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Show C2 Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Vernal Express Raptors soar over Logan ( err, , By Gary Parker Express Writer The Vernal Raptors, Vernal's three youth hockey teams, won four of six games against the Cache Valley Amateur Hockey Association from Logan Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 at the Western Park ice rink. The two oldest teams, the Peewees and the Bantams, won two games each against Logan, with one shutout game each. The youngest team, the Squirts, lost by one and two points, consecutively. consecu-tively. Squirt's player Jackson Woodward Wood-ward had three assists, and teammate team-mate Ryan Young scored three goals in the Nov. 1 final Squirts game. This was the Squirts third game of the season, and according to parents, the team is showing improvement with each game. Final scores were 5-6 and 3-5. The Peewees beat the CVAHA Logan team on Oct. 31, Halloween Hal-loween night, winning 7-0 in its first game. Teammates Connor McKeachnie and Dylan Weldon both had hat tricks, scoring three goals in one game, and Goalie Jacob Slaugh played a shutout game. They finished game two on Nov. 1 with a final score of 7-1 over Logan. The Bantam's, oldest of the Raptor teams, won both of its Nov. 1 games, with teammates Brenton Stewart and Beau Polya both scoring three goals across the two games, assisted by Alan Oldson and Dakota King. Easton Murray scored the first goal of the season in the second period of game one, and Goalie Dustin Holmes had 16 saves in one game, ending with a shutout against the Logan team with final scores of 7-0. Game two stayed close throughout ending in a 5-4 Bantam victory. Austin Anders, Carson Parslow, Alan Oldson, and Chad Whitmore also scored Bantam goals. Oly Olsen, a former NHL player and coach from the Salt Lake area, has been drilling the Vernal hockey players for the past six weeks. Coach Larry Murray said that the Bantams seemed to use techniques it had practiced and had the endurance to finish strong, saying that the training had paid off for the Bantam team, gparkervernal.com I yvb. Av-, . . C" X, 'V- vV- s t Bantam's defensive player Easton Murray moves the puck through the Logan defense. , imm''mvmMmwmiwmwwmwwtm mm wiipmiimni im- n" -W-M i-r i f . I'M y r - V i ' i 1 I ' ( ' I . . rv" v,i ' -fr,-H- J I " ' t - t?j "V;- Brandon Kemp defends the net for the Vernal Squirts in the Nov. 1 game against Logan. Defensive driving classes The Utah Safety Council is offering a four-hour defensive driving course for individuals in the Vernal areafrom 8 a.m.-noon, Nov. 8, in the South Conference Confer-ence Room at the State County Building in the Uintah County Commission Building. The course focuses on accident prevention, driving confidence, awareness of hazards and how to improve driving skills. 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The grants are available through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service, and will be awarded to enhance the competitiveness com-petitiveness of specialty crops. "This is an opportunity for specialty crop stakeholders to fund projects that will benefit the specialty crop industry as a whole," said Jed Christenson, director of marketing for the UDAF. Specialty crop grants have been awarded the past two years, funding 19 projects that varied from researching the use of drought tolerant native flora or controlling weeds in onions, ' to the use of scent baited traps in orchards to control insects in lieu of pesticides. The deadline for submitting an application to receive a portion por-tion of the allocated $105,000 is Dec.31. An application packet and full program overview is available online at www.ag.utah. gov or by calling Christenson at 801-538-7108. 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