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Show 22 Vernal Excess Wednesdoy, August 27, 1986 mm 4 - 5 ......... t - i 1 U . . ,1 5 r ? v TV i It ' i If J 'i UHS QUARTERBACK Kenny Mohar, 10, tosses the ball over a high leaping defensive lineman. Mohar is a returning starter at quarterback and the Utes have a number of veteran players UBimSalhi to aSonsft By Aldon Rachele Exprtu Spont Editor The numbers aren't great, but the quality is super as a good amount of starters and veteran players return to the 1986 version of the Uintah Ute football team. Fifty-four Uintah High School athletes turned out for football this year, but 80 competed in tryouts last year. Uintah High School will host Union High School of Roosevelt, Friday in the season opener at 7:30 p.m. Admission Ad-mission will be free as the game will be held in Uintah's brand new stadium. The Utes will battle Carbon, September 5 and Provo, September 12 on the road. The Utes defeated Union, Carbon, Payson, Spanish Fork and Duchesne last year and competed in the state tournament for the first time in 20 years. Uintah posted a 5-4 regular season mark and lost to Judge " 1 " r-4'' ' ' ' "t J f RUNNING BACK Larry Wiseman tribes the fool ball and sends it on a Inp td U nlah receiver Johnny Silcox. Umtah will hu;l Umon. Friday T ! ' 1 - Memorial in the state tournament. Battling for the Uintah quarterback quarter-back position are senior Kenny Mohar, junior Gordon Limb and sophomore Kaleo Nawahine. Mohar and Limb started games at quarterback quarter-back last year. Limb was the starting quarterback for the Utes in the state tournament. "Mohar is an ideal quarterback because he has height, a strong arm and is a smart player. We just hope he doesn't get injured like he did last year. Mohar has looked real good so far," remarked head coach Hank Nawahine III. "Limb is only 5 feet 6 inches tall, but he is tough. He is a good runner and he will play a lot of quarterback. He is a good scrambling scrambl-ing quarterback. Nawahine has a good arm, is tall and knows the offense of-fense really well. He plays heads up ball all the way." 7 J- Y Gygai7S and U rn will battle Caf ton in Price. September 5 11 3? CI fv:1 ft 1 i VA : -4 . AN - ,,- f.i t; back for the 1986 season. The Utes will host Union, Friday, in a free admission game at 7:30 p.m. in the new Uintah stadium sea Some other possible Uintah offensive offen-sive team starters are: Steve l- e Nawahine, tight end; Scott Simper, Shawn Johnson, tackles; Corey Martin, Mar-tin, Dirk Slade, guards; Steve Hatch, center; Johnny Silcox, flanker back; Kevin Owens, split end and Larry Wiseman, Bart Huber, running backs. Also battling for starting positions posi-tions are: Brian Southam, Lee SoVilz, Marty Woods, Eric Mulville, running backs; Scott Hardman, Todd Shiner, Jeff Shearer, receivers and Rhadd Wilier, tight end. There are many other players fighting for positions. posi-tions. The Utes have six offensive starters back this year in Mohar, S. Nawahine, Simper, Hatch, Johnson and Wiseman. All six plus Huber, Slade and Martin are seniors. Martin is a transfer from Casper, Wyoming. Silcox and Owens are juniors. Some possible defensive starters t V J ' i i - V 1 , 4' . are: S. Nawahine, Martin, middle linebackers; Hatch, nose tackle; Simper, Johnson, tackles; Wilier, Wiseman, defensive ends; Huber, strong safety; Limb, Hardman, cor-nerbacks cor-nerbacks and Mohar, free safety. Also battling for defensive positions are: Schulz, cornerback-strong safety; safe-ty; Silcox, cornerback; Chance Murray, Mur-ray, tackle; Chris Roberts, nose tackle; Mulville, defensive end; Woods, Troy Murray, middle linebackers. Other Ute athletes are also in contention for starting spots. "We are changing our offense completely com-pletely from last year. We are moving mov-ing to the veer offense and will have more play-action passes. The quarterback will have the option of handing off the ball, keeping it or pitching pit-ching to a back. The veer will open up the passing game hopefully," commented com-mented Nawahine. "We are learning a new defensive system and it will be real exciting. We are working on 40 and 50 defenses." The Union High School Cougars have a new head football coach in Paul Magio. Union has a good amount of starters back from last year. Competing for starting positions on the Union offensive team are: Eddy Samuels, senior; Kelly Smith, junior, quarterbacks; Seott Muirhcad, Ray Farnsworlh, fullbacks; Ray Havetiinc, Steve Burton, Devere Hunt, Donnie Brown, halfback; Trent Larsen, Marc Crozier, Buff Hartnston, Lunce Nielsen, Andy Ycrgen-sen. receivers; Martin Locke, center; Phillip Rcrtoch. Todd Handy, Mike llorroeks, guards and Troy Reidhead, Robert Buchanan, Trent Nelson, tackles. Samuels was Union llih School's starting quarterback last year and was one of the top offensive stars. Other starters back are tiertoch, Lotke. Harmslon ami Nielsen. Muirhead, Farnsworlh. Brown, Larsen, Handy and Reidheari saw nme varsity play last season, fluards Brrtoeh and Handy weigh about 20 pounds. Reidhead is at 210 pounds and Buchanan at IBO. Ilavetone is a transfer from Arizona. "We have been working on defen sive coverage and our offense. We have lieen gelling our timing hark. We will try for a balanced offense wilh a gnod running and parsing game. Samuels is a gl drop hark paer and is an e?qenenred quarterback. He is a goJ scrambler. p have a lot of people roming bat k. who plaed lat ear," said bead coaih Mrfggio. - V - x- f ?y --i i FOOTBALL WORLD is upside down for Ute running back, Bart Huber, who is tackled by his defensive teammates. X .iT r. ., . k;. ' ; THE BALL is handed off to running back, Bart Huber, left by Ute quarterback Kenny Mohar, right. Uintah Football Schedule Union at Uintah Uintah at Carbon Uintah at Provo Pleasant Grove at Uintah Uintah at Timpview Springville at Uintah Uintah at Murray Uintah at Payson Spanish Fork at Uintah Uintah to host Viking netters Uintah High School's girl tennis team will have its season opener in Vernal against Pleasant Grove, Friday Fri-day and the Ute volleyball team has a match set for September 4. The Ute tennis team will battle Payson and Spanish Fork on the road, September 2 and will host Carbon, Car-bon, September 3; Provo, September 10 and Springville, September 13. Softball Tournament There will be a ladies Softball tournament held in conjunction with the Naples Energize Me Fair on September 5 & 6. The entrance fee will be $30. If you have a team in terested in playing please contact Marlene at the Naples City Office. Call 789-9090 ' l ft 4 " '' ' ' i ;hv , . . : . Aug. 29 Sept. 5 Sept. 12 ; Sept. 19 Sept. 26 Oct. 3 Oct. 8 Oct. 16 Oct. 24 CUTTERS CHOICE! 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