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Show TAKE A LOOK AT ALL OF THE CLASSIFIEDS ONLINE AT WWW. A-BAY-USU.COM. GET REGISTERED AND PUT ONE THERE YOURSELF! 25th Annual StatesmanSports Page 10 TRACK & FIELD USU track team off and running Friday BY USU ATHLETICS BRIDAL FAIRE USU Student Center Eaturay, km 23 10:00 To 5:00 Friday, Jan. 15, 2010 Utah State's men's and women's track & field teams will begin the 2010 indoor season at the Idaho State Bengal Shoot Out Friday, January 14. The invitational will begin with field events at Holt Arena at 5 p.m. and is scheduled to finish at 9:30 p.m. with the 4x400 relay. Utah State will compete against athletes from Weber State, Brigham Young, North Dakota, Southern Utah and host ISU. "I'm very excited to see some of the new people perform that I haven't seen perform yet," said veteran Aggie head coach Gregg Gensel. "If nothing else, this first meet is to see where everyone is at, and what they have done over the break." The Aggies return five women and seven men who were indoor or outdoor NCAA qualifiers during the 2009 season. The women's side includes sophomores Ruth Hilton and Spela Hus, junior Sonia Grabowska and seniors Ashlee Cannon and Erin Stratton. The men return juniors James Allred, Clint Silcock and Chio Lopez and seniors Steve Strickland, Dylan Nielson, Nick Karren and Casey Parker. At the 2009 WAC Indoor Championships the men finished in second place with 145.5 points, close behind host Boise State with 150 points. The women finished with 92.5 points tabbing their third-straight fourth-place finish at the WAC Indoor Championships. Following the Bengal Shoot Out, the Aggies will head to the Washington State Invitational in Pullman, Wash., on January 22-23. GYMNASTICS Gymnastics to open season at Central Michigan Many Prizes and Discounts Free Admission Free Parking BY USU ATHLETICS Utah State gymnastics will face Central Michigan on Friday, Jan. 15 in the Aggies' season-opener. The meet will be held at CMU's Rose Arena and will start at 5 p.m. (MT). Friday is the first of USU's two-meet road swing to open the season, as the Aggies will compete in the New Fashion Shows 12:00, 2:00 & 4:00 A Bridal Faire Production 753-6736 athittc &zee 198,3 aire.org WEEKEND GETAWAY IN MOAB! Thursday-Saturday, April 15-17 Hampshire Invitational on Sunday at Durham, N.H., hosted by New Hampshire. USU will join host New Hampshire in the quad meet along with Ball State and Yale. "We're really excited to get the season underway. We've been working really hard in practice preparing for the season and I think we're ready to get the competitions going," second-year head coach Jeff Richards said. "This weekend will be a tough test for us, and will allow us to evaluate and improve on things for the rest of the season." USU enters the 2010 season with seven letterwinners returning from the 2009 squad that posted a 1-19 overall and 0-9 Western Athletic Conference record. Highlighting the returners are NCAA Regional participants juniors Lyndsie Boone (all-around) and Jackie Dillon (vault) along with sophomore Erica Huelsmann (floor). Central Michigan is No. 25 in the first week's Troester rankings as the Chippewas are 1-0 after a season-opening 191.650-191.475 victory at Illinois State on Sunday. Senior Katie Simon won three events plus the all-around with a 38.575, winning the vault (9.825), beam (9.700) and floor (9.750). USU is 1-3-0 all-time vs. CMU, last meeting a year ago when the Chippewas visited Logan for a dual meet, beating the Aggies, 193.025-190.800 in USU's home opener. Friday is the Aggies' second visit to Mount Pleasant and first since 2005, when CMU topped USU, 194.050-191.850. The Aggies and Chippewas met twice in 2003, in a quad-meet at BYU with Southern Utah winning (195.875), followed by BYU (195.425), with CMU third (195.250) and USU fourth (195.225). USU, SUU and CMU got together for a trimeet three days later, with the Aggies logging their lone win over the Chippewas with a 195.850 score while CMU had a 195.075 and SUU posted a 195.375. USU continues its three-game road swing to start the season by opening WAC action on Friday, Jan. 22 against Southern Utah at Cedar City, Utah. Utah State's home-opener is on Friday, Jan. 29, against Boise State. HOCKEY Blown lead: Ags can't hang on to 2-0 lead continued from page 8 St- e C 411 - eagn) e -e t vAprotaAttir+3 and Canyonfantb meow, Alba To find out more, contact us at: UtahStateUn ive rsity MOAB EDUCATION CENTER (435) 259-7432 • moab.usu.edu Your textbook prices have attack were the absences of Mistelbacher, Sanders and MacDonald. At least one of those three players has scored in every hockey game of the season, except for a loss against the Colorado State University Oct. 1. However, Eccles lays the blame for that loss neither to the distracted players who made the trip nor to those who stayed to study for their finals. "It was kind of both parties' fault, I felt," Eccles said, "because they can't control what those other players are going to do. They've just got to go out and control what they can do, and I think their frustration kind of got the best of them and it all slid downhill real fast." As punishment for skipping the Weber game, the coaching staff decided to bench those players who were absent from the Weber trip in the following night's game against BYU. Eccles said the punishment set a precedent for the future of the team, both in terms of the resolve of the players and what missing a game will mean. "Close game again," Eccles said of the BYU game. "We had to battle through it. We didn't have some of our top players playing, but it showed the team that we can battle through it. It also set a precedent. If you're not going to take care of what you need to, and if you're not going to be to a game, then you'll sit the next game." Also notable, Greg Finatti, USU's starting goaltender, suffered an injury to his knees in a game against Eastern Washington near the end of the semester. The injury has kept him sidelined since Thanksgiving weekend. — la.ham@aggiemail.usu.edu dropped! PSY 1730 was: $60.40 now: $45.34 used even lower wois„ 4 - ,r" Effective Learning FOT USU S—B°°K UtahState University A A USU HOCKEY PLAYER FACES OFF against an Eastern Washington player in game one of a double header earlier this year. Cody Gochnour photo |