Show Morrill Brown By USU Athletic Medto Relatione ton of a second faster than his previous best (800) ' Competitors from Utah State’s men's His time was snort of die 790 quali- -' women’s track took teams and fying mark Wickard was ranked 26th part in in the nation in the long jump (757 track meets in Seattle and Pocatello Idaho for a final opportunity meters) as of this weekend In the men's 400 meters Brett Guy- at qualifying far the NCAA Indoor roon finished fourth with a time of week The next Championships Aggies 4749 short of his 4708 season-behad several strong finishes but failed to improve on their season bests Guymon was ranked 22nd in NCAA Division I as of this weekend Candice Workman took first place Maurice Jenkins finished sixth in pole in the women’s shot put at Washing- vault at a height of but failed Her throw was short ton to meet his bestmarkof which of her season best 480950 Justin Wickard placed second in the gave him a national ranking of 30th In women’s pole vault Shae Bair hurdles (797) at Washing- - CoUegcInsidercom announced I Friday it has named Utah State head coach Stew Morrill as its Big West CoaCh of the Year while Aggie senior guard Tmy Brown was tabbed its Most Valuable Player Morrill who has the best win-nipercentage (754) of any linen's basketball coach in Utah State history is in position to guide die Aggies to their third i straight NCAA Tournament appearance this season At 21-- 6 overall and 13-- 5 in die Big West the Aggies will be the top seed at next week's conference tourna- ment in Anaheim Calif i While Brown was selected as ithe MVP UC Irvine senior guard Jerry Green was named the Big ! ! ng I of the Year Green the conference’s top scorer for die second straight year is averaging over 20 points per game this season for the Anteaters who will be theNo 2 seed at the league tourney ' The Aggies have won the Big West regular-seaso- n title two of the last three years with UC Irvine winning it lut season Brown die winningest player in Utah State history with 92 vfcto--rie-s in three-plyears is averag154 ing points per game second on the Aggies and fifth in the Big West He also leads die league in percentage (474) 3s made per game (25) and ratio (125) He is second in assists (49) and percentage (865) third in steals per(16) and fourth in field-gocentage (522) (48-000- 60-met- 8-- er OGDEN Utah (AP) — Jermaine h Boyette scored four of his 21 points in overtime to lead Weber State to an 2 victory over Idaho State Saturday 6 Big Sky The Wildcats (17-1- 0 Conference) who spent the last 35 days on the road pulled ahead of the Bengals (10-1- 7 early in the first team-hig- 88-8- er 8-- al 1) x t ‘ half It looked like a rout was in the making as WSU scored the fust seven points of the game They went on to take a comfortable lead at 3 with 7:29 left in the half ISU chipped away at the Weber State lead and pared the deficit to 39- 29 at the intermission The Behgals continued their comeback with a 10-- 1 run to start the second half to pull to within one 40-3Four different Ben- gals helped lead the second-hasurge including Jeremy Brown who poured in a game-hig- h 24 points It looked like Weber State was out of the woods as it responded with a 100 run of its own led by a pair of 9 lf 18-po- int 31-1- by John Hamilton who tallied 15 points ’ r WmgBm HOW lost” Cal State Northridge senior guard Markus Carr playing ' his last home game had 14 points seven assists and six steals to lead the Matadors Teammate Ian Boylan added 16 points five rebounds and four steals The game started innocently enough for Utah State when Vague rebounded a missed 3 by Ross and slammed the ball home for a 0 lead After that Cal State Northrt ridge used its vaunted press to force the Aggies into 19 first-ha- lf turnovers The Matadors capitalized on most of them reeling off 15 unanswered points on their way to a 25-- 5 lead Cal State Northridge entered this week’s action as die top team in tiie Big West fa steals Carr the league’s steals leader had four of them by halftime while Boylan and Curtis Slaughter both had three With tiie exception of Chad Evans who played three minutes of tii? first half every Aggie turned the ball over at least once Vague had four giveaways while Brown Mike Ahmad and Calvin Brown each had time Utah State which shot 31 percent over die first 20 minutes was able to close the 20- point gap to 13 by halftime The loss marked the first time this season Utah State ' dropped two consecutive games The Aggies who had won eight straight before this week’s action were 1 beaten at Pacific Thursday "We ban get through this” Johnson said "ft’s real heart- breaking losing two in a row We’ve never lost two in a row and it’s happening now But I think we’re okay Wb’re going to be all right’’ Notes: Brennan Ray started in place of Penigar It was the fourth start of Ray’s career and the second this seasoa He also started during Senior ' Nigi in Logan 1: Utah f State’ 18 points were die fewest they recorded in a game since the 1999-20- 400-met- er Weber State outlasts Idaho State free-thro- w Continued from B1 didn’t give in and didn’t quit earlier in the year those games were games that we 11-- ce 17-1- 75 int Ags 5) 16-06- 0) 12-5- 50 ce st us assist-to-tumov- maik of posted a third-plaBair's season best (12-9placed her 33rd nationally Debra Barker finished in a sixth-platie with a vault of 6 six inches short of her season best Kristi Connors finished second in the women’s (5466) but didn’t match her fastest time of 5403 which was the 22nd fastest in the country Connors Guymon Wickard Bair and Jenkins had provisionally qualifying marks this season Qualifiers' for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships will be announced March 4 The championships will be held March 9 in Fayetteville Ark three-hundredt- hs last-chan- ce West’s Player By Grogg Hardy staff writer track competes in meets USU pick up honors ' The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday March 3 2002 — B5 1 ' ms VQU GET 2-- A - full-cou- : B" & §f fife INTOODUtiNG THE CHECKUP A FREE PERSONALIZED FINANCIAL REVIEW TO SHOW YOU WHEREYOU ARE AND HELPYOU GET TQ WHERE YOU WANT TO BE ONLY FROM ZIQNS BANK : HO HASNTTHOUGHT ABOUT where they’d like to be in ten :fv ‘ : r twetity even thirty years? 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