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Show DAILY HERALD Sunday, February 19, 2006 AFL ROUNDUP o7 COLLEGE SPORTS Blazefall Cougar spikers take overfirst in MPSF at Arizona BYU ROUNDUP DAILW HERALD SAN DIEGO,Calif! —The Cougars | took sole possession of first place in the BYU wasted little time in getting Mountain Pacific Sports Federation with ahead in Game 2. With the scoretied at a 30-27, 30-21, 30-26 win over UC San Di- six, the ars went on‘a 5-1 run to go egoon Saturday night at RIMAC Arena. Tritons would get no BYU,ranked No.1 in the nation, is closer than three the rest of the way and now 12-2 overall and 10-2 in the MPSF BN) eaves te game on 8 Tsae while the Tritons are 1-12 overall and 0-9 30-21. The Cougars hit .379 and limited in the MPSF. UC San Diegoto -.120 hitting. Russell Holmes led the Cougars with In the third, BYU capitalized on nine kills and eight blocks while hitting several Triton errors to jump out to a 9-3 lead. All nine Cougar points were .438. All three numbers were match interception for“the Rattlers (1scored on one UC San Diegoservice highs. The Cougars earned the sweep error and eight hitting errors, includ3). Arizona’s Randy Gatewood despite hitting only .238 the match. also had a TDreception. BYUovercame the poor with ing two blocks by Holmes. The Tritons Siaha Burley had seven defense, recording Bot 0 team blocks and managed tostay close the rest of the catches for 140 yards and two 23 digs. waybut their errors proved too difficult scores for the Blaze . Joe to overcome, winning 30-26. UC San “Wehave some time to work on Gertnainefinished 21-of-37 for Diegofinished the game with 17 hitting things now,” BYU coach Tom Peterson 273 yards and two touchdowns errors andhit -.211. said. “Wejust need to get better. We with oneinterception. Germaine The Cougars will have the next weekhave important matches coming up. We also ran for a score for Utah. end off and then play Stanford at home, can’t accept not playing great.” Brenden Boweled UCSan Diego with March 3 and 4. » Kats 58, Crush 36: At Nashville, seven kills, while Joseph Sexton had a Tenn., Clint Stoerner threw for » BYU baseball: A three-run home run by match-higheight digs. The Tritons hit Ben Saylor wasn't enoughto beat San 194 yards andfive touchdowns -.070 for the match and had 6.5 teant to help the Nashville Kats beat Jose State on Saturday afternoon as the blocks and27 digs. the Colorado Crush. BYU baseball team lost 4-3. After Thursday's lopsided match, T.T.Toliver had four recepThingsstarted clicking in the top of Saturday's proved more competitive. tions for 50 yards and scored the fourth inning for the Cougars, who The Tritons took an earlyleadat 9-6 in four touchdowns for the Kats | Game | before the Cougars went on a 5-0 fell to 0-6. With one out, Marcos Villez(3-1). Cory Fleming, Jermaine cas singled to center and-advanced to runto takethe lead. UC San Diego kept Lewis and Cornelius Bonner second ona Jeff Hiestand groundout. battling, coming backto tie the match Kasey Kowas thenhit by Spartan starteach had a touchdowncatch. at 16 andleadinglatein the gameat John Duttonfinished 31-of-48 26-25. BYU prevailed by scbring five of er Josh Amberson(1-0,5.14), making way for Saylor. With two outs and BYU for 285 yards and two TDs for the nextsix points for the 30-27 win,inthe Crush (3-1). cludinga kill by Batista for the winning down 2.0, Saylor homered,driving in point. The Cougarshit .320 for the game three runs to put the Cougars upby one. Tostart the game Ambersonhadretired andtheTritons hit .217. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX — Damien Groce had11 receptions for 194 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Arizona Rattlers totheir first victory of the season, 45-38 over the Utah Blaze on Saturday night. Sherdrick Bonner completec 22-0f-33 passes for 315 yards and five touchdowns with one 10 straight for San Jose State (73). + Withthree RBI on the afternoon, Saylor now leads the Cougars with six on the season. But-the Spartans tied the scorein the bottom ofthe fourth, then scored another run in the seventhinning to'sweep the series. BYUsoftball: At Las Vegas, Lady Luck proved to be on BYU's side as the Cougars swept their final two games at the Louisville Slugger Desert Classic, beating Cal-State Fullerton,52 and Kansas,2-1. While BYU (8-2) jumped on the Titans early to get its win in Game 1,it took some late-inning good fortune to get past the Jayhawks. Cougar head coach Gordon Eakin said BYU played good in cold conditions. “These were tworeally nice games against tworeally good teams in tough conditions,” he said. Inthe first game, BYU jumped out of the gates early, getting three runs in the first and twoin the second. Ianeta Lei and Andrea Ramirez cameup with pair of two-out doubles in the first. Remirea’'s double drovein two runs. Tracee Hoch capped offthe inning with a RBIsingle of her own. Fullerton scored early as well,getting an early two-run homerun off Cougar starter SummerTobias. Tobias settled downafter the homerand didn’t give up afy more runs,pitching a complete gamefor the win. BYUcameright back in the second when Lei nailed a two-runner homerun of her ownto put the Cougars ahead for good. “Weplayed great against Cal-State Fullerton,’” Eakin said. Wegot big hits in scoring situations.” Pit dominated Game 2 with Daniella Uri holding Kansas to only one run on fivehits in a complete-game win. Urincho struck out seven while only walking two batters. “Dani[Urincho]pitched a heckuva game for us,” Eakin said. “So did [Kan- sas pitcher] Settlemier, she kept us off balance most ofthe night.” » BYU women’stennis: At Provo, the Cougars took the lead early and didn’t look back,as the No. 20 BYU women’stennis team (6-3) handed No.66 Kansas State (2-2) a 6-1 loss at the BYU Indoor Tennis Courts, Aside from the Cougars coming out victorious, the other positive was Jennifer Miccoli madeher season debutin. singles for the Cougars. Although Miccoli had competed in doubles for BYU for most of the season, she hadn't yet played singles, as she was slowly working her way back from a knee injury. Her return, however, was bittersweet. Miccoli lost a heartbreaking matchthat came downto third-settiebreaker. Miccoli took the first set 6-4 and even had her opponent, Olga Klimova,at match point. But downthe stretch, she wasn'tableto hold on andlost the tiebreaker 12-10. Even so, BYU coach Craig Manning said it was greatjust having Miccoli backin the lineup. “It’s nice to be backatfull strength,” Manningsaid. “I'mexcited to see what well be ableto do now.” AFL standings National Conference pase UT Pet PF PA 1.0 5 i 1 2 datas New Yok Prtagegna Coumbus Asin 6 i fampa Bay 019 FresnoState baseball takes second straight from UVSC = vn i 2 DAILY HERALD UVSC ROUNDUP e FRESNO,Calif. — Fresno State got y a strong pitching performance from 1 ay American Conference ce oes southpaw Eddie Romeroto top UVSC 80 andwinits secondstraight of a threegame,series. Romerostruck out seven and allowed just four hits as he worked cneago. thefirst eight innings before giving San Jose us,” said UVSC coach Steve Gardner. Sree ence way to Jason Breckely in the ninth. “(Romero) pretty much dominated on as Vegas “He was pretty effective and it was our first chancetosee a left handerthis yearand that wasn’t a good combination. Andevery time we seemed to make decentcontact it was hit right at them.” LikeFriday night's game, Fresno(65) used a big inning to break the game openasthey pushedacross four runs in the second inning. After Christian Vittersled off the inning with his fourth Saturday y's results Nasnwile $8. Colorado 36 Arizona 45, Chicago at Los Angeles, tte Orando at Tampa Bay. 1 pm wood (2-0, 1.57). D UVSC softball: At Las Cruces, N.M., Jackie Roberts was a two-waythreat Saturday nightas she earnedthevictory in thecircle and helped herself out atthe plate as UVSC picked up a 7-4 win over MoreheadState at the Troy Cox Invitational. Robertspitched a complete gameallowingonly one earned run onfourhits andhelped herself out by:delivering a bases loaded two-runsingle in the bottom of the 5th to give the Wolverines a three-run lead. The junior from Ogden wasn't even supposed tohit after pop- ping herleft shoulderoutof its socket on Thursday, DUVSCtrack: At Ogden, Kari Snow ended the indoor track seasonona positive note by breaking the school’s 55-meter hurdle record witha time of8.17. The old record was 8.3 seconds. Snow also broketherecordin the preliminaries by running8.27. “It was a very good indoor season all around,”associate head coach Kirke Adamsonsaid. MariamaSalifu placedfirst in the 55meter and 200-meterraces. Jalee Vernon's jumpof16 feet, 8's inches was good for a top-three finish and a personal best mark. Shealso set a personal best in the 55-meter hurdlesat 8.97. Brittany Larsen was secondin the triple jumpat 33 feet, 6 '; inches. Chris Fogt was second in the 200- and 400-meter races. He ran a 22.45in the 200 and 50.47in the 400. HIGH SCHOOL Pare URERAA,; Timpview 48 Provo homerun of the season,a hit by pitch andthree straightsinglesled to three more runs off of UVSCstarter Kalen Parsons. Romero kept control of the Wolverines(1-5) all afternoon,allowing only onerunnerto reach third basethe entire ballgame when Canyon Vance was strandedtherein the fourth inning. FresnoState added onerunin the fourth and seventh innings and twoin the eigth forthe final tally UVSC was led by twohits from Dan Bulow while both Eli Slesk and Brad Hales eachhad onehit to extend their season-longhitting streaksto six games.Slesk ended 2005 with fourgamehit streak, stretching his overall streak to 10 games. Chris Benson and Vancewere the only other Wolverinesto pick upa hit on the day. UVSCwill try to salvagetheseries finale tomorrow withthefirst pitch scheduled for 2:05 p.m. The Wolverines will call on Kyle Tash(1-0, 2.57): Fresno State will counter with Andy Under- 46 of the WEEK DailusHerald } CHEER Congratulations! BradyWright of Timpview High Enjoy your * free meal « from Hogi Yogi! pbb Aietnian Automotive Group |