| Show Eagle - Page 10 Thunday October 19 1989 £j Lady Eagles playoff hopes alive after quick start Richard Hlckmon sports editor by The College of Eastern Utah had high hopes for this year’s volleyball season with new head coach Nick Colon taking over and with out further a do CEU is off to a very good start CEU vs Snow CEU opened up home play against Snow College Sept 29 With the thought in mind of an Eagle championship the ladies wen all fired up early in this game showing the Badgers that they were to be taken seriously In game one the Eagles before Snow knew what were up hit them Here the Badgers decided to call their first lime out to try and regroup to get back into the contest After the time out CEU had no thoughts in mind of letting down with strong serving from Tina Garcia and Rachel Skinner coming off the bench pushing the lead to 10-The Eagles were also supported with strong play off the bench from Pam Dupin who came up with a couple of strong spikes Cynthia Tadd proved to be an inspirational player for the Eagles showing she could get up high and bring down some powerful spikes Snow tried some liule rallies of their own bringing the score to 10-- 3 but they were to no avail Before long the Eagles put game number one behind them with a 15-- 5 not do them selves any favors by continuing to hit the ball long CEU went out front even further leading 14-- 5 with a chance to put the game away They were to be denied that from a very questionable call from the referee when Garcia made a diving play for CEU that would have ended the game but the call went the other way CEU eventually received the ball back on a side out at 14-- 8 The Eagles served the ball to Snow and the two teams rallied back and forth before Snow spiked the ball long for a 15-- 8 Lady Eagle victory and a straight set sweep of Snow CEU vs Dixie 6-- 0 0 victory court The Rebels scored first but lead The could only manage a lead didnt last long as the Eagles burst back with six unanswered pointswith the strong play of Dupin off the bench to go ahead 1 Dixie again seemed to get the momentum on their side as they struck right back to knot the score up at six But with the great team blocking of Skaggs and Derrick the Eagles tried to pull away once more going up 6 1- -0 6-- 9-- 5-- 0 7-- 0 7-- 4-- 11-- 12-1- victory 1 The two teams entered three knotted up one game a game The Eagles were determined piece that this lime they would be at the winning end of the score and appeared to be pumped up for anything the Rebels could throw at them Pabst began the game with a very strong cross court spike that put the Eagles up top early and they never looked back Dupin followed that up with a powerful spike of her own down the line to put CEU up 0 2-- They increased their lead to 0 before Dixie could manage to get on the score board With the score at 2 coach Colon brought Dupin off the bench to play the net where she hu proven to be a strong player 4-- 4-- Women's Volleyball C—U- -- Game two started out pretty much the same with Julia Leech servlead The Eagles ing CEU to a before the advanced their lead to the Snow beboard on Badgers got comeback their clewing within gan 4 the score three making With strong spiking from Dupin combined with the blocking of Janeal Pabsl and Barbara Skaggs the Eagles gained back the momentum going out in front 13-- 5 The Badgers again had a mini spurt of their own bringing Snow to within four points CEU was not to be denied a victory though on a strong spike off a Snow overset Tadd put CEU out from Pabst but then Dixie took off The Rebels came up with four unanswered points and led 1 when CEU called a timeout to gain their composure They came back an fired up to tie the seme at four all Dixie tried one lut time to puU away and held on to a 6 lead Garcia wu brought off the bench to serve for the Eagles and brought them within two at 0 Dixie called a time out but when play resumed Tadd brought the Eagles one point closer with her serving The Rebels decided to take the game into their own hands and put game two in the books with a 15-1- CEU's next win came at the the Dixie Rebels on of expense BDAC The Lady in 30 the Sept still seemed to be excited Eagles their the about victory night before and they carried that out onto the After CEU went up by three Dixie called a time ouL When play resumed CEU's Cynthia Tadd came up with a big powerful spike to get the Eagles going again but the Rebel's had other ideas They fought back to a 8 score and one more time it wu a ball game CEU then went with their strong servers off the bench in Gar9-- cia and Skinner to push the Eagles to a 13-- 8 lead 1SSU The game again slowed down u both teams battled back and forth but when Pabst came up with another spike the Eagles lead 3 During the next four points the game stayed fairly even but the Eagle margin of victory became slimmer Kazumi Kageyama contributed to the Lady Eagles when she wu brought off the bench as a server pulling CEU's five point lead into a 8-- 14-- 5 blowout The big lead looked to be u the Rebels showed Dixie once again gave it very important weren't within to had come they going to sit back and everything they watch CEU embarrass them Dixie CEU went up 2 one at 1 scored the next four points and lookbut from there on out it wu a seeed if they might make it even front 14-- 9 saw battle Snow then called a time out The Rebels came storming closer but CEU fought to get the it did CEU but not cool off ball back to back to a 4 tie which sparked hoping On the Eagles next serve work When the game resumed play the Eagles to buckle down when the rallied but (day wu teams two Pabst came lip with a big spike for Dupin came up with another crucial when one of Dixie's players stopped spike to get CEU the ball the game winner and an Eagle 15-into the and the game wu went net went The Lady Eagles up victory 15-- 9 awarded CEU to on went teams a when 4 both In game three the Lady With a small imermiuion so pumped up that it scoring drought They had a couple were Eagles ‘before took game four started the crowd place would have taken a miracle for Snow of rallies but no sewing Dixie then came up with a big spike showed they were behind their team to come back all the way with people cheering but Dupin and Pabst came up with The ladies jumped out on CEU the block to even a screaming and just getting bigger yelling get top quick with teammates Skaggs flat ball out crazy and Trudy Derrick working together This seemed to help the CEU's next serve ended up for three big blocks Skaggs laten before in a it Lady Eagles when they retook the Dupin put long rally added a solo block of her own to Dixie win to court ready to play because they away on a overset from keep the Eagles on top 4 bunted out to a 0 lead The spirit game one Dupin continued spiking did Game carried throughout the BDAC not start out two increase CEU really the ball well helping for bench wu standing cheerCEU's the well tried Lady Eagles They their lead to 10--2 Snow again lead a on their a to teammates and the out on did spike jumped ing to rally back into the contest but 14-1- 13-1- u 14-1- 9 15-1- 6-- 16-1- u 0 ! CEU's new women's volleyball heed cosch display's the determination and concentration that will make them winners Photo by Stephanie Marvldikls Nick Colon brings his winning ways to CEU by Richard Hlckmon sports editor The College of Eastern is Utah looking forward to a great and exciting volleyball program this year and in order to fill this request they went abroad and hired Nicolas Colon from Inglewood Cal Colon came to Price with great hopes of building a strong contender for the conference championship He feels excited about the new volleyball season and thinks the ladies have a lot of poten- - l1' In 1967 he came to New York an exchange student from Puerto Rico and wu later transfered to California to finish his schooling He finished his degree at California State University In 1984 many exciting he became part things happened of Puerto Rico's Olympic track team He feels that with his involvement with the Olympic Games he hu gained some skills that he will be able to use to motivate his players and have a championship team Before coming to CEU Colon wu teaching at Inglewood High School He also coached the volleyball team taking them all the way to the city finals Besides school activities he wu involved with a track club called The Athletic Conference He is trying to help kids get the same chance that he once had and that is to participate in the Olympics u u crowd wu equally excited Pabst and Skaggs helped CEU gain their big lead with powerful spiking and plenty of hustle CEU also seems to have a lot of team togethemus something that they have been lacking in tire put Dixie eventually pulled together and managed to g t within Colon says he would like to keep his recruiting u in-sta- te u much possible year hu proved to be a very wise choice since the Lady Esgles are off to one of their best starts with their new coach at the helm TTiis One of his top priorities on his team is academics He wants all his ladies to get their education above all else He also stresses working hard and being competitive Colon is a big believer in community support and he plans to do all he can to get the community involved including clinics such recreational leagues He would also like to see CEU take pride in their sports including women's sports by getting involved with their teams and to get the teams excited It's amazing what a loud and enthusiutic crowd can do for a home team he u aAtwH He is not afraid to go after good players he uys and is not going to sit back in his first year and call it a rebuilding program He is going to insist that his team works together and works hard and believes he can bring a conference champi onship to CEU He says the team hu a lot of advantages with a great facility like the BDAC and he plans on using them three points (8-of CEU when coach Colon decided to call a time out After the time out the fugles still seemed to have trouble getting their game going again the Rebels kept scoring bringing it within one at 7 The Eagles needed to get (continued on page 11) 5) u 8-- |
