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Show B6 Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Vernal Express Big weekend for Boy's tennis -TV.:- vi- ;': (k , . vrvr. J - "7 A 7 v V i The Boys Tennis team had a busy weekend. On Friday, they played Ben Lomand High. Since it was a non-region match, they mixed things up a bit and some single players played doubles and double players competed in singles. sin-gles. Winners included the first doubles team of Lance Hansen ; and Brock Gessell with a 6-0, 6-2 win and the second doubles team of Nick Parrack and Dax Upton with a win. Saturday, the Utes played in the Logan Invitation. " This is a really tough tournament tourna-ment with some of the best tennis schools in the State playing," said Coach JoJo Gale. The teams playing were Park City, Logan, Pineview, Ogden, Box Elder, Mt. Crest, Skyview and Uintah. The second doubles team of Tyson Simmons and Nick Par-rack Par-rack took fourth place. In their first round match they defeated Ogden 7-6, 7-6. "Tyson and Nick played really well against Ogden, they served well and were aggressive at the net," said Assistant Coach Paul Hendrickson. Brock Gessell had to face the defending State Champion from Logan in the first round, but got some games off of him. Gessell did bounce back with a win over Skyview. Taylor Peterson also had to face a tough opponent in the first round, but won his last match of the day. At third singles, Lance Hansen played a tough first round match against Logan, losing 6-4, 6-1. In the second round, he beat Skyview 6-3, 6-1 and then had a tough loss against Pineview. The first doubles team of Jeff Struthers and Chad Young struggled, playing play-ing Mt. Crest in the first round who went on to the finals. "The wind was definitely a factor Saturday," said Gale. " The boys had to really work to get their serves in and to concentrate since the ball would move so much with the wind. This is the best we've done at the Logan Tournament in the last 5 years, with us getting better each year. The way the boys played showed them they , can compete with some of the best team in the State." Winds push refuge burn in Uuray out or control By Geoff Lessk Members of the New Life Riders, the local chapter of the Christian Motorcyclists Association, who participated in the 2007 Run for the Son are: back row: Austin Walker, Drew Banks, and Rocky Bozarth; third row: Ike Morgan, John Harlan, Kelly Banks, Marlys Morgan, and Craig Banks; second row: Brandie Walker, Kori Bozarth, Karen Arias, Stan Arias, Margie Hale, and Ken Hale; and front row: Brenda Cloud and Mike Cloud. The group will join the 2 1st Annual Run for the Sun on May 3. Christian motorcyclists set for 21st annual ride The Christian Motorcyclists Association will host its 21st Annual Run For The Son on May 3. The New Life Riders from the Uintah Basin, one of more than 960 chapters involved in the Christian Motorcyclists Association, As-sociation, will be participating in this ride. The event is one where riders will seek sponsors to help raise money for CMA to "spread the lightof Jesus to every nation." Over the past 20 years, CMA has raised over $27 million to help present the Gospel of Jesus Je-sus Christ to millions of people around the world. Every penny, promptly goes to work. This year, 20 percent of the money will be used to purchase Bibles and send them to closed and restricted countries; 20 percent goes for motorcycles for native pastors around the world; 20 percent goes to help the "Jesus Film" spread the Word Of God; and 40 percent is used by CMA to help reach motorcyclists in the United States. This year's goal is to raise $5 million. Riders will go approximately approxi-mately 100 miles, round trip. Anyone interested in participating partici-pating in the Run of the Sun, or who would like to sponsor someone some-one for the Run, can call John Harlan at 781-2053. Uintah Basin News Service Officials at Ouray National Wildlife Refuge had planned to burn about 150 acres in Sheppard Bottom last week. They got more than the planned for. High winds last Tuesday - gusting up to 50 mph at times - pushed the prescribed burn from the Sheppard Bottom area across the Green River into Wy-asket Wy-asket Bottom. "We were mopping up, as the term goes, and when the winds picked up they changed direction direc-tion ... which pushed the fire south," said refuge manager Dan Alonso. The Bureau of Land Management Manage-ment had planned to burn about 260 acres of bulrush and cattail in two areas of the refuge - Sheppard Shep-pard Bottom and Johnson Bottom-to improve wildlife habitat. The fire was set last Monday when weather conditions met the prescription. "The objective is to create a mosaic of habitat types to be utilized by a large diversity of wildlife," Alonso said. High winds Monday evening prompted fire bosses to call out the Roosevelt and Avalon fire departments de-partments to supplement crews from the BLM, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Alonso said conditions were still acceptable on Tuesday morning, morn-ing, but officials knew that high winds were in the forecast for later in the day. He said every effort was made to complete the prescribed burn before the winds came up, but there were still hot spots inside the fire line. "The wind just picked up and "took off from where they had worked that day," said Cheryl Nelsen, manager of the Uintah Basin Interagency Fire Center in Vernal. Firefighter from Roosevelt, Neola, Avalon, Vernal, and Naples were called in and joined state and federal crews to contain the blaze. Alonso said only about three-quarters of the Johnson Bottom burn was finished when officials "turned it off" and redeploy crews to Sheppard Bottom. "It could have been a lot worse had we not mobilized the troops we had," said Alonso, who called prescribed burning at Ouray "an annual event" and noted that every one of the refuge's impoundments is scheduled to be burned at 3 to 5 year intervals. "In most cases (the burns) go through without incident of any type, this is certainly an anomaly," he said. By Wednesday, crews had brought the fire under control. Alonso estimated that about 650 acres were burned, with the majority of that being in Sheppard Bottom. He said crews would spend the weekend at the refuge watching for any possible re-ignition. "We'll continue to mop up until it's completely out," he said. - 2 r r tfCRNML Wow! 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