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Show April IS, 2004 THE MAGNA TIMES, WEST VALLEY NEWS & KEARNS 1OST loan faees By STEVEN ROSE Staff Writer with SLCC going down to defeat. The Salt Lake Community College Bruins have had an ongoing rivalry with the Rebels of Dixie College for a long time. As the two school's baseball teams faced each other, April 9, at Cate Field in West Jordan for the first of a two-da- y double-headeSLCC head coach D.G. Nelson was still without his star pitcher. this was Although Nelsons first weekend w ith a healthy team, Nelson said after the first game Friday, Willie Newton, the Bruin's hottest pitcher, was still unable to throw due to injury. Newtons Despite the Bruins fared absence, well in the series against the Rebels, who are first place in the league. Up until the third inning of the first game Friday, the score was tied at two runs. As the wind picked up in the park, the Bruins cooled down, but the Rebels stayed warm. Dixie earned two runs by the end of the fourth inning to gain a 2 lead. Coach Nelson told his team prior to the start of the fifth inning that they were still in it. I told them that we werent out of it by (only) being down two runs, Nelson said. The little speech must have given the Bruins bats "fe' r, . P - ?! '' Nelson. to Ability hit the ball ! of Arizona.Out of the four game series between SLCC and SLCC Dixie on April won two games. As mentioned Dixie won the first Friday gan ; Then SLCC' took the second that night. On Saturday, SLCC won the first game. 10 8. and Dixie got the second. With a "talented team that has "come a long wav." D.G. Nelson still has a lot of work to do. Despite having been v a star pitcher. Nelson has a talented squad that can w in games, including beaiing the first ranked team in the league, the Dixie Rebels. 9-- 4 4-- 9-- 2. ith-o- i 17, the catcher for the SLCC Bruins is up at bat.l Blake Nickelson, the fire that they needed, because SLCC quickly got tw o men on base. Eli Christensen then stepped to the plate, hit a double, and brought in the tw'o runners to tie the game at 4. Christensen didn't make it around to home, though, as the Rebels got their third out. SLCC's Kamron Nelson began to struggle even more on the mound as he gave up hits and walks, including a walk with the bases loaded, which give Dixie a run. and Dixie went up coach Nelson made the trip out to the mound. D.G. put in pitcher Nicholas "Ice Ison, who struck out the first batter he faced to end the sixth inning. SLCCs bats couldnt do anything in the seventh, and then as Dixie loaded the bases off hits and walks by "Ice, Dixie's Kade Boyer hit a grandslam homerun to increase Dixie's lead, "Ice held off Dixies remaining batters for the inning, but the game ended 5-- 4, 9-- 4. SLCC ed to get more juice behind their bats, as most often their players were thrown out at first base. Jacob Stover, who played right field for SLCC Friday night, is from Santa Clara, Utah, where he attended Snow' Canyon High School. On how it felt to play Dixie, Stover said, "I hate 'em. Stover, a transfer to SLCC from CEU (the College of Eastern Utah), may sign with the University of Arkansas, Little Rock after he finishes at SLCC. Stover currently averages .347 batting, has 17 RBI's and looks forward to playing Division baseball. Blake Mickelson who is from St. George, is not as bitter against Dixie as Stover. Mickelson likes the challenge that playing Dixie need- - 1 Vi I' Hansen likes the University Photo by Randi Meats 4-- - r brings. It's fun, he says. Mickelson is not so much into the rivalry thing, saying that "every game should be a Against Dixie rivalry. said. Mickelson though. You want to win when you them 1, no matter play what. that feels Mickelson solidness Dixie's is it's most challenging "When you play aspect. Dixie, it's gonna be a dogfight," he said. One of SLCC's local connections to the West Side is Cody Hansen. A freshman. Hansen played at Hunter High School. Why did he choose SLCC? "Because they have a BgEdgIs A 0 Nicholas Ice Ison was the final pitcher of the first game on Friday , March 9 against the Dixie Rebels. good baseball team," he says. Hansen's future will depend a bit on "what happens with baseball. he says. Hansen is studying sports medicine, and has no preference on where he would like to go from SLCC. His family is planning to move south somewhere, and Boasting a record of in conoverall, and ference play, and more than halfway into the season, rookie head coach D.G. 21-1- 13-1- 5 1 with SLCC's baseball challenges x one game at a time, and doing an admirable job of it. . much steroid use that no one Kerry Rupp as their basketwhich home runs are knows a be It ball coach. good may would float Basketball before they get real. longtime latest thoughts are listed another chance at a Magna away if drugs were helium. 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