CEDAR CITY, Utah — Weber State Defeats Southern Utah 31-18. Josh Davis standouts in Weber State win over the Thunderbirds. He finished the game with 225 yards and two touchdowns.

Josh Davis scored a 44-yard touchdown run early in the second quarter. He had a two-yard big boy run in the second half. Davis’ second touchdown put the wildcats up 28-12.

The Thunderbirds Strike back late in the third quarter as Austin Ewing finds Landon Measom wide for an easy one-yard touchdown pass. SUU cut the Wildcat lead 28-18 late in the third quarter.

The Thunderbirds moved the ball well to finish the game but failed to convert any of their last drives into points.

Jay Green Jr. finished the game with 68 yards rushing and an early eight-yard touchdown run.

Southern Utah falls to 1-9 as they hit the road to take on Cal poly next Saturday. Weber State improves to 8-2, clinch their playoff spot and win another Big Sky Conference title with a win next week. Weber takes on Idaho State in their season finale at home.

CEDAR CITY, Utah– The Southern Utah Thunderbirds bulldozed San Diego Christian beating the Hawks 111-64 in dominating fashion.

The Thunderbird attack started early as they were efficient on offense and disruptive on defense. They controlled the game fro start to finish only allowing 13 points in the first 10 minutes of play.

SUU had an early lead of 25-13 and the deficit only got worse as the first half unraveled.

Junior foward Jacob Calloway led the attack on Thursday night with a career high 20 point game. scoring 15 in the second half.

Another standout was freshman guard Kenton Eskridge. He shot 5-6 and had 13 points on the night. The freshman provided a spark in the arena for the Thunderbirds.

“We have so much depth, we have a lot of starters, and Kenton is getting better and better, and earned some time,” said SUU head coach Todd Simon. “He showed what we’ve been seeing in practice, he’s been doing great, and it was good for him to get rewarded with a solid performance.”

Cameron Oluyitan hit a late, first half three-pointer to send the Thunderbirds  into the locker room with a 24 point led, 56-32.

By the time it was five minutes left to play the Thunderbirds had already put the game out of reach with a 40 point lead.

The student section of SUU definitely played a role in their victory. Featuring Cedar City’s own Big Thunder.

 

 

 

 

 

For a School like SUU, when they come out with a victory over bigger in state schools like BYU and Utah, its an accomplishment. I’m not sure how the other sports work but in football we get paid a lump sum for competing against the bigger schools. The sammler school will always have smaller everything. Smaller lockers, team size,player size, the whole nine. You probably won’t ever see a big sky school host an FBS opponent at their home place, simply because everything is much smaller at smaller schools. These victories are really bragging rights as they are looked at as battles for the state. They hold a different magnitude compared to the other games against smaller, out of state opponents.

My favorite sports tradition in high school was ringing the victory bell and getting your snack bag from your cheerleader. The best part was that you had to win in order to ring the bell. So if we got to ring the bell it means we did something right that night one the football field. The cheerleaders were always clutch with the post game snacks, making sure each player had their personal favorite.

The best player that I have ever competed against was Amonra St.brown. He went to Mater Dei High School, he now attends USC on a full ride scholarship. he played receiver so I never got to line up with him and go head to head but it was stressful watching him and his offense out there. He had a special play making ability especially when it came to the deep shot. He made the Bosco vs. Mater Dei a really fun match up to watch as he added to a very diverse group of play makers in that game.

Thunderbelly. The school needs to bring some hype to the sports. they need to be more advertised. half of the student body didn’t even know about the games that have been played this season. I just feel like the school isn’t together enough when it comes to athletics. We only have big turnouts at sporting events when they are heavily promoted.

If I were the owner of the WNBA I would probably advertise my brand more so that my players have someone in these arenas watching them play. people don’t even know when the WNBA season is. I know for a fact that I have no idea. It isn’t publicized enough, the WNBA does not have the same publicity as other sport and it is pretty apparent. The players in the WNBA complain that  NBA players get more money and they feel that they are deserving of the same thing. well if none of your teams are filling arenas then you can’t expect the sane treatment. The WNBA isn’t advertised enough, bottom line.

• I feel like the two most known issues in professional sports are the rule changes and the player holdouts. I think that the player holdouts are selfish but I can definitely see where the players are coming from. the players are wanting to be paid the money they deserve but their team owner or just the franchise just thinks otherwise. Another growing issue, in football specifically, the commissioners and who ever else isn’t a player are making the game too much about them. they want to be involved in everything so they change rules and nit pick at things. As a result ticket sales are down and fans aren’t wanting to watch the game because the physical nature of the game has been stripped. Lots of rules ar being put in place for player safety but the rules are do technical that players can’t play the game comfortably because they don’t know if they would violate one of the NFL’s newest rules.

The biggest problem facing college sports to me is the money. eventually these top talented athletes will be fed up with being the puppets in a puppet show. The NCAA makes a tremendous amount of money year in and year out . The players never even get to see how much his or her jersey brought in. Another is recruiting. There are lots of illegal ways to get recruits to attend your university. There is money that is handed out, gifts, girls. Anything a teenage athlete can dream of, all while playing the sport of their choice. Schools will do anything they have to in order to bring in a top recruit because with that top recruit comes hype and with the hype comes wins and money.

Mario Williams lives in Los Angeles, California, where he was born and raised. He attended Narbonne high school where he earned a full athletic scholarship to play football at SUU. Mario started playing the sport of football at six years old. Mario Played for the South bay Cavaliers. He has been a true athlete playing multiple sports since a young age also playing baseball and basketball.