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Show THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL • SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY • MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1998 'BIRD SPORTS 11331 SU men's hoop team pick up 500th victory minutes remaining in the game, then became complacent and started turning the ball over while playing sloppy defense. However, instead of allowing Northeastern Illinois to come back and take the lead, SU picked up its defense and connected on JOURNAL SPORTS EDITOR the offensive side to put the game away and avoid another embarrasing loss. "All in all we did a pretty good job of shutting their guys down," Evans Kenyatta Clyde scored 22 points and four other Thunderbirds finished in double continued. figures to give Southern Utah its 500th win in 35 years as a four-year institution, Jason Essex and Leland Osborne played another beating the Northeastern Illinois Golden Eagles 91-69 in superb game for the 'Birds, scoring 11 points each, the Centrum Saturday night. with help from Tarvish Felton who also finished the C lyde, back from a one game suspension after missing night with 11 . practice last Monday led all scorers and helped the 'Birds SU also picked up its game from the free throw line, with five rebounds and two blocked shots. Guard Jeff connecting when they needed to in hitting 27-of-36 Monaco added to the scoring from the free throw line free throws. making 10-of -11 free throws. Northeastern Illinois shot just 27 percent from the SUV, unable to put the game away in Thursday night's field, but had three players finish in double figures, loss to Chicago State, pulled together as a team on 50 including guard Zachary Norvell who put in 18 points. percent shooting for the game to pick up its second MidThe win gives SU a 2-6 record in Mid-Con play, and Con win of the season against the Eagles. leaves the 'Birds tied at seventh in the conference with " We needed to play together better than we have-and Chicago State, the team that beat SU last Thursday. that's important," said SU coach Bill Evans. The men have a short week as they play just one Both teams kept the score close in the first half, game this Wednesday-a rematch with Buffalo exchanging leads several times. However, a big threeUniversity in N ew York. The 'Birds lost to the Bulls pointer by Tarvish Felton and four points by Clyde to end back on Nov. 15, 85-75. the half gave SU a 37-32 halftime lead. In that game the SU managed to keep the game close SU t0ok control of the second half early and maintained until the last five minutes of the game. A technical a double-digit lead up until the six-minute mark when the foul on Jason Essex gave the Bulls a five-point play Golden Eagles pulled within eight points of the 'Birds at • which enabled them to maintain the lead and pick up 64-56. the lO-point win over the ' Birds in SU's first-ever MidAfter the ' Birds used an 11-4 run to pull ahead by 15 Con game. points, Northeastern Illinois was whistled for three~ A few weeks ago, the Bulls were the best t eam in the straight technical fouls. ~ conference with an unblemished record. Recently they The first technical came when Eagle forward Dale ~ have lost three of their last four and are now 6-3 in Badowski contested a foul called on him. The officiating ~ conference play, coming off a big win over Western crew, who had already called a technical foul on both c.: Illinois Saturday. clubs, called two quick Ts on Eagle Coach Rees Johnson as As for the 'Birds, it will be another chance to end he continued to yell and give the referees a piece of his J ~ their road losing streak, which extends back to Jan. 22, mind. '-1...L!l....::::!~~~~~:l.-..!::!!Q. 1997 when they beat Western Illinois 75-71. SU will Johnson was ejected from the game, and Monaco missed Forward fohn Williams (shown here against return to Cedar City on Thursday, where the team just one of the six-straight technical foul shots, pushing Chicago State) has been a potential scoring threat will have the weekend off in preparation for next the ' Birds to an 80-60 lead-all but ending the Eagles for the 'Birds lately, picking up 11 against Chicago week's road games against Youngstown State and chance at another late comeback. Valparasio. As in previous games, the ' Birds took a big lead with 10 State Thursday and seven points Saturday. By CHAD LAMB g SU tumbles past UCSB Ladies swamp Eagles Luckily for the 'Birds, the Gauchos had many of the same problems. The Gauchos started out on bars with sophomore Fairouz JOURN AL SPORTS WRITER Azzaro falling three times in the same routine-and posting a score of 7.350. Looking to start off the 1998 season in the The curse of falls then continued for the win column, the Lady 'Bird gymnastics squad opened up with a team victory in what rest of the night for Santa Barbara. "It's not often you can have 11 falls and was a night of ugly gymnastics, beating UC Santa Barbara 188.550 to 186.950 last Friday. still beat a fine team like Santa Barbara," Bauman added. SU started off the meet - - - - - - - -- -- - After the fall by Clark, unable to stick the the Lady 'Birds were left , landings on vault, and the one athlete short for the falls continued in the rest of the events for the 'Birds floor competition, but J ' freshman Bethany Orten throughout the night. "Never in my seven stepped up to compete even though she hadn't years have we had so many falls in a meet," said really worked on the floor II routine this year. Head Coach Scott U "She didn' t want us to Bauman. "This is not have to take a scratch and indicat ive of this team, she told me that she could they are much, much at least give US a routine, II better." L . . . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ' Bauman commented. When the meet was Even though it wasn' t a finally over the ladies had 10.0 routine, Orten managed to pull off a suffered 11 falls in all four events, as well as 8.875 with little practice. "That's just the a numerous amount of stumbles. One of the kind of scrappy athletes we have," said worst falls cam e on the beam when Bauman. freshman Suzi Clark came down hard, The Lady 'Birds hit the road Friday for a smacking her leg and foot on the beam . She meet against T exas Women's University. then had to leave the m eet to receive stitches. The next chance to catch SUU in action at "She's hurt, but sh e's tough as nails," hom e is Feb. 21, when the ladies host Boise Bauman said. State. By LONNIE EVERILL 'Never in my seven vears have we had so many 'alls,' said .ci.ead Coach Sco tt B auman. giving the 'Birds big opportunities to score from the outside. By halftime the score JOURNAL SPORTS WRITER was a dominating 46-29 lead for SU. The Eagles played with little The SU women's basketball emotion from the start with only team picked up its secondfive total players straight Mid-Con on their benchwin beating and no Northeastern substitutes. Illinois 83-66. Delores Jones, a SU dominated 6- 1 center for the from the very Eagles, was the beginning, never only thing that allowing the saved them from Lady Eagles to a more devastatget within 10 ing loss as she points, and led scored 28 points by as much as to lead all 21. The ladies scorers. The jumped out to a Eagle program is big lead early and being cu t next were able to keep year, and has had the starters well far reaching rested. "We effects in the knew if we could NEIU program get Myndee up ...__ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _.., this year. early, we could open up our Forward Sunny Myers Larsen finished with 26 points in other shooters, " just 25 minutes of playing time. said Head Coach Joe Hillock. Littlefield also pulled through Going to Larsen early worked, as big for the ladies with 19 pointsit also opened up Jessica including five three-pointers. Littlefield and Sunny Myers, By KRISTIN TENNIS |
