 8 assists in a losing cause The Lady Eagles shot well from the floor (52 percent) but could not overcome the turnovers and lack of defensive intensity CEU came away with only one Nock and five steals The losing streak continued against Salt Lake Community College as CEU could only manage 41 points while giving up 69 to the Lady Bruins Kim Liddell appeared to be the only player that came ready to play for CEU as' she had a team high 10 points 10 rebounds and seven blocks The freshman out of West Jordan High School convened on four of five shots from the field and made both of her free throw attempts in 25 minutes of action As a team the Lady Eagles did not shoot 50 percent in any category (33 from the field 25 from three-poiterritory and 48 from the foul line) The losses dropped in the conference and CEU to nt 12 6-1- 8 overall Staffanl Carpenter had a great night at UVCC scoring 20 In a toeing effort for CEU (photo by Garth Frsndeon) |