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Show 28 Vernal Erfrfmfldvertlser wwy, M0y u, wss Best and worst in baseball, golf and track sports bit ' V 4 I - f 2. VERNAL GOLFER Hans Parkinson prepares to send the ball on a journey down the number eight fairway. Best Hitting Performance: Uintah High School's Steve Nawahine hit back to back two run homers. Nawahine had been in a hitting slump, but he exploded with a two run homer in the bottom of the fifth inning, which gave the Utes a 6-5 win over the Payson Lions, April 29. His next at bat occurred in a game against the Red Devils in Springville, May 2 and he jolted his opponents with a two-run homer blast in the top of the first inning. In two at bats Nawahine hit two homers and drove in four runs. Best Ute Baseball Beginning: Homers by Nawahine and Kenny Mohar in the top of the first inning gave Uintah a 3-0 lead over Springville, Spr-ingville, one of the top teams in Region 8. The Utes went on to lose the game 7-5 because of errors, doubleplays and calls that didn't go their way, May 2. Worst Ute Baseball Game Beginning Beginn-ing Part 1: Pleasant Grove jumps out to a 4-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning in a game played in Pleasant Grove, May 6. The Utes were hurt in the inning by a homer, two wild pitches pit-ches and two errors. Uintah ended up losing the game, 5-2. Worst Ute Baseball Game Beginning Beginn-ing Part 2: Pleasant Grove grabbed a 2-0 lead in the first, 5-0 advantage in the second and led 8-0 after three innings inn-ings in Vernal, April 15. The Vikings went on to win the game. Best Baseball Marathon The first home game of the season and the first win in front of the Vernal folks lasted ten innings before Uintah's Lee Schulz scored the winning run on a wild pickoff attempt at third base in the bottom of the tenth. Uintah beat Union High School in the game, 2-1. Best Pitching Performance In The Past Week: Union High School's Bobby Bob-by Riding fell behind 1-0 in the first inning during the second game of a doubleheader, but shutout Grant-sville Grant-sville in the next five innings and his team rallied for an 8-1 win. Riding struck out nine batters, gave up two . & - -,- .... 1 - . i- - -. i. . hits and one run. He allowed zero runs after the first inning and helped his own cause with a home run, Friday Fri-day in Roosevelt. Best Marathon Pitcher: Clint Christiansen of Grantsville pitched the entire five innings of the first game with Union, Friday and only two runs were scored against him. He pitched four innings in the second game for a total of nine innings. Tough Luck Department: Uintah High School committed errors at wrong times and hit into offense killing kill-ing doubleplays in their May 2 game with Springville. Grantsville's Christiansen Chris-tiansen started both games of a doubleheader with Union High School and ended up as the losing pitcher in both games. Best BYU Meet Performance: A number of tracksters set records in the BYU Meet, but Uintah High School's Todd Mulville won both the 100 and 200 meter dash finals and was a member of the Utes' first place 400 relay team in a heat. Worst Or Best Performer At Sporting Spor-ting Events: The winner is the rain for worst performer. Wet conditions wiped out Uintah's baseball game with Provo, 3-A track meet in Provo, Region 8 tennis meet, most of the Vernal Boys' Baseball games, BMX races and Lettermen's Run. However, if a person grows green grass in his lawn or vegetables in his garden then the rain was the best performer. Worst Shot Followed By The Best Shot: Danny Mortenson's shot from the number seven fairway landed behind the number eight tee box and right next to a tree in the Vernal Police Invitational. The tournament was in the scramble format, which consisted of golfers hitting their next shot from the best location of previous shots. One golfer hit his ball on the green and Mortenson knocked the ball in for a birdie. Best Celebration: Jack Voyles dropped a long shot for a birdie on number seven in the Vernal Police Invitational and teammates Jim Glenn, Cecil Wall, Levi Smuin and Bill Groves performed a mighty jump for joy. The team went on to place first in the tournament. Best And Worst Battle Between Previous Cellar Dwellers: Texas beat Cleveland, Monday, 19-2. Texas and Cleveland have finished last a number of times in the American League. Texas moved into first place with a 16-13 mark in the American League West The Cleveland Indians won ten games in a row and jumped into first place, but four losses in a row dropped them into third place. Texas was the best of the 19-2 win and Cleveland was the worst in the 19-2 setback. Worst Defensive Game: A ball dropped between three Texas Rangers in the outfield in a game with the New York Yankees, Sunday. However, the Yankees made a ton of their own errors and lost the game 6-3. Rodeo News Lane Frost, Lane, Okla., who is originally from Randlett, Utah, is number two in the bull riding standings stan-dings as of May 5 in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association with $29,809. Tuff Hedeman of El Paso, Texas, is the top bull rider at $34,267. Lewis Feild, Elk Ridge, Utah, who has relatives living in Vernal, is number two in the all-around cowboy and bareback riding standings. He has earned $38,545 in the all-around and $27,656 in the bareback riding event. Feild is the defending all-around all-around and bareback champion. Chris Lybbert, Argyle, Texas, leads the all-around at $47,626 and Chuck Logue, McKinney, Texas, is the number one bareback rider at $33,117. Danny Brady, Henderson, Nev., who is familar to local rodeo fans, is number three in the bareback riding at $21,439. A TAG is applied to Grantsville's Paul Bracken, left, by Union High School's Marc Crozier, right. The Cougars swept a doubleheader from Grantsville and qualified for the state tournament. Gin Tournament The Ladies Petroleum Club Gin Tournament held in conjunction con-junction with the AIME, SPE Golf Tournament will be held May 17th at the Dinaland Country Club. This tournament is open to the public. Entry fee is $ 10.00 for either the morning mor-ning of afternoon session, with play-off to follow. For tickets and rules information please call Gerri at 789-0398, Linda at 789-5756 or Virginna at 789-2898. Entry must be in by May 16th at 12:00 noon. Come join the FUN! 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