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Show StatesmtmSportS Page 10 So/M-fcO/7 of Wednesday, April 8, 2009 SOFTBALL -{he dcd dop TuMbLo-ThEMo-cil nnswor: 'FROZEN FOODS™ Commute without the fuss... take the bus. Taking mass transit saves time, money, stress and the air. USU'S MEGAN M C D O N A L D slides into base underneath the tag of a Utah player during che Aggies matchup with the Utes Tuesday. The Aggies lost 1-0 to the Utes Monday before losing the doubleheader yesterday. PATRICK ODEN photo Season Pass SALE! beaver Ags no matchfor Utes m o u n t a i n ByPAULKELLEY March 10 - April 15, 2009 Unlimited Day-time passes only $270 Children 6-11 Only $110 Pass valid as soon as it is purchased. Good the rest of THIS SEASON, and all of NEXT SEASON. Children 5 and under ski FREE when adult of same family purchases a season pass. Children 5 and under need to get pass when parents buy pass. No refunds! Not Good at Night! Passes available at Logan Office: 1351 E. 700 N., Logan Next to Frederico's Pizza 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mon-Saturday Call 7 5 3 - 0 9 2 1 for information. www.skithebeav.com assistant sports editor Despite near-perfect pitching from senior Lindsey Benson, USU lost a heartbreaker to the University of Utah Monday in Salt Lake City. Benson only allowed two hits in the game, both coming after the sixth inning. The Aggies hit better than the Utes with five hits for the game, but could never get a runner to home, leaving six runners on base compared to the Utes two left on base. Ryana Bradshaw led Utah State with two hits. Megan McDonald, Aubrie Stroman and Emily Reilly had one hit each. USU then played the University of Utah in a double header Tuesday and lost both games. Utah took game one 9-5, and game two 8-2. After holding Utah to just two hits in the Monday game, Utah started strong Tuesday scoring five runs in the top of the first inning. The Aggies countered with two runs in the bottom of the first thanks to a two-run homer by jasmine Harris. The Aggies scored two runs in the bottom of the third making the score 6-4 for the Utes. With the bases loaded Simone Hubbard was walked, which sent a run in. Jeanine Hernandez was hit by a pitch sending another run in. Utah state came up with one more run in the bottom of the seventh making the score 9-5. In the second game USU drew first blood when Hernandez was batted in by Gina Rawls. The RBI was Rawls' second of the season. The Aggies would score one more run, but Utah finished out the game with three runs in the bottom of the seventh. USU now heads to Hawaii this weekend for a tripleheader. -p.d. k@aggiemail. tisu. edu USU PITCHER KATE GREENOUGH prepares to let loose a pitch against Utah Tuesday. Greenough took the loss in the first game, 9-5. PATRICK ODEN photo SedionF A different point of view I ^E Center ^Diamond with Engagement eRina purchase i am on c 45fcfcrt/iMain 12 West Main Hexburg, I'D 83440 208-359-2500 (J&ct to Taco 'Belt) Logan, <UT 84321 435-753'487O ' xt to Tersian Taaceck) 1737 hurley T>rivt 'Tocatdfo, W 8320. 208-238-9700 ^Acrossfrom"Ross) 'm not sure what lengths that I personally would go to to get an atmosphere at Romney Stadium for football games that would be in the same league as what Utah State has at the Spectrum. Seeing what 4,000 students can do inside the Spectrum, I can't imagine the madness of what 7,000 of us could do on Saturday's in the fall. I don't quite know the feeling of being a college quarterback or what kind of focus it takes to read a defense before the snap of the ball and make adjustments at the line of scrimmage, but I do know that it is just about a proven fact that a raucous crowd making tons of noise can make that whole process much more complicated than it might otherwise be for a quarterback. If the 15912 home record under coach Stew Morrill at the Spectrum is any indication, Aggie fans are pretty good at making life difficult for opposing teams. The part that gets a little tricky is that during the past couple years, Utah State football has made things a bit more difficult than they needed to for the non-die hard fans to get on board with the team. Particularly what I'm talking about is having the names on the back's of the player's jerseys. Not many people will argue that the Brent Guy era was the lowest point that USU's football program had ever sunk. As if fans didn't need more reasons to stay home from Romney Stadium on Saturdays the last couple years, alienating the more lukewarm level of the fan base from having any chance to identify with or know who their own players were on the field did not help at all. I get that Guy wanted to portray team unity by putting "Aggies" in place of the player's names, but with attendance struggling as bad as it was over the last couple years, the last thing the casual Aggie fan needed was to have the ability to mentally attach a name and possibly a face to the numbers they out on the field taken away from them. Granted, there are far fewer players for people to see and recognize at basketball games, but I can bet you that every single person in the back row of the Spectrum could point out Tai Wesley or Gary Wilkinson if they were to run into them [1 See NAMES, page 11 |