Show Men's team still fighting it out by Jake Shewmake men's sports co-edit- or The men's basketball team suffered a couple of tough losses but arc playing well and still fighting for a tournament spot CEU 82- - Ricks College 73 The Eagles led all the way in their 82-7-3 win over Ricks on January 20 Although the game was close at times the Eagles controlled the game It was their fourth win in a row Nelson "Stretch" Stewart had 24 points and Leon Covington 19 The Eagles next game was a heartbreaker They lost in overtime 99-9- 6 January 21 The game was a battle all the way to the wire With very little time left in regulation Darren Stuart hit a couple of big three pointers then Stephen Jennings tied the game 89-8- 9 to send it into overtime The large crowd which was cheering wildly helped make the game even more intense In overtime the Eagles suffered a couple tough breaks and just couldn't overcome them "Stretch" had another great game saving 23 points and Darren Stuart hit five three pointers as he scored 17 CEU 77- - Snow 78 The men's team suffered another heartbreaking loss Saturday Stephen Jennings January 27 to Snow College in Ephraim 78-7- 7 was under-cu- t on the last shot of the game but no foul was called "The game was nip and tuck all the way Both teams knew they needed to win the game " coach Ronnie Stubbs commented He went on to say "We should have been up by ten so dial the referee's couldn't decide the game" He also stated that "next year they're going to have to answer for this year” Covington and Stewart were the Eagles leading scorer's scoring 23 and 16 points respectively Even though they weren't playing baseball the Eagles fell "homcicd" in their next game against Dixie College Janwere they 28 Although the final save was 101-8- 3 the game was much uary closer than that They were only trailing by three points at halftime After the half things got ugly "At one point we had seven straight calls against us” coach Stubbs said When things became even worse coach Stubbs left the bench to talk with the official and was ejected from the game That didn't bother him What made him upset was they wanted him to leave the whole building not just the gym Alter Dixie converted on three technicals the game was out of reach Leonard "Smoke" Langdon scored 17 points and Covington 18 as he remains the region's third leading scorer "Stretch" had 14 rebounds to maintain his spot as the leagues top rcboundcr This week's games will both be at home as the Eagles take on Treasure Valley Community College Friday February 3 and nationally ranked College of Southern Idaho Saturday February 4 This weekend is McDonalds Weekend and Ronald will be here Come on out and watch the Eagle's who are always tough at home battle it out Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 pm Nelson MStrstchM Stswart (44) looks on as Lson Covington (34) gots to the hoop Ths Eaglss throttled Ricks Junior College 8273 for their fourth victory In a row pnoto by Garth Frandeen assistant coach just can't get enough baseball CEU by Jake Shewmake men's sports co-edit- or College of Eastern Utah assistant baseball coach Darren Garrick may be coaching but that doesn't mean he's through playing Garrick 28 is on an all expense paid trip to Sydney Australia acting as a player-coac- h for a team that is affiliated with the Salt Lake Trappers He left for Australia on January 22 and will return on February 13 semi-professio- Garrick is traveling with Trapper assistant coach Barry Moss 35 and Trapper center fielder Pat Wade 22 The purpose of this trip is to do some scouting for the Trappers The Trappers owners are also thinking about purchasing the franchise In the event that they do buy the team there is a good chance Garrick would be offered a coaching position Coach Garrick who is in his second year as assistant coach at CEU played on the Academics encouraged in CEU athletic programs Kristie Eliason men's sports co-edit- or A national GPA reTrappers 1985 championship quirement of 175 sets an exteam He then became a pitching tremely low academic level for coach for them in 1988 He will America's college athletes Acreturn for his second year as cording to CEU Athletic Direcsummer this coach pitching tor Bob Taniguchi this figure This Australian League was raised from a 15 last year should be very competitive since CEU requires a 20 in order to a lot of professional ballplaycra graduate go down there to play their winAlthough this raise repter ball coach Garrick said He awareness of the an resents went on to say ” This should be a growing "dumb jock” stereotype good experience for me There is in this country it still has not a good chance to learn a lot of been broken During fall quarter further and my possibly things at CEU 18 of athlete grades career” fell below probationary level This statistic includes Eagle sports such as baseball and men's and women's basketball "CEU is small enough that our coaches can keep track of the academic status of their players" Taniguchi said "and this is fortunate because our coaches are aware of grade problems and can solve them” Baseball coach Stcave Weiscr knows from experience that laziness plays a major part in poor grades He tells his players every chance he gets that especially if on scholarship they (Continued on page 7) |