Show 2C Standard-Examin- Sunday April 8 1990 er Sports with honors ride away cowgirls Cowboys Standard Examiner correspondent OGDEN — Local cowboys and cowgirls rode away with more than their share of the top prizes in the final night of the Spikers High School Rodeo at the Golden Spike Arena In Saturday’s final performance Brandon Roberts and JC Sanders thrilled the hometown crowd with rides in bareback riding and bull riding respectively Roberts a junior at Weber High School not only won the event Saturday but he also finished in first place overall in g bareback riding with a ride good for 65 points “They say that is the worst horse here and he had me pretty nervous I told my dad that I would win it on this horse if he’d let me have a break and go to SL George” said Roberts So with that little bit of extra motivation he climbed onto his rigging and tried to stay on top of a horse called “Short Fuse” for eight long seconds “After three jumps he about had me bucked oft I saved it before he got to the wall Then he blew my hand and I was just hanging on with my fingertips I never did hear the horn When I hit the ground I thought I didn’t make it” But he did and his score edged first-pla- ce bone-jarrin- Patti Rusty Allen of Lehi competes in the calf roping competition at the Spikers High of U U r School Rodeo Saturday at the Golden Spike Arena “Pac-Ma- A total n” nd racing In the other boys events Monte Jensen won the steer wrestling with a time of 53 seconds Lerell Argyle won the saddle bronc riding with a score of 51 and he was the only rider to stay on for the required eight seconds The team roping was won by Darrell Bastian and Jeff Crozier with a time of 130 Boys cow cutting went to Jacob Mendenhall with a score of 12xh Arslanian seeks quieter calmer season gymnasts By DALE BUBLITZ Standard-Examine- storm Regionals State were all considered sure bets for national qualification SALT LAKE CITY — With based on their performances sophomore Shelly Schaerrer Saturday night Utah State meanwhile was on the bubble d helping herself to a — the Aggies were waiting to 39150 in the competition the University of see how teams would score in Utah women’s gymnastics the four other regional meets team stomped through the around the country Saturday “Now we’re in the chairs” NCAA Midwest Regional SatUSU Coach Ray Corn said with a vengeance urday night situaThe Lady Utes taking ad- “It’s just a tion” vantage of their home HuntsThe Utes didn’t wait long to man Center floor tallied a school-recor- d team total of get things rolling Saturday 194950 Saturday easily out- night: Utah freshman Amy NeKeller — remember the name distancing second-plac- e braska and earning the — followed up Missy MarMidwest’s automatic bid to the lowe’s fall on the vault and NCAA Championships April presto Keller scored a 9900 20 in Corvallis Ore yet another new Utah record Keller’s record — along with “Our team appears to be a 9825 by Kristen Kenoyer on a different level working g 9750 by than most” said Utah Coach and a Greg Marsden after his Utes Schaerrer — helped the Utes d 48800 finished besting their previous set a new team record of 19450 on the vault marking the tone set just two weeks ago in the for the evening and shattering the previous Utah vault best High Country Athletic Conference championships on this 48300 From there the momentum same floor Before 5564 fans Saturday seemed to build Utah scored a night Utah finished ahead of strong 48650 on the uneven No 2 Nebraska (191225 team bars set another new team re3 Arizona cord with a 48775 on the baltotal) No 4 No Oklahoma ance beam and closed the (188775) show with a solid 48725 tally 5 Arizona and No (187825) State (187800) The Lady Utes on the floor exercise There was simply never any also dominated rivals and conference foes in Utah doubt State and Brigham Young Uni“It was by far the best vaultversity which finished sixth ing I’ve ever seen us do” and seventh (with scores of Marsden said “And we were 187550 and 185350) respec- as good as we need to be in the other three events” tively “I thought Utah had a very Marlowe Utah’s biggest good meet at least from what name was suffering from back I could see” Nebraska Coach all night prompting Rick Walton said “They also spasms Marsden to line up substitutes had a great advantage having for her on three of the four this meet at home” events “But she got through” Walton was one of the Marsden said and he was right coaches who may have had a — Marlowe finished with an total of 38650 beef with some of the judging particularly in light of the good for fourth place overall So while she had plenty of home team’s dominance But Marsden pointed out that only company it was Schaerrer’s a handful of Saturday’s judges consistency on all four events that paved the way The sophwere from within the Midwest Region nevertheless adding omore an Orem native followed her strong vault showing “I’m not griping” Walton’s Cornhuskers along with an impressive 9800 on with No 3 Arizona No 4 the bars and another 9800 on Oklahoma and No 5 Arizona the beam By JOHN YOUNGREN Standard-Examine- LongmireStandard-Examine- son of Tooele caught his in 125 of 87 calf ropers were entered in the rodeo and a long line of contestants were still vying for the best qualifying time after the performance Likewise in the girls events 10 contestants participated in the rodeo while the other girls drew out in the slack Toni Hopes was the only cowgirl to rope a calf in breakaway roping She would have had a championship time of 25 seconds but she broke the barrier and had to take a penalty Still her time was good enough to win Saturday’s performance Amy Allen was a three-tim- e winner in the girls events She won the goat tying with a time of 93 In pole bending she was tops with a 21908 and she also won the girls cow cutting with a score of 71 Julie Giles won the other girls event with a 16375 in barrel ri out Spikers’ teammate Tim who finished with a 58 Third place overall went to another Spiker Beau Montgomery who totaled 57 on Friday night Even in the PRCA the Brahma bulls sometimes seem too big and ornery for the pros But it didn’t seem to affect Sanders All eight cowboys ahead of him had been bounced and tossed into a heap He calmly and confidently tied himself to a bull called “Everybody said he was going to buck real hard He bucked pretty good right at the start but he kind of stopped right at the end” said Sanders Chad Edwards from the Spikers took third with a 67 on Thursday High school and junior high riders and ropers from Davis and Weber counties comprise the ouikers Rodeo Club Other Spikers who finished in the top three in their events were Teri Chalupa second in goat tying with a time of 1 16 seconds Doug Madsen tie for second in boys cow cutting with a 71 and Stacie Kencheloe third place in barrel racing with a time of 17184 In calf roping two of the top three times were posted Saturday night Roy Brown from Southern Utah County tied his calf in just 106 seconds and Shawn Ander Zam-ped- By LAYNE THOMPSON r school-re-cor- wait-and-s- youthfulness the potential and chance to develop into as good a quarterback as the top quarterbacks have been in this league” Martin got off to a shaky start throwing a school record-tyin- g six interceptions in his first start against Eastern Washington He did finish on a high note compasses for 343 pleting in a touchdowns four and yards g victory over Idaho OGDEN — Before assuming the presidency George Bush spoke of bringing a kinder gentler approach to the Oval Office Weber State Coach Dave Arslanian asks only for a quieter calmer more successful season — his second year at the helm — as the Wildcats open spring football drills Monday at 3 pm on their practice field There is no doubt he would prefer to open camp without havaffairs on the ing his front page of newspapers or a quarterback controversy A sense of improving on the team’s 8 record would also be acceptable Only time will tell about the coach’s private life and Weber’s 1990 showing The second-yea- r coach did something about the quarterback situation — he’s already settled on a starter “Our starting quarterback will be Jamie Martin” said Arslanian “I think Jamie Martin with his 22-of-- season-endin- State off-fiel-d The move leaves Ryan Schmidt role Arslanian adin a back-u- p starter mits his opening-gam- e took a beating in the games he started while throwing for 1896 yards and nine touchdowns 3-- “Ryan went through a lot last year with a lot of inexperienced people around him but kept his head up” said Arslanian “Right now we have two really fine quarterbacks who are going to continue to push each other” crowd-pleasin- SED13NMJR team-recor- 8 and what he was able to do his freshman year has r Sl5pljNmtR y With the quarterback question set Arslanian has more pressing matters to address like replacing three fixtures — tight end Peter Macon inside linebacker Chad Beck and roverback Mike Babb supply of young talent waiting in the wings Sophomore tight end Trevor Shaw was the team’s receiver behind Macon and Arslanian redshirted 20 players signed the previous year “Of those 20 players I would 5 of hope anywhere from them really emerge as bona fide challengers for quality playing time” said Arslanian “This is a great time of the year for them to establish themselves and then you hope they carry it over the summer into fall workouts” second- -leading Macon finished his college career as the Wildcats’ career pass catching leader and was a first team selection Beck led the team in tackles and played nearly every minute of every game and Babb set a WSC record and tied a Big Sky mark by intercepting four passes in a sin- 12-1- gle game The Wildcats’ biggest losses come on the offensive line where center Keith Chambers along with guards Oscar Contreras and Mike Hopper all graduated Bruce Covernton a d has moved junior over from the defensive line to help bolster the front A 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