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Show - -- - -- - -- - - - -- - -- - - -- - - - - - - ----------------------•••WWMNAH•A••---------------------- SPORTS THE THUNDERBIRD• SOUfHERN UfAH UNIVERSITY · MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1993 • PAGE 7 Hardhallers go 1-2 with Mustangs; now gear for ·M•vericks BY JAKE CUDNEY ThwndtTbird Sporu Wrim The SUU baseball team picked up its sixth win of the season over the weekend in a home straight singles before Scott came up and drove a fly ball deep to left field which allowed stand with the Western New Mexico Mustangs, but th.e Mustangs won the series with wins Marrs to score and pulled the 'Birds to within two. of 11-10 in 11 innings and 9-3. With one out and one runner on, Enocnson reached ftrst base on a WNM error, Fystro The 6-35 ' Birds ended their 10.game skid Saturday morning with a 8-7 extra-inning win in followed with ground rule double driving in Meador and putting Enochson on third. the second game of the three game series. Trevor Clements hit a sacrifice fly ID center field to drive in Enocnson, tying the score at SU's scoring started out in the first inning from Mickey Houston off an RBI single from 10, and ending the Thunderbird run. Curt Paxton. Will Scott provided the 'Birds' second run with a solo home run in the second. The game went into the 11th where WNM picked up one run to take the lead. In the In the third inning, WNM picked up four runs, two coming on a two-run shot by Adrian bottom of the frame, SU had a chance to push the game farther with runners on first and Guerrero. The Mustangs picked up two more runs in the top of the fourth taking a 6-2 lead. third, but two straight fly balls ended the Thunderbird comeback. The 'Birds had a strong fourth SU was led by the number eight inning picking up three runs off a batter Scott, who went 4-4, and rwo-run homer by Clint Marrs and Enoch son, batting ninth, who went Scott's second solo shot of the game 4-5. The final game of the serie was which pulled SUU to within one. WNM's Luke Fusco picked up the the lea t favorable showing by SUU final run of the game for the visitors as it dropped the game 9-4. The game started out poorly for with a solo shot in the fifth, and SU the 'Birds as they gave up four runs, picked up a run from Paxton wno was sent in on a balk. including a two shot homer by Byron Clark, in the top of the first. Southern Utah tied the game at SU scored two runs in the bottom of seven on Scott's third run scored of the game in the i.xth. the first, but would be held scoreless until the bottom of the sixth. The game went into extra innings, SU went into the bottom of the where a Doug Fysrro single drove in seventh down 9-3, and hoping to Allen Enochson to end the game. make another comeback, but picked The first game of the series on up only one run. Friday afternoon was also sent into Houston led SU in the final game extra innings, but this time the of the series going 2-2 with one run 'Birds lost 11-10. and a double. Marrs also had a After trailing by as much as 10.l, the Thunderbird cut the Mustang ~ strong game with a 2-3 outing. iE Scott had fantastic series by going lead to four going into the borrom of ~ 8-1 1 with three home runs, six RBI the ninth. The 'Birds needed to get ffi and three doubles and five runs hits early, and Karl Hermansen answered the call starting off the 5 scored. z The 'Birds will be in action again inning with SU's second home run tomorrow when they travel to Mesa of the game. Clint Marrs and Jared Shortstop Dowg fystro went 4-l2 in Sowthern Utah's three-game .seoo with WNM. ~ Mustangs won two of three. State for a doubleheader. Meador came up next with two Ladies get only six hits; lose two BY JAY HINTON Thunderbird Sport5 Editor The one-run blues are still haunting the SUU softball tc1m as it dropped a 1-0 decision to the Utah Utes Saturday in Salt Lake. The Utes swept the doubleheader with a 8-1 win in the nightcap. The two Western Athletic Conference losses drop the Lady 'Bird conference mark to 1-13 and 6-29 overall. SUU's senior pitcher Gennifer Turley fired a two-hitter in the opener, but came up on the losing end 1-0. Turley, who struck out two Ute hitters, held the Utes hitless until the bottom of the fifth until Deb DiMeglio singled and later scored on an RBI single. Ofknsively, th.e Lady 'Birds managul only Kim Ohm three hits as Kim Olsen, Stacy Stuart and Lorrie Muir nad one hit each. In the second game of the series, Ute hitters jumped on SUU starttr Muir for seven runs in the third inning and they got another run in the fourth off Turley to take a commanding 8-0 advantage. SUU picked up its single run in the top of the seventh. After being two-hit, the Lady Utes exploded for 14 hits, while the Thunderbird bats had only three. Denise Johnson, Sue Barrett and Audrey Ricnards all had singles. The Lady 'Birds are back on home their home field Friday when they host Fresno State for a pair of games. Tracksters look good at Provo The Southern Utah trade and field team traveled to Provo to compete in the BYU Robison Invitational on Saturday. The SU women had strong showings in several events with several tracksters appearing placing in the top 10 in their events, and finishing eighth out of 10 with 18 and a half points. The lady 'Birds finished above Ricks College, which finished with 16 points, and Utah Valley Community College which managed only fou~. SUU finished only one and-a-half points behind seventh place Southern Idaho. ln the high jump, Debbie Child led the Lady 'Birds tying for an eighth place finish with a jump of 5.0. Lou Elison led S U in the shot put with a hurl of 37-3 for a tenth place finish. SU placed two women in the top 10 in the javelin. Becky Schofitld finished eighth with a throw of 130.1 , followed by N icole Schexnayder in ninth place 128-4 throw. ln the running events, Anna Pett had the best showing for the Thunderbird women with a fourth place finish in the 5000m in 18:35.20. In the 1500m, Shaliece Proctor was the top SUU finisher in sixth place in a time of 5:06. 74. Llsa Hunziker followed with an eighth place finish in a time of 5:08.31. Southern Utah had another strong showing in the 200m, with two top 10 finishers. Denise Boyer finished in the number nine position in 26.81, and Lalena Page finished l 0th in 26.82. The 400m proved to be another good event for SU with two more top l O finishers in Brenda Foy, ninth, and Child 10th. In the 100m hurdles, Foy finished eighth in 15.14. Lalena Page nad a sixth place finish in the 400m in 60.97. The men's .team had iri; share of strong performances despite the last place tie with the University of Utan. The javelin proved to be one of the SU's men's strongest events with two top 10 finishers in Steve Christian who finished sixth with a toss of 54-10 and Brian Wookmen finished eighth with a 50-9 throw. SU h_ad two top 10 runners in the men's 100m in Matt Basham, sixth, and Jeremy Murray, 10th. Bacnman ran an 11.11 , and Murray ran an 11.44. The final top 10 finisher for SU was Gary Hamblin who finished seventh in the 800m in 1:55.4. The Thunderbird thinclads will be back in action May 1 when they travel to the UC San Diego Invitational in San Diego. |