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Show BACK PACE r Monday, February 22, 2010 i v r ) . i L EDITOR Carter Williams, i 586-775- 7 SUU punished by in season debut Cal-Berkel- ey By CARTER WILLIAMS cwilliamssuunews.com , jt . 'I i 1 1 i 1 I ? UNIVERSITY Senior guard Davis Baker has his shot blocked in loss last week to IPFW. SUU lost both of the its games over the weekend, which eliminated the JOURNAL FILE PHOTO team from any postseason consideration. Baker, senior guard Drew Allen and senior forward Byron careers this week. their Byrd will wrap-u- p rd baseball team The began its 2010 campaign on a sour note after being swept in all three games oa to California-Bcrkele- y Friday and Saturday. SUU was outscored 46-- 0 in the three games over two days. lost 14-- 0 on The Friday, then 22-- 0 in game one of a doubleheadcr. SUU then lost 10-- 0 in the series finale, which was the second game of the doubleheader Saturday. The schedule originally called for a game on Sunday, but forecasted rain forced the third game to be played Saturday. will return The to the diamond on Tuesday again UNLV. off California freshman pitcher Justin Jones. Jones finished with nine strikeouts in seven innings. Bears 0 14, A rough third inning baseball doomed the team as they lost 14-- 0 to California-Berkele- in y their season debut Friday afternoon. SUU gave up two runs in the second inning, but eight runs in the third inning broke the game open for the Golden Bears. I think we just had some rust, baseball head coach David Eldredge said in a press release. We were able to get nine hits against their ace, but we just werent able to string things together. Part of that was some base running errors, but it was good to get out and I think well do better 0 Bears 10, tomorrow. California got on the board were only The in the second inning when able to muster four hits, centerfielder while California scored 10 freshman Darrell Mathews drove in runs on 20 hits in game two of a doubleheader at Evans two runs with a single. After SUU was unable Diamond in Berkely, Calif. to Senior Kyle respond in the top of pitcher five the third inning, freshman Hamman pitched innings and gave up five designated hitter Devin runs on 11 hits in a losing Rodriguez cranked a grand effort. He also struck out slam to give California a four batters. 0 lead. The Bears finished the inning with eight runs 0 Bears 22, on seven hits; the also committed two errors California battered SUU in the frame. with five different innings California then added a with at least three runs of runs in the fourth pair scored on its way to a 22-- 0 and seventh innings to blow n of out SUU 14-It was game one of a Rodriguez led the Bears, doubleheader. in the game going The Golden Bears broke and driving in 5 runs. through in the third inning slam with three runs off senior Rodriguez's grand was the only home run of pitcher Kyle Melling. fourth the game. After a collected California California inning by SUU, and in the 19 hits game tacked on eight more runs had multi-h- it seven players out of and knocked Melling games. the game. Sophomore pitcher Erik The Bears then tacked on Johnson scattered just six 11 more runs throughout hits in seven innings. the game. scattered The For more on this story, go nine hits in the game, but to suunews.com. were unable to capitalize 6-- beat-dow- 0. see postseason action after road sweep while wont T-Bir-ds By CARTER WILLIAMS with 21 points, the but we have stretches (of poor play) Dallin Bachynski center freshman how ... the hardest thing is to learn hard you have to play to win and be score nine points. Reid said both Baker and sophomore consistent. Matt Massey struggled with its forward lead extended The Jaguars then further in the half, leading by as much injuries heading into the game. as 23 points, before settling on the (Massey) hurt his (back) and missed of practices for the first two a the outscored IUPUI couple victory. 44-2- 8 in the second half. days of the week and its still bothering SUU cut the deficit to 14 points him, Reid said. And actually so did with four minutes left, but could not Davis Baker. look to next season, As the overcome the early second half run. turned the ball over 26 Reid said he believed a long The times in the game, 20 of which came training program would be good for the off Jaguar steals. bigger guys on the team, especially with the team's inconsistency in the paint. we the lose, one of games Every Some of our big guys have to theres about a nine minute stretch at the start of the second half where we turn understand, they have to get into the the ball over, Reid said. They pressure weight and have a great weight program for our guys to get stronger and more tell the to well and Ive tried young guys, It becomes a when they try to break the press, 'when physical, he said. have maturity (issue). you throw the ball away, you can't 2009-201- 0 the finished SUU your eyes light up and get panicky. You 3 road record, 9 season with a have to keep your composure. d in conference Reid credited IUPUIs games; the team will finish the season next week at home and athletic players for the steals. We told our guys to protect the against Oral Roberts on Thursday and be to You have he said. strong Centenary on Saturday. ball, with the ball. Western Illinois 63, SUU 49 IUPUI led 0 with 15:30 remaining in the first half before SUU went on a 15-- 5 Western Illinois junior guard Matt run in the next seven minutes of 1 lead in Lander scored 20 points to lead the the ball game to take a 9 win over the Leathernecks to a the contest. basketball lor men's lead Utah a team, Southern The steady kept a loss that all but eliminates any last the rest of the half until Young made an emphatic dunk to tie the game at 33 hope of a spot in The Summit League with 10 seconds before halftime. Championships. SUU outshot the Jaguars 61 to 50 Sophomore guard Tommie Tyler 12 to 57 and half added in the points, while fellow opening percent 52 percent in the game. sophomore guard Ceola Clark 10 for See WIU, Page 9 Senior guard Davis Baker led cwilliamssuunews.com mens basketball team The will not make the postseason this year after losing to Western Illinois on Thursday and Indiana on Saturday. SUUs loss to Western Illinois in Macomb, 111., which knocked the out of any chance of postseason play. With the loss on Saturday, season 9 in road record, with a 3 conference games; the team will finish the season next week at home against Oral Roberts on Thursday and Centenary on Saturday. Purdue-Indianapol- nt is off-seas- 0-- 61 IUPUI 77, Playing in his last home game as a Jaguar, senior forward Robert Glenn haunted SUU one last time as used a strong second 1 in half run to defeat the Ind. Saturday night. Indianapolis, Glenn finished with 28 points, six rebounds, four assists and three steals on the Jaguars senior day festix ities. while sophomore guard Alex Young added 21 more. and Jaguars were tied at The 33 at halftime, but IUPUI surged out of the break on a 21-- 3 run in the opening eight minutes of the second hall to sail ahead of SUU 54-3I think this has been a trademark for this team, men's basketball head e coach Roger Reid said in a interview with Power 91s Art Challis. We hae issues with consistency. We played 33 minutes of good basketball, Purdue-Indianapol- is 0-- 77-6- long-arme- 16-1- Lady birds fall short at IUPUI IUPUI opened the game on a Purduc-lndianapol- is 59-5- a three-poi- run in the first 22-- 8 11 minutes of the game from Junior Caitlyn guard Sears had a potential game tying layup go in and out with sewn seconds left as Indiana defeated the SUU women's 5 team basketball in afternoon Saturday Indianapolis, Ind. Junior guard Kalia Goff hit shot with 12 seconds lemaining to cut the Seals Jaguars lead lo 57-5- followed with a steal on the inbound pass, but couldn't get the ensuing layup to fall. neci the which iecosered. SUU ended the first half on an . ... 63-4- post-gam- By JOSH PERRY jperrysuunews com ft 25-2- 8-- Jaguars The Summit run to close the lead lo 2 31-2- (6-2- 1 cut the at the 7:34 League) deficit to mark of the second half after two free throws from junior 41-3- 9 forwaid Challis Pascucci. SUU was unable to get any closer as IUPUI 3 Summit League) hit 8 from the free throw line over the final minute to seal the (3-2- 7-- including 17-- 5 on the offensive end. The struggled with their shooting, hitting only M percent from the field and were unable to take full advantage of their 26 free throw attempts, making only 62 percent The Jaguars hit 39 percent of their field goals and 81 percent from the free throw line. IUPUI had seven blocked shots compared to zero for t - ! i 42-2- ictory. Sears led the way for the double-doubla with e. 19 points rebounds. Pascucci added a doubledouble of her own with 17 points while tying her of 15 rebounds career-hig- h Sophomore forwaid Kerah Nelson led IUPUI with 19 points and 10 rebounds. Freshman forward Ebony Davis conti ibuled 12 points to the Jaguars. Sophomore guard Janna Eichelbergcr added points. SUU dominated on the glass, outrebounding IUPUI scoring andgubbing 11 SUU. The T Rirds next game will be Monday against Western Illinois in Macomb, 111. Tip-of- f is scheduled for 5 p.m. UNIVERSITY JOURNAL FILE PHOTO Senior pitcher Steve Johnson pitching against Utah Valley last season. Johnson started the game on Friday and picked up the loss. Rain postpones softball, tennis Because of rain in St. George, both the softball and tennis teams events were washed out. The Tennis teams match against Dixie State was rescheduled for Wednesday, while the softball team will travel to Dixie State on May 1. |