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Show StatesmanSports Page 14 P e o G o d Stew’s boys beat up on Nazarene ie u g wu UtahStatesman The w . d pu c www.utahstatesman.com/ www.a-bay-usu.com classifieds 24/7, easy to use, easy to find, easy on the wallet. t u l e k w Y wr By TIM OLSEN sports editor w e ! a a x h O Earlier last week the first real snowstorm of the season arrived in Cache Valley. Similar to every year, the arrival of the snow could signal only one thing: USU basketball has arrived. The Aggies played Northwest Nazarene in the team’s first competition against opposition other than itself, blowing away the Crusaders 85-51, much to the delight of 8,641 on hand at the Spectrum. “The easy thing to say is, What good does a game like that do you, and it does us a lot of good,” said USU head coach Stew Morrill. “It gets a lot of guys minutes. It gets us playing against somebody besides ourselves. We’ll be able to break down the tape and get a lot out of that game.” November 5th 7:00pm-10:00pm Junior forward Tai Wesley and JC transfer Nate Bendall tallied November 6th 9:00am-10:00pm 17 points apiece to lead the Aggies on a combined 15-of-16 shooting. Bendall filled in nicely for departed WAC player of the year November 7th 9:00am-8:00pm Gary Wilkinson in his return to the Spectrum floor. “It was definitely nice to establish our inside game early, and it was fun,” Wesley said. “I think we looked for our other posts a lot, and we were feeding it really nice. It was a lot of fun tonight.” Fresh off a school-record 30-win season, the Aggies wasted no time jumping on the overmatched Crusaders, 12-0. Wesley highlighted the opening tear with a thunderous right-handed dunk, after he knocked the ball away from an NNU player and tipped it ahead to senior guard Jared Quayle, who then left the ball for Wesley. Quayle had a relatively quiet night, finishing with 9 points on 3-of-6 shooting, six rebounds and three assists. USU’s charge was helped early on by a ferocious defensive effort. The Aggie big men tallied six blocks in the opening period – three by Wesley – and forced the Crusaders into multiple airballs. Despite their early success, neither the players nor Morrill were too excited about the team’s defensive effort. Another area the Aggies are hoping to improve in is rebounding. USU held a large edge in most statistical categories but only outrebounded NNU by two – including an 18-7 disadvantage on the offensive glass. “I thought we did some good things, but I keep harping on She says, ‘Ah, Can I get Your them about defense and rebounding. We were behind on the Friend’s phone number? boards most of that game and that’s a major concern for us,” said. “We don’t block out anybody right now. We get beat She says, ‘Ah,Morrill I getdefensively.” Your offCan the dribble Helped by a pair of freshman, Preston Medlin and Tyrone Friend’s phone number? White, the Aggies continued to pile on the points. USU scored 48 points in the first half and led by 22 at the break. Medlin, an offensive product from Carrollton, Texas, was espe- n r po a Monday, Nov. 2, 2009 t t c w n y AGGIE CENTER NATE BENDALL towers over a Northwest Nazarene player as he contests his shot. Point guard Jared Quayle is also in pursuit. PATRICK ODEN photo cially impressive, knocking down his first five attempts on his way to 12 points. “We had some freshman go out and make some shots and act like it was no big deal, so that’s always good to have your new guys do some good things,” Morrill said. “Preston Medlin has a scorer’s mentality, we knew that about him when we recruited him. He thinks that’s what he’s supposed to do, and it appears he might be right.” In the second half, the Aggies started out a little sloppy, buoyed by their big lead. Nevertheless, that lead continued to grow. Some nice post moves by Wesley, a 3-point barrage by White and six straight points by Bendall put USU up by as many as 40 points. “Nate Bendall welcome home. We’re glad to have you back,” Morrill said. “I always knew Nate was a good player. I remember watching him when he was in high school, and I turned to my assistant after warm-ups and said, ‘We want him.’ And I hadn’t even seen him play a game yet.” – t.olsen@aggiemail.usu.edu Marianne Poulson Submitted by Cross country wins fifth-straight WAC title By Connor Jones sports senior writer Utah State men’s cross country team won its fifthstraight WAC Championship title on Saturday in Reno, Nev. The women’s team finished in second place behind New Mexico State. Sophomore Brian McKenna crossed the line in first place overall and was named WAC Cross Country Athlete of the Year. McKenna finished the 8-k race in 26:00.1, 4.3 seconds in front of second place finisher Erick Garcia from Fresno State. McKenna has been the first Aggie to cross the finish line in each of the events run this year. “The course was really hard,” McKenna said, “but as a team we just kept pushing. It felt really good to win today, but our team worked really hard too.” Six members of the men’s team were named to the allWAC team, which long-time head coach Gregg Gensel said is a great accomplishment. Sophomore Daniel Howell finished third overall and earned first-team all-WAC with a time of 26:04.4. Senior 3000m Steeple Chase star, Steve Strickland, finished in sixth place at 26:34.5 and was named to the all-WAC team along with Nick Bolinder, who finished just 2.3 seconds behind Strickland for seventh place. Sophomore Steve Atkinson and senior Jason Holt were given second-team allWAC honors for finishing in 26:39.0 and 26:51.8 for eighth and 12th place, respectively. Sophomore Jessie Chugg was the top Aggie finisher on the women’s side, finishing the 5-k course in 19:34.5 for first-team all-WAC honors and fourth place. Alicia Holt and Alex Litzsinger were the next two Aggie finishers coming in at 20:06.6 and 20:13.9 taking 13th and 16th, respectively. Holt earned second-team honors with her 13th-place performance. 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