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Show 2 west VALLEY View Thursday, Apr. 14, 1983 Cottonwood's Ahone Takes All-arou- nd t Crown - Depth Carries Granger Gymnasts To Region Three Title GRANGER. Cottonwood and Cyprus had the individual standouts but it was depth that carried Granger past both of those clubs to the Region Three gymnastics championship on Wednesday. Coach Rhondalee Andersons Lancers didn't have a gymnast in the top six of the Class II competition, but scored heavily in the Class III bracket to pull away to the title. Granger won the meet by a comfortable margin over Cyprus, compiling 315.10 points. The Bucs finished second with 299.60, while former perennial champion Cottonwood was third with 280.25. Olympus was fourth with 255.9, while Skyline had 197.13 and Granite 108.44. While the team glory belonged to Granger, the individual spotlight was on Cottonwoods Sonja Ahone. Continuing a fine line of stellar Colt gymnasts, Ahone won the with a score of 36.55, more than a full point ahead of Lancers qualified eight girls for the state meet, which opens tomorrow (Friday) at Alta. The 4A competition begins at 4 :30 The Kay Davis of Cyprus. conThat Cottonwood-Cypru- s nection was repeated through the first six places, with Colt Jill Smith placing third (34.15), followed by Chaine Allen of Cyprus (32.30), then Veronica Pino of Cottonwood (31.5) and Stephanie Booth of Cyprus p.m. in the Hawk gym, with the finals set for 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Leading the Lancers were Mary Kay Reese and Sandy Williams. In addition, Michelle Jones, Marla Mecham and Valinda Staker all qualified in three events. Jones will participate in the vault, beam and uneven parallel bars, Mecham in the vault, floor (31.45). Even with those solid individual performances, neither the Colts nor Pirates could keep pace with the balance and depth displayed by Granger. exercise and bars, and Staker in the floor, beam and bars. Lancers Alisa Evans (vault, floor), Lori Davis (vault, bars) and Tami Soloman (floor, beam) will vie for honors in two events each. Cyprus and Cottonwood each will send six gymnasts to the state meet, a competition where both probably will pass up the Lancers because of their individual standouts. Besides Davis, Allen and Booth, Cyprus Coach Tom Givens Granite Cage Coaching Post Open At Cyprus High will have Gail Udy in the vault and on the bars, Sheila Glasgow in floor exercise and on the beam and Melanie Pickering in floor. Coach Shirley Allen will send three Colt gymnasts along with trio. They are Holher ly Hodgson, bars, vault and floor excercise; Allyson Sleater, floor; and Jana Robbins, vault. Olympus will send one and Amey Bottomley in the floor. Skyline will have three gymnasts (Teresa Stoffel, Sara Bronsky and Shauna Mahoney)- - Beaten Is - Colts And Titans MAGNA. A itiated for a Cyprus high. Principal Keith Hess announced this week that Paul Dilley had resigned his position after three years at the helm. Hess said applications for the position must be received at the Granite School District personnel office by Tuesday. The district is also seeking a head coach at Cottonwood high. The search has been opened up statewide and applicants will be interviewed by a committee that will include the principals, an administrator from the area office, Dr. Blair Brewster, personnel, and Bry Sorensen, district physical education specialist. Hess expressed his appreciation to Dilley for his contributions to the athletic department. He is also an assistant football coach. Paul Dilley was a dedicated coach. He worked hard and was considerate of team members, fellow staffers and the opposition, the principal stated. In his three years as head coach, Dilley compiled a record of The most recent campaign was an 2 mark during the past season with a team comprised largely of young players - three starters and an sixth man are expected to return next season. Dilley was head coach when the Pirates were forced to make the transition from 3A to the 4A ranks. His team qualified for the state tournament this past season, but fared poorly. Hess said he is hopeful that the applicants for the position will bring Halt Lancer Nine GRANGER. Stranding a host of base runners in scoring position during the week, Granger posted a 2 record in Region Three play despite tossed by three straight three-hitter- s Lancer pitchers. Cottonwood knocked the Lancers from the unbeaten ranks last Wednesday with a 4 win, Granger Frirebounded to down Granite day, but on Tuesday, Olympus eked out a victory. Granger hopes to rebound tomorrow (Friday), hosting Cyprus. On Monday the Lancers are due at Skyline and on Wednesday at Cot7-- 2 2 tonwood. Olympus coaching two-bagg- two-ou- ex- perience with them and will have played major college basketball where they were exposed to the multiple offenses and defenses the v i , gar83tters today, 3-- 2 Gymnasts Will Meet Saturday Granger Darren SANDY. The Utah Academy of Gymnastics, 625 E. 9800 South, will host an invitational for boys Saturday. Competition involving teams from Utah, Idaho and Wyoming will compete in Class I, II, III and IV routines. Warmups begin at 1:30 and competition at 3.The host team has done well in recent meets in Wyoming and will be favored to win, a spokesman said. The Academys girls team returned this week from a prestigious meet in California where 40 gymnasts from four states were involved. Five competed from the Academy team. Jackie Allen fared best in the childrens scoring 66.95 and finishing fourth in beam and floor and seventh on the bars. Amy Keller was also competing in that division. Top performer for the team was Jenny Gieseler, who was first in floor and beam and fourth and fifth in bars and beam for a 70.50 score that was good for second place in the junior level of the USGF meet. 2 back-to-bac- oft-use- d head Granger Lancer Brian Joy and Titan Val Sundberg hooked up in an pitching duel Tuesday. Joy limited the Titans to three hits, but they were of the variety, while the Lancers stranded six runners in scoring position. Both teams scored a run in the fourth frame. Bob Crofts' two-odouble scored teammate Greg Jackson who had led off the frame for the Titans. with a Granger answered when Chuck Embley doubled home Mitch Larsen, but Granger stranded runners on second and third. In the sixth, Brian Ranck smacked t another Titan double, scoring two teammates who had gained life on an error and a base on balls. Granger narrowed the gap to on a towering homer by Greg Wilder in the sixth, but Sundberg held the ' Lancers off. - 29-3- successful 3, DARING MOVE. . . ecutes daring move Lisa Eliason of Taylorsville exin the air in balance beam 5, Granite Woodard 2 limited to three hits, all in the second inning, to pick up the victory with some help from Joy in relief. Scott Van Orden, who was 3x3 for the Lancers, started off the scoring when he scampered home from third on a wild pitch after leading off the game with a triple. The Lancers added a second run in the second when Wilder and Pat Sheehan delivered singles after a base on balls. Granite scored both of its runs in the bottom of that frame as Larry Armstrong, Tom Davis and Rex Watson stroked singles and Woodard yielded a walk. Woodard doubled, sending Van Orden home in the fifth and in the sixth, Woodard executed a perfect squeeze as the Lancers added some insurance. An error, a Van Orden single and a pair of wild pitches produced one run and Van Orden scored on the Woodard bunt. Joy came on in the fifth after Granite drew a pair of walks. Farmers Cottonwood 7, Granger 4 got only three hits Cottonwood against Woodard and Joy, but the former had control problems and issued nine free passes before being relieved in the third inning. In the meantime, Steve Delis gave up nine hits and six walks, but was able to keep the Lancers from having any big innings. The Colts jumped off to a quick lead, scoring three runs in the first and four in the third. e All three tallies came without benefit of a hit. There were four walks, a hit batsman, a fielders choice and a wild pitch. In the fourth, Carl Oelerich singl-(Se- e first-fram- the Page 3, Col. 6) competition during Region Two gymnastics meet held at West Jordan Thursday. Eyes Defense Of State Title - West Jordan Tops Region on sale and with GMAC 9.9 APR financing top-flig- WEST JORDAN. Defending state champion West Jordan will be favored to capture top honors in the 4A gymnastics meet again this year after winning top honors in Region Two Thursday. The Jaguars greatest challenge will come from other Region Two entries Brighton, Alta and Hillcrest. West Jordan scored 343.2 points in the region meet, despite several performers not having hit their peak. Brighton was second at 332, followed by Alta, 331.6 and Hillcrest 328.3. For Green Sheet area gymnasts from Kearns and Taylorsville, the meet was somewhat of a disappointment, especially for the Warriors. Top Warrior performer Kris Sullivan failed to make the field for the state meet and Coach Pat Rasmussen said her team simply did not hit its stride. The Warriors were fifth at 292.05, followed by Bingham at 278.15 and Kearns at 239.55. chamDefending state pion Julie Ryan was nosed out of the region title by Susan Jackson of Brighton. The pair tied, but when total performance was taken into account, Jackson had the title. Janelle Taylor of Alta was third. The Warriors had an individual champion in Class III competition in Claudine Millett who scored 8.9 on the beam. Class III gymnasts end their competition with the region meet. Warriors who qualified for state include Sullivan in the vault, floor and beam; Kim Lawson in the vault and floor and Melanie Tayne, DeAnn Carlson and Shauna Horsley, all in vault. Kearns qualified three gymnasts for the state meet. They are Kris Codings and Debbie Potter in the balance beam and Lona Miller on the bars. The state meet will begin at noon tomorrow (Friday) at Alta with 3A preliminaries. The 4A preliminaries are scheduled from 9 p.m. The 3A-4finals will be run in tandem Saturday beginning at 7 p.m. Rasmussen said the qualifying standards were raised this year, a move she heartily approves of. 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