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Show 6 THE Dixie WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, SUN mens basketball The streak is snapped by CSI Rebels rebound with a win over Treasure Valley. By Stephen Vincent Editor in chief stvincent77hotmail Seinfeld. 13-- 2 31-2- 2 41-2- 9 com bacon llth-ranke- 9-- 89-7- 68-4- (8-1- i the run But two CSI that narrowed the gap to and keyed a quick 10-- rally halftime edge. that gave the Eagles a Jaime Lloreda led the Rebels with 25 points and 10 rebounds in the contest Against Treasure Valley, Dixie didnt 0 run to build waste time as they used an 3 lead a three-pointe- Wendys pepperjack 4 Dixies best chance to overtake Eagles came in the first half with a cheeseburger. MTV playing music videos. Beautiful women m Hollywood (prior to new anorexia fad). The Richard Nixon administration. The Dixie State College mens basketball teams 21 game winning streak is now like all these things because its ended. The College of Southern Idaho turned out to be to DSC what Deep Throat was to Nixon. d 2 The Eagles (20-3- , Scenic West Athletic Conference) upended Dixie on Fnday night, 10-- 1 The Rebels (22-SWAC) managed to claim a split the following night with a 7 victory over Treasure Valley Community SWAC). College, Ore. CSI capitalized on a 22-- 6 run to open the game. Although Dixie did whittle the lead to four, CSI always had an answer for every Rebel run. 2-- 9 r 11-- 33-2- e Chukar scoring An drought in the second half would pretty much end any TVCC threat. But Dixie did most of its damage on the boards, where they held a advantage, and effectively chucked away any hopes of a Chukar win. Josh Clark led the way for the Rebels with 16 points. With CSIs win over Snow on Saturday night, Dixie leads the Eagles by just one game in the conference standings, making every game important for the rest of the season. Dixie returns home thisjveekend to face Colorado Northwestern on Fnday and the College of Eastern Utah on Saturday. Both games will tipoff at 7.30 p m. eight-minut- ' x - X0B '" - photo by Brooke Hansen womens basketball Dixie earns tvvo key road victories with hotmail com My, how the tables have turned The Dixie State women's basketball e team was able to snap their losing skid, along with the backs of Southern Idaho and Treasure Valley with their and 9 victories over this past weekend With the wins, the Rebels ) jumped from eighth to fifth in the Scenic Mountain West Conference and now have the rest of the conference running scared Leading the spookfest this past weekend were Dixie stalw arts Hayley Barker and Candace Baldwin In Dixies first triumph over SIU, the second half was like a barbecue and Barker provided the rare Eagle meat With the Rebels down Barker scored nine of her 10 points during a 17-second half blitz to give Dixie the 63 57 edge four-gam- 72-6- 3 (5-- 71-6- 15-8- 53-4- 6 - -- V-5- J 'V y" 41-2- 0 Two Dixie players watch the ball roll foul in a game against Yavapai last weekend. photo by Brooke Dixie 58 remaining Barker also worked it on the defensive end by shutting down Idahos explosive superstar Jinga GrossChaulk dunng the same e of basketball buss It was key when Hayley did a great job defending their best plajer, Dixie coach Dave LaVetter said Her play earned over duectly to the offensive end The next game was really the same story, just a different chapter entitled, Baldwin With the Rebels down 69 68 in the final seconds, Baldwin made a layup and added a with 1 1 seconds left to clutch clinch the win Other generous contnbutors to the cause of winning the game were Rebels Jamie Phillips and Nikki Howard who each scored 13 points Life is fantastic, loyal and devoted fan Craig King sa'd The girls are starting to heat up and the fans at Dixie are reaping all of the benefits I am loving it very much 3 time-fram- free-thro- Hanser baseball Dixie starts with sweep of Yavapai By Arnee Graff Sports Editor k 7hotmail com Our beloved Dixie State College Baseball teams three-gam- e sweep over the dreaded Roughnders of Yavapai College this past weekend had all the elements of a truly great motion picture. For instance, there was more suspense and drama than you could shake a bat at. In all three thrillers, the Rebels battled back from an early deficit to win by a single run. You couldnt senpt a more competitive series, Dixie coach Mike Littlewood said With the score tied in the bottom of the 11th, Dixie sophomore Jake Jordinson, who directed, produced and starred in the flick, crushed a feeble changeup over the left field wall to give the good guys win No 1. Also, in a great pitching duel to the death between Dixie ace JT Sherman and foe Chris g 1 By Arnie Graff Sports Editor k 7( jiX , crowd-pleasin- Dixie 20C Dixie Barrett, both Yavapai and Dixie produce meager quantities of hits at six and eight. In games two and three, there was non stop action, plenty of belly laughs, and even a little romance. In both clashes, the Rebels fell behind by tra before staging incredible ic margins of 0 and comebacks for 3 the and tnumpb inspiring In game two, the Rebels struck at th deficit with a two runs in the fifth and one ir the sixth before dropping the hammer, nai. and toolbox on Yavapai m the seventh. Taylor Pullins calmly stepped into th box and blasted an RBI double that score conrad Andy Swanson, hence, victory. In game three, the Rebels came bac due to bad blunders by the silly roughnder In the fifth, two walks, an error and two na ly wild pitches scored the winning runs for Dim I love Chns Cowles (the Yavapai pitch er) so much, Dixie football star Ryan Wngh said. He has mad budda skills, baby! 3-- 0 4-- 3-- 2 softball Wilstead era begins with five wins The Randy Wilstead era got off to a blazing start last weekend m Arizona, w'here Dixie won five of their seven matchups. Wilstead, an assistant baseball coach at Dixie State College the past few seasons, was named as the new softball coach earlier this fall Wilstead started his new tenure Thursday by guiding the team to a wan in the first decision over Pima Communicontest, a ty College, Anz His first loss, however, would come on the same day, against nationally-ranke- d Arizona Western. Another setback, to Mesa Community College, Anz , on Friday, would be the Rebels last defeat of the weekend, as they spurted to four straight wins Kelly Clark earned the victorious deci- 2 4-- 3 sion m the Rebels two wins on Fnday, 3 over Phoenix Community College, Anz., ar result over Chandler Community Co a lege, Anz On Saturday, Jennifer Redding strut out ten en route to picking up the win on th mound, and Dixie utilized a barrage of su gles to dispose of El Paso, The Rebels then got their biggest win the weekend, a win over Glendale Con munity College, in which the eight-rmercy rule had to be employed April Cox, one of the stars of last year squad, hit two home runs in the games on the weekend Lacy Hardy, Redding, ar Jocelyn Anderson also went yard m tl opening series of the season Dixie wont play again until Feb. when Northwest Nazarene comes to town 9-- 2 5-- 9-- 1 u . |