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Show WE/TERN WAT/ Young boy recovering after sideline hit FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) - A 4-year-old boy who was inadvertently blitzed by a college football player during a game has 30 stitches in his head, but he's recovering well, his father said Tuesday. It was the spring youth football festival at Colorado State on Saturday, and Caden Thomas was wandering along the sidelines with his father during the team's intrasquad game. They were near the end zone when wide receiver George Hill, trying to catch a touchdown pass, didn't see the boy in time and crashed into him. "Well, there's the sickening thud," Caden's father, Michael Thomas, said Tuesday. "I was just tremendously worried about the rest of his life. You make automatic assumptions there will be some damage when you see something that horrific." The team's trainer and doctor rushed in to help Caden as his father held him and Hill waited nearby, worried about the little boy. Caden was bleeding from a deep cut on his head, but he was conscious, and his neurological exams were normal. "He was saying he wanted to go home," Thomas said. "I think he had a pretty good idea that this was going to require a trip to the hospital, and he was none too excited about that prospect." "To see he bounced back so quickly was really a blessing," he said. A plastic surgeon stitched up the little boy's head at the hospital and sent him home. The next day, Caden got a call from Colorado coach Sonny Lubick. He also got a football signed by the team, Thomas said. Caden himself talked a little bit about what happened. "It was kind of scary cause I got bonked by the football," the boy said, hugging his own football. "It kind of hurted." Western Wats has increased wages and we are still willing to work around your schedule. We still offer weekly pay, a fun work environment and we'll give you time off for school events, tests and holidays. Call Cody at 753-1303 or stop by 80 Golf Course Drive, Suite B (behind Wendy's on the south of Logan). Apply online: surveynetwork.com/application. j DISTANCE RUNNER From page 6 leads the Western Athletic Conference. "That race felt fabulous," Lifferth said of her recordsetting performance. "I wasn't expecting it. I just wanted to race the competition and not worry about the time. I do better when I go out and compete. Sometimes when you think of a time you want to get or a record you want to set, the pressure can build and build on you. When you go out and compete and do what you love doing, then it just comes to you and you run that much more relaxed." Keeping herself relaxed is one thing Lifferth said she works hard at. She said sometimes in a distance race, negative thoughts can bombard her about how much her legs hurt, but she said a teammate told her not to let people see the pain on her face so she winks at her teammates as she runs by. Another thing Lifferth said helps her prepare to be relaxed in competition is staying focused during practice. u If I'm having a hard workout and I'm just too tense and I can't get my body to relax, I'll just get a song in my head to get a rhythm but not in races usually. I don't know if it pumps me up, but it definitely relaxes me," Lifferth said. Before every race, Lifferth said she calls her Grandma Murray, eats bananas and visually conceptualizes the race in her head. She said these pre-race rituals help her get prepared and do well. As the track season comes to an end, Lifferth said she has some goals to stretch herself until she graduates, including joining teammate Jennifer Tvvitchell as an AilAmerican. "I want to go to nationals and get top 10 at nationals, which would make me an Ail-American, which is my goal," she said. "The same thing next year. In cross country I want my team to go to nationals as a team." Lifferth said seeing Twitchell earn All-American status has inspired her to work harder. "When she got it I was so stoked for her but a little tiny bit of jealousy was in me," Lifferth said. "It just made my hunger for it that much more. If she can do it, I can do it." Lifferth said track is an addicting passion for her that she has come to love, and said she wouldn't go back to soccer even if USU soccer Head Coach Heather Cairns invited her to play. "I'm so dedicated to track that I'd stick with track. It's funny how it becomes a new passion. It's addicting. I just love it," Lifferth said. "When I tell people we run 50 to 60 miles a week, they just look at you like you're crazy. Who does that? It just becomes a part of you, and it's something you love." -sethhawkins@cc.usu.edu COFFEE ROASTING COMPANY vww.catfeibis.con Open 7 days a week 52 Federal Avenue 435.753 4777 Logan Utab ERAL AVENUE • SOFTBALL SWEEP From page 5 home by Reilly to bring the score to 6-0. When the fifth inning came around, Bengal sophomore and third baseman Heather Dixon hit a home run, bringing in the only run ISU would see all day. Ending the game in inning five almost the same as they started, the Aggies scored four runs for a final score of 10-2. USU now moves to 17-27 on the regular season. "This team, sometimes they fight with their own lack of confidence," Letts said. "But when they play like they can, good things happen, and the bats never cooled off." USU will be traveling to Salt Lake City on Wednesday to face off against the University of Utah for their third game this week, and it won't end there. The Aggies will also be facing the University of Hawaii on APARTMENTS t Rent 2 Onsite Laundromat • Close to USU & Bus Stop • Sununcr Kent $425 • Private Ih'tlrooms Forest Uale Iuist (school veur) $ l'A95 to $2350 • Forest date West (school van) $2225 Tyler Larson/tmlarson@c(.usu.edu JUNIOR THIRD BASEMAN A M Y SCHAIBLE hits a grounder during play against the Bengals, Tuesday afternoon at the LaRee and LeGrand Johnson Field. Schaible hit a home run in the first game against the Bengals. The Aggies went on to win both games. April 27 and 28. "Utah has to prove that they can beat us," Letts said. "I think that's more the standard. Our kids can only gain more learning and good things from playing those teams right now. And I think that's where we want to be when we go to the conference tournament." -eawads@cc.usu.edu she was going to fall, but after a while she was confident enough to start playing harder. Control is a big issue. Taylor said controlling the ball and himself at the same time is the trickiest part of broomball. After all, the game is played on ice, and "the ice gets really slippery," White said. But White isn't just stating the obvious. At the first of the game, the ice is chopped up, either from skaters or the Zamboni. Taylor said they have hockey players on the ice right before broomball, which makes the ice choppy and easier to run on. Another option he mentioned was a dry cut with the Zamboni. This is when the Zamboni shaves the top layer of ice off, which makes it dry and grippy, Taylor said. No matter what method is used before the game, by the end, some of the traction disappears, which makes it harder for players to run and stop. "The more you play, the slipperier the ice gets. So you almost have to change your whole game by the time the end hits," White said. Not everyone thinks the lack of traction is a bad thing. Scott Beard is used to having control on the ice. Beard is a goalie on USU's hockey team, a broomball referee and a newcomer to the sport. "Its totally different (than hockey) because you don't have as much control, and that's what makes it fun," he said. Besides being fun, Taylor sees broomball as a challenge. "Every time you play, even though you've been playing and you improve, you always run into a hard spot and learn something new," he said. Taylor is also hoping some will find the challenge to be a good dating opportunity as well. He said he thinks broomball would be great for dates because it's different and fun. "Come see if your date's got what it takes," Taylor said. Broomball will continue at the Eccles Ice Center throughout the summer. Games are scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m. on Fridays, but this may change. For more information on broomball, prices and new game times, visit the Eccles Ice Center Web site at www.ecclesice. com. -dabake@cc.usu.edu IAITV rc Terra I earns you ;i ticket Tor a raffle1 to win items -IdO N 400 E l.oi;an, UT 84.'*21 such as I.C.I) I Y'S, Portable DVD players anil other great items. TALTV referral also earns yon money off your rent. Going away for the summer? BROOMBALL From page 5 happened at the ice center," Grady Brimley, a junior in speech communication, said. The enjoyment is evident on the faces of the competitors, who come off the ice with smiling faces after 40 minutes of slipping, sliding and occasionally falling. Taylor said he thinks broomball is so great because people don't have to know now to skate to play. White, who has played two of the three weeks, said it was the equality and inclusive nature of the game that made it so fun. "Everybody is kind of on the same level, so everyone just has fun," he said. "Nobody really gets left out. The ball always comes to you. You don't just have to sit on the sidelines. Everyone is involved." Since the game is very laid back, it is easy for newcomers to feel welcome. Stacey Peterson was one of the newcomers last Friday. She said it was very casual, and she wasn't intimidated because messing up wasn't a big deal. Peterson was the only girl in her game, and she managed to score a goal. Even though she was able to score, Peterson said broomball isn't that easy at first. She said she was afraid take this with you www.seneedham.com or 1-800-279-7740 take this with you Store Hours: Monday - Saturday 10:00 - 7:00 Tlie Diamond Engagement Ring Store...since 1896 J4J North Main • 752-7149 www.seneeaham.com Mlddlt of the block at lk« tiga of tfat clotk. |