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Show ^ ^ ™ DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE SPORTS Smith leads Utah women over Beavers wwwdaily utahchronicle.com Friday, December 2, 2005 played a physical first half against Smith, holding her to just two field goals and six points. But Smith was Kim Smith erupted in the second ready to go in the second half. Whenever the Beavers would half of Utah's 62-53 victory over Oregon State Thursday night, scoring pull within striking distance of the final seven points for the Utes taking the lead from the Utes durto hand the Beavers their first loss ing the second half, Utah turned to their senior leader, and Smith reof the season. Oregon State senior Kim Butler sponded by scoring 16 of the final 25 Matt Patton Chronicle Writer UTES 62, Oregon State 53 WOMEN rOREGON STATE ; NO. PLAYER : 03 •;42 "44 •24 131 '"01 ' 12 ! Totals MIN Ducker "37 Butler 35 Vickery 16 Close 21 Rivera ; '39' Fox-Griffin 19 Nash 33 200 FG-FGA 1-4 6-14 0-3 6-10 5-13 0-1 4-5 22-50 3PT-3PTA 0-0 0-1 0-0 1-3 FT-FTA 1-4 4-6 0-0 _.r 0-0 1-5- '[''.:•.'. O-Qi" 0-1 2-2 4-12 0-0 0-1 5-11 3PT-3PTA 0-4 0-1 0-0 0-4 3-5 1-4 0-0 0-1 1-2 5-21 FT-FTA 8-10 2-2 RBS 9 3 1 1 r<[•-•- • 26 PF AST BLK ST 3 2 \ . 1 2 5 0 0 0: 1 4 4 0 %. T i.L ^S "3 3~ 0 0 '3.-' 1 " . : 2 23 14 5 9 PTS 3 16 !<L 13 ji 0 10 53 'UTAH :NO. ; 04 : 33 ; 32 \ io -* 21 -05 •1.12 '•'. 1 5 :~45 : Total PLAYER Smith Warner Filipe Thorburn Larsen Carlsen Brouillard Warburton Perry ;HALFTIME :ATTENDANCE MIN. •38 24 13 37 28 13 24 7 16 200 FG-FGA 7-15 2-4 1-2 4-9 4-6 1-5 0-3 • 0-3 1-3 20-50 0 - 0 •". 2-4 3-3 0-0 0-2 2-2 0-0 17-23 RBS 4 2 2 3 1 0 '11 0 PF AST 3 3 2 4; Q 1 4 1 1 1 0 BLK ST 2 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 .P 2 0 2_Tl 0 1 0 0 •(F.Y 1: 8 '• •?£• 40 15 12 5 8 " 0 " ••" PTS 22 6 2 10 -,.H , 3 0 2 :3 62 Utah 32, Oregon State 22 1,014 PLAYER OF THE GAME Kim Smith Smith broke out (or 16 second-half points, helping to hold olf a late Oregon State rally. points for the Utes. Oregon State made a charge with 15:37 remaining in the game to pull within seven points of Utah, but back-to-back steals converted into easy layups for Smith and Shona Thorburn helped the Utes maintain a double-digit lead. The Beavers made another late rally with 5:04 left in the game as Mandy Close hit a jumper to pull Oregon State to a 4641 deficit, but Heidi Carlsen drilled the only made three-point shot for the Utes in the second half to give the Utah a 49-41 advantage. Tough defense and strong offense from Smith helped Utah to hold them off the rest of the way. Although Utah led the entire game, mistakes kept Oregon State in the game. "Turnovers were the big key that prevented us from pulling away," Utah head coach Elaine Elliott said. "We have turned the ball over a lot in the last few games and that is something we are really trying to improve on. I don't attribute that to the greatness of our opponents, I think we are just a young team." Ute senior Julie Larsen had another big game in her first start of the year, scoring 14 points while shooting 66 percent (4-6) from the field. "The team helped me to get open shots," Larsen said. "It helped me to See U T E W O M E N PageS Jessica Perry takes a shot against Oregon State on Thursday night. Perry finished the night with eight rebounds. for (a few) dollars Home for the postseason Bowling Utes will see gains from Emerald Bowl, Volleyball kicks off NCAA tournament tonight at Crimson Court Joe Beatty Chronicle Sports Editor The Ute volleyball team (22-8) got a pleasant surprise when it found out it would get to host the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament. Now the Utes get the chance to take advantage of having the home-court advantage. Friday night, the Utes will welcome Loyola Marymount (19-10) to Crimson Court at 8 p.m. and will try to continue the momentum they have after winning the MWC tournament last weekend. "I think we responded pretty well to the (MWC) championship in terms of just mov- ing on," Ute head coach Beth Launiere said. "Right away we started paying attention to the NCAAs, and we've had good practices, so that's encouraging to me." The Utes surprised the rest of the league by only dropping one game throughout the three-match MWC tournament, giving the team a boost to its collective psyche, especially valuable for a team that regularly plays four freshmen and several sophomores. "I think it really turned everybody's head, and everyone was like 'Wow, we can do this. We are good,'" said Ute freshman Shannon Krug, who was named the MWC tournament's although not too many monetary ones Chris Bellamy Chronicle Asst. Sports Editor U Volleyball NCAA Appearances 2004 1st round - Lost to Long Beach State 0-3 2003 1strotmd-Beat$antaClara3-2 2nd round-Lost to_Washmgton 0-3 2002 1 stround- Last lo Texas A&M 0-3 2001 1st round - Beat Texas Tech 3-0 2nd round •Beat Utah State 3-1 Sweet-16- LosttoStanford 1-3 2000 1st round - Beat Texas Tech 3-2 2nd round Lost to Hawaii 0-3 19W Istround- Beat Colorado 3-0 2nd round-Lost to Hawaii 0-3 1998 1st round -Beat Illinois State 3-0 2nd round - Lost to Nebraska 1-3 top setter. "Everybody's got the goal in their mind that we can win it all if we keep playSee VOLLEYBALL Page 8 It may not be the Fiesta Bowl, but San Francisco is where the U football team will find itself at year's end, as the Utes try to cap off an up-and-down season on a winning note. While the hype surrounding this year's bowl game is modest, to say the least, compared with last season's pomp and circumstance, Ute players and coaches expect the Emerald Bowl to bring plenty of rewards. The team's undefeated campaign a year ago was not only a historic achievement in and of itself, but the sudden publicity was also credited with ^ -The Runnin1 Utes (4-0) will have little '. tiine to enjoy their big rivalry win over ; Utah State, as they head out on the road this weekend for a clash with Confer; ence USA's Rice Owls (2-3). ; ' - The. U beat the Aggies 67-66 Wednesl day night in the Huntsman Center, giving * the young team a landmark win against a : program it has had a tough time beating in the recent past. ; U head coach Ray Giacoletti was im- pressed with his team's play and thinks it portends well for the future. I ' ''That was conference-level basketball, ^and that's the effort that has to go into -£very one of these games if you expect to be successful," Giacoletti said. "It was a great lesson for our kids." -'. With the euphoria of the last-second lyictory still in the team's minds, the Utes ;will need to focus on avoiding a letdown •against a young Rice team in Houston. SWIMMING UTAH AT NOTRE DAME INVITATIONAL DEC. 2, 2005TBA § SOUTH BEND, IND. Matthew Piper Chronicle Writer The Owls come into the Saturday match-up with a 2-3 record, with wins against New Mexico Highlands and Prairie View A&M. They have had setbacks against Marquette, IUPUI and Oregon and are heading into a rough stretch where they play the Utes, No. 2 Texas and Arkansas in a matter of two weeks. The U's former WAC rival features seven freshmen on their roster, but is led statistically by upperclassmen. Junior Lorenzo Williams and senior J.R. Harrison each average 13 points per game. Ute guard Lawrence Borha drives on Aggie Harrison is also the squad's leader in re- guard David Pak during Wednesday's victory bounding, with 9.0 per contest. against Utah State. After four games, senior Bryant Markson leads the Utes in both points and reThe Utes and Owls will tip off Satbounds, averaging 16.8 points per game, urday at 3 p.m., and the game will be along with five boards. televised live on CSTV. After the visit Sophomore Johnnie Bryant is the only to Houston, the U will head to Boulder, other Ute in double digits, averaging ,Colo., for a clash with the Colorado Buf15.5 points per game, while connecting faloes on Wednesday at 7 p.m. on .524 percent from beyond the 3-point }.beatty@ line. chronicle.utah.edu VOLLEYBALL UTAH vs . LOYOLA MARYMOUNT DEC. 2 , 2005 8 p.m. @ CRIMSON COURT (22-8) (19-11) is one thing, but you want to play well when you get there." Whittingham said that, while monetary gain definitely helps to build the team, that's not the only reason to participate in bowl season. The increased visibility, he said, is invaluable to the future of the program. "It's not a big-money venture. Breaking even is what you're probably looking at. But even if you don't make any money, you go to a bowl game for the exposure, the extra practice.-.there's just so many pluses. The pluses far outweigh the lack of monetary gain." See B O W L G A M E PageS Red Rocks preview season Friday night Runnin' Utes head to Texas for meeting with Rice foe Beatty Chronicle Sports Editor helping Utah's recruiting and helping out the school—and the Mountain West Conference as a whole—on the financial front. A strong performance for Utah in the Emerald Bowl certainly won't bear as much fruit as last year's victory in Tempe, Ariz., with each participating school netting about $750,000. But the Utes think that they can not only help their future prospects, given the large recruiting base in the Bay Area, but also continue to build off of the team's recent exposure and raise its profile even more. "I think it will be important to play well," Whittingham said. "Getting to a bowl game from last season. Washington's Kristina Baskett headlines the incoming class. The 2005 USA Junior Olympic all-around, floor exercise and vault champion is expected to be a big performer for the Utes immediately. Freshmen Beth Rizzo and Nina Kim are also highly touted recruits. The team will perform ex- After more than seven months of waiting, Ute gymnastics fans get their first look at the 2006 version of a team that finished third at the NCAA Championships last year and has won 10 national titles in the 31-year reign of head coach Greg Marsden. "We had a great year last year, and we felt good about what we did, but we were hop- See GYMNASTICS PageS ing for more than third," Marsden said. "We're looking forward to starting the season." A perennial contender, expectations are understandably high for this season, and Friday night's Red Rocks Preview (7 p.m. at the Huntsman Center) marks the first chance for anxious fans to see the U's three talented freshman recruits in Rachel Tidd performs a floor action and catch up with the exercise at the Utah regional 10 returning letter winners competition April 9. MEN'S BASKETBALL WOMEN'S BASKETBALL UTAH AT (4-0) RICE (1-3) LOYOLA MARYMOUNT AT (1-3) UTAH (2-1) MEN'S BASKETBALL UTAH AT COLORADO (4-0) (3-1) DEC 3 , 2 0 0 5 3 p.m. DEC. 3, 2005 3 p.m. DEC. 6, 200S 7 p.m. @ HOUSTON,TEXAS @ HUNTSMAN CENTER @ BOULDER,COLO. |
