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Show t? jL,', -r llSv- Q ? 'y,-., ira" Junior golf award winners are (left to right) back row - Blake Rollins, Bailey and Nicole Begay. Not pictured is Alex Greens glowing in the By Brenden Eden Express Writer The scene at the local golf course was one of darkness. A kind of darkness that could only be penetrated by one thing. Golf balls. But not just any golf balls would suffice, a special golf ball with a glowing green core was needed to shatter the darkness and guide the players to their goal. The Uintah High School golf team, along with the Dinaland Golf course, put on a spectacular spectacu-lar event on the evening of August jfe jMtine hole tourna-raentf4oiiinner tourna-raentf4oiiinner intermission, and - fheh a pitch black nine hole game, played with glow in the dark golf balls. The whole event was held to raise money for the golf team for their tournaments tour-naments and travel expenses. Admission was $50 a player, excluding green and cart fees. After the first nine hole games, the players all came back to the lodge for a dinner, raffle, with prizes donated from various sponsors, and then back to the course for the much-awaited much-awaited night tournament. As soon as the lights went out on the course, glowstick flagpoles and green markers went up. The golfers went to their starting holes, lit up their golf balls, and started the play. 83 players teed off their balls, causing a shooting star effect over the back nine. Kids and adults alike watched their golf game transform into a brilliant light show. Near morning, the tournament ended and the players play-ers packed up. The declared 1 O Miss Uintah County Chelsea Roth Merkley present Myrna Cobb with an award for Mayor's Choice. Car show draws quite the crowd at the Uintah County Fair The annual Uintah County Fair car show was held Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Western Park. Cars and trucks of all ages, makes and models were present for visitors visi-tors to gander at and vote for their favorite. Miss Uintah County Chelsea Roth presented an award for Committee Choice to Doug Golfers had to hit toward the lights to winners were Rex Stewart, Jay Orr, Jessie Blancher, and Lowell Aycock. All the golfers golf-ers had a good time and as one youngster on the course said, "It was just cool to see the lights!" Men's basketball signups open It is time to sign up for the men's basketball leagues with Uintah Recreation. The registration reg-istration fee is $400 per team and the deadline is September 16 or after twelve teams have (right) and First Attendant Camela and Marquita Hammond for their 1938 Studebaker, Commissioner's Choice to Larry and Carol Allen for their 1950 Jeep Wagon, Mayor's Choice to Myrna Cobbs for her 1974 Volkswagen convertible, and the People's Choice Award to DeLyle Billings for his 1955 Ford Thunderbird. X) , y $ " ; , i( JJ 2 Cundall. Front row - Kevin Southam moonlight find their goal. Also on Tuesday, the golf course held a banquet for all the junior golfers. Trophies were awarded to all the golfers for their participation, and five final awards were given out for the outstanding golfers. registered. For questions or to sign up, contact the Uintah Recreation District at 781-0982 or stop by the office at 134 West Main, Suite 101. Larry and Carol Allen's unique 1950 4x2 Jeep Wagon was one of the entrants at Saturday's car show. The Allen's Jeep was chosen as Commissioner's Choice. , ' i i Ji ' ll tj ( l Miss Uintah County Chelsea Roth and First Attendant Camela Merkley present pres-ent DeLyle Billings with an award for People's Choice. Emily Henderson scored the second goal for Uintah and tied the score against the Dixie Fliers Saturday. While in St. George, the Lady Utes also played against Pine View and Snow Canyon. Next Tuesday the Utes will face Park City at home. Game time is 3:30 p.m. varsity and 5 p.m. JV. Cool, wet dove surveys by DWR The number of mourning doves observed and heard in Utah during surveys this past May was down from 2004, but the surveys may not provide a full picture. Division of Wildlife Resources biologists say cool, wet weather in late May probably proba-bly made doves more reluctant to fly and call, and there might be more doves in Utah than the surveys indicated. Hunters will learn for sure how many doves are in Utah when the state's 2005 dove hunt begins Sept. lUtah's 2005 band-tailed band-tailed pigeon hunt begins the same day. Dean Mitchell, upland game coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources, provides a review of the hunts: Beginning in 2004 and continuing con-tinuing this year, hunters can legally harvest three species of doves in Utah. White-winged doves, a migratory migra-tory game bird species historically his-torically found mostly south of Utah, are becoming more common com-mon throughout the state each year. Utah dove hunters may legally harvest white-winged and mourning doves will be in the aggregate. For example, the bag limit for doves is 10 birds in any combination of white-winged white-winged and mourning doves. The possession limit remains two bag limits or any combination combi-nation of 20 white-winged and mourning doves. Also, the exotic Eurasian collared-dove is being observed weather in greater numbers and in new areas in Utah each year. These doves seem to prefer urban areas over agricultural habitats. Hunters can take Eurasian collared-doves during dur-ing the annual dove season. If taken during the dove season, these doves will not count as OB A S E bo. Guessing Games One wonderful thing about major sports is the precision of record keeping, and the public availability of these statistics. It leads folks like yours truly to make predictions, somewhat based on statistics, but more likely some insane emotional extrapolation. Each spring Off Base predicts winners for each ML Baseball division and wild card teams. He also makes them public, and encourages his friends to do the same. These are recorded on a small piece of paper and inserted insert-ed into the wallet. Around the All-Star game, when there is no baseball, the folly is reviewed. Over the years the vague rules of this "bet" allows for participants par-ticipants to make one change adjustment in each league around this time of year. This is in accordance with the Off Base Official Prognosticator Rule Book, 5.26. LATE MAY 2005 PREDICTIONS: AL NL West Angels Dodgers Central: Twins Cardinals East: Red Sox Braves Wildcard: Yankees Astros WS Yankees Dodgers Not too bad so far, but Base thinks neither World Series predictions will be there. Minnesota and LA will not be playing in the post season, and (another prediction) the Yankees will not be a factor this year. The NL West, frequently the strongest division, has only one team playing a winning season, and just barely. Base was hoping for a classic World Series match-up, but thinks neither nei-ther team will make it. Predicting the World Series between Boston vs. Houston, is purely emotional. Good pitching pitch-ing meets good hitting in the fall classic. There isn't a record your correspondent could find of these two teams ever playing against each other during the regular or post season. This is really going out on a limb! Each baseball game requires at least 55 at bats to have a decisive outcome out-come (except in games called by umpires sometime after the 5th inning). There is very little certainty cer-tainty in baseball. The games affected part of the aggregate dove bag and possession limits. Hunters who harvest Eurasian collared-doves while dove hunting should leave them unplucked during transport, so they can be identified from mourning and white-winged doves. usually start at 5 minutes past the hour, but are played until one team wins after 9 innings. In theory, a game is infinite. The longest game, time wise, was a double header between the Giants and the Mets in 1964 at 9 hrs. 52 min. The second game went 23 innings. The longest lon-gest single game by innings was 25 in 1984, lasting 8 hrs. 6 min., between the White Sox and the Brewers. In both events the visiting vis-iting teams won (SF & Chicago). Thus you can see how risky it is to predict baseball, even on a solid statistical basis. Honey, I'm going to the game. See you in a couple hours. In other news, the Guerreros de Oaxaca made it to post season sea-son play. They finished 2nd in the Sur (southern) Division, losing los-ing to the Tigres de Angelopolis in a hard fought division playoff play-off series. They had the 3rd best record in the league (31 - 20). Chad Meyers finished regular season play with a batting average aver-age of .324, and hit over .400 during the post season. We enter what might be a difficult season for readers of this column. Off Base recognizes recogniz-es that football is a very popular popu-lar sport in our society, and perhaps regionally as well, but does not share in this popular interest. The column will continue con-tinue in spite of our (probable) disagreement. Your columnist has a lot of opinions about football, foot-ball, (and even played it at the 8th grade level), but none good at this juncture, and isn't writing writ-ing to denigrate that particular sport, nor those who follow it. Instead we'll be looking a bit at the other football and some of the more obscure athletic pursuits pur-suits around the world during the looming long, dry season between October and March, when pitchers and catchers report to spring training camp. Perhaps some winter ball coverage cov-erage would ease the long dry season. Readers knowing which sport is played on a court measuring mea-suring 35 x 28 yards might send the answer to off.basegmail. com |