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Show 1 8 Vernal Express Wednesday, December 19, 2001 )p(0)Fi;s ! -"TJ-LP- 3-pointers sting Utes two times When the Uintah High School basketball team left town last week they knew the number 3 was significant signif-icant They were scheduled to play 3 games in 3 days before returning to Vernal. Unfortunately, their hopes of having three victories to bring home were dashed by mirror image games where defeat came packaged as waning-seconds, buzzer beater 3 point shots in back to back games. The Utes defeated Delta 55 - 45 on Thursday, then felt the sting of 3-point losses to Canyon View 50 - 47 and Cedar City 41-38. In the first contest against Delta. Coach Scott Mansfield said that the Utes had a "terrible start." "We trailed 15 - 5 at the end of the first period." Mansfield said. He said that Uintah began putting things together in the second half to narrow nar-row the margin and used successful free throw shooting to pull ahead and finish with a win. According to Mansfield, the Canyon View game was nearly in the bag. The Utes held the lead through most of the third quarter before problems began turning the tide. "We gave up 21 points in the fourth - our turnovers hurt us." Mansfield said. The Utes recovered and were trailing by 4 points when two minutes remained on the game clock. At the 3 -second point, the game was tied at 55 when Canyon View connected from the long line to take the lead and hand defeat to (he Utes. Mansfield had little to say about the third game against Cedar City except that "it was a carbon copy" of the Canyon View game. The Utes had the game tied when Cedar hit their 3-point shot to win. "We're improving and doing a better job defending," Coach Mansfield said upon returning to Vernal. The Utes have had a scourge of close game losses in their preseason skirmishes. "We've had a little bad luck, but we're looking for better things to happen," Mansfield said. The Utes travel to Qrantsville on Friday then play at Tooele on Dec. 29. Alumni tourney set for Dec. 26 Uintah basketball Coach Scott Mansfield has expanded his plans from a single alumni basketball game to a three day tournament through the Christmas break. The event will depend on at least 6 teams registering to compete. If the minimum number is met, the tournament will be held on December 26, 27, 28 at Uintah High School. Mansfield said that although it is billed as an alumni event, players do not need to be alumni to be included. Information on registering a team for the tournament tour-nament is available during business hours at the Uintah High School administrative office, telephone 781-3110. U'ettes receive high marks at The Uintah U'ettes drill team returned with high marks from the Holiday Invitational Drill Team Competition at Northridge High School last Saturday. The U'ettes performed against 12 other 3A teams including Snow Canyon, Pineview, Bear River and Wasatch. "It was a very competitive competition," compe-tition," said drill team advisor and coach, Sarah Jolley. The distance between the first and eighth place teams was a matter of a few points." Uintah brought home two seconds, sec-onds, two thirds and a fifth in the 3A division. In Military, the U'ettes finished ahead of Pineview, Bear River, North Sanpete, Lehi and Cedar. The U'ettes also received high marks on their Prop finishing ahead of Wasatch, Pineview and Cedar. Also, in Novelty and Kick-line Kick-line the U'ettes placed third ahead of some tough competition. The event gave the U'ettes a warm-up for Region and State. "We need to continue to improve, and I know that we will between now and State," Jolley said. In Drill Down the U'ettes swept the competition. In the 3A division competing against, 300 other girls, Rachel Pipher, a third-year on the team, took third place; Lynlee Rooks, a sophomore, took second, and Jasmine Gardiner, a junior took Cory Hacking, wrestling for Uintah Wrestlers tfaDI to Evairastoiru The Uintah wrestling team were singed by the Evanston Red Devils last week in their first home preseason presea-son match. According to I'te Coach Gregg Stensgard, the contest marked his last attempt at moving wrestlers between weight classes to fill out the line up. "I juggled the line up to fill as many weight classes as I could," Stensgard said. "We can't do that and are going to quit moving people peo-ple and leave them to wrestle in their real weight classes." Stensgard said that attempting to round out all weight classes had several smaller wrestlers moving up to compete in heavier classes. He will rely on winning at the positions that he can match athletes in and then accept what comes from unfilled weights. "We have 7 or 8 wrestlers that Ute hockey team wins two in Wyoming The Uintah Ute varsity ice hockey team returned from Rivcrton, Wyo. last week with two wins over Wyoming teams from Pinedale and Cody. Coaches agreed that the Utes put forth a great overall performance. perform-ance. Friday night, the Utes jumped out to a two-goal first period lead against Pinedale and then played strong defense to deal the Glaciers a 3-1 loss. "Pinedale has been a tough rival of the Utes for years and our victory indicates the increasing maturity of our programs," said Coach Scott McCarrel. With confidence, the Utes took on first place. The U'ettes were also proud of Rachel Pipher who took first place in the overall Drill Down. The overall winner competes com-petes with the winners from 2A, 3A,4Aand5A. . U'ettes bring home two seconds, Y A i 7 I? V If. f at 112 pounds, defeats his opponent by a fall. should do well in the weights they would typically wrestle in," Stensgard said. "We'll go ahead and win the matches that we should and not worry about filling out our entire line up anymore." Three Utes pinned their Red Devil opponents. LJ. Jackson (103 pounds), Cory Hacking (112 pounds) and Chris Cornell (heavyweight) (heavy-weight) won by falls while Chad Young won by technical fall at 119 pounds. While the duel did not go as well for the team as Stensgard had hoped, he wanted to "focus on the positives." "Jackson, Hacking and Young provided great leadership," leader-ship," Stensgard said. "Chris Cottrell is really coming on and wrestling like a heavyweight and Phillip Keddy (130 pounds) is working hard and will be as good as a generally strong team from Cody and dominated them. In the win of 10-1, Scott McCarrel and Darrell Hacking were impressed with the complete effectiveness of the Utes in all aspects of play. Good goal tending, solid defense and relentless attack totally stifled Cody. Coach David Phipher, who has coached the high school team for four years, said this year's team is the best balanced and deepest team to date. Individual stats for the two games: Austin Anderson, 2 goals, 1 assist; Craig McCarrel, 1 goal, 2 assists; Joe Leake, 1 goal, 3 assists; Kyler McCarrel, 1 goal; Taylon "I was extremely proud of the U'ettes in Drill Down," Jolley said. "By the end of the Drill Down we had around nine of our girls still out on the floor. This is an accomplishment accomplish-ment for one school to have so two thirds and a fifth place from Holiday competition. anyone in his weight class." Coach Stensgard is try ing to keep his attention on building his young athletes for the long term. "We haven't performed very well yet, but it was pretty much that way last year with a lot of seniors on the team," he said. "Who remembers the struggles in the early season if we come on and do well in February." The Utes will wrestle in the Greeley Christmas Tournament on December 21, 22. Following the Christmas break, they w ill be on the road again to compete in the Campbell County duels in Gillette. Their next home appearance will be January 11,. 12 when theyuhost the annual Tournament of Champions. Slaugh, 4 goals, 3 assists; Harry Hacking, 3 goals, 1 assist; Mich McCarrel. 1 goal. Tappan Brown in the goal had a 90.9 percent save percentage with 1 goal against average. aver-age. Penalties in minutes: Kyler McCarrel, 2 for tripping and Austin Anderson, 2 for cross checking. Ashley Brown, high school junior, played for a Wyoming select all girls team last weekend in an all girls tournament in Gillette, Wyo. She anchored the defense for her team, scored a goal and assisted on 2 others as her team won 2 and lost 2 for 3rd in the "Chicks with Sticks Tournament." Holiday many, Jolley said, i am also proud of Rachel taking first overall. It is extremely hard. It is like competing com-peting against 800 girls from all divisions." 44mui limit to bemme stemidlairdl While anglers anticipate ice reaching depths thick enough to sustain fishing, they need to also keep in mind the new trout daily creel limits that will take affect beginning January I. 2002. The Wildlife Board set the daily limit at four trout w ith expectation of providing pro-viding more consistent fishing success suc-cess throughout the year and to remove confusion about limits that have varied between the various state waters in the past. The 4-trout limit will lower the number of trout taken during certain cer-tain times of the year," said Tom Pettengill, sport fisheries program coordinator for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. This should spread them out over a longer period peri-od of time and provide anglers with more consistent fishing through the year," he added. According to Pettengill, Utah's Ryan Dearth, Chris Cottrell and Honors. t I-sSr-' -am.'- mm m i . s Utes receive M-state honors Three Uintah High School football foot-ball players, Ryan Dearth, Jesse Merkley and Chris Cottrell, were selected as 3A first team All-State by the Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune. The Ute players were recognized in an award's ceremony Monday, Ladly (UJties exIhiulbDti somroe SinnipirOVSinniirO When Lady Ute basketball Coach Shanon Johnson said last week that the tough schedule would continue, he apparently knew what was in store for his team. The Lady Utes spent last Friday and Saturday in Green River where they played Green River and Star Valley. Neither the Lady Utes nor the Lady Cougars of Union faired well on the final . scoreboard, but Coach Johnson said that his players showed great improvement and growth since their first preseason games. Uintah fell to Green River 65 - 46 on Friday and to Star Valley 56 - 31 on Saturday. Union also lost to both Wyoming teams. Johnson said that Green River used . a strong defensive press against the Lady Utes. Fans who attended the first outing for the young Uintah team against Emery will recall the great difficulty they had trying to adapt to and work under the Lady Spartan press. According to Johnson, the Lady Utes worked well under the press time and showed the value of the experience they had gained. The Lady Utes played Green River right after the- boy's game in front of a packed house hometown crowd. This was a big tournament and I wondered how we would do in the big crowd,' Johnson said. They had 500,000 licensed anglers afield in 2000. These sportsmen along with approximately 700,000 unlicensed unli-censed juvenile anglers spent almost 5.9 million days fishing. That's the highest number of angler days ever recorded in Utah," he said. "Our hatchery system is stocking 10 million fish each year, but we're not capable of stocking more." The chosen alternative of lowering the statewide trout limit was chosen to try and meet demand. Although the 4-trout limit will become the standard. Pettengill pointed out that there will be areas that will have lower limits. He said that the new limit will help reduce the confusion that previously existed exist-ed with all of the varying limits, but that anglers will still need to consult a 2002 fishing proclamation before going afield. Jesse Merkley receive All-State Dec. 10 at Jordan High School in Salt Lake City. Also receiving honors were Tyler McKeachnie and J.D. Siddoway, second team All-State and C. J. Lewis, Jeremy Sullivan and Matt Morton, honorable mention. pressed hard and we handled it all well," he added. He said that Green River had three strong players that combined to account for 49 of their 65 team points. Pam Cochran, Maggie Bartel and Bri Snyder led the Lady Utes offensively offen-sively against Green River. They each scored 8 points followed by JaNell Jenkins with 6, Kelsey Dickson 5, and Tess Johnson 3. Tiff Coon, Carly Gillman and Emily Allred each contributed 2 points. The Saturday game against Star Valley was a close run into the fourth quarter. With seven minutes . remaining, the Lady Utes trailed 39 - 30. Coach Johnson said that problems prob-lems developed and Star Valley capitalized on them to the tune of a 17 point fun to Uintah's single point. Bartel was the Lady Ute point leader with 10 and Tess Johnson added 8. Deuces were wild for Uintah offensively. Lacey Christensen, Gillman, Cochran, Jamie Justice, Jenkins aid Tiffany Wilkins each add contributed 2 points. Snyder added one. Coach Johnson predicted a win against North Sanpete in a game played yesterday. They will not compete again until , after the Christmas break when they will travel to Emery for a rematch on Dec. 29. |
