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Show B6 Vernal Express Wednesday, March 12, 2003 Utes start season with two wins Commyrniotiy helps UGe do a mo mid The Tie soccer team rolled up two shut out victories in their first preseason primer last weekend in Moab The Ttes handled North Sanpete ft - 0 in their opening game on I riday then handed Grand - 0 goose egg on County a Lady Tony is Cloward excited about the thriving Saturday pretty happy with our first games," said Tte Coach Jared McKcachnie. We were controlling the hall in the middle of the field Im that support has helped put a diamond in the rough at Uintah High School. You know, been Ive in involved the Lady Ute jgew acjy Ute score board was put into place with softball pro- hep of local businesses, for gram three about years now and weve not had a lot used to be whatever was in the of equipment or facilities, said shed. The upgrades have all been the Coach Cloward. That appears to all result of ingenuity and generosity. be changing now. A little parental involvement and the generosity of Banners are purchased by businesses and hang along the fences adverlocal businesses are making all the difference. tising both their business and their In the past, one of the first things support of the Lady Ute softball that became noticeable to fans after program. Fund raising has been under the direction of Stacey they took their seats in the bleachers Wiseman and Penny Johnson. was the fact that the Lady Ute outCloward credits a lot of the work field sloped down and away fro n to Ralph Warby and Joe Wiseman. the rest of the playing field. After an inning or two of play, most fans also Warby has provided his welding came to realize that there was no expertise on the new fence line scoreboard. According to Coach projects and Wiseman has spearCloward, the outfield fence line headed most of the project work around the field. The scoreboard used to sit down the hill at a distance of about 260 feet. Fast pitch was largely funded through the gensoftball regulations call for fence erosity of four major sponsors. Weston Hotels, Ashley Valley lines to range between 190 and 215 Medical Center, UBET and Pete feet. Martin Trucking Company provided We moved the fence line into the needed boost for the scoreboard. about the mid range at 205 feet, Cloward said. The long downhill People that havent seen the diamond for a couple of years are sayslope has now been cut from the You field. Fans will also enjoy the new ing WOW, Cloward said. red Lady Ute scoreboard outside the know all these improvements may not make us better players, but we fence in deep left center field. The school district is also involved and sure feel like it and think we are, Cloward added. Sometimes, that's currently replacing the old backhalf the battle. Cloward was stop. It doesnt stop there. The girls uneasy at his efforts to name those have received new uniforms in two who have donated so much because of the last three years along with he fears missing so many. They know who they are though and we new bats and balls. We now have the finest bats really appreciate all that they have made, Coach Cloward said. It done for us. See Soccer on B8 Indoor Bronc riders Shows what hg can do during intercollegiate rodeo last Week at Western Park. On Tuesday, March 4, Uintah Recreation District and Uintah County School District decided to close the V'ernal Indoor Pool until further notice because the boiler, which keeps the pool water warmed, was malfunctioning. This is the second lime the pool has reeded to close because of the broken boiler in three weeks and the recreation district does not expect to be able to reopen the pool for another two to three weeks or possibly longer. The length of closure will be determined once the boiler's manufacturing company and the state building inspector decide whether the boiler can be repaired or must be replaced. Uintah Recreation District apologizes for the inconvenience caused by the closure of the facility and hopes to have it opened as soon as permitted. Patrons may call Uintah 2 Recreation District at or 5 to find the Indoor Pool at out if the pool has been reopened. 781-098- 781-577- Sooatt OdlaGno woods mtieo'coOOegiiatie irodl The College of Southern Idaho came to town favored to win the intercollegiate rodeo last week and didn't disappoint anyone. e "Theyve been the national champ;ons and it looks like they could very well win it again, said Dave Woolslenhulme, advisor USU for the Uintah Branch Campus rodeo team. According to Woolstenhulme, the college cowboys and cowgirls worked their skills in front of the biggest crowds weve ever had last weekend at Western Park. Tlie rodeo drew over 3(X) contestants from 14 different colleges and universities from Idaho, Nevada two-tim- campus rodeo Lisa Diake, Chancey Spencer, Angie Gilbert and Jazzlyn Richard each finished in the money lor their events. Lisa Drake, a senior from St. George, teamed up with Jade Anderson from Utah Valley State College to place second in the team roping. Lisa worked the head end of the competition. Drakes team mate Chancey Spencer and his partner Beau Douglas also from Utah Valley placed third in team roping. Jazzlyn Richard won the first go round in break-awa- y roping and second in the first round of barrel racing. Gilbert won the first go in and Utah. Branch team members goat tying and finished third in the Gilbert is from Castle average. Dale. Coach to According Woolstenhulme, both Gilbert and Drake have been performing well all season. He expected that they would do well at their home event. The boys didnt have too good of a showing, Woolstenhulme said. Chancey Spencer was the only male member of the branch campus team to finish in the money. The Diamond G Rodeo Company of Toquerville provided the stock. Don Jesser announced all of the events. Both Diamond G and Jesser are sanctioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association. Second chronic wasting sampling completed Field personnel from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) Northeastern Region recently completed a second mule deer sampling effort for chronic wasting disease (CWD). Brain stem or relevant tissue samples were taken from 83 mule deer last week. The samples have been sent to the Utah State University in Logan for laboratory analysis. Results should be returned in about four to six weeks. The positive identification of CWD in a hunter harvested mule deer from the 2002 hunt triggered the second phase of surveillance BSglhioims Utah's aggressive bighorn sheep management program is drawing attention. 1 H community and thats whats important. The Ties apparently had everything going their way against North Sancte. Scoring was spread evenly with 3 coming in each half of play. in our I hey came out hungry said of McKcachnie first game," his teams effort. They went to the hall hard and stayed with it the entire game" Dillon Warburton produced the hot foot and accounted for half of the Lite scoring. Greg Dearth, Slum Reynolds and Daniel Hyde each added one. According to Coach McKeachnie, some of the sauce drained out of the lltcs after their Friday night stt.y in a motel. While he credited Grand County with a good soccer team, he also saw the Utes lose consistency. We should have gone after the hall a lot harder than we did in our second game, McKeachnie said. We played in spurts. We would play hard then hack off to see how the other team was going to play. Dearth produced the only goal of the game on an assist from Jake McKeachnie. The goal came within the fust eight minutes of play. Coach McKcachnie said he was closes Ute softball Coach 1 pool wittlh V Utah is gaining a reputation for having good bighorn sheep rams, said Jim Karpowitz, big game coordinator for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR). That reputation and the aggressive Utah management program for wild sheep is providing large funding sources from wealthy contributors. The result saves Utah sportsmen dollars for use on other species. According to the DWR, 2003 is shaping up as a good fund raising year for wild sheep. More than $250,000 was raised through the sale of seven Utah bighorn sheep conservation hunting permits at two conventions. The meetings were recently hosted by the Foundation for North American Wild Sheep (FNAWS). One of the meetings was held in January in Reno where $160,000 was garnered from the sale of only 3 permits. Included in that amount was $80,000 given for the statewide Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep permit This is the highest amount ever paid for a bighorn sheep permit in Utah. Four permits were sold at the Utah Chapter of FNAWS 1 sampling. An estimate was made of the number of the deer located within a radius of the area where the infected deer was taken. From this number, a desired sample size was determined and field crews worked March 3 and 4 to remove the animals and collect tissue for the lab work. We'll manage around it now that weve found it in our area, said Walt Donaldson, DWR northeastern Well be regional supervisor. working with people to let them See CWD on page B8 draw atitiemitiiioini held March 1 in Sandy. These permits brought an additional $95,000. FNAWS will be allowed to keep 10 percent of the conservation permit money raised at their recent conventions. The remaining 90 percent will go to the DWR to Bind the state's bighorn sheep program. According to a DWR news release about the funding windfalls, the money is used to pay for the entire state bighorn program. Only personnel costs are absorbed by DWR budgets. The permit money is used to transplant sheep, conduct surveys and research and improve habitat. Aside from the conservation permits that are sold to high bidders, there will be 50 hunting permits available in 2003 for the public through the annual drawing A process. bighorn sheep permit for a resident of Utah sells for $508 while nonresidents lucky enough to draw will pay $1,008. Utah is home to over 4,000 This includes sheep. bighorn 1 ,000 Rocky approximately Mountain bighorns and 3,000 of the desert variety. There are also about 200 California bighorns in Utah. The Flaming Gorge area and Green River corridor to Green River is the stronghold for Rocky Mountain California bighorns. bighorn live on the Newfoundland Mountains and Antelope Island State Park in the Great Salt Lake while most of the desert bighorns are found in the arid canyon country of Southern Utah. Over the past 20 years, more than 1,000 bighorn sheep have been transplanted to areas of historic habitat within Utah. Wild sheep for the release projects have come from both outside the state and from healthy populations within Utah. Biologists estimate that the sheep populations have tripled in that time period while in many other stales populations have been on the decline. Visitors can often view bighorns along the shore line of Flaming Gorge reservoir from Sheep Creek bay to Mustang Ridge campground. Sheep are also commonly seen at the Sheep Creek overlook and along Sheep Creek Canyon in Daggett County. |