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Show Wednesday, October 29, 2008 C1 , if I Vernal Express w ... ' ,.NV..V,? . V. jK-TTii..' H7VV i A 4 Ki :1 Sill - r I A "vJ f '1 MY. ; 1866;,. ' l -jV j iK'ft, 4 Uintah High athletes Caleb Nelson (866) and Jeff Struthers (868) surprised attendees by making the All State team at the state cross country meet Oct. 22, finishing in ninth and 1 0th place. tes compete at state U cross country mee By Gary Parker t Express Writer Uintah High School Ute's runners, along with more than 900 athletes from high schools across Utah, gathered Oct. 22 at Salt Lake City's Sugarhouse Park to compete in this year's state cross country meet. The Ute's top 10 (girls) and top five prised everyone by becoming All State at the competition. According Accord-ing to Galley, no Utes have been on the All State team since one athlete made the team in 1998. "We were a much better team this year, but the state competition was the best I have seen it in 15 years of coaching," said Galley.' "It was fun to watch." Girls Cross Country Team Jade Johnson 20:28 34th Stevie Labrum 22:19 65th Grace Greenwood 22:49 78th Amber Martin 24:08 94th the girls team and sixth for the boys. The girls team competed in the morning, and Jade Johnson was the Ute's top female runner, finishing in 34th place with a run time of 20:28 seconds, the The Utes boys team began the (boys) expectations were dashed year sluggishly, with disappoint- .ama ok.qk mnfk withfinalplacementsofl4thfor mg finishes in the first several S"TAXnn 98 u meets, ne said. Uver the course , sT 7- of the year the team showed MaKayla Hardinger d i s - consistent improvement, often J.uallfied for a uniform infrac" surprising rivals who, according to Galley, frequently underestimated underesti-mated their abilities. Boys Cross Country "These guys were a lot of fun Team number-three all-time record for to coach because they got to shock Uintah on the Sugarhouse Park other teams," he said. "I honestly jeff Struthers think this is the Dest sixth-place 16:22 9th team that 3A has seen in many, Caleb Nelson 16:25 10th The weather was clear and Brandon Shurtz 16:57 22nd crisp for the competition; a relief Rex Bunderson " ' 1 7:26 36th for the team from the cold or wet Cadin White race-day weather over the past 17:48 59th several years. "It was good to Nimesh Chaudhuri have it nice for a change," said 17;57 65th Steven Bassett 18:03 66th course. Despite his disappointment in the team not reaching its gopd, many years. Ute s coach Gary Galley said the girls team ran "weir." ,IOur girls team is pretty young, so we plan on having another good year next year," he said. Late in the afternoon, the Ute's boys team entered the race Galley. Eparker(frvernaj.com, with high hopes. "We believed we could make it to the top five teams," said Galley, adding that they "came up short by takingsixth place," tyingtheir 2007 performance. The Ute's top runner from the boys team, Jeff Struthers, finished in ninth place with a run time of 16:22, followed closely by Caleb Nelson in 10th at 16:25. Two Ute team members, Jeff Struthers and Caleb Nelson, sur- i y jf - f r i 'if , - ss n i ; kJ Ste i feA 1 Wow! E VERNAL jcpress Let me tell you, it is worth shopping in the pages of the... 54 North Vernal Avenue Vernal, Utah 435-789-3511 www.vernal.com Micah Young participated in the annual World Paint Horse Association competition held in Fort Worth, Texas. This was Young's second year of competition, and she returned to Vernal with the title of World Champion in the showmanship category in the 13-and-under age division. Sixty other competitors com-petitors from across the country competed along with Young who took fifth overall in her division at the World Show. Her horse Bet Your Charismatic Charis-matic ('Dinero' to Micah) is a 5-year-old gelding, and the two have been riding as a team since Dinero was 3. 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