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Show Sports SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4, 1998 Lynx cancel final football game Green nips Red 6 to go 0 at my disposal a vocabulary rich By Kent Mason of Due to the to enable me to 32-2- shortage players lost one this another (they football the Fredonia week), team made the decision to end their football season and not play in the playoffs. Its about a thousand mile round trip to St. David where Fredonia, the number four seed from the north conference, were scheduled to play the team which is now rated number one in the state. They were to play in eight-ma- n football and to attempt this with nine or maybe less than nine players is not hard to see why this decision was made. Basketball practice will start next week. Go get em Lynx! transfer enough and my thoughts feelings from where they are in my heart and my mind and put them on a sheet of paper. It would be so great if I could say they overcame all the odds stacked against them and won anyway. But this did not happen. This is real life. In the eight games they played, they won 4 and lost 4. After their final game at Joe City, a game which they lost 51 to 6, the ten members of the Fredonia Lynx team immediately gathered on the sideline and gave a cheer of tribute to the Joy City Wildcats. No such gesture came from the Wildcats to And then there were ten the Lynx. Yes, there were more than ten players at the start of the season, but for various reasons, one, then another, then another, fell by the wayside and then there hind ten young men from were ten, proving as nothing else Fredonia. The ten football play- could, that cream rises to the ers who finished the season. Ask top. A famous coach once said, anyone involved in the game of football what he would think winning isnt everything, but about a team who would go into wanting to is. This Lynx team a game with a starting lineup had and still has everything beand only one or two reserves. cause they never lost the will to The reaction you would get win or their enthusiasm for the would be youd have to be crazy, game. or something to that effect. Well I wont mention names. They these ten, because two of the ten know who they are and everywere injured at the time, played one connected with the Fredonia one entire game with no reserves football program knows who and they played one other game they are. One thing I want them with only one reserve. to know is I have never admired I set out to say something re- a group more than I admire you. markably profound, something Even in defeat you had my total deep and moving to express my admiration. For your conduct, feelings about these ten. But, I on and off the field. YOU ARE OUR TEAM! The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer. 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Reds Trevor Glover scored on a 10 yard touchdown pass from Mace Glazier with a little over five minutes left to tie the game at Green got on the scoreboard first, scoring when Chris "the Bus Aziz carried in three tack-ler- s from two yards out. Red wasted no time getting on the scoreboard when tailback Colt Nieman scampered 50 yards for a touchdown. Red converted conversion to lead the Sammy Garda scored next for Green oh nice run of 30 converyards. The sion gave Green 13-- 8 lead. After an interception by Green, Cody Brunner hauled in a 40 yard bomb from Greenland for another touchdown to make it 19-It was Reds QB Glazier's turn next as he scrambled for a 50 yard TD run to cut the lead , 26-2- 6. two-poi- The Green team went 6-- 0 to win the Kanab Youth Football League title. Pictured in front row Paul Reidhead, Sammy Garcia, Todd Smith, Steven Judd, Steven Gilberg and Justin Frost. Second row: Forest Hurley, George Neff, Lance Davis, Danny Jones, Cody Brunner and Clay Greenland. Back row: coach Josue Rivera, Cliff Heaton, Chris Aziz, Josh Ramsay and coach Dennis Brunner. Photo by Cheryl Brown. (l-r- ): nt 8-- 6. one-poi- nt 8. to 19-1- Green's Steven Gilberg intercepted a Red pass and returned it 25 yards for aTD to up Another their lead to 26-1Nieman score made it 26-2- 0 to 4. 4. set up the exdting finish. White scored on their first play from scrimmage on a 60 The Red team ended the season with a 2 record. Pictured in the front row John Langston, Preston Winchester, Blake Doss, Colt Nieman and Lance Mackelprang. Second row: Robbie Houston, Matt Rhees, Josh Milton, Derrick Coleman, Chris Heaton, Mace Glazier, Justin Allen, Tyson Glover, Landry Heaton and Trevor Glover. Back row: coaches Tracy Glover and Danny Glover. Photo by Cheryl Brown. 4-- (l-r- ): yard pass from JR Quamberg to Nate Robinson to spur them on to a 28-- 6 win over Fredonia Blue. 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