SUU loses the series against Oral Roberts 2-1 but snow cancels the final game!

The first game played against Oral Roberts was on Friday and ORU starter Kurt Giller took a no-hitter into the seventh inning before tossing a complete game shutout to help the visiting Golden Eagles take a 6-0 win over SUU at Thunderbird Park on Thursday. The SUU defense turned in a solid performance behind a strong outing by starting pitcher Chase Rezac, but the Thunderbirds were unable to get on the scoreboard after recording just three hits and leaving seven runners on base.
On Saturdays, both teams were in action again playing a double header. After dropping an 8-4 decision in the first game of Friday’s doubleheader with Oral Roberts, Southern Utah bounced back for a 6-0 win over the Golden Eagles in their second meeting of the day behind a complete game shutout from Justin Neubauer. The junior lefty took a no-hitter into the sixth inning before giving up his lone hit of the contest to help the Thunderbirds improve to 10-24 on the year.
Todays game was suppose to be scheduled at 1 put due to snow the game was snowed out. Cedar City sucks 

Oral Roberts throws a two hitter to get the win

ORU starter Kurt Giller took a no-hitter into the seventh inning before tossing a complete game shutout to help the visiting Golden Eagles take a 6-0 win over SUU at Thunderbird Park on Thursday. The SUU defense turned in a solid performance behind a strong outing by starting pitcher Chase Rezac, but the Thunderbirds were unable to get on the scoreboard after recording just three hits and leaving seven runners on base.

“I give credit to Rezac for getting ground balls, and Ricker made a nice play spinning to his left for that bang-bang throw,” said interim coach Clayton Carson of the three double-plays turned by the T-Birds. “I also felt like we had some good contact considering that their pitcher was up in the nineties and throwing a hard slide piece.”

Oral Roberts notched its first run of the game in the top of the second when third baseman Jose Trevino hit a lead-off single, advanced to second on a walk and then came around to score on an RBI double off the bat of Bennett Pickar. The score remained 1-0 in favor of the visitors until the Nate Goro put a two-run RBI single into centerfield in the sixth inning to extend the advantage to three.

The Thunderbirds had a chance to start a rally in the following frame as Mitchell Kauweloa and Chaisson Low started the seventh with back-to-back singles to give SUU two runners on with nobody out. ORU was able to record three-straight outs on a fielder’s choice, ground out and fly out to get out of the inning unscathed.

The Golden Eagles would then add three insurance runs in the top of the eighth to double their advantage to 6-0. Brandon Healy began the scoring with an RBI single to right and Goro laid down a sacrifice bunt to bring Brandon King in from third for the second run of the inning. In the next at bat Logan Domenico hit an infield single to second base and it appeared that the Thunderbirds had Brandon Healy caught between third and home for the final out of the inning, but a throw from bounced off the ORU designated hitter allowing him to cross the plate for the sixth and final run of the game.

Junior right-hander Kurt Giller allowed just three hits and recorded six strikeouts while throwing a complete game to earn his second win of the season for the Golden Eagles and now holds a record of 2-4. SUU starter Chase Rezac spread three runs and 10 hits over six innings to fall to 2-4 with the loss.

Oral Roberts shortstop Nate Goro drove in three runs for the Golden Eagles who also got an RBI from Pickar and Healy. Senior first baseman Mitchell Kauweloa led Southern Utah with two hits on the day.

The Thunderbirds and Golden Eagles will continue their series with a doubleheader set to begin tomorrow at 12 p.m.

Is the winning due to new coach or new facial hair

SUU before Conference with Coach Eldredge the team was 6-21 and without any facial hair or long hair. Now the team is 3-1 and is now in first place. Is it due to the new coaching strategies from Coach Clayton or is due to the new bad A facial hair that the whole entire team is starting grow out. You decide

Summit League after the first series. SUU player named player of the week.

After the first week of games in the Summit League, SUU is in first place.  Player of the Week Honors goes to David Headley a Jr. outfielder from Phoenix, Arizona/East Arizona  JC. Headley captures his first career Player of the Week honor after helping Southern Utah to a league series road win at Western Illinois. The junior went 4-for-4 with three RBI and three runs scored in game three's victory. He also added a double and home run in the game and went 2-for-2 in the opening game of the series with a home run and three RBI. In five games last week, Headley batted .438 (7-for-16) with seven RBI, six runs scored, two homers, a double and a triple. He added one walk and had a slugging percentage of 1.000 and on-base percentage of .471.  Pitcher of the week went to Jeff Gorecki from Oakland but nominated from Southern Utah was Kelsey Outram.

Here are the current standings from the Summit League after week one

Team	Record	Pct	Home	Away	Streak	Record	Pct	Home	Away	Neutral	Streak
Southern Utah	3-1	.750	0-0	3-1	L1	9-22	.290	4-6	5-16	0-0	L1
Oral Roberts	2-2	.500	2-2	0-0	L1	15-16	.484	11-6	4-8	0-2	L1
IPFW	2-2	.500	2-2	0-0	W2	10-20	.333	5-3	5-16	0-1	W2
South Dakota State	2-2	.500	0-0	2-2	L2	8-17-1	.327	0-0	8-17-1	0-0	L2
Oakland	2-2	.500	0-0	2-2	L1	6-23	.207	1-0	4-22	1-1	L1
Western Illinois	1-3	.250	1-3	0-0	W1	10-17-1	.375	5-7-1	4-8	1-2	W1
North Dakota State	0-0	.000	0-0	0-0	-	22-6	.786	3-0	13-6	6-0	L1

Thunderbirds set to face Oral Roberts

SUU will face their toughest team in the Summit League Conference when they will host Oral Roberts next week. Game Times are
Thursday, Apr 12  3pm
Friday, Apr 13 ( DH- Game 1) 12pm
Friday, Apr 13 ( DH- Game 2) TBA
Sat, Apr 14 1pm
Here are the standings after yesterdays games

Team	Summit W-L	Overall W-L
Southern Utah	3-0	9-21
South Dakota State	2-1	8-16
Oral Roberts	1-1	14-15
Oakland	1-1	5-22
IPFW	1-2	9-20
North Dakota State	0-0	22-5

SUU wins the series against Western Illinois

Southern Utah opened its Summit League season with a 9-5 win at Western Illinois on Friday. The Thunderbirds trailed throughout most of the game before scoring all nine of their runs during the final two innings to claim the come-from-behind victory. David Headley was called in for a pinch hitter when he dropped a 3 run homerun. The next day SUU played a double header against Western Illinois and came away with two more wins. After proving to be the hero with a three-run ninth inning home run in the series opener, David Headley continued to swing the bat well. David hit another homerun and then added another ground-rule RBI two innings later. He finished the day 4-9 and also Bo Cuthbertson was 4-7 at the plate with two RBI and a run. The final game of the series SUU lost 2-4. It was a tough loss but on the positive note SUU's Justin Neuhart when 2-4.

UNLV beats SUU for the 4th times this year

The UNLV Rebels claimed their fourth victory of the season over Southern Utah on Tuesday by a score of 21-6 to improve to 14-15 on the year. The loss drops the Thunderbirds overall mark to 6-21. SUU was playing its first game since the release of head coach David Eldredge earlier in the week.

“I felt like our guys came out strong in the way they were able to get that run in the first inning,” said SUU interim coach Clayton Carson. “I give credit to UNLV and the way they played, they did a good job swinging the bat and hit the ball well.”

Conference starts for SUU starting Friday April 6th against Western Illinois. Good luck SUU and win conference!