| Show Febaiary 10 1994 Page 7 winningest CEU women's team is right here right now All-ti- me by Chris Myers stalT writer The College of Eastern Utah women's basketball team is on a roll winning four of their last five gamesThey are currently 15-- 9 overall 4 in the region Six more teams remain on the hit Lady Eagles regular-seaso- n list This would give them an opportunity for their first 20-wseason The 93-9- 4 squad has more wins now than any CEU women's team in the past If you talk to head coach Dave Paur and assistant coach Ted Bianco g about their season do not expect looks of astonishment Since the beginning the coaches have been enthusiastic about their teiun's chances More reason for optimism is that all but three players will be back for next year CEU's mettle will be proven with two crucial games on the road this weekend Friday the Lady Eagles face Utah Valley and Saturday Salt Lake Community College Currently these two teams have handed the women their only home losses of the season U VSC (13-0- ) sits atop the Scenic Western Athletic Conference in second with SLCC (1 CEU occupies the third place spot lead CEU had a against SLCC Jan 14 before 8-- in record-breakin- 1-- 2) 20-poi- nt V Lady Bruin guard Kamie Siddoway became the question the Lady Eagles could not answer leading SLCC to a 78-7- 6 win However the game could have easily been a CEU blowout had the Lady Eagles not suffered the fatal letdown Speaking of the lifeless 88-5- 5 loss to the UVSC Lady Wolverines Jan 15 Bianco said "we just didn't show up” This week in preparation for the seventh ranked team in the nation Paur installed a modified defense and a different zone match-u- p The last two weeks of CEU women's basketball were flawless On Jan 28 in Rangely Colo the Lady Eagles posted a advantage and breezed past lowly Colorado Northwestern 5 Sophomore Tasha Bradley set a school-recor- d for rebounds 20 racking up (12 offensive) and scored 18 points Jodi Hatch put in 16 points and Angela Ross added 15 Alisa Chamberlain snagged 10 rebounds CEU continued their winning streak on the Feb 4-- 5 weekend North Idaho kept it relatively close until the half trailing by six EU's Kris King was a shot of energy off the bench in the second half as she fired a pass of the variety to Chamber- 30-rebou- nd 81-6- thread-the-need- y t f' V ’ - If CEU were to win both games this weekend they would need help from other region teams to knock off UVSC and SLCC First place in the region may be out of reach for the Lady Eagles however a win this weekend would be a tremendous lift going to the playoffs Holyfield WM i le lain for a layup Moments later King picked the pocket of the opposing team's point and ran guard near mid-cou- rt in for another easy score to help spur CEU's lead to 20 points Reserves Rebecca Hcusscr and Hatch played solid combining for 14 points 1 1 rebounds seven assists and four steals The Lady Cardinals' improved deep in the half reducing the score to 70-6- 2 but it was too little too late "Our bench did great” Bianco commented after the game The next night Ricks didn’t put up much of a fight and the CEU score showed 90-7- 5 I clobbered Ricks in the first half and the Lady Vikings couldn't challenge the rest of the way Ross hit three treys on her way to 19 points and Natalie Hawks chipped in 15 points Bradley fighting illness came off the pine to contribute 10 points (5-- 6 shooiing) and five rebounds - - ' the game get out of hand from the start If they would have called a couple of fouls a couple of technicals maybe it wouldn't have gotten that far" Stubbs said Only one technical was called during the game and that was not related to any player-to-playincidents but player-lo-referincident a Turning to the game yes there were 40 minutes of action prior to the “main event” Early freshman in the game Bush scored Toby and ended up with points Eagle a game high 21 keeping the game close in the first half In the second half EU trailed the Viking's by six points until Jason Young picked up a technical with 12:06 left Ricks picked up five points on the possession due to the technical and were in good shape for the remainder of the game After Rogers' dunk kept the Ricks' lead safe at 10 points Ellis answered with points Scoring on a floater in the lane Ellis sprang g for another of his dunk He faked left went right split two defenders leaned left for an er ee 13-strai- four-straig- ht crowd-electrifyin- Tleon Carter look to ewaowe rebound over teammale Toby Lonnie Behunln) Buah wid the Neka College player photo Lady Eegt forward Tasha Bradtoy confronts the double team of (Photo by Aaron Brockbankt the Ricks College defender earth-elevati- ng horizontal- hooking slam Six points is as dose the Eagles came as they ended up losing by 15 Prior to the “Ricks Rumble" the North Idaho Cardinals came to Price Feb 4 with the best record in the conference at 1 The Eagles played one of their better games of the season but fell short losing 8-- 68-6- 4 “We never make excuses they were just better We were close but close isn't good enough We have to try to leant how to win We were in the ballpark but we don't want to be in the ballpark We want to win some games” Stubbs said The Cardinals trailed for 35 minutes of the game as CEU's zone pressure befuddled their offense “We were not ready to play and that's my fault as much as anybody's fault" North Idaho head coach Rollic Williams said "They (CEU) did a nice job that's the most that we have turned the ball over Ronnie did a nice job he zone pressed us and it was good coaching on his part I thought that we were fortunate to win full-cou- rt The Eagles led by as many as points in the first half due to the consistent play of Ellis point guard Malik Salim and center Leon Carter North Idaho was led by Damien Edward's game-hig- h 24 points 10 of which came in the final nine minutes 10 Ellis will be suspended for the next two games for his conduct against Kicks CEU plays at Utah Valley Stale College on Friday and at Salt Lake Community College on Saturday Carter had a big weekend for CEU as he was productive on both offense and defense Against North Idaho he had 1 6 points 8 rebounds and 1 block In the “Ricks Rumble” Carter had 6 points 12 rebounds and 7 blocks He intimidated and changed numerous other shots Carter also made his first career trey against North Idaho Looking to the brighter side of things the Eagles did get another win on Jan 28 against Colorado Northwestern 90-6"The second half we came out and got after it we played a lot better” Stubbs said 2 |
