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Show ere emer OT ee gem nee oe“? WASATCH COUNTY COURIER Region Win RUSS RIGGS SPORTS alcohol consumption, and lost in a Sometimes you can younger pitcher.” shootout 18-12. The players are suspended for five games, and will return for the game against Park City on April 6. in the first inning, with Gressmen knocking in Ryan Kohler on a single. A Dustin starters who were suspended because of EDITOR or the Wasatch baseball team, it’s been a year of inconsistin- tee off on a 3 Wasatch jumped out to an early lead game in the bottom of the fifth, Bear River took control of the game for good in the sixth scoring six runs and bats go quiet—and when the Wasp’s surging ahead 17-12. | _. “| figured today might be high scor- bats are cracking the pitching goes | e Wasatch opened up region play by blasting Judge Memorial on Friday 100, and played a complete game in ing, but by these runs. plays, its Hermanson teams when riding high “It was a good game, nice and complete,” said Wasatch head coach Carl know how to react. But that’s something that will come with time.” | - That was, of course, until last week- end. | doing so. - | Hermanson<ic: 5 7 Hermanson said. The game at Tooele scheduled for | March Wasatch travelled all the way to Tooele, only to find them playing Kearns High PHOTO een RUSS RIGGS to. Morris single made the bases loaded, pitch, and the other guy is one of our then Curt Mcuwen picked up two RBI’s “One Garrett Gressmen broke out of his imini-slump by smacking.a double and single. The Wasps scored one run in the first inning, two in the third and fourth, and five in the sixth. On March 19, Wasatch hosted the Bears of Bear River without a few of them was supposed best players,” Hermanson said. “If you screw up, you'll get caught and you'll have to pay for it.” iy “Both teams hit the ball well.. Wasatch ripped us early, and I knew we were in for a good game,” Bear River head coach Bill Bingham said. “But that’s high school baseball. eed aes on a Single. Finally, Brian Smethhurst knocked home Morris on a double. After Bear River got one run in the second and three more in the third, Wasatch got started again on another Smethhurst RBI hit, with Smethhurst later scoring on a wild pitch. _ The Bears added one more run in the top of the fourth, but Wasatch scored three of. their own as Smethhurst SPORTS in the of the region sauce this week, playing at Uintah on Tuesday and at Lehi on Friday—possibly the best two teams in region 10. “They’re | our | toughest games, Uintah and Lehi are the teams to beat. Lehi is really strong this year. If we can get one win, I'll be happy,” Hermanson said. “These kids have to learn that we have a good baseball team. I know we can beat them. It’s almost like a mystique—we need to get over that.” | Both games begin at 3:00 p.m. oftball: The Wasatch softball Favorite Movie: Dumb & Dumber Movie Star: Val Kilmer Athlete: Cache Ferguson & Eric Lappe Sport: Soccer/Skiing Food: Stir Fry Ps Person Who Has Influenced You the Most: Erik Lappe thing the Wasps did right, but hopefully the girls will learn something from EDITOR the loss. Other Sport/Activity: Skiing | Favorite Music Group: G Love and Special Sauce ° Goals for the Future: College Car You Wish You Had: Bent through RUSS RIGGS Grade Level: 9 Sports/Activity: Soccer Favorite School Subject: Foods came School due to a mix up in scheduling. No make up day has been set. © Wasatch jumps right into the thick Softball Splits; Tennis Rolls ~ Lil U BY Wasps dominate on the diamond | Favorite Favorite Favorite Favorite 21st was cancelled, but that’s not the way the Wasps wanted it. Price also did some damage on the offensive side, going 4-4 and belting in three RBI’s. In addition, catcher eat) no means didI expect all If we make some routine a different ballgame,” said. “We need to finish they're down. We were and feeding off emotion, but when things went bad they didn’t é Wasp pitcher Wade Price went the distance, picking up the victory by throwing a two hitter. In fact, no Bulldog made it past first base. “He was dominant. It was the best game he’s. pitched for me,” BL LU MU on a flyout to left field. 3 ) In the fifth, Bear River mounted an exciting. comeback scoring six runs and tying the game at 11. And, after Wasatch scored their last run of the cies. When the pitching works, the south. clutch again with a two RBI single, and Mcuwen later tagged from third base team son finished off the pre-sea- by defeating Morgan 7-2 on March 20, then began region play with a 7-0 loss to Judge on Friday. _ The the top Sheena Bergin Lady Wasps scored six runs in of the fourth against Morgan as James, April Brown, and Holly all played well offensively. In addition, pitcher Rachel Remund only walked one batter and allowed two hits in her complete game victory. “We -were concerned because we hadn’t had a real test. But we felt pretty good about it,” said Wasatch assistant coach Bill Farr. — Things weren’t as rosy against Judge, however, as the Wasatch bats fell silent and the Bulldogs pounded the ball. In fact, James recorded the Wasps only hitofthe game. _— “We went down there and got down, and then lost our confidence. We faced = Be “T hope it made us aware of what we need to do. I need to find nine girls who are committed to playing and who. | want to win. Attitude is everything,” he said. | af se Things don’t get much easier for Wasatch as they face Lehi on Friday -and Union on Tuesday, in addition to yesterday’s game against Uintah whose results weren’t available at press time. Re Ob ones Seg Oe ee “T think our girls have what it takes to be good. I think we can rebound,” Reavely said. : ore All games will begin at 3:00 p.m. Tennis: The Wasatch tennis team travelledto sunny Moab last weekend for an all day tennis excursion. In addi- ° tion to facing Moab on Saturday afternoon, they played Carbon that same morning in a match originally scheduled for Friday but cancelled due to rain. 7 | , aes And, although the kids were tired, Wasatch won both matches—beating Carbon 3-2 and Moab 4-1. ae “We’ve been really working hard on a pretty good pitcher—one of the better ones we'll face,” Wasatch head coach Rod Reavely said. “We had a few errors, but they had some good hitters. They just hit the ball where we the net. It’s been helping quite a bit,” Wasatch head coach Kurtley Nordfelt thought we would have a hard time Lance Gardner was the only singles weren’t-they really tattoed the ball. I with Judge—they were good last year.” Reavely said that there wasn’t any- our, serves-and on our doubles play at said. “The kids hustled and played hard. All I can ask is that we improve each week.” | | TENNIS continued on A13 |