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Show Page 4 APRIL 2, 1986 . Darts open season Davis baseball on the upswing By KEITH DUNCAN - KAYSVILLE Beautiful baseball parks deserve good baseball teams to play on them. June. Two years ago Davis made an appearance at the tournament, but last year's I 9 Region Four season didn't do the trick in getting them to either Ken Price or Derks. -- missed most of last season due to a knuckle injury but has been looking extremely good so far this year. Mounteer will probably play first base and some outfield while Peterson will cover either left or center-fiel- d. HOPEFULLY that kind of marriage will be taking place this spring at Davis High School. The Darts do possess a fine facility, perhaps one of the finest in the area. It only got better this past year when the district put up the home-rufence which distinctly sets the park off. n' OFFICERS OF THE Davis Park Ladies Golf Association for this year are. front from left. Ann Bingham, publicity; Jane Whitmeyer, handicap chairman; Nancy Higley, state representative: and Dorrie Flewelling, secretarytreasurer; back row from left are Jean Lewis, publicity; Lorraine Phelps, state team captain; Nancy Oyler, tournament chairman; and Tammy Downey, president. Absent from photo was Geneil Moore, vice president. KAYSVILLE The Davis Park Ladies Golf Association held their opening social March 25 at the club banquet room. The golf season began Tuesday. April I. PREVIOUS and prospective members are welcome to join the Association for a season filled with fun. companionship and golf. Prospective members can call Tammy 0 for Downey, president at further information. 544-345- Taylor, Trimble spark All-St- ar performance THE PARK has done its part, now how 'bout the club that will play its home schedule there. According to old baseball enthu- siasts around the school, the spring sport has got a bit of electricity running through it these days. If that's the news, then perhaps Davis High fans will be in for a treat for the next 90 days as the prep season runs its course. KENT DRAAYER, entering his 20th season as a prep baseball coach, says his '86 club will be almost an equal balance between seniors, juniors and sophomores. Of course the sophomores still have to prove themselves, but the Darts do have some good young players ready to tackle some varsity positions. Hopefully Draayer will be able to blend the right combination together so the Darts can land tournament another spot in the 4-- which once again will be played cruiters were present during the team was led by ecnt. The East's Josh Grant with 22 points. Skyline's Dave Nash with 18, Taylor with 17. Orem's Mike in THE DARTS open their varsity schedule this week against Layton on Thursday at home and following day at Clearfield. The primary leadership for this year's club w ill have to come from a quartet of seniors and primarily Kurt Mountecrand Dave Peterson who have been voted the team's The other two seniors include Kevin Wareham and Rod Schmidt. MOUNTEER is coming off a ti bril- - er WELL ALSO expect he and Peterson to create some exciting things leadership wise. Peterson spring. DAVIS d MURRAY IS another good who saw pitcher, a plenty of J.V. action last season. Warden played in six varsity games as the catcher wljen Mike Robinson sustained an injury last year. Warden is the Refrigerator' of the bunch and will at least be one who will be aiming for the 'home-rufence. right-hand- n' electricity running through it... baseball, quipped Draayer, "He's a competitor. THOSE FOUR sophomores include Reed Secrist. Chris Herrea. Mike Jones, and Jason Bourgeous. and the rest Reed is are lefties. The rest of the six juniors that lettered last season include Paul Murray, Rob Warden. Clint Allen. Matt Bourgeous. Steve Bush and Jason Citte. right-hande- WAREHAM, at this moment, is the club's No. I pitcher and hopefully it will stay that way all season saw action long. The right-handlast season on the varsity level and is ready to make his senior year something to remember. Wareham is also a solid designated hitter. The fourth senior is Rod Schmidt who plays second base and can pitch. Draayer is excited about Schmidt's attitude coming into this ...its got a bit of liant football year where he chewed up chunks of yardage as a running back and was ever present on defense as well. I think Kurt's tremendous football season will carry over into now among four good sophomores. We're just waiting for one of them to rise up and say. Em the guy'." PROBABLY No. 2 pitcher would be York Hill, one of seven juniors on the club that lettered last season. Either he or Schmidt could start in that No. 2 position. Hill is a tough little righthander who will battle folks till the end. As for the rest of the rotation, Draayer says, It's a toss-u- p right ALLEN STARTED for most of the year at third base last year and he's back again to do it again in "86. Draayer began playing him as a designated hitter at first and because he connected so often they made a spot for him on the club. Bourgeous plays shortstop and is coming back for his junior year after playing a lot of varsity action his sophomore year. Secrist can also do a good job at the shortstop position. BOTH BUSH and Citte play in the outfield and will be keys to the successes of this year's club. 4-- A ' Peterson with 14. Brighton's Richard Saunders with 10. The all stars fought back from a 8 deficit after one quarter to take a 4-- 22-1- halftime lead, and never trailed again. Bountiful's Steve Lancers discus star optimistic Bv KEITH DUNCAN 44-3- 7 Mihas was whistled for his third personal foul early in the first quar-te- r and saw limited action, although he did score a basket in the fourth quarter and had several assists. In the girls game preceding the rode the contests, the 3-- A 25 all-sta- point performance of Judge High's Kelly Shaheen to an excit2 double - overtime victory ing over the 4'A stars. Vicki LaFoun-tain- e of Spanish Fork played an excellent game for the team, adding 16 points. THE SQUAD was led by Woods Cross' Becky Trimble with 17 points and Cyprus High's Sheri Snow with 16. Wendi Warhurst of Woods Cross added 13 and Nancy 97-9- MIKE TAYLOR 3-- A RR A High star Mike Taylor scored 17 points to ail star boys help the Utah team to a 105-8- 6 victory over the stars during a benefit contest for United Cerebral Palsy Friday night. M U 4-- A 3-- A TAYLORS performance had to help his chances fora college scholarship. as several coaches and re- - 4-- A Kirkpatrick of Davis added II points and several key defensive plays. Proceeds from the contest benefit Camp Kostopoulus in Emigration Canyon. Davis golf ladies meet The Davis Park Ladies Night Golf Association w ill hold its opening social Monday, April 14 at the golf course. Registration w ill be at 6:30 p.m. with dinner, business meeting and social to follow' at 7 p.m. WE ENCOURAGE all former members as w'ell as all ladies interested in some fun golfing to come and join. RSVP to Nancy 0 8 or Burningham at 5 or Joan Bohning at The Association will or begin its regular golfing season on Monday, April 28. 298-011- 451-320- 773-455- 825-990- 5. ICJH basketballers strong By DAIN BROOKS South Davis and TRACY TANNER Kaysville Jr. High - The Knights, KAYSVILLE champions of the north end. were defeated by a worthy foe. South Davis Jr. High. South Davis proved to be the hardest team to t time beat. Tlw they played Kaysville Jr. they defeated them . 91-6- 0. THE BASKETBALL schedule this year included: Kaysville defeated Farmington Kaysville defeated Mueller and lost to South Davis Park pre-seaso- n, 66-6- 0: 67-4- 2: 91-6- 0. During the season which began January. Kaysville defeated : defeated )a vis North 7 and vton North Davis 5.- 10: defeated Sunset North Davis Ccn North Davis avton and lost to lost to Sunset in 68-5- 82-7- 2; - I THE PLAYERS, under the direction of Coach Reese, who made this season an excellent one were Chris Anderson. Fred Bartley. Clark Caldwell. Jeremy Chiles. Carl Gardner. Russel Hansen, Scott Harris, Grant Murray. Jeff Nash. Troy VandcrHulsc. Sam Adams. Tom Bartley. Brad Gardner. Ryan Hansen. Travis Hill, Brian Knyaston. Quinn Major. Kevin Peel. Jon Rhodes. Clark Finlinson. Todd Heath and Jim Howard. Managers were David Wagner, Kevin Caravan. Emily Timothy and Lydia Harris. The usual starters were Brad Gardner. Carl Gardner. Jeremy Chiles. Jeff Nash and Clark Caldwell. 70-4- 3 I -- 84-4- 60-7- J 72-5- 7; 73-6- 73-6- 9 TOP rcbounder of the season was Jeff Nash with Clark Caldwell second. Highc1 ,,r ir one game was Clark Caldwell with 23 points. LAYTON - Layton High's Robert Porter has a certain perspective about life that has most track coaches around the state drooling for a chance to mentor -- him. THE DEFENDING Region One discus champion says there is two sides to every subject and further says, its just a matter of whether you want to live in positive, good side or dwell in negative, bad side. Porter says its also a matter "of How can kids getting involved. say something is cheap and for the birds, if they havent tried it?, Porter asked. THERE ARE a lot of kids that say Layton High is the pits, that it is a terrible school and nothing is right with it. But I don't think so. I have a great time here. I've never had so much fun before," Porter con- tinued. THE LANCER junior was sincere with his comments and the real truth of the matter is. he is having fun. Why not? It's time for another track and field season of which a kid of this caliber can have the time of his life. As a sophomore Porter emerged as one of the state's finest in the discus and went about '85 sustaining that kind of claim every where he competed. HE WAS victorious in numerous dual meets last season and was one of the top three contenders in every major invitational. As it ended, he beat out Clearfield's Craig Carter and Bonneville's Chad Law for the Region One title but then slipped at the state meet and settled for third place behind Law and Carter. Competing with those two guys (Law and Carter) was an experience that I'll always remember." says Porter. "They were the cream of the crop." NOW LAW has graduated but Porter is still going to have his battles in the discus and shot put w ith Clearfield's Carter who is in his senior year. Porter's furthest toss in the discus in '85 went 158-- 1. 1 THIS SPRING, after a solid summer of throwing and a winter full of weight training. Porter has got a throw as far as 67 feet in the discus and over 50 feet in the shot put. How far can he go? I DONT know my limit." said Porter, "And I hope never stait I thinking there is a limit. I 've got my sights set on reaching the state rein the discus before cord of 88 feet I graduate. Thats quite a ways out there, Im working hard to achieve but it." AND THE kid is doing just that, working hard. Even though the Lancers have yet to have a dual meet. Porter is working out at least two full hours after school which ace discus thrower was mutual too. Having Robert around is like having an extra coach in your hind pocket," said Jones. WHAT I mean by that is, that when we are for instance videoing each other, Robert can take the video home that night and come back the next day and tell me exactly what hes done right and what . :x hes done wrong. If theres a problem with hfs throw, then he wants to have it . fixed and he'll take advice from me and immediately begin working on it, continued Jones. THE KID is a super guy and Layton High is a better place with kids his caliber around," concluded the coach. doesnt include any weight training. Layton coaches meet Perhaps the presence of Carter will aid him in booming across the 160 and 170 foot barriers this spring. Competition is a funny thing and with these two going at each other in invitationals throughout the spring, records could start tumbling fast. AS IN all track events, people have a tendency to do real well in practice. But its when you're in the ring and performing under the watchful eye of a judge that really counts. remember watching Davis Eric Thompson last year. He taught me a great deal about the event. But one of Eric's troubles is one of everyones. In practice throws he was booming them out there, but in competition he cracked. The Layton City Coaches Association is announcing their coaches meeting for all new coaches and coaches from last year. This meeting is to be held April 4 at 8 p.m. at the Layton City Recreation Center. workthis year, every- ing with the discus thing from watching videos that Coach (Russ) Jones has got to just physically working out. But all of that doesn't matter if I can't get in the ring and let 'em fly w hen it really counts." said Porter. All in all. Porter has taken the discus event quite seriously. He's made some personal goals for himself of which one is to obtain a scholarship someday from a college because of his discus talent. WITH HIS sights set on that. Porter even went so far as to give up football this year. It was a decision that I made myself," said Porter. "My future in football wasn't that bright so I'm giving it everything I've got in the discus." PORTER AND his coach are close and it's a combination that will spell success this spring. The junior thrower not only wants to do well for himself, but he'd like nothing more than to help his Layton teammates repeat as region cham- pions. Coach Jones had us working hard and drilling intensely from Day No. I last spring and even though we weren't thinking region championship in the beginning, it's because of our preparation that w e got the job done," he said. THE COACHES feeling for his tween 9 and 15) (be- participating in the baseball program. Anyone interested in coaching or umpiring is encouraged to attend. For more information call the City Recreation Office at 544-168- Trail ride is planned 1 IVE SPENT a long time THIS MEETING is open to all parents that have children Layton City Recreation will be Trail sponsoring its Ride, Friday, April 4. They will be going out to the mountains west of Tooele. There will be no charge involved, but you must supply Semi-Annu- al your own horse and transporta- tion. FOR MORE inform ation contact at Layton Recreation Carter Cook 544-168- 8. Kaysville recreation announces schedules The Kaysville Recreation Department has announced its details pertaining to its junior boys baseball and girls softball programs this summer. THIS YEAR the boys baseball program will include: A new tee-baleague, 7 year olds; minor league, ages major league, and two Babe Ruth ages leagues. 13 year olds, and ages Ages are determined as of July 31. 1986. Birth certificates will be required at registration for all boys ages ll 6-- Registration forms will be used again this year and should be filled out completely before coming td registration. These forms will be handed out at each of the elementary and junior high schools in Kaysville on Thursday. April 10. They can also be picked up at the Kaysville City Hall. 0: 14-1- 5. The girls softball program will feature two leagues, one for girls ages 1 2, and the other ages 9-- 13-1- REGISTRATION fees will be $12 per boy in $15 per boy tee-bal- fieldhouse, Saturday, April 12 from 1 a.m. Anyone planning to play must register. A late registration fee of $5 will be applied for all late comers after the registration 9-- dates. All players will be assigned to teams shortly after registration. Team practices will begin April 28 with league play beginning June 2. l, in minor league, $15 per boy in the majors, and $20 per boy in the Babe Ruth leagues. The fee for girls will be $12 and be $15. REGISTRATION will be conducted at the Davis High School forages 13-1- 5 2 it will ADULTS ARE being sought to help assist as coaches, assistant coaches, and scorckccpers. For further information, call Kaysville City Hall at 546-123- 5. ' ' |