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Show Sept. 26, 2008 W O M E N ' S VOLLEYBALL • USU rally not enough Schedules Baseball SATURDAY SEPT. 27 (DH)USU@CEU, 12p,m Football BYE WEEK Hockey FRIDAY SEPT. 26 USU @ UVU USU withfivekills as the Aggies led the ByJOEWANCEMANN entire set. sports senior writer The rally continued in the fourth set as a pair of spikes from senior Melissa After winning two ^ _ _ - ^ — Osterloh led the Aggies straight sets to push the to a quick 4-0 lead. USU match into afifth,the again led the entire set, USU women's volleyball and finished 25-13. team couldn't finish FRESNO ST. 3 Osterloh said she strong, losing to Fresno came out after losing USU 2 State, 3-2, Thursday evethe first two sets thinkning at the Spectrum. ing, "Let's get back." After losing the first two sets 25-22, and facing losing the match, the Aggies dominated the third set, winning 25•I See SPIKE, page 11 17. Freshman hitter Liz McArthur led SATURDAY SEPT. 27 USU vs. BYU, 7 p.m. Women's soccer FRIDAY SEPT. 26 GameOver USU @ Cal Poly, 8 p.m. SUNDAY SEPT. 27 USU @ Wyoming, 12 p.m. Men's soccer FRIDAY SEPT. 26 USU vs. BYU-ldaho,6p.m. SATURDAY SEPT. 27 USU vs. Idaho State, 12 p.m. Men's tennis SEPT. 26-27 USU @ Utah Invitational, all day Women's volleyball SATURDAY SEPT. 27 USU vs. Nevada, 8 p.m. Three-way tie in LPGA Classic TOP, USU FRESHMAN OUTSIDE HITTER Uz McArthur (18) attempts a kill Thursday night in the Spectrum. The Aggies lost in five games to WAC foe Fresno State. Left, USU senior outside hitter (3) Melissa Osterloh and Katie Astle (7) block a hit from Fresno State's Kasey Van Grouw. PATRICK ODEN photos facebook WOMEN'S SOCCER I t SAVE THE USU FOOTBALL PROGRAM (please read, by Lance Brown) Global Basic Info Common ImcjeM - Beliefs £ Causei My rume !i Unce Brown, and I am the ASUSU A i h k t k i & Campm Recreation VP. This group was formed to create a seme of urgency of iivtiat i i happening around USU football. If USU football doei noi g « an zveiage attendance of 15,000 pcopfe, the program will go on probation by the f;CAA. poislbly pushing u i down to a divider, II team. And If thli happens, we will be on probation noijust for orw year until we gjln the support, but we will be on probation for 10 years. THIS IS DETRIMENTAL TO USU. If the football program suffers, so will all of Aggie Athletics, they're all Intertwined, Including our belo*ed basketball team. Because of lack of general ticket w k s , students will need to cccount for about 7,000 of those spoo. Average student attendance Is 2,SOO, but at the pan Utah game, we had jus! over 7,000. You don't have to stay for ih? whole game if you don't want to, we Just need you to '.wipe your cirf). If you can't go. send your (oommaie and have him/her swipe your CJrd for you. Dant worry about Coach Guy, the adminijtraiion will handle that side of thing j , but we need to do our pan and save the football program by attending the games, a: least (or a little bit. View DiscujS'On Boird Invite People to Join Leave Croup Croup Type ' Thu is i n open group Anyone can Join and invite others to Join. Pass this on, y-e-, but that won't suffice. Come to the gamelM But neither Mil that, not only do you need to bring yourself, but biing S olhei fnendi ana have them do the sair*. Because it Is up to us if we want things to change. • Thank you (or ajl of your support CO ACGlEStll Related Croups Lanes B/cwn (Logan, UT) (creator) SAVE T H E U S U F O O T B A L L P R O G R A M is a popular Facebook group created by ASUSU Athletics VP Lance Brown. Brown's purpose in starting the group is to generate more support for the USU football program - namely to help them get 15,000 fans to each game to avoid being put on probation by the NCAA, \magt courtesy of FACEBOOK Athletics VP using Facebook as tool ByMATTSONNENBERG stoff writer Ask any person on any college campus in America to tell you about Facebook. Chances are they not only know about it, but probably could describe it with in-depth detail. The Internet social networking site has expanded to become the most visited site of its kind and currently draws the fifth-highest amount of traffic of all internet sites globally. The site offers features such as creating your own personal profile, adding other people to a list of friends and joining groups for people who share common beliefs.or interests. ASUSU Athletics VP Lance Brown has begun utilizing Facebook's networking capabilities for things that stretch far beyond simply reconnecting with old friends or staying in touch with current ones. In the past several months Brown has been the founder of two groups that each took little time in becoming some the largest groups on all of Facebook that related to USU. Brown's first go-around with starting a Facebook group came over this past summer when he started a campaign for student sup- port of this year's current gameday shirts and the words on back to read, "I'm proud of my A." Brown rallied the support of more than 900 USU students and fans online in just a matter of days to support a battle between Brown and school administrators over the possible double-meaning of the saying on the shirts. The controversy made national news before finally ending in a compromise between both parties involved, but not before more than 900 students were both aware and supportive of Brown LI See TOOL, page 10 USU FRESHMAN FORWARD SHANTEL FLA NARY (6) hops over a University of Texas at San Antonio defender in pursuit of the ball.The Aggies play at Cal Poly Friday at 8 p.m., followed by a Sunday match-up at Wyoming at 12 p.m. KR/STY JORDAN photo Ags looking to avenge home loss BySETH R.HAWKINS web editor With a bitter 3-0 loss to Long Beach State ending a threegame homestand, the USU women's soccer team heads to the road this weekend to tackle Cal Poly Friday, and Wyoming on Sunday. Both teams have records similar to the Aggies, with Cal Poly at 4-5-0 and Wyoming at 44-1, and are programs USU has historically struggled against. Since 1996, the Aggies have tallied a combined 2-11 record against Cal Poly and Wyoming, with the most recent win coming in 1999 against the Cal Poly Mustangs. Add to this the fact that both teams come from talented soccer conferences, and the Aggies have plenty of challenges this weekend, but that's what USU head coach Heather Cairns said she is hoping for with her team's non-conference schedule. "It's two strong opponents we're going to have on the road," Cairns said. "It's definitely going to be an uphill battle, but I think we're prepared for it." With a losing record, the Mustangs have already faced plenty of athletic squads, falling to BYU, Arizona, Wisconsin and most recently 3-0 to Stanford. But they have also pulled down big wins, like a 5-0 blowout of Florida International, a 3-1 victory over Indiana and a 21 win over Western Athletic Conference rival Fresno State. While they may be a team that has weathered a tough non-conference schedule, the Mustangs have a losing record at home at 1-2. LI See SOCCER, page 11 PRATTV1LLE, Ala. (AP) - Jill McGill, Jane Park and Jeong Jang shot 7-under 65s on Thursday for a share of the Navistar LPGA Classic lead, while top-ranked Lorena Ochoa was two strokes back in her first event in a month. Ochoa played her first competitive round since tying for sixth in the Safeway Classic on Aug. 24, her fourth top-seven finish in a row, but seventh straight winless start. She opened the year with six victories in nine starts, including four straight. "I'm in a better place mentally," Ochoa said. "I feel very comfortable. I worked a lot on my game and it's always good." Roddick in quarterfinal in Beijing BEIJING (AP) - Andy Roddick overcame a Davis Cup loss and jet lag to reach the quarterfinals of the China Open, while David Ferrer wasn't as fortunate. Despite falling behind early, the second-seeded Roddick defeated fellow American Brendan Evans 6-4, 6-3 on Thursday. Top-seeded Ferrer was never in the second-round match, falling 6-3, 6-3 to Dudi Sela of Israel, who is No. 92 in the rankings - 87 spots behind the Spaniard. Roddick and Ferrer had byes in the first round and extra days off following Spain's emotional Davis Cup semifinal victory over the United States last weekend in Madrid. Ferrer defeated Roddick in the five sets. "From 4-2 down in the first set I started feeling a little better," Roddick said. "It's a little tough going from clay last weekend in Spain to dealing with the jet lag and what not." |