| OCR Text |
Show Page 6 The Thundcrbird Monday April 21, 1986 Men win, women lose on track The SUSC home trick meet proved to he ;i good experience for the according to Coach Ben Davidson. The hosted the trreksters from with the Chapman College in l and the women men winning Davidson said that none falling 6 had gooel enough times of the or distances to qualify for the nationals hut They had a fun meet. It was good for them to he here for the day. The men's team took first plate in 14 ol 10 events for the win. Tim Tilling captured firsts in the piled the field in the 1500 and the 5000 meters. In the 1500 Pilling paced the pack at 4:12.0, and Brett Enscr pulled in second at 4:2 5.2. Tilling ran the 5000 in 15:55.6, and Marty Trettyman came in second at T):0(i and Ian Nefi scored third at 13-2- 0 20:02. took first in the 4 X 100 The and the 4 X 400 relays. Gary Alger, Boyd Wittiver, John Stever, and Leo Gar.tnd faced to a 44.6 second fust in the 4 X 100. Alger, Garand, Enscr and John White ran the other m 5:57.4 Wittwer, Boyd Espltn and Nick ' Bartlett took all the points in Both the 110 hurdles and the 400 hurdles. In the 110, Wittwer lead the pack at 15.2, Espltn placed second at 16.1 and Bartlett finished third with a time of 16.4. In the 400 hurdles, Wittwer finished at 58.7 Bartlet came in second at 1:00.5 and Esplin was third in at 1:04.5. In the 400 meters White lead the to victory wi'h in 52 seconds and Alger finished just one tenth off the pace with 52.1. Stever sprinted to first in the 100 meters in 11.3 seconds. Garand finished second at 11.6 and Neff came in third at 11.8. In the 800 meter, Chris Kimball finished at 2:04.5 for first and Enser came in at 2:05 for second. White finished first in the 200 meters at 23.5, Alger finished second at 23.6 and Neff took third at 24.1. In the field events, the Bartlett captured first in the high jump 7. Ken Smith threw the discus at 135-- 5 and Steve Bryant tossed it for a one-twfinish. Smith and in the Bryant also finished one-tw58 and shotput with tosses of 123-- 1 l1 o o 42-1- 1 42-- respectively. Garand jump 9 4 first place rihhon in the triple jump. Garand took second in the for a Stever javelin with a throw of 156-6for finished the long jump at third. The women placed first in events, hut didnt win team honors as they were edged by the Chapman women Jolene Fisher took first place in the 1500 and the 3000 meter races with 5:11.4 and 10:45.3. Jackie Gengler took second in the 1500 at 5:22.6. Nancy Coleman captured the first place nhhons in the 400 and 800 meters Coleman finished the 400 in 64.4 and the 800 in 2:35.8. Gengler came in second in the 400 meter at 10-1- 1 1 1 63-6- 65.7. Lori Hess took the first place ribbons in the 100 meters and the 200 meters with times of 12.9 and 27.4. Hess also finished first in the high jump with a leap of Hess, Coleman, Janna Julander, and Gengler took the 4 X 400 relay wath a time 4:39.5. In the field events, Jill Reynolds took first place ribbons in the shotput, the discus and the javelin. Reynolds tossed , the shot threw the discus for the and hurled the javelin 126-1three firsts. The mens team will compete at Brigham Young University on Saturday and the women will be at Utah State Llniversity. Then, on May 3, the host the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championships at Thundcrbird Stadium. 118-4V- 39-5- 0 Softballers sweep four games The SUSC softball team moved closer to the conference leaders by sweeping four games from Fort Lewis in a weekend home stand. The scattered 43 hits and scored 23 runs in the four games. SUSC and downed Fort Lewis to increase its record to 15-- against conference opponents. closer to The wins moved the conference leader Mesa. The Ladies were hoping to move into the conference lead for a better seed in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament. According to Coach Joy Peterson said she would have rather gone in as number one. It is likely the Ladies will be seeded against Adams State. Jill Jacobsen picked up three of the wins on the mound for the on the year. improving her record Donna Pay added the other win to go In the opener on Saturday, 6-- 8-- 7 6-- 5 8-- 8 Jacobsen pitched a three-hi- t shutout, only one Fort Lewis base runner reached second. In the final game of the series the scored one run in the top of the seventh inning, then held on defensively in the bottom for the win. Fort Lewis scored six runs in the bottom of the sixth to tie the score. Muir led off the inning with a single; she was sacrificed to second on a Staci Sargent bunt. Nan Spiers followed with a sharp single to left and Muir scored all the way from second when the throw came to third behind her. The collected 12 hits including a Shellie Spencer triple. In Fridays games, the scored three runs in the first aided by a Spencer triple to win the first game of the series Spencer added another triple and a double in the game. Mary Lynn Thorton also had a double. 6-- Nick Bartlett clears for the Thunderbird tracksters in their win over Chapman College here Saturday. Besides winning the event with that jump, Bartlett posted a personal record. 6-- 7 Diamondmen lose to Cougars 12-- 8 The SUSC baseball team led the Brigham Young University Cougars but fell 12-- as the Cougars clubbed out four homers in the seven- - run fifth inning to power past the The Cougars used five homers in the win while the had one solo shot from Doug Alldredgc. Coach Bill Groves said the deserve credit for the way they batded against the Cougars. Groves said he was happy with the way the came back and scored in the last inning. He added that with BYU in striking distance, they are hard to stop. The are now 8 on the year and are now' preparing for the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference tournament Thursday. 4-- 8 20-1- NCAA rules on cagers The NCAA has ruled on the eligibility status SUSCs Varlin Law and basketball team Joe ONeal. The was disqualified from the post season play in March when it was revealed that Law and ONeal didnt meet the time requirement for transferred student athletes. The NCAA rule .lutu.ll, lequires total ineligibi litv of the athletes involved. SUSC appealed to the NCAA and received a decision that allows both players to play next season. The NCAA decision was based on circumstances which showing that the rules were not violated intentionally, according to Athletic Director Steve Lunt. Law and ONeal can play in the 1986-8basketball season, but ONeal is will sit out the first four games and Law will miss the first eight. 7 |
