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Show MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1001 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL SPORTS -H itting the links SU[! golfer Robb Evans is leading the Thunderbird charge on ·the golf course this year. The 'Birds have a young team that is expected to be the best team ever assembled at Southern Utah University. BY MARK JONES S AS.SISTANJ' SPORTS EDITOR outhern Utah University golfer Robb Evans has passion for the sport and brings experience to this year's SUU golf team. "I have been playing since I was 5 years old,• said Evans, a junior German major from Cedar City. "l play as much as I can." Evans gives credit to his father for hi early introduction to the game. "My father is who got me interested in golf, • Evans said. ··He was a golf professionaJ and played at BYU with Johnny Miller." At age 22, Evans has already accomplished feats chat some golfers could only dream about. Currently, he holds the record at Cedar Ridge Golf Course with a round of 63 in tournament play in 2000. It broke PGA tour member Jay Don Blake' previous record of 64. However the record of 63 would have been mor impressive if not for a imple mistake Evans aid be made. "On ch day I shot the 63, I also had a two- troke penalty," he said. He would of ended up shooting a 61 if not for the penalty. Another feat for Evans includes an impressive two Robb Evans hole-in-ones, coming in a two- month pan, which occurred on the same hole at Cedar Ridge Golf Course. "My first came on April 26, 1997, and when it went in the hole, I didn't know what to think, be aid. Evans missed his first opportunity to qualify for the U.S. Open during his senior year of high school by just two shots. Though his records an: impressi~ the only concern Evans has is helping the team win. Evans says he believes this is the best team he bas been a part of and that it has the potential to make it through conference play and into regionals. UThe team is determined to make it to regionals " he said. "It's a joy to be a part of the (SUU] team." Having been around the game for the majority of his life, Evans has seen the game affect his life in multiple ways. "The effects have been good and bad," he said. "At times, the game has taken over control of my actions, but it has also helped me to become the person that I am. " However, despite the love of the game Evan say there are ome drawbacks. "Traveling and not spending a lot of time with my wife are the biggest c!J:aw backs," h said. "Traveling can make you ~ tired." Though his wife is a § oftball player, he say that z he is teaching her the game § he loves. ~ "With the help of my father, I am teaching her to 1,1 golf " he says. Another concern he has are injuries. "I have had several injuries," Evans said. "I have injured my back in a state-am tournament and have had sucgery on my wrist.• Evans will next be in action next weekend when • the team competes in the Countrywide Home Lands Intercollegiate tournament on Oct. 15-16. ~ •FOOTBALL SUU's Moore runs to win at St. George 'Birds .dr~p fourth straight BY JASON ERICKSON P RTS EDITOR outhern Utah niversity runner Curti Moor continues to run circl around hi competition, e en at the world level. Moor ran hi way to victory at the pre. tigiou t . George Marathon on aturday with a time 2:20: 45-two minute ahead of hi competition Keiichi at uzaki , who fini bed at 2:22 :41. • T ve never run a marathon befor ,n Moore said. ~Tbe farthest I have ever run b fore i 18 mile ." Moor ' time averages to about five minute a mile , an amazing feat for omeone who ba never ran a marathon. "At about the ninth mile I felt great and then I took off and didn't Jook back," Moore said. After cro ing the finish line, Moore immediately ca11 his long-time friend and coach Eric Houle. "Coach 1 won," Moore · aid to Houle. The conversation was brief, but full of excitement. "I wanted to be there but bad other obligations," Houle aid. "I am o proud of him. He continue to get better and better. It also speak well for our program at UU." Moo:re, who earlier th ' year won the alt Lake Oas ic 10k race, was not known to the media of Salt Lake. UThey know who he is now," Houle said. UCu.rtis is Olympic material and I wouldn't be surprised if he's there in a few years .~ , SUU runner Jodee B nson wasn't fru; back, finishing in 13th place with a tim of 2:35 :56. · uTo have two of our own do this in a marathon i great for UU," Houle aid. "Thi i an amazing thing for u ." BY DAVE DEMILLE JOURNAL PORT WRITER and David Pretzer hit the two longest field goals of his UU career, 51 and 48 yards. We Patterson had a big game receiving with three catch for 40 yards , and lot man Chri Williams had two receptions to go with 19 yards rushing. Adrian Waddy came in at fullback to rush ix time for 35 yards, and the anemic UU offen e of th previous three games had given way to the more effective on familiar to the 'Birds. "We mad a step forward and got · the offense moving in the right direction, " Head Coach C. Ray Gregory said. "We played well and had every chance to win. [Western Illinois] is a good team, and we played them to the wire today here in Illinois." The outhem Utah University football squad dropped a heartbreaker to We tem Illinois aturday, 27-20, taying in the game with the 14th ranked t am in the country and giving it df chance to win down the stretch. Th offense, much · malign din recent weeks, turned it up a notch and had 351 total yards. Using some different sets and giving Dustin Randolph a chance to play for mo t of the game, the Thunderbirds were able to pick up 15 first downs and move the ball consistently. Randolph finished 7-9 through the air with 114 yards, and ran for 75 more. · Fullback Rod kicker Dave Pretzer kicked two field goals to help Madsen added 103 yards on 11 carries, the 'Birds stay close Saturday. (continued on page 17) |