Show Pape 6 March 9 1995 Sports Men's basketball ties for second in regular season loses opening game at region tournament men's basketball season ended abruptly in Idaho total) and added pinpoint passing to assist his teammates in Regular Season the Golden Eagles by 27 points in the second half at the opening game of the Region XVIII roundball tournament CEU 96 - TVCC 66 In a Seeded third in the tournament the CLU Golden liagles lost in a frail the final Earlier in the first of two regular season contests game widely publicized as a contest for the conference Salt Lake Community College in d close contest to scored 28 and Ellis 21 to lead the Eagles to a championship fans were disappointed only in the closing victory minutes when two technical fouls were coupled with a regular this showdown at Twin Falls Having over Treasure Valley Community College foul to give CSI six straight losses from the free throw line (they Coach Stubbs was able to get his team focused on this game previously tied with Ricks for second place during the regular made five of the six) and then CSI was awarded the ball to score season (both teams at 13-- 5 in Scenic West Athletic Conference and not let them look ahead to the Saturday clash with confertwo more points This put the game out of reach for the liomc ence leader CSI “They are a good team” said Stubbs of TVCC play) the team from Price had hoped for an opportunity to play team College of Southern Idaho for the Region championship and “They have good guards and they work hard But they came (to Pratt played his usual outstanding game and contributed 22 first move on to Hutchinson Kan and the national tournament half Price) with only eight players” Highlights of the Hut the anticipated match-u- p was not to be Interestingly the included a massive block by Ellis and a hammer dunk - also by points before being ejected for a “taunting" technical foul late in second- - (Ricks) third- - (CEU) and fourth- - (Dixie) seeded teams the game Ellis scored 15 and Rickcnhackcr tallied 13 including Ellis 5 for 5 from the free throw line all lost their opening game and the number one seed CSI e 9 At CEU led and the game was never in doubt the second in Said Coach Stubbs of this game “down the stretch we made walted through the remaining competition to claim the region rallied within TVCC to although eight points early 102-76 title winning the final game some mistakes We got away from our game plan And we did rival North half Midway through the second half Stubbs used his bench against Idaho College seeded seventh in the tournament not rebound" CEU led CSI in rebounding the first half 26-2-1 liberally Said the coach “It's always nice to play the whole 1995 Region XVIII Championship but only pulled down 12 boards during the entire second half team" CEU 88 SLCC 92 Ellis and Rickcnbacker shared rebounding honors for the Eagles CEU 74 CSI 94 e CEU the at in final with 8 each two the CEU's rallied The of occurred season real Trailing by only during early game story second half of this opening round tournament game to build a 10 first ten minutes of the second half when Ed Gray of CSI almost With the season ended it is anticipated that sophomore Pratt e will play a Iowa State next season Ellis is looking at Weber deficit of 7 point advantage The rally was led by Kenny Pratt first team brought his team from a 5 who scored 34 points in the game and led all scorers at will State and George Mason the University play plans for other players are points to a point advantage Gray Salt Lake Community College's depth however proved to he not known at this time of California next season He scored 22 second half points (32 loo much for the Golden Eagles who had beaten this same team -V in overtime twice during the regular season “It's hard to heal a team three times" said coach Stubbs after the game "Both ' ky teams match up together pretty good" vvj i'L t v 2-4start The key to the contest in the final ten minutes were free v ft' r ' throws SLCC enjoyed a high number of attempts at the charity v1 ? a9-Griffin v loss with Utah with 4 1 and win: Brooke a split ValleyState College by stripe because of CEU foul totals and they hit a high percentage 12-Staff writer and lost to Snow 2 This appears to be the best defensive team Marccll Johnson of SLCC also first team for hit ire with basebidl The back CEU of team boys free throws in the second half ( 13 for 13 overall) and led his spring postings we’ve ever had says had coach Dave Paur Starting with Troy CEUwent weekends record Farnsworth on shortstop Justin Oliver on third Ryan 1 iales on first 6 south both Traveling team with 31 points Turnovers also hurt CEU in the second half preseason 3and Brody Bovero and Tyson Brackett on second Sam Vest one of to Mesquite for a tournament on Feb and to Dixie March 5 although CEU eclipsed SLCC with steals ( to 4) with Pratt : 4 I" the Eagle pitchers haj ’pitched 14'shutoutinnings in his firritwii ' j-ileading all players with four tflumamaitinciuP The team wait 4 throughout the Mesquite outings which is aschool record No runs have beenscoredon Vest Freshman David Rickcnhackcr scored a career high of 17 in two games Paur sald the hitting wasn’t good in the first two CEU Idaho First win 0 a over the Southern of ing College year points in the losing cause Roscll Ellis finished with 16 and is this be coach Eric Madsen considered team to the toughest at the games but the team hit better iu the tournament went on Some of alone in fourth place on CEU's list of scoring leaders the top batting averages are Ryan Hales 389 Jeff Ferdinand and toumamcnL Ellis also pulled down 3 rebounds and ended the season as the ' : In 2 CEU and two to other 7 dropped games games pixie 64 SWAC's top rehounder with more than 12 rebounds per game (gee Baseball page 7 ) The 1994-9- out-scori- 5 sixth-seede- d single-eliminatio- one-side- n half-tim- 52-2- up-sta- te -- half-tim- half-tim- single-handed- ly Post-CE- U Baseball returns to s’ ’ ‘ all-SW- 1 Eagles bftto j r' 1 1 - - ' 9-- -- 1 4-- 1 73-7- 1 ‘ 1' 2-- 2-- ! - - all-ti- 1 4-- ‘ ’ CEU's Number 4 Rosell Ellis closes his scoring career as an Eagle |