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Show 08 Wednesday, April 28, 2004 Uintah soccer takes fourth in Region 10 The Region 10 soccer season ended last week with Uintah in fourth place. The Utes defeated Granite 3 - 1 on April 2 1 then fell to Judge Memorial 2 - 0 in their final league game on April 23. They played Tooele at five p.m. yesterday in the state tournament tour-nament "play in" game. The Utes hosted Granite. Uintah Coach Jared McKeachnie said that Granite has been a difficult team to predict this year. They have had incredible talent, but apparently have had some difficulty keeping keep-ing all of their players active. In last week's game, Granite brought only seventeen players to compete at both the junior varsity and varsity var-sity levels. The Utes scored twice in the first period and allowed one Granite goal. Uintah added another in the second half and held Granite scoreless to take the victory. Alex Spendlove, Leo Corco and Mike Matson were each credited with a goal for Uintah. The Utes played Judge Memorial in Salt Lake City. "Both teams played really, really hard," said McKeachnie. Judge apparently brought the pressure early in the game. "They have some fast, fast guys on offense," McKeachnie said. "They brought the ball down and scored quickly." Judge found the goal once again in the second half but it was credited to them under a cloud. McKeachnie said Judge's shot on the goal hit the goal post on one side of the net. It then deflected across the front and didn't appear to break the plane of goal and never touched the other goal post. However, the referee called it a success and awarded the point. The Utes couldn't get a kick into the net. "We played very aggressive the entire game but just couldn't get a shot to go," McKeachnie said. Prior to their state tournament "play in" game, McKeachnie was trying to prepare his team. He had watched and filmed Tooele's final league game against No. 1 ranked Morgan. Tooele came off the victor vic-tor in a 2 - 1 disappointment for Morgan. McKeachnie said he filmed the game and then took time to talk to some of the Morgan players play-ers and fans. Their opinion was that Morgan had played well below their potential while Tooele had risen to the occasion. McKeachnie used the game film to try and make a few adjustments to Uintah's game strategy- The winner of yesterday's game will move on to play at Delta this Friday. The season is over for the second place team. According to McKeachnie, Judge Memorial and Wasatch will settle the second and third Region 10 positions this week. Park City is on top with the Utes holding fourth place. McKeachnie expects Park City to do well. "They're just so good," McKeachnie said of the Miners. "They're a big, strong, good team." Bikers await their starting signal in the first leg of the Twin HooDoo Varsity Triathlon at the McCoy Corral. Flats 'hifS- ft O X ME V ' I r I m - Nelson Pierce gets past Granite goalie and goes in for a goal 4 rS) L mm I'm t 7 S Dinosaur Brew Haus takes 5th at tourney A total of 28 volleyball teams gathered for the recent Moab volleyball tournament, and the local Dinosaur Brew Haus team walked away with fifth place honors. Members of the team were Jason Betts, Amy Betts, Betty Betts, Liz Limburg, Anthony Manchester, Shane Simper and Shem Simper. In addition to the Brew Haus, TriCounty Health, attorney Lance Dean, Play Back CD,4-Ever Memories and Quality Transmissions and Repair helped to sponsor spon-sor the team. Scouts gather for Triathlon Lady Utes Varsity Scouts, Venture Crews and adult leaders from many Scout units participated in the 2004 Twin HooDoo Varsity Triathlon Saturday, April 17. The skill levels made it a high-paced, high-paced, fun-filled competition. Beginning at McCoy Flats Corral, the bikers' leg of the race rode a challenging 10.5 mountain bike course. A three and a half mile road-run made up the second leg of competition, finishing with a 600-yard 600-yard swim at the Vernal Swimming Pool. Team sizes varied from one to three participants in five different age brackets, ranging from 14 to "50 something". Over-all winner was Ron Gushing from unit No. 240. Ron's one-man team completed all three events in near record time. Following in his father's footsteps, Derek Gushing completed all three events, coming in third overall. In second place overall was the three-man team from unit 775 consisting con-sisting of Wyatt Mansfield, Ryan Fairbanks and Casey Reeves. Final results of the 2004 Twin HooDoo Varsity Triathlon were: Varsity, one man team, first place Derek Gushing. Varsity, three-man team, first place, Craig Long, Ashton Guibord and Zach Barnes; second place, Joel LaFevre, Issac Francisco and Josh Allied; third place. Derrick Bunderson, David Reese and Josh White. Venture, one-man team, first place, Bryan Long. Masters, three-man team, first place, Wyatt Mansfield, Ryan Fairbanks and Casey Reeves. Seniors, one-man team, first place, Ron Cushing. Older-Than-Dirt, three-man team, first place, Skip Clinch, Roland Heath and Arnie Anthon. Mixed, three-man team, first place, James White, Derrick White and Spencer Perry. The Uintah District recognized all leaders and volunteers for assisting in the successful annual event. w tJP- .?imw rid 73 mi w 1 4 I if u ii liifc i n' '- Spencer Perry pushes hard to help his team place first in the 3-man mixed team at the Twin HooDoo Varsity Triathlon. Ready for their three and a half mile road run, Issac Francisco, Ryan Fairbanks and Derrick White wait for the pass off that will send them to the swimming pool. Lady UJtie sofftiMO to sefiftDe WDtilfD (LJ)n)Dn) This Friday may be the biggest game of the season for the Lady Ute softball team. They will host Union in a battle for Uintah Basin pride, to settle a score from their last meeting and to help upset the rankings in both Region 10 and possibly in the state 3A school polls. Whenever the two teams meet, it is competitive competi-tive and players usually rise to lofty play. With so much on the line this season, it will be the climax to a great softball year for both teams in both league play and in setting up their postseason post-season schedules. On paper, Uintah should have the edge. The Lady Ute team statistics are impressive and rank in the top three statewide. state-wide. However, in the last pairing between the two schools on April 13, Union enjoyed a last inning tie breaking run to take the game 3-2 in Roosevelt. The only region loss that the Lady Utes suffered suf-fered has been to Union. On the other hand. Union is undefeated in league play with a 7 - 0 record. The Lady Utes are 7 - 1 in league play but are 15-3 for the season. Union is 8 - 7 for the year. Uintah averages nine runs per game while Union brings home six. The Lady Ute opponents average three runs while Union opponents average nearly four. Uintah's statistics are third best for 3A schools behind Bear River and Tooele. Union's statistics are closer to 10th. However, Union is ranked in third place in the state 3A rankings and is ranked first above Uintah in Region 10. To say Friday's game is important is stating the obvious obvi-ous to high school softball fans., "Everybody knows what's on the line here in the Basin," said Uintah Coach Tony Cloward. "And that's the way it should be." Union had their game against Judge Memorial rained out last Friday. That game is rescheduled for Monday, May 3. This week, Union will face Granite and Uintah then have to wait until the end of their contest with Judge to find out where they finish. If the Lady Utes can defeat Union and then Union defeat both Granite and Judge Memorial, there will be a Region 10 co-championship declared. A coin toss will then determine first and second place positions for entering postseason state tournament tourna-ment play. The Lady Utes are looking forward to the challenge. "We should be able to pull it off if we can hit," said Lady Ute pitcher and left fielder, Lexi White. Cloward said that if his Lady Utes defeat Union, "We'll all become huge fans of Judge Memorial for the Monday game. If that happens, hap-pens, I think I'll call up the Judge coaching staff and see if there is anything we can do to help them," he quipped. roll by two more Uintah's Lady Ute softball team continued to build steam last week with two more Region 10 league victories. They defeated Judge Memorial 4 - 3 in Vernal on April 20 then blew the lid off in the sixth inning against Park City to walk away with a 16 -2 rout. Lady Utes Lexi White and Jessica Wiseman teamed up offensively to defeat Judge then White joined with Tiffany Peterson to belt base cleaning clean-ing home runs against Park City. The Judge game was knotted at one at the end of two innings and remained that way until the bottom of the sixth. White and Wiseman were both credited with doubles as White hit three for four times at bat. White's bat drove home two runs to give Uintah the 4 - 1 lead that they enjoyed at the end of six. However, Judge was not finished and the Lady Utes had to use their leather to hold off a rally at the top of the seventh and final inning. Judge scored two more runs but couldn't get it done and lost the game by a run. The Lady Utes scored four runs on seven hits and committed four errors. Judge drove home their three runs on five hits and had two errors. Tiffany Parker was Uintah's winning win-ning pitcher. White said that it was "pretty scary" coming to the plate knowing how important her at bat would be for the team. However, she was placed in a similar position last year against Wasatch and was able to pull it off to give her team a w in. The Lady Utes had to use their defensive talents twice to keep the game under control against Park City on Friday. The Lady Utes had edged ahead with a 2 - 1 lead at the bottom of the third when Park City first challenged. chal-lenged. Uintah had the field in the top of the fourth and Park City loaded the bases with one out. The Lady Utes tightened defensively and made Park City strand all runners. run-ners. In the fifth inning, both teams added another run to bring the score to 3 - 2 for the Lady Utes. However, Park City again rallied and filled the bases with no outs. According to Cloward, senior class leadership then took over on the field. "One of our seniors, Jessica Wiseman, looked over and asked if she could call a time-out," Cloward said. Upon his approval, time was called and Wiseman gathered the team at the pitcher's circle. Cloward said that following Wiseman's encouragement the Lady Utes returned to their positions and quickly turned a double play. Then pitcher Tiffany Parker threw strong strikes and Park City again stranded three runners. Although the fired-up defensive play was impressive to Cloward, what followed offensively put him over the top. Uintah scored five runs in the sixth inning and held Park City scoreless when they came to bat. They repeated the feat in the seventh only this time Uintah added eight runs while holding Park City. "Jessica called everyone to the mound and then voir le, we score 13 runs in two innings," said Cloward. Parker was again the winning pitcher. Whitney Robb and Krissy Hacking were each credited with doubles and triples and White and Peterson each hit home runs. The Utes scored their 16 runs on 12 hits and recorded one error. Park City had five hits and nine errors. Around the mid season mark, Cloward noted that each game produced pro-duced a different group of players that stepped up as heroes. "We have good consistent play but it seems that there is someone some-one different surfacing each time," Cloward said. He said that White has been "playing steady all year so 1 wasn't too surprised when she did so well." Regarding Peterson, Cloward said that she had been receiving heavy emphasis on skills that go with her catching position at practices and had not been given the same level of hitting practice. "That's changed lately and she's been hitting real well," Cloward said. The Lady Utes end league play with two games this week. They faced Wasatch Tuesday and have a season determining game against Union. Uintah will host both games and the Union game is slated for 3 |