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Show 6 SPORTS Monday, March 29, 2010 TODAY'S SKI REPORT Alta 20° / 9 a.m. 38° I 3 p.m. Brighton TUESDAY: Baseball Utah vs. Utah Valley Softball 2 p.m. Ute Softball Field Softball Southern Utah @ Utah 4 p.m. Ute Softball Field WEDNESDAY: Women's Tennis UNLV @ Utah 2:30 p.m. Eccles Tennis Center UTES IN BRIEF GOLF 2010 Desert Classic 3/18-3/20 2 WICHITA STATE 3 EASTERN MICHIGAN 4 BYU 5 PACIFIC 6 NEBRASKA 7 XAVIER 8 VCU 9 BOISE STATE 10 IOWA STATE 11 KANSAS STATE 12 MEMPHIS 13 DENVER 14 NORTHERN COLORADO 15 UTAH 16 NORTHERN IOWA 17 SOUTHERN UTAH Place Player T 50 T 61 T 72 T 76 T 81 T 92 Chase Hite Joe Webber Derek Adams Kaleb Mahanes Mike Branca Jeff Kitches +/-9 -9 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 +2 +7 +7 +10 +18 +24 +28 +29 +37 +46 R1 R2 R3 Overall +173 74 74 221 +5 71 75 78 224 +8 77 74 75 226 +10 74 74 79 227 +11 77 78 74 229 +13 77 80 78 235 +19 2010 Barona Collegiate Cup 3/25 - 3/26 OVERALL SCORE 1 SDSU 2 UC IRVINE 3 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON 4 NEVADA 5 NORTHWESTERN 6 COLORADO 7 UAB 8 UC SANTA BARBARA 9 UC DAVIS 10 WYOMING 11 NEW MEXICO STATE 12 UTAH 13 UTEP 14 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT 15 AIR FORCE ACADEMY 16 HAWAII Place Player T5 T 49 T 54 T 59 T 64 T 97 T 97 Chase Hite Derek Adams Jeff Kitches Joe Webber Kaleb Mahanes Mike Branca Manuel Ortega 1072 1094 1097 1098 1104 1112 1115 1116 1119 1123 1131 1137 1142 1154 1156 1180 Canyons 25° / 9 a.m. 44° / 3 p.m. Deer Valley 25° 440 // 93 a.m. p.m. Snowbird 20° / 9 a.m. 38° / 3 p.m. Solitude 21° / 9 a.m. 390 / 3 p.m. GYMNASTICS Red Rocks triumph over BYU SPORTS EDITOR Southern Utah @ Utah 855 855 858 859 860 861 862 866 871 871 874 882 888 892 893 901 910 20° / 9 a.m. 38° / 3 p.m. Paige Fieldsted 6 p.m. Spring Mobile Ballpark OVERALL SCORE conditions & weather from utahskiweathercom Spring skiing conditions UPCOMING SPORTS EVENTS 1 KANSAS www.dailyutahchronicle.corn Utah fans sent the seniors off in record-breaking fashion as the Red Rocks beat rivals BYU in the final home meet of the season. More than 15,000 fans filled the seats of the Huntsman Center to see seniors Daria Bijak, Annie DiLuzio, Jamie Deetscreek and Beth Rizzo compete in their final regular meet as Utes. The crowd set a new NCAA gymnastics season attendance record with an average of 14,213 fans per meet, breaking the record they set last year. The Red Rocks also became the first team other than basketball to win a women's NCAA season attendance crown. "It's thrilling for me," said co-head coach Greg Marsden. "We are the envy of every other gymnastics program. We have such tremendous support here and we have for such a long time, and it's rewarding to me to finally be able to say our attendance was the largest of any women's sport this year. Our fans are such a big part of the tradition of our program. It's a big part of why many of the athletes chose Utah." The team earned three points for Utah in the Deseret First Duel, as it beat rival BYU with a 196.950-195.825 win. In the last meet before postseason, the Red Rocks set new season highs on three of the four events, putting up their best performances of the year on the vault, bars and floor. "I was really pleased on three events," Marsden said. "It looked easy for us and that is what we have to get to is that our gymnastics look easy." The Red Rocks started with a 49.350 on vault, led by junior Kyndal Robarts, who scored a 9.925. Robarts outshined seniors Bijak and Deetscreek, winning the allaround with a career-high 39.6. "I wouldn't call it upstaging," Robarts said. "I was just having a good night. It felt good. I just felt like I was on a roll. Everything just felt on." The bars saw a fall from Cortni Beers, who has been LENNIE MAHLER/The Daily Utah Chronicle Senior Red Rock Jamie Deetscreek performs on the floor in her last home meet at the Huntsman Center on Friday. Deetscreek earned a 9.95 in the event. See GYMNASTICS Page 8 RUGBY Utes get long-awaited rivalry win Kelsey Price +/-8 +14 +17 +18 +24 +32 +35 +36 +39 +43 +51 +57 +62 +74 +76 +100 R1 R2 R3 Overall +772 75 67 214 -2 75 76 75 226 +10 77 77 73 227 +11 74 82 72 228 +12 75 79 75 229 +13 80 86 78 244 +28 78 84 82 244 +28 STAFF WRITER MIKE MANGUM/The Daily Utah Chronicle Utah rugby players climbed into the stands at Rio Tinto Stadium to celebrate with fans after the team beat BYU 31-29, earning its fist win over the Cougars since 2005. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Utah rugby has finally captured what has long eluded the team—a win against rival BYU. Wednesday at Rio Tinto Stadium, the Utes came away with a 31-29 victory against the Cougars, marking the first win against BYU since 2005. "We got to play in shadows and footsteps that are bigger than our own at Rio Tinto," said senior Joe Vave. "Most rugby players aren't given an opportunity like this. This is really special for us." "It was a good overall game," said head coach Blake Burdette. "We didn't necessarily play great the first half, but we came back out with a different attitude that changed the game in our favor." In the opening minutes of the game, Utah scrumhalf Don Pati scored a try for the Utes, but officials ruled there was a knock-on—when the player initially is unable to hold onto the ball—negating the apparent try. The Cougars answered soon after, running out to an early 14-0 lead. Utah was able to answer in the 21st and 34th minutes, See RUBGY Page 8 BASEBALL Utah falls after first Team sweeps Bears in weekend set round in tournament Bubba Brown STAFF WRITER Corbin Godfrey STAFF WRITER Utah's up-and-down season came to an end during the break at the Women's National Invitational Tournament. The Utes were able to survive the first round of the tournament when they downed St. Mary's in the first round, 6653, on Sunday. "It was a very competitive game," said head coach Elaine Elliott. "St. Mary's is a good team. Our kids made some plays late in the game, we got some turnovers and some steals and got the win. It was a good game and a good win." But that's as far as the Utes would go, as their season came to an end in the second round two days later, when they fell to the Cal Bears, 64-54. It was a strange season for the Utes, who early in the season looked like the lost and inexperienced team that its roster makeup suggested it would be. Utah was often riding the coattails of the AllMountain West Conference standout se- nior Kalee Whipple and getting sporadic play from the various other positions on the court. Utah finished the first half of conference play with a 4-4 record and was constantly fighting just to keep a .Soo record. It was in Utah's first game of the second half of conference play that it began to show its true colors. The Utes lost in a four-overtime game against conference-leading TCU, which was arguably the most exciting game in MWC women's basketball history. Whipple scored a conference-record 45 points and though the Utes lost the game, they showed that they were beginning to find their rhythm and could compete with anyone. "That is the one thing that I expect," Elliott said. "That's the one thing that we have to learn that it takes to play with the school you have on your uniform, the teammates you have next to you, your own self-worth. It's always about See BASKETBALL Page 8 Just one week away from delving into the meat of the conference schedule, the Utah baseball team appears to be hitting its stride. After taking two of three from conference-title contender New Mexico the previous week, FINAL the Utes swept Northern Colorado in a three-game set during the weekend. The Utes wrapped up the sweep Sunday with a 10-9 comeback victory that featured plenty of offense. Utah starter Bryn Card exited in the seventh after allowing just two runs on four hits in six innings, and Northern Colorado quickly got to work on the Utah bullpen. Utah scored five runs in the inning off of Brock Duke and two off of Stephen Streich. It looked like the Utes would get out of the inning with just two runs across, when with runners on first and second a Northern Colorado player grounded to shortstop in what could have been an inningending double play. However, the ball hit the umpire and veered into left field. The play was ruled a single and a dead ball, allowing the batter and all runners to be safe. The play elicited the ire of head coach Bill KinSCORE neberg, who was upset the umpire didn't get out of the way. After the game, Kinneberg was more calm about the play. "That happens," Kinneberg said. "It's part of the game." In the bottom of the inning, Utah stormed back with seven runs of its own to knot the score at nine, highlighted by a threerun homer by Nik Gumeson and a solo shot by Jo Jo Sharrar. "We were going before (my home run)," Gumeson said. "We were hitting seed after seed on that guy. Me and Jo Jo going backto-back was kind of the killer." With the score still tied heading into the bottom of the ninth, Sharrar led off with a double down the right field line. Josh Reed, who pinch-ran for Sharrar, came around to score on a throwing error by the pitcher after Rick Cornu's sacrifice bunt. "I'm really proud of our offense," Kinneberg said. "We kind of sleepwalked through the first six innings. That was something I wasn't really happy about, but maybe that woke us up a little bit and we got some spark going. We played a little better the seventh, eighth and ninth innings." After weather forced Friday's scheduled game to be postponed See BASEBALL Page 9 NEXT GAME Utah vs. Utah Valley Tuesday Spring Mobile Ballpark 6 p.m. .y. |