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Show J 18 Vernal Express Wednesday, October 18, 1995 Still in state hunt Utes paste Wasps in 34-15 'upset5 N by Eric F. Pye Sports Writer Last week the statement was made somewhere along the lines of; "Uintah is the most dangerous 1-4 team in the state." Now the Utes are the most dangerous 2-4 team in the state after 'upsetting' fourth ranked Wasatch 34-15 Friday night in Vernal and it wasn't that close. You can feel the playoff momentum momen-tum and confidence building. This is not a 2-4 team. Snow Canyon is starting to get nervous. But of course, we're getting way ahead of ourselves. The task at hand was to get by a very tough and good Wasatch team Friday night. Uintah faced one of the most prolific pro-lific running attacks and stingiest defenses in the league. The Wasp option attack and blitzing defense had terrorized opponents all season long. How did Uintah deal with all the Wasp weapons? They came up with a couple of terrors of their own. Meet quarterback Lance Klun and cornerback Eli Long. The two Ute seniors produced clutch play after clutch play to spark their team who did a pretty fair job of i k Senior cornerback Eli Long (15) zeroes in on Wasp receiver. Long scored an 82 yard interception touchdown to spark Utes. Utah hunting myths what's the truth? by Dean Mitchell, DWR Upland Game Program Coordinator We have all heard the story about the California hunter who shot a mule during the deer season and proudly brought it into the checking station. Or the one about the Division of Wildlife Resources being seen the week before the opener of the elk hunt dropping cherry bombs and flour sacks out of airplanes to scatter scat-ter animals so that hunters would have no luck. Oh yeah, and the one about DWR cutting the antlers off elk and deer just before the seasons to save animals. ani-mals. Annually, we hear these tales about a variety of things pertaining to hunting and wildlife. How much can we believe? What is reality? Another "so-called" myth that is believed in Utah is very real and serious. se-rious. Many hunters think it's all right to buy their spouse a big game permit and while hunting, leave the spouse in camp and fill the permit for them. Others believe it's OK to continue to hunt to help their friends harvest a limit of birds, even though the helper has already taken a limit. Party hunting in Utah is not only unscrupulous, but unlawful. Party hunting robs the license buyer of the opportunity to take an animal because someone else does it for them. Party hunting steals from the rest of the citizens of the state, too! It takes away from those who enjoy wildlife and pillages wildlife populations. popu-lations. Every year, conservation containing the Wasatch challenge chal-lenge on both sides of the ball. Klun's numbers weren't anything to write home about. He was three for five passing for just 70 yards total to-tal on the night, adding another 29 yards rushing on six carries. But the way he got those yards and their end result were vintage Klun. Of the three completions, two went for touchdowns on perfectly thrown passes under a heavy rush. The first was a 32 yard pass to Espindola to put Uintah up 22-0 heading into halftime. The second was a 33 yard threaded needle to wideout Tyler Gibbons to put the game away at 34-7. But that wasn't Klun's most impressive achievement. That came after Wasatch had opened the second half with a 65 yard touchdown march to close within 22-7. Lance calmly engineered engi-neered a six-minute, 80 yard drive to put the Utes up 29-7, and effectively effec-tively shut down' any hopes the Wasps had of a comeback. Then there was Long on the defensive de-fensive side. Eli first made his presence known after the Utes had taken an early 6-0 lead. Wasatch had come back to move into Ute territory on the 45. Facing a 4th and 1 for the first officers and biologists investigate numerous illegal big game kills. Large groups of hunters get together to-gether to pursue big game yearly; some may have antlered animal tags and others may have antlerless tags. All hunters go afield, and those who think party hunting is all right, shoot anything they see. They know someone back at camp has a tag they can put on it. However, many animals are left to rot because the person who had the tag already took an animal and can't tag another their so-called buddy shot for them. The stories about the mule in the checking station and the cherry bombs in elk herds are "folklore"--tales concocted and passed from generation to generation. When people are asked questions about their knowledge of mules in checking check-ing stations and airplanes dropping flour sacks into elk herds, their information in-formation always comes from someone else who witnessed these events. No descriptions of vehicles or colors and tail numbers from airplanes air-planes can be recollected. Party hunting, on the other hand, is no myth. Wildlife gets destroyed and squandered and everyone loses. Hunters should remember that only the person with the permit may harvest har-vest the animal. Honest hunters can help curb this kind of unethical, illegal il-legal behavior by reporting violations viola-tions on the "Help Stop Poaching" Hotline at 1-800-662-DEER. The call is toll-free and available 24 hours a day. ' hillllllkm 5 a ''I f , !,. ?..; iw k :-' i3fi tev -.v. v".. :;,t, V Quarterback Lance Klun (25), Coach Mike Petersen and entire Ute sideline celebrate Eli Long's 82 yard interception touchdown. down, Wasatch went for it on . Long's side bad idea. The senior Wait TOr UniOnLehl finale cornerback came up with a big hit to ma . a gpg, $sss Lady Spikers keep playoff hopes The hit electrified the crowd, but it paled in comparison to Long's next feat. After a Ute punt, the Wasps were again moving the ball, still trailing just 6-0. On third and 10, Wasatch quarterback Mark Pitts dropped back to pass. Defensive end Aaron Hartman broke through Wasp blockers to grab Pitts legs just as he was releasing the ball. Long read the pass and stepped in front of the Wasp receiver on the Ute 18 yard line. Eli raced up the sideline, avoiding Wasp tacklers and using his own teammates blocks to go 82 yards for his first touchdown as a See Football page 19 So where do the Utes stand now? The football team is currently tied for fifth with North Sanpete and Union all at 2-4 in region. Uintah takes on 1-5 Park City, 2-4 Union faces 4-2 Lehi while 2-4 North Sanpete plays the critical game at home against 3-3 Carbon. That game is critical because if Carbon wins, they are in with four wins and everyone else is out A Sanpete victory vic-tory would create the tie. If all three (Uintah, Union and Sanpete) win this Thursday , there will be a four-way tie with Carbon and a four way playoff will take place next Tuesday at Lehi. Uintah will play North Sanpete for a half, and Union will play Carbon for a half with the winners meeting in the second half. The winner of the playoff would then face number one ranked Snow Canyon in St. George next Saturday, Oct. 28. If Uintah and Sanpete win or Union and Sanpete win, there would be a three-way tie. In ihat case, Uintah would play North Sanpete in the first half and the winner of that would play Carbon in the second half, with the winner again playing Snow Canyon next Saturday. Union would be in the same position. The draw into any playoff was determined Monday afternoon af-ternoon when the principals of the involved schools flipped coins to determine opponents. A tough road to travel? Yes. But with the way Uintah has begun to play and beat good opponents, Snow Canyon must be getting a little lit-tle edgy. "You can feel the same type of attitude and confidence building on the team," head coach Curg Belcher said, "as we had last year during our championship run. It's too bad we waited this long to finally get things going." Of course the Utes must play and beat Park City this Thursday or none of the other speculation matters, mat-ters, and they must get help from North Sanpete against Carbon. Both teams are coming off tough losses. North Sanpete fell to unbeaten Emery 34-32 while Carbon dropped an overtime contest to Lehi. The Carbon North Sanpete game gets under way around 7 p.m. Thursday evening at North Sanpete. 5 s : y4"MW "en 4 t ' Y IZ.m, nS4U iriAKir by Eric F. Pye Sports Writer The Uintah High School girl's volleyball team has faced numerous challenges throughout the season. Injuries to key players, important matches, developing young players. But all of those challenges paled in comparison to last Thursday's game with Park City in Vernal. Lose, and their season was over. Win, and the team would still be in the hunt for post-season play if the Lady Utes got help bm other teams which is exactly what happened. hap-pened. Two things had to happen for Uintah's playoff hopes to remain intact in-tact First, the Lady Utes had to defeat de-feat Park City. That was taken care of with a 15-12, 154 victory, leaving leav-ing the team with a region record of 4-4. The help had to come from Wasatch, where Union was playing the same night. With Wasatch's 12-15, 12-15, 15-4, 15-4 victory over Union, the Lady Utes still have an outside shot. Union's loss dropped them to 4-3 in region with one match to go, at Lehi this Thursday. If Union wins that match, they will get the last region re-gion spot into state. If Lehi wins, Union will finish with a 4-4 record, tied with Uintah. Since the teams split with each other, they must play again to determine the last region entry into state. UHSAA bylaws state that entries can not be resolved by coin flips only seeds and loca- See Volleyball page 20 Region 10 High School standings Football W L Emery 6 0 Wasatch 4 2 Lehi 4 2 Carbon 3 3 Uintah 2 4 North Sanpete 2 4 Union 2 4 Park City 1 5 Girl's Volleyball W L Lehi 5 2 Wasatch 5 2 Union 4 3 Uintah 4 4 Park City 0 7 Girl's Soccer W L Park City 10 0 Wasatch . 8 2 Lehi . 5 5 Uintah 4 6 Rowland Hall 3 7 South Summit 0 10 m if rmri Wisps v,j It , Photo by Greg Hatch Setter Bethany Job 'cups' perfectly to dig out block by Lady Miner during Uintah's 15-12, 15-3 victory last Thursday in Vernal. Girl's soccer faces Dixie in first round by Eric F. Pye Sports Writer You would think, facing a must win situation, the Lady Ute soccer team's coaching staff and players would be a little tight On the brink of elimination from any post season action, the question the team faced last Thursday at home against South Summit was not would they win, rather; how much would they win by. "South Summit has a brand new team which is young and inexperienced. inexperi-enced. They haven't won a region match all season," Coach Randy Shafer said. "The issue for us wasn't just winning. Because of the in , m m in fy ''Cry m ,vA . " Jk V 1 mxem' . South Summit's goal keeper was i I ..... ' Dflr fl irt f "j ' ' ' J I j regions tie-breaking system, we were put in a situation where we had to try to score as many goals as possible. The situation and tie-break format Coach Shafer was referring to was this; if Rowland Hall beat Lehi and the Utes defeated South Summit, the first tie-break would be head to head. Since the two teams split with each other, the second tie-break would be used. That tie-breaker was goal differential (goals scored versus ver-sus goals allowed) within the region. re-gion. In that scenario, the Lady Utes trailed by 10. ""we figured we need-See need-See Soccer page 21 a, rTM Photo by Dustln Pye kept busy during Utes 7-0 win. |