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Show jL- Spotlight on Sporis By Don Robinson We are in that annual winter break between high school sports with the conclusion of basketball and wrestling wrest-ling this past week. Naturally the weather had to turn sour to prevent any early preparation for the spring sports. The best way to bring on a snow storm is to an-TrT an-TrT " '" "" " " nounce the opening of baseball sea-jt- ' W..' son. Baseball is due to start March $ '-'"j 15) with the first game on the road jS-C :' v''i-y'l at Emery, March 23. Coach Ward .,r Curtis has a host of Pony League . f j5 . grads to work with, but other than ff that, nothing is known of. the Devil k:-: $''' prospects. 1'rack starts formally on aJ. ..lLrmjMk March 8. The first meet will be the Icebreaker meet in Moab. Coach Del Ford has some good young talent, but no depth and no weightmen. Golf is slated for March 15, if the weather cooperates. The duffers have a tournament at Moab April 3. Coach Glen Richeson thinks his team will be improved over last year with more experience and a couple of newcomers. new-comers. The weatherman might change, some dates for all spring sports. Colorado is coming up with some alarming hunting proposals that are bound to have an impact on Utah and particularly this area near, the border. Our neighbor is talking about doubling their out-of-state license fee. The Colorado Game Commission says they will go to a three-day hunt for bucks only. Game experts say a dwindling dwin-dling deer herd is the reason. Pressure on Utah hunting is almost sure to result. Utah too, is looking at license fee increases and restrictions on the number of out-of-state permits. The financial pinch in Utah rather than the deer herd seems to be the motivation: ' Living in this corner of the state and qualifying for the state wrestling meet has become so difficult as to be almost unfair.' Uintah High has such a stranglehold strangle-hold on the sport that it practically excludes some local schools. Twenty-four grapplers from the north and south divisions of Region Six qualify. Uintah has eleven or all but one of their team. That leaves thirteen spots for eight schools. Union had five more from the Basin, so the other seven schools divided up only eight. With that many representatives, you can't win much on a team basis even though Monticello did very well with only three. Out of 24 Region Six entries 20 won medals and eight took first place. The tough part for the local kids is that they would win in other regions. An unlucky pairing can eliminate the second best man in the state from the state meet. Superior grapplers don't even get a chance whereas some mediocre talent slips in through an easy region. Coach Gene Leonard says some changes are coming. We hope so. |