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Show Uintah takes Region ito sfians The Uintah High golf team polished pol-ished off a great regular season last week at Wasatch State Park Golf Course, near Heber City, by winning win-ning the Region 7 Championship Tournament and claiming the Region 7 title by 50 shots over second sec-ond place Carbon. At the end of the five cumulative tournaments which comprise the region schedule the Utes held a 5-1 mark and a 50 shot win including the championship tournament where they beat Tom King and company from Price by 15 strokes, 333 to 348. Wasatch with Region Medalist Brandon Boner . and Will Summcrhays finished a disappointing disappoint-ing third in the region championship and fourth in the region standings with a 367 last week. In winning the title, the golf team becomes the only Uintah team to win a region title this year. They polished off this honor on the tough Wasatch links with a 333 total lead by medalist runner-up Ryan Mott who shot a great round of 77 to lead the charge. The other three scores counted in the region title bout were recorded by Corey Monscn (82), Brock Pope (86), and Jason Aycock (88). Also playing for the Utes varsity var-sity in the Championships were Levi Smuin (98), Scott Monsen (91) Ryan Mortcnsen (89), and David Cox (101). In the medalist race Ryan Mott finished one shot behind frontrunner Brandon Bonner (76) of Wasatch on the day and five shots out for the regular season. The Utes put four in the top 10 medalists on the year with Bonner winning his second individual title for Wasatch. Bonner finished the year with a 378 cumulative total to Ryan Mott's 383. Following Bonner and Mott in the individual standings were: 3. Tom King, Carbon, 392; 4. Cory Monsen, Uintah, 398; 5. Brock Pope, Uintah, 427 and Tim Rhoades, Carbon, 427; 7. Steve Perry, Carbon, 429; 8. Levi Smuin Jr., Uintah, 444; 9th Ryan Jones, Carbon, 447; and Chris Colman, Wasatch, 455. That gave Uintah four (Ryan Mott 2nd, Cory Monsen 4th, Brock Pope tie 5th, and Levi Smuin 8th), Carbon four (King 3rd, Rhoades tie 5th, Perry 7th, and Jones 9th), with Wasatch placing only two in the top 10 with Colman joining medalist Bonner at the number 10 spot In the region standings Carbon took second to Uintah 1195 to 2045. Wasatch took third with a 2207 total and the runner ups who will place individuals but no team in the 3A's were Union, Lehi, and Emery. The Utes now prepare for the state 3A tournament in Brigham City where the Box Elder Bees will host the rest of the state. The Utes travelled trav-elled to Brigham on Tuesday for a practice round on the new course in the mouth of sardine canyon before teeing off against the rest of the state today. The course is fairly short and guarded by water and creeks through the entire 18 hole layout. Coach McCurdy who is after his third top three finish in four years at the helm ranks Box Elder at the team to beat because they are on their home course and second they have one of the premier golfers in the prep ranks in White, who has reportedly not shot more than 34 on the front side in the last month. "Box Elder will be tough," said McCurdy before leaving for Northern Utah Tuesday, "They would have to get the nod going in, with tough competition from us as well as Cedar City, Ogdcn, Wasatch, Sky View, and Carbon." "If Mott and Monsen shoot up to their potential and we get some help from two of our younger golfers, we could be right in the thick of things," the coach added. The slate tournament in decided in a one day, 18 hole match by the teams qualifying for the. playoffs from the various regions. Wasatch, Carbon, and Uintah will represent Region 7. Last year McCurdy's Utes went into the state tournament as a long shot to finish in the top ten with five of six losses to Wasatch in Region 7 play. When the smoke had cleared the Utes were tied for the title and finished second on the first hole of sudden death to quell their Cinderella Cinderel-la hopes, but nevertheless complete a great season. McCurdy has finished fin-ished second twice in his first three Continued on page 21 18 Vernal Express Wednesday, Oct. 10, 1990 M,WiiH')..iwwi'a Minimum V, iSl jP ?r7) ft v . . y '- 1 J ! o J7) JASON ANFINSON and Ute teammate at full extension as the two attempt to knock down Wasatch pass. Uintah was a dime short and a dollar late all night. iieeiiiBS tteamni tranisEies 3 - - I . Someone once said that statistics don't lie, until they watched a Ute game and saw the box score from the contest. Looking at the stats for the first half Friday night gave you the impression im-pression the Utes were dominating. dominat-ing. We ran off 39 plays to the Wasps 19. The Utes controlled the ball for 18 of the 24 first half minutes. min-utes. Yet at the half it was Wasatch 20, Uintah 3. For 17 of those plays the Utes held Wasatch to only 82 yards. It was the other two plays which really real-ly hurt One went for a 98 yard touchdown after the Wasps faced a third down on their own 2. The other oth-er went for a 73 yard touchdown after af-ter the defense had again forced a third and long, this one through the air. The Utes played as if they were distracted by something more pressing. press-ing. Twice in the first half Uintah turned the ball over after driving inside in-side the Wasps 10 yard linc-oncc on a fumble and another time on an interception in-terception to end the first half. Down 20-3, Uintah came out in the second half and looked like they were ready to play football after driving down the field with great power running by Colton and a 35 After qualifying four girls for the slate competition, taking home two Region 7 champions and winning four dual matches this season, the Ulc coaching staff feels like ihcv have turned the titles in their favor with the gii ls tennis program. Head coach Eric Pyc is quick to point out thai two freshman started lor him this season with one of 1 them qualifying for siaic (Lnri M.in.sfciU) and the other (Kristi t Wilikcn) winning her first varsity ? m.m.h ever. "Wc arc only losing one ', i starter (Tanya Li) aixl have sever. " at eighth p adcr coming tip w ho will h.ivc an immediate impact on the propraur the co.Kh stated. "Our po.it this ycir was to t as competitive as possible while maintaining main-taining a hc.il;!iy prr-jvctive and Ickhmg these yimng l.i.hc$ aUnit striving U) achieve and iniprtivj Ihrtwlscs continuously". "Slate cnmpitiiion .n just king on the v.-ike, an, I r.h that attitude in mmd. the fuH gained a valu.il le teaming cpeiicncc". Kfi-t;r.a Mi;rpt-,y ftajed anr'J rf otif.un.Jing m.atih p;nst a nigh Wr-.t rsi'Mirnt. ln-.jpg the first c ir H w '-:Aa 7 6. and failing f n (he v.i s, t r. J,si StAnsfci!.! afvf IsaJif-al tr.linc dri'j-pe.l i l,mth t1 g-1 v-( ha'f I -t rrai. h ih it listed hnc vivf-2. & ( Ah 9 hrt; cu-rrd the fci;r- .;-int f.r,l .;,J !-,,r,J n state at putr- Nf ir, p?vc he r h-' pr-f. pr-f. rmarH c t4 the L?y. yard strike from Meyers to Mansfield for the score. With just under 10 minutes left in the third, the score was 20-10. Big Mistake! As soon as Uintah saw how easily they could move the ball everyone seemed to let up instead of maintaining main-taining the momentum they had created. cre-ated. . - Wasatch promptly drove downficld themselves, aided by two costly (and somewhat questionable interference calls) to answer the Ute challenge. Some of the fans were heard to say that those calls cost Uintah the game, but coaches know that those kinds of things have a way of balancing themselves out and that winning teams are able to play through them without losing their concentration. After the Wasatch score, the game got ugly. Big Ben Wilson, who had been playing his usual intimidating game on the line with several sacks and hurries, allowed a Wasatch player to distract him into a shoving shov-ing match which ended with both players being ejectcd-to the gain of Wasatch. Normally reliable Shane Bullock (who played injured all night) was touched several times for long gainers through the air. The leading defense in the region seemed to have as many holes in it as Swiss cheese. Wasatch added a token touchdown touch-down midway through the fourth quarter to make the score 34-10 which ended up being the final. Uintah ended up rushing the ball 38 times for 159 yards and passing 23 times with 13 completions for 130 yards. Wasatch rushed 35 times for 272 yards while going 1218 for 215 yards passing. Without a doubt the most positive outcome from the game was the way in which the coaching staff reacted re-acted to the adversity and frustration frustra-tion they were experiencing. Never have I seen a group of men handle themselves as well as these men did. The Uintah Basin can rest assured that the future of her young athletes is in good hands with this group. Throughout the contest the coaches continued to support and exhort the players on. When an athlete made a mistake, the desired and proper action ac-tion was explained and then the young man was sent back in. The coaching staff seemed to have a genuine concern for the players, which is sometimes lost in the high pressure arena of athletics. With lime and community support, this coaching staff will leach our young athletes the real meaning of success. ft ; UTE nUNNCR Shano DultocK bemg cut clown behind lino ot &Cfimm,iga. Uintah had dtuny ciocuting all rnQht. Tvp.ical ct Umlah ctfort, DuiSocK pi,iycd hurt throughcut Q.ima, f) : 7 1 V rC tfC tU 9 iV;-C 4 1 a! ,--. j f .-.,! ' 'f I? f l . Kr s'.ff i ' f 5 . , rr;.-i.: i "T i-- C I , l |