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Show Cyan Magenta Yellow Black A10 Sanpete Messenger/Sanpete Messenger-Gunnison Valley Edition Wednesday, March 9, 2005 Lady Badger hardballers turn Tiger named all region fortunes around with four wins HENDERSON—In a place where dreams are made and broken, the Lady Badgers softball team turned their fates around— and after four losses to start the season—picked up four wins over the Community College of Southern Nevada in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson, Nevada. The Badgers won Friday’s games 11-6 and 8-2. The third inning was decisive in both games as the badgers scored a total of 14 runs. McKell Shurtliff, Kristin McCuistion and Nesha Simpson each drove in runs in the first game. In game two on Friday, McCuistion, Teresa Barney, Maddi Asay, Jessica Nielsen, Kylie Bronson, Shae Peery and Shurtliff each had RBI’s to power the win. Barney finished with four RBIs in game two and McCuistion had three RBIs in game one. Saturday saw more of the same as the Lady Badgers picked up 10-4 and 3-2 wins to bring Snow College to 4-4 in conference play. In scoring 10 runs the Lady Badgers needed just three hits. Shurtliff had two RBIs of the three runs that were scored in the 3-2 win. “We hit the ball hard both days,” said Assistant Coach Andrea Ellis. “We made a few errors, but we played much more consistently than we did the first weekend.” Defensively the Badgers were able to avoid the problems that costs them opportunities against North Idaho the week earlier. “We are still making some adjustments,” said Ellis. “We are working out the problems and getting better each week. I’m really excited to see us start to hit the ball as well as we did this weekend.” Snow College will be at home again this weekend to host the Spartans of Colorado Northwestern Community College. Doubleheader games will be at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Friday and noon and 2 p.m. on Saturday at the complex at the North end of Ephraim. Insults and injuries Lady Badgers drop two on tourney road TWIN FALLS, ID—The Lady Badgers went into the final two games of the season without a chance to improve their standing, but needing some momentum for the tournament that begins next week. Snow College came out on the short end of the 87-62 and 73-54 scores losing both to the College of Southern Idaho Golden Eagles. With the losses the Badgers will face Dixie College in the first round of the SWAC tournament. The Badgers are 0-3 against the Lady Rebels this season. Meridee Spendlove was the only Badger to make it to double figure scoring in Friday night’s game. Kristina Peterson and Rana McMurtrey played 32 minutes and had nine and eight points respectively. Megan Hunt came off the bench to score eight points and pull down five rebounds in just 13 minutes of play. Saturday the Badgers fell behind early, as they were only able to connect on 17 percent of their shots from the field. The 18point half-time deficit was too much for the Badgers to overcome as they dropped their 12th game of the conference season. Peterson finished with 16 points, McMurtrey had 13 and Corissa Kesterson finished with 11 points and six rebounds to lead the Snow College Badgers. Snow College will now face Dixie State College in the first round of the tournament on Thursday at the College of Southern Idaho. B e f o r e t h a t , h o w e v e r, Henry contributed 20 points to the Badger cause. Kasey Winters added 18 points and 13 rebounds for a doubledouble, and Brandon Sholly gave 12 points of his own. Slight injuries may have been intended by CSI the next night, when Judkins says that CSI players gave the Badgers a lot of cheap shots that officials never called. He says those continued even when CSI led Snow by 15 points. Insult was apparently added to those injuries when, Judkins says, unconscionable things were yelled at his players by CSI fans. Judkins says the CSI radio announcer even referred to Snow big man Rawley Loutensock as a “goon,” or someone sent into the game to take out an opposing player like a type of athletic hit-man. The insults didn’t keep Winters from leading the Badgers with 19 points, or Ben Murdock and Moses Hawkins from scoring in double figures, 14 and 10, respectively. Judkins said he doesn’t mind if fans yell things at him, but it’s a different story when they unduly insult his players. He received an uncharacteristic technical foul when he went to bat for his team against an official, insulting him—again uncharacteristically—in the process. “I’m going to defend my team no matter what happens,” he said. But Judkins says he wants to put those things behind him as he looks ahead to playing Little League and Pony League. He helped the leagues make state tournament appearances each year. Last fall Smith posted an unbelievable .529 batting average. His great playing and leadership abilities helped propel the Wasatch Academy baseball team to a 14-7 overall and 8-2 region record, as well as giving the team its first trip to the 1A State Tournament in nearly a decade. Andy Smith — PETRO-HUNT — GROUP 69 S. Main, Manti, Utah 84642 835-8945 OR TOLL-FREE 1-866-345-0027 _____________________________ Snow ends season on dispirited note with two hard losses to Idaho TWIN FALLS, Idaho—In two games against the College of Southern Idaho last weekend, the Snow College men’s basketball team saw a disappointing end to their regular season, not only because they lost both games, 68-71 on Friday and 77-91Saturday, but because of the way they lost them. Coming off of two spectacular wins against the Dixie State Rebels the previous week, the Badgers’ hopes to garner a Scenic West Athletic Conference championship were dashed by nationally ranked CSI. CSI is ranked sixth in the NJCAA poll. “This game hurts,” said Snow head coach Jon Judkins after Friday evening’s loss. A particular hurt suffered by the Badgers on Friday was the loss of a main player for Saturday’s game. Dan Henry, who averages 17 points per game for Snow, cracked his wrist during Friday’s game, and was sidelined. MT. PLEASANT—For the second season in a row, Wasatch Academy first baseman Andy Smith received All Region 18 honors in baseball. During the 2003-2004 season, Smith, a sophomore, was the only freshman in Region 18 to garner the honor. Smith moved to Mt. Pleasant in 2000 and honed his skills t h e S WA C t o u r n a m e n t — which begins today—taking the negatives from last weekend, learning from them and turning them into positives. Foremost among those negatives, as it always is for Jukdins, is rebounding. CSI defeated Snow in rebounding both nights by significant margins. Judkins says something else he wants his players to learn from last weekend is “playing through things,” like rough, sometimes dirty, playing and non-calls from officials. “We’ve never had that all year long, a rough game like that,” Judkins says. He hopes the experience will prepare his team for what they may encounter at the tournament this week. He says his team might have a slight advantage at the tournament since they played there so recently. Also, he says that a contingent of fans at the tournament could have a big difference. “It’s a small gym,” he says, “and with a few people there you can make it a homecourt advantage really quick.” Judkins also says that Dan Henry will play in the tournament despite his injury. “The doctor has given him permission to play, and he wants to play.” The Badgers will squareoff against North Idaho College at the tournament today. If they win, the Badgers will again face CSI in the semi-finals on Friday. 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