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Show f'U it tfritfiiai Pane 1 S amtik iijj' I'm jrw. - && a,?; UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. May 2 i . 2002 ' m ' ' . -- jirirr' v .;&, Vjl l! 1fepffe-SU- l i ? - t ' kt. k&. ' & ; . .. , ,v-. . ft- tT hhS.M. ' - i M. , ; j.m i o '- ' -.- V vw. :.. '',i; ', v.-...x-', tea. . '''i ", 4 JA v. r ' r..v -'..t - Y V j ' kV.-V-- , BATTING DUTY --Josh Curtis of the Yankees checks out an incoming pitch and decides doesnt swing while at the plate. RUN PUN Tlu- Yankees Brandon Jackson crosses home plate with a run and waiting for the baseball to arrive is catcher. Hrail) Arnold in a Hahe Ruth League game. It seems just right to have a team named the Yankees in the Balie Ruth League. - - m - 1 11 fy f .JLAJuAJlIA g lfiirfUl tlWJUUUVUX ."7, row before they had a shot at winning the chumpiunBliip. The Cats beat Bear in the first championship River, game. However, Union ended up taking second place when they lost the second title game, I had myown marathon begin back in March when Union tied with Bear River in a tournament in St. George. The Bears (beat Union 10-- 7 and lost 6- Union Ilighs Lady Cougars com- - to Pine Vic w, which Union downed, more to due ) won 5 the 3Koflluill trophy sraring muruthoii the at peted in a AState Tournament, whichconHiHlcd runs than the Cougars. Union met of them having to win five games in a Bear River at theSt. George meet, 7-- 3, 6-- 1. - County was one more out in the gynth inning TlrinnnMn,t get it, and Moffat rallied to win the to bring along my trusty want to burned by Unions base-ball team. This time around my ears got heated up because Uintah whipped Union, 18--0. The Lady Utes were fired Up gnd beat the Lady Cougars. No need to the Union Lady Cougars surprised Ute pitchers during the rematch in Vernal, 13-- behind two homers by Roxie Ames. Myruleof1NotLeavingABaeeball Game With Union Ahead waa bad luck once again. Union led Park City, which waa ranked No. 1 in the class for a few weeks, and I had to stick around to see if the Male Cats would pull off the shocker. The Miners dug themselves put ofa hide and beat the .'V ' ' -! doesn't like it as he Cougars were going to have to play defending champion, Bear liver. It turned out she was looking at thestate baseball tourney lineup where Union would play Bear River in the first round if they qualified for the meet. The Cat baseball team lost its hurt game and didnt have to worry about Bear River. Instead Uintah's Lady Utes had the Bear River pain. They loat to the Bears on the road. My marathon continued with Union beating Grantsville, losing to Lehi, defeating Tooele, Judge (a revenge win), Pine View, Lehi (another revenge win), Bear River and then seeing it all end with the Bears taking the final game. With "12 Wins (region and state games) and 2 Place" the Lady Cougars proved they are among the Soft-ba- ll Best." which ' sign of upcoming action, with the twotmeetingagainattheend to decide the state Unions home opening win over North Sanpete waa missed because I was still watching the baseball phijr- ing Male Cougars. I have a rule that I never break and that is Dont Leave whea The Cougars Are Ahead." AU Union needed for a win over Moffat j he ' fear-beca- use 1, Local producers to see relief soon 3-- A Cougars. Unions baseball team had a good shot at beatingWasatch. I didnt want to take a chance, and decided to watch the Lady Cougars from start to finish, Iwas awarded with a shutout win over Wasatch. I decided to check out the baseball game where Union waa gettingrouted by Wasatch. I was using a different camera, which cant shoot through k fence. An umpire didn't eiyoy my position near first base. He kicked me out even though I have been told that many umpires dont mind a few photographers out on the field snapping pictures. The ump wanted to know where I had been the whole game and I said, Ive been covering the girls! It was more or less So What! " I got revenge by being invited to stand by the Union dugout and not taking any ump pixs. TheUnion Lady Cougars weranta So What-th- ey were the highlight of the whole diamond playing season. Union lost two games in lees than a week to Judge Memorial, and Uintah loat to Judge to keep Region 10 from first place tie at ending in a four-wa- y 3 between Union, Uintah, Park City and Judge. Before final games of the regular season, one Vernal lady didnt mind that Union might take first place in region because ishe noticed that the 7-- Atwixxlof the Y ankccsdclivers to the plate in a Babe ITS W A Ruth league baseball game in Roosevelt. ( )N vin Active in Washington, D.C., last week, Utah Farm Bureau Federation - (UFBP) officials represented local i agricultural interests in a with members of the Utah ( tonal delegation and federal Service Agency (FSA) officials. The meeting was called by Sen. Orrin Hatch to negotiate emergency grating and disaster assistance payments owed to Utahans. UFBF CEO Booth Waltantine noted the critical problems producers are facing and outlined precipitation data. He emphasised the need to assist fermere and ranchers immediately. During the meeting, Sen. Hatch and Rep. Chris Cannon vigorously requested the immediate opening of grasingon an estimated 18,000 acres of CRP land in San Juan County for emergency grazing of livestock. FSA officials agreed to expedite that request, which has been pending at the Washington, D.C., level since the request was made by the Utah FSA committee about 45 days ago. FSA Officials also promised Rep. OannonandSen. Hatch that they would expedite the sured Crop Disaster Assistance Payments (NAP). The NAP payments, now overdue by several months, owe Utahans nearly $2 million. ' MksPX'jy' a. ad . CATCH WORK-T- hc Braves Brady Arnold returns the ball to the pitcher during a Babe Ruth League game vs. the Yankees. long-await- PITCHING hurler, Garrett Sorensen sends the ball on a hot and that the the batter misses. to hopes trip plate GEM-AItam- ont Team wins meet title Rebel Hot Oil won the mens division in the Ice Breaker Softball Tournament with Ben Mec hams m taking second in Roosevelt. Scott Harrisons squad was third. Men's & Women's Softball Sign Up Now at the Roosevelt City Office Check out a few of our many vehicles in stock! 2001 DunmaxDieselDiieily Deadline: May 17th paid be put on game schedule. No partial payments. 1999o0Atsnger 2002 Dodge Ram 15004door 2001 Chevy 8.1 engine. 1 Ion 2001 Dufamax Crew S.W.B. 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