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Show /5 Monday, Sept. 26,2005 Take Note: Sign up for intramural soccer and 3-on-3 basketball in the HPER. 797-1761 sports@statesman.usu.edu Ryan Talbot photo/rtalbot@(cusu.edu Ryan Tolbot photo/rtalbot&ccusu.edu Tyler Larson pholo/tnibrson^aMsu.edu "That was kind of our goal. Take the lead and run with it. - Ingrid Roth, USU Volleyball Undefeated at home Soccer team ties 1-1 with Portland USU beats UNLV BY KEVIN NIELSEN BY KEVIN NIELSEN Senior Writer Senior Writer The Utah State women's soccer team fought through a physical match-up against Portland State to earn a 1-1 tie on Saturday afternoon. The Aggies scored in the second minute off a cross from Sierra Smith to Dana Peart. Peart onetimed it into the corner of the net to put the Aggies up. The rest of the half, the Aggies had chances but couldn't find the net again. "We made a conscious effort to go long and it paid off," Utah State Head Coach Heather Cairns said. "If we would have put the other first half chances away, it would have been an entirely different game." The Aggies outside midfielders played a solid game and are becoming a strength on the attack. "We need to get our outside mids more involved," Cairns said. "We have great players at outsidemidfield position, we want to play through them. The lone goal was Sierra to Dana, outside mid to outside mid." The teams combined to have 18 fouls called against one another, including one yellow card on the Vikings. The physicality reached its climax in the second overtime when a Portland State player had to be taken off on a stretcher after lying motionless on the field while the ambulance arrived. "They took it to us," Kiersten Nilsson said. "We just got hit randomly." The physical nature of the The Utah State football team held UNLV scoreless for the last 19 minutes of the game, which was almost as important as keeping UNLV scoreless for the last 30 seconds of the game. The Aggies won 3124 thanks to a stellar performance from Tony Pennyman and Kevin Robinson. Both receivers scored twice in the game, accounting for all but three of the Utah State points. The Aggie defense deflected the last two passes thrown into the endzone by the Rebels to win for the first time this season and give Head Coach " .. Brent Guy his first career IV win and ;''*gBr Romney ^XXLZ-:^ Stadium its 100th all-time win. "It came down to the last throw and hopefully it won't come down to that," Utah State Head Coach Brent Guy said. "We knew it was going to be a fourthquarter game going into it. "UNLV fought to the end and it came down to the last few seconds." Cornerback Jarrett Bush, who had an interception to end the first half, almost picked off another on the Rebel's second-tolast play of the game. "That was a tough 30 seconds," Bush said of the game's finale. "In the fourth quarter, you've got to step it up and hold down the back end." Utah State took over the lead at the end of the third and start of the fourth as wide receiver Kevin >• FIRST W I N See page 16 Ryan Talbotphoto/nalbotixc.uuj.edu AGGIE ZUZANA CERWANSKA prepares to hit the ball over Bulldog Stacey Clark. USU beat Lousiana Tech to win its second WAC match. Ags win in three games overLTU BY ANDREA EDMUNDS Sports Editor OOCER See page 18 Ryan Taibot photo/rtalbot@(cusu.edu THE UTAH STATE FOOTBALL TEAM CELEBRATES Saturday after defeating the University Nevada-Las Vegas 31-24 Saturday night at Romney Stadium. The win was the Aggies' 100th win in the Stadium. Wide receivers Tony Pennyman and Kevin Robinson each scored two touchdowns for Utah State. Win is USU's 100th at Romney Stadium BY C . CHRISTOPHER TERRY StaffWriter ""..,%-. ,• Tyler Larson photo/tmlarson&cuiu.edu USU's TifFANr MCQUEEN keeps the ball away from a Portland State player Saturday in Logan. ••;,•,':,•.? *&*-** Head Coach Brent Guy won his first game as head coach of the Aggies in a home opener that was also the 100th all-time victory in Roraney Stadium in the Aggie football program. For the second-straight year, the Aggies beat the thanks to five UNLV turnRebels, overs. despite This year being the Aggies outgained. overcame a Last year 387-283 yardin Las inside the.game *& disparity. Vegas, the and a 26-17 Aggies first down triumphed 31-21, despite disadvantage for the win. being outgained 550-291 The Rebs turned it over Notebook two times to the Aggies' one and converted on only two of their four red-zone opportunities. Junior wide receiver Tony Pennyman had a monster game after • NOTEBOOK Seepage 19 The Utah State volleyball team dominated Louisiana Tech Saturday afternoon in the Spectrum, winning the match in three quick games. "We came out kind of flat," senior Ingrid Roth said. "We could have come out a lot better, but I think we made some good adjustments in games two and three. We picked up our level again." After allowing the Lady Techsters to tie the first game at 19, the Ags went on a 9-1 run and put La Tech behind for the rest of the game. With the win, the Aggies improved to 9-6 overall [2-0 in the WAC], the same amount of wins they had in all of last season. Something head coach Burt Fuller says is a good thing. "I thought we played well," Fuller said. "Last season we. struggled with injuries. It's nice to have a healthy group." •VOLLEYBALL Seepage 15 |