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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, March 9, 2005 - Page tals, then ferrying the kids, tournaalong with parents, to Rivalry gets an early start spend more time yvith these kids than I do my wife, laments one head coach. But they still coach. And then we want them to coach every the volleyball ranks these days. The JALLMBBS, a team of sixth grade students from Monticello, the clear kid down to the fourth grade9 I don't think Crunch-ums- , a team of simi- lar 6th grade Wednesday March 9 MHS baseball a Kayenta AZ 5pTi students from it out So what to do9 we are for volleyball Wrestling B Thursday March 10 S SJHS baseball Q N Sevier 4pm B SJHS softball hosts N Sevier 4 pm Friday March 1 Kanab B MHS and SJHS baseball Tournament B MHS and SJHS softball y Kanab Tournament B MHS Track (a Kayenta AZ p m 1 - 1 Saturday March 12 B Canyonlands Half Mara'hon Moab Kanab B MHS and SJHS hascba'l Tournament B MHS and SJHS softball u Kanab Tournament B SJHS Track at Kayenta AZ ' Monday March 14 B MHS baseball frosts Dove Creek p m March 15 baseball m Grand Co Tuesday B MHS Thursday MHS softball 'a Parovvan St Pius Tourney (r-- a n d battled i n g so , and ollew ball seem to have it figured out And the results speak for themseh es. Monticello and Blanding both have excellent junior wrestling proof grams. under the direction supremacy again Saturday m Blanding, with the Crunch-um- s winning this time. have won The Crunch-um- s two of three tournaments, finishing second once, while the JALLMBBS have one tourna- Ked Friday March 18 B MHS baseball ' Parovvan B MHS track C Basin Relays Cortez B SJHS baseball (' St Pius Tourney B SJHS softball St George Tourney Saturday March 19 St Pius Tourney B SJHS baseball B SJHS sotbali St Gemge Tourney B SJHS truck Kanab Wendy Meyer in Blanding and Kara Boyd in Monticello head a crowd of coaches and parents in each community support and teach these kids. Monticello and Blanding are involved in a foui tournament circuit, yvhich proyides matches at each up to tournament. As a result, those kids are polished veterans. These parents and coaches are amazing Why do they do it9 The love of the sport and the kids, I think. So. yy here are the folks to do the same in basketball? Apparently. one practice a yveek and one game a yveek in Junior yvho 10-1- Jazz isnt n There, I feel better again. Lives have been saved. help- same in basket- Card of thanks ball? ah. in Thank you for the heartfelt Junior high donations that you gave to the Dollar for the Tsunami Drive. The drive yvas initiated by Colten and Mattheyv Benson Service Project. Kyle as a Musselman and Josh Curtis also helped yvith the drive, and together the boys collected $220 yvhich yv i be sent to the Red Cross to help in their relief efforts. Thank you gor supporting this worthy cause. Wranglers volleyball play- ers have s e a sons, like the tyvo j ust 40 wrestlers Things are becoming apparyvres-Whe- n I m of A the proweeks ent. ago. couple yvould yve fit in all about basket-bul- l gram, ranging from raisoel the to junior high age The hens Ins time for basketball? hoping to spur a little inMaybe, in our small schools, terest m improving our comparticipate in seven tournaevmunity efforts, w In It trying to ments lone of which is in with the same kids doing Monticello) m the Four Coravoid pointing fingers at anyerything in sports, as well as one, especially hard working, ners Wrestling Federation, participating in band, drama, w hich includes wrestlers from and other academic pursuits, long suffering head coaches. yve can be satisfied yvith excelAlter all, it is a community four states. comin 10 each Six to lence in some things, good re adults effort. In todays world, a high school coach cant do it all by munity spend up to two hours him or herself. The demands a day, three days a yveek, for of coaching, oven one sport in two months m practice, let alone the time "pent at tourone season, are phenomenal The hours are long, the tups naments on Saturdays Plus, are endless (have any of you the junior high hows actually ridden on a school Inis m your have two seasons, the first older age.' It ain't a whole lot coming w ith school m the fall of fun It's about as comfortVolleyball's story is similar. able as shaving with a stick i, Dozens of coaches from the and the thanks are scarce. community spend hours each 4-- ol v- 1 day. time to do the Blanding. Each tow n boasts about 2 Monticello and the volleyball gals in Dove Creek on Satur- yvhere is the JJ Squires, . catch the young Monticello and Blanding yvrestlers in a dual match Thursday night in ing much. But, maybe the question should be, and Shane Musselman, et All four basketball teams ended up with better records than the year before. Its enough, isnt it? You can 5 and KL Wilcox in Mon tic olio ment championship and two seconds There is one more tournament in Dove Creek left to establish a little something for next year and the years to conn. Cno Mas. of Blanding won their division m the tournament, as die! the Oreos, of Venting Fart Mussoi-ma- pre-scho- March 17 B B SJHS baseball 1 Monticello 4 ments on Saturday. I A rivalry is building early in and sults in others. And we are. Football state championships abound at both San Juan and Monticello. Volleyball, too. Look at all those state championship cross country banners. More band members get scholarships to college than anything else. State Drama titles are an expected occurrence at San Juan High School. Baseball thrives. yveek teaching the fundamen- 10 1 1 4-- BONUS BUCKS! ITT And INVENTORY CLEARANCE MACDONALD D.D.S. SERVING ALL YOUR ELECTRICAL NEEDS 401 South Main SOLAR ELECTRIC Blanding, UT 84511 H - 1 PAUL R. 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