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Show - . - - i r 1 c . ' t $ . J UTE NETTER, Tom Conklin watches the airborne tennis ball and gets ready to blast it over the net as he competes in a match with Pleasant Grove's Rick Clark. Conklin beat Clark, 6-1, 6-4. The Uintah Ute tennis team has turned turn-ed in some outstanding performances. Uintah's netters have a Region 7 mark of 2-1 and have defeated Mountain View and Pleasant Grove, 3-2. The Utes' lone loss is to Provo by the score of 4-1. Uintah's first doubles team, Mike Saupe and Ken Golding, have a perfect mark of 3-6 as of Tuesday, April 26. Saupe and Golding beat Paul Hadley and Tad Richards of Mountain View, 7-6, 6-4 and the Ute doubles crew, Saupe and Golding, downed Provo's Todd Watkins and Robert Perremoore, 7-6, 3-6, 6-1.. Saupe and Golding toppled Pleasant Grove's Tylar Gam and Chad Chipman, 4-6, 7-6, 6-3. Kurt Johnson and Greg Thomson, Uintah's Uin-tah's second doubles, own a 2-0 mark due to a 6-4, 7-6 triumph over Nathan Riley and Brad Davies of Mountain View and a 6-0, 6-2 w in over Mike Clark and Mike Simpson of Pleasant Grove. Johnson and Thomson didn't compete in the meet with Provo. Uintah's second singles, Tom Conklin owns a 2-1 mark. He downed Mountain View's Brain Bab-cock, Bab-cock, 6-0, 6-2 and defeated Pleasant Grove's Rick Clark, 6-1. 6-4. The Uintah and Union baseball slug- FIRST DOUBLES members, Mike Saupe, left and Ken Golding, right, wait for the tennis ball to be served on the net by their Pleasant Grove op- Uintah's tennis team toppled the Vikings, 3 to 2, in Vernal Tuesday. gers competed in a baseball hitting war Tuesday in Roosevelt as Union scored 8 runs on 12 hits and Uintah gained seven runs on eight hits. Rick Capps and Randy Ran-dy Nelson led the Uintah Utes with two hits each. Capps had a triple and single and Nelson delivered two singles. Dale Wood, Glen Murray, Mike Robbins and Darin Nelson had one base hit each. Wood and Murray struck for doubles and Robbins had a triple. Nelson netted a single. Robbins got on the base paths three times on a triple, base on balls and hit-by-pitcher. Darin Nelson also nabbed nabb-ed a sacrifice hit. Brad Richens didn't gain any base hits, but he reached first base on a walk and also delivered a sacrifice hit. Union's number one slugger was Jim Trowbridge with three hits. He produced produc-ed two singles and a double. Lonnie Sam-maripa. Sam-maripa. Brett Cramer, Bryan Eldredge and Rick Nielsen gained two hits each Sammaripa struck for a homer, .single ? ' ' f ' - " .: I . r m t "" ; i i i i ..' ', s . ..: ; i - - ' ' .' - ' V ' ' . i ponents. The Ute team lost the first set, but won the second and third sets to give Uintah a 3 2 win. and was walked. Cramer ripped Uintah for two singles and Nielsen slugged out a single and double. Eldredge produced a double and single. Shane Neilsen singled singl-ed and received a walk. Richard gained only one hit. but it was a single, which drove in the w inning run in the Cats' 8-7 win over Uintah Mike Ross got on the base paths when he was hit by the pitcher. Uintah's Rick Capps was the top runs-battedin runs-battedin producer at three. Capps knocked in Darin Nelson and Robbins in the lop of the second inning on a triple. A single by Capps knocked in Robbins in the top of the sixth Union's top RBI men were Sammaripa. Sam-maripa. Trow bridge and Eldredge at two each. Sammaripa netted his two RBI's in the bottom of the first inning on a home run, which knocked in Truw bridge. Trowbridge pocketed his two RBI's when he U'lttxi a d"tiKe. which M-orvd Eldmige and Ross in the bottom of the second inning Four "Nelsons" competed in the Uintah-Union baseball game, Tuesday and none of the bunch were related and three of the four had different spellings of the name, which confused many scorekeepcrs. Dann Nelson and Randy Nelson are memlHTS of the Uintah baseball team Darin is the Utes' catcher. Randy plays left field and is also a pitcher. Rick Nielsen is Union's starting first baseman and Union's Shane Neilsen is an outfielder. out-fielder. The "Nelson" bunch produced at the plate Randy Nelson belted out two singles. Darin Nelson netted a single and a sacrifice hit. Rick Nielsen ripped out a single and double. Shane Neilsen struck for a single and a walk |