WEEKLY AGGIE UPDATE - SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

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1 7400 Old Main Hill Logan, UT Fax: (435) Website: Athletic Media Relations WEEKLY AGGIE UPDATE - SEPTEMBER 1, 2014 FOOLL... Contact: Doug Hoffman (435) Sat., Sept IDAHO STATE, 6 p.m. (MW Network) Utah State s football team (0-1) will host Idaho State (0-1) in its home opener on Saturday, Sept. 6 at 6 p.m. (MT). The game will be streamed live on the internet by the Mountain West Network/Campus Insiders. USU is 14-2 all-time against the Bengals, including an 11-1 home record. L, at Tennessee Utah State fell behind Tennessee, 14-0, in the first five minutes of the game and never recovered as the Volunteers rolled to a 38-7 win in the first-ever meeting between the two teams Sunday night at historic Neyland Stadium. In his first action since a knee injury forced him to miss the final eight games of the 2013 season, senior quarterback Chuckie Keeton completed 18-of-35 passes for 144 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions, while adding 12 yards on the ground on eight carries. Junior wide receiver JoJo Natson was USU s leading rusher as he had 47 yards on two carries, while adding three receptions for 18 yards. Fellow junior wide receiver Brandon Swindall had a team-best five catches for 37 yards. USU s only points in the game came early in the fourth quarter as Natson rushed for 38 yards and Keeton hit junior wide receiver Hunter Sharp from 37 yards for the score to cap a 2-play, 75-yard drive that took all of 30 seconds. Sophomore linebacker Nick Vigil recorded a career-high 15 tackles, which included 1.0 sack and 2.0 tackles for loss to lead the Aggie defense. Senior linebacker Zach Vigil added 10 stops for his 12th career double-digit tackle outing and sophomore safety Devin Centers posted a career-best nine tackles. USU finished the game with 244 yards of total offense (144-passing, 100-rushing) as compared to 383 yards of total offense for Tennessee (273-passing, 110-rushing). SOCCER... Contact: Kara Fisher (435) Fri., Sept IDAHO STATE, 4 p.m. Utah State s soccer team (1-2) will host Idaho State (2-0) on Friday, Sept. 5 at 4 p.m. USU is all-time against the Bengals. W, NEBRASKA-OMAHA Two goals from sophomore forward Jessica Brooksby and one from senior defender Taryn Rose boosted Utah State to a 3-0 home win against Omaha Sunday. The Aggies took control offensively early, taking seven shots in the first 14 minutes. Despite the early offense, USU was not able to find the back of the net. Sophomore forward Jessica Brooksby changed that in the 35th minute when she beat Omaha goalkeeper Meaghan Clark, scoring from three yards out. Brooksby scored her first goal of the season off a long pass from senior midfielder Lexie Morgan. In the first 45 minutes, USU out-shot UNO, Starting goalkeeper, junior Jeannie Woller made one save in the first-half. Utah State maintained control much of the second half, out-shooting the Mavs 13-4 in the final 45 minutes and 25-7 for the match. The Aggies added an insurance goal in the 65th minute as senior midfielder/defender Brooke Larsen-Leavitt s corner kick found the head of Rose for her second goal of the season. Doug Hoffman, Associate AD/Media Relations (435) Zach Fisher, Assistant AD/Communications (435) Kara Fisher, Assistant AD/New Media (435) Megan Allen, Assistant Media Relations Coordinator (435) VOLLEYBALL... Contact: Zach Fisher (435) at UC Irvine Invitational Fri., Sept vs. Pepperdine, 11 a.m. (MT) Fri., Sept vs. Idaho, 6 p.m. (MT) Sat., Sept at UC Irvine, 3 p.m. (MT) Utah State s volleyball team (1-2) will travel to Irvine, Calif., this weekend to compete in the UC Irvine Invitational. USU will begin the tournament with two matches on Friday, Sept. 5 against Pepperdine (2-1) at 11 a.m. (MT) and against Idaho (1-2) at 6 p.m. (MT). USU will then conclude the tournament on Saturday, Sept. 6 against the host Anteaters (1-2) at 3 p.m. (MT). USU is all-time against the Wave, all-time against the Vandals and all-time against UCI. UTAH STATE INVITATIONAL, sponsored by Gossner Foods W, IDAHO STATE L, OREGON STATE L, ST. MARY S Utah State posted a 1-2 record at its own USU Invitational over the weekend as it defeated Idaho State in four sets, lost to Oregon State in five sets, and lost to St. Mary s in four sets. Against the Bengals, senior outside hitter Rachel Orr had 19 kills and 17 digs, while senior middle blocker Kaitlyn VanHoff added 10 kills and senior libero Ashlan Rogers-Court had 26 digs. USU hit.215 ( ) in the match and ISU hit.175 ( ). Against the Beavers, Orr and VanHoff each recorded 15 kills, while freshman outside hitter Rachel Gale had 12 kills. Junior opposite side hitter Elle Brainard had a career-high 11 blocks, while Rogers-Court also recorded a career-high with 37 digs. USU finished the match with a.155 ( ) hitting percentage and OSU hit.134 ( ). Against the Gaels, Orr had 14 kills and 16 digs, while VanHoff added 11 kills. USU hit.196 ( ) in the match and SMC hit.235 ( ). For the weekend, Rogers-Court and VanHoff were both named to the all-tournament team. WOMEN S TENNIS... Contact: Sean O Sullivan (435) Fri.-Sun., Sept at Colorado State Invitational, Utah State s women s tennis team opens its 2014 fall season at the Colorado State Invitational, which begins on Friday, Sept. 5 and runs through Sunday, Sept. 7. Preseason Utah State returns its top four performers from a record-breaking season that saw the Aggies post a school-record 13 dual wins. Senior McKenzie Davis earned all-mountain West honors after setting a school record with 17 dual match singles wins, breaking the previous record of 16 set by Courtney Anderson during the season. Junior Kallie Sperry, and sophomores Nini Guensler and Lexi Turley all posted a double-digit dual match win total a year ago, giving USU four players with 10-plus wins in a season for the first time since The 2014 recruiting class of Erin Freeman, Sabrina Demerath, Maggie O Meara and Meghan Lyall was named the 11th-best midmajor recruiting class by the Tennis Recruiting Network, just ahead of fellow MW teams Boise State (12) and Air Force (15).

2 MEN S GOLF... Contact: Doug Hoffman (435) Mon.-Tues., Sept at Weber State Invitational, Victor, ID, Sat.-Sun., Sept at Air Force Invitational, Utah State s men s golf team will begin its 2014 fall season on Monday, Sept. 1 at the fourth-annual Battle in the Tetons hosted by Weber State University. The two-day, 54-hole tournament, will be held at the Headwaters Golf Club at Teton Springs Resort in Victor, Idaho. The tournament, which gets underway Monday at 8 a.m., will play at par-72 over the 7,373-yard layout. Teams will play two rounds Monday and the final round Tuesday. Scheduled to compete for the Aggies is senior Grahm Schmaltz, junior Seokwon Jeon, and sophomores Tanner Jenson, Eli Rogers and McCoy Willey. Jeon played 32 rounds for Utah State last season and finished with a stroke average of Schmaltz played 27 rounds and finished with a stroke average of 75.81, and Rogers played 15 rounds and had a stroke average of At last year s Battle in the Tetons, Utah State finished fourth with a 16-over 880 ( ), while Jeon placed 10th individually with a 1-over 217 ( ). Rogers tied for 22nd with a 7-over 223 ( ), and Schmaltz ( ) tied for 42nd with a 20-over 236. Following its tournament in Idaho, USU will conclude its week in Colorado playing in the Air Force hosted Gene Miranda Falcon Invitational on Saturday and Sunday, Sept CROSS COUNTRY... Contact: Lea Williams (435) Sat., Sept at Montana State Invitational, 9 a.m. Utah State s men and women s cross country teams will return to action on Saturday, Sept. 20 when it travels to Bozeman, Mont., to compete in the Montana State Invitational. M: 2/4; W: 3/4 --- AGGIE INVITATIONAL Senior Eric Shellhorn led the way for the Utah State cross country teams as he crossed the finish line in 20:55.34, good for third at the Aggie Invitational last weekend. Sophomore Tori Parkinson was the top finisher for the women at the Aggie Invitational for the secondconsecutive year, placing ninth with a time of 19: In the team standings, the Aggie men finished in second-place behind Wyoming, while the Utah State women garnered the third spot behind Wyoming and Utah Valley, respectively. Sophomore Colby Wilson finished closest to Shellhorn in the men s four-mile race, snagging fifth-place with a time of 21: The third-fastest Aggie in the men s race was junior Tom Derr, who placed 10th with a time of 21: Three-straight Aggie s finished 15th, 16th and 17th, as senior Mike Bills (21:52.39), freshman Justin Sheets (22:00.80) and junior Kade Jensen (22:11.58) crossed the finish line in respective order to round out the top-20 for the Utah State men. In the women s five-kilometer race, freshman Kelsey Yamauchi finished right behind Parkinson in 10th, crossing the finish line in 19: Fellow freshman Hannah Malone was close behind, recording a time of 20:01.48 to take 12th. Also placing in the top-20 for Utah State was junior Amanda Stoudt (20:18.61), sophomore Elizabeth Winters (20:21.74) and junior Karlee Deeter (20:27.11), garnering the 18th, 19th and 20th spots.

3 Utah State Schedules/Results for August-September Schedules are subject to change LAST WEEK Friday, August 29 VOLLEYBALL VS. IDAHO STATE W 3-1 Saturday, August 30 CROSS COUNTRY - AGGIE INVITATIONAL M: 2/3; W: 3/4 VOLLEYBALL VS. OREGON STATE L 2-3 VOLLEYBALL VS. SAINT MARY S L 1-3 Sunday, August 31 SOCCER VS. OMAHA W 3-0 Football at Tennessee L 7-38 THIS WEEK Monday, September 1 Men s Golf at Weber State Invitational, Victor, Idaho Tuesday, September 2 Men s Golf at Weber State Invitational, Victor, Idaho Friday, September 26 Soccer at Colorado College* Saturday, September 27 Cross Country at Minnesota Invitational VOLLEYBALL VS. WYOMING* Sunday, September 28 Soccer at Air Force* Monday, September 29 Men s Golf at Colorado Invitational 9 am Friday, September 5 Volleyball vs. Pepperdine, Irvine, Calif. SOCCER VS. IDAHO STATE Volleyball vs. Idaho, Irvine, Calif. Saturday, September 6 Men s Golf at Air Force Invitational Volleyball at UC Irvine FOOLL VS. IDAHO STATE Sunday, September 7 Men s Golf at Air Force Invitational Thursday, September 11 Volleyball at Hawai i Friday, September 12 Soccer at Sam Houston State Volleyball vs. San Francisco Saturday, September 13 FOOLL VS. WAKE FOREST Volleyball vs. UCLA 11 am 11:30 pm 5:30 pm 9 pm 5 pm Tuesday, September 30 Men s Golf at Colorado Invitational Wednesday, October 1 Thursday, October 2 Volleyball at New Mexico* Friday, October 3 SOCCER VS. WYOMING* Football at BYU Saturday, October 4 Volleyball at Air Force* Sunday, October 5 SOCCER VS. COLORADO STATE* 6:30 pm 8:30 pm 1 pm Sunday, September 14 Soccer at Houston Monday, October 6 Men s Golf at Utah Invitational, Park City, Utah Wednesday, September 17 VOLLEYBALL VS. UTAH Tuesday, October 7 Men s Golf at Utah Invitational, Park City, Utah Thursday, September 18 Thursday, October 9 VOLLEYBALL VS. SAN JOSÉ STATE Friday, September 19 SOCCER VS. UTAH Saturday, September 20 Cross Country at Montana State Open Football at Arkansas State Sunday, September 21 SOCCER VS. UC RIVERSIDE Thursday, September 25 VOLLEYBALL VS. COLORADO STATE* 9 am Friday, October 10 SOCCER VS. SAN JOSÉ STATE* Saturday, October 11 VOLLEYBALL VS. NEVADA* FOOLL VS. AIR FORCE* Sunday, October 12 SOCCER VS. FRESNO STATE* Tuesday, October 14 Volleyball at Boise State*

4 Utah State Schedule/Results ALL TIMES ARE MOUNTAIN. Dates and times are subject to change. FOOLL (0-1, 0-0 MW) A 31 at Tennessee L 7-38 S 6 IDAHO STATE S 13 WAKE FOREST 5 pm S 20 at Arkansas State 5 pm O 3 at BYU 8:30 pm O 11 AIR FORCE* O 18 at Colorado State* 5 pm O 25 UNLV* N 1 at Hawai i* 9 pm N 7 at Wyoming* N 15 NEW MEXICO* N 21 SAN JOSÉ STATE* 7:30 pm N 29 at Boise State* D 6 Mountain West Championship WOMEN S SOCCER (1-2-0, MW) A 16 at Weber State (Ex.) T 1-1 A 22 at Arkansas L 1-3 A 24 at Missouri State L 0-2 A 31 OMAHA W 3-0 S 5 IDAHO STATE S 12 at Sam Houston State 5:30 pm S 14 at Houston S 19 UTAH S 21 UC RIVERSIDE S 26 at Colorado College* S 28 at Air Force* O 3 WYOMING* O 5 COLORADO STATE* 1 pm O 10 SAN JOSÉ STATE* O 12 FRESNO STATE* O 17 at San Diego State* 8 pm O 19 at New Mexico* 1 pm O 24 UNLV* O 26 NEVADA* 1 pm O 31 at Boise State* N 4-8 at Mountain West Tournament San Diego, Calif. CROSS COUNTRY A 30 AGGIE INVITATIONAL M: 2/3; W: 3/4 S 20 at Montana State Open 9 am S 27 at Minnesota Invite 9 am O 18 at Santa Clara Invite 10 am O 31 at Mountain West Champs. 10 am Fresno, Calif. N 14 at NCAA Regionals 10 am N 22 at NCAA Championships 9 am Terre Haute, Ind. MEN S GOLF S 1-2 at Weber State Invitational Victor, Idaho S 6-7 at Air Force Invitational S at Colorado Invitational O 6-7 at Utah Invitational O at CS Northridge Invitational VOLLEYBALL (1-2, 0-0 MW) A UTAH STATE INVITATIONAL A 29 IDAHO STATE W 3-1 A 30 OREGON STATE L 2-3 A 30 SAINT MARY S L 1-3 S 5-6 at UC Irvine Invitational S 5 vs. Pepperdine 11 am S 5 vs. Idaho S 6 at UC Irvine S at Hawai i Outrigger Challenge S 11 at Hawai i 11:30 pm S 12 vs. San Francisco 9 pm S 13 vs. UCLA S 17 UTAH S 25 COLORADO STATE* S 27 WYOMING* O 2 at New Mexico* 6:30 pm O 4 at Air Force* O 9 SAN JOSÉ STATE* O 11 NEVADA* O 14 at Boise State* O 16 FRESNO STATE* O 23 at Wyoming* O 25 at Colorado State* O 30 AIR FORCE* N 1 NEW MEXICO* N 6 at Nevada* 7:30 pm N 8 at San José State* N 10 at Utah Valley N 15 at Fresno State* 5 pm N 19 UNLV* 5:30 pm N 22 at San Diego State* N 25 BOISE STATE* WOMEN S BASKELL (0-0, 0-0 MW) N 3 WESTERN NEW MEXICO (Ex.) N 14 at Oregon N 16 at Oregon State N 20 UTAH VALLEY N at Baylor Tournament N 28 vs. Stetson N 29 vs. Marist N 30 at Baylor 1 pm D 3 at Utah D 6 WESTMINSTER D 14 NORTHERN COLORADO D 16 at Pacific D 19 at Sacramento State D 22 BYU D 31 at San José State* J 3 BOISE STATE* J 7 FRESNO STATE* J 10 at New Mexico* J 17 at Air Force* J 21 NEVADA* J 24 UNLV* J 28 at Wyoming* J 31 SAN DIEGO STATE* F 4 at Boise State* F 7 NEW MEXICO* F 11 at Nevada* F 18 SAN JOSÉ STATE F 21 at Fresno State* F 25 at UNLV* F 28 AIR FORCE* M 3 WYOMING* M 6 at Colorado State* M 9-13 at MW Championships Las Vegas, Nev. MEN S BASKELL (0-0, 0-0 MW) O 31 TEXAS A&M-INTERNATIONAL (Ex.) N 7 ARKANSAS-FORT SMITH (Ex.) N 14 WEBER STATE N 16 at Illinois State 1 pm N 19 SANTA CLARA N 22 at Mississippi State N 26 at UC Davis D 2 BYU D 7 at USC D 13 at Utah Valley D WORLD VISION CLASSIC D 18 CSU BAKERSFIELD 8 pm D 19 IDAHO STATE 8 pm D 20 SOUTH DAKOTA STATE 8 pm D 27 WAYLAND BAPTIST D 31 SAN JOSÉ STATE* J 3 at Boise State* J 7 at Fresno State* J 10 NEW MEXICO* J 17 AIR FORCE* J 20 at Nevada* J 24 at UNLV* J 28 WYOMING* J 31 at San Diego State* F 4 BOISE STATE* F 7 at New Mexico* F 11 NEVADA* F 18 at San José State* F 21 FRESNO STATE* F 24 UNLV* F 28 at Air Force* M 4 at Wyoming* M 7 COLORADO STATE* M at MW Championships Las Vegas, Nev. GYMNASTICS (0-0, 0-0) J 9 AIR FORCE J 16 at Denver* J 24 at BYU* J 30 BOISE STATE*/UC DAVIS F 6 SEATTLE PACIFIC/SAN JOSÉ ST. F 13 at Boise State* F 20 SOUTHERN UTAH* F 27 at Southern Utah*/vs. Denver* 1 pm M 1 at Texas Woman s/ vs. Maryland & Brown 1 pm M 6 at San José State M 13 BYU* M 15 at Sacramento State 2pm M 21 at Mountain Rim Champ. Denver, Colo. A 4 at NCAA Regionals, A at NCAA Nationals Fort Worth, Texas

5 Utah State Schedule/Results ALL TIMES ARE MOUNTAIN. Dates and times are subject to change. MEN S TENNIS (0-0, 0-0 MW) WOMEN S TENNIS (0-0, 0-0 MW) S 5-7 at Colorado State Invite S at BYU Fall Invite S at Air Force Invite S 27-5 at ITA Championships Pacific Palisades, Calif. O 3-5 UTAH STATE DUEL O at ITA Regionals J 14 at BYU J 20 WEBER STATE J 23 IDAHO STATE 11 am J 23 COLORADO MESA F 7 at Iowa State F 8 at Iowa 10 am F 12 at UW-Green Bay 5 pm F 14 vs. Arkon, Madison, Wis. F 15 at Wisconsin 9 am F 20 vs. Montana St.-Billings Bozeman, Mont. F 21 vs. Lewis-Clark State Bozeman, Mont. F 21 at Montana State M 6 IDAHO 11 am M 12 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT 11 am M 13 OREGON 11 am M 18 at Utah M 27 WYOMING* 11 am M 29 COLORADO STATE* 11 am A 3 at New Mexico* A 5 at Air Force* A 11 at Northern Arizona 9 am A 11 vs. Portland State 2 pm Flagstaff, Ariz. A 18 BOISE STATE* 10 am A at Mountain West Tourn. SOFLL (0-0, 0-0 MW) INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD USU ATHLETE OF THE WEEK