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Show 4a Sun Advocate Rachael Olsen (photo at left) hits the ball back over the net during the Lady Dinos game with Uintah last week. Bren Johnson (photo at right)is one of Carbons top frontline players. The win for the keeps the Lady Dinos unbeaten streak alive at 5-- 0 season. Lady Dinos come from behind to take win from Uintah By LAYNE MILLER Sports editor 9. The Carbon High Lady Dino volleyball team had to come from behind three times to win a match with the Lady Utes last Thursday night. v Carbon lost its first game in The region competition, players rallied from being in the second game down, and the Lady to win it, 15-Dinos found themselves down 8 in the third game before 5. 0-- 3, 9, Elk reeling off 10 unanswered points to win, 15-It will not be one of those games Coach Mike Moss brags about, but it shows the Lady Dinos can come from behind to win, and it shows the team does not quit. I didnt have to do anything to turn the game around, the head coach said. The girls knew what had to be done to win, and they did it. The Dinos were never really in the first game. We werent passing well in the first game, Moss said. If you dont pass well, you cant run the offense. The Dino problems continued in the second game, as the team fell behind, They collected themselves, and the Lady Utes began hitting the ball tentatively. Carbon took its first lead of the game at 7 and went on to win the second game, 15-But things began to fall apart in the third and final 0-- 3. 8-- 9. the Lady game. Behind, Dinos began doing what they do well, and they reeled off 10 unanswered points. Setting improved, their shots hit the mark and their blocking got better. The crowd got behind 1-- 8, the team, and Uintah never recovered from the thrashing. The win leaves Carbon with an unbeaten 0 record at the end of the first half of region play. Uintahs loss leaves it in a tie for second place in region with Emery, and the Lady 5-- Spartans travel to Price to face the Dinos today (Tuesday). Game time is 6:30 p.m. in the beautiful, new Dino gym. The second half of play is important because each team improves during the year, so you never know how a team will play the second time you face them, Moss said. But Carbon is sitting in good positioa Three of the next five games are at home, the Emery game today and Union comes to town on Thursday. There will be no region playoff this year for a berth in the state tournament. The top three teams in region automatically qualify for state action on Nov. 7 at West High School. We may have been overconfident in this game, Coach Moss said. The loss of the first game was our first loss in 6-- region. season opener predicted hot The 1992 bull elk hunt opened under blue skies and bathed in near record-breakin- g warm temperatures last Wednesday. The hunt continues through Oct. 13. put over this record. another near season, Best estimates 37,000 elk hunters afield Hunter success is projected to be about 15 percent. So far for the first few days of the hunt, Division of Wildlife Resources officials say illegal kills are way down. Nearly two dozen illegal kills were reported the first part of the hunt last year, but only six have been reported this year. Tinder-dr- y conditions made stalking difficult in the open Six locals ing hours ofthe hunt. Its like walking on poptato chips out there, said one hunter. A range fire in Echo Canyon near Henefer, which burned about 75 acres, was started by one earless elk hunter. Open fires and smoking outside of vehicles are banned on U.S. Forest Service, state and BLM land in northern Utah. Elk herds are in good condition statewide. In northern and central Utah, best success is projected for Cache, and Diamond-Strawberr- y Creek units. All three units are new yearling-bull-onl- y units this year. DWR conservation office Kevin Cherry, on patrol in the Heber-Re- d Diamond-Strawberr- y Heber-Re- d and Creek units, reported a total of eight illegal kills as of 2 p.m. Thursday. Killing and leaving a big game animal is a felony. Officer Cherry said it could be much worse. Compliance is really better than we expected, considering these are both new yearling-bull-onl- y units this year. Cherry said the high level of compliance is due in part to an intensive prehunt campaign by the DWR to inform and educate hunters in the new yearling-onl- y units. Officers visited hunting camps Tuesday on the eve of the opener. enter St. George run Six local runners competed in the St. George Marathon last weekend. Troy Madsen finished with the best time of the group, tak8 ing fourth place in the age group with a time of 3:04:17. Billie Hunt took fifth 4 place in the age group with a time of 3:30:34 and a new personal best. 60-6- Richard Mohawk had a 15-1- W K, time of 4:18:21, Ron Wadsworth had a time of 3:56:06, Ben Brown finished with a 3:52:56 time and Dr. Dan Coles from Emery County had a time of 3:50:32. DWR Dinos fail to score against Wasps The Carbon High School Dinos fell Friday evening to Wasatch High, 26-- in Heber 0, City. A lack of offensive the Wasatch secondary. The Wasps would capitalize on the Dino miscues, scoring two touchdowns in the second quarter. Wasatch missed one extra-poiattempt, giving a halftime score of 13-In the second half, the Dinos picked things up offensively. Atwood connected with senior Jeff Murdock for a play. Desite the large Dinos were unable to the gain, reach pay dirt. Wasatch scored two more times on the evening, running the final score to 26-- Carbon ended with a weak 108 yards total offense. off by MARSTON nt 0. output once again proved to be nemisis of the Dinos. the Carbon netted only 16 yards total offense in the first half of play. The Dinos were able to move the ball partially because of turnovers. Jason Guymon, senior running back, fumbled the ball twice in the first half and Dino quarterback Tyler Atwood was picked 76-yar- d By LAYNE MILLER 0. 1 Thanks to donations from school kids, Boy Scout troops and a whole bunch of generous Dino Coach Jeff Jorgensen said the Dino kicking game was the only bright spot of the game. Murdock had six punts during the course of the ball game, averaging 46 yards per punt. Carbon now looks to this weeks opponent, the Emery High Spartans. Emery is 1 on the season, with its only loss coming at the hands of 5-- region-leadin- g V. Lehi. We will have to play a near perfect game. Well have to have confidence, come with a lot of heart and a great attitude, Jorgensen said. one of the river otters to the transplants river otters Sports editor By MICKELLE Sports writer - DWR employees Boyde Blackwell (left) and Bill Bates carry Green River, where it was released. citizens, river otters are returning to the Green River. Division of Wildlife Resources officials transplanted three river otters last Friday near Sand Wash on the Green River. The three, flown in the same day from Alaska, make a total of 55 of the cuddly animals that have been introduced in the last three years. Officials plan to release 14 to 15 this year. We raised a total of $2,400 e the first year, said Bill Bates. The total manager amount raised has snowballed from there." No DWR money has been non-gam- used for the transplants it has all come from wildlife enthusiasts. The money has come from bake sales, Boy Scout groups, grade school kids and others who have donated money for the river otters," he said. Other funds have come from the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Park Service. It will be used for research into the otter releases. The Green and Colorado rivers had small populations of otters in historic times. They were eliminated by trappers and by envimomental changes in the river caused by man. As soon as the three otters were released, they quickly began moving downstream, a trait followed by most otters. One female traveled 70 miles downstream from its release point near Flaming Gorge, said fur bearer biologist Boyde Blackwell She then turned around and went back up. The animals live off fish and crustaceans. DWR officials have received reports of otter pups attempting to steal fish from the stringers of fishermen along the rivers. The young otters were quickly chased off by their mother. One angler said an otter jumped up on the float tube he was using to fish the Green River below Flaming Gorge. It looked him in the eye and then jumped off and swam away," Bates said. The man reported to the nearest DWR office, wanting to know if the animal are dangerous. Theyre not. |