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When Dawood's teammates would horseplay during practices he would get upset, and he expected them to take every practice seriously. They called him a "try-haror said he "didn't know how to have fun?' but due to the struggles he faced growing up, he was hungry for success, he said. "I think it can be hard to fit in when you're different for sure," said outfielder Janessa Bassett, a senior biology major from Stansbury Park. "However, the beautiful thing about sports is it's something that no matter how diverse you are, it brings d" people together." Running back Lika Palmer, a freshman general studies major born in American Samoa and raised in Winchester,California, said diversity betters sports in general. "Look at history, since they let minorities enter the realm of sports they've improved," Palmer said. "Other sports like football, and tracak and field minorities have dominated and made them predominantly their race. Diversity just brings better athletes." Palmer said he expects more diversity to translate to more wins, and he doesn't notice prejudice in the sports he plays. "Nowadays the majority of teams are minorities," Palmer said. "That's only in the entertaining sports though, like football and basketball, you don't see diverse people playing hockey." Bassett said everyone comes from different upbringings and backgrounds, so to say we're all the same would be wrong. "I would say that all athletes are diverse?' Bassett said. "We're brought together by our love for the game." Baseball wins its season opener during tournament BY KYLE LINDSLEY tmdei on three errors by MSU Billings and three wild pitches, two of which advancing the winning run in the P KyleDSN to La6, it bri4 ial lack of the ace. "art m. ' bloswhich journ0 Women's io stirdp - Championships dc" Bird in With swimming at the 2018 PCSC Conference discover: La Mirada California Feb. 14 all oyfriend day Dixie State University baseball ended it's marathon season opener Thursday on a walk-of- f base hit. The Trailblazers began their season at Bruce Hurst field in a match up with Montana State Billings University. Three hours and 46 minutes later, the Trailblazer's shortstop Kyle A Hoffman, a redshirt senior history major from Taylors- C ville, ended the game with a single through the left side of the infield scoring C Z outfielder Jagun Leavitt, a Z freshman general studies major from St. George. "At first, I was trying to Hoffman get the bunt down," said. "When Leavitt got to of third, I was just thinking the middle hitting through it of the ball and hopefully will fall through." DSU had to dig out of a hole they dug themselves when early in the game seven MSU Billings scored runs in the first two innings. is "Montana State Billings Assistant an offensive team," said. Coach Patrick Perry "You watch the way they and take batting practice, the bats; the way they swing some to do they are going Softball Istic johl ama for Nazarene University Feb. 16 at 10 a.m. and tho 2003.1: n at Southern Softball at University of Mary Marauders Feb. 16 at 12:30 p.m. ink will it view Baseball at Colorado Mesa University at 2:30 p.m. ceived Feb. 16 :dna-disecwi a Women's tennis at Lay is cf; Concordia University and I th: :tress oil bec Irvine Feb. 16 at 3 p.m. second istorY Baseball at Colorado Mesa University st aCC0111' y Feb. 17 at noon igelow ,e' to Softball at Lubbock Christian University Feb. 17 at 12:30 p.m. bottom of the ninth. The Trailblazers went on to lose to MSU Billings 1 15-- 7 on Friday. DSU got off to another slow start in the game as MSU Billings jumped out to an 0 lead in the first three innings. DSU was able to battle back to bring the score to 7 but gave up seven runs in the final two innings, handing the Trailblazers their first loss of the season. In the second game on Friday, the Trailblazers beat California State University, San Bernardino 8 in 11 innings on anhit to push other walk-of- f them to 1 on the year. To finish off the opening weekend of the season, DSU played MSU Billings 8-- A - i 4' -- ,. A i . 8-- 1 r.: . 4 ' , i' 33 ''' i , e I V ..:', - C3 k - I , Ci) I even friends t OF CLUTURE Among DSU's 392 student athletes, 234 males and 158 females, 43 are Hispanic, 39 are black, 27 are two or more races, 20 are Pacific Islander, six are Asian, three are unknown and 253 are white, Brown said. "Having diverse people in sports can help a team in many ways," said men's soccer forward Ather Dawood, a senior psychology major from Tucson, Arizona. "You learn to appreciate others' cultures, beliefs and life values. You can also learn the struggles an individual had to face throughout life, and that individual can become a role model or a symbol of leadership to teammates." Dawood was born in Baghdad, Iraq. He said diverse athletes face challenges other athletes don't. "Because of cultural differences, a diverse athlete might be misunderstood by his or her teammates," Dawood said, "In my case for example, I was very poor growing up, and when I had the chance to come to America and play for a , Litional ) i not necessarily reflect the diversity on campus. Trailblazer athletes, in fall 2017, were 12 percent more diverse than the student body as a whole. Andrea Brown, director of institutional research, said 64.5 percent of fall athletes were white, and DSU's fall student population consisted of 76.5 percent white students. 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I; II I DIXIESUNNEWS.COM ,,,,,,3 '',, ,, , I 7,,ut.; v 1 ''' 2018 FEBRUARY 14, , - Cr, , 9-- Senior frst baseman Logan Porter a criminal jsutice major from Surpirse, Arizona, gets ready to swing against Motana State Billings University. The Trailblazers lost two of the three games against , MSBU. damage this year." Pitcher Chandler Greenfield, a junior exercise science major from Twin Falls, Idaho, came on in relief in the top of the third inning, proceeding to stall the Montana State Billings offense. Greenfield threw three innings with five strikeouts, allowing only two hits and one run from a solo homerun in the top of the fifth inning. "I was really hitting my spots on the outside corner," Greenfield said. "That was a big part of our scouting report on MSU Billings, and I was able to pound that spot." DSU went into the top of the ninth inning up 9 but couldn't hold the lead, allowing the bases to become loaded after two walks and a hit by pitch. MSU Billings capitalized on the situation, scoring two runs to tie the game at 11 on only one hit in the inning. The Trailblazers were able to escape further damage in the inning, giving 11-- their offense a chance to win the game in the bottomof the ninth, leading to Hoffman's walk-of- f single. "For a team that has 21 new faces to coalesce and get after it was awesome," Perry said. "I hope that is a sign of good fights for the rest of the 49 games that we have this year." The near four-hogame featured 23 combined runs, 24 combined hits and a combined eight hit by pitches. DSU was able to capitalize ur 2-- on Saturday losing 1 after being down 0 in the fifth inning. DSU went on to beat CSU San Bernardino 2 on Saturday on a walk-of-f two run home run and by a score of 12-- 2 on Sunday. The Trailblazers exit the weekend with a 2 record and will face Colorado 8 Mesa University Feb. in their last games before Pacific West Conference 14-1- 7-- 4-- 4-- 16-1- play begins. |