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Utest start MWC tournament with 9-3 win against BYU
The bats were burning red for the Utes in their first round game of the Mountain West Conference tournament against rival BYU. The Utes used seven runs through first five innings and never looked back on their way to a 9-3 win. "Our kids really earned it tonight," said U head coach Bill Kinneberg.…
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Utes to face Lobos in MWC tournament
The U baseball team got the combined benefit of its own 9-3 win and a 6-2 loss by No. 3 seed San Diego State, meaning the Utes will avoid top-seed TCU for at least one more day and will face New Mexico instead. With the way the double-elimination Mountain West Conference tournament works, TCU was guaranteed the lower-seeded winner from Tuesday night's tournament opening doubleheader.…
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Profile Guymon in the rough
When Cody Guymon started his collegiate career, it would have been hard for him to imagine being named to the Mountain West Conference baseball first-team. Not only was he not even a part of the MWC, he was in a frustrating situation that left him with eight RBIs and a .…
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Profile: Diana Phillips
Utah softball star Diana Phillips was named to the 2008 All-West Region team this week by the National Softball Coaches Association, adding an exclamation point to her senior season and her outstanding career at the U. "It's pretty cool," said Phillips. Phillips was also named to the All-West Region Team following the 2007 season.…
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Briefs: U women's tennis to compete in nationals today
Last month, the season came to a closer for the U women's tennis team. That is, for everyone not named Elizabeth Ferris and Emily Kwok.
The two combine to make up the No. 25 ranked doubles team in the country and that partnership will represent the U in the NCAA Doubles Championships today through May 26 in Tulsa, Okla.…
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Briefs: Ute track team takes 6th in MWC championship
For the third straight year, the Utah track and field team ended the Mountain West Conference Championship with a sixth-place finish.
Over the two days of the championship on May 16 and 17, the Utes posted 85 points and had five members of the team qualify for Regionals.…
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Briefs: Sitterud named assistant to women's basketball
Lana Sitterud spent three of her four years on the U women's basketball team as a captain and then spent the last two years as a graduate assistant. On May 13th, Sitterud was named the team's newest assistant.
"Lana is a bright, young star in the coaching ranks right now," said head coach Elaine Elliott.…
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Pappas: Jazz need a change
There are two types of Jazz fans. There are the postseason screamers--the fans who lie dormant like groundhogs until right around the start of April. They climb out of their burrows, raise their arms in a yawn, and commence in foaming at the mouth and yelling Sunday School obscenities.…
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