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Show Your Sports PAGE-B7 MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2005 Exciting to watch Talking about UVSC baseball with coach Steve Gardner Landon Smith Sports Writer Coming into his fifteenth season as head coach of the Utah Valley State baseball team, Spanish Fork native Steve Gardner is excited about playing a full schedule of Divison I competition and moving into a new ballpark. During his playing days, coach Gardner was the Most Valuable Player at Weber State in 1968 and 1969 and he signed a professional contract with the Houston Astros in 1971. Gardner was assigned to the Western Carolina league where he won the batting title with a .343 batting average. I had a chance to visit with coach Gardner in his brandnew office at Parkway Crossing Stadium and discuss the season and the excitement of playing in one of the nicest college baseball facilities in the country. College Times: Tell me a little bit about yourself and how you ended up at UVSC? Coach Gardner: Well this is my fifteenth year at Utah Valley. I spent eight years at Snow College, and another seven years at Bonneville High School. I guess you can say that I have been around a little while. ' three games that we played against them, but the conditions and weather played a part in our losses. CT: Your pitching seems to be one of your weaknesses this season. How is that coming along? CG: We would like to get our pitching a little more 1 1 •?*•*'' >*.'- S • • - ' -: ^ t, ^ ^ ^ - • • i " &&' :'••'•* i !, V * i n ll % ( « Utah Valley State College /ma* Weekend College • 5 * Call # CG: I don't feel great about it. We are working at it and we have lost some pitchers to injury and that has hurt us quite a bit. We have always started the season off slow because we play a lot of good teams early and were on the road quite a bit. We won three out of four in our first home stand, so it's just tough to get a real good record when your playing the first month away from home, but the schedule will be friendlier to us the rest of the season. CT: Your team has been hitting the ball really well this season, but you have not been able to correlate those runs into victories. Could you talk about that? CG: We always thought that we could score runs and our approach at the plate is that we want to hit a lot of hard ground balls, line drives and hope that they hit the gap and get us some extra bases. But our guys have hit the ball really well against some good pitchers this year. We always say keep the score five or less and we have a chance to win, but we have not had many games where it has beenfiveor less. We could have beat Washington in two of the July 16 Coureo TTtle Coumo (D/Sec Time Bay Blda Room Inttructor SCHOOL OF BUSINESS 11159 MGMT 2200 WF1 Written Business Comm 3 S 8:00 am - 11:45 am BU 272 Staff Human Develop/Life Span 3 S 8:00 am- 11:45 am LA 208 James Bushman SCHOOL OF EDUCATION 10597 ECFS 1100 WF1 - SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES, ARTS, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ChadClark/NetXNews Coach Gardner is looking for improvement from his team. consistent. Jed Jensen has had games where he has pitched really well and games where he hasn't. We think Kam Mickolio has started to turn the corner. He started out real slow and inconsistent and now he's throwing more strikes. 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Lynn Jensen tice you know why he is having a good year. He always gives a 100 percent and he runs around like every play is in a real game. That type of work ethic and having a great attitude makes him the type of player he is. Trent started out the season really well and he had 16 RBIs in a weekend series with Air Force. That's just unheard of. He has 35 RBIs now and that's more than he had all last year. His approach has been a lot better as well. Hitting for us has been epidemic. Either we hit the ball hard or we don't and that has made us a little bit inconsistent. 3 s 8:00 am-11:45 am SB 206 Staff s s 8:00 am-11:45 am SB 115 Staff 8:00 am -1:00 pm SB 015 Jolene Young s s 8:00 a m - 11:45 am SB 102 Charles Payton 8:00 am - 10:30 am PE 103 Steve Fabis 8:00 a m - 11:45 am SB 203 K.C. 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It's fun to play them because I have a lot of my old players on there team and it's fun to watch them as well. _ - A A. A. 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CT: How nice would it be to beat BYU April 4? ; SCHOOL OF GENERAL ACADEMICS CO CG: It has been a great thing for us. We have played a lot of big time schools this spring and nobody has had the facilities that we have. If we can get our scholarships up to where they need to be, every year we will improve and we can build something special here. Jerry Day SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH "If we can get our scholarships up to where they need to be, every year we will improve and we can CG: Kory is just a build something special great player. If you here." , ever see him in prac- CT: Your record in your first 30 games is 9-21, how do you feel about the season so far? session n i M a y 7(10 week) CT: Kory Drew and Trent Perry have received some recognition for their seasons so far. 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