Show Baseball players slide into the spring season by Richard Nielsen sports editor After sweeping a doublchcadcr against Ricks College the College of Eastern Utah baseball team ran into trouble against Snow College and dropped a pair of conference games as defensive errors and poor hitting continue to plague the Golden Eagles The Eagles then rebounded by splitting a doublchcadcr in Provo against the BYU JV squad in a outing The Eagles squeaked out two wins against Ricks as late inning rallies overcame the visiting Vikings In the first game Eric Madsen started on the mound for CEU and Mike Hawthorne came in on relief as the Eagles look a 13-- 8 win Jared Fernandez and Bill Warden combined for an 7 win as CEU scored five runs in the bottom of the seventh inning "We are committing way to many errors on defense this year" said coach Dave Paur Defense has definitely been a concern for Paur this season In the post six games CEU has given up 50 runs including 17 on their trip to Ephraim to play Snow After staying close to the Badgers through game one fielding errors and two unlucky bounces for CEU gave the Badgers a 6-- 5 victory After losing by one run the Eagles appeared to run out of effort in game two as Snow ran away with an easy 11-- 1 win On Monday April 6 CEU traveled to BYU and played a wild doublchcadcr In the first ce 0 fTi -- 1 ' "' "— 'I — 8-- i c v r 9 The Eaglet rallied for a pair Tha ceu BiMball Team started alow but finished strong against Ricks Collage M CEU wHI tort Dkdt Coltog and UUh Vallay thl Friday ind Saturday phot Paul Mi ol win 1Wnd the Cougars pounded out 14 runs and held the struggling Eagles to just four runs After the break be- tween games CEU bounced back to thump BYU 124 for the split Coach Paur is now faced with three main problems to overcome The first Is how to cut down on the number of errors on defense Another is to get more production in the offense "WeVc only got two niyi that ate hilling around jury Jeff Nielson has beet? one Losing players to injuries is now bright spot for Eastern Utah this but becoming a problem for CEU as season from the batters box the Eagles will need to improve as Madsen las injured his shoulder and another Eagle has been red- - t a team if they are to keep their atan dinted fof the mason due to hopes of a post season alive 300 for the season” said Paur ” d'J4- - Player congratulate Chrle Hathaway (above) after a elide at the plate for a CEU run (top photo) photo R Niotaon lill I Jared Fernandez (24) le on the receiving end of a throw to first bate from Chris Ricks College photo Paul Putil Hathaway In the first game of a doubleheader against |