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Show Take Note: § Monday, April 9,2007 The men's golf team is taking part in the Cowboy Classic today in Scottsdale, Ariz. 797-1761 sports@statesman.usu.edu DJ Smith breaks school record in 100 dash BY SAM BRYNER Staff Writer With the warm weather out in full force on Saturday, the Aggies men's and women's track and field team heated up to the tune of eight first-place finishes at Weber State. Leading the way for the Aggie men was Senior DJ Smith. In record-setting fashion, he won the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.28 seconds to break a standing USU record. The time, which qualifies Smith for the NCAA championships, broke a 14-yearold record that was held by Bode Osagiobare who in 1993 ran a time of 10.33. Smith's time of 10.28 is currently first in the WAC. Smith came in second place in the 200. He had a season best time of 21.34, which places him second in the WAC on the year. The men's 4x100 relay team claimed first place with a time of 40.57, just three one-hundredths of a second off an NCAA regional qualifying time. The relay team members are Smith, John Strang, Andy Davis, and Dasheek Akwenye. Scott Bell clinched first place first place in the 110 hurdles with a time of 14.51 seconds. Nicholas Karren came in third-place in the 400 hurdles with a time of 52.38 seconds, which qualified him for regionals. Kevin Liu led the way for the Aggies in the field events as he placed seventh in the shot put, fifth in the discus, and fourth in the hammer. Chase Taylor recorded a fifth-place finish in the javelin. The top three Aggie men in the 1500 race all finished within half a second of each other. Ben Kessen came in fifth place overall with a time of 3:59.57Vance Twitchell and Aaron Clements followed closely behind to finish sixth and seventh place respectively. For the women, Senior Amber Peterson had two first place victories. She finished first in the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 13.94 seconds, which was her personal best. She won the 400 race with a time of 54.91 seconds. Senior Jennifer Twitchell secured a spot in the regional race with a qualifying time of 4:32.72 in the 1500 relay. Caroline Berry led the way for the women in the 5,000 with a time of 18:25, coming in second place overall. Krista Larsen finished in the top 10 of all three of her field events. She finished sixth place in discus and tenth place in both the shot put and hammer. Both the men and women will compete again Saturday's they host the Mark Faldmo Invitational. -samabry@,cc.usu.edu Home runs lift Ags to victory in second game third and with freshman short stop Sam Bias' single hit to shortstop, Shafer brought it in with the Wolf After two days and two straight Pack's first score of the game. After losses, the Aggie softball team pulled senior second baseman Kym Silagyi's it together Saturday with a 7-5 win triple run, Bias ran home putting against the Nevada Wolf Pack, endthem up two runs at the top of the ing the Wolf Pack's 11-game winning first inning. streak. With the Aggies up to bat, junior The Wolf Pack, who are 4-5 in the third baseman Amy Schaible hit WAC, started off slow Friday with no a single to pitcher, putting her on runs, hits, errors, or runners left on first base. With freshman outfielder base in the first inning. Amanda Grow's ground hit, Schaible The Aggies, 1-7 in the WAC, had a then advanced to second base. Fife better start than Nevada with senior and sophomore first baseman Aubrie first baseman Jamie Fife getting the Stroman both walked, putting first hit of the game. Unfortunately, Schaible on third. After Stroman and 1 there were no other «^^^^^^« Fife advancing to sechits and USU entered ond and third, Schaible the second inning ran home, putting the with no score. Aggies down only 2-1 The Wolf Pack set at the bottom of the the pace of the game first inning. in the third inning GAMEI The pace slowed with five hits and five down for both teams runs. Carrying that WOLF PACK 6 and the second and momentum throughthere were no scores USU 2 out the whole game, in the second or third Nevada walked away innings. with a 9-0 victory The Wolf Pack came against Utah State. GAME 2 back in the fourth A double-header inning, having four on Saturday left the USU 7 hits and Aggies with a loss and WOLF PACK 5 a victory, showing four runs. drastic improvement ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Fife hit a double from yesterday. in the sixth, followed by a walk by "It's been the same song over and Stroman. Junior short stop Tara over; we've played good then we've Evans hit a single and Fife was able played a little bad," Head Coach to run home for the Aggies' second Candi Letts said. "Today we just of the game. talked about getting better than yes- score By the seventh inning, momentum terday." was lost for Utah State and they fell And that's what they did. yet again to Nevada with a score of Nevada junior first baseman Tyler 6-2. But even with the loss, the Shafer started off the game with a single run, then stole second base improvement from Friday's game on a passed ball. Shafer advanced to was enough to keep the girls' spirits BY BLAIR FAIRMAN Staff Writer Tyler Lanon/tmforsen&{(Msu.edu AGGIE FRESHMAN PITCHER STACEY EUINGSWORTH winds up for a pitch Saturday in Game 1 of Saturday's double header against the Nevada Wolf Pack. Ellingsworth pitched the final two innings of the game, a 6-2 loss. high. "When they started coming back in that first game, we saw more of a glimmer in their eyes instead of that bleakness," Letts said. "It helped leap us into the second game." With a 20-minute break between Saturday's game 1 and 2, the Aggies were able to recuperate after their second loss and prove they had it in them. Nevada showed their talent at the beginning of the game, throwing down three runs and three hits in the first inning. The Aggies had scoreless start • VICTORY see page 10 USU pounced by WC and Colorado Senior Writer Westminster 20, USU 3 Frustration boiled over at times on the Aggie sideline as USU, back on the field after a two-week rest, dropped its game to a lower-division power, the Westminster Griffons. A despondent Coach Matt Polytyka said his young team "made [Westminster] look better than they are." The visiting Griffons scored quickly in the first quarter, peppering USU goalie Jackson Evans. "They had 12 shots and nine goals," Polytyka said. "We didn't get any stops there on the defensive end in the first quarter. Our freshman goalie didn't play too well. He didn't make a lot of saves. It seemed like every shot they took went in.w USU started to play in the second quarter, converting a couple of ground balls into goals by Steve Hughes (2) and Lance Weeks (l). Weeks picked up a loose ball and charged the better part of the length of the field right to Colorado's net before scoring unassisted. "The offensive movement was better," Polytyka said of the second quarter. Unfortunately USU was giving up five goals to Westminster at the same time they were showing signs of life on offense, and went into halftime down by 11. In the second half, Westminster's superior team depth showed as they possessed the ball and scored six more goals on Raymond with a methodical barrage. One brief enlivenment to the dull afternoon under the hot sun was provided by Kyle Pearson of the Aggies, who earned a fighting ejection penalty in the third quarter. After taking a hard late Sharpton to question Imus about remarks NEW YORK (AP) - Don Imus will appear on the Rev. Al Sharpton's radio show Monday, five days after Imus made racially charged comments on his own show about the Rutgers women's basketball team, Sharpton and MSNBC announced Sunday. Despite Imus' scheduled appearance, Sharpton said his position was unchanged: He wants Imus fired and intends to write the Federal Communications Commission about the matter. "Somewhere we must draw the line in what is tolerable in mainstream media," Sharpton said Sunday. "We cannot keep going through offending us and then apologizing and then acting like it never happened. Somewhere we've got to stop this." The Rev. Jesse Jackson said his RainbowPUSH Coalition plans to protest Monday in Chicago outside the offices of NBC, which owns MSNBC, over the remark Imus made last Wednesday during his show. Imus said members of the mostly black Rutgers University women's basketball team were "nappy-headed hos." LAS VEGAS (AP) - Will Power's first Champ Car victory was almost too easy. The first Australian ever to win a race in the Champ Car World Series or its predecessor, CART, Power led 38 of the 68 laps in the seasonopening Vegas Grand Prix and won by about a half-mile on the 2.44-mile, 12-turn temporary circuit. M It was a pretty cruisy race, really," Power said, grinning. "I was saving fuel and saving brakes because the brake pedal was really getting pretty long." Last year's top rookie said he was "relieved" when the 1hour, 45-minute timed event snaking through the streets of downtown Las Vegas ended. "When I heard there were about three laps to go, I figured we probably had it, but I still just wanted to get it done before something happened," said Power. At the finish, it wasn't even close with Power beating rookie Robert Doornbos of Holland by 16.787 seconds. SuperSonics rally from 22 points down for win Tyler Larson/tmbrion&tcuw.edu USU's KENT "DOUGHNUT" ARNOLD fights against a Winchester Griffon for a ground ball on Saturday. USU was soundly thrashed 20-3 at the Tower field. hit, Pearson decided to put his high school wrestling knowledge to good use. "He hit me late and it pissed me off," Pearson explained. "I never tried to punch him. I've never ' •Sports Notes __J Power overpowers field in Las Vegas for Champ Car win Game Over BY G. CHRISTOPHER TERRY Down! Line # punched anyone in my life. All I did was take him down." USU's midfield star Kent "Doughnut" Arnold, who was recognized with two fighting ejections himself last year, showed that he has turned over a new leaf by helping to break up the fight Pearson • POUNCED see page 9 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Rashard Lewis scored 28 of his 35 points in the second half and the Seattle SuperSonics rallied from a 22-point deficit to beat the Utah Jazz 106-103 Saturday night. The Sonics hit six of eight 3-pointers in the fourth quarter, when they outscored Utah 39-16 to hand the Jazz their third straight loss. Earl Watson had 15 points and nine assists, and Nick Collison added 14 points and seven rebounds in helping the Sonics end a four-game losing streak. The Jazz blew a 17-point lead the night before in a loss at Sacramento, then" topped that Saturday at home after leading by 20 entering the fourth quarter. |
