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Show WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, r Did you know? Fans eat more than 1.23 V, i 2014 billion chicken wings on Super Bowl Sunday. I V athlete to become an in any sport. Sports Editor Coach Turner told me to keep shooting, Miller said. The positivity she brings for me as a player and (for) the team has helped a lot. I had a different mindset in the game against Cal Baptist than I did against Azusa Pacific. Senior guard Haley Holm-stea- d has a chance to set a record on scoring average in a single season and in a career. Holmstead is averaging 21.6 points this season. If she stays at that pace, Holmstead will beat Johnna Browns single season record of 17.0 and Tiara Volleyball The volleyball team had 1 its best season in 2013 No. (Youngs) since it went 7 Dixie State Universitys goal was to go in 2009. The to nationals, female students have worked Volleyball: team ended Decker said. hard to outplay the past athThe leam made the the season Nationals letes on campus. postseason tournament Dixie first for in the time with a 0 There are many records the were in JopState Division history. record. It was women have broken over the lin, Mo. Evthe first time the BY went GRAPHIC few erything years that may not past MI. GAN' PETERSON DIXIE SUN NEWS have been as recognizable as volleyball team right as planned. She moved up from made the postseason others. tournament in DSU D-60th after one mile to 30th after two miles. y history. The womens crossYoung finished No. 28 in the national race and became Basketball country team has one athlete The Dixie State athletics hit its an broke who top through 40 runners become and became nation1,000th victory in its 7 12 years as a Divially known. 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Brown I had no idea we were not only owns many Tennis players (Young) basketball records, was the only even close to that, but it also joined the record books one that we took to the was a good announcement at Dixie State. including the scoring, field rebounds said and Ross after the game, said Kaylah goals made, postseason meet, Sophomore Joy Naigeon steals among others, but she leads all tennis players with Decker, an associate profesMiller, a junior communicaalso owns softball singlesor of math and assistant tion major from San Diego. the most singles wins in a season records for batting coach. After We played that game toseason with nine wins and a conference comes the nacareer with 12. 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Staff Writer With a new season, new recruits and a new chance to win it all, the Dixie State University baseball team is preparing for opening day. The Storm will host the annual alumni game Saturday at 1 p.m. as a kickoff to the 2014 t 4 season. The team is going to look at the alumni game as a dress rehearsal, said center fielder Donald Glover, a junior integrated studies major from Las Vegas. 3 h r -- t i -- 7 .. Z u t" N Outfielder Sydney Cluff, a freshman nursing major from Meridian, Idaho, catches a pop-fl- y during a preseason practice. The team kicks off its season Feb. 4. BY DERRICK SHELLEY Staff Writer ry I heart-broke- 2 2 Third baseman Mike Umscheid, a junior integrated studies major from Beaverton, Ore., said the team is going to play in the alumni game as if it were against Cal Poly Ponoma University to help get the team ready for the first week of the season. The alumni game takes place just seven days before opening day. With that, head coach Chris Pitcher Matt Hill, a senior accounting major from CyPfatenhauer is trying to get all press, Calif., throws a pitch in a preseason practice. The the new team plays its alumni game Feb. 1, and then it travels to players ready to face what lies ahead of them. play California Poly Ponoma University. of new Pfatenhauer said. Last guys, 15 had seniors, and year we this year we only have 10 seniors. They were the heart and soul of the team, and a lot of them played substantial innings. So we have had to reit place a lot of those guys has been a learning process. Pfatenhauer said Dixies strength this year will be within its pitching. Though with the new recruits, it still has the same sized team from last year, but he said it has given Dixie a lot more depth. All of the pitchers are good friends, said pitcher Chance Abrath, a junior business major from Salt Lake City. We are all really close, and we all help each other out a lot. Umscheid said the pitchers unity has rubbed off on the position players as well. Preseason started with a bang as the Storm participated in preseason games due to the new NCAA rule. Pfatenhauer said it was good practice for them to prepare for their first games. We did have some injuries We have a lot The Dixie State University softball team knows how to win. Dixie State softball head coach Randy Simkins has a winning percentage of 76 as the DSU head coach. Coming off of a season in 2013, the Red Storm have reached the postseason Regional Tournament for five consecutive years and come into this season with high expectations. Our goal is to make it back to the College World 40-w- in throughout the fall, which put some guys behind, but the preseason was good, Pfatenhauer said. It was more learning for us. This year we have to go to some core basics we have to teach a lot. But we like our team, and our expectations are to try and win the conference. The team started 1 last year. Pfatenhauer said it will be more of a climb earlier on this year, and there will be some learning curves in the first few weeks, opposed to last year when he said the team felt like it was ready to play in the first few weeks. Dixie State had three freshmen last year; this year the team has 10. Pfatenhauer calls this year of the youth movement with the new recruits and the junior college transfers. There are 1 1 new transfers to Dixie State this most of them from year junior colleges in Nevada and Utah. He said his main focus is trying to get those men to adapt to the NCAA level. Compared to junior 11-- Series, Simkins said. We went there in 2009, and we are trying to make it back. This years team will be without four key seniors who graduated from last years squad. We might have some holes offensively to fill in, Simkins said. But our kids will step up and get it done. In fall ball this year, the Red Storm defeated Division I foe Brigham Young University in a 1 showdown that ended in a DSU upset. see SOFTBALL page 6 there are college, in D-a lot of rules on how long you II can practice and how many games you can play, so I guess we are kind of limited to practice, Umscheid said. So during that practice time, we have to be efficient and do things at a fast pace. Division II differs from junior college by having less preseason games as well as having a later start to the season. Pfatenhauer said, so far, the men are catching on to his system. He said something to be remembered about the 2013 baseball team was its camaraderie on the field. Last years team was very close, Pfatenhauer said. The team was a great group on and off the field; they cared about each other, and they cared about the program. This years team I think is getting there, but we have 10 seniors instead of 15, so we have a little less ownership in that, but it is getting there. 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