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Show Mate. niniwmiiii-fiT- ffrmjnrriiih 6 - DIXIESUNNEWS.COM WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER complete control until the Sunbirds rallied. continued from page 5 FPU used stifling defense to limit the Storm in the fi9 in nal three sets and complete top consecutive sets Wednesthe comeback. Three different players had four or more day night despite trailing Westminster several times. blocks for the Sunbirds as DSU finished with a hitting they won the final three sets .303 while of 9 and 15-percentage .205 WC on to DSU committed 24 erholding just the night. rors and finished with an 1 We were ultimately able abysmal hitting percentage to get it done, Felder said. of .150, and FPU We will have to play better the Storm 16-- 4 in on Saturday to beat Fresno the match. Pacific University, though. We had a good opporRedshirt freshman outside tunity to come back home hitter Taylor Duryea once and get some momentum Li before the tournament, again led the way for DSU A s' by hitting .452 for the said senior middle blocker .match, tallying 16 kills, two Makenzi a 'x : aces and a block. Duryea communication major from was named Pacific West St. George. Coming home , Conference freshman of the with a conference champiweek for the second time onship was awesome, but this season after the teams we lost our focus and let v them get back into it. Thats championship performance I in Hawaii. something we wont be Junior setter Kailey Frei able to get away with in the Dixie State's Women's Rugby Club recorded a 55-- 0 shutout against Southern Utah University Saturday had another efficient outing tournament. focusing on its conditioning in past practices, which played a big part in the victory for DSU. She had 11 digs With the loss, DSU and racked up 36 of the BY CANDY ROLAND dropped to 0 on the DSU, which resulted in DSU ball, sharing multiple turnteams 42 assists en route to season, but the conference cassandrararolDSN a The half ended overs with challenged rucks, scoring try. the victory. 35-championship gives it an out of bound tosses, knock-on- s Next up was Fresno automatic qualifier position DSUs coaches warned and scrums. Pacific University, a team in the NCAA Tournament to not comfortable Extra aggressive defense players get that came into Saturday as The third time was not the with the lead, reminding DSU starting Friday. DSU will was seen by DSU as SUU apthe winners of eight straight charm for Southern Utah Unitravel north to face No. 1 of the close second half it proached its goal line multiple games. FPU came out slow, seed University of in versitys womens rugby in its the last played game against times, but DSU held its deallowing the Storm to jump third game against Dixie State The Storm SUU. fense, leaving SUU scoreless out to a two-slead. defeated No. 1 seed NorthUniversity Saturday Nov. 21 . We just had it in our heads on the other side of its line. DSU dominated the west Nazarene University DSU dominated SUU in a to hold SUU because in Mckee scored DSUs final try and opening sets Sweet-1shutout game ending 55-6 run during their our last game, we just kind the game, 55-of and seemed to be in last season. DSU team captain Dallas of let things go Mckee said. Mckee finished the game Mckee said the team was able The team aimed to shutout with three tries, Havili with to focus more on conditioning SUU and to slow things down four tries, Tanner with three this last week of practice, and a bit and take care of the ball, and Alexis Romero, a tries, . it helped DSU run the score Havili said. i junior, scored her first try of against SUU. SUU carried over its aggresthe season. In the games past, we were sive play into the second half. Ashlee Lee, SUUs captain, focused more on skills, but DSU handled SUU with a coach and a senior psycholnow that we have built some o- quick try on a won scrum 15 ogy and nutrition major from of those skills, the extra runminutes in. Genola, said SUU had done a .r ning in practice is what kept us The teams wrestled back better job of DSU popping up in the game, Mckee said. and forth with the ball up and instead of falling into rucks, Vika Havili, a senior intedown the field until Havili but SUU didnt hold its posit grated studies from Glendale, capitalized on a knock-o- n by tion, costing them the game. gave DSU a strong start, scorSUU for a try. We need to be able to com,..v j Tanner Quin to, a freshman 1 ing two tries in ten minutes. municate not as one person, SUU didnt push its way general education major from but as whole team, Lee said. J over the rucks in the first half, La Habra, California, used Head coach Michael which allowed DSU to run DSUs momentum to win a said DSUs forwards the ball and the score with five ruck shortly after the kickoff did a lot better job staying in j more tries. SUUs defense t i and scored c, another iv for their try lanes to score rather than ruse started playing a little more DSU five minutes later, which - He said the running sideways. Sophomore nghtside hitter Brette Anderson, a biology aggressively before the half was her third try of the major from backline still game. needs to work Prescott, Arizona, attempts to lob the ball over the net ended, which created an opduring the Both teams played tough but on the ball Storm s 3 loss against Fresno Pacific out faster, getting University The Storm will portunity for SUU at its goal had a hard time taking care of but he was happy the women play the University of Alaska Anchorage in the first round of the line, but they lost the ball to NCAA West the ball. They exchanged the Regions Dec 4 proved what they could do. 2, 2015 TITLE me 25-1- 25-2- 6, 3, 25-1- 25-1- 25-1- 0, 9. i 1 out-block- ed r$t5cea x Bird-Murphe- y, V r A r Nov 21 The team has been 19-1- 0. 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