| Show Sports j r thoughts Rain rain go away come again some other day This saying is probably now nowa a favorite one of oC Uintah baseball coaches John Greene and Tom Baltzer Balt Bait zer zero The Ute We baseball team was supposed sup sup- posed to have had four Coor baseball games under their belt already However because of oC the wet nasty rain the Uintah Utes have competed in only one game which was a 12 to 1 loss to Layton in Vernal on March 23 If H someone wants rain to water his grass farm Carm or garden but isn't sure he can depend on the television weathermen he should schedule a baseball game or a golf meet FOLKS WHO WIO set up baseball games hope that rain hail or snow doesn't hit their area on the day before a game or oron oron oron on the day of the contest Rain is Important important im Im- which is what people of oC Utah learned during the dry spell last winter and summer However I if a baseball each coach ch schedules a ball game on Saturday he hopes that it doesn't rain but if it does let the rain fall all on Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day Monday Tuesday Wednesday or Thursday but not Friday night or Saturday So far arinto into the 1978 baseball season sason the Utes have suffered losses to Layton and to the rain Stormy weather has pitched three complete shutouts for Cor the Bad Weather Boys over the Uintah Utes Altamont Longhorns and Layton Lancers Theodore Thunderbolt has shocked the Utes Longhorns and Lancers with his amazing home run power One shot by Thunderbolt and the ball sails to Roosevelt from rom the Vernal park ANOTHER OUTSTANDING player on on the Bad Weather Boys' Boys team is Clyde Blackie Cloud Cloud is isa isa isa a great defensive player in that he plays first second third and shortstop all at once Cloud just hangs over the entire infield and smothers any hits by bythe bythe bythe the enemy team The Bad Weather Boys have another player who has been rough on the Utes during the first four games His name is Hail Fire Hail Hall is usually a late inning defensive replacement in the outfield after the rain has done most o of its damage Hails Hail's job is to deliver thousands of white objects when one of this teammates gets a hit so that the theother theother theother other team cant can't tell where the ball is Uintah lost to Layton March 23 in a cold and rain filled game T This is reporter missed the game because of a lack of communication on the time o of the contest This reporter got in Vernal in time for or the game March 24 with Layton but just as he arrived at the ballpark ball ballpark ballpark park a massive rain storm hit the area and flooded out the March 24 and 25 games with Layton A game was set for or last Saturday with Altamont and since the weather had been nice and dry from rom Sunday to Friday morning it was assumed that this reporter would finally get to see the Uintah Ute baseball team in action HOWEVER THAT TIIA T wasn't the way it was to be A rain and dust storm hit the Vernal are area last Friday at 6 p pm p.m. m. m but there still was some hope that the game could be played i if the grounds dried up by Saturday morning Another heavy rainstorm soaked the Uintah Basin area just before midnight Friday and the chances of a baseball game were quickly disappearing The game between between between bet bet- Uintah and Altamont last Saturday was cancelled because the Ute field was too wet for baseball action ac ac- ac- ac tion The Uintah Utes have a home game scheduled for or Friday with the Judge Memorial Bulldogs Uintah will host the alumni team Saturday Rumor has hasIt hasit hasit it that the Utes are going to sign Sunny Shine for or the ball games against Judge and the alumni team IF TilE THE COLVILLE COLVILL Washington team had defeated Damon o of Tuba City Arizona in the first game of the Women's Basketball Tournament a second contest would have been necessary This would have been the eighth basketball contest in four days for the Colville team The Colville team was responsible for forthe forthe or orthe the finishes in the tourney for four teams Colville downed Los Angeles Jax and thus forced the LA team to place fourth Colville thumped Navajo Community College of Shiprock 59 to 45 and delivered third place to Shiprock Damon Freight downed Colville for first place and the Washington team placed second Los Angeles Jax the defending champion finished with a 32 3 record LA bombed Ft Hall lIall 83 36 Warm Springs 50 78 and United Tribes 74 40 However Jax suffered close losses to Damon 50 45 and Colville 59 49 Damon finished the meet with a 5 0 record and Colville had a 5 2 mark |
