Aggie Bull Horn #135 - Aggie Bull Horn Weekly Podcast - April 30, 2010 - Season Finale

Gabcast! Aggie Bull Horn #135 - Aggie Bull Horn Weekly Podcast - April 30, 2010 - Season Finale

Aggie Bull Horn #134 - Coach Andersen on the Air - Apr 30, 2010

Gabcast! Aggie Bull Horn #134 - Coach Andersen on the Air - Apr 30, 2010

USU softball 2-2 over last four games - ABH insider

Utah State softball has had a decent week. The Aggies started out the week dropping a couple to the Utes, but bounced back in a big way against the Weber State Wildcats. USU swept out the Wildcats in dominating fashion, and Tina Ferguson continues her winning ways.

You can read about these games here and here.

Also, listen to Coach Carissa Millsap-Kabala's postgame interview in the player below.

Listen on Friday. it's kind of a big deal. 9 AM. Click Here

Aggie Bull Horn & Gary Andersen

Coach A will be on the air this Friday morning at 9 AM. Submit any question you have to fusionhd3@usu.edu as soon as possible.

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Peace out, and Go Aggies!

Aggie Bull Horn #130 - Weekly Podcast Apr 23, 2010

Aggie BBall, the NBA, the NFL draft, and other fun stuff in this week's podcast.

Aggie Bull Horn #129 - Hockey - Ron Hill Segment

This is what we had to say about Mr. Hill's comments. Many of Mr. Hill's statements are in this piece, so I would only listen to the entire interview if you're really interested in this issue.

Landon interviews Ron Hill, Father of Colin Hill

This is the unedited interview that I did earlier this week with Mr. Ron Hill. The interpretation is in the segment above.

The photo

You tell me - dirty or not?

Study for tomorrow's final!

Alright, it's time for you to do some studying for tomorrow's show.

At 8 a.m., we'll be discussing recent developments in a continuing story about a Denver hockey player who broke his neck against USU when Denver and USU hooked up to play in February at the Eccles. It's very important that you read these three articles. The one included below came first. The other two that I link out were written about the same game.

Tune in tomorrow morning! Fusion HD3 radio

USU notches 5-1 victory over Denver
Denver player suffers broken neck

The final article is not posted on AggieTownSquare.com, and since you obviously can't pick up the issue from February in which it was published, I give it here for your reading pleasure.

USU wins home-and-home with BYU

Brendan MacDonald's hat trick helped USU obliterate BYU, 10-3, in the second game of a home-to-home series on Saturday night at the Eccles Ice Center.

MacDonald's first goal was also the first of the game, and it came at the 13:50 mark in the first period. Matt Hamilton controlled the puck on the left side of the BYU zone in the power play and passed it low to Kyle Soder. Soder drew the BYU defense to him, which effectively left MacDonald wide open in front of the goal. Soder split the puck between two defenders, and MacDonald one-timed it home through the legs of both the BYU defender and the BYU goaltender.

MacDonald's second goal was the goal that busted the game wide open for the Aggies. Once again on the power play, MacDonald took the pass from his linemate, Hamilton, and buried it. The goal was the first of three in a two-minute stretch in the second period that gave USU a hefty 7-1 lead and the win. Head coach Jon Eccles said he was pleased with MacDonald and USU's overall effectiveness on the power play.

"Our power play was clicking all night long," Eccles said. "They couldn't really stop us. For the most part, I was happy with the way they played. We got a couple stupid penalties again, but for the most part we cleared things up."

MacDonald's hat trick goal was icing on the cake for the Aggies. With 13:24 remaining in the game, MacDonald scored his only goal not scored on the power play. MacDonald took a pass from Kent Arsenault and went on a fast forecheck. BYU's defense couldn't recover, and MacDonald left no doubt. USU led at that point 9-1 and was able to tack on one more before time expired.

Saturday's game came in the wake of part one of the home-to-home. Friday night's game was a 9-5 Aggie beatdown of BYU at the Peaks Arena in Provo. Brendan MacDonald managed to get a hat trick in that game as well. Also notable from the Friday night game were Billy Gouthro's three assists and an unassisted Tyler Mistelbacher goal in the second period. With that goal, Mistelbacher's 40th of the season, he continued his campaign for offensive player of the year in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) western region. Mistelbacher, a freshman, only trails UNLV's Michael Zenzola by three goals but has played three fewer games than Zenzola.

With the pair of wins, USU improves to 25-6 on the season and extends its season-long home undefeated streak to 12 in a row. USU's last home loss was against the University of Denver in last year's regional tournament. During the second game, USU clinched the season sweep against BYU, winning all six games against the rival Cougars from Provo. Eccles said he would prefer to schedule more talented teams to effectively prepare USU for the regional tournament.

"As far as being a strong match," Eccles said, "there's not a whole lot there. It was just a game for us and for the fans. We would have much rather played a stronger team to prepare us. We play Denver next weekend, and regionals are the week after DU. We want to be playing strong teams, because that's what we're going to be playing at regionals. We're not going to be playing teams like BYU."

Despite the lopsided results USU-BYU hockey has provided this year, Eccles said the series is still a rivalry as far as the teams and the fans are concerned.

"I love that intensity out there," Eccles said. "The fans love it. When the U of U, Weber or BYU comes in, it's a big rivalry. You can see the fans and how they help out, especially when they start saying, 'Hey goalie, goalie. You suck.' It's just fun to hear that stuff."

The degree to which BYU and USU hockey dislike each other was in full display in both Friday and Saturday's games. On Saturday, the Aggies were booked for 22 penalties – by far the most this season for USU. Likewise, BYU was booked for 18. The climax came near the end of the first period on Saturday when Jeff Sanders and a BYU Cougar started tussling, wrestling and pushing each other around, after a USU shot was saved by BYU's goaltender, Brent Taylor. While Sanders was venting his frustration and drawing all the attention of the officiating crew, USU's Matt Ferris took the opportunity to lightly crosscheck BYU's Tanner Billingsley, while Billingsley was off-guard. BYU's Todd Jaramillo, who was standing just behind Billingsley and had full view of Ferris's crosscheck, reacted in defense of his teammate by putting Ferris in a headlock and dragging him to the ice. The situation, obviously, did not improve from there. When all was said and done, 10 players were booked into the box at the same time for the altercation – five for BYU and five for USU.

Matt Hamilton, USU's starting center, was disqualified and ejected for facemasking in the third period of the second game. Hamilton, according to the ACHA rules, must sit out the game against the University of Denver for his actions. Also, Billy Gouthro, one of USU's three assistant captains, was given a 10-minute penalty and effectively ejected, for slashing and misconduct at the 9:31 mark in the third period.

While Eccles said he recognized the need for his team to maintain its composure, he also said much of the 22 penalties may not have been as necessary as the referees insisted.

"The ref," Eccles said, "there's probably been a bit of bad blood in the past and so he's not going to put up with any type of harassment or any type of abuse. He told us right up front, 'If you guys start doing that, we're going to start giving 2's and 10's and start kicking them out of the game. Bottom line, some of the guys couldn't quite adjust to that, so that's why they were sent off the ice early."

Aggie Bull Horn - Podcast Apr 9, 2010

Jared and I are in agreement that Utah will lose in this first round unless the Jazz can come alive, get Booze and AK off the bench, and win one of the first two in Denver. If this doesn't happen, then Utah's toast.

If Utah gets past the Nuggets, then the Jazz have the unenviable task of dealing with the Lakers/Thunder.

Charles Barkley parodies Nike/Tiger

Thoughts? I'm dying of laughter!

Jazz beat Hornets and Suns lose

Phoenix lost last night, so the Jazz are now a half game ahead of the Suns moving into the playoffs. Denver and Dallas will play tonight. Denver faces San Antonio at home tonight. I hate the Spurs, but the Spurs are coming on strong, and it would be a good night for the Spurs to play strong and get the Jazz the 1/2 game lead over the Nuggets.

Here's what went down in N.O. last night.

Aggie Bull Horn #126 - Aggie Bull Horn - Podcast + Picks Apr 9, 2010

Enjoy the podcast, and review our picks for this week below!

See you next week.

Game	Landon	Tyler	Jared
Jazz @ N.O.	+10	+4	+20
Jazz @ Warriors	+11	+5	+10
Jazz v Phoenix	+3	+10	+6

Seven Utes leave the University of Utah basketball team

Today on the show we talked about the departure of seven Utes from Jim Boylen's program. These are the articles and interviews we referenced in coming up with today's points.

Salt Lake Tribune
1320 KFAN

All in all, I would say that if Boylen can't manage to keep players at the school, perhaps it's a problem with the coach. Given his rant at the media earlier this year following a home loss to BYU, I can understand why many of his players left.

Marshall Henderson is known for wearing his emotions on his sleeve, but Boylen is as well. Basically, Boylen is Henderson with control over the program. Let us not forget that Morgan Grim left the program a year ago to come to Cache Valley and play ball for a team with a quality coach. Boylen needs to learn to control himself before he gets players to stick around.

INSTANT CLASSIC: Jazz v Thunder, Apr 6, 2010

If you didn't see this game,

YOU MISSED OUT!!!

This was a defining game in the season for the Utah Jazz, if Utah wins against Houston, I will be a believer.

One thing is certain, every game counts because before this game, four teams were locked up for the second seed in the west.

With this win, Utah reclaims the second seed with two difficult games remaining: Houston and Phoenix.

Aggie Bull Horn - Podcast + Picks Apr 2, 2010

Enjoy the podcast

here are our picks

Game	Jared	Landon	Tyler
Jazz @ Lakers	Jazz -7	Jazz +5	Jazz -2
Jazz v OKC	Jazz +5	Jazz -3	Jazz +3
Jazz @ Hou	Jazz +8	Jazz +7	Jazz +12
Lakers v Spurs	Lakers +9	Lakers +10	Lakers +5
Lakers @ Den	Lakers -4	Lakers -5	Lakers -2
Denver v LAC	Denver +14	Denver +9	Denver +10
Denver @ OKC	Denver -10	Denver -8	Denver -5
Mavs v OKC	Mavs -5	Mavs -12	Mavs -10
Mavs v Memphis	Mavs +10	Mavs +15	Mavs +8
Butler v MSU	Butler +3	Butler +5	Butler -2
WV v Duke	WV +7	WV +10	WV +5
Butler v WV	Butler +2	Butler -7	Butler -5

Jazz slaughter Warriors

A few things to note about the Jazz -

This team killed a Warriors team that came to Utah with 7 players. Yes, they are the Warriors. Let's remember that. The Warriors are not what we would term as "elite." I love the win as much as everyone else, but keep that in mind.

Utah has built a great home winning streak, but the second seed in the playoffs will be won on the road.

The Jazz are doing great and have by far the best schedule coming down the home stretch. I will be disappointed if this team doesn't finish in 2nd place.

Enjoy viewing the carnage.
Landon

Aggies Swept by Wolverines

This article is published in the attempt to keep listeners up to date with all USU sports, and not just basketball and football.

Check outThe Utah Statesman for more updates about USU softball.

The Aggie softball team hit the went to Orem Tuesday afternoon and suffered two tough losses to the UVU Wolverines, 3-1, 13-4.

"I don't want to put a bad spin on it," head coach Carissa Millsap-Kalaba said, "but we lost both games. I don't know what to say about it other than we lost and it's unfortunate, and it happens. It's part of the game."

The first game seemed to be going the Aggies' way early on. USU's lead-off batter, Rachel Evans, reached first base on an error by the UVU shortstop and scored an unearned run later in the inning when Kelley Kaneshiro doubled into center field. USU could gather no more offensive luck. UVU came right back in the bottom of the first and drove in two earned runs of its own to take a lead it never relinquished.

USU pitcher Kate Greenough was able to recover. She held the Wolverines scoreless until the bottom of the sixth. Millsap-Kalaba was very complimentary of her senior pitcher from Portland, Ore.

"Kate did really well," Millsap-Kalaba said. "She had to make some adjustments because there was a pretty strong headwind and that was affecting the break on her ball. It was blowing with her, and having that wind with you, you lose most of your spin. She made the adjustments she needed to and was really good the rest of the game."

Greenough ended the first of the two games with five hits, three runs – two of which were earned – three walks and six strikeouts. Her record is now 5-7 on the season. Despite the loss, Greenough's performance was impressive when coupled with the weather conditions in Orem. While Logan residents were dealing with a fierce and annoying wind, as well as sporadic bursts of pollution-saturated rain, the Lady Ags were facing a storm of their own. Millsap-Kalaba was not about to excuse her team for its performance.

"The weather affects it for both teams," she said. "But there was a really thick fog throughout the whole area. You could look right at the sun and it didn't bother you at all. There was wind, constant wind, the entire game blowing from behind the pitcher. It was pretty bad."

If the first game was rough for the Ags, then the second was downright torturous. Defensive woes plagued Utah State for the entire game, and the Aggie bats weren't there to compensate.

Freshman Mandy Harmon of Las Vegas took the mound to start things off and struggled. In the first inning, UVU advanced one on a walk and a second on a blown fielder's choice play. UVU's Megan Gardner then sent the ball sailing over the fence, bringing in three runs. Things didn't improve for Harmon. By the time the first inning was over, UVU had homered a second time and brought in two more runs to make it 5-0 in favor of the home team. Harmon bounced back in the second inning – she got two quick outs on a ground ball and a strikeout, and after UVU's next two batters reached the bases, Harmon got UVU's Amber Sackett to fly out.

In the third she got two quick outs, but that's as far as Harmon got without trouble. Harmon then allowed a double and an RBI single, hit a batter and allowed a third UVU homer. Millsap-Kabala had seen enough and went to the bull pen, relieving Harmon with Stacey Ellingsworth.

"That's how you learn, I guess," Millsap-Kabala said of Harmon. "There's no excuse, but there's definitely adjustment especially for my freshman pitcher. She's not used to pitching in that situation. She hasn't had a home run hit off her the entire season she's thrown, and in an unlucky game she had three hit off her."

Millsap-Kabala was optimistic that Harmon would recover after the frustrating outing.

"I expect her to bounce back," she said. "It's impossible for her to say, 'I'm going to go my whole career and not give up one home run.' That's a little unrealistic. I'm sure it's not the first home run that's been hit off of her, and I'm sure it won't be the last one. I expect her to get back on the saddle and start riding again. Such is life with being a pitcher. You're going to have days where it doesn't work for you and the hitters take advantage and then you're going to have days where it's going to work."

Down 9-2 after three innings, the hole from which the Ags had to extricate themselves was too deep, and UVU kept making it more difficult. The game ended in the fifth inning after UVU's Amber Sackett hit a grand slam homerun off of USU's Shasta Tyteca. Tyteca had been called in to relieve Ellingsworth. Millsap-Kabala said better is expected of her pitching staff.

"We're going to look to all of them to play their role and do their part," the Aggie coach said. "Because we have a big staff, we look at them as relievers and as closers to come in have the right mental frame of mind and be able to do their job. Today there was kind of a loss of that. They're human, and they're going to make mistakes. Is it acceptable? No. But it happens, so we have to deal with it."

USU now falls to 12-15 on the season. Millsap-Kabala said there is definitely some room for improvement.

"I don't want to lie," she said. "We're coming out of ourselves a little too much and doing things that we normally don't do. Whether it's being too anxious or not being aggressive in the moment that we need to, we let too many opportunities pass by. That's really what's hurting us. That comes with a huge amount of maturity. Being able to be mentally prepared in the moment is something that they need to find."

USU would have taken on BYU on Wednesday if it were not for inclement weather in Provo. Next up for USU is the Nevada Wolfpack here in Logan this Friday.