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Show Page 6A South Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday , June 1, 1983 .,j - ' Nothing Worked for Vikes In Final Tournament Game By KENT SOMiRS Roviow Sports Editor. SALT LAKE CITY Trailf after six and ing innings in last Wednesdays tournament game, Viewmont 9-- 1 2-- ' were behind by six runs. And the scheme seemed to work for a time. The Vikings scored two runs in the final inning against the Bingham Miners, but Doyg Lee hit a line shot to center field that was caught and the Vikings STEVE CAPUTO (above) tags Dee Stephens of Bingham in last we the Miners must have 4-- A 9-- 3. Numerous Rtvliw Staff A full slate of tournaments and golf association activities highlight the busy month of June for area golfers. Northern qualifying for the Utah State Amateur will be at Valley View on June 25 and regional qualify- five-wee- k ing for the National Public Links will take place at Davis County Golf Course on June 23. Starting with Riverside in n South Weber, the annual four-ma- Chicago Mens Tournament sponsored by Budweiser will be held on June 18. The mens association plays every Wednesday in various format tourneys. Membership t, ll mens association at Royal Greens is $7. The men play a weekly twilight tournament ev all-st- ar ery Friday and the women play Bountiful City. each Wednesday morning. On On June 16, the annual Amerithe ladies will hold a can Cancer Society best-baJune 18-1- 9, member-gues- ll t, tour- best-ba- ll competition will be held. ney and on June 22 the ladies will association annual best-babe held. At Valley View in Layton, a four-mascramble blind draw tourney is scheduld for June 11. At the Davis County golf course in Kaysville, the Entrants must sign up as teams and the entry fee is $40 a player. The winning team will ll go on to the National Society tournament in North Carolina. The Davis County Amateur tournament, will be held June 25 at Davis. This 19th annual tourmens association nament is open to all players best-bawill be played over the with a UGA card. A limited field two courses on June 3 and 4. The of 120 players will have a shot-ru- n start at 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. entry fee. is $30 a player and a member of each team must be- Entry fee is $25 and must be in by June 20. long to one of the associations. The Davis Mens Association Fridays round is scheduled for Davis and Saturdays will be at with 230 members is one of the n Bounti-ful-Dav- Third aint , All-Sta- rs are divided The into north and south squads and all four Davis County1 players will play for the north. The north team will be coached by Phil Olsen and he r will be assisted by former Ben Lomond High coach Blair Moyes. Heath was one of the best defensive catchers in the state last season and helped the Lancers to a region championship. Lee and i j , Caputo were largely respons ible for the Vikings making it to the last day of the state tournament with excellent defensive play and timely hitting. Carman was the stopper in the Wildcats staff and played a big part in keeping the Wildcats in contention for a playoff spot during the year. Although the Braves finished in the second division of Region Four, Johnson consistently hit the ball and was one of the top vote getters in ' the coaches poll. Scheduled For Courses o If Tourneys fees are $17 a year. The ladies association is $17 also and plays on either Tuesday morning or Monday afternoon. Starting June 9, a junior program will be given by pros Neil Thornton and Terry Malan. The cost is $3 a week and any golfer between the ages of 8 and 16 is invited to join. The first three weeks will cover golf fundamentals and the final two will be competing in tournaments. Royal Greens in Roy will have best-baon a member-guesJune 18. Membership in the By BARRY KAWA 3-- A Miners. But excuse the Vikings for not lowering their heads find shuffling out of Ken Price Park like kids who have been yelled at in a department store. We had a good year. Its just one of those things, straight state title. all-sta- rs County players have been selected to play in the annual high school tournament in Ogden, June 6 at 8 p.m. Kenny Heath, a catcher from Layton; Curt Carman, a pitcher from Woods Cross; Eric Johnson, a shortstop from Bountiful; and Viewmont players Doug Lee, an outfielder, and Steve Caputo, a second .basemen,' were picked by coaches from the state to the team. itional hits against the said. 4-- 1. Four Players Named OGDEN Four Davis 9-- h bad. Especially when you had to battle in a playoff to reach the tournament in the first place, and particularly after youve beaten Hillcrest and Bingham, the two teams which finished ahead of the Vikings in the tournament. With the win over Viewmont, Bingham advanced to the final championship game against Hillcrest. But the Huskies bombed the Miners for 11 runs in the championship game to win their fourth didnt. thought they were invincible after the sixth inning when they belted Viking Pitchers. There were some bright Hep-wort- Ed-war- ds struck out and the Viewmont threat ended. We left too many on base, said Edwards. We couldnt push across runs. They had the confidence and Edwards with asmile and a straight hat.. We just came up six runs short. n Most of that differ said , baseman Wade Bevans baseball season was over, and the caps called rally were flipped and hats worn normally. Ross (Caputo), assistant six-ru- week's state tournament baseball game. Trailing 1 in the seventh inning, the Vikings were read to try anything, including turning their hats inside out (right). But even the "rally hats" didn't help Viewmont come back, and the Miners won the game, Viewmont finished third in the state tournament. '. 9-- 1. Quinn belted his second home run of the tournament in the second inning to tie the game at that point, and added a single in the sixth inning to go two for four in the game. The Vikings had only four add- 1 Some of that confidence came in the fifth inning when Bingham used three singles and an error to score two runs and extend its lead to And if that wasnt enough, coach, got us into this, spots for Viewmont. Junior first baseman 4-- A one-hal- Baseball Coach John Edwards and his club were ready to try anything to get back into the ballgame, short of turning their hats inside out. Well, almost short of turning their hats inside out. Honest, there they were, the entire Viking team, hats inside out and get this they were actually enjoying themselves although they VIEWMONT'S ence came in the top of the sixth inning when the Miners, who Viewmont had beaten in the first game of the state tournament, scored five runs on four hits off starting pitcher Kurt Mathews and reliever Jaren Pack to make the score But the Vikings had their chances to score, but left several men standing in scoring position at the end of innings. In the fourth inning, Viewmont had men on second and third with one out. But catcher Lane Rozema and third is ll largest associations in the state.-.- ; Membership dues are $20 and a tournament is held each Tuesday morning. The State Ladies Invitational, open to any woman golfer, will be held there on June 8. This annual event will, event. Current be an ladies association dues are $6 a , year. le At Spring Meadows in West scramBountiful, a three-mable will be held on June 4. The teams will be from a blind draw and entry fee is $10 a player. The ladies association will be gross-ne- t having a nine-hol- e tourney also qn June 4. Tee-of- f times begin at 10 a.m. and entry fee is $4.50. n The Third Annual Spring -- Meadows Independence Day Classic is slated for July 2. Entry fee is $15 for the tournament and a limit of 100 players has been set. The mens and womens dues are $15 a year. The men play every Wednesday night in a weekly tournament and the ladies play each Wednesday morning. At Bountiful City golf course in Bountiful, the second day of best-bathe will be held at the course on June 4. The mens and womens association dues are $10 a year. The men play a monthly tournament and the women play each . Tuesday morning. 18-ho- le . Davis-Bountif- ll ul Bacon Continuing to Hustle Even After Season's End By KENT SOMERS Roviow Sports Editor KAYSVILLE Normally when a high school athlete dominates a sport, wins the state tournaments most valuable player award and leads his learn to the state championship, he is deluged with more offerings than a preacher at a ai meeting on a hot summer night. Coaches call, drop by for a visit and try to woo mom in efforts to get the kid to play for them, and the kids mailbox has as much mail in it as the one at the- Publishers Clearing House. But Davis Highs Brian Bacon, who dominated many of the soccer games 'he played, won the state tournaments most valuable player award, and led his team to the state championship, still has to hustle not on the playing field, but on the phone, through mail and any other way he can to et to a school that plays a good quality game of soccer. Bacon has had a few offers, one from Westminster College in Salt Lake City and one from Brigham Young University. But some highfalutin college soccer teams, such as San Diego State University, have been reluctant to take on a kid from Kaysville (They play soccer there?), Utah. San Diego was negative, said the skinny, Bacon. He (the SDSU coach) said I was welcome to come and try but said I wouldnt guarantee anything. curly-haire- If things work out according He gave Bacon the impression that he didnt think any to plan, he will be spending part player from Utah could make of the summer in Germany his club or, as Bacon puts it, playing soccer. If Bacon isnt No farmer is going to come accepted into the league, he down here and play. might try out to go to a soccer school where he would play and UCLA, the school Bacon has wanted to play for since he was .train for four hours, take three a kid breaking a garage door in hours of classes and then plaj Torrance, Calif., by kicking a for four more hours. Either one, he hopes, will imsoccer ball against it, was more ' press college coaches in the Unreceptive, or at least more helpited States enough to convince ful, to Bacon. The Bruins left the door them he can play. The experience in Germany open, said Bacon, but suggested he go to El Camino Junior would also give Bacon the opCollege in Torrance for a year portunity to improve his game, before transferring to a major something he wasnt entirely happy with last season. college. I thought I was letting my Bacon is also looking into attending two private schools, St. team down because my crosses Vincents near Pittsburgh, Pa., werent one, he said. And Bacon wasnt happy with and Santa Clara in California. Both are good soccer schools, he the way he performed in the classroom at Davis, either. Not said. But Bacon didnt make the that he has trouble putting sentregistration deadline at Santa ences together or speaks in Clara and would have to attend monosyllabic words or is not concerned with academics and another school before transferring. St. Vincents is attractive, doesnt think his study habits he said, because it is near a will have to change in college he does. metropolitan area where expoI was disappointed in mysure could help Bacon in his career. self, Bacon said. I was goofThey were ranked ninth in ing off a lot. And academics is the NAIA (small college divi- one reason why Westminster is sion) last year, Bacon said,' in the running as one of Bacons and I would like to get into the options. Im pretty sure Im d medical field and its accepted there and it would be a is is The good good. lifestyle place to go for a year and program different but it is a good one. lay down some good study Bacon is not only, just talking habits. about his intentions to continue But one reason for wanting to to play the game, but he is tryattend a top soccer school, such as Santa Clara or UCLA, is to ing to improve his soccer reestablish himself as a good sume, especially in the experience category. a player who Can af- player . pre-me- d . , . BRIAN BACON, who helped the Davis Darts win the state soccer championship, is ford to, take 18 months off to fulfill an LDS Church mission. I want to get established so I can come back and not blow it for myself, Bacon said. The programs at Westminster and BYU are not developed enough that a player could take a year off and return without problems, Bacon said. But all the questions and options will be weighed and answered by the first part of this month, Bacon said, when a deci Photo! by Dal Porronoud undecided about where he Still will attend' college. sion about his future :in the t game is made. Besides a possible trip to Germany this summer; which will be after his decision on which college to attend is made, Bacon will play for the Utah team in The McGuire Cup, a competition sponsored by the United -- States Soccer Federation, featuring teams from Califo- rnia Washington, Nevada, Arizona and either Montana or Idaho. $ The team that wins that torn nament will be the best under soccer team in the Unite States, according to Bacon, an the tournament will give th players a chance to play befoi college coaches or exposure as Bacon dalls it. 19-a- n He used that word frequentl and who can blame him? Whe youre a soccer player froi Smalltown, Utah, you learn ho to hustle, not only on the fiel but off of it as well. |