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Show Aztecs Gytnnasts to down 'Birds host Denver By TIM MAXWELL JOURNAL SPORTS EDITOR Pitch er Tusti n Thomas rock ets his pit ch toward the plate. Tl10mas and other members of SU's pitching staff have helped the 'Birds to a 5-6 record this season. The SU diamond.men played the first game of the Arthur J. Gallagher Tournament in San Diego, Calif., Wednesday against the host San Diego State Aztecs. The Aztecs' pitching proved too strong for t he 'Birds as SU was held to four hits in a 5-0 shutout. No 'Bird player had more than one hit in the loss. Cam Pentland was the starting pitcher for SU and was responsible for all five of SDSU's runs in the game. In seven innings, Pentland allowed eight hits, four walks, and struck out four. With the loss Pentland's record stands at l-1 for th e season. Jerry Beck bad the best day at the plate for SU by getting one hit in two at-bats and drawing one walk. Left fielder Rob McGrath and Shortstop Danny Schoonover got one hit each in for trips to the plate. Third baseman Jeremy Ybright m ade it to base once in three tries. The Aztecs were a bit more successful with the bats. San Diego went to the plate two more times in the game in one less inning. A a team they had nine hits while striking out five time . The 'Bird contin ue tournament play today agafo t the Nebra ka C rnhuskers and close out their tourney games tomorrow when they tak on N ew Mexico State. The 'Bird diamondmen have built a record of 5-6 this year. The team i now just two wins shy of last year's seven-win total. SU netters lose two matches SU's women's tennis team opened the sea on last Saturday with a 0-9 defeat at the hands of San Jose State, but then bounced back to suffer a narrow loss to the University of Sao Francisco on Sunday. The three individual match wins triple the number SU recorded in its debut at the NCAA Division I level last season. Shelly Holt won a #6 singles match last year as the SU netters went 1-70. Windy Vining, Syd Manning and Amy Hall served notice last weekend that the 'Birds are much improved. Vining downed USF's Sradala Basynat 64, 6-3 in the number-one singles match while Manning dumped Debbie Dorffman, 7-5, 6-4 in third singles. Hall easily handed 'Laura Bolstad in sixth singles, 6-2, 6-1. As Head Coach Lenny Lee expected, inexperience in the doubles lineups proved costly. Wi th the match all square at 3-3 after singles, SU dropped the first two doubles matches, making the third unnecessary, as USF clinched the win. Last year USF beat Lee's team 8-1. "Our doubles teams haven't played together very much and it's hard to play at doubles at this level when you're not used to your partner. This is going to be a process that will hopefully be coming around by midseason," said Lee. "Until then, our goal will be to learn from every match and build on what we accomplish ." Lee won't have to wait to see the progress continue. The 'Bird netters go back to California for a Feb. 25 match vs. Long Beach State and a Feb. 26th encoun.t er with Cal-State Fullerton . Long Beach State swept a pair of matches vs. SU last year, 9-0 and 6-0. CSF beat the 'Birds 9-0 last season as well. On their way home, SU will get a rem atch with Idaho State in Las Vegas. The Bengals were the foe in SU's first-ever Division I match last season and cruised to an easy 9-0 win. After a three-match trip, SU will prepare for its only home match of the season, March 9 in Cedar City against Utah State. SU's women's gymnastic team will be looking to get back on track Monday when the Lady 'Birds host the University of Denver in a meet scheduled for 7 p.m. in th e · Centrum. SU had posted scor of 190-plus in three straight meet going int a meet at Brigham Young la t Friday, but the Lady ' Birds didn't hit 190 for a school-record-setting fourth straight time as the score dropped to 187.700. The Denver Pioneers top score so far this season has been a 186.625 in a four-way meet at Arizona with Boise State and BYU, Feb. 10. Beam and vault have been DU's top events, as the team averages 46.663 on vault and 46.613 on beam. The average allaround team score is 184.988. Juniors Lenee Berumen and Yvette Vallejera are the team's two allarounders, and Berumen ha led the team in the A-A in each of DU's five meets, posting an average of 37.500 with a season-high of 38. 150 at the Arizona meet. Vallejera averages 36.413 in the A-A, with a seasonhigh of 36.975, Jan. 12 at Air Force. Berumen is also the team's top bar and floor worker with respective averages of 9.554 and 9.513, while senior Kristina Stewart lead the team on vault [9.417 avg.) and sophomore Tanya Harbert leads the team on beam (9.204). Monday's meeting will be the 10th between U and DU. The Lady 'Bi.rd hold a 6-3 advantage in th seri es, which b gan in 1989. The tw teams plit a pair of m eet la t year, with the Pioneers winning in Denver, 186.825-185.500, and SU prevailing in Cedar City, l 4.375- 182.500. SOUTHERN UTAH TENNIS SCHEDULE ~ 2-25 2-26 2-27 3-9 3-18 3-20 3-2.1 3-25 3-31 4-l 4-2 4-7 4-9 4-11 4-20-2.3 5-12-21 Opponent at Long Beach State at Cal-State Fullerton Idaho State Utah State San Jose State Univ. of San Francisco Sacramento State• Utah State .Menlo College Univ. of Portland Santa Clara Cal-State Nortbridge* Cal Poly SLO" Weber State AWC Championship NCAA C~pionships Match site Long Beach, California Fullerton, California Las Vegas, Nevada Cedar City, Utah San Jose, California San Francisco, California San Jose, California Logan, Utah Atherton, California Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California N orthridge, California North.ridge, California Ogden, Utah Northridge, California • American West Conference Match Probable Lineup for LBSU, CSP and ISU Match es 11 singles: Windy Vining l#3 singles: Sydney Manning #5 singles: Amy McLaughlin #1 doubles: Vining, Hughes #2 doubles: Mannin& McLaughlin #2 singles: Janelle Hughes #4 singles: Deb Budge #6 singles: Amy Hall #3 doubles: Hall, Budge |