Show 'Deciubef 4 Lr Basketball has undefeated weekend College of Eastern Utah's men's and women's basketball teams both went undefeated The in weekend tournaments over the Thanksgiving holidays helping both teams go into this weekend's conference play with strong momentum The Lady Eagles improved to a S-- S overall record by downing Western Wyoming 74-5- 4 and Columbia 7 the College of Southern Idaho Invitational Friday and Saturday CEU received outstanding play from guards Catherine Hale and Jamy Angel who look to be the dominant back court in the league this season So far Hale is leading the SWAC in scoring and Angel is also in the top 10 Head Coach Dave Paur said going to the CSI tournament is always the highlight of the season because of the treatment they receive "CSI has the best booster club and best run tournament in the country Their community suppon is outstanding and it makes their college a (op Lower red-carp- 1 -- 53 at et milch force every year" there were 5(X) to 2 (XX) people attending women's basketball games the whole weekend which is something that even division-- I schools rarely achieve That is where i want CEU to someday be" said Paur Hale led CEU against a tough Lower Columbia College from Washington with 2 points and Paur said 1 1 eight rebounds while Angel added 18 points Camy Carlson pumped 1 1 points on a perfect 5 of 5 shooting Against both scored Western Wyoming Hale and Angel 17 points while Jackie Rowbury points and Diana Tohiasson threw in 10 points and eight rebounds Of the two wins Paur was most pleased with (lie win over a very gtxid Ixrocr Columbia "The gtxid new s is we're playing well right now The had news is we now have the toughest conference sdtedule in (he history of our school" Paur states It will be added 12 as isass SNOW I expectations from his players "We played about four really good halves but wc still need to put together an entire game without a letdown" said Klinglcr Getting rid of occasional letdowns will help his team win a championship according to the coach "We'll keep improving and be very competitive" he said Klinglcr received good games throughout the weekend from guard Pete Mauro and forward Michael Marion I le said he was also impressed with the Saturday game from Hayden Prescott Of all the main players for CEU only Mauro and wj tel 3SSS53T Volleyball suffers end to bitter season The end of a Jcky II and llydc season for CEU Women’s Volleyball team was marked by two tough losses to strong SWAC opponents but still showed marked improvement for a team that was overshadowed more by high expectations than winning results Winning a tournament in Southern California in September highlighted the successful first half of the season for the Lady Eagles only to see a bad slump in October sting CEU for 6 losses in a row including a devastating loss to previously unbeaten Westminster College of Salt Lake City I lead Coach Brent Martindale said that a team going through such an up and down swing could have been much more devastating than it was to his players hut they stuck through it all and played well at the end of the season which was all (lie coach asked for “I told (lie players that going through a few bad weeks like wc did can be good for them as players and for all or us as a team It builds strong competitive foundations for the future There were some girls who have never gone through a few losses before and they don't like it! It will help them in the future to play harder" said Martindale The last two weeks for I Ik Eagles will be lemembered by strong performances in a losing cause CEl lost to Dixie College on Nov (ith in a tough 5 game match and llien lost to eventual reluming national champion College of Southern Idaho in the first round of the SWAC tournamcn 4th CEll was led in the final on November weeks by sophomore Diana Tohiasson who hud 7 kills against Dixie and finished the season 6th in the conference in kills per game Other players that contributed highly were freshman Heidi Bliesner Who finished leading the conference in blocks per game freshman Liz Macstas sophomore Stacy Carpenter and freshman Tina MacNuughlan wlm led CEU against CSI in the tournament game with 8 kills and 5 blocks Tohiasson was later named to the honorable mention team which is voted on by the in coaches the league Coach Martindale was 1 1 CEU freshman Kofi Mensah shoots from three point rango in a recent homo game COLLEGE tl hi I i l5Fi1iCDL0RW°! j the outcome of the schedule that could determine where in the conference the Lady Eagles stand The men's team also had an undefeated weekend playing in Oregon at the Treasure Valley Invitational I lead Coach Pat Klinglcr was happy with his team's performance but still has bigger Dcwaync Johns are sophomores Becoming completive enough to challenge for the league title with such a young team will he tough though and Klinglcr is anxious to sec how his team docs against the strong conference opponents from the Scenic West Athletic Conference of whom he will be able to see as soon as this weekend when Utah Valley Stale College and Salt Lake Community College both come to town "My assistants scouted UVSC this weekend and hasn't slept well since" said Klinglcr The coach knows however that the home team always is in control and feels his team can gel the job done "To compete for a league title you have to w in games at home" states a confident Klinglcr Both the Friday night game against SLCC and the Saturday night game against UVSC starts with the women beginning at 5:30 pm and the men at 7:30 pm and will be played at the BDAC on the CEU campus 1997 also pleased with his setters Denise Palmer and Dcbby Wyatt "It's hard to single out any set of players because the whole 17 player roster contributed every day in practice and they all had great attitudes the whole year It was a fun season” said Martindale "I was very pleased with the team at the end It would have been very easy for everyone to just give up against the national champs in that last game but they didn't We played them well at the first part of each game but then their international big players got going and ran away But we really hung in there" said Martindale who guessed CSI’s team averaged 6'2" with several players who received an status this season" Matiindalc also said his team scored as many points as the other (cams to play CSI in the tournament which showed the tcams's improvement at the end of the season “I wish we had our slump at another stage in the season instead of during conference play That's what wc need to work on is consistency” With a strong crop of returning players finding that consistency may be very attainable for CEU Martindale figures he could have 2 returning have the could for next season which players team gelling very early in 1998 "With as many players that know my system coming buck and a few key recruits we could have some very gotxl potential next year” said Martindale And the third year coach plans on working the team together all year to get ready "We've got some payback to give and iny players arc dedicated to get stronger and better starting right now" Martindale says the team will condition hard the winter quarter and play again in the spring and if done right (hat's when a player blossoms the most in tlieir playing careers Martindale complemented the team members their parents the ASCEU activities committee the rowdy students the LDS Institute and his coaching staff for (lie team's success during the season lie was assisted by Jaymc Lott and Ben Cardon with Brant James serving as team manager |