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Show Softball dominates in season-opener BY TALITA AGUIAR Dixie Sun Staff Writer On Saturday, DSC beat Colorado Northwestern and again Sundquist went with two RBIs, Miller scored two runs, and Gleicher had 7-- 2 8-- 0 The Dixie State College softball team started conference play at home last weekend, winning all four games against Colorado Northwestern Coach Randy Wilstead said the Lady Rebels played Friday and Saturday, twice each day, with great results At the first game on Friday, the Rebels scored and later they won another one, According to a DSC press release, m game one, lead-of- f hitter Dabney Sundquist went with an RBI, and Jena Ogawa went 3 for-14-- 8-- 0 3 Tyson Mackay scores a run to help the Rebels defeat Salt Lake Community College last weekend. It was the seasonopener for returning champions. Rebels roll over SLCC Bruins BY KYLE BOWEN Sun Staff Wnter Dixie The Dixie State Rebels baseball team snapped out of a recent funk by beating the Salt Lake Community College Bruins four times last weekend The Rebels only gave up a total of six runs during the set, winning and four-gam- e 2-- 8-- DSC 2-- 1 5-- 3 SWAC) dominated SLCC with (8-- 4-- 0 pitching, with all four pitchers used, throwing complete games In the first game of the series, freshman Chad Povich ) used a 94 mph fastball to overpower SLCC's hitters He threw just 90 pitches, throwing a for 5 23 scoreless innings He wound up allowing two hits and three walks, while strikingI out five in the shutout was trying to throw ground balls, Povich said I can't do it myself I have to get these other guys involved I've got to throw strikes and get these hitters swinging DSC head coach Mike Littlewood said he was also impressed with his young pitcher He came out and set (2-0- That's all we can really control is what we do set an aggressive tone SLCC's SWAC) starting pitcher, Nick was almost Ison, equally impressive He also allowed just two hits, but gave up two unearned runs on a throwing error by shortstop Tyler Ray He struck out four and walked one in six strong innings The Bruins were led offensively by Jeremy and Derrick Thomas, who each had one of the Brums' hits In the second game, DSC pitcher Nick Walters ) allowed just four hits and two unearned runs in seven strong innings for the win He walked four and struck out two The Rebels came out swinging, banging out 10 hits, including four for extra bases Catcher with Nick Beghtol was a pair of singles and an RBI, and Tyler with a douHardt was ble and two RBIs SLCC had support from Jeremy with Thomas, who was the team s only RBI DSC pitcher Chad Barben ) picked up the win in the third game, th- owing seven strong -- (8-- 0-- 4 (1-- (1-0- 2-- 3 left-field- 2-- 4 first-basema- n (1-1- three unearned runs, struck out nine, and walked three Bruins pitcher Ryan one of Zimmerman the top m the league, allowed five runs, but only one earned, taking his first loss of the season In the losing effort, he struck out 10 batters and walked just two was The big match-uZimmerman and Barben, Littlewood said Both did a great job Centerfielder Braden Wells was for the Rebels, and Beghtol, r Ray Wright, and second baseman Jimmy Scholzen drove in (2-1- with two RBIs DSC's Shandy VanOrden followed smgles by Cark Jones and Amy Gleicher with an RBI In game two, the Rebels utilized a trio of effective pitchers Sophomore Tiffam Hemphill started the game m the circle and found her strike m the second inning, settmg down the Spartans m order before giving way to Jessica Allen, who retired all seven batters she faced with two strikeouts Tiffany Miller finished the fmal of the fifth inning Wilstead said during the games, the Rebels' pitchers were not domg very well, but m those four games they did a great job, improving their participation with the team two-thir- pre-seaso- n two RBIs We had a great defense, and in four games, they just scored two runs," Wilstead said And we also played well offensively He said he did not see a lot of differences among those games because the team played consistently The only game that we had errors was m the last game on Saturday," he said We gave up two runs Wilstead said everyone played very well, contributing to the victories, and he also said Sundquist was the player of the week She hit the ball very well m all four games, he said The Lady Rebels' next games will be at home agamst North Idaho College on Friday at p m and on Saturday at noon Wilstead said the team will contmue working hard to keep winning the games He said the game agamst NIC will be hard because they have a good team He said NIC won four games last weekend playing agamst Snow College He said, Definitely, NIC is a better team than Colorado Northwestern, so we cannot relax because the games will be difficult 1 p 3-- 4 right-fielde- runs SLCC s Cole Anderson and Jeremy Thomas were each In the finale, DSC used stellar pitching from who Chris Reap threw seven innings and gave up one unearned run He also struck out two and walked two Reap was backed by with a Hardt, who was and pair a singles, with Beghtol, who was an RBI DSC will host the College of Eastern Utah this weekend, while SLCC hosts the College of 2-- 4 (2-0- ), 2-- 2 The Lady Rebels slid past Colorado Northwestern to kick off conference |