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Show Inside: Sports Calendar Olympic News - River Report - Fishing News - Track & Field Lady Goiters - Horse Show - Bike Safety - ECREATION Let the Soccer team endures tough week, two losses Games Begin! The Grand County High School bos soccer team suffered two tough losses last week. In both games the Red Devils were on the losing end of a Delta Rabbits. score. In the first game, Grand took on the scored Lefebvre Alan with two Delta Devils The Red early goals. surprised minFour kick minute. 12th off comer the Klein in an Andy a header goal from Pablo Santana. off a scored a header goal utes later Klein long pass The Red Devils were unable to hold on to the lead, as Delta scored once in the first half and twice in the second half Jestin Darbonne had an excellent game in goal with 15 saves. Grand County was only the second team this year to score two goals against the Rabbits The other w as the defending 3A state champion team from Ogden Two days later the Red Devils traveled to Mount Pleasant to face North Sanpete. The Hawks had the only goal of the first half. Brandon Williams pulled Grand County even with a header goal off a Lefebvre throw in the 54h minute. North Sanpete went back on top in the 60th minute. Santana brought the Red Devils back with a goal in the 75th minute off a long pass from Klein. North Sanpete went on top for good with a goal ten minutes before the end of the game. The Red Devils are 4 - 3 in the south division of Region 8 and will face a yet- opponent from the north division on Friday, 3 30 at 27 Grand at County High School. April p.m. 3-- fourth-ranke- by Kari Gibb Times-Independe- nt sports editor person has to learn how to oe an athlete. I had one group, A them four years, until they were seniors, to win themselves a championship. Some kids dorl realize what you have to put into it. Tina Sloan Green Temple Lacrosse Coach it took Last weekend was a kicker. soaked up the headlines and flooded the airwaves with sports talk and left the country all in a buzz about who, what and where. The NBA Two events playoffs began last weekend and the 2001 NFL draft took place. y What a deal. In a span, got to see the old dogs fighting for a ray of light at the end of their careers. At the same time here were all of these young hopefuls waiting for a call from one - any of them - of the 31 NFL teams offering them a job. John Stockton played 37 minutes - just a coupie shy of his age - and had 18 assists, 12 points on 7 from the field and 7 from the line. He also had six rebounds, not to mention his two blocked shots. The Jazz were a 1 9 in points when Stockton was in the game. Utah was a 17 when he was out... there is your two-da- I 3-- free-thro- 6-- Thursday, April 26, 2001 w Aaron Shumway (19), Jake Davis (2), Brandon Williams (31) and Alan Lefebvre (7) try to take the ball away from a Delta player as goalie Jestin Darbonne looks on during action last week Delta won a hard fought battle over the Red Devils to take region while GCHS will end out the season with second place to the Rabbits. Photo by Kan Gibb 3-- 2 golfers have close GCHS softball team just two Grand bid to be region champs games away from region title by Kari Gibb The Red Devil softball team is two games away from running the region for the title and another shot at the state championship. We still have areas to im- prove in," said head coach Brandy Shumway. We have win over visiting Monticello. 12-- ot Continued on Page B2 ning of that game Alex with Esquibel throwing in the middle innings for the Devils. We were lucky to have so much mound time for our pitchers Shumway. The Moab 7th grade boys basketball traveled to Green River in hopes of a tourney title. Following Friday nights seeding play, the little Red Devils began the tournament early Saturday in what was certainly the toughest side of the draw. Carried by the low post scoring and advanced by a rebounding of Zane Taylor, the s against margin over a Monument Valley team to the tournament favorite Cortez. The game was a contest where neither team could lead. Regulation time ended in a establish more than a 8 Two Moab missed tie and a overtime began. opportunities combined with a Cortez basket put the game at ten seconds left as Nicholas Whitehorse brought the ball up and let fly shot. The basket was good. a three-poin- t Time out was then called by Cortez with four seconds left. Both teams were in the bonus. Coach McCabe of Cortez and Coach Paul Morris of Moab traded time-outCortez with a long pass that was intercepted by Stephen Lopez for the victory. The championship game against San Rafael was the third tip-oin five hours for the Red Devils. The team was getting frayed around the edges and leading scorer Reilly Morris was out after playing on a sprained ankle all tournament. Ricky Lopez, Nicholas Whitehorse and Stephen Lopez played tough defense in the As title game keeping it close with steals and breakaway the second half wore on, the shooting of San Rafael proved to be the difference as they took the title game 44-3- 9 rs semi-final- hard-foug- Alex Esquibel delivers a pitch in GCHS win over region rivals from Monticello last week. said will need that depth when it comes time to throw in the playoffs. We were glad to see everyone step up their game. Esquibel handled the duties in game one at Duchesne for the 12-win. Ashley Keogh posted the 17-- win as the pitcher in game two of the double header. I am pleased with how well we hit from the middle of the first game through the second game 0 1 Libby Bailey rounds the bases for the Red Devils in last week's 12-- 3 win over Monticello. Photos by Kari Gibb two-da- mini-cage- this week, We James Bane rounding out the top flight with a 91. Region will be held in Price next week and state will lie held the following wek in Moab as a y meet. Only the top two teams from region will be headed to state. Monticello has beaten San Juan and GCI IS edged Monticello at the Price meet. Region should be a tough meet, with the Red Devils very much in the hunt for one of the top two slots and a state bid. 7th grade basketball team is one short of tourney title in Green River action pitched the 1st, 2nd and 7th in- win. rt 3 Brittany Bohannon nt Here is a guy that is and weighs 175 pounds. He looks like an accountant until you put shorts (not the baggy kind) on him and watch him chase a ball around a basketball court. Born in 62 Stockton has been around long enough that he still looks good in small shorts with his socks pulled up most of the way. What a thrill it was to watch him I'ft the Jazz from their anemic end to the season for the win in game one of their showdown with Dallas. When John Stockton retires, the game will never be the same. While one Utah sports figure is drawing to the end of a Hall of Fame career, others from the state were hoping to jump-statheir own show. Andre Dyson became the 60th The Red Devils golf team is one week away from the region meet, but oh so close in their bid to be region champs. The kids played well, said head coach Ryan Nielson. It was good to win this meet, but better yet to do it on the same course that region will be played at. D-by lmktser Brad Ankrum and his round of 76, the team tallied a 333 for the top slot at the meet. Jordan Denetclarence posted an 82 with Don Wilson hitting an 84 and done what was needed to win the games and we have had kids step up and play well. We have work to do. We are not done yet. Grand got off to a good start last week with a sports editor -- two-poi- fteti m im lMs0 at Duchesne, said Shumway. nearly every player some time and the younger playgame ers used the opportunity to do well. It sends a message to the older girls that they have to play well. Its a good thing to be pushed by the younger kids. Keeps everyone in the mindset for improving. We got Trips to San Juan and Monticello this week will wrap up region play, and hopefully a region title for the Red Devils. ht four-poi- 38-3- two-minu- te s. ff lay-up- 46-3- 8. WALKER'S A 'O r TimfoSm KITflMT rag mm MSSETA'tBSms Ashley Keogh ilPOffs Volleyball, Softball, Cheerleading If you have a picture you would i GR 3T like to submit as Photo of the Week, drop it off at Moab Photo I ,ab by Friday each week. r? t: . r COPY i . dMs 3.89 WiSL&f 'i HlfTj K, V ' Jltf f-- v-T Sports, S. eeping and Hanging out with Friends sL&f i BInri Lack of Dedication, Slackers and Getting Caught for Pictures on a bad hair day. IfAffs Pitched second game of the Double Header at Duchesne for a 17-- 1 win, hit single, double and triple as well as being walked six times in last week's games. r 1 2 d bin WMI MiHlfMI! fH Aiiixt s. |