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Show 14 CLIPPER Friday, July 16, 1993' THIS WEEKEND Farmington Fun Runs Serious runners, recreational joggers and children will be running through the streets of Farmington Saturday in the annual Festival Days 5K, 10K and Kiddie Fun Dash. The main races begin at 7 a.m. with the childrens race at the city park shortly thereafter. Day of race registration, set for a.m., is $10 for adults and $4 for the Kiddie Dash. A breakfast will be served following the events. 45 SPORTUGHT Equity prevails with district By DIRK FACER have provided varsity, junior varsity and sophomore squads in most boys team sports. However, females were Sports Editor FARMINGTON whats good Apparently for the limited to just varsity and junior varsity activity. While sophomores, both boys and girls, were eligible to compete at the higher levels, a third program enhances opportunity and experience for female prep gander is also good for the goose. Or so the Davis Board of Education implied Tuesday when it voted unanimously to begin sponsoring girls volleyball and basketball programs for high school sophomores. The new squads will begin play this fall. We need to have equity," said Davis District athletic director Craig Hansen. If we provide it for the boys, we need to provide it for the girls. And now we are doing that. Traditionally, school districts three-differen- athletes. "More and more young girls want to compete and participate in athletics, Hansen said. Now is the time to do this. The cost, which includes hiring coaches and purchasing uniforms, of implementing sophomore girls programs in the seven Davis County high schools could exceed $23,000. However, the move puts the district in line with counterparts throughout the state which have already expanded girls athletics. With Utah High School Activities Association realignment taking place this fall, which places t Davis District schools in a to decision had regions, be made soon. The motion also puts the district in compliance of federal law concerning equity. I feel great about it. We dont particularly like the cost, especially with the crunch education is in, but the opportunity for young ladies is tremendous, Hansen said. And its only fair we do it. . Local golfers swing to victory Its been a busy week on the links as several Clipper Country golfers excelled in tournament play. North Carolina. Ryan Oldroyd of Richfield won the boys event with a 140, while 1992-9- 3 Clipper prep golf MVP Scott Hailes of West Bountiful finished fourth at 147. In the 5 age division, Marty Jacks took top honors for the boys and Summer Fenstermaker lead the girls. Jacks won in a playoff after shooting a 147, while Fenstermaker fired a 169 to win her division Summerhays Shines LAYTON Davis High student Elizabeth Summerhays earned a trip to the National PGA Junior Tournament by winning the 7 age division at the 1993 Maxfli 14-1- 16-1- Utah Section Championship Tuesday at Valley View Golf easily. Course in Layton. Summerhays fired a total of 154 to win the two-da- y event which opened Monday at the Davis Park Golf Course in Fruit Heights. For her efforts, she earned an -paid trip to the national event Aug. 22-2- 7 at the Pinehurst Golf Club in 36-ho- le Candy Rain Perhaps the Bawl-St- ar The city to the youngsters Wednesday when the 1993 Maxfli Utah Section Championships for players 13 and course it should be renamed Game. mid-seaso- n, selfish-minde- 6, m host Cito Gaston, the Blue Jays of the Toronto years A.L. All-St- ar skipper. world. Gaston and his Jays, of course, of their ornery ornithological A.L. Eastern Division rivals and their hostile fans from the opening introductions. The reason? Gaston was perceived in the eyes of some to have abused his power as A.L. manager by selecting four of his own players (three other Blue Jays were elected by the fans) to the team, whereby "snubbing" arguably deserving others such as Detroit catcher Mickey Tettleton and the O's own Gregg Olson. To make matters worse, Gaston made a Cecil Fielder-size- d gaffe to end the A.L.'s 3 victory, electing to keep his own pitcher Duane Ward pitching in the ninth, while smugly denying the Orioles' fans' chants to replace Ward (who, by the way, had one less save than did the omitted Olson) with Baltimore pitcher Mike Mussina. Gaston's boorish decision nearly inCito-e- d a riot. Both Gaston and Mussina downplayed the incident following the game but surely the Orioles' fans won't soon forget. Meanwhile, Gaston maintained his original stance that picking an team was "impossible." Well, Cito, not impossible because if that were the case it never would have been pulled off previously 63 times. But let's just say it's difficult, for a few reasons. And here, alas, is a way of . . j .. .. 1 1 .. drew the ire This should come as no surprise, really, since baseball and bickering have established themselves as fast friends the past decade or so. Ty'd to Sports by Ty Bronicel EXTRA! 8-- d manager and this Clipper Sports Writer CENTERVILLE A group of Centerville baseball players are headed to the state Babe Ruth tournament after winning the district championship. Playing on their home field, the Centerville sluggers defeated Kearns 23-1- 2 in the championship game. Coupled with earlier wins over Kearns 7 and Granger 19-Centerville became the only south Davis County squad to earn a berth in the state tournament. Action )egins Saturday in Delta with Centerville facing the West Side champions. Tournament play continues through July 24. For someone to beat us, theyll have to be pretty good, said Coach )ave Wigham. We have a lot of depth. Every one of them are really good hitters and we are big physically. We have size, speed, arms and everything. Members of the squad include: Chris Jarvis, Jed Eastman, Chris Cobayashi, Nate Weese, Russell Smith, Brian Larsen, Greg Carr, Rob Wintle, Eric Young, Nate Gold, Bret Bu ningham, Matt Oman and Vlatt Wigham. Manager Dave Wigham is assisted by cocoes Larry Smith and Eric lastman. . . , . played Tuesday night's event was tainted by the actions of both the raucous and rude hometown Baltimore fans and the stubborn midBaseball's summer night game, in which dreams come true, memories are made and legends are bom, lately has lost some of its carefree mr.gic, and is evolving into yet another controversial issue in the sport; 2-- Centerville sluggers win district, head to Babe Ruth state tourney youngsters WEST BOUNTIFUL 12-1- Jepsen wins Wolf Creek event EDEN Former Woods Cross High standout Shaun Jepsen, the 1991-9- 2 Clipper prep golf MVP, shot a 70 Wednesday to win the Wolf Creek Amateur. Jepsen, who nailed four birdies on the challenging course, had just two bogeys in edging Bountifuls Kurt Bosen, the Davis County Amateur champ, and John Tagge by two strokes. prove to be Bawl-Star- s All-Sta- rs Ceremonies marking the end of the Mueller Park baseball season included a candy drop from a hovering helicopter. The candy was donated by Smith's and Albertson's, and the helicopter was provided by Helicopter Inc., of West Bountiful. Player, coaches and parents attended the ceremonies which included awarding of player trophies and election of league officers for the coming year. Outgoing league president Bruce Dickamore reviewed accomplished of the past year and promised "exciting things" for the future. Ted Tanner was elected president for the coming year. In other news, Dickamore announced the donation of score-board- s for the two playing fields; a total electronic board for the Bronco field, and a larger board with inning by inning scoring for the Pony field. Another 2,200 square feet of sod was recently laid by volunteers. Dickamore also announced that next year's intermountain regionals would be hosted by the MP association with the winning team moving on to play in California. This August, Mueller Park will play host to the 1993 USABA, 14 and under. World Series. Action will take place Aug. W.B.C.G.C. hosts under took place. Derek Fox won 3 the age division with a 74, while Jessica Gardner won the girls event with a 103. In the 11 and under category, David Bush won the nine-hol- e competition with a 42 and Annie Thurman was the top girl with a 50. Somehow baseball's All-StGame, as with other sports' (NBA .and NHL) galas, has remained mostly isolated from the myriad problems, big and small, that continue to plague the games we play and love to watch. Baseball games essentially are sparkling reminders that tell everyone, "Hey, things aren't so bad.. The game is still grand, still timeless, still ar All-St- 9-- ar mid-seas- wonderful." The game's best players, grown men, all come together for a night and are allowed to act like boys at camp. We as fans get caught up in the childlike innocence of it all too, the absorbing the hearty high-fivefoolishness and the fun. But in this boisterous day and age, even a simple, lazy good time like All-Stnight can be unsettled by rowdy, unforgiving fans and ' . bruised egos. All-St- s, ar ' ar jj selection simplifying the process to make (gasp!) everyone happy. 1 . Scratch the rule that says at all-st- ar least one representative from each team makes the squad. Thats nonsense. Pick the best players, period. Remember, there was a good reason you didn't see any Dallas Mavericks on this year's NBA Western Conference All-Stteam. ar 2. Expand the rosters. How hard could this be to do? Sure, the current squad is three more than allowed on regular league rosters (25) but who gets hurt by bumping the limit up to, say, 30 or 32? A whole lot of uproar turns 28-m- into pleased silence. 3. Let all 14 league managers vote for the reserves. Also, each skipper cannot vote for his own players. Then tally the votes. This way a general consensus of which status is players deserve All-Star achieved. 4. Finally, the big one. No, I don't approve of abolishing the system whereby the fans vote for the starters. It's still the fans game and for the most part they do a decent job. But I do propose a Fans Folly Rule, which would state that for each league a group of assembled media would be allowed to step in once, and only once, to rectify a particularly boneheaded election by replacing the obviously misplaced player with a more sane, logical choice. Now all baseball needs to do is get its act together and decide on a commissioner, and I can fax him or her (now there's an idea) my proposals - as indecent and irreverent as they may be. ; -- |