Show Thursday Miy 28 1987 EagjDes Dose Dm cDose games aft foutisttiiDD pDaifoffffs tta&e 2nd Din DGAO The Eagles second game by Frank Walter was a heartbreaker with CEU Sports Editor short and Dixie coming up taking The College of Eastern ggg°L? 68 Utah metis baseball team after Utah with Valley spliting and placing Community College second in conference behind a tough team from Dixie entered the regional playoffs and were put up against a tough team from the College of Southern Idaho The game looked to be a slugfest with both teams coming in with a combined total The of over 100 home runs was the with game opposite just the pitchers taking control early Only two home runs were hit as CSI jumped out to an early lead of 42 in the fourth The pitchers took control of the game after that and CSI won the game by the same score tfWfclrcongralulBtfciBonorihlrplyitarNttW rMnajeomllbJajvwL the game 14-1- to 3 end then-seaso- n CELTs oflcnce was very strong this year with many school records being broken The team set a new home run record with 66 and Hangsen tied the record by blasting 15 dingers out of the park Orwin set a new win-lorecord in the piching with 2 a record and a category ERA 324 The team also set a school record by batting 347 as a team ss 9-- Assistant coach Steve said "We never Weiscr (Bud) readied our peak or the pinical we should have" Coaching expected to improve athletic program by Willie Gilbert of the Eagle Staff Coaching changes affected the College of Eastern Utah's Since Robert sporting year has been Taniguchi appointed as the athletic director at the college every coaching position "I now have the has changed coaches I feel will turn CEUs sports programs around and in the long run keep them winning” said "We have Taniguchi administrative and backing campus attitude to move forward in athletics CEU will no longer be a door mat 1 expect a good winning program in a maximum of five years” Coaching changes include: Bill Flodin being replaced as head football Littlefield coach Lanny by Jean Brooks replaced by Lisa StoDt as lathed volleyball 1 and basketball coach Ronnie Stubbs replacing Curt Jensen as men's head basketball coach and Don Bennett being hired as the coach of women's onc-vc- ar only sport unaffected by coaching changes so far but rumors have it that coach Frank Juliano plans to move on Even with so many coaching changes the Eagles have faired very well in their competitive The sporting fields this year fall with the in year began The football's best season ever record a guilders compiled with the one tie coming against their at Ricks Cbllege homecoming in Rcxburg Edgar Cash caught a 40 yard desperation pass as time ran out 4-6- -1 on the clock to give the Eagles a An extra point was 9 tie at missed which would have given the Eagles a win over the 19-1- Vikings ranked 2nd nationally at the time The CEU tie ended the Vikings hopes for a national the only championship being blemish on a 1 record For the first time since football has been reinstated the Eagles won their homecoming game beating Glendale College on a very cold November Saturday While the football team was compiling its best record the team was showing volleyball steady improvment as each game The ladies were very progressed competitive at the end of the season” said Taniguchi Volleyball's final record was Leann Adams a 6T" player earned honors with Beth Hussey on the conference's second team As the winter snow arrived so did the men's and women's basketball teams The mens team compiled a season record of 6 just missing the regional William Allen CEUs playoffs scorer earned first team leading and second team allhonors Allen region a freshman also broke the CEU single season scoring record with a single season high of 661 points breaking the old record of 641 points Ingo Wolfe CEUs center also earned conference honors as honorable mention 10-0-- 3-- 15 15-1- a 5-- 19 Cari Maxwell record earned honors with Beth on the Hussey again conference second team A high for the point lady hoopers came when they beat College of Southern Idaho to knock them out of the conference title race The ladies kept a good attitude and showed improvement during the season but were only lacking in be more to enough height College The ladies beat the first place Badgers twice this year With a good defense the lady overall sluggers compiled a 9 record to take fourth place in the conference Overall the CEU athletic 9-1- program saw some very bright "With the spots this year and a very coaching changes good recruiting year we will see a rise in all of our athletic programs in the years to come” Tanieuchi added competitive The defending champion Eagle baseball team came in second 7 record The place with a Eagles had a very good year with a big win coming against Utah Tech to secure a spot in the conference playoffs Out of 11 team players on the the Eagles placed 5 Earning allconference honors were: Jim Orwin a pitcher Chad Bianco at second base Brian Hangsen at third base Steve Hardy fat center field and Darrin Wells an outfielder One of the best offensive 23-1- dubs ever at CEU three players were also on the team: Orwin Hardy and Hangsen The team set at least fifteen offensive records The team batted a record high of 349 and set a record in homeruns with 66 ” A great year came to a dissapointing end for We never reached our peak us We had a national caliber team at Just before Christmas Curt CEU this year but just never Jensen retired as head coach of reached that pinnacle we were metis basketball Assistant coach capable of attaining” head coach Ronnie Stubbs took over and Frank Juliano said The girls softball team had a under his direction the team went 12-- 5 which earned Stubbs honors tough year due to a lack of depth the at pitching as the Region Coach of the Year especially Hamblin Heather with position to the biggest help "Support wu the CEU basketball program this carrying the dimes all season " long Despite depth the lady yev commented Stubbs came up with some Eagles The women's basketball wins against Snow placed fifth in the conference with impressive all-regi- on Juliano moves up to CSI Coach frank Juliano after conference record mating a 10-6 has accepted a assistant coaching position at College of Southern Idaho Juliano has been the head and earning a second place finish in the IGAC baseball conference baseball coach at CEU for the last His overall record is five years said he He 7 wu with the overall disappointed record but his overall conference record wu very good and he wu pleased with it Juliano said that 83-9- this year's baseball team wu the but that CEU hu ever had The team fell short and didn't play to the potential of what they were able to accomplish” Juliano hu been running a CEU summer baseball camp for die last four yean to try to get in involved die community "I have done baseball again what I wanted I wanted to bring baseball back to Carbon County on a competitive level and I dunk I have Next year at he will assist Jim Walker at CSI |