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Show WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20,2005 U T A H*~ 5 S T A T E S M A N Contact: Take Note: 797-1761 sports@statesman.usu.edu The Aggie softball team takes on Utah Wednesday at 3 p.m. in Logan. Basketball team to conduct camps BY ATHLETICS MEDIA RELATIONS Utah State University John Zsnayijzsir3y@cc.usu.edu UTAH STATE'S COURTNEY ANDERSON goes for the ball in a match against Hawai'i earlier this season. Anderson won her sixth straight match Monday against Idaho State. Anderson wins sixth straight Aggie tennis team beats Idaho State BY KEVIN NIELSEN Staff Writer The Utah State women's tennis team won its match against Idaho State 6-1 on Monday to finish off its regular season with a .500 record. The Aggies showed their dominance over the Bengals as all three of the doubles matches were won 8-2 by Utah State. At No. 1 doubles Lindsey Bennion and Carolyn Stephens jumped out to a 7-0 lead in their match while at No. 2 Lauren Monson and Jill Smith were up 3-0 early. "We've been playing a lot of matches lately and I thought it was going to be tough," Utah State Head Coach Christian Wright said. "[The girls] have been doing what we've been talking about and because of it we won a couple games early when we came on strong." In singles action, Utah State continued its dominance as the Ags won all but one of the matches. Smith lost in a close first set after serving for the set twice and then being up 31 in the tiebreaker before losing 7-5. In the second it was back and forth for the first half of the set. H Ryan Talbot/rta/bo£@cc.usu.edu AGGIE CAROLYN STEPHENS returns a ball to an Eastern Washington opponent earlier this season. The Aggies defeated Idaho State 6-1 Monday in Logan. Stephens won her match playing at No. 2 singles. Smith was up 3-2 but then her opponent broke her serve to go up 4-3 and Idaho State went on to win 6-4. "Jill's been sick," Wright said. "She's fighting hard but she doesn't want to come out. It's just a head cold but she's sucking wind pretty bad." In the rest of the singles matches the Ags were dominate to say the least. At No. 4 and No. 5 singles, Courtney Anderson and Andrea Barker both won 60, 6-0. For Anderson this was her sixthstraight singles win. Bennion won her No. 1 singles match 6-2, 6-3 and Stephens won her No. 2 match 6-1, 6-4. Lauren Monson won her No. 6 match 6-2, 6-1 to give the Aggies their sixth point of the match. On Thursday the Aggies will take on Cal State Fullerton at the Big West Conference tournament in Indian Wells, Calif. If the Aggies win they will take on the No. 1 seeded Pacific Tigers on Friday. "We match up well with Fullerton," Wright said. "I know we're in that ballpark. "If we play well we can beat any team in the conference and if we only play all right then we can still beat most of the other teams in our conference." -krn@ccMsu.edu Club volleyball team opts out of tournament NATIONAIS See Page 7 __ Dantley earns athletic honors BY ATHLETIC MEDIA RELATIONS Utah State University Dantley Young, who plays the No. 5 spot on USU's men's tennis team, won all four of his singles matches this week. For his efforts he was named Utah State University Athlete of the Week. Young, a sophomore from West Jordan, Utah, started the week as the Aggies defeated Eastern Washington 7-0 on Sunday, April 10. He lost the first set at No. 5 (4-6), but came back to win the next two sets 7-5,10-7. In doubles play, he teamed with Mike Banks to take the No. 2 spot 8-5. On April 12,'Young gave the Aggies their winning point against rival Idaho State in Utah State's 4-3 win. He took the No. 5 spot 6-2, 7-6, but lost in doubles with Banks 9-8(2). Ag soccer to host summer camps BY DAVE NOACK Staff Writer They were registered and they were qualified,'but what could have been the trip of a lifetime for some players, ended before it even began. In a last minute decision, the men's club volleyball team at Utah State University withdrew from nationals just prior to the team's departure. The team originally planned on flying to Kansas City, Mo., the site of this year's nationals. However, after an attempt to allocate next year's funding in order to compensate for a tight budget fell through, the only other option was a bus ride that would take more than 20 hours each way. Added together, with three days of tournament action, team members would miss nearly a week of classes. Co-captain and travel coordinator for the club, sophomore Brett Olson said most of the players chose other obligations over the tournament. Those obligations included concerts, recitals, assignments, and preparing for finals. "A lot of the guys decided it wasn't worth the sacrifice," Olson said. As a club, the responsibility for funding, registering for tournaments and keeping up with their coursework rests heavily on the players themselves. Olson said it is not as Utah State women's basketball coach Raegan Pebley will conduct three separate Aggie Basketball Camps this summer. The Team Jamboree Camp will run June 9-11. Only varsity, junior varsity and freshman teams are eligible to participate in the camp. Future Aggie Camps will then be held from June 1315. Campers will be separated into the following age appropriate sections: Little Dribblers (K-5th Grades); Junior High Jammers (6-8th Grades); and High School Bailers (9-12th Grades). Campers will be involved in offensive and defensive drills, fun and games, and will receive personal evaluations and a T-shirt, just to name a few. The final camp offered is . the Total Package Camp, which runs July 27-29. Campers must be entering grades seven through 12. BY ATHLETIC MEDIA RELATIONS Utah State University John 2s\ray/jzsiray@cc.usu.edu AN AGGIE MIDFIELDER drives to the goal in a game against Fort Lewis earlier this season in Logan. Lacrosse team falls to Utes 25-10 BY ANDREA EDMUNDS Assistant Sports Editor It was another disappointing weekend for the Utah State lacrosse club team after it fell 25-10 to Utah Saturday in Logan. It was a struggle from the beginning for the undermanned Aggie team. "They had a lot more guys than we do. We're hurting on numbers," Aggie coach Evan Nitchman said. "That's pretty much the reason there. We played a bad first quarter there, other than that, it was pretty much even." Utah came out on fire to start off the game, going up 10-0 in the first quarter. Nitchman said there really wasn't much the Aggies could do to stop it. He said he wasn't really sure what happened in the first part of the game that allowed Utah its huge advantage. There were a lot of cutters going down the middle, he said, and the Aggies just weren't following through on their defense. Midfielder and freshman John Gilmore said USU definitely came out slow in the first quarter, but it was able to improve on it throughout the rest of the game. "I think we did a pretty good job in the second quarter" Gilmore said. "We were saying let's forget about the first quarter, we knew we could play better than that. When you're down like that... you've just got to play as hard as you LACROSSE See Page 7 • . Utah State soccer head coach Heather Cairns will conduct four separate Aggie Soccer Camps this summer, it was announced recently. Due to its increased popularity, the Aggie Soccer Camp, which features Division I coaches and players as staff, will be conducted in two sessions this year. The first session will run June 6-10 with players ranging in age from 8-18 invited to attend. Session two will take place August 1-3 and is open to players aged 8-12. Players will also have two options in signing up for the Goal Scorers/Goalkeeper Camp, with Monday, July 11 or Thursday, August 4 as options. This camp is for boys and girls ages 12-18, who posses intermediate or advanced soccer skills. The final camp offered is the Lil1 Aggie Camp, which runs August 1-3. For registration information please call 797-0343. |