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Show Page 13 University Journal Monday, March 25, 2013 T.nn ,v..'yc ii Q'i JtO 11UlVLv t , ' k.J 0 in the No. 2 singles Bryton Wells defeated Alex Gross and ISU's match Nate blestersuunews com 0 in the No. 3 Dial with a sweep, The SUU men's tennis team spent the singles match up. e road weekend in the middle of a ISUs Jamey Swiggart defeated SUU's in the No. 4 1 trip that started on Thursday in Greeley, Russ Christensen Las came up Nielsen will and Colo, Vegas today. single match, Spencer wrap up in 2 The team took on the likes of Northern short against ISUs Austin Miller Colorado, Idaho State, Seattle and Western in the No. 5 singles match and the New Mexico, still seeking their first win of Branden Olcott fell to Andres Coello 1 in the No. 6 singles match. the season. t The Bengals nearly had a complete sweep of SUU in doubles competition, only ISU 7, SUU 0 to win one game. The fell to the Idaho State Bengals allowing the Norman and Gross swept Benson and 0 at the Darling Tennis Center in Las Vegas on Saturday despite their best singles Wells 0 in the No. 1 doubles match up, match in the teams young history. Swiggart and Marian defeated Dial and and in the No. 3 doubles match best the on Benson performance Nielsen Troy put of his career and in the history of mens Stempien and Coello took out Christensen tennis at SUU, but it still came in a loss to and Olcott ISUs Christian Marian in the No. 1 singles match The amount of games that UNC 7, SUU 0 SUU started their long road trip in Greeley, Benson won nearly doubled the total games Colo, to take on Northern Colorado. The loss the rest of the team won in singles play. The Bengals Krzysztof Stempien defeated to the Bears made it four straight losses for By BRYSON LESTER 6-- 2, 6-- 6-- 6-- 0, five-gam- 6-- 0, 6-- 6-- 1, 6-- 6-- 0, 6-- 7-- 8-- 8-- 0, 8-- 1. 6-- 4, 7-- 5. to start the season as well as four the losses. conference straight In the No. 1 singles match Benson fell to 3 which was UNCs Ben Gendron his best performance of the season winning four games. The No. 2 singles match saw the Bear's Mitchel Knight defeat Wells SUUs Dial lost in the No. 3 singles which match by Jordan Loughnan matched Bensons amount of games won on the day. in the No. 4 The Bears swept the and 5 matches with Christensen falling to 0 and Nielsen losing to Jeff Carlson Olcott was defeated Michael Moya in the No. 6 singles match by Jacob Sheldon 6-- 1, 6-- 2. f Hlw j , i r A i ' I t 6-- 2, 6-- 2, I . I 6-- 6-- 0, 6-- 1. w 6-- 6-- 0, 6-- 0, r TT vrvH 6-- 0. 6-- 0. Benson and In doubles competition, Wells competed in the No. 1 matchup ar.d In fell to Brandon Lupo and Gendron the No. 2 match. Dial and Nielsen lost 2 to Knight and Eric Schuermans, and in the No. 3 singles matchup Christensen and Olcott lost to Jordan Faith and Sheldon J , 8-- 3. ft v ' 8-- 8-- 1. L UL - ARISSA ROWLEY UNIVERSITY JOURNAL Spencer Nielsen attempts serve earlier this season. The are still searching tor their first win of the season after dropping a pair of matches over the weekend. a ds This story continues online at smmews.com. Zimmerman shut the door over the last three innings, as the Vikings never after that, en threatened the route to her fourth win of the season. PSi Continued from Back Page SUU 5, PSU 4 scored four runs in the The fifth inning as SUU and Zimmerman seven-hittas pitched a complete-gam- e SUU defeated PSU SUU scored the first run of the game on an RBI double in the top of the first off the bat of Bryant. The Vikings answered in the bottom of the third, as they took advantage of an error by Cordova to score three runs and take the lead. Hendrickson drove in the Vikings first run of the inning with an RBI single to center, and catcher Lauran Bliss followed that up with a 'two RBI single up the middle to plate the second and third runs. PSU added another unearned run in the bottom of the fourth inning on a Ha es error to take a 4-- 1 lead into the fifth; thats when the exploded for four runs in the top half of the frame. Wolfe led off the inning with a solo shot to center field to start the scoring. Bryant added her second RBI double of the day to plate the second run of the inning. After Bryants double, Henderson stepped to the plate and hit her fourth home run of the season to give SUU the 4 lead. er PSU 5, SUU 0 Portland State plated a pair of runs in both the second and third innings as the Vikings cruised to a 0 win against the 5-- 5-- 4. picked Junior Ariel Zimmerman starts her wind-u- p against Tennessee earlier this season. The lost but the over the Portland win State ever weekend, Conference first their Big Sky against up series to the Vikings. ds 5-- Bliss got the scoring started for the Vikings in the bottom of the second inning with a towering shot to center home run. field for a two-ru- n PSU added two more in the bottom of the third on a two-ru- n single by Conn to stretch the advantage to 4-The Vikings added their final run an inning later when Sadie Lopez doubled to deep center field and Morales scored all the way from first. Bertrand struck out thirteen batters over her seven innings of work while allowing just two hits. took the loss for the Danielle Axe (2-after giving up four runs on four hits over two and a 13 innings of work. The return home Tuesday for their 2013 home opener against Boise State at Kathryn Burg Field in a double-headagainst the Broncos. First pitch is scheduled for noon with radio coverage of the game provided by Power 91 and live stats available on suutbirds.com. 0. er Womens tennis falls at UNC The Bears took the No. 4 singles match with Uhle defeating Madeline Skaras Claire blestersuunews com UNC also took the No. 5 and 6 single matchups The SUU womens tennis suffered a tough with Chrissie Hoolahan defeating Anastasiia 2 and Hilary Walters-Webeating after Vasileva loss to Northern Colorado on Saturday 4-Staheli Afton 3 in matches 2 and No. the 1, singles winning In doubles competition. SUU was only able to Greeley, Colo. take one of the three matchups, which cost them season 5 the on at the The loss puts the match with UNC. The No. 1 doubles match in Big Sky Conference play. and went to the Bears with Catlin and Tapia defeating Olya Kunz won the No. 1 singles matchup over Kunz and Ivanova ), The UNCs Jennifer Buchanan 6 The No. 2 doubles match went to SUU with that of an is heels the on injury coming victory and Vasileva defeating Hoolahan and Rogova Kunz suffered a few weeks ago in a match in Uhle 7 ). The final doubles competition went California. the UNC with Jennifer Buchanan and Walters-WeSUUs Veronika Rogova defeated Elizabeth defeating Skaras and Staheli 4 in the No. 2 single match up and will next hit the courts today to take The Tapia Aleksandra Ivanova defeated UNCs Stephanie on Seattle in Las Vegas; first serve is set for 6 p.m. 4 in the No. 3 singles match. This Following that, SUU will be at home Wednesday Catlin and Thursday to take on Eastern Washington and marks the second straight event where the have won the top three singles matches, which Idaho State; first serve for those matches will be 2 p.m. and 1 p.m., respectively. they did against Portland State on March 15. By BRYSON LESTER 7-- 5, 6-- 3, 3, 6-- 6-- 1, 6-- 4. st 6-- 1. ST FINE 5-- -2 8-- 5. 7-- (7-4- 6-- 3. 8-- JEWELRY Jb (7-4- st 8-- 2. 6-- 2, 6-- 0, 6-- (C 6-- f u....... - TH " t ' i I i t , j5 y ING CO. DDIN 3 ' v v " V A. V '9- ' k s -- 1' K f PHOTO COURTESY OF SUU SPORTS INFORMATION Anastasiia Vasileva sets up a forehand (left). Alex Ivanova returns a shot with her suffered a tough 3 loss to Northern Colorado despite backhand (right). The 2 3 No. and the 1, singles matches. capturing 4-- the year. FiftEa trusted in just We knew teammate. our could do it, she Continued from Back Page (Wippermann) woiks it every day. Mann said. It's her senior year, also, so BSU went into the final rotation holding a large enough that's probably a good ending lead that it needed to hit its to it. WAC is The dropping routines to clinch the WAC title, however it didn't come without a gymnastics with a new fleet of schools joining the league little drama. The Bioncos' Cieia Perkins next year that do not have a fell on bars in BSU's second-to-lagymnastics program It has been rumored SUU routine of the night, be apart of a new proposed will all the on pressure putting conference that Erin Wippermann to score a gymnastics 9.725 or better to give BSU the would also include BSU. Denver. BYU and USU next year. championship fell Though the Wippermann answered the call with a 9 800 and the Broncos won behind in the meet, SUU their second title in three years remains in a prime position to still qualify for the NCAA and the final WAC Gymnastics Championship before the WAC Regionals in two weeks The know drops gymnastics at the end of team will officially We st 1 whether they made Regionals and where they will go today, when NCAA releases the meets. Regional I dont even know if we'll make it, SUU head coach Scott Bauman said. It'll be close. I mean we can get knocked out real easy. We should have never made it that close ... I think we made it, but we need to be able to do better than this in order make our Regional. SUU entered the week No. 34 in the Regional Qualifying Score and needs to finish in the top 36 to qualify for Regionals. 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