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Just because a team is ranked first in the standings does not mean they will be selected to represent DSU." Not all team members were made fully aware of the situation, and that caused confusion. "We will be changing that over the summer - I'm trying to figure out a better way to do it," Howell said. "Next fall and Leading off on Saturday, the Red Storm welcomed Holy Names University to Bruce Hurst field to start the e series between the two teams DSU jumped In the out to an early lead behind the bats n Drew of sophomore Zach McLaughlin and junior the 4 from Watts, each of them going plate. Freshman Cam Gust smacked his first career home run before HNU made a e run. In the top of the seventh, HNU left-field- - g ' - spring we are looking to hold an individual NIRSA qualifying tournament in hopes to try to alleviate any of how people might say it's unfair how it's done." Despite the misunderstanding, some still see favoritism in intramural games. "There was one team we were playing and all of their players knew every single one of the refs and they were buddybvddy," Smith said. "With us we didn't know any of the refs, so it was kind of a lopsided game." Howell said he knows the intramural referees can sometimes make bad calls, but he doesn't think any there is any favoritism happening. "If I knew of that going on or had any evidence supporting that kind of bias toward players or teams for any reason it might be, those people wouldn't be working for me," Howell said. Ken Turley, a senior integrated studies major from Alamo, Nevada, and one of the supervisors over the intramural department, said there have been instances in every sport when a team didn't agree with a call, but that's just the competitive nature of sports. "Tempers get flared up in things like this, especially in close games," Turley said. "It's going to happen in every sport." Tyson Williams, a sophomore communication major from Las Vegas, said he also sees favoritism happen sometimes, but he understands why it might. "The referees are students here too, and I feel like they lean more toward the people they know," Williams said. "I'm not saying they always leaned against me because sometimes they leaned for me because they knew me." All of the referees go through class time and do rehearsal-lik- e training before every sport starts in order to prep them for being officials, Turley said. He said the intramural staff stresses that they will not express favoritism for any one person or team. rries on With success scored three runs and took the lead from Dixie. The Storm exploded in the following two frames, scoring eight unanswered runs, including a Donald Glover Jr. solo homer, to edge Hawks on Saturday, Senior infielder Kevin Kline, recently named National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association West Region Player of the Week, homered in the second shot that gave DSU a game, a two-ru- n 2 lead. Freshman pitcher Dylan File earned the victory from, the mound, the second of his career. Kline gives the credit for his strong play to his teammates. "It's a lot easier when the guys in front of me apply pressure," Kline said. "It puts the pitchers on their heels when I'm batting." Looking to close out a clean sweep of HNU, Dixie faced the Hawks in yet Fanner . .4, studies major from Surrey, Canada, . ,, . 9. , , . . . i - 'i - j , ., , ' - ',. , 1, 1 6-- second-basema- . i ..,. ,....,.- 4-, Baseball ity ' ,. ,..,,,- - Boasting impressive winning streaks, both Dixie State softball and baseball teams looked to continue their winning ways last weekend. r, ,,,,.,,,,,, , ,,,,,,, ,, " 11-- series-opene- - -- ' ' ., PLarsenDSN four-gam- " '''''-"---,.- ,:,,,,-,..- ,," , , BY PORTER LARSEN ich , , , , ,.. - ' s'"'''''', , , ,' ' - '" ';---' ,..M,Iff, 1 Storm b seball S -' ' ' '"'' ' - ', Whether or not politics in intramural sports at Dixie State University exist, some students still believe they are prevalent. The Dixie Sun News was contacted by a student regarding concerns about supposed favoritism from the intramural sports department. This concern specifically was about the fairness in the process taken in order to choose a team to send to the National Intramural-RecreationSports Association regional tournament in Arizona for this basketball season. "Any time our tournament finishes in time to send a team, I take whatever team wins the tournament," said David Howell, assistant director of intramurals. "That's what I would prefer to do." One intramural team questioned why neither of the top two winning teams were sent to represent DSU at the NIRSA tournament. Dre Smith, a senior integrated' studies major from Atlanta, was on an intramural basketball team that was undefeated, yet he was told by a referee that even if their team won the championship it still would not go to Arizona. "What's the purpose of winning the championship if the team that's not even winning the championship is going to go to Arizona?" Smith said. Howell said he sent out an email to the team captains stating that there was a timing issue for selecting a team to go to the tournament. According to the email he sent out, a team was selected halfway through the 4- ' .,, 4 II-L- ie ,,, 4 5- ;1 L BY KESHARA -- i with the ball i in the game on Sunday against Holy Names. I 1 - 4 i , , , , , , , , ,, , led the offense, going with two runs scored. z late-gam- see SUCCESS page 6 , |