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Show Utah FacesBYy In Crucial Series i Three weekend baseball gam with Brigham Young Universi! ! highlight University sports action 5 A single game will be played th. i afternoon at 2 p.m. at Derks Field Action will then move to provo where a doubleheader is on J for Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m P Because the conference slate in eludes only 12 games, each contest . becomes very important, year, after loosing the first two games to BYU, the Utes were never in the title chase. Utah finished k with a 3-7 conference record, while ' BYU took the northern division WAC honors with a 7-5 record. Utah goes into the game with a 6-5 record, which includes three one-run defeats, Utah is hitting at a .281 clip, while their opponents have managed only a .205 average. The Utes are also better defensively defensive-ly than their opponents. Utah's fielding average is .957 compared to .943 for their opponents. Dick Hardy and Mark DiGiosio are the Redskin's leading hurlers as both of them are averaging close to one strikeout per inning and have posted post-ed two complete games apiece. Utah's leading totters are 3m ! Whitely (.375) and "Randy "Bayer j (.333), while John Hunter leads the team with two home runs. |