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Show B6 MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2007 . Sports THE COLLEGE TIMES Sports schedule Sports briefs Sports on Campus pet 23 Women's Volleyball CROSSCOUNTRY MEN'S GOLF Against Utah, 7 p.m. Oct. 26 Hockey Against Metro State, 830 p.m. at the Peaks Ice Arena Ulah Valley moved up ihrce spots (o fin- It was a dominant team effort for Utah Cct 27 Women's volleyball Against Idaho Sate, 7 p m ish 10th at the Bill Cullum Invitational at Wood Volley as both the Wolverine men and wom- Oct. 27 Hockey Against BYU-ldaho, 8:30 p.m. Ranch Golf Club in Simi Valley, California. Ju- en won first place in the team scoring while nior Nick Ncal finished tied for 9th overall after a sever UV runners had excellent individual Best sports on TV final round 77 put him al +3 overall. It was Neat's performances. The first place finish for the MLB best finish in his short time at Utnh Valley. An- men is the first men's top finish in Utah Val- drew Smith shot even-par 72 for the low round of ley Cross Country's program history1. Utah the day for the Wolverines. Smith finished tied for Valley's women's icam had five runners fin- 66th overall after improving by nine shots from ish in the top-l 0 in route td> the team victory. Monday's second round. JcflfGibson fired a 3-ovcr Ayisha Mitchell once again led the way for the World S«rit i Game 1: • 'Colorado at Boston or Cleveland, TBO on f o x ' ^ College football Oct. 25 No. 3 Boston Coltcg* at No. i i Vlrglnia'TKh, 730 p.m. on ESPN OcL 27 No. 12 California at No. S Arizona State, 8 p.m. check listings N Crazy, crazy college football respectively, in the first BCS standings. The South in front of Florida is no mistake. Yes, South Florida, the Bulls, ranked for the first time ever this year and a program only 11 years in existence, four years fewer Ben Webster than our college has been Sports editor UVSC, has a shot at the national championship. Maybe we should have And of course the Bulls known we were in for a fell as soon as they got the crazy, ridiculous, exciting ranking. season of college football If that doesn't have when Appalachian State you believing this is the beat then-ranked No. wackiest, zaniest college 5 Michigan in The Big football season ever who House the first week of the knows what will. season. Wouldn't it have been If you didn't realize great to see South Florida it at that point, you must inthechampionshipgame? have known when five The way this season is goof the top ten teams went ing it was probably only a down in the same week matter of time before the something was fishy. Bulls fell victim to the upThings were just get- set epidemic, Rutgers took ting started. care of that, as well as the Southern California Buckeyes. went down to, of all the This season, being in Pac-10 teams, Stanford. the top ten only means Louisiana State, the No. I a loss is going to happen team, lost to Kentucky in some time to some inferior overtime opening the door team. for California to take over Oklahoma, which lost as the No. 1 team. to Colorado earlier this Of course that wasn't year, will still be in the mix going to happen. Califor- as well as LSU when the nia lost to Oregon State the end of the season comes. same day LSLJ got beat in The way the BCS works overtime by the Wildcats. those learns probably After another wild and helped their cause by losunbelievable day of up- ing early rather than late. sets, Ohio State and South That is if they can avoid Florida are one and two, another bite from the upset bug. LSU still has a SEC Championship Game to think about. And the Sooners will have to win a Big 12 Championship Game, which could be against currently undefeated Kansas. Kansas, a threat in the Big 12 and this isn't even basketball. It goes to show you the wild ride isn't close to over. It's half over and only four of the week-one top ten teams in the AP Poll are still in the top ten but none of the top three are the same, Ohio State, South Florida and Boston College, all still undefeated. The college football bizzarro world still has a chance to make things right. We could go in the same direction the season has gone down, with teams getting upset on a weekly basis or we could see the college football gods set things right by giving the Buckeyes a couple of losses, South Florida dropping a few on the backend of its Big East schedule and Boston College coming back to earth in the ACC. LSU would reclaim its spot at the top and Oklahoma or USC would be right behind them playing in the Championship game. But who wants to see that? 75 in the final round to finish lied for 30ih at +10 Wolverines as she finished first by 10 seconds overall while Nick Nelson (t-61 si, +16) and Gavin with a time of 15:32.60 in the five kilometer Rice <l-72nd, +18) round out the UV golfers.UC race. Mary Nothum also returned from in- Santa Barbara swept both the team title and med- jury to finish in fifth, while Karinne Bcntley alist honors. Brian Hollenbeck defeated teammate finish strong once again with a third-placed Michael Casca and Southern Utah's Eric Nilsson finish and time of 16:16.60. Trisha Wright by one stroke with a final score of-4. UCSB fin- (sixth. 16:30.80) and Ashley Evans (seventh, ished first, 11 shots better than Portland. Up next 16:48.50) rounded out UV's top-10 finishers. for the Wolverines is the Santa Clara Invitational The Wolverines were also running without one next Monday and Tuesday in San Jose, California. of their top runners as Alcina Eiscnhaucr, who regularly finishes fourth among UV women, suffered an injury prior to the race. On the WOMEN'S GOLF men's side, Chaso linglestead once again fin- Kascy Larson and Ashley Baldwin led Utah ished first among ihe UV runners. Englestead Valley women's golf on the final day of the Aztec finished filth with a time of 23:12.00 in the Fall Classic at Salt Creek Golf Course in Chula eight-kilonu'lcr Vista, California. The two golfers both shot a nine- 23:32.00) anil Derick Moody (ninth, 23:35.70) nicc.Chris Dorton {eighth, over 81 on the day. Echo Thatcher was the top rounded out the top-10 finishers for the men. finisher overall for UV, tying Tor 76th. Larson fin- The men's team's consistency led them to a ished tied for 80th overall. The weekend's sched- 27 to 35 advantage over second-place fin- uled women's golf match between Utah Valley isher Idaho State. The women's team had a and Southern Utah has been postponed. The event dominating 22 to 42 lead over second-place has been tentatively rescheduled for sometime Southern Utah. The Wolverines will have during the spring schedule. The Wolverines will the week off before traveling to Brownsville, w-rap up their fall schedule on November 5-6 at the Texas to compete in the Independent Cham- Cal Poly Invitational in Cypress Ridge, California. pionships on Oct. 27 to finish the season. Making headlines MLB COLLEGE ATHLETICS Joe Torre won four World Series with Nebraska athletic director Steve. Ped- the New York Yankees and took the club to erson signed a five-year contract extension the playoffs oil 12 seasons he was there but before the football season began but he only New York still wanted Torre to take a pay cut. lasted until last week. Pederson .was fired Torre turned down a one-year offer with a S5 after Nebraska's football team suffered its million base salary, $2.5 million less than he worst home loss in almost 50 years to Okla- made last year. The contract offer was some- homa State 45-14. Coach Bill Callahan has what surprising considering Yankees owner also been criticized for the team's poor play George Steinbrenner said Torre would likely this season. Former coach Tom Osbome be out if the Yankees lost in the first round of will take over as interim athletic director. the playoffs. Bench coach Don Matlingly is a leading candidate according to ESPN.com. Addictions Anonymous HOOPS frpm B8 be done. "It's a new year, a new team, a new schedule and a new group of challenges we face," he said. Replacing four seniors starters is a tough task, especially considering the fact that the Wolverines starting lineup was unchanged in their 29 games. "We lost four good basketball players," Huhsaker said. "I made this simplistic comment to my team since the season ended in that I had a group of players who could make a pass to a cutter for an easy basket and they could make a cut to the basket." This year's team has talent, but how they step up into a leadership role won't be determined until the Wolverines first game. "We're a little bit stronger, bigger, faster and quicker," Hunsaker said. "But are we better basketball players." Hunsaker isn't worried about his team and concerns about matching last year's record are not at the forefront of his priorities. "The success of this team is frankly are we Mark Johnston/ College Times able to be competitive at a mid-major level," UVSC coach Dick Hunsaker coaches Jordan Brady (32) and Brett RavenHunsaker said.. Day: Fridays Time: 10:00 AM berg during practice Rehab Do You Want to Work With Athletes? 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