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Show Page B3 Times Newspaper Thursday, May 1, 2003 irem runner completes pres- Prep Baseball ewton's no-no gious Boston Marathon 'ft 1ARTIN HARRIS a ; Times Sports Editor !very now and then as a irter, I discover a story DM! i i 1 .1 e important than the . L T tVinncrVlt. T was ETOinff to I X U'B a nj'Such is the case with jiSon Marathon partici-Marie partici-Marie Hodson. a collapsed at the finish line and woke up on a gurney with an IV in her arm. Beyond mere exhaustion, Hodson found out she had some sort of medical condition condi-tion that she can best describe as exercise induced asthma. After the Logan race, she fy for the Olympics. However, maybe Hodson's real story happens when she is not running. She graduated from BYU in recreation management and youth leadership and received her license in special spe-cial education. In her second year at I fJ If I 1 1 I fit ' ' f " f A 1 Jilt I; Pholo by Martin Harris 1 High's Marie Hodson stands in front of one of the many banners hanging up around the " 1 Unnrvpinrf trw AAmnlAtinrf tha Dscsn IU1 -srothnn Dunnirtcf ic nnlu nno nart rf thtc p - llwl lift II Ig li iui vuiiipivm iiig uudivi i iiiniuu iv 1 1 iuniiiii vmj wn pui h wi rey her's life. hual' le Orem High teacher dieted the prestigious ' two weekends ago with fie of three hours and 25 jjj.ites. She described the nielfeig a couple of days later awul ::ery sore" and "happy to .vrieLive." adson, who also coaches I; country at Orem High, in the time training a truly successful run-has run-has to. She ran cross try and track at Orem . and then went on to ral ete at the collegiate i at Utah Valley State befe ige anri Brigham Young i fw -ersity. ante'-i high school, running lone probably more of a ase f 1 thing. It was a time to onatK ith my friends," Hodson 3 S-; "In college, I really r by i'-ed setting goals and ibsfffi- to achieve them." Theater her college career abot'd, marathons seemed jr" ;he next step. Last fall, ien completed the Logan .e5tisithon with a time of j 60 ft.'! hours and five min-. min-. get b The time was well ( tbe n qualifying standards been fc'-e could compete in the sajj :in Marathon. However, k its toll on her as she ,'s a tbere ted' also discovered a stress fracture in her foot which delayed training for Boston. Her condition reappeared in the Boston Marathon at the halfway mark and she stopped at Mile 15 to get medical treatment. The medics gave her oxygen and wanted to bus her to the finish fin-ish line. "I told them T came here to finish the marathon and I'm leaving,'" Hodson said. The medics tried to tell her "no" but Hodson was determined to finish. However, the stop to get medical treatment prevented prevent-ed her from reaching her goal of finishing in under three hours. "There is nothing like the last two miles of a marathon. Being there and finishing is an amazing experience," Hodson said. "I was so exhausted but I was glad I did it." She said she was extremely sore following the race. Hodson plans to get more information on her medical condition and then start training for Logan again in the fall. Her goal is to quali- Orem High, Hodson works with special education youth everyday. She tries to help them reach there goals just as hard as she tries to reach her own. In work with special education, edu-cation, Hodson helps out with the Special Olympics. "The Special Olympics is so awesome," she said. "It's unlike other sports were your entirely focused on winning. Everyone cheers for everyone else to succeed. A team cheers for their opponents (and vice versa)." Hodson's day does not end with teaching, coaching and advising at Orem High. (She is an advisor with the Student Council.) After hours of work, she goes to the home of two girls whose disabilities keep them from attending school and she tutors them. In a world were victories are measured by champi onships, wins and an order crossing a finish line Hodson's true victories can not be measured through some quantitative result but instead, come from the time she Duts in when no one is around to notice. MARTIN HARRIS Times Sports Editor Mountain View's Willie Newton battled through pouring rain to throw a 2-1 no-hit victory. On a day when the rest of the county was rained out, the Vikings and Bruins carried car-ried on and Newton held Pleasant Grove to a 0-for-22 performance at the plate. "I knew we'd have a chance every game out because of our pitchers Willie Newton and Joey Bye," Bruin coach Chris Cooper said. Newton gave them the chance. Through seven innings, he gave up five walks and one earned run but he struck out nine. In the bottom of the seventh sev-enth with two outs, the game should have come to an end with a fly ball to right but the ball came out of the fielder's glove when he hit the ground. The umpires did not rule the ball caught and so the right fielder was charged with an error. Newton walked the next two batters to load the bases. His control had evaded evad-ed him because he was slipping slip-ping all over the mound. The game was delayed twice during the inning to put a drying agent on the mound and Newton had to stop after almost every pitch to clean mud out of his cleats. Newton pitched out of the mess when he struck out Travis Louder on a three- i m,, - V " ' .' ' Photo by Martin Harris The Bruins' Willie Newton threw a no-hitter against Pleasant Grove. He struck out nine and scattered five walks in the victory. two pitch to end the game. Offensively, Jason Carlson got the Bruins on the board with an RBI-single in the second inning to score Bryan Dickinson. In the fifth, Bye doubled in Chris Benson for what would be the game-winning run. The win puts the Bruins (5-3) in sole possession of first place in the region. Mountain View's run has been a surprise to everyone except the Bruins. "We want to get in the tourney and make some noise," Cooper said. Itn. View's Asay named top fifoccer player in Utah Photo by Martin Harris Jason Carlson got the Bruins on the scoreboard first with an RBI-single in the second inning that brought home Bryan Dickinson. 1 ARTIN HARRIS 00 ii j uutllS' 32 imes Sports Editor )untain View's tney Asay did not see Of) lains- v ..in i j i a n t t-t iwo ume 4A MVf know she had been id Gatorade's 2002-03 J High School Girls CsVf Player of the Year. 'ljiother coach congratu- lV J me and 1 nad no idea "xj she was talking A" Asay said. "I'd been was a candidate but I ,t think I had a A l't have a chance?!? Ptay took control of the .rjfjand scored 29 goals XLjVassisted on 14 others season. She tore vTj" -rr"" ---- .rums to three consec- state titles. Her team lot lost in more than ears. D1S award. Its not state," Asay said. "It's probably prob-ably the best individual award I've won in soccer." Asay will be moving on to Brigham Young University this fall and despite being a little nervous, nerv-ous, she is excited to be playing at the next level. Before she becomes a Cougar, Asay will be representing repre-senting Utah and the United States on a youth soccer team that will travel to Russia to play their national team. "Soccer has never been easy but it has taught me hard work. I always want to be better," Asay said of her success. "I want to play well and make people proud." Asay has left her mark among the prep ranks and made many people proud. With a strong work ethic in place, she will undoubtedly do much of the same at the collegiate level. - . . ' , if- -; . : ' , V ' T. ' J w'- - ; w'---' ' ' ? . iS '. . - - -; " ' V: A ... V. , v. : - ft? w .... i. ; ,- - H T ' Mtn. View (2) at Pleasant Grove (1) baseball PG ABR H BI Mtn. View AB R H BI JGray 3 0 0 0 C Benson 3 10 0 R Davis 2 0 0 0 ITakahashi 3 0 0 0 TMehlhoff 3000 JBye 3021 J Milton 2 0 0 0 Bri Dickinson 3 110 CHooley 3 10 0 J Nelson 3 0 10 J Smith 2 0 0 0 J Little , 3 0 10 K Christiansen 2 0 0 1 S Loveland 3 0 10 R Weber 2 0 0 0 J Carlson 3 0 11 T Louder 3 0 0 0 J Stoelk 3 0 0 0 TOTALS 22 1 0 1 TOTALS 27 2 7 2 MVHS 010 010 0- 2 4 2 PG 010 000 0- 1 0 1 2B-Bye 2 (MV), Nelson (MV). IP H Mtn View Newton (W) 7 0 Mtn. View Mehlhoff(L) 7 7 R ER BB SO 115 9 2 2 14 Courtesy Photo (left) Mountain View's Courtney Asay, seen here playing against Timpview, was named the top female high school soccer player from the state of Utah by Gatorade. ui il iui uie wiioie |
