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Show port, MONDAY*FEBRUARY 26 • 2007 B7 Fairbanks and McMurray seal the deal Fairbanks answered the next possession with ness from there for Fair- a turn around jumper to banks. Miss Consistency give UVSC back the lead. finished the ballgame with From there, the game see18 points and a game-high sawed back-and-forth with nine rebounds. Fairbanks each team taking the upper dominated the low-post hand. Lewis-Carlisle, who and seemingly scored with finished with a game-high ease when she was inside 21 points, hit a big jumper the key. She even got off to give the Mastodons their to a slow start by her stan- last lead of the contest with dards and didn't even hit 2:05 remaining. her first bucket until five The win levels the Wolminutes remaining in the verines season record back first half. at .500, (13-13) on the seaThe Canadian combo of son and (3-5) in their UnitFairbanks and McMurray ed Basketball League play. looked pretty darn tough to '"Sometimes basketball defend and the Mastodons games go in different ways struggled to stop them. and sometimes you just McMurray said, "I've have to grind it out, and been looking for my shot that's what we did tonight. more and trying to be more I'm proud of our team; a part of the offense. At the we weathered their storms free-throw line, I just tried well, put the ball in the basto put the shots in at the ket and got rebounds when end, calm myself down and we needed to," Coach Nixblock out the pressure." on said. Coach Kathy Nixon In the final minute of said. "One of the best the ballgame, both Wolverthings about Julie is her ine guards Sandy Marvin ability to get to the basket. and Hollie Beaman left the She can shoot the three, game with injuries. Marvin shoot the pull-up, and take took a hard fall and landed it in all the way, giving her badly on her knee, while enough dimensions offen- Beaman has had a reoccursively to make her tough to ring injury with a sore bone guard. The thing for Julie in her foot. Coach Nixon is maintaining her confi- said they should both be dence, and boy this is just ready to go in their final the beginning for her." game of the season. With six minutes reTo finish off their upmaining in the contest, IP- and-down season, the WolFW's leading scorer John- verines will travel to Edna Lewis-Carlisle picked inburg, Texas and take on up a loose ball and took UTPA. UVSC is looking it coast-to-coast for a lay for a victory to «ive them .. • c . enn "' u •• Ben Paz/NetXNcws up giving the Mastodons a their first .500 or better ' 60-59 lead, their first of the season since making the Julie McMurray goes up for the lay in. She led the way .same. jump to Division-I. for the Wolverines with 20 points in the game. From WOMEN-B5 Jamie Teerlink/NetXNews The officials had to seperate the Ice Cats and the Wolverines on a number of occasions in the first game. Rivalry rematch to end the season From HOCKEY-B5 ACH A Western Regional Tournament ranked No. 10, claiming the final spot in the tournament, and faced the University of Colorado. The Ice Cats were beat 6-5 but BYU turned around to beat USC in a consolation game. Wyman said, "BYU is playing great right now and it will be a huge challenge that I think the boys will be up for. We beat them once this year so it will be a great game." The rematch between the Utah County schools will be the season finale for both teams. "It's huge because it's how we end our season that will carry over into the next season, it's not everything but it means a lot," Coach Beaudry said. UVSC was 16-11 before a pair of games against Division III Colorado School of Mines while BYU was 16-11-1 before facing Utah over the weekend. The Ice Cats face Utah State on Thursday and UVSC will have an Alumni Invitational Friday but come Saturday the ice will heat up. Seth Armitage leads the Wolverines with 32 goals and Wyman leads the team in assists with 40 both guys have 64 points on the year. Armitage said, "We have the offense but our defense has been holding us back all year. We need a team effort in this one." In the last meeting the Wolverines were out shot 61-33 but goalie Mike Davis stepped up and took care of business but witli Davis no longer on the roster the UVSC\vill look to Corey Adkin to guard the net. 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