Show team will enter as eighth seed in region tournament Mens b-b- all hy Dusty Nelman staff writer With a clinched playoff spot in hand for the CEU Eagles the men take to the floor tomorrow night March 2 to begin their last weekend of regular season Region 18 basketball action The Eagles face North Idaho Friday before taking a lough Ricks College team on Saturday March 3 Against North Idaho the Eagles look to face a team that has only tallied up one road win a statistic that looks very promising to the Eagles CEU suffered an early season loss to the Cardinals in Cocur d‘ Alone Idaho in a game that was dominated by North Idaho rebounding "Last time they killed us on the boards" assistant coach Guy Beach said "if we want to win we have to control the boards better this time" Saturday the Eagles will have to overcome a very talented Ricks College who is currently number two in the region The Eagles will have to stop "two talented guards who always play well" in order to pull off another region victory over the Vikings Beach added In past Region 18 action the Eagles have gutted it up and have clinched a playoff birth On March 20 the Eagles squared off against ICAC foe Colorado Northwestern Community College in a game that was crucial to the Eagles birth They had fallen to the CNCC Spartans two weeks earlier and came out to revenge their disappointing loss Sophomore center David Baldwin and freshman guard Maurice Frazier both pitched in 20 points for the Elgles to lead them to a 3 victory Shambric "Pan” Williams continued to play well for the cagcrs by throwing in 19 and tearing down six rebounds 90-8- MEN'S BASKETBALL The previous weekend The Eagles went on the road north to face Treasure Valley Community College and the nation's best College of Southern Idaho Against the TVCC Chukars the Eagles had to overcome a sluggish start to chalk up a 95-- 8 5 road victory Jermaine Haliburton paced the Eagles with 19 points to continue a very hot scoring streak and Ryan Laws added 15 for the Eagles Freshman Kean Johnson threw in 16 for the Eagles and lore down six rebounds to add to his late season suc- cess CSI once again bit off all they could chew when CEU came to town as 5 The Eagles were they escaped with a narrow victory with in fouls a with plagued game questionable officiating as the Eagles had 16 fouls to CSI's three in the first half The Eagles went into halftime tied and in the second half just could not keep up with the top team in the 10-poi- nt 95-8- nation "We just ran out of gas down the stretch" Beach said "we were right there but we couldn't hold on" The Eagles may get another shot at CSI in the region tournament on the weekend of March 8 9 and 10 as they will more than likely be their first opponent in their bid Tor a Region 18 crown The tournament should be hosted by Utah Valley Community College who has the best record out of the southern division schools Lady Eagles win two of their last three games and are flying high by Richard lllckmon grabbing eight rebounds The next night the Lady Eagles to Golden The Lady Eagles begin against the College of Southern the stretch down Idaho were hoping to carry over find their chemistry claimed their momentum from the previous in Region 18 acton as they victories in two of their last three night and come away with a clean sweep on their own home court games Treasure Valley Unfortunately somebody forgot Pairing up against was the road tell the Lady Eagles of CSI that the on Community College CSI when came flying out the gates and But task push not an easy minutes final looked back while eventually never the came to shove in of the game CEU was able to hold on laying claim to a 5 thrashing Rachcal Chadwick led the scoring to a 46-4- 2 victory Allison Jackson claimed team high for CEU popping in 10 points Tina 14 contributed with nine points scoring when she knocked down and Vicky Smith added eight points points but her supporting players along with six rebounds proved to be just as dominating while The Lady Eagles were back in ac- Pam Dupin scored eight points tion quickly with a Tuesday game and pulling down 17 rebounds which pitted them against scheduled conBarbara teammate Skaggs Northwestern while Colorado well as Community tributed eight points sports editor 67-3- 4nowCollcge a College CEU showed the crowd that they had the ability to bounce back after a tough loss scoring 58 points to CNCCs 44 Jackson held the scoring high honors with IS points but was aided strongly by teammates Smith who had 13 points and eight rebounds and Dupin who knocked in 12 points and 11 rebounds Skaggs also pulled down U rebounds tying P" wilh team hih k0"0”-Sperry The Lady Eagles now take their and have an league mark to The ladies overall record of will be in action this Friday and Sat-urday nights taking on North Idaho Cbllege and Ricks College bi the BDAC at 5:15 5-- 6-- MBS p-SinKepi- SL trjRScT" |