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Show '.AH UNIVERSITY · MONDAY, APRil. 19, 1999 Madsen ready to run again By JERAD CAIRU JOURNAL SPORT WRITER Broo Madsen ls back with the SUU football team as the leader and insp ration of the 'Birds, but this year be is tronger and hungrier. Madsen pent aU but on game out with a broken arm last cason, uffcrcd In the first game of the year against natJonally ranked Montana. After months of waiting, Madsen finally got his medical red- h rt from the CAA nd is r ady for hi final season at UU. "I (eel like a kid in a candy tore,• ald Madsen. rul , an athlete can Accordin to panidpatc 1o atbl lies for five year , which tndud a redshlrt year. ince last season was Ma en's fifth season (he had already used his r h1n on), technically c hould not be able to participate. Ho ever, due to the fact be sat out all but one game due to jury, the CAA ranted hlm a mecUcaJ hardship, giving him the chance to make up for the game he missed last season. e play M ecsc St, Boise St.ate, ldabo t.atc, and the game I can't watt for, Weber tate, ~ he aJd about this eason, which be i very c cited to play in. wour team is very cl e and focu ed this year to reach our goal of the playoff . ~ Last year, UU opened up with what wa a big win over Montana on the road., helping the 'Bir gain a spot in Division I-~ top-25. With the lo of Madsen, however, the offense was unable to get back on track and get the wins it needed to qualify for the Divi ion I-AA playoffs. Even with Madsen ba k, the off- eason injury of senior offensive lineman Andy cison ab' I according to Ma en. MWc arc going to have other players show what they can do now with more playing time, " Madsen aid. _ The 'Birds have been pr paring the past few weeks with pring football practke. nly a few tartcrs return from a team that went 5-o last cason.. Thls year µie schedule will not be any icr, but th team hoping the experience of Madsen and. Junior quanerback Man Cannon can help the team meet its ultimate goaJ-a national champJon hip. Women'·s basketball adds three to roster outhem Utah women' basketball coach started aod tied for a ceam-h.igh nine point on 3-of-5 hootln in the 64-57 lo at Joe HUloc ha announced the lgn1n of D C . 30, 1998. Kelly will It OU[ th.is two players to national lcne of Intent and upcoming ca n and will be eligible for anoth r player tranferrin to the. program Wedne day. The signJn will help bol tcr tlie 2000-01 sea on. &1 am very exciting and pleas d about otb the pcrim tcr and p st play for the these .i gnin , • Hillock aid. "Lindsey Thunderbirds in the upcoming years. (Hille) rings a lot to th table. h led th Hillock has igned Lin ey HllJe, 5-9 guard from alt Lake City's Olympu High tate In three point shooting and I a good defcn Ive player. It will be nice: to have chool. La.st eason, ffiUe Jed the Titans to a 22-1 record, lo lng the only her for four yea.rs. game of the ca.son in the "We arc real excited to have Julie (Bellamy) in our Utah 12.te 4-A emifinal last program,· HJJlock atd. February. She wa a fi t· • he was coached really team aJJ- tale performer well at now and with who averaged 21 points, bcr ize and abUJry, she four assists and four teal will be able to tep in a game. he wa one of the leading three-point immediately and help u . • shooters in Utah high "Erin (Kelly) Is a school basketball, versatile player who can connecting on 60 trey score In ide as well as last on. She was outsid , Hillock aJcl " c named to the Utah Tipreally n eded height on the Off Club' Elite 12 perimeter and sh will bring Players in the tatc for that to ow club. Mo t of the her performance last teams in Lbe Mid-Continent eason . onference have h ight on The Lady 'Birds also the perimeter." The trio of newcomers will igned ophomore .fl, round out ' 1999 recruilin Julie Bellamy, a 6eaq Coach Jo foot-3 post play r from e Ht1!0ck cla , which includ incoming Centerville, tah. fr hmcn DanJ bahecn and K.2ra Lundgaard. haheen, a 5·9 Bellamy played her fr hman year at guard, was the Utah 3A Player of the Year now College and averaged 8.8 points and at Snow canyon High in t. George, Utah. 5.3 rebound for the Badgers last eason. hahecn averaged 14 points a game in Hillock also accepted the trail fer of Erin leading CH to the 3A tate title. he is the: Kelly, a 5-1 O sophomore guard from Brea, younger sister of former 'Bird stand-out Calif., who played one SC2 on at New Mandi hahecn, who played at U from Orlean . Kelly tarted 15 of the 27 game he: played for the Privateers, averaged 8.8 1994-98. Lundgaard, a 6-3 forward/center from points, 1.9 rebounds, 1.1 a ts and 1.3 BouJder City, ev., was a fin2.U t for teals a game. he scored a arccr-hlgh 24 Nevada' Stat Hcl man Award thJs past points twice last season In game against Western Kentucky and W Loulstam. She: season. Brook Madsen has fully healed from his arm Injury which kept him out of au but one game last season. Softball splits with Western Illinois After losing a l~d rwice in the opener, th women ' oftbaU team earned a double-header pill with We lllinoi by ta Ing a two-out rally in the ooh to win the nightcap, 3-1 . The Lady 'Birds dropp d che first coni t, 5-3. is now 8-42 em ave.call this on, 5-1 in league play. After tripling in a run In tbe third inning of che first game, arahAdam cored on a pa d ball to give U a 3-1 lead, however, WTU took advantage of a pair of doubl to score three In the top of the fourth co route to the broken up in the bouom o f the inning when Killion w.ilked Jenny Hardy, but the no-hitter wa n't d rupt d until the bottom of the ixth when got aU four of its hi . After Roberts tru k out and Dana Williams popped up to _ open the seventh lnnin , Hardy, Shay toddard and arah Poloni aU ingled, th Poloni driving Hardy in and moving to econd OD the throw. Wtth first ha e open, WIU elected to alk Adam to get to Tirul Clark, but the trategy backfired a Clark r ponded · with a twoRBI JngJe to give Uthe lead. 5·3 victory. Melanie Dob on (8-6) Ro crts picked up th then et the winforWIU :.! We terwind whll Tori down in andoval (2-8) ~ ord r to pick took the lo . ~ up her first Nao Robertso win of the and Holly KUllon locked on . The Lady horns lo a SU pitcher Jennie Kerr gave up four 'Birds now pitchers' duel hits Saturday In a loss to Western face MKC in the ccond IUinots. She also had two strikeouts. on the road game, with Friday and aturday for their last Roberts giving up j t two hit Mid-Con road trip of the eason. and Killion gave up four. U currently Its at beth in the Witb Killion throwing a league and doc not have a pcdect game, Chrissie Beebe chance at qualifying for the Mid· caked WIU to a 1-0 advantage Con tournament, even with four with a lcadoff home run in the wins this weekend. fourth . The perfect game was j S |