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Show Wednesday, August 31, 2005 Sports Editor: Jeremy Tyler Page 5 The Signpost Sports Phone: 626-7983 Ron McBride begins legacy at Weber State University By M. Jared Wilhelmsen asst. sports editor | The Signpost Ron McBride is a household name in Utah, but he begins his legacy this season as Weber State University's head football coach. McBride brings years of experience to WSU with him and is excited about this up coming season. "Our players are looking good," McBride said. "I am excited for the up coming season." While the football team prepares for the opening game, WSU has been bringing in portable bleachers to the stadium in anticipation of McBride's first game back here. McBride attended South Gate High School in Utah and was an all-city football and baseball standout there. Upon graduation, McBride attended San Jose State University were he played football for them from 1959 to 1962. McBride went on to play professionally with the San "Our boys have been working real hard in the offseason. It is starting to show on the field how much work the players have put into their workouts." — Ron McBride WSU football team head coach Jose Apaches of the USA offensive coordinator from League. 1974 to 1976. McBride started his McBride's legacy at the coaching carrier in 1965 at University of Utah began in San Jose State. He served 1977 when he accepted a job as the freshman coach, there as the offensive line defensive coordinator and coach as well as the offensive linebackers' coach. McBride coordinator position. McBride left after a year there to be an eventually left Utah in 1983 assistant coach at Piedmont to coach at the University of Hills High School from Wisconsin as their offensive 1966-1968. After that short line coach. Two years later, coaching trip McBride again he was back on the hill in Salt moved to coach at Gavilan Lake City at the University Junior College from 1969 to of Utah, again coaching the 1971. offensive line from 1985 McBride would find his through 1986. way back to the college level In 1987, McBride left Utah at UC-Riverside, where he again and accepted a job at the was an assistant from 1972 University of Arizona. McBride to 1973. McBride moved WjiS-.the Offensive line coach again to Long Beach State as here.and'eventually promote to the offensive line coach and - ;c >/ See McBride page 8 Ron McBride, Weber State University's head football coach, comes here after 13 years with the University of Utah as head coach and two years of coaching the inside linebackers at the University of Kentucky under head coach Rich Brooks. Football team looks good at scrimmage By Jeremy Tyler sports editor | The Signpost "Offensively, I thought we did pretty well. We The Weber State University football ran the ball well. We team held a scrimmage Aug. 25 to gauge executed every play their playing ability for the up and properly and scored coming season. The scrimmage lasted an hour and really quick. Defensively, a half; the offense played against the defense so the offense could practice we need to pick it up a some plays and run drills from the 50little bit and execute in yard line up to the 10-yard line. The offense scored their first touchdown the red zone." l e r i « S&d%W%^ wherfc she finished in fourth place with an even..'*•'. GPAof3.5, aridm^fHave[competed parscoreof72. . , < Hingham was also selected to the in at. least 66 percent of colleges Big Sky All-Conference Team. regularly, scheduled competitive '"She has been the most impactful rouhds during the year. freshman we have had in my 14 years "Most our golfers take about 15 at Weber State," Smith said during an credit hours per semester," Smith said. April interview. ; "It is not an easy sport to compete in." Hingham posted three top 25 Balli, aW§U elementary education finishes, two top 15 finishes and one . senior, is from Littleton, Colo., and top fivefinishlast year. has been on the golf team for over two Jessica Thomas, a WSU junior, is and a half years. from Layton and one of the team's "I love being on the team/' Balli strongest players. Thomas played said. "The girls are so much fun in all four of the tournaments last and I just love traveling and playing year and posted an 83.27 stroke golf/' average. Balli £ad a gqo£ season where she Thomas's/best finish came at the posted an 84.88 stroke average. Her best Hon. Moore Women's Intercollegiate. finish was atiefof73rd at the RonMoore Thomas shot.a 7jB in her final round Women's Intercollegiate Competition. tying her career low to finish 57th at "I played basketball in high the tournament. . school;" Balli saicL "I got tired of it after Smith is excited about WSU's I graduated so I started a new sport. I See Scholar page 8 d # after a mere 10 minutes on thefield.The offense worked on running plays, field goal returns, and punt returns. "Offensively, I thought we did pretty well," said Ian Pizzaro, WSU quarterback. "We ran the ball well. We executed every play properly and scored really quick. Defensively, we need to pick it up a little bit and execute in the red zone." A total of eight touchdowns were scored during the scrimmage. Kicker Joe Johnson missed only two of his field goal attempts. WSU Head Football Coach Ron McBride said he thinks he hurried the first kick and pushed it. Since he missed that attempt, he tried to adjust and pulled it. The defense was a little slow to start. They missed a few key tackles that led to some touchdowns. Conversely, they line did manage to sack the quarterback six times. Ron McBride said he was not pleased with the number of sacks the defensive line gave up on some blitz plays. — Ian Pizzaro, Weber State University quarterback "Obviously we've got some weapons on offense," Ron McBride said. "Obviously the runners are good, the receivers are good." There were a lot of penalties during the game: Anything from holding to roughing the passer. "We're gonna have penalties," Pizarro said. "It's just they way we respond to them." WSU Forward Safety John McBride said he was pleased with how the scrimmage went overall, despite missing some key starters due to illness. "We're missing our whole starting line, our best line," John McBride said. "Defensively, our second team, I think they're just a step behind. Our team is young, so we gotta catch up." Ron McBride also said he felt the scrimmage went well. He said he could See Scrimmage page 8 |