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Show Page 4 APRIL 23, 1986 Davis track set this weekend By KEITH DUNCAN This weekend, F'riday and Satur- day, the annual Davis District Track and Field meet gets underway forthe tenth consecutive year. THE MEET will be conducted at Bountiful High School and it begins at 3 p.m. on Friday with trial races and some Finals. It concludes on Saturday with a starting time of 9 a.m. Many of the state's top athletes will be in attendance as all six of Davis County's high schools go at in mens and women's competition. SOME OF those top athletes include Woods Cross Carl Ward who is a top class runner in the 100 and 200 meters. Perhaps his toughest competition will come from Layton's Gary Willhide. There will be a heavy eye upon 1600 and 3200 meters where Davis Kurt Black and Woods Cross Matt Roat will be gunning at each other. Black beat Roat last weekend at the Coaches Invitational but Roat nipped Black in Ogden at the Weber State Invitational. Justin Julander of Davis is another one of the countys top long distance runners. the running of the KURT BLACK Kurt Black proving nice guys can win By KEITH DUNCAN KAYSVILLE-- - You've heard it before and now you'll hear it again. Nice guys just dont finish first. PERHAPS YOUVE heard, but dont believe it. The exception is Davis Kurt Black, the Darts talented long distance ace who is starting to build some noteriety for himself these days. THE DAVIS High senior loves to be good, not only on the track, but in the classroom and among his peers. Being radical and offbeat is something totally foreign. There are those who don't even coach him. but do have him in the classroom. Like Jim Dickson for example. Hes my kind of kid," said Dickson, He comes and does his job and then goes home without saying a whole lot. MAYBE BLACK, who is the cross country champion, doesn't have time to be a goof-ofwith the 70 miles of running he puts in each week. Hard work is as much his motto as mufflers are to State 4-- A f. Midas. Coach John Flint loves Black's attributes and after more than a decade of leading young men in spring track. Flint called Black as coachable a kid as I've ever dealt with." FLINT ALSO went on to say Kurt is polite and and would do anything that I asked. His coachability will take him a lot further than kids who don't have it." Black also has goals, goals like setting new state records in both the 1600 and 3200 meters this spring. At the rate he's going, don't be surprised if he does it. LAST SATURDAY at the Utah High School Track Coaches Association Invitational track and field meet. Black was one of only three double winners and in fact was the only mens double winner. He ran the 1600 meters (4:23.3 land barely beat out Woods Cross' Matt Roat. But that isn't too bad considering Black has never run the mile competitively before this season. He also won the 3200 meters seconds faster than the (9:40.69) second place man. Black's senior year has been good to him so far, a lot better than his junior season which was marred somewhat by a knee injury. That injury kept him out of cross country competition but he did come back to take second in the 3200 meters at the state meet behind Steve Richards of Skyline. BLACK AND his family moved to Utah from Oregon after his sophomore year, from a small town outside Eugene. Living in Eugene didn't hurt my running, said Black, Its like the running mecca of the world up there. All of the world class athletes go there to workout, ifs really something. At the cross country championships last fall, Roys Kerry Eas-thogave Kurt his biggest challenge and it will probably bear down to those guys in the 3200 meters later this spring. 4-- 3 game-winnin- g RBI. Paul Pacheco had three hits for the l.ancers in the win and Murray added a couple of his own. BIG REX Brimhall went the distance for the Lancers in the win. Bountifuls Joey Covey. from Davis' Clay Singley and another Davis runner in Dan Whiting. Clearfield's Jeff VonCoilin could be another who will sneak into the limelight. The relay races should be very competitive with Clearfield having the edge in the medlay and Layton a clear-cu- t choice in the 400 meter relay. THE FIELD events will be a world war. Craig Carter of Clearfield and Robert Porter of Layton will be locking horns in the discus, with Carter being much too strong lor the rest of the field in the shot put. If he does break the state record in the shot put this weekend, it won't count because the Davis District Meet is not a state sanctioned meet. OTHER TOP contenders in the shot put and discus will include Clearfields Peop Olivas and Vaun Steve Ford, and on a winning relay team. But Black Waite, Laytons Woods Cross Andy Frazier. has that type of thing in the back of The javelin event might be his mind right now. dominated by Davis Clay Singley Last year the kid from Timp-vie- because hes done just that in prior did it in the division and this year Id like to see what I could do." said Black. NOT very often in spring track that an athlete will win the 800 meters and run mile, two-mile, w 3-- A tanced races. Last Saturday's times were both personal bests for Black's initial involvement in track came because of an older brother's urging that he join a road I race. thought it was fun," he striking out 10 way. batters along the By KEITH DUNCAN WEST JORDAN the Lancers out. -- - Don't count ITS AMAZING what can happen in less than a week in prep track and field. Russ Jones Layton track team were worthless in their performance at Ogden's Weber State Invitational but they put together quite a showing in last Saturdays Utah High School Track Coaches Association Invitational by putting together 47 team points for a very respectable fifth place. Thats a whole lot better than the 12th place they posted in Ogden. HAD THE meet excluded A and participants, the Lancers 'would have tied for second place with 56 points with the Alta A Hawks. But on Friday, the success A bully Hillcrest Huskie team wasnt as abundant against the We- didnt surprise anyone in taking the ber Warriors when Weber scored a team trophy as they amassed 68 victory. points. Alta Finished second with THE WEBER pitcher put a 56 points and Clearfield this time clamp on the Lancer hitting, allow- was' third with 49. Weber finished ing just six hits. It was Webers fourth with 48 and then came the second straight win in region and Lancers. John Flints Davis High club lookup the sixth place spot their seventh win of the year. Thanks to Laytons Brimhall, with 43 points. the Lancers saved face by not LAYTONS boost this past week allowing themselves to get shutout. In the sixth inning he hit a single could be contributed to a number of preps, but perhaps senior John that scored Steve Montano. Wagstaff gets most of the credit for in region after his comeback in the hurdle races. LAYTON was e The converted the loss and overall. 10-- 1 4-- 4 Layton would like nothing more than to nip him this weekend. DARRELL Hicks of Clearfield and Darrell Gray of Layton would wage a pretty impressive battle in the long jump, both having gone over 21 feet so far this spring. The pole vault will feature a dogfight between Davis Dave Snowball, Clearfields Kent Bodily and Layton's Clint Brower. Local spikers show promise, success him. said, Even though some people think it's a terrible way to punish your body." meets. But Travis Vought of At West Jordan meet ULTIMATELY Black would like to run three races at state but he would really like to have state records in both of the longer dis- Lancers even as baseball begins Layton High enjoyed success on opening day in Region One but suffered through disappointment later in the week. BRAD Hawkins' Lancer crew got off on the right foot with a victory over Bonneville on April 15. That game wasnt decided until the ninth inning when sophomore Sanh Johnson, a native of Hawaii, hit a single that scored junior Boyd Murray. The bases were loaded when Johnson delivered his Davis-Wood- ITS AFTER HIGH school he plans to stay in Utah and attend a college that might offer a good scholarship. Perhaps one thing that is making Black a real threat to win three state events is his developing kick. I never used to have any kind of kick until just recently. It takes a lot of work to get that kind of thing under control, but Ill have it down before state comes," said Black. 1 THERE ARE many solid hurdlers around but look for Laytons John Wagstaff to lead the pack. Hell get some good competition DAVIS HIGHS STACEY Field, showing great promise as a sophomore, goes up and over the high jump bar to win the event during the s Cross dual track meet last Wednesday. The Darts remained unbeaten in league by whallop-in- g Woods Cross in both boys and girls competition. Photos by Jim Haskett. middle-distanc- runner captured a second place in the 300 1M hurdles and was fourth in the low hurdles. Wagstaff, if injuries do not beset him, will probably get better and better in those races as the year progresses. Another star Lancer was junior Gary Willhide who is back from some sickness and who took sixth place in both the 100 and 200 meter races. Willhide was also inserted in Layton's 400 meter relay tandem this week, along with Darrell Gray, and that team finished fourth which was one spot better than what they did at Ogden. about Gray, this junior surprised a lot of folks by jumping 21 feet and five inches in the long jump to take second place. He was just an inch away from first AND IN talking place. Willhide, Wagstaff and Gray all did extremely better than what theyd done in Ogden, but Laytons consistent people con- tinued to do their jobs at West Jordan. Take Robert Porter for instance, he broke his personal best and the school record in the discus to take first with a toss of 159-7- ': place over Clearfields Craig Carter. Porter also did better this week in the shot put by taking fourth ' place w ith a measure of 50 feet inches. 1 1 ANOTHER steady has been senior Travis Vought in the javelin where his toss of 172 feet earned him fourth place. Garland Barnes and Andy Kelly have also been consistent in tlie spring relay race. Layton also go a good effort from Clint Brower in the pole vault where he leaped 12-- with a fourth place showing in the in the shot discus and a fifth place put. 8. THE FALCONS had to feel good about their performance. Finishing third overall with 49 points. It was an improvement in points over their showing in Ogden. Coach Kevin Jamieson, the new first year coach, got a very good showing from Leo Arteaga, Craig Carter, Don Gladfelter and Lance Roberts in the medlay relay where they took first place with a time of 3:40.86. That was nearly two seconds faster than the team from Alta. WE FELT really good about our relays, said Jamieson, Our medlay not only got the job done, but our mile relay took sixth place. The usual good story of Craig Carter in the shot put and discus was just as usual again. Carter let one fly in the shot that measured 60-just a few feet shy of the state record. In the discus he threw only 157 2': which was good enough for second place. 3, THE FALCONS again got some good back-u- p support in the shot and discus as Peop Olivas took second in the shot and third in the discus. That performance wont hurt Olivas who is gearing up for this weekends BYU decathlon competition. Vaun Waite also had a good day DAVIS HIGHS John Flint was pleased with his teams performance as well. The Darts took in 43 points in the two-dacompetition and nearly half of those came from senior Kurt y Black in his winning both the 1600 and 3200 meter races. Black had a much tougher tii.i j of it in the 600 meters where he edged Woods Cross Matt Roat by the slimmest of margins. However in the 3200 meter he beat Keith Taylor of Bonneville by more than nine seconds. 1 SENIOR CLAY Singley won for the second straight week in the That javelin with a toss of was nearly twelve feet better than the second place toss by Altas Park. Singley, a good hurdler, took 191-- 9. sixth place in the 110 meter high hurdles. Greg Willard continued to be consistent in the high jump as this time he took third with a jump of Earlier in the week he jumped 6-- 6-- 4 in a dual meet. OTHER credit for Davis show- ing must go to Justin Julander (sixth in the 3200 meters), Dan Whiting (sixth in the 300 IM hurdles) and Tim Pehrson (sixth in the high jump). Dave Snowball got untracked in the pole vault this week as he tied for fourth place. |