Show The Thursday April 27 1989 6 Eagle-pag- e CEU baseball Kristie Eliason men's sports splits wins with Dixie and UVCC other teams Snow College is leading co-edit- or The CEU baseball team split wins with Dixie College and Utah Valley Community College in a duo of doublchcadcrs last Friday and Saturday The players pulled victories in their final games against both teams The Eagles have won five of their last eight home games With Dixie CEU lost First match the up 2 and came back strong in the second game for a 2--1 victory UVCC won their First game 6-- but CEU again pulled a win in their second game 3 "We had our chances to win all four games” stated S leave Weiscr CElTs head baseball coach "we had strong pitching both days but it wasn't enough” Sophomores Todd Bcndixon and Dave Littlcwood along with freshman Brian Gordon all had good performances according to Weiscr The team now has their "backs against the wall" for a playoff spot but Wicscr is still hopeful They would need to win practically all six of their Final games to remain in the race and expect some key losses from the conference rankings with a winning record of 6-- 2 Their only defeats have been to UVCC who stands in second place with 3 Dixie is 3 followed by CEU at 6 Colorado Northwestern Community College has yet to win a conference game as their record is 0 The playoffs will take two teams from the northern region and two from the south to represent the conference Overall Weiscr feels the team is getting better especially on defensive plays "The team's hitting seems to have cooled off though and that has hurt us at important times" Wicscr stated At one point in the First game with UVCC CEU had the bases loaded and still was unable to score Freshman Rob Conrad has played well for the Eagles Eagle third basaman freshman Jaka Shawmaka waits to make the tag while Dixit's this season leading the team runner slides In with s cloud of dust The Eagles defeated Dixie 1 In their first game of with 17 RBI's and nine stolen their doubleheader April 20 Photo by Garth Frandsen bases His batting average is Freshman Jeff Ciseneros team in home runs with four runs scored with 16 344 A recent shoulder injury is and Wiescr feels 349 "Overall our pitching batting Sophomore JD Keller may keep him out of play and his hitting has really improved bats at 300 and close by is has been a strong point" Weiscr Weiscr feels that injuries have Freshman Jeff Wartman's batting said Bcndixon has an earned run been a major problem for the Easophomore Dan Emery at 289 average is 321 and he leads the Emery also leads the roster in average of 231 which will be an gles this season all-tiEagle record if he keeps it that low Bendixon's game record is 2--4 Sophomore pitcher Travis Lohnes is at 4 with his ERA at S39 Pitchers Uttlewood and sophomore Lonnie Anderson are lied each with two saves for the Eagles CEU will travel to Dixie this weekend where Weiscr looks for "pitchers who can keep the ball down” since their ballpark is fairly small Bcndixon Littlcwood and Anderson are expected to pitch in the Eagles' away match ups The following weekend CEU will travel to meet CNCC and will then host Snow in Helper "Our team is real young and inconsistent but we have a good chance of defeating Snow on our home Field” Weiscr said The Eagles also played well in their conference games prior to the DixicUVCC doublchcadcrs They defeated Colorado Northwestern twice 3 and 14-- 6 CEU split wins with the College of Southern Idaho losing their Fust game 7-- 3 The Sophomore Chris Heaps second Passman lor the Eagles tries to make a throw on the run to freshman Eagles proved themselves by first baseman Steve Woolley The Eagles split with Utah Valley on April 21 to stay In the race for the coming back in their second reglonals which will be held In Helper this year game pulling a close win over Photo by Paul Pulll CSI 0 7-- 5-- 4-- 0-1- 9-- 1 4-- 2-- 3-- 8-- 11-1- |