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Show University Journal Page 12 Monday, September 23, 2002 Continued from Back Page Birds impressive, finish in 4th, 8th SUU SPORTS INFORMATION Sl'Us cross country teams ran well at the C Riverside Invitational Saturday in Riverside, Calif., combining to record seven I marks. women placed four runners in the for a fourth-placteam effort, top-2tint'd among collegiate teams, with 85 points. Sophomore Maegan Schmutz was M LJ's top finisher at seventh-overal- l u ith a 5 kilometer personal-bes- t mark of 8 50.2, while junior Natalie Quilter Imished in 11th with a personal-bes- t personal-bes- t I he e 0 02 5. CROSS Junior Stephanie Hart placed 15th ( 10 09 PR), senior Kelly Richards 18th (19:11.5) and junior Carma Douglas 36th (19'25 7 PR) to round out SUUs 1 - - scoring. The team impressed against tough competition, and coach Eric Houle was happy with the team's effort. Our women ran pretty strong today, We beat some good teams, including DC Irvine, who we finished second to at their meet two weeks ago. We are happy with the way tilings are going and hopefully we can continue to improve and get faster." SUUs men finished eighth out of 26 teams with 285 points and had three runners bicak or tie personal marks. Freshman David Sheeran was SUUs for the second-straigh- t week with an 8 k time of 26:10.9, matching his collegiate debut lime at UCI two weeks ago. Sophomore J.D. Nielson followed in 51st with a personal-bes- t 26.23 2, while junior Sean McLachlan placed 70th (26:39.8), sophomore Chad Sanada 71st (26:40.4 - PR) and junior Aared Sampson 106th (27:17.9) to finish SUUs scoring. It was a pretty good showing for us and our men have continued to COUNTRY improve, Coach Houle added. We ran tight as a team and I think we narrowed the gap between our runners. Utah State outlasted Track West to take the women's team title, 70-7while UC Santa Barbara finished just ahead of SUU in third with 77 points. Cal Coast track club team won die mens title with 44 points, while USU was die top collegiate team with 45 points. said. Houle top-finish- itds shoot low SUU SPORTS INFORMATION The leader r r for both the running and quarterback SUU two-roun- UNIVERSITY JOURNAL ok. k. The SUU rodeo team play'ed r host to the college rodeo in Cedar City on Friday and Saturday, but results were umnailable at press time. The team competed in first-eve- ERIN MADSON UNIVERSITY JOURNAL SUUs Rob Evans puts during a practice round at the Cedar Ridge golf course. SUU was playing well at Air Force on the weekend. 3 ? (!) (t 0 0 0 i) ft 0 f i 0 ERIN MADSON UNIVERSITY die season. The Eagles had averaged 354 passing y'ards coming into the game, and had tallied around 600 total yards in each of their last tw'o games, both blowout wins. That's the best team W'eve played from the Big Sky (Conference), Gregory said. Theyre better than Montana, and theyll win the Big Sky. You can write that down and send it to Montana. That statement says plenty about EWU, considering Montana is currently ranked No. 1 in rankings. Running backjovan Griffith ran 20 times for 136) ards and tw'o touchdowns for the Eagles, and the team tallied 568 total yards. The Birds wont have long to try to make the necessary-adjustmentw'ith two trips to Texas in the next two weeks. SUU will get Southwest Texas State in San Marcos,. Texas, on Saturday, and Stephen F. Austin on Oct. 5, before returning home for the homecoming game against Cal Poly on Oct. 12. FT, f 71 events like bareback riding and calf roping, placing well and making a success of the team's first event at home. from SUU Competitors Ben Noyes, Beau Tay'lor, Daniel Thompson and Mackenzie Wood. Adviser Jean Lopour was honored before Saturdays finals for her efforts to bring the rodeo to southern Utah Look for full rodeo results in Thursday' s issue of the Journal. included Austin Bingham, Laura Boy'd, Roy' Bundv, Heather Kalene Filers, Christensen, Sarah Heaton, Chandler Munch', lU h I00- ?1 Uv4 1 L 1 0 yT fh 0 Cr mmm They're llVY tyH heading back. v E3ra . J (.,- - t jr r I '.Wj'JU TltSfrl SOME RESTRICTIONS APPLY. Membership course basis. Amenities and services vary between clubs. i Now that you are going back to school, get yourself into a healthy routine, join Gold's Gym now at this dXiUu 4XL3 omujiuuu SPECIAL OFFER! oijaj-uKJT-JfU- 03351 'i ') fiX'i!- 0' - &!; 'I JOURNAL Chuck Henderson tries to escape from two Eagle defenders during SUUs loss to Eastern Washington. The Birds had trouble moving the ball and keeping up with explosive EWU. does well in rodeo By DAVID DeMILLE f 7 d 111. 65-yar- d Strong-arme- e two-roun- record with Josh Blankenship threw for 291 yards and three touchdow'ns. finding nine different receivers and stretching die SUU defense dim all over the field. He now has 1154 passing yards and 13 touchdowns on U l'EP. total of 609, 33 over par. The Thunderbirds shot 300 in Thursdays first round for a tie for 13th-placbut faltered Saturday with a 309 to drop four positions. l ad Hunt led the Birds in 22nd place at three-ove- r 147 (73-- 4), while Greg Martin was in a tie for 62nd place at 153. John Mosier shot an opening round 71, but turned in an 86 Saturday for a total of 157 and a tie for 8th place. Kenny Ebalo was in 101st at 159 and Robb Evans shot 161 for a piece of 108th place. e He should pass Herkey Marxen for the record in the Thunderbirds next game. The touchdown capped the teams most impressive drive of the game, a effort w'idi under two minutes to play. Eastern Washington recovered the onside kick and tacked on another score with under a minute to go in the game. The SUU blocking will be a priority in practice this week, passing games. The Eagles had no such problems offensively', moving the ball easily golf squad played its first tournament of the season Friday through Sunday7 at the U.S. Air Force Academy falconAntigua Invitational. Results from Sundays play were unavailable at press time After the second round, SUUs golfers were in a tie for 17th with the place of Northern University Colorado. tO shots off the pace set by tournament SUU SUU shot a As a receiver, I just block my outside guy, wideout Wes Patterson said. I dont know' if W'ere missing our blocks or just not getting our assignments down, but somethings not right. Patterson and fellow receivers Nick Ervin and Matt Hammer found openings in the Eagle defense, but Randolph was often too busy scrambling to find any open receivers. We had some chances to throw, Patterson said. But Dustin faces so much pressure back there that when he does have chances to pass, hes usually in scramble mode and its hard for him to find people Fullback Jay Gaynor tacked on a touchdown late with a run,, and Dave Pretzers successful extra point moved him into a lie for the schools tt.'V 1 ' V t u Mb UjlJMU 0a a |