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Show f 18 Vernal Express Wednesday, August 11, 1993 Coon Bitty Fair Demolition!) Oerby 'irocks the house' by Eric Pye Sports Writer The 1993 Uintah County Fair Demolition Derby began under ominous clouds Saturday night, but finished under clear skies much to the delight of the . overflowing 11,000 (approximate) who came to be entertained. "We were very pleased with the whole affair," organizer Max Martin said. "From beginning to end the event ran smoothly and safely, which is as much as anyone could ask for." Hatch wins Provo tennis championship UHS senior to be Jorden Hatch has been on a tennis rampage lately at the expense of the Wasatch front. Hatch, who recently became the first Uintah tennis player to win an individual state championship (along with partner Jeff Snow) has been making the rounds this summer, sum-mer, playing in every tournament he can get into and it seems to be paying pay-ing off. "I have been playing in tournaments tourna-ments for the past two years," Hatch explained, "and never even won a match until this year. But Coach Pye has been patient and told me to keep working hard and it is beginning begin-ning to pay off." Three weeks ago Hatch competed in the Spanish Fork Fiesta Days Tournament and finished second, losing in the championship to Dixie number one Eric Pelton. In the process, pro-cess, Jorden learned a good lesson. "I was up in that match and should have won it, but I let my concentration concentra-tion slip a little and didn't play as aggressively as I could have. I told myself after that match it wasn't going go-ing to happen again." In the Provo tournament, Hatch defeated Tifnpview's number one player in three sets during the semi finals 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 to advance to the championship match Friday. He faced Provo 's number one player in Provo. "I was a little nervous, but also really determined to play the kind of tennis I am capable of playing, play-ing, win or lose." The first set was a struggle as both players served and volleyed, going to 5-5 before Jorden was able to break and hold his serve for a 7-5 win. "He couldn't do anything with my serve and I knew it was just a matter of me relaxing and hitting Old stereotypes die hard by Eric Pye Sports Writer To hear some people talk, you would think all it takes to play the game of football is 18 percent body fat and a killer instinct, plus a strong desire to inflict bodily harm on the guy across the line of scrimmage. scrim-mage. For too long football players have been type cast as brutes with a gpa no higher than a Siberian Yak and an attention span of equal proportions. propor-tions. Their class loads consisted of basket weaving 2, 3 and 4. Most supposedly majored in Undeclared and minored in General! Maybe a few players actually fit into the above categories in the old days when the game was much simpler. sim-pler. I can remember a few players from the football team when I was a studentathlete at the University of Idaho that did nothing to dissuade the image. One prime example (Egor) who played for an Idaho coach by the name of Dennis Erickson who is now the head coach at Miami would go into a restaurant with all of us non-believers in tow, and open bottles of beer with his eye! He would stick the cap right into his eye socket and kind of grab it with his huge eye brow and sort of suck it off! After he had finished off a few, his buddies would persuade per-suade him to actually bite the top off a couple more bottles before he was dutifully led back to whatever it was they kept him penned up in. But that was just one wild and. There was one small injury during the three hour, action packed event and that came when Powder Puff driver Rita Flanders was struck in the nose by her own helmet causing a break. The ambulance and fire truck were brought into the arena as a precautionary measure after the main event but Flanders left under her own power and was reportedly doing fine. Prior to the main event, the 44 entries en-tries (largest field ever) which included in-cluded five from Flaming Gorge were split into 6 heats including six entries in the Powder Puff. First and second place finishers advanced in- my shots." Hatch then breezed through the second set for a 6-2 score and the championship. "It felt great. Provo and Timpview have strong programs, but we do too. I really wanted to make a statement about Uintah tennis." Hatch and partner Dylan Feltch also al-so made it to the consolation finals in the men's 5.0 doubles before falling in three sets 7-5, 5-7, 4-6. JORDEN HATCH won Provo tournament and recently finished fin-ished second at Spanish Fork. TPthcB (DttianiacBDP Q3(B5X crazy person. The majority of players play-ers were hard working studentathletes studentath-letes with career goals in their chosen cho-sen fields. Added to their academic loads were the complicated and numerous nu-merous offensive and defensive schemes which Coach Erickson has become well known for. Needless to say, 'Egor' was a hit in the restaurant restau-rant and a flop on the field. In today's multiple set, audible oriented contest, high school players play-ers are literal students of the game. Not only must a player know the proper technique for his position, he must be aware of the possible moves of his opponent and how to react to each one. After he learns the necessary skiHs for his position, he must begin learning both the offense of-fense and defense, since many players play-ers go both ways. That entails at least four different defensive sets and between 20-40 offensive plays. Within those offensive plays there are numerous variables such as lining lin-ing up left or right, motion, audi-bles, audi-bles, blitzes, different coverages, etc. It usually takes coaches two years 'mmmimmm I to the main event from each heat. The Derby also included cash prizes and trophies for second place finishers in each heat, cash prizes for lst-3rd places in the main event, $100 each for best paint job, most aggressive driver, best hit and wipe out winner. There was also a grudge match heat for any remaining cars where the drivers all paid a $5 entry with the winner taking all. The Derby itself was filled with spectacular collisions, smoke, fire, near misses, flying dirt and racing engines. Spectators were amazed at how totaled a vehicle could become and still move. Several cars looked like accordions on both sides, with flat tires to boot, which were still able to muster one last hit Multiple hits were fairly common See Derby page 19 Archery deer season begins August 21 The 1993 archery deer season begins be-gins Saturday, August 21, and will continue through Friday, September 17. The season has been extended to a 28-day hunt this year and overlaps over-laps the elk archery hunt from September 2 through 17. Big game biologists say deer numbers are down in northern Utah after six years of drought and last year's heavy winter, so hunter success suc-cess will be somewhat lower. Big Game Program Coordinator Wes Shields predicts the deer will be scattered and not found in large herds this summer due to the abundance abun-dance of forage and an ample supply sup-ply of water. "This abundance of food and water should provide for a good year of fawn production," says Shields. Deer tag purchase This season marks the first year of the new big game license structure. The licenses are sold for $5, but do not include a deer tag. Tags are purchased separately and vary in price from $10 for an archery or muzzleloader deer tag to $14 for a rifle season deer tag. Tags may be purchased at DWR offices or wherever hunting licenses are sold. before they have a good enough grasp of the offense to set plays up and 'call' a game to the best of their ability, and they don't have to deal with a 6-2, 195 pound linebacker who is blitzing the guard-tackle gap on third and 15 not to mention a girlfriend, mom, dad and the rest of the fans in the stands who felt they (the players) 'totally blew it' by not seeing the linebacker coming and reacting quicker. Modem day players are majoring in areas like pre-med, law, veterinarian veteri-narian science and business. On the high school level, football is the beginning be-ginning of a year filled with hard work, discipline and dedication to reaching their greatest potential and possibly going on to the college level. lev-el. Most will participate in two or three sports or activities and are often of-ten members of student government, govern-ment, yearbook or other school oriented ori-ented activities. I have had the pleasure of working work-ing out each morning at 6:30 a.m. this summer with a group of young men (and coaches) who have learned the meaning of sacrifice and dedication. Most had jobs lasting all day, which is why they worked out in the morning. These young men in my opinion represent some of the finest Uintah High School has to offer. If you might be wondering what brought all this on, it is due mainly to the fact that I have recently been on the listening end of a few conversations con-versations when the old stereotype was used to describe football players play-ers in general and this is just my way of saying as politely as possible possi-ble NOT. DURING THE Main event, these five cars all Four of the five were knocked out of the corn-arrived corn-arrived at the same place at the same time! petition in this collision. Dinaland Golf Course begins new era with tournament by Eric Pye Sports Writer Dinaland Golf Course officially began a new era in it's history when the public course held a two man best ball tournament last weekend on the new side. "The course isn't laid out the way it will be when all 18 holes are completed," com-pleted," explained golf Pro Kent . McCurdy, "but we are happy to be able to play a full nine holes." According to McCurdy, a couple of the holes play longer than they normally will, but the majority are TRENT POPE smacks his second shot up and over the water, through the trees and on to the UHS names new head voDleylbalD coach ffoir '93 by Eric Pye Sports Writer Uintah High School ended speculation specu-lation and an extensive interview process last week when it named Dorris Salazar as new head volleyball volley-ball coach for the girl's team. The school also announced it has not made any final decisions yet on the vacant head position in the wrestling program. School officials are continueing the interview process pro-cess through at least the rest of this week and possibly longer. Salazar is a former UHS player, having played on the '76-77 State Championship team as a sophomore and playing two more years at the school before accepting a full ride volleyball scholarship to CEU. Salazar will be assisted by Linda Bartcll and Colleen Hawkins. Bartell will handle the J.V. team while Hawkins will take over the freshman program. "I am really excited ex-cited about the coaching staff and kids we have coming back," Salazar said. "We have good talent and athletes ath-letes with great attitudes, there is no playing shorter and easier than they will when the permanent layout is in place. "As widi any new course, we still have a few patches that need to grow in and we are trying to give those areas a chance by redirecting traffic around them." The tournament staged three flights with the first flight consisting consist-ing of a combined handicap of 0-14. The second flight consisted of combined com-bined handicaps of 15-30 and the third flight included combined handicaps of 31 and above. The handicaps had to be within 6 of each other to be eligible for that flight. reason these kids can't be successful." success-ful." Coach Salazar has been informally informal-ly conditioning athletes this week and will meet with any interested players Wednesday at the pool beginning be-ginning at 12 noon for another workout She will know then what the schedule for the rest of this week will be. Next week, Coach Salazar will begin be-gin practice in earnest with a week long clinic for all interested players. The clinic will begin Monday morning morn-ing and run from 8-10 am. and 24 p.m. every day. Emphasis will be on basic skills and conditioning. Coach Salazar will decide on her teams by next Friday. The first game of the season is scheduled for the first day of school, Thursday Aug. 26 at Carbon. "We have a lot to cover by then, so I hope any interested girls will be sure to make the clinic next week." For further information contact either ei-ther the school at 789-0363 or Coach Salazar at 789-3003. Seventeen teams entered with three teams traveling from Wasatch to try out the new course. One of those playere third flight winner Burt Davis, had nothing but praise for the layout. "Sure there are a few bare spots, but the course is beautifully beauti-fully laid out and when everything grows in this is going to attract golfers from all over. I think it is a great course right now and when regular play begins it is going to be a fun challenge. I'm looking forward for-ward to coming back and playing again." See Golf page 19 41 J 1 1 green in 2, exactly the way the hole is supposed sup-posed to be played! Mi SUCCIOSSIC A I NEW HEAD women's volleyball coach Dorris Salazar. y |