Show ! Sunday January 12 2003 ’ Page! r The Herald Journal ie gyminaisto readly to mark of 3900 at with a season-bethe Weston Gymnastics Conference meet Kilpatrick has the fifth-bewe can do? Probably not" Com said score in school history a "That's kind of what we did a couple' 39325 mark as a sophomore of yean ago at Boise and it came USU has six athletes that could see back to haunt us I think we will have action this yean Two fresha nice blend of experience on men Meagan Nelson and Jesthe floor competition as well sica Parenti could get the call as a lot of young new people today Com said Nelson is the While this Aggie team is most likely and called Paren-ti'- s the most prepared for a seachance at doing all four son opener Com plans to be events an "outside shot" ' Aggie safe today Six membere of The coach does want to get gymnastics his team are freshmen and his youngsters some college five are sophomores experience today Gone are veterans There will be some routines with a Jessenia Abrego Stephanie Gordon Mika Love Houston and Kirra Seeley "great deal of difficulty" while other Freshman Rachael Mandy is the gymnasts may "tone it down a bit" Nicole KilSenior lone Aggie that will miss this meet with an injured knee Sophomore patrick is the only Aggie with a lock on performing in all four events She Katie Rutherford is still nursing an all last year was a solid ankle which will keep her from com Open season today at Fullerton By Shawn Harrison sports editor Eagles advance in playoffs as B3 Sports briefs French driver killed in Paris-Dak- rally ar er PARIS (AP) — A French died after an accident during Saturday’s stage of the Dakar Rally in Libya organizers said Bruno Cauvy 48 was dead when doctors arrived at the crash site by helicopter less than half an hour after organizers were informed of the accident The car's lead driver Daniel Nebot wasn't injured in the crash about 16S miles into the stage between Zilla and Sarir Cauvy is the 13th competitor to die since the Dakar Rally was first run in 1979 according to TV station France 3 The last driver to die in the Leduc in 1997 race was Jean-PierOthers have died though including a mechanic last year co-driv- st nd It's time to enjoy all the hard work Utah State begins die 2003 gymnasrival tics season today at long-tim- e Cal State Fullerton Illinois-Chicawill also be at the competition Are the Aggies ready? "I do believe we are for this stage of the year" USU head coach Ray Com said "I think it is important to get the best possible start we can get" USU has put in plenty of training in preparation for this upcoming season Com and his senior athletes all agreed this is the most prepared the Aggies have been for a new year to begin "Are we going to throw everything go McNabb returns st nd toegiirt peting on the floor exercise for a coushould ple of weeks The be able to compete on the other three "Other than Rachael Mandy I think we are in very good physical shape" Com said' "From what I've heard nation wide we are about as fortunate as anybody We just need to continue the course and be ' as safe as possible" Besides Kilpatrick and Rutherford the Aggies do have experience in seniors Allison Rosenthal (balance beam floor) and Kimberly Scharman (beam bars) junior Kyla Mattioli (vault floor) and sophomores Rachel Sarah Colson Ropelato (vault floor) Nalani Chung (bars) and Jessica Rands (vault beam floor) Cal State Fullerton returns 10 from last year The Titans co-capt- d) See BEGIN on B4 USU clamps down on rival Gauchos By Jeff Hunter staff writer re Saturday's scores The Aggies — and their fans — proved more than worthy of prime time Playing in front of a national television audience on espn2 Utah State routed Big West rival UC Santa Barbara 75-5- 9 Saturday night The Aggies who were bolstered by 9669 spirited fans avenged last year's loss to the Gauchos in the championship game of the Big West Tournament by holding the best perimeter shooting team in the conference to a 6- for-2- 5 effort from range "Obviously the crowd got to us including myself" declared UCSB forward Branduinn Fullove who from the floor and 0- went lor-- 5 from beyond the arc while being verbally harassed by USU's fans every time he touched the ball "We tensed up and just stopped playing our game The coaches would tell us stuff in the huddle and w e'd get out on the floor and just weren't executing We had some guys on one page and some on another" After going the first 13 games of the season without four double-dig- it scorers in the same contest Utah Stale (3-- 1 in the Big West 12-- 3 overall) pulled off the feat lor the second straight game Senior forward Desmond Penigar led the way with 15 points and six rebounds while sophomore center Spencer Nelson racked up 13 points and 12 rebounds and freshman forward Nate Harris finished with in points ( 10) and rebounds (seven) career-high- s "This has to be Nate's best performance as an Aggie" USU head coach Stew Morrill proclaimed Utah State point guard Mark Brown dished out eight assists against just one turnover and shooting guard Cardell Butler added 10 points and ended an range with a pair of treys in slump from the second half "After I made that first one ohhh I was confident after that" a dearly relieved Butler said As a team the Aggies shot better than 50 percent from the floor for the second straight game (the first time that's happened since November) and continued their incredible work on the boards by outrebounding the Gauchos Over its last six contests Utah State has a gaudy rebound margin of 165 boards per game "I keep telling them that they're a rebounding ' Big 5 basketball State 75 UCSB 59 77 Idaho State 58 Utah 76 lUPU-F- t Wayne 59 Southern Utah 82 UMKC 78 Utah BYU NFL Divisional Playoffs Tennessee 34 Pittsburgh Philadelphia 20 Atlanta 6 31 OT - 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