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Show 388th by EMS Danil Lopez Special to re Sports wins Western Regional tournament rect4e T,e$ 11k-- 3vth Phi ER0 Ai K. Colo. Ltjuip-riK-u- "Let's stele down and make this game "Even though we lost two games, I feel that this team is starting to gel." said team veteran Dave din'i.rd in offering some words of encouragement to the younger guys. Team Hill started tournament play against the 5th seed. Edward AFB. and look out their frustrations to win 18-- Hill's next task was to beat the 4th seeded team from Malm-stroAFB, 21-- and cruise into the The semi-fingames gave the fans more than asked for. ever could have they scare by overAFB squeezed out a 5 coming Hill's 649th Munitions Squadron, t Maintenance Squadron AM MO team not hosted the Iflth annua! Wetern Regional only AMMO Championship suftball tournament in July, but they won it , well for the 4th consec- Juiliano added, "Coach's words calmed us down and we started hitting on all cylinders " Chris Halliday, Bekins and Ben Haley came through with timely home runs bringing the game within a run. Juiliano and Jimmy Lanicek teamed up with clutch hits to tie up the contest A great play in the outSeld ended the rally and sent the game into extra innings. Tough defense stopped Cannon's chances of scoring. With a runner in scoring position and Cannon's cleanup hitter on deck, Keith Broome leaped into the air to snag a hard line drive ending the top of the eighth. In the bottom of die eighth with one out, Ed Lamboy was able to reach first base on a play. The next batter, D J. Lopez, hit a double in the gap allowing Lamboy to score g on the hit Although the final game in the winner's bracket wasn't as dramatic, it came down to another clutch hit by Lopez. Most of the game went back and forth, but yet again Hill found themselves down in the bottom of the seventh. With one run to make up, Lanicek and Broome came through to tie it up. Lamboy singled to advance Broome to third base. With one out and the m a-- utive year semi-final- Fourteen teams from Arizona. California. s. al Idaho, Montana. Nevada, New Mexico. South Dakota. Texas and Utah traveled to Colorado . hoping to bring home the prestigious tit!-As the defending champions, the pressure was mounting for Team Hill. There were 13 teams on a mission to end Hill's string of championships. Tournament director, Ed and assistant director. William Gilbe rt, gave every team their money's worth by formatting the tournament with round-robiplay followed by the double elimination. Hill got of f to a rocky start losing two of three round-robigames. That lackluster play handed Team Hill a 12th seed, so if they had any chance of defending their title, they had to come together and play through the initial setback of losing. Davis-Montha- late-innin- n g 16-1- On the other side of the brac ket, the 3S8th was up against the tournament's top seeded team from Cannon AFB. Cannon was definitely runs in four the team to beat, racking up Hill found of In the the bottom seventh. games. themselves trailing by 10 runs and it looked as if Cannon was going to continue their shelling of the competition. They had us down but we were not going to simply give up," said James Juiliano. When Hill came back into the dugout, team coach Brian Bekins stepped forward to motivate the team, bang-ban- g 80-plu- s n n game-winnin- Triathlon results listed mini-triathlo- le Other results are: Breen Iiwman David Edwards Linda Ambard 1:05:11 1:05:38 1:08:11 David Kincaid Rico Davis 1:09:07 1:09:12 Teena Wilson Bryan Lynch Mark Davis Bryce Clark MikeMcGrath RandyCulbreth 1:09:4 1:10:28 1:10:49 1:11:02 1:11:30 1:11:44 Darren Campbell JoshKossman Tim Senior Phillip Williams Strickler Drake Daggett Merlin Tomshack Keith Dankertsen LisaRajigah John Slack Tori Tomshack Bill 1:12:14 1:12:57 1:14:34 1:15:56 1:18:09 1:18:23 1:24:36 1:25:03 1:25:48 1:26:20 1:31:38 AFMC volleyball team forming on the Air Force Materiel interested in 6-- 7-- or Master Sgt. Mac McCurdy at for tryout details. Bryant at Ext. Basketball rosters available Team rosters are available at the Hess Fitness Center front desk for the 30 and over basketball league. Rosters WRIGHT-PATTERSO- B k air-tc-a- ir F-2- low-spee- Hess offers Ju Jitsu Ju Jitsu classes are offered Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 p.m., and Fridays from 8 p.m. in the Hess Fitness Center bubble. The Yudansha Ju Jitsu and Ar nis class includes joint manipulation throws, takedowns, submission holds and striking techniques, taught by certified instructor Dean Abner. Men and women ages 16 and older are welcome. Classes start Monday and the cost is $35 a month or $5 per class. For information, call Ext. playing Command's women's volleyball team can call 2nd Lt. Elaine Force Mews pilot--rrecalls flights p- - rri N One of the reasons William R. "Bill" Crooks visited here B recently was his induct- ion as a founder in the Frank P. Lahm Flight 9 Order of Daedalians. Crooks was honored because, at 108 years old, he is the oldest " .'; - - s living military pilot. Another reason for coming here was to pay a return visit. Crooks had been here before, back in 1917. After 1918. "I've never been more joining the Army Signal proud of anything than to wear those wings," he said. Corps as a mechanic, he and 100 others were sent to the Fairfield Air Depot Oater Patterson Field) here After primary training, Photo by Spencer and enticed to become pilots. But Crooks' story began a few years before. Born in 1893, Crooks grew up in together and started bouncing across the field. 1 saw n wires on the the other side of the base getting closer and closer, and I kept bouncing, but I thought I could take off, so I did. "The instructor took over after we were airborne, but he had me land the airplane," he said. "After a week, you'dget into a groove. You'd come down and hit the center of the field." Crooks earned his pilot's silver wings in October high-tensio- AFB, Ohio (AFPN) best-valu- "fly-of- F 773-881- 4. All women Ext. n Football tryouts Nov. 10 Aeronautical Systems Center Public Affairs WASHINGTON Competition for the Air Force's newest multirole aircraft ended Oct. 26 when Air Force Secretary Dr. James G. Roche announced the winner of the Defense Department's Joint Strike Fighter contract in a Pentagon press conference. "Both proposals were very good, but on the basis of strengths, weaknesses and degrees of risk of the program, it is our conclusion that the Lockheed Martin team is the e winner of the Joint Strike Fighter program on the basis," said Roche. This selection will allow Lockheed Martin's to enter the next acquisition phase - system development and demonstration, said Edward C. "Pete" Aldridge Jr., undersecretary of defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, in comments leading up to Roche's announcement. "Today's Joint Strike Fighter announcement is a momentous step forward in our efforts to recapitalize and modernize the Air Force's aircraft fleet," said Gen. John P. Jumper, Air Force chief of staff, in a written statement. "(It) is an essential element of our continuing transformation. "The JSF brings persistent stealth over the battlefield for the first time, and will enhance the lethality and survivability of American and allied combat air, sea and ground aircraft forces," Jumper said. "This dynamic multi-rol- e brings a robust capability that will enable us to bring critical effects to bear on tomorrow's battlefield." According to Aldridge, there will be three variants of the JSF: a conventional takeoff and landing variant for the Air Force; a carrier-deccompatible variant for the Navy; and a short takeoff and vertical landing variant for the Marine Corps and United Kingdom. "The JSF will be the world's premiere strike platform beginning in 2008 and lasting through 2040," Aldridge said. "It will provide an capability second only to the 2 air superiority fighter. The JSF will allow for migration by U.S. forces to an almost all stealth fighter force by 2025." The source selection process was very strict, he said. It began when Boeing and Lockheed Martin were each awarded contracts to compete in the concept demonstration phase of the JSF program in 1996. They began flying their conand the cept demonstrators, the respectively, in 2000. This was designed to provide insights on basic aircraft performance, including commonality, modularity, short takeoff and vertical landing, hover and transition d capabilities, and aircraft handling qualities. The JSF is unique in that it is a joint program featuring a "family of aircraft" concept It is designed to reduce development and production costs and the total cost of ownership by producing similar variants of the same aircraft for the each customer. The Air Force will be the largest JSF customer, purchasing 1,763 of the conventional takeoff and landing version of the aircraft. B Gif-for- The Dragons football team in the Utah Football League will be holding open tryouts on Nov. 10 at 10 a.m. at Power Line Park, 1700 Wr. 1800 North in Clinton. This is a full contact league for ages 18 and older. For more details, call Mark Grogan at 544-866- 2. by Mike Wallace Air Force Print Nevfy 's 33-1- single-eliminatio- p.m. at the County Ice Center, 5201 S. Murray Park Lane in Murray. Other scheduled games are Nov. 11, Acord Ice Center, 5353 W. 100 South, West Valley, 5:30 p.m.; Nov. 18, Salt Lake City Sports Complex. 645 S. Guardsman Way, Salt Lake City, 9:30 p.m.; Dec. 2, County Ice Center, Murray, 9:45 p.m.; Dec, 9, Acord Ice Center, 7 p.m.; Dec. 16, Acord Ice Center, 8:30 p.m. The team plays in the Salt Lake City Senior Hockey League. For more details, contact Staff Sgt. Russ Hanson, team manager, at russ.hansonhill.af.mil or call 108-year-o- ld by Staff Sgt. A. J, Bosker Hal-liday- back-to-bac- k need to be completed and returned with payment by Nov. 16. The cost is $200 per team for 10 guaranteed games. The tournament. top eight teams will play in a For more Tournament champions will receive Hess Fitness Ext. the Davis or call at Mark details, Center at Ext. Falcons play Sunday The Hill Falcons Hockey team will play Sunday at 5:30 Hill Mv Lockheed Martin wins JSF contract Davis-Month- an SPORTS BRIEFS with a Rob Wieland finished first in the Oct. 20 time of 51:32, followed by Grady Tibboel with 1:00:41 and Bill Ricks at 1:03:23. Events included four to eight laps across the Hess Fitness Cenbike ride along the perimeter road, and a two-miter pool, a run through Centennial Park. Three teams comjetcd with 75th Mission Supiort Squadron of Beau Beveridge, Rocky Snow, Michael Nordberg finishing at 47:50, followed by 75th OjxTations Support Squadron with Troy Reisher. David Imig. Michael Rosalesat 1:02:42. and 368th Recruiting Squadron with Bud Huges, John Springer at 1:08:50. 10-mil-e winning run on third, all that was left for Lopez to do was hit one deep enough to score Broome mission accomplished. Team Hill was now able to take a breather and wait for the loser's bracket to unfold. Cannon came through the trenches by beating and prepared to do battle with Hill once again. Cannon put up four runs to start the championship, but Hill didn't falter. Hill came back with four runs of their own on homers. Hal-li- d and Bekins' in the contest home runs more two ay hit as Hill started to slowly pull away. By the sixth inning Hill accumulated a 0 lead. A tired and deflated Cannon team didn't put up a fight in the seventh and Hill went on to become the 2001 western regional champions. Chris "Doc" Halliday, received the tournament MVP honors while Bekins, Broome, Gilbert, Haley, Lamboy and Lopez were team. Other chamnamed to the included members James "J.J" team pionship Juiliano, Don Rucker, Jimmy Lanicek and assistant coach Rich Lesberg. Bat boy duties were handled by Derek Bekins and official score keeper was Diane Dutton. P. Lane William R. "Bill" Crooks answers questions asked by the media during his n visit to the Air Force Museum at AFB, Ohio. Crooks was at the museum for his Induction as a founder in the Frank P. Lahm Flight 9 Order of Daedalians. At 108 years old, he is the oldest living military pilot. Wright-Patterso- Missouri. "I was raised on a farm about 75 miles from Kansas City," Crooks said. "Life on the farm was hard. We had 'two horsepower,' meaning we had two horses. We also had manpower. We sawed wood, carried water, fed the animals and so forth. "Every evening after supper, we gathered in the living room and my father would read the paper," he said. "One day my and read an article father had the St. Louis about Wilbur and Orville Wright that they'd built a contraption that flew. That's when I decided what I wanted to do, and 15 years later my dream was fulfilled." In the years preceding United States' entry into World War I, there were rumors of war, he said. "Wilson got elected because he said he'd keep us out of the war," Crooks said. "But the Germans sank every ship going a to Europe so no supplies could go there. They sank the that had 1,000 Americans on board. In three days we declared war. "I was to be drafted in three weeks, but I didn't want to wait," he said. "So I looked around and thought, 'where could I serve bestP'The Army Signal Corps needed mechanics, and they were the basis for building the Army Air Corps, so I joined." Crooks soon found out that the military needed pilots. "I made out an application in 1918, and went to ground school in Austin, Texas," he said. "Each class was 10 weeks, then you'd go to the next. The commandant of the school said, These are war times, this is a war school, and we're training war pilots. You need to take instruction rapidly.' Twenty percent got sent away." "I thought I could fly one of these things," Crooks said, describing his first time in an airplane. The instructor did all kinds of stunts, (landed) and then took me to the starting place. He told me to take off. I was sick, but I put my teeth Globe-Democr- at Lusi-tani- Crooks had to decide what type of aircraft he wanted to fly. "I selected bombers," he said. "I wanted big airplanes, the Capronis and The war ended with the signing of the armistice on Nov. 11, 1918. Crooks never got overseas. After learning of the war's end he said he "took two days off to celebrate." Discharged in January 1919, Crooks said he had to decide what he wanted to do. He wanted to fly, but he also wanted to design. He chose designing and four years later earned a ' degree in mechanical engineering. "I was surprised how much I needed to know," he said. , He went to work for Fairbanks-Mors- e in Wisconsin, designing diesel engines. In 1936, he joined Cooper Bessmer in Grove City, Pa., as chief inspector and later as chief engineer after the company moved to Mount Vernon, Ohio. He obtained 30 patents for the company and remained there until compulsory retirement in 1961. He continued as a consulting engineer there for three years. In 1964, he moved to Washington and served as an engineer for the National Science Foundation, where he helped develop missile systems. guidance systems for "We developed missiles with a range of about 30 miles," anti-ballist- ic Crooks said. "Several were to be fired like a shotgun to destroy incoming missiles. They couldn't help but hit something." After three years, he returned to his home in Ohio. Although Crooks said he is not always able to keep up with the news today, he said that he was "proud that the civilized world is going after the terrorists. It reminds me of history (in which) pirates would capture vessels, and the United States would have to put the pirates out of business. That's what we'll have to do today." Asked about how he achieved such a long life, Crooks said, "When something gets broken, get it repaired. Don't wait." t L |