Show Page 6 May 12 1994 Eagles baseball goes down swinging to end season by Mickelle Marston sports writer The College of Eastern Utah men's baseball squad r to completed their 1994 campaign dropping a and 10-Utah Valley State College deficit in the seventh The Eagles fought back from a six UVSC’s Jessie Vance ‘They off of runs inning scoring didn't give up" said head coach Dave Paur "With nothing at stake they showed they still wanted to compete" Eagle freshman Shay Lewis went 4 at the plate finishing the year with a 444 team leading balling average Dusty Haycock was credited with the loss in a game which also saw Brett Waymcni on the mound The second game saw domination by Region 18 leader UVSC as the Eagles dropped the second contest 10-- 2 Ren Gaddis and John Mathis shared pitching duties CEU's Brian Brown and Paul Brinka picked up the only two RBI's in the final game With the book closed on yet another season players and coaches arc looking forward to next year with anticipation and a little uncerlainiiy "We are in the process of signing about four seniors'' said Paur "We have some holes to fill but we have some strong players returning as sophomores" Despite season play ending for the Eagles several teams continue in tournament play Utah Valley Ricks College in 4 Dixie College and Southern Idaho will battle May the 1CAC tournament hold in Rcxburg Idaho The winner of this toumey will playoff with the top seed of Region (centered in Arizona) to determine which team receives the playoff berth to the JUCO World Scries The JUCO Work! Series is a team tournament held each year on Memorial Weekend on the campus of Mesa Stale CSI was Region 18's representative to the 92-9- 3 JUCO World Scries double-heade- 8-- 2 6 8-- 0 3-- 12-1- double-eliminatio- n 1 CEU player Mike Butcher makes contact with a pitch at a home game The Eagles lost their last game to Utah Valley State College photo by Aaron Brockband Tennis club serves purpose for students in the by Randall Harrington sports editor courts Starting on the at St George and finishing on the rain slicked sloppy courts in Ephraim-yelloballs were battered by tlie College of Eastern Utah tennis club over into and even through various nets courts and fences Fur the fourth consecutive year a number of students formed practiced and competed against various schools sun-drie- d wind-blow- n fuy Letter to the Editor from page 2 Dear Editor: As a CEU student have a concern as to what the Job of the CEU Peace Officers is on campus Is it to harass the students or to keep the campus free from crime? The other night some friends and I were playing football on the CEU field It became dark and a few of the guys pulled their trucks onto the track to give us some light so we could continue to play After about an hour of playing this flashlight loating golf cart driving "Barney Fife" wanna he came up and asked the ever brilliant question "what's going on here?" (As if he could not see we were playing a great game of football Then in a very rude voice he said "move those trucks of the track" So we did as he sat there to supervise the excitement As we left we wondered what we were hurting by playing football The track is made of a cement base with tire rubber and saw dust as the (sm Letter on page 7) -- I in Region 18 Overseeing the dub was Curl Jenson instructor practice partner and part lime chauffeur "A lot of players really improved from where we started I think that is a really positive thing: players improving their skills and their men's singles was Emery Haycock "Emery has been a surprise He really worked hard and hustles lie's has done well even though he has not won He played some very good matches with the number-onplayers he has played against" Jenson said Haycock kist his match which was proceeded by a broken racket during warmups e 6 3-- dose-foug- ht 3-- 6 3-- 6 6-- 7 "Christian and Aaron have played well at times Christian has played a lot belter than he did when he was a freshman” Jenson added Starling in the women's number-on- e slot was Angie Ross who won ' her match In the number two slot was Tara Faye who won her match ‘Tara Faye has really come a long way in two years and has done really well" Jenson said The women's number-threplayer was Pepper Baxter who wasted to a 6-- 1 6-- 2 6-- 3 6-- 0 e knowledge of the game while playing more competitively than before" Jenson added In the final match of the year CEU traveled to Ephraim and defeated the Snow College Badgers for their first win of the season: five matches to four Playing in tlie number one skit for 3-- number two and Playing three slots respectively were Christian Ryncr and Aaron Rrockbank Both matches were hard contests with Ryncr 4 6 and Rrockbank losing krsing 6 6-- 1 6-- victory Men's doubles were played by Rrockbank and Brandon Fullmer losing CEU's fourth match Women's doubles saw Faye and Baxter win CEU's fourth match Only the mixed doubles match was left to determine the overall winner Ross and Haycock jumped to a early lead and were never challenged as they brought the victory home 2 0 3-- 6 3-- 6 6-- 1 6-- 6-- 6-- 1 The tennis club is basically "for the students to have an opportunity to play and participate It's not about whether we win or not but just participate and compete against the other schools” Jenson concluded for the CEU tennis team Ang Ross proved to bt ths loaded weapon photo by Aaron Brockbank |