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Show UNIVERJITY Journal 1 PACE B v 6 EDITOR r Monday, April 24, 2006 Darren Vaughan By SCOTT MONROE smonroesuujournal.com Marci Pratt broke two school records and Southern Utah set a new team record as it swept its third Mid-Coopponent of the season, taking four games from IUPUI Friday and Saturday in Indianapolis. The beat the Crusaders and Friday, and finished the series by taking Saturdays game by scores of and With the wins, the Birds improve to 14-- 2 conference play, and n 6-- 0 6-- 1 5-- 3 6-- 24-2- 7 overall. SUU has won 22 of its past 26 games. Pratt broke teammate Tiffany Burts year-ol- d singleseason home run record when she hit her 12th homer of Ihe season in the third inning of Saturdays series finale. The junior slugger also broke the SUU single-seasorecord for total bases, a record previously held by Lacee LePrey who had 120 total bases in 2004. Pratt officially broke the record in the top of the fifth inning of Fridays n Senior pitcher Kasey Hubbard releases the ball during a March30gameagainstUVSC.TheBirdslost Wednesday SUU plays Arizona Tuesday in against Utah 10-5. ds By DARREN VAUGHAN dvaughansuujournal.com The SUU baseball team will look to snap a three-gam- e losing streak Tuesday in Tucson, Ariz., when it faces the e Arizona Wildcats in the first game of a two-gam- set. Southern Utah is in the midst of a road trip, which began with a 10-- loss to Utah Wednesday afternoon in Salt Lake have lost their last three City. The road games, with their last win away from Thunderbird Park coming April 1 against Utah Valley State. SUU is just this season on the road, compared to a 15-- mark on its home field. will also be looking to reverse The a trend of losing night games, as the team is under the lights. Tuesdays game is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. 5 5-- 6 8 0-- 3 g 16-2- Birds beat Roos, clinch No. 4 seed at league tourney the morning, then came back to down UMKCs Fallon Wicker, in the afternoon. SUU also won the doubles point against Valpo, with Veronica Cortes and Lisseth Hoyos beating Whitney Chada and Kate Evangelist 5-- 2 3 6-- 10-4- ) season. Brad Mills is the Wildcats top starting pitcher, posting a 3.98 earned-ru- n average in 11 starts. Mills has 63 strikeouts, and opposing teams are batting just .282 against him this season. will resume their The Mid-Coschedule Saturday afternoon in Rochester, Mich., when they e series against Oakland. open a SUU is not scheduled to play a home game until May 12, when it will play host to Oral Roberts for the final four home games of the season. n four-gam- in 6-- 4-- 3 Pratt prepares to swing at a pitch during the doubleheader against UVSC at Tuesday-afternoo- n Kathryn Berg Field. nt Teams competing in the mens tournament include SUUs golf team will hope to SUU, Oral Western RobeUs, extend its season next week as it heads to Indianapolis, Ind., for Illinois, Oakland, Centenary, Valparaiso, UMKC and host the Mid Continent Conference IUPUI. The Mid-Cowomens championships. The winner of tournament will be contested at the tournament cams a spot the same time at the same site. in the NCAA championship There are three really strong field and a berth in a regional teams in this tournament, tournament. SUU Coach Richard SUU finished said. Church second at the Mid-CoWestern Illinois, championships Oral Roberts and last year, the third ourselves all have a time the team has good chance and you finished as the cant count IUPUI out runner-up- . either. We need to be The tournament at the top of our game GOLF will be contested in order to get where we want to be, which is on the Monday and Tuesday over the 7,142-yarwinners stand following the par 72 The Fort Golf Club in Indianapolis. tournament. SUU finished second last year Scheduled to compete for while Ebalo finished in a tie for the are senior Kenny first before losing in a playoff. Ebalo, junior Jesse Wheeler and Last year, Southern Utah sophomore Eric Nilsson as well rallied behind the strong as freshman Matt McArthur. Sophomore Nate Page and play of Ebalo to move from freshman Tim Hawkins are fifth to second place at the Conference currently vying for the teams n at No. 2 and Nelson and Casie Brooks edging Stanislaw and Jill Dierberg at No 3 by the same count. The had an easy time of it against UMKC Saturday afternoon, as Liliana L.elia Cortes and Kanuha topped Molli Bo d and Nicole Kofron at No. 1 doubles while Hoyos and Veronica Cortes breezed past Sarena Apte and Anna Grodzinsky at No 2. In singles it was Liliana Cortes beating Boyd at No 1, Kanua defeating Grodzinsky at No. 2 and Hoyos rolling past Apte at No. 3. At No. 4 Veronica Cortes had an easy time with Kofron while Nelson beat Wicker. n TENNIS (1-- JOURNAL SUU hopes for first title in programs history 6-- 0 9-- 7 DARREN VAUGHANUNIVERSITY Marci SUU SPORTS INFORMATION Southern Utah's womens tennis team wrapped up a bid to the Conference tennis tournament Saturday afternoon with a win over UMKC. SUU split two matches on the day, falling to Valpaiaiso Saturday morning before picking up the UMKC win. The moved to 4-in league play, them guaranteeing no worse than a tie for fourth place in the regular season standings. Even if SUU lost to Chicago State Sunday and winded up tied with Oakland, which finished its season the will earn the tournaments fourth and final berth by virtue of their 4-win over OU last weekend. Results for Sundays match were not available at press time. Freshman Emmi Nelson was to go undefeated the only Saturday, as she got by Valpos Charmaine Stanislaw in a super , See SWEEP, Page B5 a Sunday home game against Stanford. Jason Donald leads the Wildcats with 30 RBIs, along with a .299 batting average and 13 doubles. Colt Sedbrook leads the team with a .331 batting average, while Brad 13 bases this Boyer has stolen a team-hig- h Mid-Contine- tie breaker (4-6- second game when she doubled to right-centfield off Crusader pitcher Breanna Howell. Piatt is also on the verge of breaking school records in RBIs, triples, hits and runs, and could likely do so this week in one of the five games. The pitching staff had a solid weekend as well, with seniorAmy Sauerandsophomore Corie Jensen each earning two wins, giving them 11 wins apiece this season. Pratt was not the who hit only consistently during the series. Burt batted .385 in the series, with four runs and three RBIs, and Sauer hit .333, with three RBIs and a home run. Southern Utah also set a new team record for home runs in a season (511, breaking the 2005 record of 49. Another record in jeopardy is the career home run record, also held by LePrey. Senior Jentry Jo Johnsons home run in Saturday's second game gave her 19 for her career, one set e JUMP FOR IT SUU SPORTS INFORMATION 7-- 0 two-gam- The offensive attack is led by seniors Justin Sotelo, Jeff Oliverson and Trever Dimick. Sotelo leads the team with a .354 batting average, and has hit a teamleading 12 doubles. Oliverson has a .351 batting average with 10 extra-bas- e hits and 22 RBIs, e and leads the team in percentage at .434. Meanwhile, Dimick has been named Conference Player of the Week three times this season, and the statistics show why. The senior infielder has a batting average of .336, to go with a 29 RBIs and 17 walks. His 59 total bases trail only Sotelo and Amos Burgess among However, Arizonas offense will pose a challenge to Southern Utah. The Wildcats have a record of pending the result of team-leadin- 2 four-gam- face Wildcats in T-Bir- , will not play another home Tucson, Ariz. The game until May 12, when they will play host to Oral e Roberts in a series. 586-199- ABBY PALMER UNIVERSITY JOURNAL Tiffany Lindstrom competes in the long jump at the BYU Cougar Invitational earlier this season. The SUU track teams competed at Utah State Saturday. final position. See GOLF, Page B5 |