OCR Text |
Show 1 3 Vernal Express Wednesday, August 23, 2000 E)ddis (pDDir The Uintah gridiron squad will open their season against Carbon in Price on Friday, August 25. While the Utes will be try ing out a new offense and some young talent, the Dinos have already opened with one game under their belt in the form of a one-point, 22 - 2 1 loss to Payson last Friday. Carbon ended the 1999 season with a 3 - 6 season record. Uintah finished 4 - 4 in 1999. According to Kendall Hacking and C. J. Lewis, the new veer option offense is taking tak-ing a little bit to get used to but both athletes expect the best on Friday night. "I think we can do it." Hacking said. Hacking will be working in the defensive end posi j ,i i i ii ; H . ij is 'J. ' . 3 V: Frank Annert competes in world horseshoe competition. Vernal man competes on grand scale At the world horseshoe tournament tourna-ment in Bismark, N.D. Frank Annerl of Vernal ended in 8th place. There were 1215 entrants in the event with 48,600 horseshoes Men's tennis league to form "If I can spark an interest in tennis among men and young men, perhaps per-haps it will benefit the girls' team," said Jean Wilcken, UHS ladies' tennis ten-nis coach. Coach Wilcken is starting a men's tennis league which will play every Thursday from 6 p.m. until dark. Utah cougar season set The Utah Wildlife Board established estab-lished the dates of Dec. 16, 2000 to June 3, 2001 for this year's cougar hunting season across most of Utah. While the Board approved a few changes to a few cougar hunting units, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) is estimating that the number of cougar taken will approximate 432 animals. The number num-ber of cougar taken statewide in 1 999 was 435. The Board approved the hunt and permit numbers at their August 1 7 meeting in SLC. In the Uintah Basin, the Anthro Mountain area was changed from, a limited permit cougar hunting area to a harvest objective unit. The difference dif-ference means that there will no longer be only a set number of per- Sod tion while Lewis will be helping defend as an outside linebacker. The Utes will play their second game on the road in Cedar City on Sept. I . Ute fans that won't be traveling trav-eling with the team on road games will certainly want to mark their calendars for the first home game on Sept. 8. The Utes will host the Bear River Bears in what has developed devel-oped into a cross-state, cross region school rivalry. Recent meetings between the two schools in both football and basketball have often bordered on fireworks. Regardless of ranking and statewide positioning, position-ing, the tradition being established between the two will most likely provide for good football action. rftff 1(1'. pitched which is 87,480 pounds thrown. The event was July 31 to Aug. 12. Annerl competed against 168 others in his group. The league will begin this Thursday. There is no charge to participate, par-ticipate, however those who play should bring a can of tennis balls. The league will run through the middle of September. UHS lady tennis officially begin this week. mils available for the public. Instead, a cougar harvest objective, or the number of cougar that will be targeted for removal will be set. Permits will be unlimited but successful suc-cessful hunters will be required to check their animals and the total harvest will be tracked. When the number of cougars taken meets the established objective, the season will close to further cougar hunting. This effort is being done on the Anthro unit and other areas of the state to help struggling deer herds build healthier population numbers. On the North Slope of the Uintas and on the Wasatch Mountain hunting hunt-ing units, the number of cougars harvested is being increased to help newly established bighorn sheep r- in r ii '" . 1 1,1 "I Uintah's Sophia Parrish in a head game against Pineview. GPire-seasoDD pDay emids ffoir Lady Utie soccer The Lady Ute soccer team ended preseason match play last week with a flurry of three games. Following an 8 - 0 shut out bruising in Ogden against number 5-ranked Ben Lomond on Aug. 15; the Lady Utes hosted St. Joseph on Friday and Pine View on Saturday. While the two home appearances were also disappointing on the final scoreboard, Coach Anita Calder says the Lady Utes have nothing to feel bad about. "I'm really pleased with the way the girls played, they were aggressive aggres-sive and were able to get their act together to finish strong in the second sec-ond half," Calder said. In the shut out from Ben Lomond, Calder said the Lady Utes started with a big deficit "Our biggest problem against Ben Lomond was the fact that we had five starting players out with injuries, illness or attending activities that kept them from playing," play-ing," Calder said. On Friday, St Joseph scored within five minutes of the opening whistle and maintained the one point advantage to the half. The Lady Utes missed two scoring opportunities stemming from comer kicks just before the first half ended. Additionally, they kept St. Joseph on their heals playing defense as they also assaulted the goal three more times from shots from center field. St. Joseph had played two earlier preseason games and was perched on victories from those before coming to Vernal. When the second period opened, the two teams exchanged intensive charges to the goal. Uintah freshman fresh-man Sophia Parrish put a spark in the Lady Ute offense by narrowly missing a head butt shot on the goal. The hometown crowd groans, following the near miss, were still audible when LaToya Olivers hit a direct kick into the net from deep in midfield. The ball sailed just over the head of the goal keep to even the score at one. St. Joseph made a hard run at Lady Ute goal keeper Andrea Walker midway through the second half. Walker had trouble handling the first but finally smothered it. After scooping up the second St Joseph attempt. Walker got a little herds. According to Bill Bates, DWR southeastern region wildlife manager, manag-er, a female subquota has been established with the number of cougars that will be taken on each unit. The female harvest quota is designed to protect female cougars from overharvest by allowing biologists biolo-gists to close the hunts if certain number of females are taken. "This helps assure that only a small percentage per-centage of females are taken," Bates said. If hunters take 432 cougars this season, about 15 percent of the population pop-ulation of Utah cougars would be See Cougar on page 19 butt score, makes her third shot help from team mate Alise Watkins on yet a third scoring attempt by St. Joseph. Walker dove to deflect a goal shot and Watkins picked up the slack, stepped in front of the goal and saved the Lady Utes by kicking the ball back up field. To no avail, St. Joseph was later awarded a penalty kick that went past the outstretched out-stretched arms of Walker running the Utes into another one-point deficit. While the game would end with a 2 - 1 lead against the Utes, Watkins and Walker teamed up defensively again in the waning moments of play to fight off three more intensive St. Joseph offensive plays. On Saturday, the young Lady Utes faced Pine View, currently ranked 3 in state 3A polls. Struggling in the first half of play, the Lady Utes let Pine View dominate domi-nate with constant field position and play within reach of the Uintah goal. It looked like Pine View would go into the half leading 3-0 when Sarah Ryan charged the goal in a strong one-on-one duel against the goal keep. She slipped the shot into the net just as the whistle sounded to put Uintah on the boards but trailing by 2. While the Lady Utes used the same players to open the second half, they played like a different team. Sophia Parrish capitalized on a comer kick feed from LaToya Chivers to build a fire under ' 4.. r. m r w4U 4 Dinosaur Roundup Committee members are Shawn Apblanalp, Rex Jacobsen, Doug Dunn, Brad Horrocks, Susan Horrocks, (middle row) Scott Snyder, Morgan Ainge, Michelle Miller, Julie Curry, Tammy Lucero, Dixie Birchell, Billie Jacobsen, Joe Evans, Russ Stevenson, Dave Chivers, Howard Carroll and (back row) Cindy Snyder, Mike Hopla and Carl Cobbs. Oiimosayir CoiuiDDdyip to be odh ESIP032 S&onnday This year the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo was selected to represent the PRCA as as a televised rodeo in the 2000 Wrangler ProRodco Summer Tour. The Vernal rodeo will be aired Sunday. Aug. 27 on ESPN2 from 4 p.m. to. 5 p.m. The broadcast will be repeated Sept. 9 from 1 1 a.m. to 1 p.m. The rodeo was selected out of over 700 rodeos sanctioned by the PRCA each year. "This is a great achievement for TT s, An, of a "hat trick," three points for the Uintah's offense. Olivers' comer kick feed to Parrish was on the mark and Parrish used her head to butt the ball past the goal keep and into the net for a second Uintah score. Pine View went on to score two more points and finally win the game 5-4. However, the Lady Utes took the game to the wire with Parrish leading the way offensively. Before the game ended, she had completed a hat trick for three scores, two of which came from head butts into the net following perfectly placed assists by her team mates. The Lady Utes may not have got die entire results they were hoping hop-ing for on the final scoreboard, but their tenacious play brought them back into a game that looked out of reach when the first half ended. The Lady Utes faced two ranked teams in their preseason matches and will now open Region 10 league play against yet a third. On Friday, August 25, the Lady Utes host Judge Memorial. Judge is currently cur-rently listed third in statewide polls, which places them just above Pine View. If the Lady Utes can enter the game with the same intensity that they left the field against Pine View, Judge will have their hands full. The game series will open at 2:30 with Junior Varsity play followed fol-lowed by the Varsity game at 4 p.m. All games will be played at the Junior High School field. V your rodeo committee and local community," said Steven Hatchell, commissioner for the PRCA. The PRCA is most excited with the addition of the new Wrangler ProRodco Summer Tour scries nationally broadcast on the ESPN2 network," Hatchell said in a letter to Rex D. Jacobsen, Dinosaur roundup Rodeo Committee chairman. "We are confident by placing the top PRCA rodeos on prime time network net-work television, we can build our national rodeo audience and the Archery hunt opens to good success The archery deer-hunting season opened Saturday, Aug. 19. According to Utah Division of Wildlife Resources Conservation Officers, hunter pressure north of Vernal was reduced from previous years. Those fortunate hunters who drew one of 7 1 archery deer hunting permits per-mits for the Book Cliffs found ample bucks and opportunity. "It was a pretty quiet opening weekend from what I saw," commented com-mented Conservation Officer Jason Tecguarden. "Hunter pressure appeared to be down and deer harvest har-vest reports reflected the reduced pressure." Teeguarden visited with hunters on the Vernal Ranger District of the Ashley National Forest on opening weekend. He said that other officers who worked in north Uintah County and Daggett County echoed his perceptions of the hunt. While Teeguarden noted that the hunting effort was down, he said that he had talked to two different differ-ent groups of hunters that had seen some rather large bucks for the open general season unit. "I talked with two parties that had seen some 28 and 30 inch bucks," Teeguarden said. "Unless they were pulling my leg, these are some tremendous bucks for this unit," he added. In the Book Cliffs, archery hunters enjoyed not only low hunter pressure and high buck numbers but cooler .weather as well. According to Wade Hovinga, hunters were reveling rev-eling in the ideal conditions they found. Hovinga is also a DWR Conservation Officer. "Hunters were extremely happy," Hovinga said. "The majority were seeing lots of bucks, were getting lots of opportunities but were holding out for larger animals." Hovinga said that many hunters were passing up several bucks averaging about 22 inches in antler spread to "wait for the big one." For one hunter, waiting wait-ing for the big one apparently did not take too long. "I checked one really nice buck that measured 32 inches across the antlers and was a 6 by 6," Hovinga said. He checked 13 bucks on Saturday, opening morning and said that there were a couple of others that measured in the 27 to 28 inch category. The wet weather system that moved through the region prior to the season opening prov ided cooler temperatures for hunting and also settled dust Both factors were not lost on the hunters Hovinga said. "It made things quite pleasant," he added. 4 f ' m 5 . PRCA's presence as a professional sports association." As a televised rodeo, the Dinosaur Roundup will be viewed by approximately approx-imately 1 million people with added exposure in the ProRodeo Sports News, 100,000 readers per issue, the PRCA Business Journal which reaches the PRCA's 12.000 members, mem-bers, the ProRodeo Program, distributed dis-tributed at most PRCA rodeos and the PRCA website www.prorodeo.com which currently has 400,000 raw hits daily. |