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Show iiiiii WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2001 THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE continued from page 9 While Swimming al Earns Success wrestling championships at Carv-- i Arena in Iowa City. forced the Iowa, Hawkeye women to r ... the road. "It's unfortunate," said Iowa coach Lisa Bluder before hej.tearj's. loss to the Utes. "We had the national wrestling champi;. onships...so that is something that has been set for a long time. It won't happen again because the NCAA is not going to home sites for the wrestling championships anymore. ' So, this will be the last year that will ever happen." After her team's loss, Bluder agreed that playing in Salt Lake City was a key to the Utes' success. "I definitely think so," said Bluder. "The home-cou- rt advantage is We have been on tremendous, hwge. at the road, we got here 9, ThursWe feel like we have day morning. been here a week and that is a long ' MARK HARMSEN Chronicle Sports Writer , The University of Utah men's tennis team had a hard time relaxing over the break, as it was busy with a Southern California road trip. Although the Utes dropped matches, they did play well against No. 50 San Diego and No. 21 use. The Utes, who are now ranked 64th in the nation, started off with a bang by doubles matches winning doubles to win the points in the first matchup. Against San Diego, Tyler Poulson and Qorrie Scheepers won their match playing from the No. 3 doubles spot, while David Mercier and Daniel Carls-so- n won from the No. 2 to give Utah the doubles point However, trouble occurred in the singles competition. The Toreros rebounded by winning five of six singles matches to defeat the two-of-thr- ee Utes, In their match 2. with USC, the Utes' the singles side, as on continued woes of the singles each won the Trojans matches in straight sets. But then, the doubles players also had trouble, as the Trojans went on to a 0 victory. Utah will next be in action on Mar. 22 to 24 at BYU, where it will open up conference play against the Cougars, Air Force and New Mexico. Senior Utah center Nate Althoff hopes to continue his playing days with a career in the NBA. acknowledged that he deserved a better way to go out. "We all just feel bad for Nate," said freshman guard Nick continued from page 9 Jacobson. "That's not the way his career at Utah should have ended." former teammates Keith Van Horn and Andre Miller. Though he'll never again pound the Huntsman Center It is telling that coach Rick Majerus' idea of a compliment floor, or jockey for post position with an opposing Mountain for him at the Senior Day "festivities" before the Feb. 24 West big man, Althoff is hopeful that the Memphis loss was game vs. BYU was to say, "I've been fortunate to have only the end to one chapter of his playing days, and that a coached a lot better players than Nate Althoff, but I've never professional epilogue will follow soon. "I want to keep playing," he said. "So now, I'll go work out coached a better person." be while Utah the center's career at best at some of the NBA camps and hopefully I'll get drafted. If However, may defined by time spent in the coach's doghouse and there not, I'll probably go play somewhere in Europe'. I want to was a lot of it over the past five years his teammates still make my career last as long as possible." time. "It is a very long time to be on the road, sleeping in a hotel, eating every meal out, being with each other for that long. It is a tremendous advantage to be playing on your home court. A tremendous advantage." Utah will now travel to Denver to Notre Dame in the play Pepsi Center, Saturday at 6:07 p.m.. top-seed- 7-- Women's Tennis The women's tennis team improved rival Utah to 7 after crushing Utah opened She match earnState in-sta- te 3-- 7-- 0. ing the doubles point by winning two of three matchups. Cassie Kasteler and Brooke Wilkinson won at the No. 2 position, 8-- The Utes clinched the point after Linn 2. Ronnberg and Sheri Esrock took care of business at No. 3, In singles competition, Utah dominated the Aggies, leaving them score- you fee! Bloated? Feel full shortly after eating? Stomach pain? Nausea? Vomiting? Do 8-- 3. less. The Utes now take a break from competition for a few weeks and return to action on March 23 when they travel to Albuquerque, N.M., to take on Air Force. We are looking for volunteers to participate in a clinical research study to treat these symptoms. Contact us today for more information about how vou can find relief. . t Cuaiihed participants will receive study-relate- d physical exams, study medication and compensation for time and travel. vh Swimming and team capFormer tain Heidi Hausknecht finished 47th in the freestyle (51.38 seconds) on the final day of the 2001 Women's NCAA Championships. three in events, Competing Hausknecht. was the only swimmer to represent Utah. Earlier in the meet, Hausknecht finished 23rd in the freestyle (23.14) and 28th in the d butterfly (55.65). "Being invited back in three events was awesome. It was very exciting to be able to participate in each day of competition. The NCAA meet is the fastest in the world; to be among the best of the best was truly exciting," said Hausknecht. 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