Show by Richard Nielsen sports editor The Golden Eagles took a big step in their quest to host the Region tournament at the end of the regular season last weekend by defeating two southern opponents Utah Valley Community College and Salt Lake Community College In defeating UVCC the Eagles also knocked off their second opponent of the season that was ranked in the top 20 national rankings with their first coming against Northland Pioneer in November The number 10 rated Wolverines from UVCC came to Price riding high after a December 14 victory over top ranked College of Southern Idaho Coach Duke Reid brought in a 16-- 1 record while the 13-- 2 Eagles were led by coach Ronnie Stubbs The Wolverines jumped out to an early 0 lead but that was the only lead they would see as CEU dominated from that point on Johnny Selvie scored four points on a lay-u- p and dunk to put CEU up 3 Both teams scored a pair of buckets before to make an 7 lead Kris Hill put in a for the Eagles CEU scored the next 12 points to up the lead to 20-- 7 UVCC put a string of eight points together At to pull back to within seven points at 24-1- 7 Hill who was back in after receiving a cut 1 over his left eye grabbed an offensive rebound and put it back in for the bucket as he was fouled for the three-poiplay The next trip down the floor resulted in another thrcepoint play for Hill The half ended on a bucket by Junsie Coticn to put the Eagles up 39-2-3 The game was never in question in the second half as the Wolverines could not come within 16 points of the Eagles Cdticn continued to light it up from the outside as he hit for 13 of his 28 points during the second halt Jason Martin went coast to coast for the layup with seven and followed a Cottcn 83-6more points as the Eagles built a 1 lead Rod Bclnap drove through the lane for a layup and was fouled to give CEU the biggest lead of the Craig Wilcox a 6 5" forward for game at 92-6-3 UVCC was driving the baseline against Kurt 3-- 4-- 8-- four-foot- er t- - t V 31-2- nt ’ KSCu ' I rTtow A ' i ' I - i ' f Amos Richardson goss high for two in ths second half against UVCC as CEU won 97-7- 6 (photo by Garth Frandaon) Lady Eagles fall to with losses 6-- 10 by Richard Nielsen sports editor the night as UVCC scored 1 1 straight points before Angela Chadwick knocked down a and reduced the lead lo cm The Lady Wolverines from Utah Valley Community Cbllcge came into Saturday night's game against the Lady Eagles with a perfect 15-- 0 record for the season including Five conference victories They left with a perfect 16-- 0 record after surviving a battle that will not show up in the final score of 80-5- 0 The Lady Eagles opened the game on two jump shots from Wendy Rhodes lo lake an early 2 lead Staci Myers then connected on a pair of buckets as the two teams traded scores for a 10-CEU lead It would be the last lead the Lady Eagles would enjoy 4-- 8 9 Stingy defense helped CEU scrap their way back to a 32-3-2 tie as Myers banked in a six footer to end the half It was perhaps the greatest half of basketball the Lady Eagles have played this season Unfortunately the Lady Wolverines came bock psyched up in the second half Kim Liddell evened the score at 36-3- 6 before UVCC went on a roll and out scored CEU 42--9 to put the game out of reach Down 45-7- 8 Myers powered through the lane to score on the layup as she ffii was fouled The final CEU basket came on a long from Jennifer Leach UVCC ended the scoring with a bucket to bring the final margin lo 30 points The loss dropped the Lady in the region as Eagles to UVCC looks to improve on their top 10 national ranking Against Salt Lake Community College on Friday the Lady Eagles could not capitalize on poor shooting by the Lady Brains as CEU straggled from the foul line to give SLCC the 68-6- 3 win The Lady Eagles made 14 out of 30 shots from the foul line compared to 30 out of 38 for SLCC The Lady Brains were hfcld to just 32 percent shooting fjrom the three-point- three-point- er 13-1- three-point- er 1- -4 er Schneider with less than four minutes to play Wilcox put up the shot which was rejected forcefully by Schneider into "The Bullpen" Wilcox responded by throwing an elbow to Schneider which resulted in a brief scuffle between players After the referees had a discussion they awarded UVCC with four free throws for CEU players leaving the bench area during the altercation No foul was called on Wilcox although coach Reid did pull him out of the game to avoid further retaliation The Final score gave CEU a 21 point victory 97-7- 6 Cottcn led with 28 points Hill knocked in 19 points and added 12 rebounds and Selvie hit for 17 points In Friday night's game against Salt Lake Community College the Golden Eagles led from start to finish on their way to a 72-3- 3 victory over the Brains Matt Smith helped the Eagles to an followed by a fade early lead with a away jumper as he sliced through the lane from right to left to boost the score to 24-1- 3 At the halftime break CEU held a 30-2- 3 lead The Brains stayed competitive early in the second session but could not pull closer than Five points The Bruins tried a halfcourt trapping defense until Cotten popped in a Belnap added another three on the next trip down the court to make the score 60-4-3 With the score 63-4- 7 Selvie took a pass from Martin and threw down the jam as he was fouled for a three-poiplay Martin then went on a dribbling exhibition as he weaved his way around four SLCC defenders before dishing the ball to Selvie for another thunder dunk The Brains hit on a last second shot to bring the Final score under the 20 point mark at 72-5- 3 Scoring honors went to Cottcn with 21 Hill with 15 as Selvie added 11 Three Eagles pulled down 9 rebounds each in the game They were Jermaine Avie Hill and Selvie The two victories put die Eagles into First place in the southern conference at 0 and 2 in the region The next conference games for CEU will be Friday at Dixie College and Saturday versus Snow Cbllcge in Ephraim three-point- er three-point- er nt 3-- field as CEU applied scrappy defense That defense also caused 17 Brain turnovers and 14 steals for CEU The Lady Eagle offense lad a hard time taking care of the ball as well turning the ball over 22 times Myers played well for CEU as she scored 17 points and pulled down 8 rebounds to lead the Lady Eagles in both categories Leach was the only other CEU player in double figures as she hit for 11 points including one Next up for the Lady Eagles wiU be Dixie College and Snow College Snow Dixie and CEU were all tied with identical 2 records prior to last weekends games three-point- er 1-- 3-- Eagles battle BYU The CEU Golden Eagles traveled to BYU to play the JV team Tuesday Jan 14 With one minute left to play the Eagles led 79-7- 8 when Junsie Cottcn drove the baseline and scored the jumper as he was fouled for a three-poiplay Jermaine Avie added one free throw and Johnny Selvie hit two free throws to hold off the junior Cougars 85-8- 2 Kris Hill had an incredible game scoring 22 points and grabbing an amazing 26 rebounds including 16 offensive boards Cotten hit for 20 points Avie 12 and Jason Martin 11 The win improved the Easles season record to 15-- Z nt |