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Show CLEARFIELD COURIER, track At Harrisvillo Feb14, 1979, Page 13 ottraet Snyinidrsdl ffo)g NOAL COOK and Farrell Cook pvt mask m horse u tiw time for Hm U race ' fl , , 4 -- 7. ,7 i i a ,V.,v. , , - - tv; ''V team down the HarrbviHo track and about this point he edges eat In , 'CV. v b warned NOAL, PHILLIP, AND FARRELL up by another brother, Phillip Cook. ad work together to hitch the team to the chariot. ti h , 7 NOAL RACES hi SQUARE VAN DECK i. . vyi'; . , front ef hb competitor and tabes home FRIENDS AND RELATIVES in the Cook family pause for a brief minute for pictures after the deebive race. the championship. &'. r tW ' r. v w. w a 4 inf ; Wildcats lose to Grizzlies, Bobcats Weber States chance to put a lock on the Big Sky Conference regular season title fell way short Friday and Saturday as the Wildcats lost to Montana and Montana State. by Keith Duncan Square Van Deck was first raced when one and a half years old in the same Wasatch Slopes Cutter competition. In the Futurity Divbion, Square (for short) teamed with another colt to take third place. It Just tickled Amos pink, A new A division champion in the Wasatch Slopes Cutter Races was proclaimed last Saturday. Amos Cook, who goes partners with hb son Noal, were crowned the 1978-7- 9 victors with a team of horses that have climbed step by step to the success they now enjoy. When Noal sped down the snow-pack- r Square and Sunny first raced together in the B Divbion. The following year the two horses began the stiff competition in the A Divbion. That year they pbced fifth in the Wasatch Slopes racing. In state racing they claimed first in the fifth divbion and claimed the fastest event. combined time for the Last year the Cooks led their team to a second place on the Harrisville track. In Pocatello they pbced second in the second divbion. duo were the The Anderson-Mafirst half champions thb season and the Cooks came back to win the second half competition. For the Cooks, the victory was No less than two hours an are spent with the team of evening horses as man and beast spend tedious time in practice, go over procedures, discipline, timing, and ed Harrisville track : . last Saturday afternoon, Amos and hb wife Della were a couple hundred miles away enjoying the best of a warmer climate in Mesa, Arizona. When Amos, heard the news that hb horses were champions, it was news that made 25 to 30 years of cutter a .. 6-- 5. 5-- year. 43-2- 56-5- 66-6- Weber-Montan- game with just under four minutes remaining, but the team from Missoula held on for the victory. Weber State was unable to cope with a late game Montana State press as the Bobcab registered a 1 upset win the following evening in Bozeman. The Wild-ca- b led by four at the half, and 8 took a lead with four straight baskeb after the Bob-ca- b opened the second stanza with five unanswered poinb of their own. Bruce Collins fouled out with six 78-7- 3 74-7- 45-3- sonals for the night, and a half minutes to go, and Montana State came back from a 2 deficit to collect the win. Richard Smith also fouled out against the smaller Bobcab, and David Johnson had four per- Johnson hit 10 of 16 shob from the field to tie Craig Finberg for game scoring honors. Smith added 17 and Collins 16 to comprise the bulk of the Weber State scoring. The Wildcab will return home to face Gonzaga and Idaho later this week. Their last game of the season will be on February 24 at Northern Arizona, another difficult place to win. 69-6- w well-deserve- d. physical excercise. And the Cooks, along with all other horse racer, the love of horses in genuine, one of the inevitable keys to , victory. . Award given for service Following the state races, Noal will pick up and prepare for the World Cutter Racing Championships which take place in Pocatello, Idaho on March 17, 18, 23, 24 and 25. y Amos, who has been racing tor nearly 30 years, first began hb racing days in Huntsville, but since he moved with the rest of the competition to the popular track in Harrisville. Saturdays are a Wg occasion as overt hundred racers and spectators, town all over the area compete in an average afternoon of about 23 races. Noal began to take a steady interest in the racing competition soma four to five years ago and has now aanjfd himself a first championship. Van Deck and Sunny Van Sutra the horses the led toe Cooks' to the coveted title last Saturday. It was Just as niuch victory for man as it was for the horse. 8-- a the clash earlier this season, fouled out of the two-da- y racing competition, worth every minute. And as Amos sons said, The news tickled him pink. Amos and Noals team of cutter racers were a half a horse length winners over Keith Anderson and John Maws team. Amos resides at 277 S. 3000 W. In Syracuse during the warmer part of the Utah climate and during the winter months resides in Arizona. Noal and his family make their home at 948 N. 3000 W. in Clinton. Noal will now prepare hb team for competition in the Utah State Cutter races that will take pbee February 24 and 25. Those races take place in South Jordan. y. The most difficult road swing in the league was again too much for the Cab to accommodate as in conference play they fell to and 20-- 7 overall. The Grizzlies are still alive for a post season pbyoff berth in light of a victory over Northern Arizona that imMonproved their record to tana State also swept their pair of for the home games to go to Montana jumped off to a 13-- 0 lead in the first half of Fridays . game, but Weber stormed back late in the second half to make the game close. Bruce Collins and David Johnson were held to four and five respective first half poinb, but got hot in the second stanza to finish with 23 and 19 point totals. The Wildcats fell behind 7 at the half, and then came back to within four poinb at 2 at the midway point in the second half. Weber later came to within one point at but a final rally put the game out of reach. John Stoeder, who was the oubtanding Grizzly performer in ; An award of commendation for meritorious service from the president of the Adult Education of Utah has been . Assocbtion Carole Price of received by ' ; Weber State College. Mrs. Price, coordinator of programs for the WSC Division of Continuing Education, has served for six years as treasurer of the adult education association. The assoebtion's current president, Rex Tueller, presented Mrs. V price with a bronze plaque at a recent meeting of the state group. V Mrs. Price, who b also administrative assistant in the administrative services division i, of the Continuing Education if Divbion, began her career at ; Weber State in 19S8. 7 - - ; KSa ef OieHleM Is foaled the had by Bountiful players, louatlful seared the wla ef their seaeaa as they la 1141 leaatiful. Clearfield win try to get beck on the winning road this Friday as they play host to the Leyton Lancers. teaai, CTCTZLL Qniiy W |