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Show mum mts Simons by Dale Not good enough Why waste time doing something efficiently that should not be done at all?. - Book of Hag is full of with great who wouldn't to practice. Isnt that The coach to expects you practice. Not just once a week, or three times a w eek but every day. Every other day is not good enough. How about the mother who wanted her six foot ten inch soon to get a college scholarship for basketball? She took him to practice every day. He walked in to the school, snuck past the gym, went out the backdoor, stopped by Seven Eleven and got home in time for dinner. Its simply not good enough. It seems the big, tall fella didn't like basketball. He didnt like practice either. He wanted to be a writer, or play the guitar. He didnt care about the scholarship. He did like The convenience store doesnt give out scholarships for soda and smoothies. Slurping down the goods is not good enough. I know a guy who puts his garbage in the bag very neatly. He keeps it in a paper bag and tucks it smoothly in the plastic bag. He neatly ties the sash in a double bow. It looks good. Does it matter? No!! No one will ever see tl)e inside of that bag again. It doesnt matter. Do things that matter. The world 1. Just because you are an extra in a police line up doesn't mean you are about to have a career in the movies. You may not be good enough. As it written. Only the mediocre are always at their best. Mediocre is not good enough. The Jazz are fourth in the western conference of the NBA. Sometimes, they are fun to watch. Sometimes, they kick you in the stomach. Sometimes, you wonder what they are doing. Is fourth good doubt it. enough? I I opened a small busiam good ness. I hope it to make go. I'm enough selling glasses to parents. Im not doing so well, a lot of parents already have a pair. You know, the kind of parent who thinks his kid is d glasses really work well for the parent who looks at a beetle and sees a gazelle. Your son will probably not get a college scholarship. Five foot ten inch guards, who make an occasional are not good enough. One hundred and forty pound running backs are not good enough. Watch him play in high school and be grateful - not good enough. If Simons,. says: theyou're will find you. Most of us will go undiscovered. 1 rose-color- Blaze top Avengers by thirteen The Utah Blaze took on the Los Angeles Avengers on Fri , April 13. The nunibei 13 turned out to be a lucky one for the Bhe as the beat the Avengers by 13 in front of over 13,000 fans at the Enegy Solutions Arena. Keeping with the perfect home recoid the Blaze beat I os Angeles w uh a final score of 76 13. The victory keeps Utah in lust place in the Western I)i ision. Blaze cpiaiteiback Joe Germaine tossed ten touchdowns to lead the Blaze to all-pr- o. victory. Germaine completed passes for 371 yards. Joe is not a guy that I am ever going to have to worry about when there is a little bit of adversity, said Blaze head manager coaehgeneral Danny White. Hes too solid, lie has an unbelievable calmness about him - it drives me crazy sometimes. Im set earning and yelling over here and hes walking around out there like it's not a problem. The Blaze found ways to attack all night as they forced 32-of-- Dale Simons Girls softball at Cyprus is rolling. They used another great pitching job by Amy Broadbent and some timely hitting to overcome and overpower Olympus 12-Broadbent also had a double and a triple at the plate. Cyprus catcher Beach contributed as well with a home run. Hunters baseball team gave Copper Hills all they wanted before bowing Sandstrom, the Wolverine pitched and hit well but it wasn't quite enough. Cyprus got a good outing 2. 4-- 3. three-pointe- r, Bees-wee- k ast Wednesday afternoon. Salt Lake Bees fans at Franklin Covey field njoyed sunshine and a w in by the home team. The Salt lake Bees rallied from an early 0 deficit to defeat the Tucson Sidewindcis Tucson scored two in the hist Arm!1' three in the third I from Taylor Jones. He gave up only two hits to the Titans. Jones Olympus struck out seven in shutting out Oly. Shakespear had a triple for Cyprus and Jordan Ikan had two hits. Cyprus played without an error. Girls Softball took another big jump as Brandi Lovato shutout Cottonwood on only two hits. Lovato knocked in four runs and big homer. Brady Biash had three hits and Amy Broadbent chipped in with a double. It was a wild and crazy baseball game for Cyprus at Murray. It wasnt a day for It was sophomore weekend on Bruin Field and there was no better way to go out than as winners for die graduating Salt Lake softball players. into 10 runs. Bonnie Muir The Bruins had their brooms in hand and took a satisfying sweep of the Snow (sophomore, Bountiful, UT) also connected on 3 at the In (5-- 1, 7-- 6, 10-- 3, todays first contest, 1 48-2- 21-1- 3-- 1 . full of ups and downs e 5-- 9-- 5. aw numbers on the board. The Bees came back with five pitching. Murray prevailed 16 to 15. The Spartans got ahead by 11 runs. The. Pirates roared back with a 12- - run inning. Taylor Jones and Fisher hit home runs for Cyprus. Jones home run was a grand slam. It's too bad that 15 runs wont win you a baseball game. Murrays pitchers had good control. They hit six Pirate batters. The Bucs will be back if their ribs are okay. bv Granger slipped Olympus in baseball, behind the pitching of Cotterman and Home runs of Endys, Breeze and Crabb. Go o Lancers! (sophomore. West Jordan, UT) tallied a whopping four RBIs on 3 hitting and scored one run. Catcher Katie Weese 3-- 3-- plate, scoring three runs with one RBI. The Bruins other freshman crossed the plate on her w'atch. Nikki Smith (sophomore. West Valley City, UT) swung her bat for a double bringing in the lone run in the bottom of the second inning. The Bruins improve to 28-- 15 overall and 21-1- 1 in the SWAC and will travel to Henderson, Nevada next weekend to take on conference Lindsey Palmer (freshman, Stansbury Park) struck out six batters and allowed just two hits to pick up the win 10-- hurler took the mound for game two and once again came through for the home team. Kara Bendt (freshman, Kearns, UT) struck out five batters and The Bruins converted 14 hits allowed one hit but no runner CCSN. 3. 1 halftime lead, but were outscored 21-- 7 in the third quarter. But true to 2007 form, the Blaze finished strong by out scoring the 4 in the fourth Avengers quarter with scoring strikes to OLDL John Culp and WR Aaron Boone. The Blaze will take on the Western Division rival Arizona Rattlers next Friday at the Energy Solutions Arena. It will mark the fifth meeting between Coach White and bis former team. The Rattlers hold the series lead come-from-behi- Mi sophomore softball success College Badgers first-ha- lf Rose-colore- Nick Gomeault by three fumbles and added an interception by DB Clarence ADT Lawson. Defensive Player of the Game, DL Chris Janck, kept the pressure on Los Angeles quarterback Sonny Cumbie all game and anchored the defense all evening. Blaze WR Siaha Burley led all receivers with 14 receptions for 175 yards and five touchdowns. Pace finished with receptions for 125 yards and three touchdowns. The Blaze took a 8 leader Southern Nevada. Fridays results still have Salt Lake third in the SWAC standings, only two games behind slides in safe to score one for the Salt Lake Bees. runs in the bottom of the third With one out, Adam Pavkovich reached on an errot and the next four batters delivered extra base hits, including a two run homer by Brandon Wood that brought the Bees to within one. Kendry Morales doubled and, one out later, came home w ith the tying run on a single by Terry Evans. On Thursday, Bees Nathan Hayes had three hits, scored twice and drove in a run to lead the Salt Lake Bees to an 5 win over the Tucson Sidewinders . Haynes singled in the first inning, stole second and eventually scored on a sacrifice fly by Brandon Wood. He also delivered a run scoring double in the sixth and later came home w hen Tucson left fielder Dee Brown dropped a line drive off the bat of Jeff Mathis. Haynes has now hit safely in all six games that he has played in. The Bees took to the road and was out performed by 8-- Las Vegas. Salt Lake lost their first two games to 51s but came back to stomp on Vegas 2 on Sunday, April 5. 8-- 1 On Monday, the Bees and the 51s matched up again. This time the Bees came out on top the final match up ot the series with final of8-5- . The Bees move on to a four game series on the road against the Sidewinders. Salt Lake will be back on their home field on Saturday, April 21 to take on the Tacoma Rainiers at Covey Field. |