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Show PAGE10 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL SPORTS Lady T-Birds end losing streak added six points and also dished out six assists. SUU's women's basketball team got its first win in the last Senior Melissa Hines added four points and pulled in 13 six games by beating Oral Roberts Thursday 58-52 in Tulsa, rebounds. Hines also hit two clutch free-throws with 1: 19 left Okla. ORU started the Lady T-Birds' losing streak by beating in the game, putting SUU up 56-51 . SUU 58-55 on Jan. 29 in Cedar City. SUU is now 11-13, 6-8 Both Hines and Lofthouse suffered in the Mid-Con, ano sits at seventh injuries during the game. Hines hurt place in the conference. her back when she took an offensive SUU Head Coach Joe Hillock said charge and had three people land on that his team looked back at the tapes her. Lofthouse tweaked her knee. Both of the loss ·against ORU, and went over players finished playing the game hurt. some of the plays the Eagles ran in the SUU's defense played strongly. second half. SUU coaches answered . Lofthouse and junior Ali Gressman any questions that the players had so shut down ORU's leading scorer Krista that there would not be any confusion Ragan. Holding her to just seven this game. The extra work paid off. points. Ragan had 30 points the last · we didn't get beat on one pick-andtime SUU played ORU. roll or screen that I can remember," said The 'Birds held ORU's top three Hillock. ·we stepped up and answered scorers (Ragan. Kristin Brady and every challenge in the second half.· ..., Lauryn Morita) to just four-of-24 The win gives the 'Birds confidence ~ shooting from the field. going into the last two regular season SUU shot 46 percent from the field in games. SUU has lost some close ~ the first half, including 5-10 from threegames in the past, when the 'Birds ~ point land, and took a 29-25 lead into weren't able to score and get the win in ~ the locker rooms at halftime. the final minutes. ~ SUU also continued its rebound "We've been on the verge of it and dominance by out rebounding the finally got there,· said Hillock. "We were EagleS'42-40. able to execute well.· Lindsay Hille continues to be a threat from SUU plays its last two games before Freshman Lindsay Hille led the 'Birds ·th · three_-point range, hitting fo(fr-of-nine in heading into the conference tournament w1 15 . points, a_nd played a game-high Thursday's win. this week when the 'Birds travel to 36 minutes. Junior Sarah Pratt and Western Illinois on Thursday at 4:15 (MST) and Chicago sophomore Megan Lofthouse also scored in double figures State on Saturday at 11 a.m. (MST). with 14 and 12 points. respectively. Junior Sally Johnson g 8 Men lose on road .. on Nov. 24. House finished with six points SUU's men's basketball team dropped before fouling out and Hancock had eight, an important game on the road Thursday shooting two-of-nine from three-point land. to Oral Roberts, losing 86-66. The loss Senior Nate Pugmire led the 'Birds in dropped the Thunderbirds (13-11 , 9-5 rebounding with five. Thomas pulled in Mid-Con) out of sole possession of first seven for the Eagles, who out-rebounded place in the conference, which they held suu 39-33. for only five days. SUU is now in a threeSUU was able to way tie for first with force only nine Valparaiso and turnovers, the Youngstown State. lowest number of The 'Birds led the opponent Eagles 55-50 with turnovers this 11 :35 left to play in season, while the the game, but were 'Birds had 17 outscored 16-2 over turnovers. the next four minutes. Out of the three ORU's Derrick Taylor teams tied for first, scored 14 of his SUU will play the game-high 27 points easiest teams. On during the run. Thursday SUU will "They shot the ball ..., face Western well and got things ~ Illinois (7-20, 2-12 going for them in the Mid-Con) and on paint," said SUU ~ Saturday they will assistant coach play Chicago Barrett Peery. ·we 5 State (9-16, 6-8 couldn't hit our shots Mid-Con). and it was downhill ffi "Both are very from tnere." "'winnable games, Junior Jeff Monaco Justin Sant has been able to take it to the we beat both led the 'Birds with hole all season. Thursday night he scored teams here,· said 14 points and five nine points. and also had four boards, three Peery. "They have assists._Monaco hit different styles, so three-of-seven from assists and two stea(s. we'll have to three-point range prepare for a few different things.· and had one steal. He now needs eight to The problem for the 'Birds is they have set a new SUU career-steals record. only won one game this year on the road, Senior Jim F au Ikner added 10 points for a 76-73 win at IUPUI on Feb. 3. Valparaiso SUU . Freshman seven-footer Nate Bloom plays at Chicago State on Thursday. but came off the bench and scored eight then hosts· 1uPUI on Saturday. points and pulled in four rebounds. Youngstown will host its last two games Neither junior Fred House or senior of the season: ORU on Thursday then Tyson Hancock scored in double figures, UMKC on Saturday. the first time since the 92-64 loss at BYU 8 g i , TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1000 Softball team still struggling BY JASEN ASAY JOURNAL SPORTS EDITOR The SUU softball continued to struggle over the weekend, losing five games at the UNLV Classic in Las Vegas. The young Thunderbirds are now 0-7. The 'Birds played some tough schools, losing to Notre Dame 8-0, Florida International 9-1 , Loyola Marymount 6-1 and Cal Poly 7-2. SUU had a good chance to beat Fordham University, but ended up losing 3-2. The 'Birds took a 2-1 lead in the fifth inning, but Fordham scored two runs in the sixth. Lori Shephard pitched the first six innings, giving up nine hits, and three runs. She had ·one strikeout. Shephard had five strikouts in five innings pitched in the loss to Florida International. Wendy Haramoto hit an inside-the-park home run against Cal Poly, and ended up batting five-for-14 during the tournament. Next up for the team is the University of Utah tournament Friday and Saturday in St. George. On Friday, SUU will face Utah (noon) and Washington (2 p,m.). Then on Saturday the Birds will play Utah State (11 a.m.) and Tulsa (1 p.m.). SUU scores best of year thought we had another outstanding Southern Utah University's meet on bars and on floor and a good gymnastics team posted a seasonnight on vault. And really, other than high 193.575 at Utah State Friday the falls on beam, we performed very night, but 11th-ranked Denver and the well there too.· host Aggies finished just ahead of the The 193.575 is the seventh-best allThunderbirds, who finished third in the around mark in SUU history. four team meet. Denver edged USU. Other highlights for SUU included 194.925-194.525, followed by SUU Slack and junior Erica Burk each and UC Santa Barbara, which finished posting scores of fourth at 190.600. · 9.85 on bars, For Southern personal-best Utah, it was the scores for both second straight which rank meet in which among the topstruggles on beam 10 in SUU could have cost it history. the title. The 'Birds In all, SUU tied their seasongymnasts posted bars high at 48.80, seven careerthe second-best highs, tied two mark in school more and had history. They also -;1.two season notched their ~ bests. Burk also second~best floor Q had a careerscore of the best on be~m at season, at 48.625, :;l 9.775, as did and had a ~ freshman Megan respectable Maiser at 9.650. 48.225 on vault. ~ Maiser's 9.75 But two falls on beam. one by the Megan Maiser set a career-high on both vault was also a career-high, normally steady the beam (9.65) and the vault (9. 75) . Friday night in Logan. while freshman junior Heather Rachel Thomas Slack, kept SUU had a personal-best ~.70 on bars and from notching its first 194-plus mark of Sara' Geisler's 9.750 was also a the season. Last Monday SUU had personal-best. three falls on beam in a 194.575FreshmanJayme Morgan tied her 193.300 home loss to Utah State. best effort on floor at 9.725 and Still, SUU Coach Scott Bauman was Rachel Bridges had a career-high upbeat about his team's performance. tying 9.65 vault. Junior Suzi Clark tied · we really only missed three her season-best effort on bars at 9.70 routines all night, but unfortunately, and a season-high 38.775 in the alltwo of them came on beam so we around. wound up counting a fall." he said. "I § i 0 \. |