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Show TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 2001 THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Baseball Splits Series Against Sacramento St Softball Straggles V s Kai iKea earns RORY BRUNNER Chronicle Asst Sports Editor Last weekend, the Utah baseball e series could aptly be team's titled "A Tale of Two Teams." After ripping the Sacramento State Hornets for 17 runs in game one, the Utes totaled five runs in the next two games before getting rained out Sunday. The deprivation of scoring in game two didn't change the result, but the lack of runs caught up to Utah in game three. After going 1 against Sacramento State, the U now stands at 9 as MWC competition gets underway in the upcoming weekend. On Friday, the dominant side of the Utes showed up. On the power of 23 hits (equaling the highest in a game this ball club posted 17 season), the Utah runs in a 0 rout of the Hornets. Adam Castleton, Chris Shelton and Sam Swenson led the barrage with four hits apiece. Shelton blasted his third homer of the year in recording three runs and three RBI, and was just a triple off hitting for the cycle. Five other Utes slapped at least three hits in the offensive outpour. Pitcher Ryan Bailey mastered the Sacramento State sticks in earning his third win of the season. The junior righty allowed four runs over seven innings of work. A double dose Saturday resulted in the emergence of a passive, Ute squad. In the opener, Utah was victorious Starting junior pitcher Travis Palmer worked five innings and struck out four Sacto hitters. Mitch Maio allowed no runs or hits in the final two innings on the mound for the The Utes were gracious hosts in their annual Red Desert Classic tournament held in St George last week- 2-- 10-- 17-1- low-scori- r 4. RED scseffio 1 i 1 RORY BRUNNER Chronicle Asst. Sports Editor four-gam- sf-- end. Utah dropped three of five games, including two against topslipic nationally ranked teams, ' ping to 9 on the year. In the opener against No. 10 Washington, to say Utah struggled at the plate would be very generous. Huskies ace Tia Bollinger held Utah to a single hit corning off the hat of Molly McLean In the third inning, Meanwhile, the Huskies had their way with Utah's Kristin Arbogast, scoring eight in four innings and going on to win Utah got in the 'W column in its second game Friday vs. Missouri. z A thrilling victory was capped by a single by Melissa Stahnke. scoring Masle Ota for the 1 victory. The other Ute run came in the third, when McLean jacked a homer. 8-- - 8-- 0, v bottoin-of-the-seven- th 2-- 13 tJW j 5 i S hi e pW O Uf i nl ifLel frnim, tar rls!) I Saturday turned out to be a disappointingly unproductive day, as Ute losses to Oklahoma State and No. 9 Stanford sunk the U to a losing record on the year. Oklahoma State broke a 4 tie with five runs in the top of the sixth. Utah could not recover, and lost TC Jones, Christa Pfeninger, Niki Hayhurst and Trevis each collected two hits for the Utes. Meanwhile, Stanford supplied an unsafe exhibition of why it is No. 9 in the country and -: overall, crushing Utah 1 in the Utes second gsrne Saturday. The only U run came in the third when Trevis singled to drive in McLean. Sunday, the Utes disposed of Utah State 0 after a clinic administered by Arbogast. She pitched a complete seven innings, issuing seven strikeouts and allowing one hit Ahead for the Ute softball team is the Southern Florida Speedline Tournament, Utah will open up against Texas Tech. The tourney runs from March 8 to 10, and is held at the Greco Fields in Tampa, 4-- 9-- 7. I.yn-ds- ey . 16-1- 8-- 4-- Fla. 5 ng JSi a k Don't walk, J?CiSTto your nearest news stand! Diversity finally at the U? 4-- 2. Spanish as the Official Language of Utah? save. Shelton again homered and went with two runs and two RBI. Mike Westfail added two hits. The nightcap was a reversal of fortunes. Hornet pitcher Danny Gonzalez put the stops on the Ute team that plastered the Hornets with 17 runs just one day prior. Gonzalez went seven innings, allowing just one run on six hits to give Sacramento State a 1 win. Donald Hawes homered for the only Utah score. Shelton continued his hot streak with two of Utah's eight hits. Brett Lindsey received the loss after working into the seventh, allowing just Tuition is going to go down? Find out the answers to these questions and more in 2-- UNIVESiTY OF UTAH two runs. The wrapped up the season for the hardballers. Mountain West Conference competition now begins with the Ute record peaking over .500 at Thursday, the Utes pack up the pine tar and Vasoline For a three-gam- e ride at the University of New Mexico. 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