Show 3 wimaam Baseball had a chance to go to the n hursd but blew it play-off- s Mickclle Marston sports writer only six hits during the second half of the double-headDropping the game in the sixth rule 12-- 0 inning due to the n er The Golden Eagle baseball season came to a dose Tuesday after dropping two region contests to the Snow College Badgers 14-1-2 and 12-- 0 The trip to Ephraim induded a three hour delay due to trouble with the minibus and an additional hour delay 8t the field because no officials were at the game 1992-9- 3 The outing proved as rocky as to Ephraim The Badgers jumped out to an early 12-- 3 lead CEU woke their bats up in the fourth inning with base hits by right fidder Justin Johnson designated hitter Chad Pluid and catcher Dec Green set up a four-ru- n inning off a Chad Harwood homcrun clearing the the trip Icft-ccnt- cr fence 10-ru- CEU faced Dixie Cbllege in Price May 7 Suspensions by five Eagle players forced CEU to sit out three starting position players Gittins went three for three at the plate and Pluid knocked a two-ni- n homorun Unfortunatdy the loss of the three bats in the lineup proved too much as CEU faltered 12-- 6 The second game was much closer Green hit a home run batting in three runs while Johnson racked up three hits with Dixie up two runs in the bottom of the seventh The Dixie hurlcr sat the Eagles down The final score 0 Dixie again 1-- 12-1- Bill Warden came in as relief for CEU holding the Badgers scoreless Despite the four- - game slide durduring the fourth and fifth innings ing the final weeks action this but allowing two runs in the tied or broke several sixth The Eagles were unable to year's squad school records match the feat in the seventh dropping the ballgamc 2 Johnson broke five records-- inhits-6- 6 cluding at bats-16scored-4and batting 4 runs The Eagles lied up the ballgamc the broke Vincent average478 during the fifth inning Randy team record for triples totaling six Gittins a Kearns freshman started on the season Pluid now holds the inning with a walk the record for being hit by the base hits by Johnson and most pitches with 13 Chris Hathaway loaded the bases for Green Green tied the school Two CEU records were tied as record for home runs after hilling a Green tied the home run mark at grand-slaand increasing his 16 and Hathaway hit 13 doubles season total to 16 tying the school record This year's squad finished the year 14-The second game provided much 26 just two wins shy of the of the same as the Eagles totaled ' school record for wins 14-1- 6: Back-to-ba- sin-glcs-- 46 ck m - s —- - — - - —— — CEU had a Pitcher Tim Tarry raars back and unloada a laatball to a Dlxla battar but was swept by Dlxla (Photo by Craig Crookatan) chanca to go to tha play-oft-a Troy’s Tods and Tidbits With the first round of the over I found that my play-off- s picks were a little off but as were many sports' writers The Los Angeles Lakers gave the nation a scare by forcing the highly favored Phoenix Suns into a deciding game five in Phoenix The Lakers led the series 0 Paul Wcstphal the Suns head coach commented that his team would win the next three They did just that The Suns took two in Los Angeles and won game five at home to advance to the next round The Suns will meet the San 2-- Antonio Spurs The Spurs easily dismantled the Portland Trail- - jr blazers to advance to their meetThe Knicks beat Indiana and I still see the Charlotte beat the favored Boston ing with the Suns Suns winning this match and Celtics in four games New advancing to the finals York leads the scries 0 after The Houston Rockets had to beating the Hornets at home in the Garden The Knicks arc too go to a close game five to beat the Los Angeles Clippers at much for the inexperienced Houston Hornets look for an easy scries The Rockets will be the next for the Knicks The Chicago Bulls had to sit opponent for the Seattle Super-soniSeattle beat our hometo see who they were wait and town Utah Jazz in a deciding going to be playing The Bulls game five to advance to the were to play the winner of the semi's I see Houston beating Cleveland Cavs and the New the in the later games of Seattle Jersey Nets Cleveland beat the scries Nets in five to advance to the the Division In the Eastern next round to meet their division New York Knicks have already rivals I am picking the Bulls on with Charlotte this series Although the Cavs begun their series 1-- cs led the season scries the playoffs arc a different story That raps up the play-off- s picture next week the conference finals will be decided In other sports happenings outside of Price Chris Webber announced that he would not be returning to Michigan to help the Fab Five get the NCAA championship they deserve As many people know Webber was the one who called a timeout that they didn't have and it led to the technical foul that gave the Tar Heels the title Webber told newspapers that "it was time for me to move on I cant live in the past" |