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Show THE UNNER ITY JOURNAL · OlITHERN lITAH UNIYER I1Y • THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1999 Tennis·squad faces Utah State today By KYM FRANKLIN JO RNAL PORT WRJTER The Lady 'Bird tcnni quad face the tah care Aggies on the tenni courts in its only home match of the season beginning at noon. The ladie have had a successful start co the 1999 eason by win'ning two of their first three matches. The team's two wins have come again t Dominican College and San Francisco, with its lone loss coming at the hand of San Jose rate earlier this month. The team' early succe i no surprise to Head Coach Lenny Lee who has great confidence in the team 's ability. " I am really pleased with the way we are performing a tribute to our hard work and commitment of this particular ream. I am hie ed with an excellent group of individuals," said Lee. Carol Fcrrandez and "haland Romero paced omhem tah to victory beating L I 7-0. The Thunderbird ran into a very Dominican Co_ll~ge 5-2. Ferrandez ea ily taJented quad, and did · defeated D0m101can College top · -~«:15l~\ not pick up a win in any ranked player 6-1 6-1 . While et . Romero wept Today the Lady 'Birds the number two ho t the Lady Aggie player 6-0, 6-1. tah tate holds a 5-3 outhern tah cries edge, having came out on top of won the previous three San Francisco meeting with SU. La t winning 7-2. Again eason the match Ferrandez (6-3,2 between U and Utah 6,6-4) and Romero tate was snowed a-0, 6-3) won their out. The last time 'U singles match. Other hosted a match was 'Birds posting wins March 22, 1996, were Andi Moreno (6against the Lady 4, 0-6, 6-0), Melinda Aggies, who won 7Francom (1-6 6-3, 62. 1), and Erin- Gephart Currently USU i (1-6, 6-4, 7-6). 1-9 on the season The only blemish on d z which includes the Lady 'Birds record ,.0 u,u1 Ferrari e losses to Utah came at the hands of San Weber State and Gonzaga. The Jose tate as the Spartans Ca Aggies ' lone victory came against defeated outhem Utah I Ea tern Washington (6-3), on March 1 Lee said he think that the team will he very competitive again l 1ah talc .. SU' number three player, Moreno , said, "I feel we have a very good team and that we are going to he very competitive in our conference. I' m looking forward to our match against tah tate and I hope everyone can make it out and upp rt us." Following today 's match , the tcnni ream will travel to Las Vegas , tomorrow, for its first Mid-Con match of the season against MKC. The series is tied between the two chools with the Lady Kangaroos taking the first match, 5-4, last season. SU defeated UMKC7~1ast0ctohcrinanonconference match to open the fall . eason: The Lady 'Birds will also face Oral Robert in a Saturday match with the Golden Eagles in Las Vegas. ORU holds a 1-0 series lead after defeating SU 7-0 last season. Track places fifth at Long· Beach The SU men ' and women' crack teams both placed fifth aturday at the Long Beach 'Track and Field Classic in Long Beach, Calif. The men finished with a total of 121.50 points, 23. 50 point5 ahca~ of sixth-place Weher tate, hut 59. 50 behind first-place Long Beach tatc. The women scored 149 points, 51 behind champion LBS . The men placed first in two events. ophomore Mark \: right won the 1,500 meter with a time of #:52.66, and freshmanChris Ridding won the high jump with~• height of6-0 3/ 4. Other notable performance include Wright's fourth-place fioi h in the 800-metcr and Kris WaL on placing second in me di cus with a throw of 167-1 . 'Ille women had five first -place finishes. Senior atalic Gihson won the JOO-meter hurdles and 400-meter hurdle , while junior Mary Ann chauerhamer took the 5,000-metcr with a time of 17:43.50. In the field events, junior haly, Lamb won th javelin with a throw of 131-0 and sophomore Anna Bullock took the disc;us with a mark of 148-IO. Other performances include Terc a Rice who placed econd in the 800-meter with a time of 2: 13.06 and Schauerhamer placed fourth in the l,55-meter finishing :34 .83 . 'lnis week the team travels to an Diego, Calif., to compete at the UC an Diego Invitational comorrow and Saturday. Thi season 's chedule also includes meets at UNLV, BYU and the Mid-C n hampionships in Palo Alto, Calif. i::- ~ ~ i3 i..... .___ _ _ _...;...._ _ _-=:c_ _ _ _ _ _ __ ___, Kris Ridding placed first in the high jump aturdc,y. SU shut s down Air Force 13-12 Gymnasts face With the tying runner on third in the ninth inning, Air Force's chance of heating U wa . hot down a first haseman D.J . Penick caught Mike Stolley's line dri e and tagged first to preserve a 13-12 win over the Falcon's ac. nrnnderhifd Field yesterday. 'U, up hy ix nln in the eighth inning, allO\ ed Air Force ro tic the game at 12-12 after a three-run home nm by Ryan Carville. In Lhe bottom of the eighth, Luke Geddes cored the deciding run after Brian Kruse stoic second and Air Force committed an error allowing Kruse to advance to third. "We probably could have heat them by further," aid Head Coa h DyLynn Corry. orry aid that he probably kept ~ pitcher Ted Beard in a ~ little longer than he ~ hould have after Beard ~ gave up ix nm in the Tuesday's game with three unearned runs on two error. in the econd inning. 'Inc Cadets eventually pushed the lead to 7-0 after adding three run in the third and one more in the fourth . finally an wered in the fifth after a two home run hy Geddes and junior Phil Downing helped ·core four nms. Air Force responded hy adding five more runs in the final four innings, evenruaJly taking a l 2-6 le.ad into the ninth. ' late rally included an Amos Bright grand slam with two outs and ha c loaded pulling the 'Birds within two. Tony Santos flied out to center to end the game. Chris. Humphrey and tolley led the way for the Falcon with Humphrey going 3-for-6, with two home runs and tolley going 4-for-5 with two RBI. eighth. ~ i:... . Tuesday's game saw the!; Bright had hi be t game in an U uniform, 'Birds rally from eight run 's Phil Downing slides into third in a 12-10 loss to driving in a career.high down before falling 12-10 Air Force Tuesday. Downing'sfiflh inning home run five RBI, whiJe going 2to Air Force. helped the 'Birds pull within three runs of the Falcons Air Force opened be/ore Air Force jumped out to a 12-6 lead in the ninth. for·4 from the place. a ~--{J~~~ltl!i=~ Cougars tonight The gymnastic squad faces BY for the second time in 12 days as they travel to Provo tonight for a dual-meet with the Lady Cougars. l11e Lady 'Bird arc coming off a 192.225 team score aturday agajn t Boise tale where injuries and falls hampered U's chances of Improving on a teamhigh 193.800 against Boise tate on March IS. The total was the third highest score in school hi tory, hut was not enough to overcome Boi e tale's econdhighest score of the season of 19 .900. Tonight's meet with BYU does not get any easier when it come to competition. The Lady Cougars are regularly ranked as orie of the top four team in the Midwest region. Against SU on March 13 DYU cored a 194.225 which included a solid performance on the vault with a 38.300 team score. had just five gymna ts on bars and floor that night, however, the Lady ' Birds responded .with their he t performance on the floor all eason with a 49.050 team core. U till has a chance.at qualifying for the Midwe t Regional in Logan, Uta , on April 10. After tonight the ladies finish the regular ·ea on with a rrip to texas Women ' University in Denton , Texas, acu rday . According to Head Coach Scott Bauman , depending on the outcome of conight's and aturday ' meet, coupled with the performance of other team in the region, will determine whether or not SU will qualify for regionaJ competition . However, he did not ay which teams U is competing against. '.• |