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Show Monday March 30,2009 B7 Dave Iba/UVU Review Freshman Kirk Doxey awaits the pitch in the Wolverines 12-5 loss to BYU at Miller Park. Many bumps in the road for UVU eight errors, their pitching staff allowed 20 walks and Asst. sports editor they could not score more As of March 26, the than six runs. men's baseball team is 6-14 Their road woes continon the season and has lost ued as they headed to Cor10 of their last 11 games. It vallis, Oregon for two games seems to have been a rough against Oregon State and two road trip for the Wolverines. against Saint Mary's. The road trip started in In the two games versus Washington against Gon- the Beavers of Oregon State, zaga, where the Wolverines the Wolverines were domistruggled to get any mo- nated, losing both games. mentum. Every part of their Offensively, Utah Valley game struggled. In the four could not get seem to anygame stretch they committed thing going in either game. In the two games, they only scored two runs, one of which came off an error. In the first game the Wolverines were shutout and had only four hits, losing 7-0. In the second game, their bats were working a little better and they posted eight hits. But they could not get hits at the right time, leaving eight men on base. The next matchup was two games against Saint Mary's. In the first game, Saint Mary's jumped to an early 10-0 lead, but the Wolverines did not go down without a fight. The Wolverines scored seven runs in the top of the ninth. However for Utah Valley it would be too littie too late and they would fall 10-7. . The second game versus Saint Mary's was the only bright spot of this long road trip. After losing nine straight games, Utah Valley finally pulled one out, winning 7-6. The next time Utah ValNext came in-state foe, BYU. The Wolverines took ley will be at Brent Brown an early 4-2 lead into the Ballpark will be April 3 for a fourth inning, but after the four game series against Air Cougars scored five in the Force. fourth and four in the fifth, Utah Valley just was not able to catch up and would ultimately lose 12-5. Though the Wolverines UVU vs. Air Force have struggled as of late, W h e n : Friday April 3 there may be some light at the end of the tunnel. Af- W h e r e : UVU ter this long road trip, 12 of T i m e : 4:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. their next 16 games will be at home. Next Game Fairbanks Named Independent Player of the Year for Third Time Coaches and sports information directors at 14 independent schools have named Utah Valley University's Robyn Fairbanks both the Division I Independent Player of the Year and as a selection to the All-Independent first team. It's the third consecutive year that Fairbanks has earned the award of Independent Player of the Year. Julie McMurray was named to the second team for the second straight season while Sandy Wall earned honorable mention. Fairbanks averaged 26.0 points, 10.7 rebounds and hit 60.8 percent from the field in her final season of college basketball. The two-time AllAmerican became the 20th player in NCAA D-I history to record 2,500 points and 1,000 rebounds. Her scoring average ranks second nationally. "For Robyn to be able to cap her senior year with this award is awesome," said head coach Cathy Nixon. "She has accomplished so much in her career and done so much for Utah Valley basketball. It's great to see her recognized for the things she has done." McMurray finished second on the team and fourth among independent players with a career-best 18.3 points per game. Her triple-double of 19 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in a win over NJIT was thefirstin school history. She capped her junior season by leading the Wolverines to the independent tournament championship and the Most Valuable Player award. Wall averaged 13.9 points in her final season and finishes her career all-time second in points scored in school history. Nelson Finishes in 12th at Desert Classic Nick Nelson shot even par and finished -6 and in a tie for 12th place after the third and final round of the 2009 Desert Shootout at PaJm Valley Golf Course. He Finished 12th at Desert Classic Nelson, who began the day in 11 th, finished 10 shots back of the in- dividual champion, Tom Whitney of Air Force. Host Denver won the team title by one shot over Tulsa. The Wolverines shot 296 on Saturday to finish in 14th place, four slrokes back of Cleveland State. UVU shot 292 and 300 in the first two rounds for a three-day score of 888. Jeff Holmes finished in a tie for 62nd after a final round 76 (+5) and Skyler Distefano was one-over-par on Saturday and finished in a tie for 70th, two shots behind Holmes. Up next for Utah Valley is the Cal Poly Intercollegiate on March 26-27 in Arroyo Grande, California, Dave Iba/UVU Review Pitcher Jessica Martin begins her windup in the circle for the Wolverines. UVU recently split a doubleheader with Boise State. Softball rundown University and St. Mary's all ended in losses. After UVU's four-game With the first half of the loss, they traveled to Idaho women's softball season for six games in Caldwell complete, the Wolverines and Boise and left Idaho 2009 season sits at 10-15. with four-of-six wins. UVU began the LMU InThe Wolverines then revitational at the beginning of turned home and began the this month. This invitational 16 games they'll play at will take them through the home before returning to the remainder of their season, road. • which will go through the In the last week and a end of this semester. half, the UVU women have The LMU Invitational taken on Northern Colorado began in Los Angeles, Cali- in four games, taking one fornia and consisted of five win, and against Boise State games over a three-day pe- for two games taking also riod. Game 1 was against one win. Loyola Marymount and UVU will battle Utah UVU came away with a 6-5 State in two games and win. Games two through Houston Baptist in four five in LA against Seattle games at home this week. Sports writer Makin headline NFL wants to play more NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is proposing a plan to NFL owners to raise the amount or games in a regular season from 16 to 17 or 18 games. The proposal would also make it so there are fewer preseason games. 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