FRI 19 NOV 2004
Sports Briefs
Football game broadcast live
UI’s game Saturday will be broadcast live on TV from Hawaii. It is on at 8 p.m. Pacific/9 p.m. Mountain on KBCI in Boise, KLEW in Lewiston, KTWT in Twin Falls and KIDK in Idaho Falls. On radio, it will be carried by KIOV (1450 AM, Payette-Meridian) instead of KTIK for Southern Idaho listeners.Men’s basketball signs four
The UI men’s basketball team signed four recruits Tuesday to letters of intent. Aaron Smith, David Dubois, Igor Vrzina and Rashad Jennings will join the Vandals before the 2005-06 season.Smith, a 6-foot-7 swingman, is entering his senior season at Troy High School in Troy. He averaged 16 points and nine rebounds per game as the White Pine League Most Valuable Player and first team all-state honoree in his junior season.
Dubois, a 6-foot-5 small forward, is entering his senior season at Madison Lafollette High School in Madison, Wis.
Jennings, a 6-foot-8, 220-pound forward, will come to the Vandals by way of Chattanooga State Tech Community College in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Vrzina, a 6-foot-8, 225-pound forward, will join the Vandals from Hill Junior College in Hillsboro, Texas. He averaged 14 points per game as a freshman last season.
Jones earns Big West swimming and diving honors
At her first collegiate meet, UC Irvine freshman diver Jackie Jones notched a pair of first-place finishes at the Big West Shoot Out and earned herself the honor of this week’s Big West Female Swimming and Diving Athlete of the Week. Her score of 292.20 on the 3-meter board qualified her for NCAA Regional Diving. Her score was the second-highest 3-meter dual meet score in UC Irvine history. Jones also took first on the 1-meter board with a score of 244.15. She wound up with three first-place finishes at the Shoot Out to help the Anteaters to a third-place finish at the meet.Men’s golf signs recruit
Jacob Koppenberg of Everett, Wash., has signed a letter of intent to play for UI golf. Koppenberg, currently a senior at Everett High School, will join the Vandals before the beginning of the 2005-06 season.Koppenberg won the 2004 Frank Rodia Memorial as well as the Washington Junior Golf Association District I Championship. He was a member of the Washington Hogan Cup Team.
Koppenberg is a three-time all-conference honoree. He was chosen as the Washington Junior Golf Tour Player of the Year in 2002 and 2003.
As a junior, Koppenberg played at Everett High alongside current Vandal women’s golf standout Renee Skidmore.
Swim team gains first recruit
The UI women’s swim team gained its first recruit for the 2005-06 season with the signing of Jori McGuire of Yakima, Wash., to a letter of intent.McGuire, currently a senior at West Valley High School, has earned first team all-conference recognition in the butterfly three consecutive years.
McGuire is also two-time all-state selection in the medley relay.
Friday
UI women’s basketball vs. Utah Valley StateMoscow, 7 p.m.
UI men’s basketball at Boise State
Boise, 6:05 p.m.
Saturday
UI swimming vs. University of WashingtonMoscow, 11 a.m.
UI men’s basketball vs. Southeastern Louisiana
Boise
UI volleyball at Pacific
Stockton, Calif., 7 p.m.
UI football at Hawai’i
Honolulu, Hawaii, 8:05 p.m.
Sunday
UI women’s basketball vs. Boise StateMoscow, 1 p.m.
UI men’s basketball vs. Fort Lewis College
Boise
Monday
UI women’s cross country at NCAA ChampionshipsTerre Haute, Ind.
Wednesday
UI men’s basketball at GonzagaSpokane, 7 p.m.
UI volleyball at Colorado State
Fort Collins, Colo., 7 p.m.
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