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Show StatesmanSports Page 10 Touch Base WACStandings Men's Basketball USU NMSU Nevada La. Tech Fresno St. SJSU Idaho Boise St. Hawaii 12-2 23-6 10-3 9-4 8-5 6-7 5-8 4-9 3-10 2-11 18-9 17-10 21-7 14-15 13-14 13-14 13-15 9-18 THIS WEEK'S RESULTS: 2/22 Seattle U @ SJSU — 90-88 2/23 CS Bakersfield @ Fresno — 68-79 2/24 Idaho @ NMSU — 57-74 2/25 Nevada @ SJSU — 83-79 Boise St. @ La. Tech — 72-59 USU @ Hawaii — 61-50 Women's Basketball Fresno St. 14-0 23-5 La. Tech 9-4 18-7 Nevada 9-4 15-12 NMSU 7-7 17-11 Boise St. 6-7 17-10 Idaho 6-7 8-18 USU 4-9 12-14 Hawaii SJSU 4-11 2-12 10-18 6-21 THIS WEEK'S RESULTS: Lady Aggies look to finish strong in Spectrum By MATT SONNENBERG assistant sports editor After a season filled with ups and downs, the USU women's basketball team looks to close out on a strong note with its final three games of the regular season taking place at home. Saturday's afternoon contest against Idaho will be the first of that three-game set against the Vandals, Boise State and Hawaii. Coincidentally, those three teams are the three closest teams to Utah State in the current Western Athletic NBAStandings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Boston 36 19 .655 Toronto 31 25 .554 Philadelphia 22 35 .386 New York 19 37 .33917 1/2 New Jersey 5 52 .088 Central Division Cleveland 4414 Chicago 30 Milwaukee 2928 Detroit 21 Indiana 19 GB 5 1/2 15 32 .759 — 27 .526 13 1/2 .50914 1/2 36 .368 22 1/2 39 .328 25 Southeast Division Orlando 39 19 Atlanta 36 20 Miami 29 29 Charlotte 27 29 Washington 20 35 .672 .643 .500 .482 .364 WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division W L Pct Denver 37 19 .661 37 20 .649 Utah OK City 33 23 .589 Portland 34 26 .567 Minnesota 14 45 .23724 1/2 Pacific Division L.A. Lakers 43 Phoenix 36 L.A. Clippers 24 Sacramento 18 Golden State 16 15 23 33 39 40 Southwest Division Dallas 37 San Antonio 32 New Orleans 30 Memphis 2928 Houston 2828 21 .638 23 .582 28 .517 .5097 1/2 .5008 .741 .610 .421 .316 .286 2 10 11 17 1/2 GB 1/2 4 5 USU (12-141 VS. IDAHO (8-181 Raegan Pebley (6th year) Jon Newlee (2th year) Feb. 27, Dee Glenn Smith Spectrum, 2 p.m. USU probable starters Idaho probable starters C - Banna Diop 5.2 F - Lydia Whitehead 6.5 F - Amber White 11.8 G - Tahara Williams 5.8 G - Alice Coddington 8.5 3 1/2 7 Canada women take hockey gold The United States' bid for hockey supremacy ended Thursday when the Team USA women fell to the neighbors to the North by a score of 2-0. The gold medal, won in front of their home-crowd, marks the third consecutive Winter Olympiad in which Canada has won the gold. C - Yinka Olorunnife F - Rachele Kloke F - Shaena Kuehu G - Charlotte Otero G - Bianca Cheever 10.5 14.2 11.5 7.6 7.7 nament play with a 59-58 win over Idaho. The looming question surrounding the team is which version of the 20092010 Aggies will show up for the crucial final stretch of the season. After opening the season with an impressive run of wins in four of USU's first five games, including a win over in-state rival Utah, the Aggies then lost four of their next five contests. Fortune then swung in the Aggies' favor in the form of a six-game win streak through the end of December and beginning of January. The USU identity crisis continued as the Aggies have since lost nine of 11 games leading into this final home stretch. The Aggies lost two of the three road games against their final three opponents, with their lone win coming off a last-second shot by Tahara Williams. USU suffered seven-point losses on the road at both Hawaii and Boise State earlier this season. LACALE PRINGLE-BUCHANAN scored a career-high 22 points Tuesday against New Mexico State. Her and the rest of the Aggies look to finish the season strong. CODY GOCHNOUR photo - mattsonn@aggiemaiLusu.edu Men's tennis off to Montana for weekend set Utah State men's tennis competes in Bozeman, Mont., for two matches against Montana State at 5 p.m. and Sacramento State at 1 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26 and 27, respectively. The Aggies are 5-4 this season. USU's most recent action was a clean sweep of Mesa State, 7-0, in Logan. The Aggies claimed the doubles point with victories at all three positions. At the one spot, juniors Jakob Asplund and Bryan Marchant defeated the Mavericks' Jordan Chomko and Nick Provenza, 8-4 while at the two position, freshman Sven Poslusny and senior Amit Maharaj swept MSC's Rashad Khamis and Niko Carrizo, 8-0. To complete the doubles sweep, Nate Ballam and Ryashchenko defeated the Mavericks' Andres Hernandez and Brason Hollabaugh, 8-6, at the three spot. USU dominated singles competition, taking all six points. At the one spot, Asplund defeated MSC's Chomko, 6-0, 6-0. At the two position, Thatcher defeated the Mavericks' Andres Hernandez, 6-1, 6-0. Freshman Jose Limon finished the sweep for the Aggies with a win over the MSC's Carrizo, 6-2, 4-6, 10-4, at the six spot in the final match of the day. Limon boasts a perfect 2-0 singles record, all at the No. 6 position. 4re • 4 JUNIOR JAKOB ASPLUND lets a serve fly during a home match earlier this season. Asplund is 4-4 in singles matches this year for the Aggies. CODY GOCHNOUR photo Women staying home to battle Montana Grizzlies BY USU ATHLETICS 7 1/2 18 1/2 24 1/2 26 Conference standings. Currently 4-9 in WAC play, the Aggies have a chance to make a late-season charge to climb the WAC standings as Idaho and Boise State currently stand at 6-7, while Hawaii (4-11) is a slot behind USU. Should the Aggies win out the rest of the WAC schedule, it would put them in position to end up as high as the No. 5 seed in March's WAC tournament in Reno, Nev. That No. 5 seed is the exact spot the Lady Aggies found themselves a year ago when they notched their first-ever win in WAC tour- Meet the Challenge BY USU ATHLETICS 2/23 USU vs. NMSU — 54-73 2/24 Boise St. vs. Hawaii — 64-66 SJSU vs. Idaho — 59-74 Fresno St vs. La. Tech — 81-78 Friday, Feb. 26, 2010 Utah State women's tennis hosts Montana Saturday, Feb. 27, at 11 a.m. The Aggies hold a 23 season record while the Grizzlies are 2-5 this season. USU's most recent action was a 7-0 home sweep over North Dakota last week. The Aggies dominated doubles competition, claiming the point with victories at all three positions. At the one spot, junior Hailey Swenson and freshman Jaclyn West battled to defeat the Fighting Sioux's Hallie Welk and Erin Kappers, 9-8. Swenson and West hold a USU-high doubles record of 5-1 on the season. In singles action, the Aggies continued the sweep with victories at all six positions. Swenson went 20 for the day, with a win at the No. 1 spot over UND's Katie Callison, 6-0, 7-5. Swenson holds the Aggiehigh singles record for the season at 5-1 and boast an impressive 8-2 combined record thus far. USU's West, sophomore Kristina Voytsekhovich and senior Britney Watts won at the No. 2, No. 3 and No. 6 positions, respectively, bringing all three Aggies to a 4-2 singles record thus far this season. Utah State will complete its home-stretch with one more match against Montana State on Thursday, March 4 at noon. JUNIOR TAYLOR PERRY returns a serve with her backhand during a match earlier this season. USU looks to even its season record Saturday at home. 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