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Show Contest All-St- ar Continued From Page 4B Easts Mike Matheson was last years state champion in the 400 meter run, and finished second in the 200 meter dash. Webers Kelly Johnson played fullback in football, center in basketball and first base in baseball for the Warriors and he runs the hurdles in track. Lehis Mark Tuckett led his team to the championship in both football and on his Viking football team, that played for the Utah State 3A football title. Roys Robert Kirkwood is a veteran baseballer, and was leading scorer for the Royals in classy wide-receiv- er basketball. Ogdens Robert Ayers in football and is a played flanker-bac- k member of the tennis team. Most of these nineteen superstars will un- doubtedly play Junior college basketball, after they graduate. It was a great game at Roy, last week and for a very worthy cause. Utah will be well represented, this weekend in Salt Lake City, and all proceeds go into the coffers of the Cerebral Palsy Association of Utah. basketball in the 1980-8season. Judges Ken Vierra was an quarterback for his Bull Dog team in football. Brightons Brent Wade was number two golfer on his state champion golf team last year, and Norm Parrish of Viewmont was a 1 all-sta- te Mother Nature Biggest Foe For Roy Baseball i In his battle with Mother Nature, Coach Fred Thompson has managed to play three baseball games, and part of another. Against Ben Lomond, the Royals won then but lost to Sky View beat Logan The coach took a team of juniors to Box Elder and lost 0 to the Bees Varsity, last week. After being rained out at and with Gary Anderson against Thompson planned to go with his Ace Pitcher, Paul Hansen on the mound, Coach Thompson. I only hope the weatherman cooperates. off-aga- in on-aga-in Bonneville on Friday. Lefty Lance Jorgenson was In Thompsons plans for both games, if and when either hurler got in pitching trouble. 6-- 2, 0-- 4-- 1, Thompson was pleased with his hitters in both the J.V. game and in the game against Mountain View. 11-1- Hillcrest on Friday, the Royals Tuesday he planned to start with Ken traveled to play in the Ice Bowl at Huddleston, Brad McCaulley, Wade Trade Tech against Mountain View. It Jacklin, Kenny Tulane, Paul Hansen, was more of a five inning scrimmage Robert Kirkwood, Ron Halbert, than a ball game, but the Orem team (designated hitter for Kerwin Jensen) was ahead on runs, when the weather Chris Colohan and Robert Dance. These moved in. ten men have earned starting positions for Roys first game. . The real action started this Tuesday, We are ready, said a confident in a game scheduled at Weber. Coach THE HOOPER FALCONS of the Roy City Recreation basketball league, has closed out its season as champions for the third consecutive year. Scott Ropelato, Craig Miles, Scott Dee Flowers, Coach Dennis Belnap. Missing is Clint McCormick. The champs are: (bottom left to right), Scott Simpson, Rod Belnap, Chad Stoddard, David Thurgood, Jason Vaughn, (top), Coach Ralph Miles, nncocnncnni Vandal ridders Hold Promise for 'S l!uny Sch Ends Socnl H Vandal football fans are already calling as the year of The Gold Rush. Idaho is coming off a 5 season record and second place finish in the Big Sky Conference with a 3 mark. It was the Vandals first winning season since 1976 and the prospects for 81 are golden. There is strength in numbers for the UI team this coming season with 49 lettermen returning, including 15 starters. The entire offensive backfield is back. Last season the same backfield finished first in the league in rushing and second among NCAA Division 1AA schools in the nation with a 260.2 1981 6-- 4-- yard-per-ga- average. The catalyst for Uls success in 1980 was sophomore quarterback Ken The Kamiah Kid Hobart. He finished third among league rushers with 829 yards. Hobart was Honorable Mention selection an and finished second in the voting for the Leagues Newcomer of the Year honor and fourth for the Big Skys MVP award. Joining him in the backfield are senior Russell allDavis (523 yards), a second-teaconference pick, and junior Wally Jones (451 m yards). The receiving corp is led by the return of Jack Klein, who will be starting his fourth season as a wide receiver. Klein had 21 catches for 311 yards last year to bring his career total to 1,143 yards 27 yards short of moving into the No. 2 career spot ahead of Kirk Allen. Tom Coombs returns at the tight end spot. Coombs led all Idaho receivers in yardage with 355 to earn Honorable Mention status. The offensive line lost two guards and a center to graduation. The anchor on the line this year will be tackle Bruce Fery, a first team pick and an honorable Idaho is exmention Little pected to fill the void with Junior College transfers. Idahos defense is expected to be one of the strongest in the league in 81 with the return of eight starters. One defensive end position and two defensive back spots are all that were left vacant. The returnees are led by inside linebacker Sam Merriman, end Jay Hayes and defensive backs Greg Jennings and Kelly Miller. e second team Merriman is a pick as an inside linebacker, Hf led all Vandal defensivemen in total tackle: last season with 111. Hayes, an honorable mention selection in the league last season is one of the biggest linemen in the league at 240 pounds. He led the line in pas: two-tim- 6-- deflections last season (9) and ranked third in tackles for losses with nine totalirig 9S yards. Jennings and Miller ranked one and two among the defensive backs in total tackles with 97 and 96 respectively. Jennings was the team leader in pass deflections with 10 and had three interceptions. Miller, an honorable mention pick, had one interception. Idaho head coach Jerry Davitch will be entering his fourth season with no only strong list of returning lettermen but has 13 ready to play action, most of them coming off injuries the year before. Among the more notable is Darby Lewis, a transfer linebacker from Arizona State. Lewis was considered one of the best high school prospects out of Idaho when he went to ASU. Also returning will be defensive tackle Randy Rexroad and linebacker Lloyd Williamson. Both players had impressive seasons two years ago before falling to knee , injuries in the Davitch and his staff signed three junior college transfers for the Spring semester and awarded 14 scholarships to high school seniors. With the talent the Vandals have back, it is no wonder many Big Sky observers expect Idaho to make a run for the gold in 81. . red-shir- ts n. . Northern Utah Jr. Team Takes State A Northern Utah Junior Olympic basketball team for twelve and under players, won the Utah State championship, last week, and earned the right to play in the nationals at Port Allen, Louisiana in August. Under the guidance of Ralph Miles, Dennis Belnap and Lyle Saunders, players were assembled from Weber and Davis Counties to play in the state tourteam lost its first nament at Provo. The Roy-base- d game to Provo, in the double elimination tourney, but Marshall battled back to beat West Valley, and then they beat White Center of Ogden, to previously unbeaten Provo twice (65-6- 0 and claim the title. The final game went into overtime, and the Northern Utah team won it on a last second shot by Chris Ward. 49-4- 7, 63-4- 0, 57-5- The team consisted of Chris Ward of South Ogden, Darrell Hicks of Clearfield, Mike Sivulich of South Ogden, Robert Saunders of Kanes ville, Craig Miles of Hooper, Rod Belnap of Hooper, Mark Newey of Roy, Casey Stanger of Roy, Devin Coggins of North Ogden and Pepo Olivus of Clearfield. The team was assembled, after contact was made with a number of junior high schools in the area, where coaches recommended several players to join date was December 31, 1961. in tryouts. The cut-of- f Anyone turning thirteen before that date was not eligible to play. Six of the team members are currently in the seventh grade, and four are sixth graders. By winning at Provo, the team is allowed to pick up three players from opposing teams to take to Louisiana. It was a great experience for the kids, said Coach Dennis Belnap. 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