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Show 18 Vernal Express Wednesday, July 28, 1993 Vernal Dinosaur Triathlon begins Saturday at Steinaker J by Eric Pye Sports Writer The 11th Annual Vernal Dinosaur Triathlon will begin competition 7 a.m. Saturday morning out at Steinaker with one of the largest if not the largest contingent of out of townstate competitors ever. "Our pre-registration typically has been from out of the area competitors," competi-tors," Assistant Recreation Director Jay Dee Nielsen explained, "and this year we have had over 20 out of state competitors register. Local competitors usually wait until the Friday before to register." This year's event is again sponsored spon-sored by the Triathlon Federation USA and features a 1 mile swim, 25 mile bike and 6.2 mile run. The swim will take place at Steinaker Lake with the bike portion por-tion traveling up to the sand pit on the Maeser highway and back to the Searle Pavilion where the run will begin and end. Organizers will have water stations set up at least every two miles on the course. Divisions this year include individual indi-vidual and team, best male and female fe-male competitor and various age divisions. di-visions. The entry fee will be $25 per individual indi-vidual for Tri-Fed members and $40 per team. Noh Tri-Fed participants will pay $30 per individual and $50 per learn.'- Uintah County Recreation Summer Activities Vernal Dinosaur Triathlon The 11th annual Vernal Dinosaur Triathlon will take place Saturday, July 31 beginning at 7 a.m, at Steinaker Lake State Park. Race registration and packet pick-up will be held Friday, July 30 at 6 p.m. at the Searle Pavilion. Early registrations will also be accepted at the Uintah Recreation Office at 152 E. 100 N. (County Court House) 801-781-5486. Uintah County Fair Tournament The Uintah Recreation Association will be sponsoring the Uintah County Softball Tournament Friday and Saturday, August 13-14, There will be "A" and "B divisions for Men's and Women's teams with a 6 team minimum required to carry a division. Registration deadline is Aug, 9 without a $15 fate fee. Cost is $75 per team. To register contact the Uintah Recreation OfficeCounty Building or call 781-5486. Dinotrax Mountain Bike Festival at Flaming Gorge UMBA, (Utah Mountain Bike Association) will be hosting a Dinotrax Mountain Bike Festival July 31-Aug. 1. Bike and boat tours will take place both Saturday and Sunday along with a 28 category race. Cost is $30 for both tour and race or $20 for race only. ($5 surcharge for day of race registration) For more information informa-tion call Bob Walker at 582-4425 or John Neeley at 885-3315 1993 Co-Ed Softball league The 1993 Co-Ed softball league will begin Monday, Aug. 23. Registration deadline is Wednesday, Aug, 18 at 5 p.m. There will be a coaches meeting on Thursday, Aug. 19 at 7 p.m. at the County Commission Chambers. Entry fee is $125 per team or $15 per individual. Play will be on Monday and Tuesday In both A and B" divisions. For further information call 781-5486. Uintah County Fair Horseshoe Tournament The Uintah Recreation Association will be sponsoring a Uintah County Fair Horseshoe Tournament on Saturday, Aug. 14 at the Colton Pavilion horseshoe throwing pits beginning at 9 a.m. There will be a singles and doubles division. Cost for the tournament is $3 per person per event Prizes will be given for top players, registration reg-istration will begin 8:30 a.m. the day of event or call 781-5486. Water Aerobic Classes Water aerobic classes are held Monday through Thursday from 8:30-9:30 p.m. Cost for each class is $1.50. For information call Shelly at 789-5775 Park and Playground Program Children (grades 1-6) will be involved in a variety of activites including; in-cluding; sports, arts and crafts, old and new games, music and much more. The program will be held at the Colton Pavilion Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9 a,m. to 12 noon. Cost is $3 per day, $6 per week or$42 for the entire program. Swimming Lessons Final lessons begin Aug. 2 at the Indoor Swimming Pool at 9, 10 and 11 a.m, and the Naples Waterslide at 9 and 10 a.m. Each session costs $15. Registration will be accepted at the pool or the recreation office or call the pool at 789-5775. Registrations are being accepted at the Uintah Recreation Association Office at 152 E. 100 N. (801) 781-5486. All other interested participants must register Friday, July 30 at 6 p.m. at the Searle Pavilion. There will be no race day registrations accepted. Individuals who would like to compete on a ' team but do not have one together may contact the office and indicate what leg they would like to do. Fall sports The official starting date for fall sports as set down by the UHSAA is Aug. 2, which happens to be this coming Monday. Football, girl's tennis, cross country, coun-try, girl's soccer, golf and volleyball may all begin conditioning to prepare pre-pare for the upcoming seasons. The starting date for actual practices is Aug. 16. As mentioned before, girl's soccer is running through an AYSO program, pro-gram, girl's tennis is practicing independently in-dependently every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 7 a.m., cross country begins Aug. 2 at 7 p.m. at Coach Stagg's home. Golf begins Aug. 3 at 6:30 a.m. at the golf course. Volleyball will begin as soon as a new head coach has been named probably by next Monday or Tuesday. Football begins next Monday at 5 p.m. on the back practice field with conditioning but the camp which had been scheduled for Aug. 3 has been cancelled. "With all the new fees athletes are being asked to pay, we didn't want to put an extra burden bur-den on the families," Head Coach Curg Belcher stated. Baseball camp Nate Colbert, who played 10 years in the major leagues, will be conducting con-ducting a baseball camp Aug. 5-7 in Vernal. Colbert's achievements include being the San Diego Padres all time leading home run hitter with 163. A record setting 5 home run, 13 RBI and 22 extra bases night in a double header against Atlanta. Voted major league "Slugger of the Year" in 1972 and Finished second six times for the Golden Glove Award. The camp will be divided into two brackets for both boys and girls with T-Ball through 12 years of age running from 9-12 a.m. each day and 13 and up Scout Camp running from 1-4 p.m. at the Vernal Community Park, 900 W. 350 N. Cost for the three day camp is $25. Early registrations are being accepted ac-cepted at the Uintah Recreation Association Office at 152 E. 100 N. or prior to the beginning of the first day of camp before each session. For further information please call the Uintah Recreation Office at 78 1-5486. Dinotrax Mountain Bike race set for August 1 at the Gorge by Eric Pye Sports Writer As part of an expanded effort to get the word out about the excellent mountain bike trails in the Flaming ' Gorge National Recreation Area,' UMBA (Utah Mountain Bike Association) in conjunction with Ashley National Forest officials is staging a Dinotrax Mountain Bike Festival July 31-Aug. 1 (Friday and Saturday) at the recreation area. Tie festival will include guided bike tours on several different trails, guided boat tours, naturalist talks, social events, day care services for children 3-8, a nature camp for children chil-dren ages 8-11, event banquet Saturday night at festival headquarters headquar-ters Red Canyon Lodge and a mountain bike race Sunday which features 28 categories and over $4,000 in cash and merchandise prizes. Expectations for the area's potential poten-tial are very high as most informed sources agree the recreational opportunitiesespecially op-portunitiesespecially mountain biking will rival Brian Head and Skyline Drive. Ashley National Forest Rangerrepresentative John Neeling said Flaming Gorge is the fourth most visited site in Utah, but most visits are water recreation oriented. "Area trails remain undiscovered by mountain bike enthusiasts." The race Sunday, which is part of the Utah Fat Tire Festival series, has already drawn registrations from numerous well known national racers rac-ers and many more are expected to register prior to the race. But don't be intimidated by their expertise. There will be 28 categories which interested riders may enter includ--ing beginner, sport, expert and' proelite classifications in seven dif--ferent age categories. Registrations' will close at 9 a.m. promptly the; day of the event. The cost will be' S25 for the race and S30 for the tourJ and race. All racers must have a! NORBA license which may be pur-J chased on site. A one day (begin-" ners only) license may be purchased for S3 or a one year license is avail-' able for $25. Age groups include a Junior 12 and under, Junior 13-15, Junior 16-18, 16-18, Senior 19-34, Veteran 3544 and Masters 45 and over in both a mens and womens category. The course (see illustration) consists con-sists of two loops connected by a singletrack trail. The startfinish line is at Red Canyon Lodge. The Lodge loop is 3.9 miles around while the Swett Ranch loop is 4.7 miles and the Canyon Rim Trail and connecting connect-ing roads combine for another 4 miles. Men and women Pros and Experts will begin at 9:30 on a 27 mile course while Beginner women, 12 and under begin racing at 9:35 on a separate easier 8 mile course. All others begin at 12:35 on the 16 mile course. Good vantage points which are easily accessible are the startfinish line at the lodge, the Canyon Rim overlook north of the lodge which will offer a vantage of racers on a narrow trail at high speeds and the Greendale Rest area where racers come out of the singletrack onto a fast 12 mile descent to the Swett Ranch loop. To view the more technical tech-nical parts of the course, head to the Skull Creek crossing on the Rim Trail which is about 34 mile east of Green Lakes Campground Trailhcad. For further information contact John Neeling at 885-3315 or the Red Canyon Lodge at 889-3759. r:trv$ , - w -v. ar i Jt jl m m .a f - ' TRIATHLON COMPETITORS hit the Steinaker waters last year in the morning sun. This same scene will be replayed early Saturday morning beginning around 7 a.m. Two WeinmaH atilhiietes tavePdtowirD MGDdleir5 by Eric Pye Sports Writer Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel to a foreign country, spend time with the locals and get to know their culture? Two local athletes from Uintah High school had just that opportunity recently. re-cently. Danny Reynolds and Howie Cleavinger were selected by a committee com-mittee of high school football coaches to participate in the second annual Utah, Australia All Star football game that was the easy part. After the two Uintah football players were selected, the process of raising the $2,000 began. "We both sold tee shirts, organized raffles and received a lot of donations by local businesses and individuals,"' Reynolds stated, "we would never have raised the money if it hadn't been for the community pitching in to help us," Cleavinger added. The two drove to Salt Lake June 14, met up with the other All Stars and flew to Los Angeles where they caught a nonstop 13 hour flight to Sydney, Australia. Once in Australia, the team was driven to Brisbane where members were placed with private homes for the first four days of the 10 day trip (June 15-25) and given the grand tour of the island country. "It was totally awesome," Reynolds exclaimed, ex-claimed, "the people were great and very friendly. Everywhere we went, we were treated like celebrities. The people over there thought we had cool accents and wanted us to talk a lot so they could listen to it (the accents). ac-cents). Anything American was a hot item and people tried to get us to sell them our jeans, shoes and uniforms." The actual games were played in Brisbane, which is famous for it's game reserves and beautiful beaches. beach-es. 'The beaches were absolutely perfect," Cleavinger said. 'The sand 'ill A ' nfi I I i. "yl i J. '"'l'l"r... v p i . 'tj n y JT i i ' I I I J UINTAH FOOTBALL players Howie Cleavinger and Danny Reynolds pose in their Utah All Star uniforms which they wore during dur-ing the Australian All Star games. was pure white and soft and the water wa-ter was as clear as any I have ever seen. It was winter over there which meant temperatures were in the mid seventies to lower eighties and the water was perfect. We got to spend four days in Hawaii after Australia and Australia's beaches were better." bet-ter." As for the games, the first was played in a rugby stadium in Brisbane against the Queensland All Star team which was made up of mostly rugby players, none of whom were under 20 years old. "They were all pretty big guys, but didn't know how to hit properly," Reynolds stated. The Utah All Stars won the game 28-0 with Reynolds starting both ways as an offensive and defensive tackle. Cleavinger handled all the kicking chores including in-cluding extra points, kickoffs and field goals. See Down Under page 19 lJ DiMOfttA ?AVo R.eAc 1U1U. I Is (.ops -T . V ssWf. Ji I ' on, TrJ I cJutfK To I CAMKHLMtM V DINOTRAX RACE course which will be used this Sunday at Flaming Gorge Festival. t. J |