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Show \W_MondayAprKi62007_ little Caesarc HOT-N-READY little Caesars • GYMNASTS ITALIAN CHEESf BREAD From page 14 FRESHLY BAKED EflEAD WITH MELTED CHEESE AND TOPPED WITH [TALWH SPICES, 10 not keep it together on the beam. After two falls, they finished that event with a score of 47.725. In the all-around, Lewis placed ninth with a 38.600, Heinrich placed 10th with a 38.450, sophomore Nicki Felley was 12th with a 38.375, and senior Jessica Parenti-Otte finished 15th with a 38.025. "In the future we can't move in and out of the regional championships," Corn said. "We must make ourselves a permanent team at the regional meet." -bfairman@ccMsu.edv DELICIOUS PIECES 2 99 GAJtKY OUT PIUS TUB little Casaur LARGE PIZZA I UPT0 6 I TOPPINGS! CRAZY BREAD! LEARN TO FLY! Experience our brand new fleet of Diamond Aircraft! Nine-week Summer Private Pilot Program begins June 11,2007 USU is the only four-year flight program in the Mountain West with all Glass Cockpit. For one low pnc^ you will receive 6 college credits; For more Information contact us at flight fees; FAA checkride; text-books pil0t@CC.USU.edU and equipment. h l k - n lM( l i s I In ,il re '13 So. Mi in, LM|,UI. I l,ili " I Office . 4:i>7:>l>-IIOMi I , www.' .< ntf'iTorllKMrls.us I * .. c Muling WM) P.M. USU ultimate Frisbee a pioneer in growing sport BY D A V I D BAKEK Sut'f Writer Ultimate Frisbee players don't get a lot of chicks. "My mom always asks me why I'm not married, and I always say, 'Well girls go to college hoping to date a football player or someone in a frat,'" said Matt Bybee, president and captain of the Lost Boys - USU's ultimate Frisbee team. "And nobody goes to college wanting to date a Frisbee player or hoping that, 'Oh when I get to college I get to meet the Frisbee team.1 It's never like that. We're just small and obscure, I guess." But girls like success, and all the Lost Boys needed was one grab and a knockdown, and they would have had that success. They would have entered the semifinals as the No. 1 seed and had a good shot at winning sectionals. It wasn't meant to be - the No. 1 seed, a sectional win or the girls. But after entering pool play as the No. 4 seed, a move up to the No. 2 seed didn't sound too bad. And, even if they had won, the Boys didn't have enough money to go to Regionals, and they are probably used to the girl situation by now anyway. The day started off well enough. In morning pool play the Boys fared well, beating Montana State University 11-8 and the University of Utah 9-7. The win against MSU was a big one. Bybee said MSU was the favorite to win the sectional tournament. The heartbreak didn't come until the last game of pool play against Brigham Young University. The match was close all the way, with numerous ties and lead changes. In the final few minutes, the Boys had a chance to connect for a score on a long throw, but the disk floated over a BYU defender and off the hands of a USU player. BYU ended up coming back to take the lead and win the match 13-12 on a leaping grab. After that heartbreaking defeat, the seeds were set for the semifinal match-ups. USU faced the U in the 2-3 match-up, and BYU played MSU in the 1^4 game. The Boys were sluggish in the first half, but it would end up being a close game with the U winning 10-9. Bybee said USU used a lot of energy in the BYU match, and the players learned they wouldn't be playing another game even if they beat the Passing your most difficult test may have nothing to do with college. Jamie Crone/jamiecrane'gccusu.edu A MEMBER OF THE USU ULTIMATE FRISBEE TEAM leaps up lo snag the Frisbee away from an opponent during a match in USU's home tournament, Saturday. Utes in the semis, because they weren't planning on going to Regionals. This affected the team's play, he said. BYU beat the Utes 16-14 in the final. Even though they didn't make it to Regionals, the Lost Boys shouldn't be too distraught. They finished the season with a respectable 97 record - one which could have been better if their season hadn't been plagued by canceled tournaments. And, all this only a year after finishing with a 1-17 mark, and two years after a 2-17 season. Bybee pins the improvement on a higher level of commitment this season. "Our commitment level this year was 10 times better than it was last year," he said. It's fitting that the improvement came on the team's 10th anniversary. The USU team was started in 1997 by college kids playing on the N.U.D.E. club team in Logan. N.U.D.E. stands for Northern Utah Disk Exhibitionists. It's also fitting that Bybee was involved, because his brother Mike was one of the founding members of the USU team. In their first two years of playing, the Mad Cows, as they were called in '97, were ranked 27th out of 120 teams, Bybee said. Besides being successful, they also helped develop teams at other schools that currently play in their section. BYU and Idaho State owe their start to USU, Bybee said. In fact, Idaho State University and USU would travel to tournaments together under the name Udaho, he said. Over the years, USU has made a name for itself in the ultimate Frisbee world. USU is known for holding one of the best tournaments in the fall, Bybee said. But they are also known as a team that follows the spirit of the game. The first rule in ultimate Frisbee is to keep the spirit of the game. Bybee described the spirit as sportsmanship, and said it's what makes ultimate Frisbee such a laidback sport. 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