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Show Orem-Geneva Times Wednesday, May 26, 1993 Page 4 Second Baseman Mike Millet throws to first during state baseball tournament. The Bruins were defeated by Taylorsville and Skyline. By Ron Richardson When Rick Majerus accepted the University of Utah basketball coaching job, he had a lot to learn about Utah basketball. Kurt Christensen gave him his first lesson. Christensen came out of Highland High-land High School as a 4A, first team, All State player, and was the leading scorer with almost 30 points per game during the State High School Basketball Tournament Tourna-ment his senior year. Two obvious mistakes can be pointed out in talking about Kurt's basketball career. Mistake number one: as a USA Today 'Top Five High School Basketball Player" in the state of Utah, Christensen didn't even get a "whiff" by Coach Ladell Andersen as a recruit for BYU. Mistake number two: "What the heck's a missionary," Coach Majerus asked. After seeing considerable playing time for the Utes as a Freshman, Kurt Christensen tried to convince his new coach that being a missionary was more important to him than being a player on a Majerus basketball team. Of course this news was hardly taken kindly by Majerus. "Son!" Ricky said. "If you go on this thing called a "mission' there won't be a scholarship waiting for you when you get back." Majerus grinned confidently. Kurt said goodby, then closed the door. Majerus' tongue rolled to the floor. It hurt. He stepped on it i Coach Rick Majerus still had a lot to learn about Utah basketball, basket-ball, and about many of the players play-ers who play it. Why is it that a player can grow up his entire life dreaming of playing sports at BYU, who has been a fan of the Cougar's all of his family's life, and then when he doesn't get recruited by the "Y" and goes to the "U", he suddenly turns into a BYU hater? And if s not just a little hate, either, but it's A Great Big Hate! . Last season when a media writer from a San Diego newspaper newspa-per stirred up a little controversy between the U of U and BYUs head basketball Coach Roger Reid, I decided to get the story first hand from the sports information infor-mation office up at the University of Utah. The first thing one of the secretaries sec-retaries said to me after walking into her office was to make it very plain to me how much she hated Coach Reid. Reid was suppose to have called two of Utah's players very bad names (unmetionable by Reid and me. Not by her). "I hate Coach Reid," the secretary said. COUGAR COMMENTARY It looked like the air had been kicked out of Roger's stomach when I relayed to him what I had heard. "Ron", Coach replied, 1 have never said anything bad about any Utah player. In fact, quite the opposite." And that's the truth. There are two reasons I mention men-tion this little incident. First, I wanted to give an example of the type of rumors and false innuen-dos innuen-dos a few fans continue to circulate circu-late in order to keep the hate factor fac-tor alive and cooking between these two schools. And second, because be-cause Kurt Christensen is the exception, ex-ception, not the rule. Christensen has had the opportunity op-portunity to play for both programs pro-grams and has survived without all of that hate part rubbing off. Also, Kurt Christiansen is two of a kind. Do any of you remember Pace Mannion: an All WAC guard who played for the Utes a few years ago? Well, Pace had a father. Yes he did. And Mannion's father and Kurt Christensen are the only two players to have ever played at both schools. , Next week we will explore some of Kurfs incites into this rivalry, and why it is he says, "A lot of fans should just take a deep breath, stand back, and look themselves in the mirror when they try to figure out what the problem is." Electric Shaver Repair a All Brands Same Day Service MV State 4-A Baseball title shattered; Warriors, Eagles By Kemari G.Rawlings The Mountain View Bruins hard work and victories throughout this "93" season, didn't end with the State 4A Baseball title. Instead the Bruins were defeated twice and came home wondering exactly how it could have happened. The entire tournament wasn't a loss however, the favored to win Bruins came out strong the first night of action to wipe put the Cottonwood Colts 14-2. D.G. Nelson helped earn the win for the Bruins as he took the mound with confidence and with his team allowed the Colts only 2 scoring opportunities. Nelson pitched four scoreless innings giving up only 2 hits and striking out 8 Colts. The Bruins had a chance to end the game in the fifth on the ten run rule but came up short and still leading 11-0 in the bottom bot-tom of the fifth. Relief pitcher Shaun Field who had struck out two Colts in the bottom of the fourth, gave up a two-run homer to give Cottonwood Cotton-wood the momentum needed to score. Things changed again to the Bruin favor in the sixth inning when Cim Carver., who had an outstanding night, hit a 2-run double and later came home on Mike Millet's single. The Bruins then led 14-2. Milt Gale took the mound for the Bruins getting out three to give Mountain View the final 14-2 win. Ty Hanseen who according to head coach Jeff Gustin, called a great game, helped out the Bruins in the first when he singled then stole to third on a Cottonwood error. He scored when Cottonwood pitcher Ryan Jensen threw a wild throw to first in an attempt to get Curtley Hill out. Mountain View earned four runs in the second with Carver getting on base on a fielders choice and later hitting another 'University Hyundai Tennis Classic' May 11-15 ' The University Hyundai Tennis Ten-nis Classic (May 11th - May 15th) co-sponsored by the City of Orem Tennis Department gave everyone every-one their money's worth. Three hour long matches and tie breakers break-ers were the rule rather than the exception in this tournament. One of the more exciting matches showcased Shawn Blanke and Lynn Kokkola in the Open Mixed Doubles division. They narrowly defeated Heather Lawrence and Tebao Awerika (Orem's Teaching Pro) in a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 battle. The Men's "A" division posted similar scores with Andy Wright squeaking out a victory over Vince Miner, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, in singles. sin-gles. Grant Muhlestein and Jim Tucker took the Men's "A" Doubles Dou-bles division defeating Rick Pugh and Matt Wathen 4-6, 7-5; 6-3. In Ladies' "B" Singles, Heidi Paulson played a hard fought match against Mary Beth Crane and finally won 6-1, 6-4. After a 10 minute rest she was back on the court with her mother Jeanne in the Ladies' "B" doubles final. After two and a half hours and three long sets, Carmelle Kele-men Kele-men and Carolyn Andrus beat the Paulson motherdaughter tandem. tan-dem. , Carter Chow won both the Men's Open Singles (defeating Shawn Blanke in the finals) and the Men's Open Doubles teamed with Greg Manning-Shawn Blanke and Glenn Jaspering played a tough match against We Mend Everythfag Under A mending shed' :-:-:::';':.-:...v.-.v..-.-..v.y South State Orem 225-0012 double. Nelson, Millet and Hill each earned a run to cap off the inning for four. The fifth inning proved to be a big one for the Bruins as they racked up five runs. Carver singled home Eastern Eas-tern who walked on and Darin Lunt who hasn't played a great deal this year, hit a powerful home-run to center field. Hanseen Han-seen followed with a hit to the fence and Hill doubled. The win left the Bruins and the crowd wondering how anyone would even have a chance against this Orem team. The next night . however, the Taylorsville Warriors War-riors appeared to be anything but intimidated. Warrior Pitcher Matt Rex, who led his team to the 4A title last year allowed the Bruins only four hits with two of them coming in the last inning Parker and Spencer combined for Taylorsville to earn 2 RBrs a piece and lead their team to five more runs. Mountain View was stunned and hard as they tried, for some reason couldn't pull together a comeback. Pitcher Jon Barry came in as the third man on the mound for the Bruins and struck out three. He allowed only three hits and one run in a total of three innings. Even after such great defense, the Bruin offense stayed dormant . Lyman's sacrifice out on base, gave James Wallace time to come home and give the Warriors the win and final 10-0. With the tournament being a double illumination, the Bruins were still optimistic and felt they could bounce back. The Skyline Eagles should have been no match for the Bruin's yet remnants of the prior evening lingered and the Bruins spectacular beginning, became a little shaky. They pulled together in the first and second innings to earn a 2-0 lead and things were looking up when in the fourth inning, in-ning, Eagle Eric Plant opened with a single between third and them, but still came up short 6-4, 6- 1. Other winners include Jun Tagai defeating Bryce Haslem 6-. 3, 6-3 in the Men's "B" final; Terry Peterson and Joe Weight defeating defeat-ing Ryan and Jeff Lindstrom 6-2, 7- 6 in the Men's "B" Doubles final; rick and Jeff Rowley defeating Se-olas Se-olas and Huang for the Men's "C" Doubles title; Hiro Tagai defeat-, ing Blake Smith in the Boys "14" Singles final; .and Kristan Mitchell defeating her good friend Lindsay Anderson in the Girls' "16" Singles final. The consolation winners in each division are as follows: Shane Lawrence and Tonya Boswell (Open Mixed Doubles), Dan Hall (Men's Open Singles), Scott Soelberg and Rob Folsum (Men's Open Doubles), Jerry Reynolds Rey-nolds (Men's "A" Singles), Shane Lawrence and Jason. Hansen (Men's "A" Doubles), Brian Bradley Bra-dley (Men's "B" Singles), Derek and Matt Carter (Men's "B" Doubles), Dou-bles), Randy Crane (Men's "C" Singles), Bill and John Hecker (Men's "C" Doubles), Jake Haslem (Boys' "14" Singles), Sharon Awerika (Ladies' "B" Singles), Sin-gles), Mary Beth Crane and Kristi Lindstrom (Ladies' "B" Doubles), and Jamie Edde (Girls' "16" singles). sin-gles). The City of Orem Recreation Department hosts a tennis tour- nament each month of the sum-' sum-' mer. For information regarding these tournaments, please contact con-tact Mike Johnson at 224-7158. w r s f ft die Moon. hopes down Bruins short. Evers followed with another and Chad Morgan buried a homer to left field. The Eagles scored again when Branson bills singled, stole second and third and took home on a Bruin error at shortstop. Now Mountain View would have to get to work ifthe title they worked for all year was to be theirs. In the bottom of the sixth, they held Skyline to one man on and then followed with three up, , three down. A rally to win appeared ap-peared to be in the making as Cim Carver took first and Coach Jeff Gustin sent Connley in as a designated desig-nated hitter. Connley struck a base bit and the Bruins had two men on with only one out. Hanseen teed off for a minute on Skyline pitcher Sky Grant then was tricked into a swing, for out number two. Curtley Hill took to bat and did his job hitting one to right field that even with the sun in his eyes, the Skyline fielder caught. The Bruins ended the inning, in-ning, no runs no hits no errors, no title. ' Defeat is never an easy thing and whether it may have been the pitching, the momentum, a bad call here and there, or just a plain bad day, the Bruins had a remarkable "93" baseball season. This was indeed a tough way to end such an explosive vear. Our TaysoKi Tiro And Duller 651 North State Street Orem 225 - "Where Service Is King' w, X t RONALD THORNTON COUPON" MUFFLER SPECIAL As Low As $ ,95 (Some Cars) With Coupon Only r: ! COUPON Emissions and State Inspection Reg. $24.00 With Coupon Only MOUNTAIN Camp Mountain View KhJi School 51 .- , Boys' Basketball Coaching Staff MVHS Boys' Camp 1 June 1st-5th , 7fi0aii-9d00ani ' ! (10ai-12h&acb) IIjOO am -1230pm (43i-Gh0ab) Ij00pm-3s00pm (7SiaS3ifad9) OffAOKB I MOWN I ! - 'M mm uw Mnm n.M Fmmmnmiwrmn w uvwmnm. Po mom OHS Girls' Softball Mini-Camp Mini-Camp Saturday Orem High School is sponsoring sponsor-ing a Girls' eoftball Mini -Camp on . Saturday, may 29, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for girls 8-17 years of age. 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