Campus briefs
Utah
BASEBALL: Utah first baseman Austin Jones has been selected as a National Player of the Week by the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper. With four home runs against Air Force on Friday, Jones broke the school record and tied the Mountain West Conference record for homers in a game. His grand slam in the seventh inning gave Utah the lead for good, 9-8. He also put Utah on the board in the first inning with a solo homer and added two-run home runs in both the eighth and ninth innings.
The previous school record for home runs in a game was three. The MWC record is four, set in 2008 by New Mexico's Brian Cavazos-Galvez. Jones was 4-for-6 with four runs scored and nine RBI on the afternoon.
For the week, Jones hit .381 with eight hits and seven runs scored, as the Utes (19-24, 6-12 MWC) defeated Utah Valley and swept a three-game series against Air Force.
Westminster
BASKETBALL: The Griffins have signed Ben Walker, a 6-8 forward from Salt Lake Community College. Walker spent one year at the Air Force Academy prior to serving a serving a two-year LDS mission in the Philippines. He transferred to SLCC upon returning home and helped the Bruins win their first ever national championship. Walker prepped at Lehi where he was named first-team all-state as a senior.
BYU
GOLF: Coming off a strong year of competition, junior Brady Johnson has been honored as a member of the 2008-09 All-Mountain West Conference men's golf team.
The Mill Bay, British Columbia native is coming off a strong year in which he finished in the Top 10 at three different tournaments and had one other Top-20 performance. He came in seventh place at the Baylor Intercollegiate at 3-over-par after posting a fall season round-low of 69 in the second round. He followed that up with a ninth-place finish at the Pacific Invitational.
Dixie State
SOFTBALL: On Sunday Dixie State's softball team made history without playing a game. The Red Storm, runners-up in the Pacific West Conference, received a bid to host the NCAA Division II West Regional tournament. The tournament will be one of two West region sites to be played on May 8-10. Winners from the two sites will advance to the NCAA Division II Super Regional's the following week.
The national championship tournament will be in Salem, Va., May 21-25.
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