| Show Standard-Examrie- : Sports r STATE FndayMay211999 3D 4--A CKAMPiCXS: ' Members of lha Box Elder High softball team enjoy being sprayed by the sprinkler wetting down the field between games at the state 4-- softball diampionship on Thursday at Cottonwood Complex Box Elder defeated Region 4 rivals Weber and Fremont to win the crown j ALAN MURRAY I Sjandardxamner Softball “It was From ID cess story this year has two more years left at Box Elder High “We don’t follow in each other’s footsteps but I do have a drive to do as well as my older sisters did” Marcie Neff said “I have mixed emotions right now because this is the final game for the four seniors We made a goal at the start of the season to win state The rest of the team was with us and they never doubted us We trusted each other all year “The four of us - myself Lindsay Jeppesen Jesse Haycock and Hayley Petersen - are best friends They are the three best people that I’ve ever met we have played softball together since we were 10 years old” Marcie Neff has signed with I Ricks College with Haycock and i Petersen signing with Salt Lake Community College ! Box Elder was outhit in two of d Thursday’s three games yet the opposition 16-- 0 “It was a neat situation for the kids to come through like they did today” Box Elder coach Jim Fuller said “We felt like we had given away Wednesday’s game but on the bus ride home and coming back here today there was no talk about Wednesday’s game The four seniors put their arms around the juniors after the game and told them tomorrow was a new day and a new game It was in our hands nobody was going to stand in our way i ! j ak ut ut 9-- PREP BASEBALL Titles on line at Lindquist Standard-Examine- staff r - OGDEN new state champions 5-- A There will be a and 4-- A baseball Mountain View defeated fending ville 2-- 1 de- champion Taylorsearly Thursday at Lind 5-- A quist Field then Bingham ousted the defending champion Taylorsville 6--2 The Bruins and Miners met at 1 1 am today action Payson topped In Murray 12-- 1 Payson and Mountain Crest met kt 1:30 pm today 4-- A JUNIOR HIGH BASEBALL Rocky Mountain claims Weber School District crown Standardxamner staff - One of the WEST HAVEN tightest races in memory in Weber School District junior high baseball ended with a championship game that was just as close The Rocky Mountain Grizzlies edged TH Bell 4--1 on Tuesday at Rocky Mountain Junior High School to claim the league title The Rocky Mountain boys teams lost just two games all season going undefeated in football losing in the basketball finals and one game in baseball “Both teams played very well” Rocky Mountain coach Ron Moore said “This is a re on Rackham’s groundout following a dropped third strike on Dusti Winward run-scori- and consecutive passed bails and Rackham was scored two runs with Haycock and Ashley Neff each going - Box Elder senior pitcher kSarcTa Neff ’s markable group of kids" In the championship game Rocky Mountain pitcher Will Cline allowed just two hits and struck out six TH Bell batters On offense Mike Ridenour had three hits including a pair of doubles and two RBIs to lead the Grizzlies Cole Allen added a double and two RBIs while Devin Schiffman also doubled for Rocky Mountain Jake Beus and Eric Allred paced the Rocky Mountain defense Rocky Mountain TH Bell and South Ogden all finished the regular season with 1 records beneccesitating a tween the three schools RBI groundout slamming the door shut “The torch has already been passed to the four junior starters” Fuller said “We have a great program with kids who really play hard I have great assistant coaches and really supportive parents We like coming to the Cottonwood Complex we feel like we belong here” Fremont (19-- 9 overall) which games to dropped two one-ru- n the Bees during league play finrunner-u- p for a secished as ond straight year The Silver Wolves had six different players get hits in Game 2 but five errors nine walks and a hit batter dropped Fremont into deep hole it wasn’t able to climb out of Marcie Neff finished with four strikeouts and no walks capping her 20 scoreless inning performance for Lisa DeVries went Fremont Box Elder 2 Weber 0 fourth inning was A two-ru- n enough to extend the Bees’ season with Haycock having a runscoring groundout and Jeppesen scoring on a passed ball following a walk with a Petersen went walk Marcie Neff allowed six hits with five strikeouts and no walks Heidi Hansen drilled a double for Weber (16--9 overall) which made a dramatic turnaround afrecord last year ter having a The Warriors lose four seniors off of this year’s team with four 4-- A sophomore starters and both pitchers - Brenda Boucher and Ashley Smith State Box Elder 4 Fremont 0 two The Bees scored g runs on a Fremont throwing error and Marcie Neff handcuffed the Silver Wolves r with a Marcie Neff fanned five and walked one pitching to just three 5--A - returning tournament Alta 5 Mountain View 2 After surviving a first-innin- three-hou- r struggle vs Jordan on Wednesday the Hawks soared past the Region 3 rival Bruins title in winning their second the last five years and third state softball title of the decade Mountain View moved into the championship game against Alta with a 0 losers-ovictory over league foe Jordan two-hitte- batters over the minimum Haycock hammered a two-oRBI triple in the third inning with sophomore right-handAmy Russell replacing senior ut 3-- er Soccer It wasn’t until the second half that Provo was able to get on the board but it took an From ID to be said for their motivation” Motivated they were although you couldn’t tell from the first 10 minutes of the game Play from both sides was sloppy because of the terrible condition of the field own goal by Bonneville to do it The own goal cut the deficit to 1 and put the Lakers back on their heels Needing to score the Lakers’ Michael Hickman was pushed in the box and was given the penalty kick He calmly put it past the keeper’s outstretched arm for a 1 lead and gave the Lakers a cushion with nine minutes left From there it was all Skeen as he made three great saves in the final minutes Bountiful defeated Sky View 0 in the other A semifinal semifinals Jordan In the defeated Alta 3 and Brighton edged Granger 2 The Beetdiggers and Bengals Bonneville finally broke through in the 12th minute as forward Brock Blake headed a comer from Tyler Whitby past the goalkeeper for a 0 lead “It took us a while to get on track” said Lakers goalie Tyson Skecn“but after the goal from Brock it kind of settled us down and we were able to play like we are capable of” Just six minutes later Jeff Byrne took a beautiful through ball from Mike Weathers and beat Provo’s keeper near post for a 0 lead 2-- 2-- 3-- 4-- 2-- 5-- A 4-- 3-- square off at 4 BHOMm&FmEX1RES&£AN£3SEIttC& pm today at Mountain View High School for title the 5-- A 1 500 1398 To Subscribe: Standard-Examine- r CLASSIFIEDS G25-44- 00 322 1043 WEST VALLEY EAST 2830 W 3500 WEST VALLEY WEST SEE WHAT'S NEW FOR ff no 1999 imn niiAiicmedit On Cn Approved S 3725 W 900 5400 5 MA 1022 TOOELE 409N Man CPTTOSWOOO 4546 S i On 01 I V"Ut 1104 1 HJUM-tftlC- 900 000 3675 Aiwdile SO IAS3S0S MED 703 N 1595 LEM (UAABEIO 548 MT5041 N 4767066 7746300 51401 1900 W Man 5444476 964 9935 UTTO235N Man CEWTBMLLE 220 W tenth Lint 3950531 5661177 TSESKSTTOa 163 W Man 257 3395 5235300 RKHAII (TTY 390 S Mm 734 9429 40 7225561 5004 Et Hny 7566000 tOOSEVai 3241177 M0AI 1G265 Man 7192446 X 200 W 3761177 VT HEASAIT 266 N Suit 462 3100 Man 570 Id 7969827 E 7661806 EICON 4659934 144X150 311 3942647 Bhrd Sut tt SWUM M 5734 Hamson 5660601 OPIN 1 FOCI 748 E SUta AMEBCA0 53g:-ei3:- IWYOMINC EVMSTtM 607 W Owycrwt Dl m) - 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