Show Sports Spotlight By fly DON ROBINSON The lull that spring brings to sports is well upon us and by all appearances Is 15 destined to carry catty carryover carryover over at least another week All Allot of ot which means sports news I Ii Is a rare creature at present At the high school I and b baseball players ate are re working out in preparation for tor competition tion In April Coach Darrell Crawford Craw ford is trying to get A nine together together to to- gether gather In time to meet Carboy one of at the powers power in the state in I baseball The dinosaurs have walloped walloped wal wal- ICI loped Moab during the past years year but It has given the local squad a 4 chance to see some good pitching pitchIng pitching pitch pitch- ing before embarking upon the league wars Carbon could be I this year A real flock t bf f candidates for the team showed up to initial practices Coach Crawford said that he may have to make an early cut to get the club down to workable size That Thatis is quite a contrast to years previous previous previous pre pre- when the requisite for makIng making mak mak- ing the team was to make it to practice The summer leagues have helped a great deal deat in generating generating gen gen- and Coach Crawford has built it up to a new level Coach Paul Browns Brown's have been hampered by lack of ot facilities but are getting In shape for the BYU UYU Invitational Track Meet In April The jumping pit was remodeled into shape this week and hurdles have been re re re- The team will have some speedsters but lacks distance men and weight throwers The victory by Panguitch In the the Class Jass B tourney at Provo gave added hope to some of off the small schools Honors have be been it going to th the large luge schools the past few y years ars with monotonous ty Blanding did a fine job of ot representing region eight in the tournament After losing by two points In t the opener pener against Morgan Morgan Mor Mor- gan the they came back to win two straight and go Into the finals of ot the consolation championship Lehi Lehi Le Le- hi dumped then 45 to 40 in the consolation title match to give them a fifty-fifty fifty mark for the tourney Francis Nielson the Broncos Bronco's rangy forward was named named nam ruun ed cd on the second state all-state team He lie nailed down S second COnd place In fn scoring also Nielson it is re reported reported re re- ported is only a Junior making him a real threat for the next year He lie Is quarterback on the football team in the fall We are still trying to stir the council to some action toward lighting the tennis court Last year they said they would get a acost acost acost cost estimate I 1 hope no Interest is due on the cost because the I estimate is still awaited I Nothing is new nOW on the golf course scene The weather 1 Is certainly certainly not to blame Golf courses throughout the state are being played Here we sit The Red Rock Riders deserve a pat on the back for their program program pro pro- gram to teach youth the essentials of good horsemanship The youngsters youngsters young young- recently elected Joo Joe Taylor as Doss Boss and have been active every week Horses may be obsolete ob ob- of obsolete solete in many places but they are always popular here Training and riding Is 15 an excellent sport for old and young alike aUke |