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Show 20 Vtfnal Express Wednesday. October 17. 2001 Doinronimaimii: Utes hang unto lead In a hard fought ground game last Friday night, the Uintah ties built a commanding lead then had to hang on in the final moments to defeat Park City 21 -19. The game was played on the Miner home field with the winning score balance decided on a missed PAT kick and failed final desperation despera-tion 2-point conversion attempt by Park City. Uintah handed the Miners their first Region 10 league loss on the season and forced a final 3-way for the season end rankings. rank-ings. Park City, Uintah and Wasatch all have one mark in the loss column col-umn and will be digging for a win in their last league game this week. The Miners opened play with an impressive touch down drive that covered 72 yards in their first possession. pos-session. The first quarter ended with the Utcs trailing 7 0. While fans were sealing in and wondering if Park City was everything that their season record showed, Uintah's offense dominated the second sec-ond quarter. The Utcs scored two touchdowns to lead 14 - 7 at the half. Jesse Merkley took a fourth and 3-yard situation hand off from Uintah QB A. J. Rooks and trotted into the end zone for the first Ute points. Harry Hacking added another anoth-er TD on a one-yard push with 43 seconds remaining on the half clock. Ute kicker Ryan Dearth hit both PAT points. Uintah kept the scoring frenzy alive in the third quarter when UC-2S golfers tiafce4uWtil aft stiatte ttoyiriniey By Ben Bingham Sports Writer The Uintah High golf team finished fin-ished it's season on a high note, with a driving shot that almost ended in a state championship. The golfers had an impressive year. Ever since their first tournament tourna-ment in Craig, Colo. August 17 which they won, the team looked good. As if to prove that the first victory wasn't a fluke, they won their second tournament at Cortez as well. At the season's end, the Utes found themselves with a Region 10 championship, beating Union who took second by a mere four strokes. Then at state Kent McCurdy's team played their way into first place Ferirefts The Colorado-Utah Black-footed Ferret Reintroduction Working Group has announced an additional release of ferrets destined for the Coyote Basin area south east of Vernal. The release will supplement the initial stocking efforts of the last two years. "We believe we are developing a good, stable population of black-footed black-footed ferrets,' said Boyde Blackwell, wildlife manager in the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources northeastern region. "Our research indicates the ferrets are not only surviving the. winter, they are breeding." breed-ing." Blackwell reports that biologists biolo-gists affiliated with the two-state working group have found several females with young during silmmer surveys. The surveys are nighttime spotlight efforts and have been conducted con-ducted over the past two years. The cooperative releases were made after a public input and planning process and may be coming, to an cad. This year's releases may be the last of our big releases," Blackwell explained. We don't want to be reintroducing ferrets on top of ferrets, fer-rets, so we may reduce the numbers of ferrets going into Coyote Basin and go with smaller supplemental releases." Blackwell noted that the need for fewer releases in Bonanza Desert site is well timed. He said that sites in Colorado are approved Jeremy Sullivan took the Miner kick off the entire distance of the field for another score. Dearth again hit the PAT but the Miners were not ready to quit Park City used all but the final two minutes of the third to move the ball into the end zone. While the score turned the game momentum toward the Miners, the missed PAT kick would prove a fateful blow that they would not recover from. Leading 2 1 -13, the Utes took the kick off and ran into disaster w ith a fumble on their first play. The Miners help possession on Uintah's 41 when the third period ended. Uintah held strong defensively and denied Park City on two additional addi-tional scoring attempts. However, the Miners eventually did cross the goal line for another touch down and then the missed PAT kick from the third quarter loomed heavy. With 45 seconds remaining on the clock, the Miners attempted the fateful 2-point play only to be crushed by the Uintah defense. Uintah will be playing for Region positioning this Thursday when they face Wasatch in Ute Stadium. Park City will likely receive another anoth-er win this week as they face Granite. The 3-way season record split will likely be decided in Ute Stadium. The game will begin at 7 p.m. after the first day, by shooting a team score of 298. One of the contributing con-tributing factors to their low score was the way all five players scored close together. Between the first and fifth golfers, they were separated by only eight strokes. Tim Hawkins was first with a score of 72, Brandon Johnson had a 73, Cody Weddle got a 75, Mike Swink posted post-ed a 78, and Nate Green was right there with an 80. On the second day Uintah fell behind Delta and Dixie but still played well enough to take a respectable third place finish. They finished with a team score of613. to be released and "coming on-line" and the need for additional ferrets for "jump- starting these proposed popula- tions will absorb animals that were earlier going to Coyote Basin. The public is invited to attend the release and can do so by meeting in r; O -TV ' 7 :V- ' : - .: -A More black-footed ferret are planned to be released in Coyote Basin to supplement stockings the past two years. St (Dirts p r Physical therapist Orlando Heaton and Lindsey Enloe, exercise physiologist, assist injured Granite football foot-ball player. TGueirapnsfts ftCneire to poreveiriiti oinijiiair By Ben Bingham Sports Writer Bodies collide, helmets crash against each other, shoulder pads crunch with contact. Suddenly w ith-in ith-in the grunting and yelling there is another noise perhaps a snapping sound or a distinguished cracking noise. Maybe there is no noise at all, except for the scream of agony. The play is over, and everyone gets up. Everyone except for the fallen victim, who lays on the ground motionless. That's when Lindsey Enloe afld Orlando Heaton come onto the field, the authors of comfort to the injured player. Although they handle some serious seri-ous injuries, most of the work that Enloe, Heaton and their counterparts counter-parts do is prevention, like taping and stretching. While Enloe works for the UBATC and represents the high school and hospital, all three should get the credit as far as the volunteer work that they do. Heaton is a full-time physical therapist at Ashley Valley Medical Center. It should also be noted that this is Enloe's fourth year, in which time she has only missed two of Uintah High School's games. While logging log-ging about 1,000 hours a year including the practices. These therapists thera-pists cover all of the sports but they keep a close eye on the contact sports. You can only imagine in a job like this the kinds of things you witness. Enloe, Heaton and their co- the north parking lot of the State and County Building in Vernal, 152 E. 100 N. at 2:30 p.m. Arrival at the release sites is slated for 4:30 p.m. Visitors are being asked to leave pets at home, 'if ' " rf V VVor Physical therapist Orlando Heaton workers have seen it all: dislocations, disloca-tions, fractures, seizures, you name it. She said she even had one kid who had stopped breathing. He turned out to be okay though, thankfully. So whether your an offensive UHS roundbail tryouts slated for November 5 Athletes interested in competing for a position on any Uintah High School basketball teams should mark November 5 on their calendar. Try-outs will begin that day for both the Lady Utes and Ute men's ' program and will continue for approximately a week when final team selections will be made. Coach Shanon Johnson will lead the Lady Ute staff while Coach Scott Mansfield will head the men's team. Coach Johnson is encouraging all interested young women athletes to attend the try-out sessions. The junior jun-ior and senior girls will begin workouts work-outs at 3:15 and continue, to 5 p.m. and immediately following at 5:15 the freshmen age group will begin. Johnson said that the freshman and sophomore season would begin on Nov. 20 while the varsity program will kick off with a home game against Emery on Nov. 27. The Lady Utes will host the annual Uintah Classic basketball tournament tourna-ment on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 . Coach Mansfield will open workouts work-outs for male athletes in grades 10 through 12 at 3:30. The older age group will continue training through 5 p.m. after which the freshmen hopefuls will take the court from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Coach Mansfield is encouraging all inter attends to Ute football player. linemen on the football team, a forward for-ward on the soccer team, or a wrestler at the Tournament of Champions. Don't worry your in good hands should disaster ever strike. ested basketball players to visit with him ahead of the scheduled tryout date. He can be contacted through the office at Uintah High School. Ute'-'socceir ends qui Dixie' After winning the season ending . coin toss to determine which team would advance to the first round of state tournament action, the Lady Utes found their luck spent. The coin flip let them by-pass the "play in" tournament game to face Dixie in St George last week. The 4-1 defeat ended the season and sent the Lady Utes home in the single elimination elimi-nation state soccer tournament Their opponents moved on to face Lehi in the next round of play. Aside from missed scoring opportunities, oppor-tunities, Assistant 'Coach Linda Bartel said it was a little difficult to know exactly what hampered play for the Lady Utes. "We just didn't seem to play with the same intensity and we couldn't seem to score when We should have," Bartel said. X-Country runs through region to state Uintah cross country runners Joseph Leake, Daniel Atkin and Emily Allied trotted through Soldier Hollow near Heber to finish in the top 10 in the Region 10 meet last Wednesday. Joseph Leake muscled his way into four runners from Judge Memorial to garner fourth place. Atkin followed Leake to earn seventh sev-enth in the men's division while Allred finished eighth in the women's class. Uintah will advance both a men and women's 7-member team to the state meets scheduled for today in Sugar House Park in Salt Lake City. Judge Memorial won the men's division with a team score of 19.2. The Utes ended w ith a score of 47 J ahead of Wasatch with 70.4 to round out the top three positions. While Judge placed the top three runners in the men's division, Leake's R15 allowed him to edge out yet another Judge runner for fourth. Atkin finished in 17.32. In the women's effort, Emily Allred ran the 3-mile course in 22.01. Union's Staci cook finished in sixth position with 21.54. According to Coach Marl and Stagg, four seniors, three juniors and one sophomore will fill out the men's running squad for today's state competition. Daniel Atkin, John Bartel, Dustin Bunderson, Matt Hunting. Joseph Leake, Marc - Muir and Dustin Sorensen will comprise the 7 member team with Brady Williams filling the alternate position. For the girls, Emily Allred, Amber Bunderson, Danika Foley, Carly Gill man, Ashly Haslem, Chalice White and Karissa White will be backed up by Kelsey Dickson as the alternate. Coach Stagg was enthusiastic about 5 of his athletes. After he had explained the good showing at the . Region meet and talked of his two teams he said, "Now for the really good news." Stagg was referring to the 3 boys and 2 girls that were named to the Academic All-State team in the 3 A school classification. "Our kids did really well," Stagg said. "There are 10 Academic All-State All-State students chosen in each gender gen-der and school division, and Uintah had 5 of the 20," he added. Danika Foly and Chalice White were named to the female Academic All-State All-State squad while Marc Struthers, Noel Merket and Brady Williams received the honor for the boys. "We had a great bunch of kids on the team this yeaf,"Stagg said. He said that the overall GPA for the 41 total athletes in his program was 3.5. Speaking of those who were recognized with All State honors, Stagg said, "I think the 5 that got named had 4.0 records from the 9th grade through their senior year. So, I guess they're doing something right- The Utes will open their season with a road game at Carbon on Nov. 27. Uintah trailed 1 - 0 at the half. Junior Megan Garcia scored the only Lady Ute point on a penalty kick, v . " Although the Lady Utes ended the season disappointed that their postseason post-season tournament: play ended -so abruptly, Coach Bartel was enthusiastic. enthusi-astic. "We had a really good season, I'm really proud of the team," Bartel said. She is already looking forward to next year and the growth she expects to see. "We're a young team this year," she said, "Next year we'll be more experienced and able to handle the pressure of tournament tourna-ment play better. Next year, we're -going all the way in state," Bartel predicted. |