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Show MottMonsenPopeSmuin post Utes to a 15 stroke win over Wasps Utes first 1 oDf w meet Despite the fact that Wasatch has last year's state 3A medalist, and another of a long line of Summerhays kids, the Uintah High golf team hosted Region 7 for the opening meet of the season and came away with some great play by a young team and a 15 stroke lead after one over the Wasps. Uintah playing this year with a combination of seasoned players and younger talent, got great games from Ryan Mott, Corey Monsen, REGION 7 Medalists: 18 Vernal Express Wednesday, Utes fall to 1-1 in Uintah High School football dropped to .500 on the season against a Fruita Memorial (Colorado) team as the defense continued con-tinued to cook, while the offense again failed to generate points. : The Ute defense has now allowed only seven points in each of their first two games, and those fourteen points came on turnovers by the offense of-fense deep in their own territory. Fletcher and Anfinson join for 7 sacks Uintah has become the cardiac kids in high school ioUlball this year to date, in that they have trailed late in the game and then put together an impressive show to win against Union and give themselves a chance to win at Fruita. Last Friday, the Utes took the field against an under manned Fruita Wildcat team which dressed only 24 players on varsity. Among those 24 however were running backs Drew Mayer and Brian Dcrc and quarterback Casy Doss. Uintah took the opening kickoff and failed to gain first down after three plays from scrimmage. The Utes then showed signs of days past briefly, as the attempted punt resulted result-ed in a low snap and blocked kick which gave the Wildcats the ball inside in-side the Utc 20 with first down. Mayer and company wasted no time as they ran from a split back- Ij . , I ' v : - -t 1 t - ' 1 j . "-, " , if. ' ' 4- ' . U$ It' , - " 4 : ....... t ) ; : I - - : ...... UNION Off r.N5IVt ed r-?trc Brock Pope, and Levi Smuin (a freshman) to total 316 team strokes to 33 1 for the runnerup Wasps. The Uintah varsity team this year includes Ryan Mott, Corey Monsen, and Brock Pope from last years second sec-ond place 3A team. Second place in a playoff after having tied for first after regulation at the state championships. champi-onships. This year Levi Smuin, David Cox, Ryan Mortensen, Jason Aycock, and Scott Monsen line up on the Utes Bonner, Was. 37"36: 73 Sept. 5, 1990 heartbraking 7-6 field straight up the middle and punched it in the endzone six plays later. After Peterson converted the PAT kicking, Fruita led 7-0, with around 10 minutes to go in the first quarter. From that point on the Utes Defense and Wildcat Offense put on a show. The Utes bent but would gambled and played for the outright win. Meyers again dropped back but failed to find Fletcher and Mansfield in the endzone as he came under pressure by the Wildcat D, and was stopped short of the endzone as it tucked it in and tried to score. With 16 seconds left in the game Fruita had only to handle the on side kick attempt, which they did. and then let the clock run down. Uintah had played it second straight -squcckcr against a solid team to emerge with a 1-1 prc-scason mark. The Utes this year show some signs of being a great club, as the defense has allowed only 14 points in two games, and those points came early in the game as the offense of-fense turned over the ball and put them with their backs to the end-zone. end-zone. Bullock makes key Interception In Cat endzone The offense meanwhile, is getting it together and if the offensive line bucks up and stops gating steam-rolled, steam-rolled, and the timing clicks which J'-e f st'. j- 1 ?" side of the ledger. All are sophomores sopho-mores and freshman. Brock Pope is also a sophomore and that spells a great siring of teams over the next three or four years for the Utes. Following Uintah and Wasatch in the standings after one, were Carbon 334, Lehi 378, Union 380, and Emery 424. In the medalist standings Uintah placed four in the top eight spots. Brian Bonner (Wasatch) came in medalist as expected with a 37-36 Summerhays, Was- 40"35: 75 loss to Frulta Monument 1 HEAD JV Coach Craig Monsen watches action against Union last week with assistant coaches Ken Yama (right) and Mike Peterson in the background. The Utes suffered a 21-6 loss to the second year Cougars. takes time, then Uc Utes will put some points on Uic board. Uintah had some outstanding effort ef-fort in their second game. Defensive ends Brian Fletcher and Jason Anfiason both played exceptional ball on defense. Fletcher had four sacks, a blocked pass and several sack assists. Anfinson got the quark-lb. k three times and had scvcul -! ga e f o fa'i Q 2 t-n !" total 73 round of one over par. Next came Will Summerhays (Wasatch) 40, 35 - 75 and Ryan Mott (Uintah) 39, 36 - 75 who tied for second just two shots behind Bonner. The remaining re-maining medalist finishers were: Tom King (Carbon) 40, 36 - 76; Corey Monsen (Uintah) 36, 42 - 78, Brock Pope (Uintah) 40, 38 - 78 and Steve Perry (Carbon) 40, 38 - 78; and Levi Smuin (Uintah) 43, 42 -85. The Utes, with one tucked in their Mott, Uin. 39-36: 75 X -A V V sack assists. Shane Bullock, playing play-ing in the defensive backficld intercepted inter-cepted a pass in Uic endzone to slop a Fruita drive which would have added seven points to the board. Ben Wilson, playing hurt, put some surge in the line and got the quarterback quarter-back once. On offense, Uintah had little to yell alxnit until the last two minutes of the panic. Fruita fairly shut don the running attic k as they strung the option out and ran it into the defensive backs ho met the ball carriers at the line. However, ,0A L 7 3 rv llj (If Ik belt, now head to Roosevelt this Wednesday for their second region matchup against the same five teams. In high school golf the region re-gion teams will meet for a series of region matchups and then the Region 7 Tournament. The best four of six scores are totaled each week. Then the combination of all region meets, including the Region 7 tourney, are totaled to determine the state tournament qualifiers. Uintah has made the list and been King, Car. 40-36:76 Ute JV finish week 0-2 with loss to Union The Uintah High junior varsity football team suffered their second loss of the season last Thursday at the hands of Union 21-6 as the underclassmen un-derclassmen have their work cut out now to turn the season around. Uintah traveled to Altamont for a game with' the Longhorns two weeks ago and lost in a close one 14-7. The program which is designed de-signed to give juniors and sopho-; sopho-; mores game experience and skills development for future varsity competition com-petition plays several varsity programs pro-grams in 1A and 2A as well as a mirror schedule of the varsity team. Several members of the varsity play both ways on occasion. The team is headed by coach Craig Monsen with help from Mike Peterson. After the junior varsity game last Thursday, the freshmansophomore team lined up with Union for an abbreviated ab-breviated 2 quarter game. The Utes the final drive was impressive. Meyers proved he can pass the ball when necessary as he completed long passes to Brian Fletcher and Scott Mansfield. Both Fletcher and Mansfield made good catches and were open. Mike Dockcry, despite the blocked kick which he had to field and errant snap to even attempt at-tempt to get off, is kicking the ball 40 plus yards most of the time and thai is something Uintah has not done in years. The Utes arc 1-1, but that's what prc-scason is for. The fine tuning 0 4 . ftr Jz ' V -... - - ' Iff invited to the state tournament for the past five years. During that span they have taken one third and the second last season, both under coach Kent McCurdy. The Utes go into the Union tournament tour-nament with a 15 stroke advantage and a course they are familiar with. Look for them to stay in first place after two weeks if Monsen, Pope, and Mott stay strong and they continue con-tinue to get help from Smuin, Cox, Mortensen, Aycock, or Scott Monsen. Monsen, Pope, Perry: 78 789-3511 avenged the jv to some extent by handing the Union freshmen and sophomores an 8-0 loss when running run-ning back Beau Perry punched it in for the only score of the contest. The Union game was the first of the season for the freshsoph team lead by coach Bill Maresh with help from coaches Ken Yama and Tim McFadden. The junior varsity will travel to Craig, Colorado, on Thursday for a matchup with the Moffat County Bulldog jv as a prelude to the Friday varsity matchup between the two at Uintah. The freshsoph team will line up against the sophomores and freshmen from our Colorado neighbors also on Thursday, but in Vernal. The freshmen and sophomores arc joined under a new school district policy which brings all athletics grades 9 through 12 under the direction direc-tion and preview of the high school program. That provides three interchangeable inter-changeable levels of competition in each sport potentially which allow for development of skills and competitive com-petitive level as a student makes his way through high school. going into the region wars. The Utes now will host Moffat County (Craig, Colorado) in their first home game of the year at the Ute Football Stadium this Friday, beginning at 7:30. The Utes arc looking to go 2-1 in this final preseason pre-season game before they start region re-gion play in Price the following Friday against the Carbon, Dinos. Many believe this game will set the tone for the entire season with the winner emerging as a favorite to Continued on pago 20 If II I 1 V U-NTAM T'lTS !' ? ryh cn V o Ur?n quarter- g-ive UO 21 fxinf3 in H9 cemfpst v"-" s;V in eelf f rpa! rg 3 bicry hn.h ing with Only $11 of l?eif rji rr-...j''o'1 m ?t ir.; '.e'a pa5. tf"? U'.S ' O" I f '.3'c' -f m jun:cr rsy scJct Ust w? |
