Show u Uintah Ute base bailers to host Vikings Thursday Last Thursday the Uintah High School Varsity baseball team was scheduled to play one game with but instead the Utes ended up competing with the Red Devils in 11 Us games The Uintah Utes were nipped by the Red Devils In Springville 5 to 4 after eleven Innings of baseball action SPRINGVILLE scored the winning run in the bottom of the inning when Larson smashed a double down the left leftfield leftfield leftfield field line to drive in Cary Gary Hansen who had singled in order to gain first base Payson is In first place in Region Six with a 4 0 record Uintah and Spanish Fork are tied for second place with 21 2 marks Springville with a 2 22 record is in fourth place American Fork and Pleasant Grove are tied for f fifth th place with 2 1 marks Carbon with an 3 0 mar mark is in seventh place The Utes will host Pleasant Grove High School in a doubleheader Thursday The baseball action will begin at 1 pm p.m. The starting lineup for Uintah will be Darrell Hacking catcher Rick Gardner Gardner Gardner Gard Gard- ner pitcher Mike Phillips first base Gary second base Bart third base Ron Baker shortstop John Pope left field Allen Hacking center field and Clegg Stills right field They Pleasant Grove have hav a good team They're a good hitting team There is no super power team in our region Anybody can beat anyone on any given day commented Uintah Coach Ed Johnson Uintah battled American Fork this past Tuesday in Vernal Bart Murray was the starting pitcher for Uintah in inthe inthe inthe the game with American Fork The Utes will motor to Payson Tuesday for a baseball contest with the Lions The game will begin at 1 pm p.m. Payson is a good hitting team commented commented commented com com- Johnson The A 3 State Baseball Tourney is scheduled for or May 16 1621 IN TilE THE GAME witha with a Springville last Thursday Uintah jumped out to a 1 to 0 lead after the first Inning df 6 f action Ron Hon Baker singled and then stole second base Clegg Stills singled to drive In Baker for the first run tun of the ball game Uintah Inet Inci eased their lead to 2 to 0 with a run In the top lop of the third inning Ron Hon Baker singled and Mike Phillips sacrificed Baker to second base Clegg Stills singled to drive In Baker for the Utes' Utes second run of the contest The Red Iced Devils scored a run In the third inning to cut the Uintah lead to 2 to 1 I. I Steve Shepherd was walked Second baseman Gary of Uintah committed an error which allowed Mecham to reach the bases Cary Hansen with two outs singled to drive In Shepherd for the first Springville run Uintah was shut out in both the fourth and fifth Innings The Utes had a 2 1 lead going into the bottom of the fifth inning Beardall reached first base due to an error by the Uintah third baseman Bart Thompson singled to move Beardall to second base Rick Hick Gardner was guilty of a wild pitch and Beardall advanced to third base Mecham singled to drive in Beardall for the game tying run SPRINGVILLE gained a 4 to lead 2 when Larson doubled and drove in Thompson and Mecham After five innings of action Springville led 4 to 2 Both teams were blanked in inthe inthe inthe the sixth inning The Uintah Utes tied up the ball game at 4 4 4 when they scored two runs Inthe in inthe inthe the top of the seventh inning Ron Baker singled to reach the bases Mike Phillips smashed a double Baker tried to move from first to third base on the hit lit hit by Phillips but Baker was called out at third base baser The call at t third base was an unpopular one for the Uintah Utes team Darrell Hacking singled to send Phillips across home plate Clegg Stills blasted a single into right field to drive Hacking home for the game tying run When Stills blasted the game tying hit the Red Hed Devils had two outs against the Utes and had two strikes on Stills The Red Hed Devils were quickly retired In the bottom of the seventh inning and thus the game was forced into extra innings Clegg Stills made a fantastic catch in right field for forthe forthe forthe the third out which stranded a aRed aRed Red Devil base runner S 'S hurler Steve Shepherd struck out Gary John Pope and Bart in n the top of the eighth inning The Red Hed Devils had a chance to win the game In Inthe Inthe inthe the bottom of the eighth inning as they had men on second and third base and one out However the Red Devils didn't have their thinking caps on as a Springville hit a pop fly to Ron Hon Baker and a was completed by touching second base to end the inning Uintah was retired one two three in the top of the ninth inning The Red Devils missed another golden opportunity to win the ball game in the bottom of the ninth inning The first two Springville batters balters were retired quickly but Cary Hansen singled Brinkerhoff reached first base on an error and Whiting connected fora for a single to load up the bases The next hitter hitter flied filed out ut to Gary for the third out The Utes Ules were shut out in the top of the tenth inning The Red Devils blew another chance to end the ball game In the bottom of the tenth inning Paulsen led off with a triple Beardall med flied out to the right fielder but Paulsen didn't tag up and try to score the winning run for Springville The next two Springville batters were retired and thus the Ih Red d Devils blew another golden opportunity UINTAH FAILED to score in inthe inthe inthe the top lop of the eleventh inning Opportunity knocked again for Springville in the bottom of the eleventh when Cary Hansen singled to reach first base Springville opened the door after opportunity knocked as Larson blasted a double to drive in Hansen for the winning run The final score was 5 to 4 for Springville The Utes had a chance to gain some runs in the sixth Inning Clegg Stills singled and David Kay was sent into run for Stills Kay was thrown out trying to steal stell second base Gary doubled and then moved to third base when John Pope gained first base on error Steve Shepherd struck out Bart to end the Uintah scoring threat Steve Shepherd was the winning pitcher for Springville He lie struck out 16 Uintah Utes in 11 innings g all allowed we 4 runs Ins 12 hits and 2 walks Rick Gardner was the losing pitcher He lie struck out eight Springville base bailers In n 11 Innings Gardner allowed only 1 earned run The other four runs were unearned He lie walked six batters bat allowed 13 hits and threw two wild pitches Uintah committed five errors In the contest The Uintah Utes were defeated by Union Unton High School In Roosevelt on April 26 6 to 3 3 record through March Marchand Marchand Marchand and April is 8 6 The Utes scored three runs in the first inning Union scored two runs Inthe Inthe in inthe the third and four runs in the fourth inning UINTAH B AB R H RBI BD K E ERon ERon Ron Baker S 5 2 3 0 0 1 1 Hike Phillips 4 1 1 0 0 2 0 Darrell Hacking 5 1 1 I 1 0 2 0 Clegg Stills 4 0 4 3 1 0 0 Allen Hacking 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 Gary Hansen 5 0 1 0 0 2 I 1 IJohn John Pope 5 0 0 0 0 3 0 Bart 5 0 1 0 0 3 2 Rick Gardner 3 00 0 1 2 I 1 Bart 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 David 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 Totals 40 4 12 4 2 16 5 SPRINGVILLE AB AS R H RBI BB K Thompson 4 I 1 I 1 1 2 0 Mecham Mechem 6 1 1100 1 0 0 1 I Hansen Haneen 6 I 5 I 0 1 Larson 6 0 2 2 0 2 Whiting 4 0 2 0 1 1 Brinkerhoff S 5 0 1 0 0 0 Paulson Pauleon 4 0 1 0 1 I 1 Beardall 5 1 1000 0 0 0 1 Shepherd 3 1 1002 0 0 2 1 Francis Francia 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 43 5 13 4 6 8 c I r 4 at P a Ze VL yf A r c WANE WORKMAN races roces after a steer during the team roping event last week |