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Show C6 Wednesday, May 5, 2004 Lady Uties tfaDI fto Conagairs The Lady Utes were hoping to upset the Union Cougar softball team when they met for the second time this season last Friday. In the first pairing between the two schools in mid April, Uintah captured an early lead in the hard fought game and held it until the bottom of the seventh and final inning. Union then brought home two runners to defeat Uintah 3-2. Last Friday's game was played in Vernal and was "deja vue all over again," as Yogi Berra would say. Uintah held a one point lead until the seventh inning when Union again scored two runs. Uintah lost the heart breaker 3-2. After a scoreless first inning for both teams, Uintah's Krissy Hacking smacked a home run in the second. The Lady Utes then had to fight off a Union rally in the third inning to maintain their single run lead. Union placed a runner on second sec-ond then successfully stole third base. Uintah's defense held forcing forc-ing Union to strand their runner on third. Union challenged again in the top of the fourth inning. With a runner on base, a Cougar batter smacked a ball through the infield into right center. While the advanced runner scored, the batter bat-ter tried to stretch her run batted in double into a triple and was thrown out by Uintah's defense to retire the side. In the bottom of the fourth, Lady Ute Whitney Robb got on base. Ashley Gurr came to the plate and thumped a strong triple down the first base line. Robb scored to return the lead to Uintah. In the fifth inning, Uintah's play sagged a little and a passed ball combined with a couple of throwing errors gave Union a golden opportunity. oppor-tunity. The Cougars had placed runners run-ners on first and third from Uintah's mistakes. While it appeared that another Union score was eminent, the Lady Utes regrouped defensively defensive-ly to strand both runners. Counting these two runners. Union had left six runners on in the first five innings. With neither team scoring in the fifth and six innings, Uintah was ahead 2 - 1 at the top of the seventh. sev-enth. Lcxi White entered the game to relieve Uintah's pitcher Tiffany Parker. The first Union batter hit a single to put the tying run on base. However, the Lady Utes made quick work of her by picking her off as she attempted to steal second base. White next faced Union's pitcher. Records fall in Ute track and field Two Uintah High School records fell following last week's track and field events. The Utes competed com-peted at three separate tournaments. The girh's medley relay team of Maggie Battel, Kelsey Peltier, Alise Watkins and Whitney Fleetwood broke the previous school record and Skylar Massey broke the old school pole vaulting record twice. According to track and field Coach Shane Lance, the Utes competed at the Kearns High School Invitational meet last Friday then divided to compete at BYU and Orem on Saturday. Lance said that the entire final results of all the meets have not been provided to him. At the Kearns tournament. Lance said that 21 total teams participated. participat-ed. Massey pole vaulted 14i which broke the old record of 13' 3" that was also his. On Saturday in the BYU Invitational meet, Massey cleared 131 9i which also beat his lunu l.'l 71 wiiiill tinu Ln-tu 1113 J!l - l,,"." - "1' - - - '' - - f s Kelsey Peltier squints through a cold ZJT A Til mT ' 1 i Lady Ute gets down low to get the Union runner is tagged out in base Cassie Luck. Luck won the pitcher's duel by hitting a single to right field after being down in the count 2-2. A Cougar double scored Luck to lie the game then a blooper fly into right field brought in the second sec-ond runner. Another fly ball to right field was snagged by Uintah's Ashley Gurr to retire the-inning. Union was ahead 3 - 2, it was the bottom of the seventh and do or die time for the Lady Utes. The Lady Utes fought hard and put runners on first and third with one out. Union held to retire the inning by stranding Uintah's runners original record. His effort provided him second place at BYU among 4A and 5A level schools. "Skylar will be moving to a bigger big-ger pole for the Region tournament," tourna-ment," Coach Lance said. "So we can expect him to go even higher." Also at the Kearns event. Maggie Bartel qualified for the state tournament tourna-ment in the 3(H) hurdles. Coach Lance said that on Saturday, the team was divided and seven athletes competed in the BYU meet while the remainder of the team participated at Orem High School. At BYU, Uintah's girl's medley relay team ran the race in 4:21.27 to break the existing Uintah High School record of 4:22.52. Their time lifted them to third place. Also at BYU, Gray Augustus qualified quali-fied for state competition in the javelin throw. According to Coach Lance, his throw of 161' 11" is 3' 1 3111111 Wl 11IC MIHHJI 1CIUIU. niN y't" ' "B""J, 1 short ot the school record. His . . j and windy snow in Park city. lx V mamma ball. 3 stealing attempt last Friday. and taking another squeaker game in the final inning. Union had nine hits with two errors. Uintah had six hits and four errors. The game ended regular season play lor Uintah and secured them in the number two position in Region 10. Uintah ended league play with an 8 - 2 record. Union went on to finish their region schedule by defeating Judge Memorial on Monday, May 3. The Cougars were spotless in league play and finished 10 - 0. Both teams will receive their state tournament first game schedule this week. toss provided him a ninth place finish. fin-ish. Coach Lance said that the individual individ-ual results from the Orem competition competi-tion were not available. However, the Utes place third as a team in the boy's events and fifth in the girl's. Lance said that most of the sixteen schools that competed in Orem were 4A and 5A level schools. The Utes compete in the Region 10 track and field meet today and tomorrow. The tournament is in Park City. The State Tournament is scheduled for May 14 and 15 next week. "I feel pretty confident going into the region meet." Coach Lance said. "We have a tough region with Judge and Park City. But we get better every week and Km looking look-ing for some good things from our team," he added. """"ry ..?.".Ty 2fl v ; ; a& Lady Ute tag a Union runner out y J if In A Lady Ute attempts to throw out Union runner. 4 15 1 ". ': 1)1 Vernal 4-H shooting team members are Kyle Partridge, Brant Holmes, Kyle Allred, Kirbi Ruppe, Jamie Nerrill and front row, Kyler Bowdenk, Jason Partridge and Jared Slaugh. Three earn spot on Utah team On April 16 and 17, the 4-H Shooting Club from Vernal went to Spanish Fork to compete in the State Youth Hunter Education Challenge. Mark Partidge supervised a group of 17 youth during the spring practices, prac-tices, but eight decided to test their skill at State. They competed in eight events, four knowledge and four shooting. In the knowledge knowl-edge events, there were Wildlife Identification, Safety Trail, orienteering ori-enteering and a written exam. The shooting events consisted of Muzzleloader, Archery, .22 Rifle and Shotgun. The Junior shooters were Kyler Bowden, Jared Slaugh, and Jason Partridge. Kyler place third in Wildlife I.D., 5th in Muzzleloader, ' , , . -, II. J -I.. ., I I in close play at second base. K i 5th in .22, 9th in Safety Trail, 8th in Shotgun, 8th in Written and 5th in overall. Jared placed 9th in Wildlife I.D., 7th in Muzzleloader, 2nd in .22, 7th in Safety Trail, 1st in Shotgun, 2nd in Archery, 4th in Written and 3rd Overall. The Seniors were Kyle Allred, Jamie Morrill, Kirbi Ruppe, Kyle Partridge and Brant Holmes. Seniors placing in events were Brant Holmes 9th in Wildlife I D., 5th in Muzzleloader, 11th in Safety Trail, 10th in Shotgun, 9th in Archery, 10th in Written and 9th in Overall. Kyle Partridge placed 5th in Wildlife I.D., 6th in Muzzleloader, 1st in Safety Trail, 8th in Shotgun, 6th in Archery and 5th overall. All of the participants placing 5th p place Overall or higher earn their entry to the National YHEC paid by the State YHEC. "We are very proud that three of our local shooters are going to Mansfield, Penn. on the Utah State Team," said Partridge. Others may be going as individuals. Those assisting the club in state competition are Vernal City, Parks and Recreation, Vemal Rod and Gun, Split Mountain Archery, Carl and Carol Jackson, Mike Goddard, Basin Sports and parents and relatives rela-tives of the participants. "Without these people, our club could not do the great things for these youth that we were able to do this year," Partridge said. A. 1 V |
