Show Page 6 December 2 1993 Eagle basketball “flies” from tourney to tourney by Randall Harrington staff writer The College of Eastern Utah’s men's basketball team could be compared to a ride at your local amusement park with all of its ups and downs twists and uims die upcoming season looks to be a long testing road to the Scenic Western Athletic Conference title The team has a respectable 500 record and is gaining valuable experience for the season upcom-in- g Following a successful defense of their home floor at the Kiwanis Castle Country Tournament at the beginning of November CEU headed to Ephraim for the Snow College Tournament from Nov 1 1 The tournament provided the SWAC teams with a glimpse of each other before the season starts The first opponent for the Eagles was the UVSC Wolverines CEU was able to play with UVSC but they were unable to overcome an early 19 point deficit and eventually lose 92-7- 9 Next up for the Eagles was the host team the Snow Badgers The Eagles were able to stay within striking distance but were unable 10 make that final push and ended up losing 84-7- 5 The final opponent was the Ricks College Vikings both teams were playing their third game in three days In the closest game of the Snow Tournament the Eagles made a lute run but were denied by good Viking foul shooting and lost 72-6- 4 pre-seas- on Opening the tournament Fridiy night against WWCC the Eagles started off with enthusiasm and aggressiveness which built to an impressive 93-7- 6 victory and keep their home record unblemished The first half provided the most compelling part of the game which saw Toby Bush started off the scoring with a J®® jur'Wcsttm fWyoming sorl P""® giurd Scan Long Eiglc guard Alton Bcndinger followed with a trey of his own After holding on the defensive end of the floor CEO and gave a P1 we wdl sec a lot of dm lob pass to season the allcy-oo- p Salim from Malik Roscll Ellis : “ 9-- The teams battled back and forth in the second half when the Golden Eagles slowly started to pull away At 17:29 in the second the Eagles extended a four point halftime lead to nine and was capped off by at 54-4- 5 steal and ensuing layup Salim Turnovers plagued Western Wyoming as EU went on a little 4 run It started with a Bcndinger steal then Bush own lwo P®1"15 another turnover When WWCC forward “cKccv? travelled Cory Jones nailed a 38 cxtcm on man-to-m- league (conference schedule) starts" said Ronnie Stubbs head men's basketball coach Tm very disappointed that we lost these games for the simple reason that I'm a competitor and like to win But you can always find something positive out of a loss and try to work on it and improve on what you didn't do well” On the weekend of Nov 19 the Eagles relumed to the familiar surroundings ofhome to host the Coca-Co- la Hoops Tournament with games against Western Wyoming Community College and Northland Pioneer College Emmltt the Eagle swoops down on ths Coca-Col- a hoops tourney £2 (photo by Aaron Brockbank) 9-- Saturday Nov 20 Northland Pioneer College stepped onto the BuraiellDmitrich Athletic Center floor and would end up CEU their first home “All of these games handing loss of die year are for learning and ttying to see Starting off in a what you need to work on to be court Prcss tottered the successful in two weeks when the pre-seas- !cssflBSr an NortWand on a 10-- 2 run and closed dw Ieadtotwo onaBltslap-i- n dm nmrk seven-minu- te Ateanme out NTC would full go back to then court pressond score eight man-to-m- an unamwercdpotntsandgoonto win 82-7- 0 Gregg's Court BYU is headed to the Holiday Bowl and the WAC is headed for a major humiliation By sending BYU to the Holiday Bowl the WAC is telling the rest of the college football world that the Cougars are the best they have to offer and frankly that isn’t the truth Fresno State and tie with BYU Wyoming finished in a three-wa- y for the WAC title Fresno State who beat BYU at Cougar Stadium this year would be a far better representative for the WAC in the Holiday Bowl but because of WAC policies BYU gets the nod The Cougars will face either 10 Ohio State on Dec 30 in San or 7 Wisconsin Diego Calif Wisconsin plays Michigan State Saturday in Tokyo If Wisconsin losses to Michigan State they will play BYU in the Holiday Bowl and Ohio State will advance to the Rose However Bowl as the champions of the BIG-1- 0 if Wisconsin can beat Michigan State they will clinch a Rose Bowl berth and will face 13 UCLA (the PAC-1- 0 champions) Ohio State would then be given a holiday urn I mean a chance to extend their Christmas holiday by playing no an opportunity to play BYU in the “Holiday" Bowl in San Diego BIG-1- 0 to win ng (9-1-- 1) (8-1-- 1) by 32! The University of Utah is going to a bowl game for the second year in a row and will be facing The University of Southern California in the Freedom Bowl held in Anaheim Calif USC missed out on a trip to the Rose Bowl by losing to UCLA in a game played two weeks ago Everyone is excited that Utah is getting a chance to play in the Freedom Bowl everyone that is except USC Both USC and Ohio State have staled that they would prefer not to play teams from the n WAC Both teams are looking for foes Neither games against nationally-ranke- d BYU or Utah are in the Top 25 USC athletic director Mike Garret had these comments upon finding out that Utah was headed to the Freedom Bowl to face his team "playing a WAC team is a no-wproposition for usln the next few days we'll be finding a way to play in the Alamo Bowl" Sorry USC but no such luck you’ll be facing Utah on Dec 31 USC by 21 The Utah State Aggies also got in on the bowl game scene and actually have a chance of winning theirs They will take-o- n Ball State at the Silver Bowl in Las Vegas Nev on Dec 17 1 think Utah State should be able to pull this one out look for them to win by a touchdown The two other WAC are also bowl bound Fresno State will face Oklahoma or Colorado in the Aloha Bowl on Christmas Day and Wyoming has been invited to play Kansas Stale in the Copper Bowl at Tucson Arizona on Dec 29 post-seaso- in |