OCR Text |
Show Your Sports MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2005 PAGE B7 End of an era: Men's B-Ball Ronnie Price steps onto the McKay Center floor for the last time and leaves us wishing for more crowd of the season (3,403 in attendance) and the largest in -' Your Sports Editor recent memory came to send off the first senior to leave the -• It was all over so fast. » Time just seems to have program. And as time expired, ftown by and at times, it the crowd rushed the court to $£ems like it was all just a feed off the glow and the aura emitting from Price, before dream. t With a kiss and a hug, ultimately lifting him in the Ronnie Price walked off the air and carrying him off the McKay Center floor for the court into the setting sun of last time in a UVSC uniform. his collegiate career. " The kiss: from Price to "I can't even talk," Price the Wolverine logo at center said. "It meant everything. court. I love my teammates. I The hug: was wetter than the love my coaching staff. kiss as Price and coach Dick I just wanted to win this Hunsaker embraced through game. It was very emotional." their tears. And the results: well it was But the night was business as usual for Price as not just emotional for He used his signature cross- Price, as everyone over move to create space who was in attenfor a deep three-pointer that dance felt the spirit touched nothing but net. of the evening. '/ Price gave fans an unforFor Ronnie, the night meant gettable last look at the talent the end of his career and the that may ultimately gain him fulfillment of all entrance into the NBA. of his hard work ""It was a fairy tale ending to and intensity on a fairy tale career of Ronnie the court; for the Price," said Utah Valley State fans, the emotion Coach Dick Hunsaker. "It's came from the that rhore than a dream come true. knowledge If you could have only seen it may have been that young man out there as our last chance to ^ high school senior when catch a glimpse he was 5-8. Now he is a legit of the humility NBA prospect. He's the only and talent that kid I've ever coached who I we so rarely get thought was going to end up the chance to see ih the NBA. His development with our own eyes. has just been special." .',' It was fitting that in his firial home game the largest x Ryan Meeks u Spotlight: Trent Perry Huddle cont from page B8 Utah are also on that list. "We are excited to play them," Perry said in reference to these nationally recTrent ognized programs. "We are Perry is good enough to be able to quickly be- hang with them, if not take a coming one game or two from them." of the best But Perry indicates the collegiate teams own expectations are baseball higher. players in "We want to go out and the nation. compete and win," he said. Chad Clark/ "It gets us excited to play beNetXNews cause we don't have anything to lose." Perry is preparing to graduate with a degree in International Business this year, and isn't quite sure what he will be doing, although something in business is a certainty. "Every year has been mapped out [for me] with school and baseball, but now it is wide open," he said. Certainly with the kind of talent and steadiness that Perry has shown on the diamond, there is little question that he will be successful. WOMEN FOR THE ORPHANS 3FRU PERFORAWJCES BY: • ByU International Folk Dance Ensemble • Ludmfla Gudnina (Russia) distinguished grand piano player TUESDAY. M A R C H 8™, 2005 RAGAN THEATER 6.00 P-M. • Utah Regional Ballet • Participants of UVSC 2004 Mr. and Mrs. International ADMISSION AT THE DOOR: $3.00 FOR STUDENTS S5.00 FOR PUBLIC • GAGA International mini fashion show Light afmjhis Valentine's Day, Concert proceeds go to the construction of the Kostroma Orphanage Center. For more Info on the Center, please visit yifww.uv8c.edu/rusela or call (801) 863-8897, Pus overt is xpOHMmd by UVSC Russian Out, I C W g t E ft $ "I'l.ih County* Lar^M Jc\u-lry Shuv-room" 1 JO North University Avenue • Provo » 801*375-5220 Insi&ilo and Center fa Scivko afO U The Internet... •••not just for stealing musk anymore! www.NETXNEWS.net |