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Show T meniagiiu Va..wy tcvo, ii lursday, August 20, 1998 Sports baseball players will play at Utah universities next season SLCC Mourning Dove forecast, hunting tips On Tuesday, Sept. 1, mourning dove hunters will kick off Utah's fall 1998 upland game hunting seasons. Because of the weekday, start, fewer hunters are expected afield for the 1998 opener than were afield for the opener last year. Utah averages more than 22,000 dove hunters, who harvest slightly more than 200,000 mourning doves each year. Based on data collected by the Division of Wildlife Resources from 5 dove "call count" survey routes conducted statewide this past May, mourning dove breeding populations in Utah were down notably this year compared to by ALAN BLAIN non-holid- STAFF WRITER Four Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) baseball players have signed letters of intent to continue their baseball playing careers at Utah universities next season. Rusty Gray from Taylorsville and Craig Peterson from Viewmont will join the Brigham Young University baseball program while Luke Geddes from Highland will move to Southern Utah University. Finally, Jared Cavaness from Granger will move on to play at the University of Utah. Gray served as the designated hitter for the Bruins and earned 8 honors. He holds nearly all of the SLCC offensive records for the Bruins baseball program. Peterson was the center fielder and 8 earned second team honors. He was SLCCs top hitter with a .360 batting average to go along with his 46 RBI and seven , 1 1997. All-Regi- JARED CAVANESS 1 1 All-Regi- home runs. Geddes was the top defensive player at SLCC, splitting lime at and second base. shortstop Cavaness was one of the top hurlers on the Bruin's pitching staff and signed with the Utes during the fall early signing. The Bruins finished with a 22-2- 9 record in only their second season and coach Bill Groves is on the Night Crawlers YEAR ROUND VtIo Ottley 14300 SZ2200 WESZf SLGj Vending 3 I 968-54- machine open 24 hours a dollar hilLs Tor 2 dozen. 8 Farmington and Bountiful. There will be six age divisions: 6 11, 12, 13, 14 and year olds. The Fall League Season will begin Sept. 12 and conclude Oct. 17. The league will consist of in 0, dj. 15-1- recruiting trail looking for replacements for his talented group of sophomores. 1 teams along the Wasatch Front doubleheaders on playing Saturday. There will be 7 age divisions 11, 12, 13, 1415-1- 6 and For a brochure call Dennis at (435) 0, 2. Shop those who advertise in the Magna Times & West VaTTfy'NffisFykur coin nrnnity it&wspapersn also at 1 17-1- 8. 753-566- The number of doves heard along routes was down 52 percent from 1997 and the number of doves observed along routes was down 5 percent. Colder and wetter than normal spring weather may have slowed the migration of mourning doves this year and delayed breeding efforts. Persistent hot weather across northern Utah between now and would keep doves in the Sept. state. However, as seems to be the case every year, if low pressure weather patterns that drop temperatures arrive, mourning doves will begin moving south before the Sept. opener. Division biologists also have learned that regardless of what the weather does, some mourning doves begin to leave Utah about the first week in August. "Doves begin their annual south- 1 Labor Day tourney, fall baseball scheduled The Rocky Mountain School of Baseball will conclude its 1998 Season with an open Labor Day Tournament September 4, 5, and 7 ay - . ward migration based on the photoperiod, or length of the day. As daylight wanes in the fall, doves &e stimulated to move to their wintering areas in Mexico and Central America. The Division is prohibited by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (1 91 8), and international treaties with Canada and Mexico, from opening doves seasons earlier than Sept. 1 each year. Dove hunters who generally hunt in northern Utah, but become frustrated when there are few birds around, should give Utah's southern counties a try. Millard, Beaver, Iron, and Washington counties in southwestern Utah, and Emery and San Juan counties in the southeast, generally harbor birds until later in the year. Some of Utah's most prosperous dove hunting occurs in the southern part of the state. The 1998 mourning dove season will remain open through Sept. 30. Bag and possession limits will be 10 and 20 respectively. d Mourning dove and pigeon hunters are reminded that they must register under the federal Migratory Game Bird Harvest Information Program (HIP), prior to going afield for these two migratory species. Dove' and pigeon hunters should pay close attention to the 1998 - 99 Utah Upland Game Proclamation. Registration requirements and the process for obtaining a HIP number are described on page 9 of the proclaband-taile- mation. To be most effective during the season, hunters should' keep in mind the daily activity Tontine of doves. The birds normally feed early in the morning and again late in the day. Typical feeding areas are small grain crop fields and weedy patches. Doves are almost exclu- sively seed eaters. They prefer areas with wheat I stubble, com, oats, sunflower and all kinds of weeds; BPNEIE54 (ZEP WUNtRycHAEM FOmilBO o ptAMB" seepiess u U o poma mom Frozen m)L Advertisers: ; To ?Ae&'Bemef FABMIAMP After feeding, doves pick up grit along gravel roadways and then fly to water. The middle part of the day is spent loafing arid roosting in trees. Look for doves to be roosting in dead trees. Although not required by law, its a good idea to wear hunter orange during the first week of the mourning dove hunt. Ball caps and vests in hunter orange help tremendously in reducing the chance of a firearms accident while afield with many other hunters. place your act in the geo. m Magna Times gpUMTY & IX)V& West Valley News please call Bonnie iisstyasraas ft at 250-565- 6 for information and rates. k 4 - |