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Show Page 10 The Thunderbird Monday April 7, 1986 i Ladies win four; drop two at home The SUSC softball team blasted 47 Hits in four games going against New Mexico Highlands University in a weekend homestand. The improved their season record to 13-In the final game Saturday shortstop Denise Muir was with two perfect from the' plate hitting singles, a double and a triple and three runs batted in. Centerfielder Sonja Reese also was pci feet going three for three with a sacrifice to help the cause. Three of the four games went into extra innings. Because of the recent snow storm Fridays games were played in St. George. Both games went to innings and SUSC taking with Highland winning the first 1 four-for-fo- 1 1 4 The rapped out 47 hits to dotvn conference rival New Mexico Highlands University in a four game weekend T-Bir- homestand. In the opener on Saturday in Cedar the second 10-the City Highlands hung on for 10 innings before the pushed a run across in the bottom of the tenth for the win. Coach Joy Peterson said that she was pleased with the wins but that she felt that her team had more talent than showed. The committed 14 errors in the four games and Peterson said SUSC should play better than that. Earlier in the week on the home diamond SUSC split with Snow College in a double-headeIn the opener the Badgers pulled out a win in nine came back to win the second innings. The 1 r. 4-- 3 game 10-- Denise Muir puts the tag on a New Mexico Highlands player trying for second in action Saturday in the four game afternoon, first baseman Jill Jacobson looks on. The T'Birds downed Highlands series. The are now 13-- on the season and travel to Adams State for four games beginning 3-- The travel to Alamosa this weekend for four game series against Adams State. a 1 8 Friday. BYU tops Birds Golfers take third Tracksters place fifth The nationally ranked Cougars of Brigham Young in the bitter cold University downed the SUSC of Provo on Wednesday. Coach Bill Groves said it was left Salt Lake City and they raining when the didnt expect to play and he felt his team was not fell ready to play mentally because of it. The 13-in the opener and stretched the second game to eight innings before falling The northern Utah trip netted the one win and two losses at the University of Utah and BYU. downed the Tuesday in Salt Lake City the in the first game of the double-heade- r Utes and was in the fourth inning when the second game leading was rained out. Rich Lundahl was the only to touch BYUs Todd Newman for a hit in the first game. He laced the ball over the fence for a solo home run. The game was called in the fifth inning under the rule. In the second game the walked in the winning run with bases loaded in the bottom of the inning to fall Mike Ryser hit a three-rushot in the third to tie the score. In Salt Lake Tuesday home runs by Lundahl and Tom Griffin and the pitching of Dan Williamson boosted the Birds to their third consecutive triumph over the University of Utah this season. The won the first game of a scheduled double-heade- r on the Utes diamond SUSC was leading in the second contest 1 in the fourth inning when it was called because of rain. The Utes will be in Cedar City for two more twin bills beginning Tuesday. The SUSC golf team shot a second round of 356 in the Spectrum Classic Golf Tournament Thursday to lead both Grand Canyon and Idaho State in that round. The young SUSC squad trailed in all the other rounds to come up with a third place finish. Grand Canyon opened a 29 shot lead in the first round on the way to a 47 stroke victory. The Antelopes finished with 1056 in the three rounds. Idaho State shot 103 and the were a distant third at 1111. Medalist (best individual total) at the Classic was Randy McGohan of Grand Canyon. He finished with a 204 (three-unde- r par) aggregate. Idaho States Bruce Robinett finished at 207 and Antelope Doug Wilkinson was third at 208. Leading SUSC was Brett Sampson who ended up with a 212 total and playing the last two rounds at par. Brett Wilkinson shot consistent golf with 72, 71, and 73 for a total 216. Coach Tom Kingsford told his players after the tournament that Grand Canyon is a team to be dealt with the coming District 7 tournament in May. Theyre fielding their best team ever and will probably be the favorites. The golfers travel to the Boise Invitational on April 11 and 12, and conclude the Idaho trip at the Idaho State Invitational in Pocatello on April 14 and 15. Kingsford said he hopes that these tournaments will give the team enough experience for the coming conference and district tournaments. 1 9-- 8-- 3 4-- 1 10-ru- n 9-- n 8-- 4-- 1 one-und- The SUSC mens and womens track teams took fifth place at the Weber State Invitational Track Meet finished behind Weber State, Saturday. The Utah State, Utah, and BYU. For the women Jill Reynolds placed second in the javelin with a throw of 129-- and third in the shotput with a toss a toss of 39-In the 5000 meter Jackie Gengler ran to a fourth place with a 20 minutes 7.32 tin e and Shannon Heaps placed fifth at 20:17.16. Reynolds, Monica Ault, Nancy Coleman, Lori Hess placed second in the 4X100 relay. In the 800 meter Coleman finished sixth at 2:34.12. For the men, Steve Bryant took fifth in the shotput with a toss of 43-Boyd Wittwer, Leo Garand, John White,- and Gary Alger ran the 4X100 relay in 45.63 for a third place finish. Alger finished fifth in the 400 meters at 54.8. In the 5000 meters Tim Pilling placed second at 15:18. Wittwer, Garand, Brett Enser, and Alger captured a fourth in the Mile Relay with a time of 3:41.57. Coach Ben Davidson said that Enser had his best time ever in the 1500 meters but didnt score. Nick Bartlett jumped in the high jump but didnt place because of an earlier miss. Davidson said the whole team showed improvement that was not reflected in the meet scores. The are working for the RMAC conference meet and the NAIA Nationals both are during May. will be at Provo for the BYU Saturday the Invitational. 3 6-- 6 1 |
