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Show D8 Wednesday, January 25, 2006 .Vernal Express, UHS swim team scores big By Brewden Eden Express Writer The Uintah High School swim team competed against Ogden High School one week ago with outstanding results. Last weekend, they competed at the Regional 10 competition. This competition was the last event for the season which will determine who goes on to State. Almost the entire team qualified quali-fied to go to State in one event or another. In the girls 200 yard medley med-ley relay the team of Heather Fugal, Kirsten Bentley, Sami Meinrod, and Melissa Pipher took 4th with a time of 2:16.77. The boys 200 yard medley relay also took 4th with a time of 2:06.91. Boys team members were Ross Watkins, Mackay Duffin, Alex Shipton, and Brian Nelson. In the boys 200 yard freestyle, free-style, UHS swimmers Derrick White and Nathan Jewett took 9th and 12th respectively with times of 2:11.45 and 2:20.79. The boys 200 yard IM saw five UHS swimmers placing. LJ Heaton took 5th with 2:28.24, Caleb Hatch 7th with 2:36.22, Alex Shipton 9th with 2:37.33, Mackay Duffin 11th with 2:45.72, and McCarther Mitchell 12th with 2:53.58. Kirsten Bently of the Utes placed 8th in the girls 50 yard freestyle at 28.32 followed by her teammates Melissa Pipher with 30.90 in 24th and Erin Hall in 38th at 36.00. The boys 50 yard freestyle saw 4 plac-ings plac-ings with Spencer Perry in 4th at 23.96, Langdon DeCamp 8th at 25.12, Ross Watkins 17th at 28.20, and Brian Nelson 21st at 28.56. Justin Allred clocked a time of 31.97 but was disqualified. disquali-fied. Senior Spencer Perry once again shone in the 100 yard butterfly taking second with a time of 58.21, less than 1 second sec-ond behind Chris Tsoufakis of Judge. Senior Tyler Cook UHS Hockey faces Murray Uintah Utes' hockey traveled to the Wasatch Front this past weekend for their first games on the road in almost two months. Friday night found the Utes at the Murray Ice Center to face Murray High School. After less than daunting challenges chal-lenges the past few weeks, the Utes finally met a competitive team. Murray High School was a very physical team and offered some of the best defense the Utes have faced this year. Murray took the lead first on a goal coming at the 2:27 mark of the first period. The Utes did not take this challenge lightly, however, as Jeff Conley roared back less than a minute later to tie the score at the end of the first period. The second period found the Utes picking up the play and able to outshoot their opponents 16 to 6, but tremendous tremen-dous goalkeeping kept the Utes from scoring. Murray was able to put another point on the board on a controversial goal at the 10:43 mark, allowing Murray to start the third period with a one goal lead. Murray's defense stepped it up even more in the third period peri-od as they outshot the Utes 9-6. Each team was able to register one more goal in the period. The Utes Landon Larsen scored at the 7:56 mark to tie the game after a pretty assist from Tyler Larsen. Unfortunately, Murray came back to score their final goal with 3:36 left in the game on a 2-1 breakaway to bring the final score to 3-2. The Ute coaches coach-es agreed that the lack of a real Cajan Lamb and Landon Larson face I A r- C 4. placed 7th in the event with a time of 1:02.88. The girls 100 yard freestyle free-style was participated in by Kirsten Bentley and Heather Fugal, both UHS sophomores. Kirsten took 8th with a time of 1:02.09 and Heather placed 16th with 1:06.52. Two UHS freshman fresh-man team members also participated par-ticipated in this event Sami Meinrod and Erin Hall. Sami took 27th with a time of 1:14.70 and Erin took 34th with a time of 124.89. In the boys 100 yard freestyle, Langdon DeCamp landed 8th with 56.97 and McCarther Mitchell took 15th at 1:04.63. Justin Allred came in 20th with 1:13.14. The gruelling boys 500 yard freestyle was placed in by Derrick White and Nathan Jewett, whose times were only 11 seconds apart. White took 9th with 6:17.14 and Jewett took 10th at 6:28.88. The girls 200 yard freestyle relay was the next event and UHS took 4th in this with the team of Heather Fugal, Melissa Pipher, Sami Meinrod, and Kirsten Bentley. The team had a total time of 2:00.55. The boys 200 yard freestyle team of Spencer Perry, LJ Heaton, Tyler Cook, and Langdon DeCamp took 3rd with a total time of 1:39.13. The girls 100 yard backstroke was participated in by Heather Fugal, placing 8th with a time of 1:12.49. The boys 100 yard backstroke saw two winners from Uintah Caleb Hatch and Ross Watkins, with placings of 9th at 1:08.79 and 13th at 1:13.00 respectively. UHS winners in the 100 yard breaststroke were Sami Meinrod, 14th with 1:29.17 and Melissa Pipher, 16th with 1:30.31. The boys 100 yard breast-stroke breast-stroke was inundated with UHS team members. LJ Heaton, a senior, took 4th with a time of 1:11.77; Alex Shipton, also a senior, took 5th with 1:12.29; senior Tyler Cook took 8th with 1:14.32; freshman Brian Nelson challenge in the past few weeks had an effect on the Utes' play as timing, passes and intensity reached less than their potential. poten-tial. The players were determined that Saturday's game against Davis at the E Center would not be a repeat of Friday night's loss. They came to the ice focused and it showed from the starting face-off. Unfortunately, Davis did not prove to be the competitors that Murray were and the Utes had an easy time of it for the game. The Utes were once again able to control their opponents' offense, holding Davis to 11 shots for the game, versus 31 for Uintah. Shortly after the game began, J. J. Redden scored on a great shot from the point. This was his third goal in the past five games. Tyler Larsen scored the second goal of the period unassisted. On a flurry Tyler Larson passes the puck in the off against Davis. rrw at Regional took 9th with 1:14.42 literally liter-ally right on Nelson's tail; and Mackay Duffin was disqualified but clocked in at 1:19.34. The final event was the boys 400 yard freestyle with two teams from UHS participating. The team of Spencer Perry, Tyler Cook, LJ Heaton, and Langdon DeCamp placed 4th with a combined time of 3:57.16. The team of Nathan Jewett, Derrick White, Ross Watkins, and Mackay Duffin were disqualified dis-qualified but timed in at 4:23.15. State participants are taken from the Utah Top 50 list. Each time a meet is held, the times in all events are e-mailed to Salt Lake City. A computer then selects and prints the top 50 competitor's times throughout the whole state in each event. Coach DeCamp stated, "It is not enough to get on the list. To keep on the list, swimmers must continue to battle hard." Each time another meet is held the list is updated to include the new times in each event. If another swimmer beats a current record time, he or she is moved up the list and the current time is moved down. In order to keep on the list, a swimmer must beat or maintain main-tain top times throughout the state. The top 26 swimmers in each event are able to compete at State level. The top 24 will compete in the event and the bottom two of the 26 are there as alternates in case of need. DeCamp is especially proud that 13 out of 15 swimmers on the UHS team maintained times good enough to move on to the State level. This speaks excellently excel-lently of Vernal's team. The following UHS team swimmers are moving on to State; Seniors: Spencer Perry, Tyler Cook, L.J. Heaton, and Alex Shipton. Juniors: Langdon DeCamp. Sophomores: Kirsten Bentley, Heather Fugal, and Melissa Pipher. Freshmen: Brian Nelson, Ross Watkins, Mackay Duffin, Erin Hall and Sami Meinrod. in front of the crease, Tappan Brown netted the third goal of the period with an assist from Bo Harris. Brown added the fourth goal unassisted with a pretty top shelf goal over the goalie's shoulder. In the second period, the coaches expanded the lines, allowing all the players plenty of opportunity to play. Seth Stewart and Josh Kitzmiller teamed up to score the Utes' fifth goal on a picture-perfect play in front of the net. With Davis back on their heels, the Utes relaxed somewhat and played a wide open game of passing and puck control to finish fin-ish up the game. The final score ended in favor of the Utes, 5-0. The Utes will travel to Rock Springs on Saturday for what should be another great challenge chal-lenge as they prepare for the year-end tournament in Salt Lake in a few weeks. game against Murray. r..,f m ...irf. C? . DC (l : : o fys krlf" 4sF (? ? u R ft $Qt ; . .""WW, X... , ' wan f 4 "I , M - x v .... The Uintah High U'ettes win the Region 10 Drill Team Championship last week in Morgan. The team, several still wearing novelty competition make-up, poses with their four trophies. U'ettes take region title The Uintah High School U'ettes have again captured the Region 10 Drill Team Championship. Competing against Morgan, Wasatch and Union in Morgan last Saturday, the team placed first in the military and novelty categories catego-ries and took second place in the dance category. The U'ettes were then named the 2006 Region 10 Overall Champions. The team advances to state competition at UVSC in Orem this Saturday. Youth hunters allowed three seasons : : Young hutfferk who obtain a 2006" Utah general buck deer rifle or muzzleloader permit can hunt all three general deer seasons this fall, but the opportunity oppor-tunity won't be available to young hunters who obtain a general archery permit. Young hunters can take only one buck deer in Utah each season, sea-son, so the chance to hunt all three seasons ends as soon as they take a deer. Hunters must be 18 years old or younger on Aug. 19, 2006 (the beginning of the state's 2006 general archery buck deer season) to qualify for the youth hunting opportunity. "General archery buck deer permits are statewide permits, and rifle and muzzleloader deer hunting is restricted to a specific spe-cific region," said Judi Tutorow, wildlife licensing coordinator coordina-tor for the Division of Wildlife Resources. "If a young hunter obtains a statewide archery permit, we have no way of knowing which region they should be hunting in during the rifle and muzzle-loader muzzle-loader season, she said. "That's why young hunters who obtain a general archery permit aren't allowed to hunt during the rifle and muzzleloader seasons." Tutorow encourages youths interested in hunting all three seasons to apply for either a general rifle or general muzzle-loader muzzle-loader permit during the 2006 Utah Big Game application period. peri-od. The application period ends at 5 p.m. on Feb. 17 for hunters applying with a mail-in application applica-tion and at 11 p.m. for hunters applying online at the DWR's Web site. Young hunters who obtain a 2006 general rifle or general muzzleloader buck deer permit may hunt in any of the state's five general season regions during dur-ing the general archery hunt. During the muzzleloader and rifle hunts, youth hunters must hunt in the region for which they obtained a permit. Young hunters afield during the statewide general archery cannot hunt on limited entry units. Limited entry units are open only to those who obtain a limited entry permit Giving young hunters a chance to hunt all three seasons started in 2000 as a way to get more of Utah's young people interested in big game hunting. Seniors Brandi Reeves and Tawna Barton placed second and third respectively in the four-school drill down. The two girls were also named to the All-Region Drill Team along with teammate Mikenzie Thacker. The U'ettes are coached by Taunia Wheeler, Dacia Jackson and Megan Hanberg. This year's officers are: head captain Tawna Barton, Rachel Matson, junior captain, McKenna Wheeler, sopho Classic is set The World Baseball Classic is finally set to proceed as designed. There was a serious hitch in the plans when the U.S. Treasury Dept. denied Cuba's participation due to long-standing economic sanctions by the U.S. The 40-year-old embargo is still in place. Details of the plan are a little sketchy, but apparently Cuba will donate all financial gains from the tournament to a financial finan-cial relief fund for victims of Hurricane Katrina. This presumably pre-sumably means Cuban victims, as we somehow missed the fact that the hurricane passed over Cuba before making landfall in Louisiana. "We were able to reach a licensable agreement that upholds both the legal scope and the spirit of the sanctions," the Treasury Department said. "This agreement ensures that no funding will make its way into the hands of the Castro regime." Several countries were intending to pull out of The Classic over the exclusion of Cuba. The Classic is the first opportunity for the world's best baseball players to meet directly direct-ly with each other in tournament tourna-ment representing their country. coun-try. The Summer Olympics was never a viable venue since it takes place during the regular regu-lar baseball season, when most of the players of greatest skill are bound by professional contracts. con-tracts. Major League Baseball and the International Baseball Federation hope that The Classic will generate interest comparable to football's World Cup. That would be the other football, not the American version ver-sion that culminates in the much hyped media showcase called Super Bowl, where one team usually blows out the other. Off Base is old enough to remember when American football foot-ball started in September and ended in December. Base thinks too many sports are extending their seasons unnecessarily. As a sport expands, either in terms of games played, or number of teams fielded, the overall quality qual-ity of the "package" diminishes. diminish-es. Baseball was much better when there were only 550 major league players, instead of the current 750. There's too much trading around in hopes of r, more captain, Kaitlyn Sprouse, senior captain, and military captains Mickenzie Thacker, Brandi Reeves and Rachel Jolley. Other team members include: Britli Dickson, Andrea Wilkins, Mallori Nelson, Heather Simper, Noelle Bailey, Alyssa Irving, Whitney Morton, Ashley Struthers, JulieAnn Bowden, Stephanie Sabin, Marci Van Tassell, Felicia Mayberry, Tenille Collett, Cora Barton and Macy Young. r. BASE byO.B. landing a player under contract during his "career" year(s). There are currently about 120 players floating in free agency without contracts right now. Most of them are right handed pitchers. There are too many players without sufficient skills at the major league level. Back to the Classic, and teams to watch. The U.S. and Dominican Republic are dead even according to odds makers. China is expected to place last behind South Africa amongst the 16 teams. Cuba is expected expect-ed to place somewhere in the middle, just ahead of Mexico. Japan and Venezuela are anticipated antic-ipated to be top contenders. In short series baseball anything can happen though. A dollar bet on China right now would pay $500. That's a far better bet than on Kansas City taking the World Series in 2006 at 2501. Base has made one monetary sport bet in his life. It was one night in Tijuana at the Palacio de Jai Lai. Jai Lai is a court game similar to racquetball, but much faster and more dangerous. dan-gerous. Players have a wicker scoop they use to throw and catch a ball similar in density to those used in golf, except that it's about the size of your standard softball. The game is very fast and loud. The betting bet-ting slips were on thin tissue. I chose a name I liked the look of, Gallegos. Gallegos turned out to be an older and slightly portly veteran. He was highly underrated under-rated that night by odds makers. mak-ers. The $2 bet paid for dinner and the hotel room. Regular readers of this intermittent inter-mittent column should probably have surmised by now that Off Base is not a betting man. The wildly constructed convoluted scenarios about outcomes are pure emotional flights of fancy. These constructs are pure fan-dom. fan-dom. Based on the record, Off might be rich or poor if he'd actually shoved currency at these opinions. By way of full disclosure, Base does occasionally occasion-ally place bets on eBay. All bets aside, ESPN is reportedly in negotiation to obtain broadcasting rights for the final championship game, to be held at Petco Field in San Diego March 20th. If Base were a gambler he'd bet a friend lunch that Cuba finishes 4th in The Classic at Off.BasegmaiLcom. V 1 |