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Show e Mam! By RICHARD SHAW CEU wins three of four over weekend By RICHARD SHAW Sports writer - v ;TWo days of doubtehteaders; All two , this brought types of weather. three victories and one loss for tye College of Eastern Utah Golden : Eagles:.: ' In Friday's. games the Golden Eagles beat the Badgers quite handily in the first game 147. In the see- - in a gamethat went eigjrt innings. In the second game CEU spanked the Badgers and Bent them home with their tafi between their fogs 1M,.: ; Friday the wind was blowing at LOO pm when the Golden Eagles met , the Badgers for the first time In the ' regular season this yean The cold . breeze made everyone stiff as Snow to the lead to the first Butfa the third Inning the ttlfbatS came altvewithnumerous hits and seven runs soored and from there von the Eagles tobkcontroL ITie start made us a little nervous," said bead baseball coach EricMadsen as he stoodbythenorth fence duringahiD In the fifth Inning "But it looks good nowr And it did as the team wedt on to accrue numerous hits in the final two innings and score seven more first game . : . After ihe victory of the first game If seemed that it would be an easy weekend for the Golden Eagles. But the Badgers were not ready to die. Vyet and they came back strong in the first inning scoring three runs V driven in by a homer. , . " OncetheBadgersgotahead.they were difficult to catch fills : continued to hit hard and accurately stunning the CEU players with their ability to get t base and ' : get to home. CEU threatened a fewtimes but never were able to get into the game the way theyneeded to win. t-- y 0 .: - ' - ;i - s bk The Friday aftariioori Shone brightly into CEU pitcher lie receives as the ball from catcher Steven JoldyWatts eyes Practice in ah .effort to get a Snow College runner out at home. Watts had come up to coim. borne on a lost ball. The Badger player was ruled sate on the play and Snow went on to ' win ttiis game 10--4 but lost die overall weekend series 1. jm 3-- . V The first game on Saturday 144attheendofthefohrth.. camebac with another nmsoored on a double. One can only Imagine what was V ho the top of the fifth Sbowrtrtick going thronghthe Snow players , again twice ae they drove in one run mindiL Could the score windup bewith a single, : v ; . ing 304 wtth the CEU batters seem-- : In the bottom of the fifth, CEU ingty scoring at will? f CEU struck again in the fifth as begantomakeitVmove, First Kenny Jones doubled, bringing to two runs Harwood got on base when be was Ityan Scott scored and Ryan hit with the ball and then was even-- . Duvall crossed the plate. singled and the Badgers right tualty drived across home by. a. J .' : Shawn Johnson singled and single by DuvalL Itwas not another i fielder made an error. a; The second CEU player to come drove in Luke Lambourne and four or five hit faming but the Eagles ' ' ': across the plate was Erie Spademan a Jones for two more adores. It was! would take it ;; now S in CEU favor. when he came In on a passed bafi. In the sixth, the Badgers made a In the bottom of the seventh Snow comeback of sorts as they soored. In the fourth inning the Badgers was able to score tying it up on a five runs but the effort was futile. : single which drove in a run from : Aaron Tash was the winning third base. pitcher, going five andahalf innings before Pylan Hunt stepped in and . TbeBadgersthenhddtheEagles scoreless for the rest of the Inning finished off the team from Snow ' and the game went into extras. : IbeEagleathentobkoQntndand kept the Ephraimteam from soor kMasiism tag intoe bottom of toe eighth.When : they came to bat they were confi- dent that they could score and toey looked ominous As the Badgers were up tobat first and scored three times, before CEU could approach ' homeplate, : In the bottom of the second CEU was able togeton the board with! twoTuns. (me came when Caleb ' Harwood pame in after Bo Smith . . : ; ; ' . 6-- - v.f . 1 f - ; . er roll-togo- , : ; . . v' 15 -it v, irewrereito iiinl y ls .' ' .Vi'' A, - i ' . Raddatz, Eliot Dalton and Casey Hunter; who came in and pitched the last part of the bottom of the eighth - L- n. tde-visio- W? - ... ie couv-petith- : w i' . ! 7--6 tope-The- mensety I learned tome are two types of golfers, and they run in groups. Golf seems to be one of those One group is the intense compete, rlits of spring to the sports en- tor they ahrayswant to win, don't' thusiast Now s days it seems have fun unless they win,wQI do people play golf all the time. They anything to win and are mad for travel to Mesquite or St George aweekwhentheydontwin. for a weekend and play golf con- r TTie other group are people ' who go for the fun ef driving; , tinually around the course In the carta. , I know people who gkatleast two weekends amonto during the They are the ones who drink beer thewfede time, smoke dgars poor Inclement months. But theres nothing like being tinualty oh the course (although able to drive for ten minutes to most never sinoke at all off the your local course and play on your course) and by the time they get own home 18. done driving those little carts That is, ofcourse; unless you ; around the course, they have to are me. rmahadgolfer.no matter ; be driven home themselves. I played with both groups that where 1 play summer and decided I Hked the . I got into the little white ball sport about 16 years ago when I second group better ; I realized I would never imwas in a management position AH with a large organization. the prove at the sport because I en other managers there played and Joyed thewalk (and drive) across some of the people I dealt with In all those magnificenttytrimined the field dabbled in it so they said lawns and greens much more I should play tob. They said it was tbfoU liked hitting thrt fenny little . bafi. 1 waa also touch better at a gentleman's sport. Irenteddubsthe first time I walking and riding than 1 was at playTbefirrtfeingJfcundout ; driving or putting The other thinglfound out was about playing golf was that you. at first the intense and wooden that , those didnt use fittlq call on tees shot guys loved me ioplayvritb evety toings they lhad always seen pebjde with tees them because they pouldbret the golf shoes off me. But after while every time they hit the ball on All my friends who were beating me gets old: Just ask the with me laughed; I tried to use a kid who used to live next door to tee right In the ndddie of the first me. One summer when we were fainrey at the Bountiful Golf 11 we played Monopoly every day Course, One stopped laughing : while school was out and he beat kmgenougbtoteQmelhadtobif me every single day except one it off the ground, with say a three and that was a day when I had to ' .A. go somevriiere with my parents. : Iron.;.. ' V Slows you how much I knew; Bren my intense golfing friends about the aport. Then I told him I just didnt seem interested in cattdidnt know toe difference between ing me to play anymore hi fact thedubs. thqy avoided talking about golf, ; Its the ore with the three on around me for fear I would volun-ten to play with them the next ii;" he said as eveiybodty was ' y. .Y:V ; time;. the ground. I dont remmnbOT what I shot SO for a couple of years I jurt that day on the nine holes we went as the designated cart driver dayed; I don't want to renumber. ' for the party boys golf team. You But lets say it was probabty in the see they decided liwas time they vicinity of what someone who needed somrene 8toer to drive plays 36 holes in a day would,, the cart when theyahnostren an ' score if they were Just e decent elderly woman into a water han ards one fine spring day Afire a player. That was In June and I played few years of trying to play golf I rtl summer, at least three times a quit The way I played, that was week. By the end of the summer; better for everyone invotved, my scores had Improved little, but rmjustnotaurewiioisdriving my knowledge of how others play thecartforthoseguystoesedays. the game had improved im-Sports writer ? limhlg & '1" V ' , q f k - I a k., , two runs I .V -- Y- After the last game of the night before and the dose call In the Ifrst game of the day the CEU players knew tort toe final game would bea battle up ML Snowhad been tough, but the Eagles knew they had the upper hand. CEU immediately took command in thefirst two Innings scoring nine runs. First Duvall snored on a hit by Lambourne when the Badger rfhort: stop made an error. Hum Jones scored on a passed bafi. Finally Shad Romrell singled and drove in t "met- . singed and Scott scored. Lambourne then doubled and : A-- r ,7 brought Jones home in toe process. Finally, Lambourne who had already done so much damage came in on an unearned score. - At 66 the Badgers must have wanted to give up and go home, but they didn't In the fourth inning they came 4 back with four runs, but in response the Eagles soored another fivk First Johnson doubled and drove iq Lambourne who had reached base by doubling himself earlier.; Then Harwood scored on a single by Romrell when the Badger first " baseman made an error. V 1 x' Next Smith singled and drove Johnson across the plate. Then Romrell scored rtrolling in as the . J Badger pitcher walked Duvall while .tog ,r ,.Si confers with one of the Scenic West Conference the bases were loaded. Finally Jones singled driving the first game with Snow on Friday aemoon. Smith into home, making the scree ! is y aw ut iv CEU basebaB coach Eric Madsen officials about a situation during . t Badger player begins his slide into third base as CEUY Caleb Haiwpod awaits the ball which seems to be hanging A M as Johnson and Lambourne crossed home plate. In the Becond Inning it got worse for Snow as Scott doubled and drove in two scores with Duvall and Pradico coming home.Then Jones 4 i a1?"? tiokl rtbiiWkii in mid air between the two players. Snow was able to make it past third quite of few times in the second game of toe series. livutttl wuiffij Hlfl TEAM Dixie State Eastern Utah Utah ley Treasure Valley 13 10 10 10 8 . Salt Lake Southern Idaho 9 8 North Idaho Ricks' Snow Colorado Northwestern . Kon-Confara- nca 6 V. 0 1 i 0.0 6 6 6 6 7 4.0 8 10 12 16 6.0 8.0 10.6 . 4.0 4.0 5.0 5.Q 0.250 0.000 . ; , . ! J ' L FCT Streak 29 5 17 13 0.853 0.567 0.517 0.517 0.593 0.559 0.538 0.364 W3 W2 15 16 19 14 12 . . 7 4 . - 14 14 11 15 )2 21 22 ' 0241 23 0.148 i L3 W1 W1 W6 LI ' LI r L2 ' L16 March 30: Treasure Valley 5 North Idaho 0 March 30: Eastern Utah 14 Snow 7 March 30: Snow 10 Eastern Utah 4 f March 31: Dixie State 5 Utah VkiieyO ' March 31: Mxie State 5 Utah Valley 2 March 3L Southern Idaho 13 Colorado NW0 March 31: Southern Idaho 20 Colorado NW 2 March 31; Ricks 2 Sait Lake 1 March 31: Sait Lake 7 Ricks 6 March 31: North Idaho 2 Treasure Valley 1 March 31: Treasure Valley 10 North Idaho 3 March 31: Eastern Utah 7 Snow 6 (8 innings) March 31: Eastern Utah 15 Snow 9 , ' i . W iS- - 0.375 14j0 . , 0500 Gaaas March 27: Southern Idaho 17 Weber State 0 March 27: Southern Idaho 10 Weber State 6 March 27: Treasure Valley 11 SW Oregon 10 March 27; Treasure Valley 1 1 SW Oregon 4 SWAC Games March 3 Utah V&fiey 7 Dixie State 4 March 30: Dixie State 11 Utah Valley 3 March 30: Southern Idaho 3 Colorado KW 2 March SO: Southern Idaho 4 Colorado NW2 March 30: Salt Lake 2 Ricks 1 March 30: Sait Lake S Ricks 6 March 30: Treasure V&fiey 6 North Idaho 0 0.929 0.625 0.625 0.625 0.571 0.563 ' a |