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Show MARCH 16, 1983 Talented Backstop Heath Has Supply Of Sweet Treats! By KEITH we pay that kind of price. DUNCAN Journal Sports OF COURSE ITS been Coach Hawkins that usually works our butts off anyway. Besides all his motivation, weve got to want to do - LAYTON How can a baseball coach and a school that has made a habit of going to the state tournament for thd past couplt of years, not get excited about being associated with a guy like Kenny Heath? THE ANSWER is, they are excited! Heath may truely be one of the finest baseball talents that has ever been produced from this school and Brad Hawkins and those baseball at Layton know it. die-har- THE SENIOR catcher, ranked as one of the elite backstops in all of Utah, is one of those people in life you like to specify as a winner. He has won at his position and likewise has helped his teammates win a region title during his Layton tenure and a couple of trips to the state tournament. Can Kenny and his 83 teammates do it again? Kenny gives his feelings. Nothing replaces hard work. Thats what it will take for us to win a pot for the tournament. Look what hard work did for the basketball team. I think we all realize the same thing can happen to us if it and I think we are, said Heath. Heath will tend the duties as catcher with ample ease. He broke into the scene as a sophomore for Hawkins, blessed with an arm that put more people out at first, second and third than the number of bats in a Wilsons Sporting Goods warehouse. HIS JUNIOR season was no different, if not a little better. The fact most teams had learned not to run on him, was proof enough that the respective coaches around Region One had learned their lesson. This season Hawkins hasnt any plans to use Kenny as pitcher, like he did as a junior. Maybe its the fact the pitching staff is a little stronger than last year where Brad Merrill and Brett Talbot should be able to take over adequately. concentration beginning to fade last year when I was pitching and catching. Id come tq the plate and wonder why in the world I threw the dumb pitch a few minutes earlier. Id like to give my best from behind the plate," he said. But Layton fans dont come to see Heath just for his spectacular throw outs as a catcher, like his hot and heavy bat too. As a sophomore Heath ripped the competition to the tune of a .443 batting average. As a junior he made ptichers scared to deah 'again and ended up with a highly touted .575 average. WILL HE BE able to match all of that? I seriously dont know if I can match what Ive done in the past. The last two years Ive felt comfortable with myself where Im struggling just a little bit right now at the plate. But I can see myself getting back into the swing of things. Itll take a little while and some real pitching competition instead of the batting machine, Heath continued to report. HAWKINS was high on his ace, saying, high school catcher as Ive ever seen. He just amazes me at how he throws out runners. In our first scrimmage against another school this year, Kenny threw out four Hes as good a BUT WHATEVER the reason, Heath is happy hell be able to concentrate on his job behind the plate. If I have to pitch, IU do it, whatever is good for the team. But I found my at second. He not runners, two at first and two had them by six to but only threw them out, seven feet. But one of the things I see that makes Ken so valuable to us, is his ability to excite others baseabout being baseball players, and good ball players too." HEATH COMMENTED, "Some may consider me a leader out there, but I just consider everyone as my friend. We may have josh the sophomores a little, but when it comes time to get I serious, we perform as one unit. know that if a for some help, me asks or anyone sophomore if I ask hand same the on but it to them, Ill give them for something to help the team I'll demand the same kind of respect. It can drive a good athlete nutty to get excited about his senior year of athletic competition, only to see it vanish away because of an injury or whatnot. SUCH HAS been the case with Heath. Nobody was more excited then he for football to start, but an injury to his neck suspended his playing time. Now its time for another of his favorite sports and lets hope this time, he makes it to the very last call, of Lets Play Ball. ' Swimmers Taek Up Impressive Season Journal Sports By Keith Duncan The girls edged out Sky View for the team title in that race. Though swimming at Layton, Clearfield and Davis High Schools doesnt have the sparkle about it like what takes place at schools in Salt Lake City, there are a few kids who emerge each year who certainly deserve every mention they can get. TAKE FOR instance the exceptional one-ma- n showing of Davis Wayne Wehrli, the only competitive swimmer in the school. For the second straight year he became a double winner at the Region Four meet taking the titles in the 200 IM and the 100 Fly. The talented junior also did well in the recently completed state meet. You cannot mention local swimming without giving the Layton Lancers and Coach Craig Bjorkland basketfulls of credit. This crew put it all together to win the 1983 Region One championship. TRAVELING JUST a little bit more north, it was Clearfields talented Glen Coy who also was a double winner in a region meet. Overall it was Fred Lange who led his boys to a fourth place finish in the region while the Clearfield girls had a third place finish in region. W. Wehrli Does It By His Lonesome KAYSVILLE - For the second consecutive year, Davis Highs Wayne Wehrli captured two Region Four swimming titles and in fact defended the titles that he had won the year before. WEHRLI, THE only competitive swimmer in the school, took the titles in the 200 M and the 100 Fly. Wehrli narrowly edged John DeVries of Highland for the title in the 100 Fly and at the same time he just escaped with a victory over James Cottrell of Woods Cross in the IM. Wehrli, who is only a junior, began the season with a few other swimmers from Davis. Bui before it was said and done, he was the y kid in the school still waiting to compete. HE CREDITS both Bountifuls Jack Senin-e- r and Easts Kerstin Severin for much of his success. Wehrli spends much of his time prac-ticrwith swimmers from the south. Wehrli, who improved his times in state last weekend, likes to play with the thought of improving his times even more so a college scholarship might enter into the picture. .g I SERIOUSLY think Ill have to shave seven more seconds off my IM time to have a chance to swim in college. In the Fly Ill have to get at least three more seconds off. Id like to stay in Utah to swim after I graduate. I guess BYU would be my first choice, but well just have to wait and see, said Wehrli. Wins A Pair Besides the fantastic reCLEARFIELD sults of Glen Coy in the boys division, the Clearfield girls also had a fairly good finish in the 1983 Region One meet. MARGARET JUREK was the only individual champion as she raced to a first place in the 200 IM. Margaret also took second in the d freestyle race. Another region title came the girls way with d the freestyle relay team putting it all a team made up of Margaret, was It together. Julie Jurek, Marlene Strong and Jody Baugh. 500-yar- 400-yar- OTHER outstanding performances came d freesfrom Jody Baugh, second in the tyle; Michele Henderson, third in diving; Ute Birkmeier, third in the butterfly; and backstroke. Julie Jurek, second in the But the big story in the Clearfield swimming program, was the effort of junior Glen Coy in the 100 and 200 free races where he raced to first places in both. At the recently concluded state meet, Glen did better than a year ago by taking 12th in the 200 and 17th in the 100. 200-yar- 100-ya- rd 100-ya- rd I STARTED swimming as a sophomore, mainly because it was always something that I wanted to do. Now I swim anytime and anywhere I can, said Coy who is also an outstanding cross country runner. It was last fall that Coy placed third among Falcon runners in the region meet and second among those runners in the state meet. COY, WHO IS going to make a decision soon, whether to make swimming his primary sport his senior year or running in cross country and track. Its just hard to do well in both sports. If I swim next year, Ill really get after it there too. Regardless, Glens parents, Lynn an Judy Coy, are going to support hm either way. ANOTHER GUY that will support his decision, especially if it goes to swimming, is his swimming coach, Fred Lange. Lange says Coy may be one of the hardest workers hes ever coached in nine years of Clearfield swimming. The others respect Geln, mainly because of the results. THE FACT Glen is so coachable, makes it completely enjoyable to work with him. Glen never ceases to amaze me. If I set some goals for him, he just plain gets out and does them. Anything I ask of him, he goes the extra mile. I sincerely hope that a scholarship comes his way, which would be the first scholarship that has come to a Clearfield swimmer in our history, said Lange. Layton High Top In Region The swimming season came to a halt last week at the state meet. Though swimmers representing North Davis quite impressive. 1982-8- 3 County didnt win big there, their results at their respective region meets were Dalton in the 500-fre- e. none-the-le- ss in swimming and when I got the chance to get involved, I been interested in the Layton kids bedid. but now as their main coach, the interest fore, I THINK the kids have real sincere interest in bringing Layton a real good name in the sport. I may want to coach swimming when I retire from the Air Force, and I probably wouldnt mind helping out right here, said the is really genine. major. them. THERES ONLY one reason that I enjoy working with these kids, said Bjorkland, And thats not because I get paid for it, because I dont. I just plain enjoy working with Ive always had an interest Id 1983 Swimming Champs Clearfield: 100 Free and 200 Frcee 200 IM 400 Free Relay Glen Coy Margaret Jurek Clearfield Girls Davis: E?03 200 IM, 100 Fly Wayne Wehrli Layton: 200 IM 100 Fly 500 Free 100 Back Erick Novak Steve Taylor Robert Dalton Phil Metzier Pod GUoMiM Mgr. BAM? 1 Wdj v0 YASEDUy (uMlOQIEIG Cellar W 220 I Municipal Pool 0tIRE(D? 934 So. 1000 E, Clearfield --TtfJY 3 Dept. Supt. Recreation Ext. 217 Ext. 218 )!! itqi'Ki iii.Vi!.. -- ini - LAYTON At a time when boys basketball and wrestling and girl's basketball at Layton High were receiving much of the notoriety, it was significant also that the mens swimming team at Layton came in with a winter trophy of their own, a Region One championship trophy to be exact. IT WAS Craig Bjorkland, a major in the United States Air Force and a counselor at the University of Utah in that schools ROTC program, who volunteered his time at no cost to the school or district to lead a group of boys to a title no one really thought theyd get. It was swimmers like Erich Novack, Steve Taylor, Robert Dalton, Phil Metzler and Mor-ri- e Hartman who provided the main punch in the region meet. Enough punch in fact to oust Bonneville as the champlion and take home their first ever region title in the sport. m. 773-330- 773-330- 7 6 (!G8QKCc MARCH 21st 00un Next Training Session All Scouts ages - All skills . iHSL-- Boy - Girl - Cub Register Nov!! Y SKnca ThfLifipz sz7t rzzy tffzzrcza Iiu-W?- i BM3 ffitpststa, WHAT MAKES future years look so bright, is that most of these Lancers are only sophomores and juniors. We are looking forward to bigger and better things in the future, said Bjorkland. 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