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Show -- 4- WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24 ,2011 DIXIESUNLINK.COM Make sure you sign up r, ; i 0 ' cXVtN i or intramurals. t You can UP a slip at the office, or sign up online atwww.dixie.edu intramurals V C Intramural signups get underway BY RHETT SULLIVAN Copy Editor The Dixie State College Intramurals staff catered to everyone to provide different events to hopefully appeal to all types of students. DSC Intramurals coordinators organize various sports and activities for students to compete in. Fantasy football, coed flag football and coed outdoor 6 v. 6 soccer are the first on the DSC Intramurals Fall 2011 schedule. Intramural coordinator Jake Schroeder said he started fantasy football last year to hopefully appeal to different types of students. Fantasy football is free and the times are to be announced, but students can register right now. Students interested in football and soccer should know flag football registration is due Sept. 7 and soccer registration is due Sept. 12. The complete schedule can be obtained at the DSC Intramural Office, which is located in the southeast comer of the Student Activities Center, also known as the Old Gym. It can also be found its fying the student has b made easier in the last 0l ;V couple of years because the Dixie One cards have ipe photo identification. Schroeder said he has seen many different types of teams in intramurals. Some teams are just groups of friends that got together to have fun. Other teams are a lot more competitive and hold try outs. Chelzee Nye, a soph- ;it ifj V omore early childhood development major from Malta, Idaho, said she has played in several volleyball tournaments and in one basketball. She said volleyball is her favorite sport and though compe- intramural athletes compete for the win in a flag football game. Intramurals are starting soon, and now is your chance to sign up and compete. Two online at dixie.eduintra-mural- s. To sign up for a league, students need to fill out a form that can be picked up from the office or printed from the website and hand it in at the office, Schroeder said. Also, during the Week of Welcome there will be a DSC Intramurals booth at both the W.O.W. Carnival and Club Rush. Schedules and registration sheets will be given out at the booths, Schroeder ting is fun, it's more about meeting new people and having a good time. I just got a bunch of friends together, and we game, to try to attract said. Schroeder plans on also having a Facebook page, a Twitter account, a blog and newsletters sent to students' Dmail accounts to help students tramural event. Also, with construction and other field factors, such as weather conditions, the fields that are used might not always be available to stay updated. Schroeder said the times on the schedule are subject to change, but the dates will never be changed to an earlier time, only pushed back. Having a lot of teams in a league could push back the dates for the next in play on. Schroeder said that leagues like football, basketball, soccer and volleyball already attract a lot of people. Still, he has been adding events like fantasy football, swimming, ping pong and Madden NFL 12, which is a video Jlfl other types of students. He said he wants to have something for everybody. In order to regulate the leagues and ensure that fees are paid, only DSC students and faculty can play. The one exception to that is a married couple can play on the same coed team as long as one of them is a student, Schroeder said. Student numbers are checked before every game, and veri- - os ref just signed up and re. played, Nye said. But Nye said not all teams feel that way. She said she once played a team in basketball that was killing her team, and they wouldn't let up. ) Later, Nye said she saw that team get mad because they lost to another team see SIGNUPS 5 page IB Violence makes conflict Soccer scrimmages begin BY SAM JOSE MERCURY MEWS MCT You want the police to be there in force. But you don't want to need the police to be there, handcuffs out and batons raised high. You want to believe that sports stadiums and their environments are temporary pockets of sanctuary from the more violent moods of our age. You want to attend games to be entertained for a few hours then you want to go home. You don't want to conduct constant security checks to make sure you and your loved ones have safe passage, and you don't want to step through potential crime scenes to do it. But Saturday night was another stark reminder that sports are no sure escape from acts of violence, and that sometimes it seems that sports can be a central focus of the rampage. We don't know what led to the two apparently separate shootings just - outside of Candlestick Park in the minutes after exhibithe tion game or why another man was beaten badly in a restroom duping the ; 49ers-Raide- game.' rs , v' '' We know that police say one shooting victim who was critically wounded was wearing an anti-49e- rs rt. There is not a lot of sense to be made of this right now. Any possible snap conclusion could be right or wrong, pending further details about the motives, victims and perpetrators. But I can say that many in the crowd were roiling with angry emotions throughout this game and only got angrier as fights littered the stands. I can say that surely the fervor was amped up by liquor bought in the stadium, but also that before the game I saw more than a few fans plenty amped up before ever entering. We can all say that there could have been more of a security presence inside and outside the stadium on Saturday; but we don't know if any of the bloodshed was entirely preventable without imposing temporary mar- tial law. We can definitely agree that it's worth reviewing whether the mix of 49ers and Raiders fans at this annual exhibition game at night, with many longof term both teams staying at home is too combustible to continue. We can wonder whether these incidents throw any kind of barrier in front of the possibility of the Raiders and 49ers sharing a stadium in the future. But let the investigation tell us what really happened. When I walked out of Candlestick at 9:30 about 90 minutes after the ticket-holde- rs shootings police vehicles and police officers virtually lined the outer rim of the stadium. Something bad had clearly happened several bad things and very obviously, some of it had spilled over to a spot very near my car in the "A" lot. That, I learned later, was very near where the critically injured man was found, after driving his car to the entrance of the lot. The 49ers will have to increase security at Candlestick, no question, especially for night games and the next game is Saturday against Houston, at night. Every team has to examine its security measures, because the worst betrayal a franchise can make is to risk the physig cal of its paycustomers. ing Still, even if Candlestick becomes a fortress, Saturday's shootings will BY KERIC SEEGMILLER Staff Writer The Dixie State College women's soccer team opened its season with a trio of exhibition matches, playing three games in six days. The Red Storm kicked off the season Tuesday, Aug. 6, in Las Vegas and lost to UNLV. Despite dropping the opener they were eager to get back on the pitch and prove they can make some noise. Head coach Linda Huddleston said she is optimistic about the new season and confident that her team can be successful. "We would like to win the conference and into the playoffs," Huddleston said. "That's a goal of ours, and 1 1- -0 we're working on being the right team right now." Goalkeeper April Beck, a senior integrated studies major from American Fork, said that although the UNLV game ended in a loss, it was still a good game. "We gave it our all," Beck said. "I'm really excited about how our season is going to turn out." DSC got off to a shaky start in the first half at UNLV, conceding the lone goal of the match, but settled down and gained control after the break. Tire second half produced multiple opportunities to equalize, but the Red Storm were unable to find the back of the net. Still, Huddleston said she was Ml C!1 pleased with her team's ef- in fort. dt "I felt really good about the way they played, " she said. "We had chances in & possession, and so I was happy." The Red Storm returned to the field on Saturday and played to a scoreless tie against Iowa Western . The Community College. DSC women controlled the match from the start but were again unable to convert on chances to score. The quest for the first goal of the season was to be continued. The start of a new week ebrought the last of the xhibition matches and see SOCCER on T i. friii Pare page n &c e M V nit : I i? ,J - llrit Ca ? Zsb irte He ?airts fains - t 1 'ave, S V it. (c) 2011, San Jose Mercury News. Courtesy of McClatchy Tribune Information Services. nl the game, we had momentum in the game, we had well-bein- linger. If you go, you will check over your shoulder as you walk through the parking lot. You will keep an eye out for unruly behavior near your seat. You will look for police officers. And when you get home, you will relax and be thankful, and also wonder if it was all worth ll to fig Jennifer Mason, a freshman sports medicine major from Springville, oi for position in Dixies scrimmage against Salt Lake Community College Monday. The womens 2 win is a solid start to the new season. 1 6-- 'kit! |