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Show NS Hawks corralled by Cowboys by Doug Johnson MT. PLEASAN- T- A slippery, muddy field didnt slow down the Grantsville Cowboys as they ran over the North Sanpete Hawks, 34 to 6, in the first round of the 3A playoffs last Saturday. The Region 11 Cowboys ground out 298 yards rushing and scored in each quarter d against the Hawks, Region 8 injury-riddle- All four playoff teams from Region 8 lost in the first round as Region 1 1 made it a clean sweep. Emery lost to top ranked Bear River 37-- 0 on Friday, Delta lost at home 14-- 8 to defending champ Tooele and Lehi went down 28-2- 0 at Morgan. The loss marks the Hawks earliest exit from the playoffs since 2000 when at Canyon they lost 0 in a also bath. mud View, The last two years North Sanpete won their first' two playoff; games before losing on' a neutral field In the state semifinals. . ... Running back Chaz Fisher led Grantsville with 130 yards on 21 carries as he scored the first and the last of the Cowboys five touchdowns. Fisher tallied from the eight just three minutes into the game and from 33 yards out midway through the fourth quarter. "Fisher is finally getting healthy," said Grantsville coach Les Hamilton. "Hes been healing up from a bad knee injury last year. But the best news is hes just a junior." Quarterback Zack Nelson had another good day for the Cowboys, completing eight of 12 passes for 107 yards and running for another 95 on 20 carries including two touchdowns. Nelson leads all divisions in the state with 29 total touchdowns, 14 passing and 7-- rushing. Grantsville finished with 43 1 yards of total offense. Hamilton had nothing but praise for his line. "Our offensive line was the key to the win," stated Hamilton. "Physically they controlled the game and opened big holes. Were usually in good the shape when we control line of scrimmage. " Down by 21, North Sanpete looked like it might mount a comeback near halftime. After not attempting a pass until their last possession of the half, quarterback Trevor Johnson completed three in a row to move the ball to Grantsville 26, an 11 yard strike to running back Brady Wootton and then for 13 yards and eight yards to tight end Colton 15 -- 34-- 6 There the drive ended as time ran out, but the Hawks continued with momentum after the break. The Hawks scored five minutes into the third as Johnson scrambled around the left end for a score, a pair of passes to Tyson Church setting up the scoring play. North Sanpetes defense held the Cowboys to three and out, and following first punt of the game the Hawks moved the ball to the Cowboy 33. Threatening to make it a one touchdown game, the Hawks had four incomplete passes in row and Grantsville took over on downs. Two of the incompletions were just off receivers finger tips and aggravatingly close to being scores. That proved to be the last breath of life in the Hawk season, however, as Grantsville took over on downs and marched down the field on seven running plays. Grantsville The drive was capped off by a scoring run by Kevin Mouritsen to put the game out of reach. Though snow had to be scraped off the field on Friday and again the morning of the game, neither team committed a turnover in the muddy conditions. Grantsville fumbled the ball once near the end of the game, but the ball carrier recovered it himself. Johnson finished passing for North Sanpete for 149 yards, season highs in all three categories. Wootton, Tyson Church and Andrew Gardner each had three receptions, while Tim Madsen and Washburn had a pair apiece and Curtis Blackham had one catch. Madsen picked up the most ground with 37 yards. The Hawks managed only 39 yards on the ground on 18 running plays. Johnson had almost half the total with 18 yards. Church picked up 10 yards on only two carries. Blackham Defensively and Madsen led the team with 12 tackles, followed closely by Damon Gardiner with 10. Church and Gardner had eight tackles apiece and Johnson had seven. North Sanpete was stymied this year with seasonending injuries to key players in skill positions. Tight end Kyle Christiansen never saw action after the first half of the season opener as he broke a collarbone; against Dixie. Wide receiversafety John Anderson also went out with a broken collarbone in the second game at Timpanogos. Brett Madsen, first string last year as a junior, 25-ya- rd Gran-tsvill- 67-ya- 14-ya- rd 14-of-- es injured a knee at Emery in game seven, but felt he could have returned if the Hawks had made it to the second round of the playoffs. The final blow came in week eight when junior Kyle Poulson kept with the theme for the year by breaking his collarbone in a JV game at Pleasant Grove. Poulson played at least three different positions on defense and two on offense in every game along with handling the kicking and punting duties. As salt in the wound, Christiansen received stitches in week nine against Carbon when, while wearing street clothes on the sidelines, he was gashed by a kicking tee being thrown off the field after a Hawk kickto his cheek off. Grantsville 7 14 7 6 - 34 North Sanpete 0 0 6 0 -- 6 G Summary Scoring Fisher 8 run, Goettsche kick G - Nelson 17 run, Goettsche kick G - Nelson 2 run, Goet25 tsche kick run, kick failed 14 run, Goettsche kick 33 run, kick failed. -- er Tri-coun- ty little league champions MT. PLEASAN- T- North Sanpete defeated Manti with a score of 26-- 8 to win the championship game Oct. 11. The North Sanpete seventh grade team is undefeated for two years Coaches are Todd Lee, Lee R. Sorensen, Carl Clawson and Todd Cheney. Team players are Ryan Aagard, Cody Anderson, Keaton Kyle Anderson, Cheney, Cheney, Kolton Kaden Reggie Clawson, and Christiansen Jeremy Garlick. Kyle Hamilton, Clinton Harward, Jarom Ioane, Cody Irons, Kyle Ivory, Travis Jorgensen, Calvin Kamalu, Cody Keisel, Quade Larsen and Jordan Lee. Chad McKay, Jordan Seth Owens, Kenny Oldroyd, Rawlings, Skyler Richards, Taylor Ricks, Kyle Sorensen, Justin Stewart and Marcos Torres. . Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact. George Eliot $$ $$ The United States chose the bald eagle as its national bird in 1782. all-sta- te Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. Sarah Jewett YOUTH BASKETBALL A BOYS' & GIRLS' LEAGUES program of the Utah Jazz & Community Recreational Agencies 1. JR. JAZZ DIVISION Novice-3r- d & 4th Grades Intermediate 5th - 2. JR. & 6th Grades HIGH DIVISION 7th & 8th Grade Boys 7th & 8th Grade Girls EACH PARTICIPANT WILL RECEIVE: Uniform Jersey Certificate of Participation Utah JAZZ game ticket The ragged frog-fis- h fins of the make it appear to be floating seaweed. The bottle-nos- e dolphin is the most intelligent animal that lives in the water. The silliest woman can manage a cleaver man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. North Sanpete running back Brady Woo- ton looks for a hole to scoot through as his teammates Morgan Sorensen (71), Colton Washburn (1) and Tyson Church (33) seek out their blocking assignments. Photo courtesy of Alecia Wootton. Badgers take win over Thunderbirds 19-1-5 by Gary Chidester EPHRAI- M- After three the weeks 6f eliminating competition early, the Snow College football team found the road of the WSFL and the Mesa Thunderbirds more than enough of a challenge. The Badgers took the final lead of the game on the last play of the third quarter and relied on the defense to hold the lead through the 5 fourth quarter for the 19-1- win. Snow College racked up over 200 points in their last four games, but didnt get their first touchdown of the game until 2:42 left in the third quarter. The Badgers got on the board as they started their first possession on their own 12 yard line, but moved the ball into range of Chris Anderson who kicked a 33-ya- rd field goal Badgers on top to put the 3-- 0. The Thunderbirds took advantage of the first interception by Snow College in more than four games and scored a touchdown, but missed the extra point, to take the lead late in the first quarter. The Badgers tied the field goal score on a 24-ya- rd by Anderson in the second quarter. "It was nice to have that part of our game this week," said Jeff Kilts. "Chris really helped us out with those two field goals. We havent had a lot of opportunities in a tight game situation like this one for Chris to prove himself but this was a big one." Mesa scored again early in the third quarter to take a 13-- 6 lead and after pinning the Badgers deep in their own territory picked up a safety to extend the lead to 15-Thats when the Snow "We had a lot of trouble with field position," said Kilts. "I think we started in their territory only once. They did a really good job of keeping us deep in our own end of the field to start our drives. Its offense found their rhythm and scored twice within three minutes to take the lead. "Mesa has a good defense," said Kilts. "We knew that going in and they proved it. They have a lot of speed and we had trouble getting the wide receivers open. We made some adjustments and " were able to take advantage. Jason Coutts hit Luke Carter from 45 yards out and then less than three minutes later found Brian Romney in the corner of the endzone from 14 yards to pick up the win. Romney finished with 64 The Badgers were able to overcome a lot of adversity in picking up win number seven on the year. Snow College trailed in a ballgame for the first time since the loss at Dixie five weeks ago. Penalties once again plagued the Badgers too with 141 yards in penalties. Bottom line, Snow College had more points on the board at the end of the game and now plan for homecoming against the New Mexico Military yards receiving and Carter Academy. 6. College Proposed mule deer; elk management changes LAKE of Wildlife Resources officials have a goal for elk hunting in Utah in 2004 make it simpler, fairer and without consistent more the quality hunters sacrificing have come to enjoy. RAC citizen representatives will take public input received about the recommendations to the Utah Wildlife Board when it meets Nov. 13 in Salt Lake City to approve Utahs 2004 Big Game Proclamation. For more information about the meetings, call the nearest Division of Wildlife Resources office or the Salt Lake City office at (801) SALT CITY--Divisi- - 538-470- 0. Theyll share their ideas on how to do that at an upcoming series of Regional Advisory Council meetings. The public is encouraged to attend the meetings and provide the DWR with input and ideas. Another major item to be discussed will be Utahs Mule Deer Management Plan, which will guide the management of mule deer in Utah through 2008. The DWR is proposing new goals, objectives and strategies to guide the manof Utahs deer agement weapon archery, herds. This distribution would reduce current rifle elk hunting opportunities on some units and increase the number of archers and muzzlelo-ade- r hunters on the units. This would lay the groundwork for expanded limited entry elk hunting opportunities in the future, because archers and muzzleloader hunters are less successful than rifle hunters. It would also distribute hunting pressure over three hunts, which would lessen hunting pressure during the rifle hunt and provide a better experience for rifle hunters. Eliminate ML300 muzzle-loadelk permits and add the 1,300 ML300 permits to the general any bull elk permit cap. This would increase the any bull elk cap to 14,300 permits. Copies of the proposed plan as well as dates and times are available on the meetings portion of the DWRs Internet web site, wildlife.utah.gov. Copies will also be available at the meetings. Among the major big game hunting changes the DWR is recommending for 2004 are the following: Set aside 15 percent of the general buck deer permits in each region for youth hunters ages 14 to 18. Eliminate the second for drawing big game permits and sell permits not taken in the first big game draw in June. Eliminate AR301 archery elk permits. These permits are special archery elk permits that have allowed 300 archers to hunt all of the states general any bull elk units, as well as several spike bull and limited entry units. Allocate limited entry elk permits on all units in a consistent way, based on er Graduated rules & competitive levels by division JOIN THE JAZZ LEAGUE AT: Mt. Pleasant Recreation Center or at the Mt. Pleasant City Hall October 23 - November 14 to 8 p.m., Cost: $31 - 3rd - 4th Grade $36 - 5th - 12th Grade 2 8 offense. a lot harder to score a lot of points when you have to go against a tough defense like they have and go the length of the field every time. " Membership card. Utah JAZZ player clinic $10 for Jammin' Shorts (optional) Parents needed as volunteer coaches. For more information call 462-310- had 63 on just three receptions to lead the Badgers. Gordon Reid had 99 yards total offense and Coutts ran for 44 yards as Snow College finished with 418 yards total type-- 25 percent percent any weapon and 10 percent 65 muz-zleload- er When hunters buy an any bull permit, they could choose whether they wanted their permit to be a rifle permit or a muzzleloader permit. "The thing we keep hearing from elk hunters is that the regulations are too complicated. They also want the regulations to be fairer and more consistent across the board," Jim Karpowitz, big game coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources said about the proposed elk hunting changes. "At the same time, they dont want the quality of The Seventh Grade Little championship game Oct. 11. The team is Manti to win the undefeated for the last two years. Team defeated League Tri-coun- ty their hunting experience to decline. We believe weve come up with recommendations that will provide hunters what theyre looking for." |