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Show -- DIXIESUNLINK.COM 4- WEDNESDAY, FEBRUaryn, i I Go online to 1 U -- V f t 5 . dixiesunlink. to see a video o6 the world of paintbal .. F tie Nor ing il V,.- tiate ready for rivalry ganif y & 7 hO Burns Arena (7:30 p.m.) looking for revenge and a piece of the PacWest title. Weve got to get a win, said sophomore forward Dalton Groskreutz, a mathematics major from St. George. (Im) looking forward to playing them. Its good for us because if we take care of ours then we come out PacWest Champs. We dont have to worry about anybody getting a win here or getting a loss there. With a win over ii the Red Storm will clinch a third straight PacWest cham- pionship and position themselves for another deep run in the NCAA tournament. But it wont be easy. The Seasiders remember well what happened just a few weeks ago when Dixie stole a win in Laie, Hawaii. And the fact that it is a rivalry game only adds fuel to the fire. Its a big one for us, head coach Jon Judkins BYU-Hawa- EC 5 Li ir ZJ The Dixie State College mens basketball team huddles before Saturdays game and went on to win their 12th straight. Dixie plays again tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the burns Arena. Fresh off a 7 ish with its best record BY KERIC SEEGMILLER road win over Califorsince making the jump Staff Writer nia Baptist University from junior college to The Dixie State Colon Saturday, the Red NCAA Division II. 14-lege mens basketball (19-Storm have But tonight the Red team knows a little defeated almost every Storm will be looking something about winteam in the PacWest for the most important ning just ask any other twice. With only one win of them all. The team in the Pacific West conference loss and four Seasiders of ii Conference. to DSC looks fin invade the total, 70-6- 4, 1) BYU-Hawa- . said. We recruit a lot of the same kids. They got two players we didnt get, so its kind of a fun thing that way. Weve been battling with them ever since weve been in the league. Weve always battled them for first and second place it seems like every single year. Under the guidance of former DSC coach Ken ii Wagner, boasts a multitude of scoring options. Senior guard Tsung-Hsie- n (Jet) Chang, the PacWest scoring leader, heads a roster with three players averaging double-figur- e scoring performances. And if teams figure' out how to slow down the big three, then players like junior guard Jake Dastrup pick up the slack. Dastrup scored 22 points and nailed six in the last with the Red meeting Storm. Dastrup came in and gave them a spark off the bench, Judkins said. He ran the floor BYU-Hawa- rur 1 really well, and pushed it up and gott wide open shots. He' can really shoot thet He (also) hurt us lasi year in the last gamt our season. Needless to say th i Red Storm will have their hands full whe the Seasiders come inland for the battle the PacWest title. The Red Storm will no doubt then look t the home crowd top1 t to the Burns Arena and" come ready to make! difficult for theoppo nent. Senior guard Mam, L Br Ge Co th Cole said he hopes fr great turnout. It would be nice F we could get a great crowd here, said an integrated studies major from Norwalk, if CoL Calif. We i be- play tter when the wc crowd is into it and when the) pumped. It just gives, more energy to play is Ca sit; 1 As game time approaches one - thing is certain. Its games these that make being sports fan worthwhile gai liL ers as str gai Andrade, Manning Unique intensity propel Red Storm to found in paintball series win over GCU BY SHELBY MISRASI Sports Editor BY RICHARD BRIGGS Editor-in-Chi- ef No matter if one player was playing catcher and the other was playing designated hitter, the hitting production stayed the same for the Dixie State College baseball team. Joe Andrade and Mitch Manning combined for 1, 19 hits to help DSC win I; three of four games ' against Grand Canyon University during the weekend series in Phoenix. The two of them play the same position, so each game they rotate between playing catcher and designated hitter. Mitch and Joe will continue to platoon at catch and DH, head coach Mike Littlewood said. That had been our plan since the fall. They both swung the bat very well, and I would expect them to continue to have , a solid season. Andrade said rotating positions with Manning has been consistent. We dont get as tired, said Andrade, a senior nursing major from Yuma, Ariz. With that rest were always ready to go. Those doubleheaders can catch up to you. Manning said the rotation with Andrade has worked out well to start the season because he feels like both of them are high-quali- ty players. Its been great, said Manning, a junior business administration major from Roy. Were both Division I caliber catchers. We hit back to back in the order, and were both tough outs. The Red Storm got production from other places as well to score 26 runs to the Antelopes 12 runs in those four games. It took a little bit of everything to come up with those runs. Junior outfielder Cedric Johnson, Andrade and Manning hit four combined home runs in the first game of the series on Friday. Each of them had solo home runs, and Andrade added a two-ru- n home run in the fifth inning. The Red Storm won game one DSC jumped on top of the Antelopes 0 in game two. Junior pitcher Mike Dedrick held GCU to one hit in five innings, but the Red Storm relief pitchers did not close the door. Senior pitcher Kyle 7-- 2. 3-- DiMartino gave up three runs in the sixth inning, and then DiMartino, freshman pitcher Stefan Cantwell and senior pitcher Daniel Zapata gave up a combined four walks in the seventh inning that led to GCUs 3 win. GCUs Ernesto Ortiz scored on the final walk to score the winning run. 4-- The Red Storm quickly bounced back in the third game of the series. Andrade and Manning batted in more than half of DSCs 13 runs in that third game, as DSC came As balls of paint are flyaway with a 4 win. ing your direction you hide DSC trailed the entire behind a propped up board and hear your breath hitting way of the fourth game of the series, but the team against your facemask. Your teammates are tellfinally strung together in hits the sixth enough ing you to move forward as inning to claw its way they shoot at the opponent. back for the win. With You move into open area freshman third baseman and feel your heart pumpYuto Kata at third and ing faster and faster with both fear and adrenaline. junior outfielder Garrett Nash at second, junior You duck into cover at the second baseman Colton next shelter when you hear Yack knocked a ball into the sound of paint soaring centerfield to score both toward you. Finally, the Kata and Nash. The rally splattering of bullets stop, was underway with the and you decide to take your shot at the person wanting game tied at With Yack on third and to bean you. Johnson on first, Andrade You slowly creep out of hit a ball into right field the cover and look around that scored Yack and put to find where your enemy DSC ahead Zapata might stay. Just as the shut down the Antelopes thought of safety runs in the final inning for through your mind you his second save of the hear a trigger being pulled season. hundreds of times. As you The one thing about turn to see where this is our lineup is that there coming from, ten, twenty, is not one easy out, 30 paintballs hit you right Littlewood said. Every in the chest, leaving welts we are a threat and bruises all over your inning to score runs. The other body. thing about this team is Paintballing isnt just a that we will never give sport Its a passion. up. These guys have a It feels good when lot of character, and they you feel like youve got like to scrap. something going on, said Andrade said the team Samuel Jamison, a freshstill needs to see more man communication major since its in the early from St. George. When part of the season. youre sneaking around to Were a work in get all of them, or you see progress, Andrade said. their backs turned to you Weve been on top of youre like, This is it. I got it. everyone left and right. Manning said the best Adrenaline, talent and is still to come. brains run the sport of We havent even paintball. reached our peak yet, he When youre being said. Were capable of so fired at its a different much more. feeling, Jamison said. 13-- 2-- 2. 3-- 2. at-ba- Its like, Shoot man, we have to take control of the situation, and you yell at everyone telling them what to do. You take commands and get it figured out. There are different types of games players can participate in with the world of paintball. There is the common elimination game where teams are selected. When the horn sounds you shoot as many opponents as you can. There is capture the flag where there is a flag at each end of the arena, and you do your best to get to the flag without getting hit. There is also the occasional football game, but instead of tackling each other you shoot each other. You have an arm band . . . which represents your team, Jamison said. And you just kind of go out there and try not to get shot and try to shoot them. There is also the social aspect of the game that draws people to the sport. Its not just my family ... all these guys are my family, so its fun, said Damien Karimi, the owner of Battle Ball Paintball at 420 West Addie Lane in Washington. It brings people together J Mi coi CE with the same love for excitement. What got us of course, is the started, love for paintball, Karimi saidl watch all these kids com up in something thatllfc and its incredible. I a hobby and turned it more than that, so thats fun. And to get even took mor people excited about thats even Jamison it, more fun said its a gred1 activity with friends My favorite part withmy getting together friends and having fat Jamison said. This is around lot of fun to move and think about what y need to do, and it s physl is a cal. There are a lot of friends and people here, envirso its just a good onment, ft1 and its a lot of Playing at Battle Ball Paintball is free entry I a $20 rental fee. This facen3 gives you a gun, and unlimited paintbal whole for the use of the s welcoi day. People are to bring their own ge for a day of free PalD ho This venues U and costs may varymore information g: to www.battlebalT open i paintball.com. ts KTYl l--7 . v o r. U. This paintballer standing in the open has nents trapped behind cover. His blue te to win two of three elimination games on vejt" |
