Show Thursday February 15 1990 rr CEU alive in by Dusty Nelman staff writer With the season winding down the Eagles find themselves in a situation that lets them control their own destiny as far as a birth in the n tournament Region 18 The Eagles are currently in eighth place in the region which would assure them a spot in the post season play-off- s if they can hold on to that number eight spot or better This weekend the Eagles are on the road and will take on Treasure Valley Community College and the College of Southern Idaho both Region 18 opponents The cagers win take on TVCC on Friday in a game that will be very important for the Eagles as the Chukars are also vying for one of the last play-of- f post-seaso- hunt play-of- f Against Snow on Friday the Eagles turned the ball over 26 times and shot poorly from the field which wu the big reason for their 7 75-6- loss "We weren't mentally ready" wu the thoughts of Beach on the loss to Snow CEU 82-Dlx- 76 ie Against Dixie on the following night the Eagles broke a losing streak to the Rebels that hu lasted 12 years The Eagles' last victory over the Rebels wu during the 77-7- 8 season under eager coach Curt Jensen It wu an exciting game that came down to the final minutes The Eagles showed great composure and played very sound ball to hold off 6 the Rebels "We played really hard" Beach spots uid "We shot real well didn't turn "We shouldn't have a problem the ball over much and made all our with them if we play well" assistant coach Guy Beach said key free throws down the stretch That wu the big difference” Saturday the Eagles take on The freshmen came to play the number two ranked team in the nation CSI CEU gave CSI a run for against Dixie they lead the Eagles their money in their last meeting in in all categories of the game a site that looked reauuring for iwxt Price and that seems to be a big motivator for the players year’s team Jermaine Haliburfcm lead the Eagles with 19 points while "They (the players) are not Shambric "Pan" Williams pitched in afraid of CSI” Beach said "and in 17 and Kean Johnson added 13 to go diem the last game we played well This should give us good confidence along with his 8 rebounds On the weekend of the Feb 3 going into the game" the cagere faced Salt Lake This put weekend the Eagles 18 Community College and Utah Valley split Regions games by beating the Dixie College Rebels and losing Community College in more Region 89 to the Snow College Badgers CEU took the UVCC it 75 CEU Against 25-ga- 82-7- u 2-- 86-UV- 67-Sno- The Eagle - Page6 w Lady Eagles learn 1 m t iff fit?! 'V $ Wolverines two overtimes to defeat Haliburton 6 the feisty Eagles again lead the scorers with 23 points while Dave Baldwin and Adams threw m 18 and 16 respectively Ivin Sfri I' 89-8- tf "We had them beat in regulation but they didn't call a crucial foul at the end of the game that would have allowed Jermaine the opportunity to win the game” Beach said kCEU m ' i M 1 fjp Kv £ if? s The Eagles next loss came at the hands of the Bruins from SLCC 5 They Eagles were up at half time but failed to come out of the locker room after half and play their 83-7- fast paced game The current Region 18 standings have CSI on top with a 11-1 record followed by Ricks North College at 3 UVCC Idaho 4 Snow 5 Dixie 6 SLCC 7 CEU Colorado Northwest Community College and TVCC rounds out the region with a mark The next three games for the Eagles prove to be very important they face both teams in the region that are vying for the lut spot in the play offs TVCC and CNCC 9-- 8-- 8-- 8-- 6-- 4 6-- 3-- 10 2-- 11 1-- 11 u The Eagles return to home court action Tuesday Feb 20 against CNCC and will wind up the regular season at home against Ricks March 3 and North Idaho March 2 18 road action The Eagles dropped both games by tight scores in games that could have gone either way up until the final seconds "BO” (30) takes It strong to tho hoop for ts against thrss Snow dsfsndsrs a tough homo loss 75-6- 7 photo by Stephanlo Marvldlkli two-poin- In by Team Standings (as of 21390) sports editor The Lady Golden Eagles suffered four trig losses in five attempts but feel a team and expect to come on strong they are starting to play together down the stretch On Jan 30 CEU faced Colorado Northwestern Community College in what turned out to be a battle inside CEU wu able to hold on for a 4 victory with the outside shooting of Allison Jackson who hit for 21 u Word-U- p Jenerics Buckets II 56-5- I 4--0 3-- 1 2--2 Blue Bayou EU Heat Cagers fc--f points Top 10 Scorers (as of 21390) (2 game minimum) 83-4- u u 68-6- r -’ 83 75-SL- through experience how to build strong team spirit Richard lllckmon Radical Chadwick added 11 points and seven rebounds while teammate Tina Sperry popped in eight points of her own Pam Dupin also picked up eight big rebounds On Feb 2 the Lady Eagles traveled to Orem to lake on Utah Valley Community College Eastern Utah wu never able to get into this ball game from the beginning When time finally expired UVCC laid claim to a 9 thrashing Dupin wu the big gun in this game racking up 23 points along with seven rebounds Jackson contributed 13 points and Sperry added five more in a losing cause The next night CEU traveled to Salt Lake to take on Salt Lake Community College but again they were unable to come away with a win On this night Jackson came away the teams leading losing 64-4-4 scorer knocking in 13 points Dupin added eight points and pulled down six rebounds while teammate Barbara Skaggs also kicked in eight points The Lady Eagles next game came on their own home court on Feb 9 the Snow Unfortunately it didn't prove to make much of a difference College Badgers pulled out a tight game with a 4 score Jackson wu the teams leading scorer with 20 points while Sperry buried 17 points Dupin wu held to five points but she made her presence felt on the boards pulling down 12 rebounds (continued on page 7) r- V - 0 rj J t - Jeff Nlalson (10) blows by dslsndsra on his way to tbs hoop In Intramural action but hla taam still fall short against undefeated Word-u- p photo by Staph mlo Marra 2-- 1- 2 -3 0-- 4 |