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Show Will Box Elder Wrestling Suffer With Departure Of Coach Lamoine Merkley? With the welcoming of Box Elder High School into Region One athletics, about the only people who really didnt welcome the Bees were Mike Hansen of Layton and Scott Tennis of Clearfield. THE REASON of course that Hansen and Tennis maybe arent as warm as others is the fact the Bees possess one of the elite wrestling programs in the state and it will only cause more headaches for their clubs. Actually Hansen and Tennis have all the respect in the world for the Box Elder program, but both of them might have sighed a sigh of relief when Box Elder's fine coach, Lamoin Merkley, decided to step out of the Box Elder position and head to the state of Washington to accept an administrative position in the district he grew up in. Merkley will assume his new position by Aug. 1. DURING MERKLEYS five year stay at Box Elder, he successfully led the Bees to five re gion championships and the schools first state championship in any sport in 30 years. The Bees placed third in the state title chase last winter. During the stay, Merkley helped ten wrestlers win individual state championships. Will Merkleys departure hurt the Bees? Laytons Hansen really doesnt think so. With the kids theyve got coming back next year, they could probably do anything without a coach, said Hansen who expects the Bees to be the team to beat next year. If they get a coach who is knowledgeable about the sport, theyll be competitive. I know theyll be tough to beat for at least two years. THE THING that has made Box Elder so impressive in wrestling has been a coach who is super, a little league program that gets kids thinking about wrestling early and a few families up there that live and die with wrestling. But Merkley has without a question been the guy who has brought it all together. I have a lot of respect for him, said Hansen. Moon, Merrill Honored - LAYTON Its that time of the year when coaches at the local high schools get together and select the athletes in their schools who represented leadership, scholarship, citizenship activity and athletic ' ability. Baseball gave the Lancers their second region title of the year while the other two spring sports represented the school well too. well-round- EACH YEAR after all the equipment has been put away, Layton coaches select the athletes they feel should represent the school with the Ken Call Award (Student-Athlete- ) and the Outstanding Layton High Athlete Award. This year the Ken Call award went to Brad Merrill. Brad played quarterback in the fall, a strong forward for the basketball team and was a first baseman in baseball. The Ken Call Award is sponsored by Dr. Robert F. Bitner who lives in Layton and is active in church and community affairs. AT LAYTON High, its been a season of ups and down in athletics. The football squad narrowly missed the playoffs but the basketball team excelled with brilliance in the annual tournament. Perhaps it was the wrestling squad that enjoyed the best overall success by whipping their own region and taking second in the state title chase. During the spring it was baseball, soccer and track making it to state playoff appearances. 4-- Layton, Kaysville, Farmington and after their first two games. C league baseball in 2-- 0 Hill Field is bound to get a score from the Layton Yankees who went Yankees Doing It Right In - this year looks to be as comThe petitive as any league in the area according to Burke, who has compared it to leagues in Clearfield and Ogden. Fifteen teams make up the league this year which represent Kaysville, Hill Air Force Base, Layton and Farmington. baseball in Layton LAYTON Citys Recreation network is booming and so are the Yankees, one of the teams representing the city in this years summer set-uTHE YANKEES are under the direction of Coach Kelly Burke, who as a Layton resident, has been coaching the summer sport for at least C-Lea- gue fast-pitc- AWARD WINNERS BURKE WRAPPED up his comments by saying, The thing we forget sometimes, is playing second base. its not the coaches or the parents games, the kids game. I find at some games that the parents get so engrossed against a coachs move or against umpires that it really detracts from the game. Why not let the boys play the game? that SOME OF THE kids that make up the Layton Yankees roster include Boyd Murray who will pitch and alternate at shortstop. Another is Troy Murray who will also pitch and play as a regular at shortstop. Danny Duncan is the third pitcher. Three catchers on the team include Rob Trujillo, Jim Geddes, and Rob Hill. Lonnie Martinez plays second base and can catch. First base is manned by Marty Petro who scored the teams first run this year after banging out a triple. Centerfield is dominated by Chris Parrish who might be the most aggressive kid on the team. Rightfield is alternated between Burke, Kevin Cunningham, Adrian Wilhem-seHarry Mortensen, Craig Fenn. These kids can also play leftfield. the past eight years. Burke, who during the eight-yea- r span, has mentored young boys including one of his own, in Portugal and various places in the United States including his stay in Layton. BASEBALL is boys and boys are baseball, said Burke, It teaches them a lot about life. The Yankees, which is made up of 13 and 14 year olds, have now won their first two games. pitchThey won their first game 10-- 1 on a youll never be able to separate the two, ing performance of Boyd Murray. Then the most recent victory was an 4 victory in which 8-- n, Boyds brother Troy pitched. MY PHILOSOPHY is that everyone plays, said Burke, Each kid gets a minimum of one or two innings and if by some chance they miss getting in, theyll be the first to get a shot at it the next game. To me its very important that everyone gets in. teams will play 14 IN ALL the games which wraps itself up on July 15, just tournament. prior to the season-closin- g Burke has played a lot of baseball himself, including a start of it in California. Into the its and Farmington with 72. Though Millcreek Junior High of Bountiful had just a little too much for the rest of the ninth grade Davis District track and field hope- SOME OF the old record holders in the Davis District Junior High ranks, who are now preps, will be competing this week in the annual state track meet. Some of them fuls. both Kaysville and Farmington junior highs gave the southern school a solid run for their money. MILLCREEK HELD on to win the 1983 Davis District Track and Field Championships in the ninth grade division with 85 points, but Cashier Ext. 220 Municipal Pool 934 So. 1000 E, Clearfield MY PHILOSOPHY is that in the games, let the boys play. If they make a mistake we dont talk about it until practice, thats what practices are for. I thoroughly believe in letting the boys play the whole game, and I mean the whole game. I mean even coaching. Sometimes we coaches think we have to have the macho-imag- e to get on the field all the time. The only ones with the right out there, are the boys. Our job as coaches and parents is to pat the kids on the back when they do a good job or when they make a mistake, tell them to forget it and do better next time. IT CAN BE a fun game, if we let it be, said. CUcApeld Pool Mgr. Ext. 219 Dept. Supt. Recreation Ext. 217 Ext 218 773-330- 6 773-330- 7 JUNE 6&11th Our Summer Training Sessions he All Craig Carter Sets Shot Record ages - All skills Scouts Boy - Girl - Cub Register NovH include Viewmonts Kurt Matthews (record holder in the 100 and 400 meters), Mike Allen of Viewmont (record holder in the 800 meters), Brian Fuller of Viewmont (record holder in the mile), and Laytons Jim Norton (record holder in the 110 hurdles). SERVICEllStOURlMIDDLElNAME Kaysville was right behind with 72'2 points and Farmington was third with 52'. Mueller Park was fourth with 40 points. Sunset came in fifth with 36, North Davis was sixth with 30, North Layton was seventh with 29 and Central Davis rounded out the local schools with 24': points. Undoubtedly the standout in the boys ninth grade meet was Sunsets Craig Carter who scored 30 of his teams 36 points. Carter threw for a new district record in the shot put with a The next closest throw in the throw of shot came from North Davis Waite with a heave over 48 feet. COOLER! SALE! Doug Wehrli Universal ah work guaranteed warranty on the cabinet Professional installation ar Rexburg Tern CARTER WASNT only outstanding in the shot, but he also came through with flying colors in the discus where he set another district record with a toss of 176-- 5 Vi. But that wasnt all. Craig, who will be going to Clearfield High next fall, also took first in the 100 meters with a time of 11.95. DM ROOF MOUNT Aiding 63-9'- 4. OTHER OUTSTANDING champions in the ninth grade division included Farmingtons Todd Malcom in the 110 hurdles, Kaysvilles medley relay team, Kaysvilles Greg Willard in the high jump, and North Laytons Duangdara in the long jump. In the eighth grade division, it was North Layton coming out as the 1983 champion with 102 points followed by Central Davis with 74 THE GUY who was awarded the Outstanding Layton High Award is fiesty Jeff Moon. Jeff was a comerback in football, was a guard for his dad in basketball and helped the baseball team win the region championship while KEN CALL h softball military he played a lot of and as he said, perhaps I could have kept it up if I really had of wanted to. REXBURG -- - Former Davis High standout, Doug Wehrli, is now in a Ricks College uniform trying to help the Vikings into a postseason playoff berth. WEHRLI, who played football, basketball and baseball for the Darts his senior year, moved to Kaysville with his family just prior to his senior year. After graduating he decided on Ricks College, which is the largest private two-yeschool in the United States'. Ricks College is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Saints. 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