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Show From the Sidelines by Scott Niendorf Sun Advocate Sports Editor Sports are great: to a point My wife Gina, bless her heart, has lived in the United States for just over 10 years now and it has been a blast for both of us. She is a native Chilean from Santiago and grew up pretty much sportslcss in a Third-Worl- d country, surviving a military coup in September of 1973 living just a few blocks from the Estadio Nacional. The national stadium was where more than 1 million compatriots "disappeared," with gunshots ringing out there through many long nights. It was a far cry from the glory the stadium enjoyed in the summer of 1962 when Chile hosted the World Cup and the national team won third place with a victory over Yugoslavia. No, the only thing resembling a sport she consistently enjoyed in Chile was swimming in the Pacific Ocean an from her home. If your country has 2,500 miles of beach, I guess you go swimming, picnicking and camping a lot on the beach. After arriving in the USA, Gina was immediately exposed to culture shock, where our country has a few more sporting intrests, or obsessions, than they do. Our country loves sports. We're crazy about them and the stars that dominate them and we can't, and don't deny it. After realizing that I was just another casualty of the Sports Fan Epidemic (SFE) endemic iri North America, she gave up any hope of any reform for me and adopted the "If you can't beat them, join them" motto. Her introduction to "American" football, though, was somewhat less than spectacular when I took her to her first football game and a couple of streakers raced across the BSU field during the game, eliciting a haughty roar from 1- hour-and-a-h- 20,000-plu- s spectators. She loved the game and grew to become a big fan, especially at BYU, where she screamed and cheered until she was hoarse, watching many an exciting Cougar comeback. She slowly but surely began showing signs of the SFE when Dinos in 3-ga- me she began watching an entire three-hogame of professional football with me. I took this as a sign she might be receptive to actively participate in individual, if not team sports. A tennis racquet for her birthday present got us out on a sunny tennis court on numerous occasions because I kept the singles lines and gave her the doubles alleys to make our games more interesting. I found her a bowling ball and surprisingly found out during her first game she has a natural hook, which always hits either directly in the pocket or in the gutter. Still, she truly gets excited if she rolls over 100. Another sport she enjoys is skiing. She was a real speed demon as a beginner and loved to cannonball down the slope. That is,- until she bought it big time once while night skiing at Bogus Basin north of Boise. She's a little more reserved now speedwise, although she learned how to snowmobile last winter in the Teton Basin of eastern Idaho and cranked her machine up to 60 miles an hour a couple of times. She also gets pretty intense and exhausted in a hot game of volleyball, but she really loves to just go out and play the game. As far as sitting down together to relax and watch a game on TV together, the NBA is her favorite. She loves John Stockton with a passion and thinks he's the greatest point guard ever in playing a big man's game. She even likes Sir Charles Barkley because of his hustle on the floor and his outspoken left-hand- ed 1- -2 honesty. She hates to watch golf, although she said she would like to learn how to play it someday. She also can't stand to watch a "snail-paced- " baseball game, even after I took her to an Angels-Blu- e Jays game at the Big A. She thinks baseball players are spoiled primadonas. Actually she thinks most professional athletes are spoiled and cold, selfish jerks who could care less about their fans. She is still contagious with SFE, but when it comes right down to it, she knows exactly just how unimportant sports really are in the scheme of things. She grew up knowing there are a lot more precious things than sports and keeps competition in its rightful place. She knows better than anyone else, I believe, that its not whether you win or lose, it's how you live after the game that counts. skid 4-- 3-- 5-- top-rank- 4-- a 4 senior Jason Dunn, on a hitting streak lately, steals a base here Saturday. Dino in an earlier game, could not help Carbon outlast Emery Carbon nips Delta, stumbles vs. Emery a costly outfield error by Delta kept the rally going to send the game into extra innings. Leonard stranded Delta runners at third and second base in the top of the eight frame, with third basement Tyler Tatton fielding sharp grounders and throwing out the batters at first for the last two outs. This set the stage for Carbon to win the game. Marquez opened the eighth with a single and moved to second when Dustin Scoville was hit by a pitched ball. After an outfield out which moved Marquez to third, Jason McKendrick sent a slow dribbler to the right of the mound. The ball was fielded by the Delta pitcher in front of the first basemen and with the second baseman covering first, the ball was overthrown allowing Marquez to score. Saturday afternoon Emery came back with the same lineup on the field as when the previous game was suspended, but Carbon made an early change by sending Jewkes to the mound to replace Marquez and put Ken Timothy in Center. Marquez stayed in the game at first base. The Dinos went right to work on Buzz Rondinelli, the Emery starter. With Dunn on second when the game resumed, Zaccaria started the game with a single, an infield error and a double by Marquez resulted in three Carbon runs. Carbon kept up the attack the next inning with Dunn opening the frame with a double. Two Spartan errors followed and the Dinos had a 4 lead. They increased their advantage to 4 in the fourth inning when Dunn had his third hit of the game and eventually scored on Martinez sacrifice outfield fly. Jewkes pitched effectively until the fifth inning when the Spartans took the lead for good with five runs. The visitors Two walks and By WALT BORLA Sports correspondent A split in the two league games played at Helper Friday and Saturday assured the Carbon High baseball team of a home game in the opening round of the state tournament on May 13. e The Dinos staged a rally to overcome the Delta Rabbits, in eight innings on Friday. Saturday afternoon the incomplete game with Emery was resumed and the Dinos fell victim to a 15-- 7 defeat only after overcoming the 0 lead the Spartans had at the resumption of the game. 3-- A late-gam- 11-1- 0, 4-- Winless Delta appeared to be bound and determined to rack up its first win in Region II play at the expense of Carbon. The Rabbits took a 0 lead in the first 1-- inning on a Garrett Whatcott homer and added seven runs in the third frame for a 0 lead. Derek Bradley, on the mound for the Dinos, was the victim of the Rabbit uprising which brought Jared Leonard out of the bullpen in the third inning. Leonard retired the visitors after one more hit and went on to allow only one more Delta run, that a homer by Clint Curtis in the fourth inning. Meanwhile the Dinos began pecking away at the Delta lead. Jeremy Jewkes accounted for two runs with a homer in the third inning. Two more Dino runs crossed the plate the next inning on singles by Jason Dunn and Justin Zaccaria, plus an infield error by the Rabbits. Carbon managed to tie the score at 0 in the home half ofthe seventh with six runs. The Dinos had three hits during the rally, a single by Jewkes and doubles by Darek Martinez and Mike Marquez. 9-- 10-1- 5-- 6-- Jewkes, Sorensen shine at 5-- ng 4a ur The third time was no charm for the Carbon Dino girls soft-ba- ll team as it lost its third consecutive game last week after leading going into the last inning. Leading 1 against Emery going into the seventh inning Saturday, the Dino girls were bitten by the error bug and lost a 4 game to the Spartans. Leading 1 in the bottom of the first inning April 18 when the game was suspended due to severe rain, the Dinos would eventually lose the resumed game, this time in a light rain at the north Price softball complex. It was the same story Tuesday at North Sanpete where the Dinos lost on errors after leading in extra innings. There was no consolation Thursday as Delta picked up three unearned runs in the top of the seventh inning to nip Carbon 3 in Price. It was a pitchers duel Saturday as Carbon ace Courtney Olsen battled Emerys Mary Brinkerhoff, with each giving up hits few and far between. team in Utah, Carbon now finds itself Once the battling just to get into the state tournament. The three losses dropped the Dinos to 3 in Region 11 and 10-- 7 overall. The Dinos face a difficult task with their season closer Thursday against the Spartans in Castle Dale. heart-wrenchi- Ootoooks s Sun Advocate By SCOTT NIENDORF Sports editor hurdles (20.76), fourth in the 12th in the high jump and 13th long jump in the shot put His 50-- 6 throw in the discus and an 1 toss in the javelin failed to place him and he did not score in pole vaulting. On Saturday at BYU, Melissa Pollastro set a new school record in the intermediate hurdles with a time of 47.53, good for ninth place overall. (16-9.75- Denise Jewkes put Carbon on the figurative map with an impressive third place finish in the BYU Invitational heptathlon while teammate Seth Sorensen faded from an early decathlon lead to finish 13th Saturday in Provo. Carbons girls finished 14th overall in the 3A-5schools competition featuring hundreds of athletes from inside and outside Utah while the overall A boys failed to place. Jewkes placed third in the heptathlon by scoring 3,803 points, behind only nationally senior Shaunna Rohbok (4,771) of Mountain View and Pine View senior top-rank- Lott (4,130). Amber Jewkes finished second in the dash (26.94), second in the 800 meters 200-met- er (2:40.65), third in the high hurdles 100-met- er fourth in the high fifth in the long jump ), sixth in the jump shot put and seventh in the javelin (79 (16.42), (4-10- (15-3.25- ), (28-2.25- ), feet). Sorensen placed first in the dash (11.63), and first in the 400 meters (50.51), second in the 1,500 meters (4:54.22), sixth in the high 100-met- er ), (27-5.25- ). 86-1- 300-met- er Pollastro also took part in another new school record by teaming up with Jewkes, Juli-- a Swasey and Tiffany Stewart for a 50.29 clocking in the 4 X relay, taking third place at the meet. 100-met- er Swasey set a personal record in the 400 meters and qualified for state with a 1:00.61 timing, while Brenna Lopan also qualified for state in the discus with a throw of 93-- 2. Carbons Kim Bentley also set a PR in the 1,600-meteand won her heat with a time rs of 6:00.19. Sulika Laulu was fourth overall at BYU in the shot put with a throw of Jewkes placed sixth overall in regular competition of the dash with a 12.96 time. 35-11.- 5. 100-met- er for three tagged the Dino right-handbefore Martinez balls base on and a hitts took over with one out. The Spartans went on to score a single run off Martinez in the sixth inning and put the game out of reach with five more in the seventh. Emery coach Jimmy Jones made a pitching change to start the Dino half of the fifth inning, sending Landon Jacobsen to the mound. Carbon managed a run the first inning J acobsen worked, Jarquez living on an error and scoring on Jesse Cooks double. He gave up T 'nns fourth hit of the game, a single in e sixth, and another single to Cook in tne last inning. Jeremy (Jewkes) was pitching very hard and did a good job until he tied in the fifth inning, Dino mentor Tony Pinedo commented after the game. He may have survived if we had come up with the right defensive plays in the inning, the Carbon er coach concluded. The victory clinched a Region 11 tie for Emery. Carbon, with just one league came on tap, that at Emery on Friday, will probably finish second. This means that the Dinos will get the second place team from Region 1 0 , most likely Uintah or possibly Lehi, in the opening round of the state tournament in Helper. The eight teams qualifying for the state meet will open the tournament with d games at the home fields of the first-roun- leading teams from each of the three regions. Following the May 13 games, all eight teams move on to Spanish Fork to complete the tournament, May 18, 19 and 20. Carbon will travel to Heber City afternoon (Tues.) for a practice game with Wasatch High before completing the regular season schedule at Emery Friday. invitational BYU Kim Bentley took first in For the boys, Luke Mercier set a PR in the 1,600 meters the 1,600 meters (6:26.00), (slightly longer than a mile) Heidi Humes won the high with a time of 4:45.28. and the 4 X 100 jump (5-Last Tuesday the Dinos relay squad of Stewart, Pollatraveled to Mount Pleasant stro, Swasey and Jewkes won for a meet that was attended their event with a 51.44 by Carbon, Payson, North timimg. Pollastro took second in the Sanpete, North Summit, Manti and Delta high schools. 200 meters (26.94) and third in the hurdles 1) 100-met- The boys saw Jimmy Jewkes place first in the long jump with a mark of 19-- and third place in the high jump clearing Scott Heiner took third place for Carbon in the 800 meters with a 2:15.75 clocking, while teammates Ryan Keller and Henry Sanchez placed fourth (55.82) and fifth (55.91) respectively in the 400 meters. 2, 5-- 8. Carbons 4 X relay squad of Jacob 400-met- er Kala-marsk- i, Sanchez, Michael Pot- ter and Heiner placed fourth in Mount Pleasant with a time of 4:11.41. Julia Swasey took first in the 100 meters (12.87), first in the 200 meters (26.82) and fourth in the long jump (14-6Denise Jewkes took first in ). the 800 meters (2:46.30), sec- ond in the high jump third in the 200 meters (27.28) and fourth in the high hurdles (16.45). (4-10- 100-met- er ), er (16.00), while Monica Madsen took second in the 3,200 meters (15:57.68) and fifth in the 1,600 meters (7:11.00). Heidi Davis placed second in the 800 meters (2:47.87) and Brooke Gressmen was fourth (2:51.84). Rachel Strate was third in the 1,600 meters (6:53.00) and Amy Miera was third in the 3,200 meters (16.23.61). Buffie Watkins was fifth in the 100 meters (13.79), Humes took fifth in the long Jeana Dalpiaz jump (14-5was fifth in the shot put (28-3Brenna Lopan was third in the discus (89-2- ) and Marenna Nyfller was fourth in the jave), ), lin (83-2Dino Collette Keller was ). third in the high jump the 4 X relay team of Strate, Humes, Swasey and Davis was second (4:29.61) and the distance medley team (4-8- ), 400-met- was er third overall (5:15.91). |