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Show B6 Wednesday, September 28, 2005 SprSs I w I 1 A Uintah running back Blake Murray gets past the Judge Memorial secondary to score for Uintah. Utes set sights on Morgan Going up against Judge Memorial Friday, the Uintah coaching staff knew they would have to contains two all-star running backs. Little did they know the option would be play of the game for the Bulldogs in their 41 to 21 defeat of the Utes. "I knew they ran a good option, and I take responsibility responsibil-ity for not preparing the team for the option," said Coach Mike Petersen. "We just didn't do well against the option. That is the single play that hurt us the most." "That is the sign of a good team, when they find something some-thing that works, they continue to use it," Petersen said. "We were able to make adjustments, but it's not like being prepared before the game." Also hurting Uintah were four interceptions. Six minutes min-utes into the second quarter, Judge was ahead 13 - 7. Uintah scored on a pass from quarterback quarter-back Taylor Jeski to Nathan Merkley. At the half the school was 19 to 7. In the third and fourth quarters Uintah was able to score two more touchdowns, one on a run down the the sideline side-line by Blake Murray. However, the Utes were unable to contain Judge's offense which scored twice. Uintah was successful in execution of an offside kick in the fourth, but were unable to turn it into a touchdown. The Utes are 4-2 for the season. This Friday the Utes will face Morgan in their first home Region 10 game. "Morgan is every bit as good as Judge," said Coach Petersen. "They have a lot of power and speed and like to play the option." "We will be playing assigned football, where every player will have to play his position, and trust that everyone else is covering their area." Against Morgan, Uintah will be playing without running run-ning back Murray, who broke his leg in the fourth quarter against Judge. He is out for the season. Running back Jared Ruppe will be playing after he sat out the Judge game because of a sprained ankle. 2s Uintah serves up a victory. Ute volleyball smashes Union By Brenden Eden r - , 1 ,h iliL C ) fi JX : L , --t -JtW. -T-- Ute Soccer winds up this week Uintah's Katie McRae foils Wasatch goal attempt by kicking the ball away. Uintah's season winds up Thursday with an away game against Union. Express Writer The ladies of Uintah High School played their hearts out last Thursday in a grueling gruel-ing game against Union High, Uintah's longtime rival. The games began at 4:00 with JV, then went long into the night with Varsity games. The super Ute fan club was at the game, as well as parents. The girls played hard enough to keep everyone on their feet the "whole game."""" Uintah's girls were on fire Coed softball season as the team worked as one to keep the ball moving, then pound it onto the Union side floor. Varsity won in three games, 25-21, 25-13, and 25-9. 25-9. Kayley Poglajen and Lexi White each had 11 digs, Tiffany Peterson had 27 assists and Jessica Labrum had 9 digs and 9 kills. Nicole Brady, a front guard said, "Our whole team was on tonight. Everyone played their hardest and we came out on top. It was really great." The games go on ends Another year of softball has come and gone. Coed softball ended with a great tournament last week. The tournament had three leagues involved and was a double elimination format. There was an "A" League, "B" League, and a "C" League. The "A" League was won by Aztec Pipe with a thrilling two game final over The Detail Shop. "B" League was won by RMAI over D&J Roustabout. The "C" League was won by Kerr Magee, who never lost a game in the tournament. Uintah Recreation would like to thank all the participants for a great year and are excited for another great season next year. Corn maze open for business Out in the rich farm land of the Basin, one field stands above the rest, the Bluebell Corn Maze. This year, the maze's design theme is "100 years in the Basin." When asked "Why a corn maze?" owner Mark Monsen replied, "There was a group of girls from Bluebell that would travel all the way to Pleasant Grove to go to the corn mazes. I thought to myself, if these girls are going all the way out there to see it, then the Basin would come see one in Bluebell." After months of designing and planning, the maze was built and has now been running for almost five years. The corn maze offers entertainment enter-tainment for people of all ages, including a miniature maze for small children, a petting farm wta txtvr The mut tlx which is a shed filled with kernels ker-nels of corn that kids can play In like a sand box, and a wagon that takes them to the pump- "H'"'! ''!!:" ,W"H! 'W "" "" r y ' 'yM vilify ?f?7V m s Ja Terrell feeds the goats at the maze. targets, including a bucket for a tssstiktin tar Halloween. For older people, the maze offers a pumpkin launcher, a giant sling-shot that lets one shoot pumpkins at fifty dollar prize. And of course, no event would be complete without sampling the wonderful won-derful items from their snack bar including five new funnel cakes. The maze itself is seven acres wide with two miles of trail inside, spreading out in different designs and paths, leading people on a path of twists and turns on their way through. At the beginning of the maze, groups pick out trivia cards with different questions on them. Each answer tells you which to turn. A right answer sends you in the right direction. A wrong one gets you lost. People from all over the Basin visit the maze, including scout groups, high school clubs, and families and friends who just want a fun place to hang out. One teen said, "We come here every year just because there is always something to do. My little brothers can play in the corn bin and my older brothers can goof off in the big maze. It's a lot of fun." " Mark and his wife are both proud of their establishment, and invite all the Basin to enjoy it with them. This week we find New Orleans in the rinse cycle and about 2 million people on the road fleeing hurricane Rita. Sport goes on as usual though, with just some delays and relocations. relo-cations. Perhaps thinking is that people in misery and flight need the distraction of men in tight colorful pants running up and down the field. Base is crushed that the Yankees are in first place again. A few tools assist with the writing writ-ing of these columns. There's a scrolling widget on this computer com-puter that tells me that the Yankees are now leading 4 - 0 against Toronto, batting in the bottom of the 7th, one out, runner run-ner on first, and the count is 2 and 1. The Red Sox are leading Baltimore 4-3 in the top of the 6th. Baseball has figured out a lot of ways to communicate with its fans. Maybe it's simply the fact that fans can actually carry on a conversation during dur-ing a game, or have it on in the background while doing other things. Yankees have runners on 1st and 2nd now. Barry Bonds is back, and hitting hit-ting home runs. Writers (and fans) can be glib when they're right about projections, and can say, "Oh well," when not. Why is it that we can't love Barry and recognize his achievement and acknowledge his skills? Last week Bonds threw down the race card. Could it really be that we fans and (white) sports-writers sports-writers are racist? Base can't speak for everyone else, but no, that doesn't play here. Why? Perhaps it's the petulance, the tax evasion, the mistress, or the questions about his physical physi-cal transformation over the last decade. Base is an equal opportunity oppor-tunity critic: Jason Giambi, Kenny Rogers, and Rafael Palmiero are in his sights, too. Speaking of Raffi, he publicly public-ly blamed a teammate, Miguel Tejada, for slipping him a mickey mick-ey and causing him to fail a steroid ste-roid test, thereby ending his career in disgrace. Anyone who saw the video of Palmiero at the Senate Hearings would have , thought that he would explode out ofthat custom-tailored suit at any moment to reveal a big "S" on his chest. Widget says: BOS 6 BAL 3, and NYY 5 TOR 0 (final). Base doesn't want to hedge his bets (nor encouraee snorts betting), but thinks that a "Rollerball" series might not be so bad. Rollerball, the original origi-nal movie, not the pathetic nearly made-for-TV remake would be a good match-up. Set in a futuristic world run by The Corporation, Rollerball is a game loosely patterned on Roller Derby. It plays out on an oval track with players on skates and motorcycles. Add medieval uniforms, spiked gauntlets and a heavy steel ball launched from a catapult in the opposite direction and you begin to get the feel of the game. The movie depicts a world completely controlled by The Corporation wherein workers must recognize the futility of glory. Women are considered little more than a reward given to successful managers. Casual use of narcotics is viewed as a minor acceptable evil. Our hero Jonathan (James Caan) has become a sport hero. He is an accomplished and fair player in the late stage of his career, and has become an admired (adulated) sports hero. The Corporation wants him to retire. He doesn't want to leave on those terms. The Corporation doesn't want heroes in this entertainment venue. This already violent sport undergoes a rule change designed to allow his elimination elimina-tion lethally. The championship champion-ship game: Houston vs. New York. Who knew James Caan could skate so well? Okay, it's a stretch. Widget says Astros 4 Cubs 5, final. Wild card teams consistently make it to the big showdown, but seldom from both leagues at once. Further along the emotional tenets of predictions, the long shot of a Houston championship champion-ship chance facing-insurmountable-odds scenario is that in Base's perfect prediction world there would be much emotional joy (if only for a few moments) in the darkest of times. There's always baseball, and with it always hope for 9 innings and for a couple hours. Jonathan! Jonathan! at off. basegmail.com Rent the movie and you'll see why. Tuesday Update: With 5 days left in the regular season only one division title has been decided. . 6 h |