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Show 18 Vernal Express Wednesday, October 8, 1997 STOdDirtts i mm Red alumni football team completes 2-point conversion to defeat the Alumni football white team trys to put points on the board before time runs out. Rec District to host basketball leagues The Ui.itah Recreation District is offering an open basketball league. These leagues are open for anyone in the Uintah Basin. Junior League: Any youth who has not completed the 7th grade is eligible. Intermediate League: Any youth who has not completed the 8th grade eligible. Fatherly patience helps on duck opening "The shooting was a little slow for us this morning," said John Kielkowski of Vernal. "The slow shooting was probably from the great weather and maybe a little bit due to the kids running around," he added smiling and pointing to the busy young boys in his duck blind. Kielkowski and his friend Shawn Zacherson were hunting waterfowl together in the Ouray Valley. Their young sons Eric and Kenny Kielkowski and Christopher jr&rt. v. "4 '!, s John Kielkowski works to free his 7- w - Includes round robin play followed fol-lowed by a double elimination tournament: tour-nament: awards certified officials, high school rules and sportsmanship awards. Enter as a team. Pick the team you want to compete and play with. 6 teams minimum to carry the league (12 teams max). Teams provide pro-vide their own uniforms, shirts Zacherson - ages 11, 7 and 6 were busy checking out the decoys, sorting sort-ing through equipment and following follow-ing their natural curiosity anywhere it took them. Also trying to hunt from the blind they all shared, was Kiclkowski's thirteen year-old son, Matthew. According to Zacherson, also from Vernal, the group was carrying on a tradition. Shawn said he had hunted waterfowl his whole life, learning the sport from his father in son's jammed shotgun on the white team 14-0. . available for purchase through the recreation office. Games may be played in several different communities Registration is $420 per team, (roster minimum 5 play, maximum is 12 players.) To register or for more information informa-tion call Shane at 781-5486. Deadline is Nov. 5 much the same manner. The two fathers fa-thers were obviously enjoying themselves and were apparently measuring the success of their hunt by factors other than a count of birds in the bag. Shawn patiently bent down and got the younger boys out of his ammunition, am-munition, repacked his equipment and. closed the box lid. Kneeling close by and dismantling his son's shotgun, John worked to clear a doublc-fccd shoishcll jam. The waterfowl opening. O tie footifoafll - anotther team bites the dust In .-in overpowering performance, the Uintah Utes left the Richfield Wildcats reeling in the dust Rolling up a 41 - 7 Homecoming win, the Utes held the Wildcats scoreless until un-til the final 13 seconds of the game. Jeremy Strange began the first Ute scoring effort with a touchdown later called back due to a clipping penalty. Not to be stopped, the Utes built a drive with pass receptions by Jeremy Pierce and Trevor Richins and a run by Jed Robinson. A final pass from Adam Madsen to Pierce produced the first Ute touchdown. Matt Honeycutt's kick put the Utes ahead 7 - 0. The Wildcats answered with a long pass reception. Richfield continued con-tinued their drive until the Utes found themselves defending the goal on fourth down at their own two yard line. Uintah's strong goal line defense held and they took possession pos-session of the ball. A Ute scoring frenzy then developed. With 5:25 left in the first half of play, Strange scored a touchdown bringing the score to 14 - 0. Three minutes later, Pierce pulled down a pass from Adam Madsen and scored the third Ute touchdown. Matt Honeycutt then completed another an-other point after kick bringing the Ute score to 21. Finally, with only 1:17 left in the half, a pass completion comple-tion to Andy Long put Uintah again in scoring position on the Wildcat one yard line. Given a second shot at scoring, Long took a handoff from Madsen and carried the ball in. A missed kick ended the first half with the Utes 27, Richfield 0. A short Wildcat kickoff started the second half. Uintah lost possession posses-sion on the play and Richfield mounted another drive deep into Ute territory. The advance stalled after John Workman slipped through the line and forced a loss. Another Ute touchdown ended the third quarter with a score of 34 - 0. Shortly into the fourth quarter Ute runners win in Travel to Craig, Colo., went well for the Uintah Cross Country team. The boys varsity runners brought home first place Sept. 27 in the Moffat County meet. The boys JV team also scored high and won second sec-ond place. The meet hosted 15 schools from shotgun had jammed when the boy's coat sleeve became caught in the gun's pump-action slide. One might expect the two dads to have been at their wit's end. Just the opposite was true. They talked of the beauty of the Uintah Basin, the great fall weather and the opportunity opportu-nity they had of being out together. They were right, the sky was clear blue, the water was calm and glassy; clearly reflecting the decoys, de-coys, bulrushes and cattails. At another point on the marsh, a group of hunters from Roosevelt were loading their decoys and equipment back into the truck. They too were accompanied by young people and said (hey had enjoyed their hunt Shooting had been a little lit-tle slow for them as well. They felt the fair weather had also been a factor fac-tor affecting (heir shooting. "We figured the weather would slow the hunt today," one quipped white loading his gear. "But we just had to gel it out of our systems you jut have to go on opening day," he added. Dinosaur visits down 9.7 Visitation at Dinosaur National Monument during September was down 9.7 percent, according to the Monthly Public Use Report There were 43.671 visits this year compared com-pared to 50.35J last year during the same month. Ycaf lo daie visits at Dinosaur still trail last year by 6.3 percent, 404.1 29 compared to 432,168. Total overnight stays during September was 3,772 with a year-to-date total of 67,093, according to Ann Esccll, Dinosaur concessions pecialist. Jeremy Strange catches football Richfield defensive player. Jeremy Strange returned a punt the full length of the field to put the Utes up 41 -0. The only Wildcat score of the night stemmed from a Uintah fumble fum-ble and turnover. Richfield sustained sus-tained a ground drive that eventually eventual-ly put them fourth down and one on the Ute 2 yard line. Uintah's goal line defense was again called upon to stop the threat. When the dust settled, Richfield had advanced to within the Uintah one yard line and earned a first down. The scoreboard clock showed 13 seconds, Richfield broke through and scored their only points of the night. at least three states; Uintah was the only Utah school. Eighty runners competed in the varsity trials. Uintah's Jeremy O'Crowley took third place overall followed by Mike Sprosty in fourth. The top seven Ute finishers following fol-lowing O'Crowley and Sprosty were Richard Leake, 9lh place; Josh Schlicsser, 18th; Broc White, 21st; Ben Bingham, 23rd and Trevor Mathis, 28th. According to Uintah Coach, Marland Stagg, in cross country the top five finishing positions for each school are added to determine the team score. The team with the lowest low-est score takes first place. In the event of a tie, the team 6th and 7th place runner positions are consecutively consecu-tively included until the tic is broken. bro-ken. The Utes and another school were tied with scores of 55 when the meet closed. However, Uintah's Ben Bingham finished in 23rd posi Young hunters rummage through ducks with their dads. . 1 in 11 wmmm iir n AT 1 1 1 it J nlliillii with heavy pressure from a The Wildcats rallied with an on-side on-side kickoff and recovery. The damage dam-age was done however, and Uintah rolled up another massive victory with a 41 - 7 final score. The big win over Richfield is the third consecutive game in which the Utes have out-scored their opponents oppo-nents by over 30 points. Two weeks ago Park City fell 47 - 3. The following fol-lowing week the Utes dropped the Wasps 42 - 9. The Homecoming win brings the Uintah record to 6 -0. Ute football action is scheduled again for Oct. 16 when the Utes travel to Union. Colorado tion ahead of the 39th next best position po-sition of the other school giving the Ute's the win. Coach Stagg felt his team fared well. He added that the team still had room for improvement. Stagg is training his runners with an eye on the Regional meet to be held Oct. 15 at Union. The meet will determine which teams and runners will compete in the State tournament scheduled for Oct. 22 in Salt Lake City. "We really want to encourage the community to come out and support sup-port our young runners in the Regional meet," Stagg said. "This year it will be hosted by Union and we would like to have as many parents par-ents and others there as possible to support our team." The Region meet will be held at the golf course in Roosevelt with starting times of 4 p.m. for the girls and 4:30 p.m. for the boys. the equipment box while huntino |