Show Section Sunday November 16 2003 Page The Herald Journal 1 advance to National race Nielson Johnson ' ' time which if knowledgeable forer ' three seconds behind her cists prove correct wasn't going to Johnson’s 13th-plafinish at the be enough to advance to the NCAA NCAA Mountain Regional at River- ‘ v Cross Country Championships side Golf Courseshhuld be The coaches knew what enough to advance to the ' needed to be done USU assis- Nov 24 championship race in Cedar Falls Iowa tant Steve Reeder even point- ed to q spot a few runners "She was going after ahead of Johnson and barked said Aggie head coach' them” Aggie That's where yoii need to be" cross country Oregg Gensel about' John- A few kilometen? latc“ son's pursuit of McAllister Johnson powered her way to the fin- and Lee " She finally caught them with about p little less than a (kilo- ish line! Her time1 was 21 minutes' 403 seconds for the 6K rape' meter) to go You could see the ' : determination in her face to finish Thctwo she was chastng were ahead of them" ' Funny because Johnson really wasn'tsure who she’ was going after' ' "I saw groups of people in front of me and (the coaches would point at them"' Johnson said "I didn't even o ' know they were pointing at until after the nice Just more people in front of me to beat'-1How you qualify forNationals is ai ' complicated proLessfAt each oflhel regional meets the top two teams advance automatically: Since the ce post great times at Regional meet ' - - By David Cordero sports writer " i- ' v Jazz can't make it RIVERDALE — Utah State’s ' Ashley Johnson trailed Abhy1 McAllister of Nevada and Ariana Lee of ' Montana State about halfway through Saturday morning’s race' She was running about 15th at the two road B3 a row wins in i Sports briefs ' - ' ' ' jCf: ’ ' ’ SccTWOonBS Aggies sweep CSF Utah Staie put behind a disappoint- ing loss to UC Riverside Friday and thumped host Cal State Fullerton Sat- ' urday 30-1- 8 30-- : The Aggies’ sweep (30-2- 5 their conference record 8 evens at 22) “We woe pretty down after (Fri- day’s) loss but I thought they bounced back” USU coach Burt Fuller said Senior Erin Cartwright led the ' Aggies with 17 kills (343) while freshman Beth Hodge contributed 10 ' Sophomore Ingrid Roth was in Fuller’s words'on fire’’ hitting 714 on seven attempts before exi ing in the second game with an ankle injury Taubi Neves and Andrea Delsigne bad 13 digs apiece 76 ' With two solo blocks Cartwright' Cox injury 7 turnovers costly in loss to Trojans 8-- ' : ' By Shawn Harrison sports editor It also didn't help that Cox went down on the first play of the third quarter: Lined up in ' the It Wasn't the shotgun the snap rolled on eliding i exactly the ground toward Cox tn a Utah State had hoped for Sat-- 'urday In fact it was more like" mad scramble for the ball the- ' it nightmare Aggie signal caller was hit hard on the shoulder and trotted off Seven turnovers an injured the field holding his neck! runanopposing quarterback He laid down once he ning back gainingmore than reached the sidelines The game 200 yards and the end result 'was halted for more than ip being a loss in front of 9291 minutes as an ambulance wis fans (paid attendance) No it summoned Cox was loaded bn wasn't a' very good senior day a backboard and transported to for the Aggies iri their final ' : ' Romat Logain Regional Hos- appearance pital for tests When ney Stadium this year: UTAH STATE he left he had neck "We lost the one FOOTBALL : u'y who we obvious- pain and had lost feel-' 23 afford to couldn't ing on his right side It Trojans y a Aggjes 14: was later announced ose" said USU head hadn't turned coach Mick Dennehy and after his Aggies fell to Troy feeling had up anything " : returned : side State 23-1- 4 right ibjtis "(Quarterback) is1 all hope Cox OK" Travis (Cox) the way he com- petes always gives us a chancev We made it so hard ourselves by not being able Before exiting thfe game Oqx harig on tothe foptbalL" hbd interand three passed for 140 yards r Four fumbles much too to pass attempts' He had cbptjons proved 'Vj nlnn L‘m Lnll Taiiw lamad fA' f Ji Lf lL J - 'V' in moved into school history with 59 passing Denae Mohlman’s 57 (1997-2Q0- ' '' 0) 'Saturday's scores v 5 footballl4 S Troy State 23 Utah State Notre Dame 33 BYU 14 - :' New Orleans 101 Portland 79 c Milwaukee 1 00 Utah95 98 Chicago 90 I'M: Seattle Detroit lOO Phoenix 91 Ui i :vV ' v & V'x&'t iri the New Jersey 5 NY Rangers O ' ' - r St Louis 1 Los Angeles 0 Boston 2 Vancouver 1 OT vMontreal 3 Ottawa 2 ' : C 1 2 Carolina Washington PHtadelphia4 AflantaO : - v Florida 3 Pittsburgh 2 ? Detroit 1 Minnesota 1 tie " ' Nashyille 4 NY Islanders 3 Cotoradd 3 Dallas 0 Toronto 2 $an Jose 2 tie ' :Vl Edmonton 2 Calgary 1 OT ’ rr ’ - s : AHL Manitoba 3 Utah : world just when you j " ' staid making some headway as far as penalties are concerned (only three for 25yardsSatur--day- ) it seems like thereis - come had been decided and had another leak that breaks open ‘attertipted just four passes Black: for 56 yards and in the dike Dennehy said "If was tossed all threb interceptions someone had told me that the : "Asking a young inexperi- guys whp fumbled tonight were' going to I would have enced guy like Bryan tobring ' said ’Ndway'The guys have ' "x ' ” on SENIOR See B2 been so just steady - 23-1- d 4 Fla Talk about your Trojan horses Saturday afternoon at Romney Stadium Troy State rode junior ' running back DeWhitt Betterson hard and put him away w et And cold And a little bit winded But despite playing in weather 30 degrees cooler than that cur- rently found in southern Alabama at an altitude more than Mitch MascaroMerald Journal Utah State defenders stop Troy State's DeWhitt 4000 feet higher than that of Betterson short of the goal line Saturday Troy Betterson managed to gal- - v 'GOLF ’ " SC CBS — PGA Tour Franklin Templeton Shootout final round atNaptes Fla TGC — LPGA Mobile Tournament of Champions final round at Mobile Ala : NFL 11am FOX — Washington at Carolina pm C8S — San Diego at Denver FOX — Green Bay at Tampa Bay 30 pan ESPN — Dalas at New England : 230 pm ROOGO NBC — PBR Mohegan Sun tional at UncaMBe Com Invita- ' ESPN — ATP Tennis Masters Cup Houston championship WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 1230 pm ESPN2 — Tip Off Classic Texas vs DiAe at West Lafayette Ind ESPN2— Tip Off Classic Kansas SLat Purdue "He is just so big and strong" USU head coach Mick Dennehy said of the Trojans' workhorse "I thought he made some nice runs when we ' didn’t wrap him up We had him stopped acpupte of times for little or no gain then he breaks loose’ "If you don’t keep him wrapped up he’s that kind of player" Although the Aggies had some idea of Betterson’s abilities — he did after all run for 107 yards in ot USU’s win last year at Troy — there’s simply no comparisonbetween the sophomore who car- ried the ball just 13 times and the junior w ho got the icall an aston- ishjng 46 times: "He really improved from last ' :year" USU nose guard Ronald Tupea said of Betterson "We did-n’t think he was much oif a factor last year hut this year he came out ran a good game and we " w ere for much of it" During Troy State's second : defeat of the Aggies World ABC — PGA Tour-WG- C Cup final round at Kiawah Island SpjR school-recor- - 11am pm lop his way to a 230 yanhf in TSU's By Joff Hunter sports writer PBA Greater Philadelphia ' Tony win NASCAR Winston Cup am ESPN Open pass' intended for Utah State receiver : BOWLING 2 Mitch MascaroHeratd Journal State's Adrian Ghent left intercepts-Pennyman Saturday at Romney' Stadium- Troy' ' 1 ' Ford 400 at Homestead 2 r ' NBC 11 ' test He had appeared in four "games butonlyafterthebut-- -' AUTO RACING ain-- ! Redshirt freshman Bryan Black came on to fiiiLsh the cod- - On television '11 ' ’ LA Clippers 95 Orlando 92 y "e ori’ MemphislOSDailaalOlOTr w : r New Jersey 100 Atlanta 85 v" ' San Antonio 95 Washington 71 £ j&sa V Indiana 95 New York 94 Cleveland 91 Philadelphia 88 OT z V? f NBA S i : Utah 47 Wyoming 17 V': ft Weber State26f Sac State 14 Southern Utah 40 7 ' 218-pou- nd i - aim-tackli- -- See RIDE on B4 Season over for Pi rates Wendell D too strong By Jason TUmor sports writer POCATELLO Idaho — If one would have told West Side head football coach Lyle Henderson his Pintes would hold a vaunted Wendell team to 225 yards of total offense Saturday afternoon he would have probably taken it in a heanbeaL 4 - Unfortunately for the Pirates the Trojans made sure it wasn't enough for West Side to knock diem from the ranks of the unbeaten Wendell’s defense was up to the task as welL forcing five West Side turnovers while holding a potent Pirate running attack to 87 yards en route to a 16-- 0 victory in the semifinals of die Idaho 2A State Tournament at Hoh Arena "We bent quite a bit (on defense)" Tro- jan head coach Jerry Diehl said "At times it looked like we couldn't stop anybody and then all of a sudden our kids stepped up and did their job" Thanks to the Wendell D the Trojans See OVER mi B4 ftMSMwsMnkIJouma West Side's Share Ralphs left is held up by Wenders Tyrol Davis Saturday afternoon in Pocatefto Idaho UN |