OCR Text |
Show Thursday, October 21, 2004 PYRAMID THE 7 Dixie overpowers Snow in first game on new turf Brad Barton SNOW COLLEGE EPHRAIM- - College Badgers, Saturday afternoon SPORTS When ri- vals meet on the football field, all previous accomplishments and failures are cast aside. The 10 Dixie State Rebels proved this to be true as they overcame a devastating loss at Pima last weekend to humble the 14 Snow Hawks destroy Dinos, host Delta to decide crown 31-1- 7 Badger Stadium. Still, this proved to be a game of spurts with the Rebels capitalizing on momentum first. This was done as QB Danny South-wic- k hit talented tailback J. T. Diederichs on a TD pass while Diederichs ran for anoth 15-ya- rd tops in 3A. He has two touch- Doug Johnson THE PYRAMID downs receiving and has also returned an mterception for a score. Leading 41-- at halftime, Hawk Coach Blake Turner pulled his starters after two series in the third quarter. Starting quarterback Kyle football title. Poulson threw only six passNorth Sanpete crushed es, completing five of them , Oct. 15, in Price for 112 yards. Carbon Senior wide-ou- t to set up a showdown with John AnDelta Thursday, Oct. 21, for derson pulled in passes of 76 a share of the region crown. and 22 yards, both of which The game will be played a went for scores. For the season Anderson leads all 3A reday earlier than usual because of the deer hunt. ceivers with 575 yards and A North Sanpete win his 10 touchdowns places would give the Hawks at him behind only Les Brown least a snare of the region ti- of Judge Memorial who has tle for the fourth straight 11. The other North Sanpete year. The Hawks won the crown outright in 2001 and scores came on a 2002 with perfect records in first quarter fumble return league play, but settled for a by Tyler Anderson and a three-watie with Delta and run on the first play of Lehi last year. the fourth quarter by junior An identical three-watie Tyler Walker. could happen again in 2004 if Brandon Beck and Tyler North Sanpete can beat Delta Christensen had intercepand Lehi gets by Emery tions for the Hawk defense and the Hawks also recovThursday night. North Sanpete dismantled ered three Dino fumbles. Carbon on Friday to set up North Sanpete picked up 391 their shot at Delta. Their 61 yards of total offense while points are the most scored holding Carbon to 100 yards. Delta comes into Thursny a Hawks team since they, in 1999, days contest with a record beat Richfield in Region 8 and 2 and is the fifth highest point of total ever by a Hawk team. overall. The Rabbits have e Pine win lost to second-rankeDuring its fourth-rankeand North has View, streak, Sanpete Cedar City, outscored its opponents 186-2North Sanpete stands at 1 Junior tailback Tyson in region play and 54 overChurch was unstoppable all. Delta has been hampered running for 171 yards on only 11 carries while scoring recently with injuries at the five touchdowns in a game quarterback position, but for the second time in the Rabbit Coach Dean Fowles last three weeks. Church is a master at preparing his scored touchdowns on the team for big contests. Delta beat North Sanpete last first play of three consecuafter the tive series in the second year, quarter to put the game out Hawks downed the Rabbits of reach. The speedster in each of the two previous scored on runs of 3, 24, 47, seasons. In the first round of this 37 and 27 yards. Church has 1,141 rushing years 3A playoffs, Region 8 yards on the season making teams will be matched him the third leading ground against teams from Region gainer in 3A. He trails only 9. Pine View will most likely Kyle Coop of Snow Canyon finish first in Region 9, while who has 1222 yards and Dal- this week Cedar City and las Irvin of Dixie with 1164. Snow Canyon play for secChurchs 15 TDs rushing are ond and third place and Dixie second only to Irvins 16, and and Hurricane play each othhis 18 total TDs scored is er for the last playoff berth. PRIC- E- After starting the season with a record of 14, the North Sanpete Hawks e have reeled off a win streak and placed themselves right in the thick of the race for the Region 8 field goal by Joey er score as Dixie gained a 14-lead after the first pe- Mack and a halfback pass riod. from wideout Jake Little Henderson Nevertheless, the Bad- to Travis which that the showed gers gave Badgers a they lead at intermission. would not be intimidated as Deondrick Nunez reDespite these big plays, turned a kickoff 91 yards turnovers and fatigue for a touchdown early in cost Snow dearly as for the second quarter. the second consecutive Snows dominance of this year, the Rebels shut period also consisted of a them out in the second half of play. Although the Badgers defense was able to virtually shut down Dixies passing attack, Diederichs was able to have an above average 22-ya- rd at 0 four-gam- 0 17-1- 4 day. The Seattle native Meanwhile, Landon Beus led the way for Snows ground attack, amassing 76 yards on 14 carries, while Ty Sparrow did all he could to stymie Dixies offense with a team-hig- h 13 tackles. Things remain optimistic for the Badgers, however, as this next weekend they will celebrate Homecoming by inviting the surprise team 34-yar- d, 24-ya- rd y of the WSFL in the y 3-- 6-- 0 four-gam- d 19-- d 6, 30-1- 1. 4. 2-- 42-2- 1, Andraus Grace, DL, 55, gets both arms around a Dixie State Rebel. new turf feels.' He SPORTS WRITER T- You know the feelwas it when you saw your ing. Maybe girlfriend with another guy. Or you might have felt it in the classroom as you realized there was no way on earth you were going to pass that exam. It could have even been when you found out that George Clooney would be playing Batman. Or maybe not. But you have felt it; tasted it. Everyone has. It is the youve bitter pill of disappointment. The Lady Hawks swallowed it down last week as they dropped another match to the Lady Dinos. Despite a bet- MT. PLEASAN- ter showing than in the previous match at Carbon, North Sanpete still couldnt find a way to slow down the Dinos of- Bedford UH-SA- A meets. near-perfe- ct 17 points. Lehis home course, new all-state- rs under-classme- fense. The loss ultimately means, barring a bizarre turn of events next week, the Hawks have lost their chance to claim another region title. While this realization may be a disappointment, the Hawks aren t in the business of being down. Now more than ever is a time to focus. Its sad, but we feel like we can come back, junior Shandi Tucker stated. We need to work hard now to get ready for state. A great man is made up of qualities This season has proved to be one of meet or make great occassions that ungrowth for the Lady Hawks. Several Russell Lowell James show to derclassman have stepped up 25-1- 2, 25-1- on snowbadgers.com. school grounds quickly, led the SPORTS WRITER competitors up a long MT. PLEASAN- T- High hill, then descended into school cross country runners trails among the sagebrush tuned their race fitness in before a mile long homeinto a steady headearly October in preparation stretch for last weeks critical Re- wind. First up was the girls race. gion meets, the only way to Defending champions for the this for weeks qualify three years, North Sanpast State Championships. For North Sanpete Highs pete's Lady Hawks arrived runners, this meant a trip deeper and more talented back to Lehi to compete than last years squad, but well aware of the abilities against Region 8 foes Car- not of the other teams. No one bon, Delta, Emery and the host Pioneers. For Wasatch was quite ready for the show as Academys Tigers, it was a they put on, however, of out the return to Dugway, host of they swept eight the last several Region 18 top 10 positions to score a Bill Senior Heather Garlick, was this year, started and ended last years runner-up- , be denied not this to year as at Pony Eixpress Elementary, about eight miles west of she paced the team with her Lehi. The course, approxi- win in 21:34, followed by Flinders in second mately three miles, left the Stephanie ana freshman Sylvia Bedford in third. Deltas Brittany Johnson managed to break the Lady Hawk stranglehold in fourth before remaining off their talent. Juniors Shandi Tucker red uniforms streamed and Brittany Hansen are two outside across .the finish line to hitters who know how to put the ball quickly seal the win for North Sanpete. away. Freshman Katie Curtis was Their assignment of replacing senior from last year has not been fifth and Teni Francks sixth easy, but they have filled in admirably. to produce the team score of Ana they love their new roles. Accord- just 17. The sea of red, howing to Tucker, the best part is simply ever, just kept on coming as Toni Garlick, 7th, Linda being together, we are a team. Mandi Parks is another junior with Brothersen, 8th and Michelle much to prove. She has been instrumen- Mollinet, 10th left no doubt tal in harmonizing the Hawks offense. about the Lady Hawks abiliAfter settling into her duties as setter, ty to dominate in the Region. We have had talented Mandi has picked up her play a notch, teams teamof her confidence the before, commented gaining mates in the process. Sophomore Janelle Coach Bill Bedford, but Im Kendall has also played tough as a not sure we have ever been blocker and will continue to dominate in this deep. There are a lot of the middle. ways you can spin what n added to their these girls have just accomThese resumes last weekend in a JV tourna- plished, but lets just say ment in Juab where they took top hon- eight out of the top 10 is alors. They dismantled five straight most unheard-of- . What is really impressive teams, each in two straight games, on is the athletic ability of our their way to winning the tourney. Earlier last week, the Hawks took girls: most of them run cross care of the Lehi Pioneers country in addition to playJessica Aagard led the of- ing another sport: volleyball, fense with 15 kills. Tucker and Hansen clobbered kills of their own. Holly Water for sale Christensen led the defense with 10 digs. 25-2- might have said, Let's see how this Scoits-dal- e to Artichokes Ephraim. Game time will be 1:30 p.m.,on Saturday Oct. 23, and can be heard Region Cross Country summary North Sanpete volleyball loss tough to take Benjamin Cox d carries, running mate Alphonso Cunningham gashed them for 12.2 yards on an average carry, five rushes, 61 yds. 61-0- 62-1- 0 pum-mele- Snows defensive front for 237 yards on 36 while 17-2- 7, 2, Curren Christensen, RB, Ephraim, finds a small hole and goes through, breaking away from a Dixie State Rebel. tennis or soccer! Final team Hawks, in addition to Carr, scores were NS 17, Carbon were Eric Heywood, Ben 64, Emery 72, Delta 82, Lehi Russell, Alex Christensen no score. Low score wins. and Shaun Russon. North Sanpetes Hawks were less fortunate, however, as they were narrowly edged by both Emery and Carbon in a race dominated by Lehi. As the fourth place finisher, the Hawks failed to advance to State. However, senior Bryce Carr, a four-yea- r harrier for the Hawks, ran a competitive 16:22 to take second overall and advance to State for NS, running as an individual. His dreams of a great race at State remain alive and well, though he would have preferred to be running with his teammates, said Coach Bedford. Final team scores were Lehi 25, Emery 66, Carbon 66, NS 74, and Delta 112. Scoring for the At Dugway, Region 18 runners squared off on a challenging course in the desert. Defending champion Reo Tahara, a senior at Wasatch, started too slowly to mount a serious attack on West Desert and had to settle for second this year. He was joined by teammate Denny Blackhair in fourth (21:46) with his best effort to date of the season. Both athletes will advance to State with a top-1- 0 finish, though they will run as indi- North Sanpete School District 5, The North Sanpete School District is accepting applications for the following position. for well permits 462-214- 1 viduals. UHSAA State Championships were held, Oct. 20, at Sugarhouse Park, Salt Lake City. All participants raced the traaitional 3.0 mile course within the park. POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT 9. - (1A) HEAD COACH & ASSISTANT COACH FOR BOYS SOCCER North Sanpete High School MT. PLEASANT CITY MT. PLEASANT CITY 5 ON 5 FULL COURT CO-E- D VOLLEYBALL LEAGUE $ 150.00 Registration Fee 1 2 Players per team DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS OCTOBER 22, 2004 Pleasant For more information call the Mt Recreation Center at 462-- 3 1 08 BASKETBALL M525 ' LEAGUE $200.00 Registration Fee 0 Players per team 1 DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS OCTOBER 22, 2004 For more information call the Mt Pleasant Recreation Center at 462-- 3 1 08 Closes: NOON, October 22, 2004 Interested persons may fill out a written application at the North Sanpete School District Office, 220 East 700 South, Mt. Pleasant, UT 84647. Persons with applications already on file at the school district office or current employees may call 5 to have their application activated for this position. 5 Persons may also call (435) to have an form mailed. application 462-248- 435-248- North Sanpete School District is an equal opportunity employApplicants are considered on the basis of employment qualifications without regard to race, color, political affiliation, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, medical condition er. or disability- li |