Current Article's in the Review

I love writing for the UVU Review & I love even more being the only girl on the sports staff. Walking into a press box of a game and having 3 guys stare at me like "What the hell are you doing here" & then they see my press pass & realize I am legit and I am a sports reporter! Classic! Here are my current articles in the Review. Enjoy!

Owlz finish series with a win

By Kira Terry

The Orem Owlz had some ups, and downs at the Brent Brown ballpark last Monday night July 27, but ended with a win against the Casper Ghosts.

The Owlz were the first on the scoreboard in the bottom of the first inning. A long hit to far center field got Michael Wing to third base and then eventually brought Wing in for the first run of the game.

In the second inning Casper took a 5-2 lead over the Owlz. A wild pitch from Tyler Kehrer of the Owlz got it all started bringing in one Casper runner. Then a home run hit by Casper player Jared Clark brought them to the lead.

Things didn't heat up again till the bottom of the sixth inning. The first three batters of the inning for the Owlz all got base hits making the bases loaded. Richard Cates then got a good hit bringing in two of the Owlz runners, bringing Orem within one run of Casper.

Dillon Baird stepped up to the plate and shelled out his first home run of the season bringing the score to 7-6 for Orem, and giving them their first lead since the second inning.

Hits by Wing and Carlos Ramirez put another run up for Orem bringing the score to 8-6. After scoring five runs alone during the sixth inning the Owlz finished out the game holding Casper and taking the win and keeping the score at 8-6 for the final.

The Orem Owlz will be at home all this week taking on Idaho Falls on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and Casper on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

*Photo Credit: Trent Bates, UVU Review*

Rugby ready for fall season

By Kira Terry

For those looking for another sporting event to attend in the fall, UVU Rugby may just be one of UVU's best-kept secrets.

During the 2008-09 season, UVU Rugby had quite the success which took them all the way to Nationals in Florida. "The team was consistently ranked in the Top 10 throughout the season," said William Taulau Fale the Chief Operations Officer for UVU Rugby.

At Nationals UVU sadly lost to Arizona State, but Fale said, "We have learned lessons that will be beneficiary throughout the 2009-2010 season."

Rugby teams often are seen as some of the closest teams and UVU's team isn't any different. "Rugby is a very team oriented sport," says Fale. "This is because every player has the opportunity to be a decision maker and a play maker by carrying the ball and making quarterback like decisions because they have the ball in their hands."

As for their upcoming season, Fale says their schedule will include, "schools such as Utah, Utah State, Weber State, Boise State, Snow College and other schools with which schedule negotiations are still being carried out."

All are invited to watch UVU Rugby in their upcoming season. Games are held on the field behind the Education Building on campus.

In the off-season Fale says, "We have made some great preparations with both coaching, players, school relations and the whole culture of UVU Rugby. We know that this season is the beginning of something special and invite the whole school to come enjoy UVU Rugby at its best."

UVU Rugby will begin their 2009-2010 season in September and will follow the fall season with a spring season.

Training Update - Week 4

Last week was my 4th week of training. Ten weeks till the Hobble Creek half marathon & 16 weeks till the St. George Marathon. Going into my fifth week of training I'm feeling pretty darn good. I logged 10.7 miles last week which was short of my goal for last week because of a interesting run on Saturday. I do my long runs of the week on Saturdays & this last weekend I got home from work & decided to go out for a run. It was about 7pm when I left & my run was going to be five miles. I got to my half way point & turned around only to see completely black clouds to the south of me. Thanks to my dad's teaching when I was younger I was able to tell which way the storm was going & it was headed straight for me. I still had 2.5 miles to go to get back home. I picked up my pace to almost a sprint & headed for home. I was determined to beat the storm and still get my full distance in. I got within about a mile of my house & the storm hit me hard. A complete down pour of rain & hard wind. Any of you that run know that it is hard to run against the wind & hard to run in rain. I was at a point in my run when the rain hit me that I could take a short cut through a field where there is some construction to get home faster & since it was pouring I decided to take it. I cut across the construction site where they are building a new church house & I was sloshing in mud & sliding all over the place trying to get to my street. By the time I got home my shoes were covered in mud and I was soaked. My 5 mile run turned into a 4.4 mile run. That was the first time I have ever been caught in a rain storm like that on my run. It was interesting.

KELLY CLARKSON CONCERT!!

Thursday night was the Kelly Clarkson concert.  Me, Amber, & her friend went & met up with some girls I work with.  Thankfully the weather held up for the concert... it only sprinkled for a few minutes & then the sun shine came out and it was nice and cool for the rest of the concert.  It was a blast!  Here are some photos & videos!

Despite my camera's ability we were actually quite close to the stage.  Luckily Amber was able to get there early enough to get in line so we could get a good spot!

Kelly sounded so good live!  That girl has talent!

Despite all the media's digs on her current weight situation, I give her a ton of credit cuz she looked really great!

She put on a good concert!

Denise, Amber, Me ... (check out the girl behind my head... she was very into the song, haha!)