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Show Next week; Davis Golda Downs Calls It Quits SECTION DAVIS REFLEX JOURNAL MAY 15, 1985 j i Laytons Dean OfJunior High Conches Hawkins Resigns Position By KEITH DUNCAN By Journal Sports - LAYTON Layton Highs DUNCAN KAYSVILLE HAWKINS, who will stay on at school and coach the baseball team, made the decision final last week by meeting with school and district officials. Hawkins was appointed as head football coach just last year and suffered through a dismal initial in Region One year, finishing overall. and First I felt I was spending too much time away from my family. Football demands a lot of time and my wife and kids were suffering more than I wanted them to. Second was because of my love for baseball, my first love when it comes to athletics. Ive been given an opportunity to help coach some baseball in California this summer that I believe will help my future. KAYSVILLE JUNIORS KENDALL Sedgwick looks over map as he teaches U. S. History class. The county will see Sedgwick retire in a few weeks after three decades of teaching young men some of the basic skills in several junior high sports. hall Tally in- By DAVE WIGHAM Clipper Sports - BOUNTIFUL Region baseball teams were only able to get one game in last week due to the rain situation but the league leaders used that one game to put a little more distance between them and the rest of the region. BOUNTIFUL and East both came up winners again to run their Woods Cross region marks to kept pace with the leaders with a big win to run their record to while Highland is next in line at Viewmont and Davis find them3-- 0. 2-- 1. selves at the bottom with marks. Before people start calling this a two team league consider the fact that league leader Bountiful had their hands full with winless Viewmont before the Braves pulled out 0-- BUT HAWKINS will remain at 3 win. TERRY Peterson of Viewmont and Rob Thompson of Bountiful hooked up for a great pitchers battle on the Braves field as the two a Layton and continue to coach the baseball program as well as assist the new head coach when named. 2-- 1 Host WC Darts Davis, still looking for their first victory of the region schedule as of Monday of this week, were going to get three chances to come up with that first win this week. THE DARTS were to battle Highland on Monday, Viewmont on Tuesday and then host Woods Cross on Friday. Davis primary problem in the first three games has been a lack of not getting the opposing team to sit down with two outs. Its been a combination of pitching and errors, said Kent Draayer, But Im confident well get it worked out. Layton, Clearfield To Battle Friday LAYTON -- - The Lancer baseball team will try to get back into the thick of the Region One baseball wars this week as they prepared to battle in three scheduled games. BOX ELDER was on top of the league with a 0 mark as of Mon- 3-- . . .ors hurlers held the opposition scoreless for the first five innings. Viewmont then got on the board in the sixth. Dave Rees singled and Keith Larsen followed with a walk. After a couple of strikeouts Terry Peterson stroked a hit towards the hole at short. Rees was able to score but a diving stop by Tim Smith prevented the Vikes from scoring two. Sophomore Jason Bumingham then hit a shot to first where Tony Butler made a good catch to end the inning. BOUNTIFUL came right back in the bottom of the sixth. Doug Andersen reached first with an infield hit and advanced to second on a wild throw. Mike Larrabee then reached first with a single and when Petersen hit Tim Smith with the next pitch the Braves had the bases loaded. Petersen then got another strikeout but Pat Baker singled to drive in a pair. The Vikes threatened in the top of the seventh with walks to Chad Parks and Pete Allen but following a strikeout the Braves got out of the inning with a double play off a line drive by David Rees. THOMPSON got the win giving up four hits and striking out nine while Petersen gave up six hits and struck out five. While this pitchers dual was going the Woods Cross and Highland team went the other route with the Cats taking a victory away from the Rams. 14-- 9 THIS GAME took three hours to play as both teams collected 1 1 hits off a variety of pitchers. Woods Cross scored six runs in the first and three more in the lead but then second to take a strange things began to happen. It was frustrating admitted Cat coach Steve Lindsay. We had a day and this week were to battle big lead and the last thing I told my Bonneville on Monday, Weber on pitcher was to throw strikes. What Tuesday and then travel to Clear- happens is we proceed to walk field for the Friday game. we last week everyone, during the game Layton lost to Roy 12 hitters. We just couldnt walked a as James Kortright pitched throw strikes no matter who we But Layton on the offensive tried he said. a side could muster only one hit, 2-- 9-- 0 1 first inning Brian Bailey single. Region Track Meets On Tap This Week This Thursday and Friday marks the days that Region One (Clearfield and Layton) and Region Four (Davis) will hold their annual region track meets. CLEARFIELD and Layton will head to Weber State to participate in a combined event where Region My grandpa is Kendall H. Sedgwick who teaches at Kaysville Jr. High. To many who see his 62 strongly-buil- t body and size 13 shoe, or hear his deep base voice probably think he's pretty mean, but I know a different side of him. GRANDPA IS really loving. Often you see him with a small grandchild cuddled on his lap, or a game laid out before him ready to play with another grandchild. He always puts us first. Once when I was younger he took my family to Lagoon while we were visiting from Texas. If you know how much Grandpa hates Lagoon, you would realize how much love that took. Although sometimes it's hard. Grandpa is always trying to help out. Often he gives me rides and takes me places. Ill never forget the time my family couldn't make it to our family reunion, so he took my sister and me all the way to California so we wouldn't miss out on the fun. EVEN THOUGH Deb Young and Wayne Millet loved the things Kendall did on the football field and wrestling mats, those darn grades always needed some work. But whose grades dont? season wasnt the BUT THE reason Hawkins called it quits. As he stated, I felt my decision became final because of two things. sport. A Tribute To The Mia Wouldnt desire to improve on some pretty sorry looking grades hed obtained while a student at Davis High School? Layton and continue to teach THE LAYTON High coach sists that his decision was made of his own choice and not because someone pressured me into it. There was no pressure at all, continued Hawkins. This decision was made because of the time factor and doing both sports and my desire to improve on my baseball career. When I go to California this summer, Laurie will go with me and well be able to spend the time together we want. Hawkins, who had coached the baseball team at Layton for three years prior to taking the football job, learned quickly through last summer just how much time is involved in preparing a high school football team for a season. But Hawkins didnt shrink his responsibilities last summer and fall and put in the time and effort that any coach does. During the summer and fall he put in the five to six hours extra a day that seems so necessary to produce results in the - it have been awful had Kendall Sedgwick, the dean of athletics in Davis County junior highs, hadnt had a Brad Hawkins has resigned as the head football coach at the school, effective immediately. KAYSVILLE KEITH Journal Sports One and Region Five will do things together this year. The girls and boys will both run at Weber State this week. DAVIS HIGH will try to bring home a region crown with a team that is capable this week at Davis High. OFFENSIVELY the Cats had plenty of heroes. Bryce Moore had a three run homer while Scott Jensen emptied the bases with a triple. Mike Teahon also had a triple, driving in two while Brady Andersen had a two run single. Darren Tweede added to the fireworks with a solo home run as just about all the Wildcats got at least one hit. Highland had the same number of hits but we had more extra base hits Lindsay added. David Larsen, Bryce Moore and Tweede all put in time on the mound. BEFORE WORLD War II the man simply had no desire to return to the classroom and eventually become a school teacher and a coach. It was a pretty idea. In his own words, Those grades of mine were t anything to promise a career in teaching. But little did he know. THE LONG months and years of his way of thinking and Kendall was ready to tackle the textbooks as well as opposing football players. GRANDPA IS sharing at school, too. Who else would borrow lunch money from when I happen to forget mine? Also, he is conveniently there when my mind fails to remember that I have to hurry to catch the bus on time. My grandpa is extremely special, and I love him very much. 1 Catherine Sedgwick the war changed Wow. Its wonders what a change of mind can do. Sedgwick wanted to be a school teacher and nearly 35 years later is being honored as one of the most disci- plined and well-prepar- in- structors the county has ever known. THE HONOR and hoop-l- a comes in the wake of his decision to call it quits after years of teaching within the county as well as 27 years of directing young men in junior high athletics. Just what if the retiree hadn't come back to the classroom and become a teacher and coach? Its a dreaded thought to think of, the hundreds of boys (now grown men) 30-pl- that Sedgwick wouldnt have affected in a positive way through his years of teaching and coaching. or a simple afternoon clash of sophomore basketball teams. Sedgwick put it best. I was telling my wife the other day that I'd been involved with athletics for 27 years but still hadn't lost the zeal to like em for another 27 years.. I WAS watching a Davis baseball game the other afternoon and one of the players questioned me how often I came out to the games. My reply was Whenever I want to. That's about it. Ill go whenever I want, providing this body of mine will get me there. I LOVE young people, theyre great. Theyre the future of this country. I particularly like the ones who get in athletics because they're willing to put out that little extra it takes to be more than av- Maybe someone would have, but certainly not the way Kendall did. erage. THINGS JUST fell into place for the native of Bountiful. After graduating from Utah State in 1958, and with teaching jobs scarce, he landed a job at the Utah Training School in American Fork. His tenure there was highlighted by an invitation to serve as a recreation director of which he said, "those kids could be taught anything whether you had 50 or 150." the state where his boys have settled in to become doctors, city Sedgwicks scrapbook doesn't across lie at home, but is spread all leaders, principals, coaches, teachers, church leaders and other prominent community people. THATS WHAT they are when they come through a junior high, said Sedgwick, Theyre boys. Take Mike Gardner for example, (who recently stepped down after years of coaching at Davis High). SHORTLY afterwards he began hs trek through three Davis County junior highs, starting first with North Davis. When Mark Argyle decided to give up the football team to Sedgwick, it was the beginning of a coaching dream era for both the coach and the hundreds of kids who went through his I started Mike out at North Davis as a seventh grader where he was rough around the edges, as rough as an youngster could be.' But through the time I had him, through high school, and through college, Mike became one of the best basketball players around. programs. After seven and a half years at North, he settled in at Central Junior where hed spend the next 14 years coaching football, baseball and basketball. He even tried to introduce wrestling (now a popular junior high sport in the IT BECOMES a thrill to follow them along. Id like to say it gets into my blood and is part of me. And I know it means just as much to me to have any of the boys Ive coached approach me downtown and stop to say hello for a minute. 35-ye- ar county). And why not? Sedgwick was a heavyweight champ in the Intermountain College Division during one year he attended Weber College and continued being a popular grappler and football player once he moved on to Utah State. AFTER CENTRAL he transferred to Kaysville Junior where 12 and unhighly successful forgettable years are coming to a close in the first part of June. Folks like Davis Grant Clearfield's Marcus Garrett and even others got a chance to send hundreds of young men along their way after solid high school days, but Sedgwick was the man who sent the raw material to those Culli-mor- e, schools. AND EVEN though hes retiring from it all, the man really isnt tired of athletics. Hes a regular fan at Davis High events whether its one of Kent Draaycr's baseball games U.S. History, civics and health). "I remember one year at Central we went 5 in football but came back to go the next season. The kids just matured that much in one year and they got so good that they went on later to help Davis High win a football championship. You cant give up, the future is everything, said Sedgwick. 0-- 7-- 0 SEDGWICKS enthusiasm shows too. Any local coach or fellow schoolteacher will back up that claim. One fellow school teacher, David Leo, commented, Maybe the thing that impresses me the most is that Kendall still appears to be having fun after all these years of teaching. He loves the kids and goes through those lessons year after year with more zeal than most teachers even want to think about. He still teaches like a first year teacher. ITS AMAZING. How many teachers can still get excited about teaching after 30 years of it? Most of them are waiting out their retire- ment. But Kendall, if you followed him around every day, youd never know he only has 20 days of teaching left. I want to be like him. He loves his kids and still has the discipline to get the job done. I for one am going to miss him. MIKE GARDNER reemphasized Leos claim of Kendall's genuine love for his kids. He said, Kendall always treated me as a special person and since he was my first coach, he made me respect coaches from the very beginning. "I haven't porter even years, he still games. And got a more loyal sup- today. After all the comes out to all of the not once has he me as a coach or any of my players, not once. He walks into the lockerroom after each and every game, win or lose, and congratulates kids and coaches. cri-tize- d THATS THE pay right there. beautiful, wouldn't trade for anything." EVEN THOUGH he's retiring, hope well always have him around. Sedgwicks friends outweigh the enemies by leaps and bounds because of his junior high philosophy that "winning isnt everything, but its the greatest experience of all. Davis High coach, Kent Draayer also had positive comments, having first played for Sedgwick in the ninth grade at North Davis. Its been it YOUNG PEOPLE, the junior high athlete for example, need to learn skills and more importantly need to learn how to work. Ive always tried to teach those things. "I've told the kids that just because they may not do well or even make the team in junior high doessnt mean they arent going to grow and do even better in high school. They must keep working because you never get something for nothing. IVE EVEN ii soil that philoso- phy in the classroom (He leaches I I WOULDNT have been inclined to be a coach for all of these years, if it hadnt been for Coach Sedgwick. He taught me what a coach should be like, Today hes an invited guest at of our games. We couldn't have a more loyal fan," said Draayer. all AS FOR Donna his wife, who's put up with his years of loving kids, including the five of their own. if Kendall isn't home vet then them isn't much question wluuc he is Its just a mallei of winch game lie went to |