OCR Text |
Show nu ,J ij. March 25,2008 Justine Pruitt, 586-548- 8 1 1 -- i buggers suffer from fee 11 j game senes at UC Santa Barb.ua and ti e Gauchos jumped on the right from the opening pitch 'I he Gauchos m i 'ii U ran ( iik baseball s ii n J the West up bieak and s .nr sii uj eh s as iM (I it uigh a tough i Mi " i dominated i aspect eeiy - 's opt ued then VVest-- i s liar with a four- - the v accounted for moic tuns en route to a 17 victory over the T Buds The lopsided loss diopped i ic plate, they i o the i hie to a 0-- on the season 3 Gauchos onslaught nued thioughout the series. v wcie rarely threatened in i he mt thiee games The Gauchos outscored the he - ' road trip l p of opening g'une as tliey blasted left- sophomore handed starter Alec Reichle "imp i v i S l w . n i 1 1 chun IS Ce ROAD, Pass a Cl sophomore third baseman Chester Wilson runs to tag University of Utah sophomore infielder Cooper Blanc in a game against Utah. CUU nhirds ciiaim e series By JUSTINE PRUITT jpruittsuujournal com Freshman Caroline Fernandez hit a walk-of- f grand slam Saturday m the SUU softball teams final game in a three-gam- e series against conference foe UMKC, as the claimed the series, The third game ended in a mercy rule after Fernandez hit her grand slam with the on top, SUU had four runs going into the fifth, crossing two over the plate in both the second and fourth innings, before Fernandez brought injuniorTrishClapham, senior LindiKennedy and junior Natalie McBumey off a pitch from d relief pitcher Kangaroo junior Samantha Hurst In t h 4jiA I 2-- 1. 8-- 0. right-hande- game, SUU finished with 12 hits, all of which were singles prior to the grand slam by Fernandez. also tallied four stolen bases. The SUU ended the series 2 in The Summit overall, while UMKC League play and ended in conference play and overall. The had a rough start to the series as the Kangaroos claimed the first game, in a doubleheader Friday. SUU had five hits and was given five walks by UMKC pitchers, but couldnt take advantage of opportunities, as the 4-- 8-- 1- -7 3-- 3-- 2, ds See SPLIT, Page 9 ERIC 7'o rmn Ccmghlin performs a series of ' iVrth 11 practice in the Harris Cen '"S J t prmcP.M rti r Friday during the i 3 r tu Slf? wi 0 V I J. I f V, tf Fernandez McArthur ii Birds claim 2r y m rr-n.- jj iinal rom IL gy mnastics team wiapped s tegular season Friday at u t 1 . Up .vei sity with its second- m of the season, with a ,r I t. h Slate's 193 150 in J w uL coach Scott tics the T Buds did gieat i (looked) amaing, I ' M m t ol i w I ta, o'liin s tennis team 3 imnut League pk.y til ins and one loss at a a.Ol la .hosted by this weekend p inis, who weie picked Idi m the continence, 1' e be recoid in the is . 7 t 8 3, loPowed k JL by of ' 2s was who euie nps. f r pj s Thuisday.andeachsinglesmateh was decided in only two sets fiiday the SseFUI'LE, out got n i a TJ out well as they vvei t undefeated in all their matches aeamst the Centenary Ladies O11 the c faced conference defending champion, the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles ORU came into the duster I m , J p iiv-- 7 p ' p L , Li o and vw i r suujournal com m.ior v'k.d k imo Matt Junior McArthur led the TBud spung to 19th ovciall, a m during break a grand slam Saturday in SUUs golfers Arizona place shooting thiee-under-p- 2H, earning this weeks Journal Male Play er of the eek Freshman Caroline hit Fernandez wun mercy-rul- e over the UMKC Kangaroos, this earning week's Journal Female Player of the Week. disappointed K McArthur v s onlv to t'e top 20 as he the S'JU mens golf te im ' 12 i .'aec ainong the colic l a.u hmshus at the Ron Mooic bn itat'onal Sunday McArthur ended in 19th place utter shooting a ' ree under par 213 after a fm round of 69, h was 13 shots off the n.d , Inal champion buy' elitt of Boise Stae. I Softball Freshman Mens golf Jumoi reen, U3TUUE FBUITT w T P.233 9 s o weekend the .7 0 I lie 1 finds beat Centenary IUPUI and Western Illinois at the clustei, and their only loss te came to confeience-favo- r OialP.obcits The started the 9 . Bauman said Utah State was a te tm to compete against Utah State has been a tu e KS i the ball rolling tcnlly well, he said. One of the challenges of the night was when fieshman Shannon Coughlin hurt heisclf a little bit dining warm ups foi vault We were going to pull her, but the scoies were so tough on vault that we hadtousehei an i diesteppeduphkcno other. he said "She looked amazing. and h h was a hi said r. euujoumal com re in final meet he saM Bauman said the team haa major cnors, but despite those the team still did well looked They awesome and they " he 1 looted tough, 1 ,3ars OF THE WEEK 03. f ' JOURNAL UNIVERSITY performance against the Utah State to their second h : best score of je, e 'j-- 1 POOLE -- 1 ended at 877, 32 shots off the The championship pace, after shooting two rounds Palm Valley Golf of 294 at the 7,015-yar- d par-7- 2 Club in Goodyear, Ariz. Junior Nate Page was the scorer as he second finished tied for 40th place with I a total of 218 .f Junior Jared Brader was the finisher as he ended in 61st place at third 225, followed by sophomore Thomas Camaione in 64th with a 226 Senior Eric Nilsson completed See TEE OFF, Page 9 |