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Show Sun Advocate Carbon nine wins 2 more Matador takes tit! Downs Dube Gragg had a sacrifice for the first Dino RBI with fly Sports editor Smuin up next for a sacrifice fly GRAND JUNCTION The for the second and final Dino Carbon High Dinos are conrun. in their Brent Behunin and Ottesen winning ways tinuing this week as they defeated both were the only Dinos to get a hit. Central and Fruita here Behunin finished one for four and Ottesen was two for two. Thursday and Friday to give them a 54) preseason start. They were a good team, to coach But we didnt said. Cowart According Gary Cowart, the Dinos were having a play very well and they didnt hard time hitting during the play their best either. e stretch but were able Cowart was happy to get the e to both teams to vicschool competition this week tories. and feels that when Carbon does Against Central Thursday, get to its full potential the Dinos will be able to beat any team Carbon pulled out a 1 defeat this season. against one of the top rated Against Fruita, Carbon had eight base hits but that was still ' not up to the teams capabilities, according to Cowart. The Dinos also had six stolen bases. Ottesen finished the game two for four with three RBIs. Mark Nielson was also two for four with three RBIs (including a home run). Carbon started out strong and scored one run in the first inning, three in the second, but were shutout for four innings in after that. In the top of the Colorado. Neither teams prep team was hitting well but some seventh, Neilson hit a two-ru-n smart ball playing was the key homer to finish out the game. to victory for the Dinos. Sophomore Zhawn Powell in that a fell threw to Carbon, Friday, Fruita match. Cowart said once Powell Carbon had only three base gains more confidence hell be a hits to Centrals five with Mike tough player for the Dinos. Carbon opens Region Eight Smuin taking the win on the mound. The game remained play today (Wednesday) on the scoreless until the top of the fifth home field at 4 p.m. against inning when Jeff Ottesen led off Lehi. Cowart isnt familiar with with a single and then stole the team and isnt sure just what to expect. second. But everybody was picked to Lonny Rice was up to bat next to on be him the better than us, he added. If with sacrifice plan a bunt. But Ottesen made it to we can come out swinging the third base before the Central bats, I think we can show them a pitcher knew it and allowed thing or two. Were going to Rice to make his way safely to have to show ourselves on every first base. game. By UP&L in tourney By WALT BORLA Sports Writer out-liv- 35-3- The final score was 72-6- 5, veteran Matadore 2-- 3-- A Everybody was the quintet picked to be points in a third quarter splurge while holding UP&L to j ust eight points. The fourth period was very close, UP&L scoring one point more than the Matadore The winners slowed down the action after getting the 18 (21-22- better than us. ' Coach ). Gary Cowart lead at the three-quartmark, riding out the cushion er for the victory. Three of the Matadore players were in the double digit scoring column, Rufus Ellington leading the way with 24 points. Mike OShea added 21 more and Brent Farnsworth had 10. Chris Peterson picked up eight, Joey Johnson six and Ira Jefferson two. Peterson, Ellington, OShea and Johnson gave the victors a formidable rebounding game although Johnson went out via the foul route in the third period. Johnsons exit was of little value to UP&L, however, because the top rebounder in its lineup, Bob Burge, followed Johnson to the sidelines for excessive fouling shortly thereafter. Burge left with 12 points to his credit. Mark Martinez, the leading scorer for UP&L throughout the meet, finished with 16 in the championship tilt and the Kiahtipes brothers, Dino and Angelo, each contributed nine points to the losing cause. The Matadore qualified for the finals by dumping Zubal Gun Repair the night before, and UP&L won a 66-6- 1, decision over Nielsen Meats. LaPotpourri handed Service Insurance of 1 loss in Huntington a consolation bracket play on Thursday night. Zubal Gun Repair, paced by CEU cagers Curtis Mann, Duane Holston and Jeff Jones, came back to win consolation honors the last night by trouncing Service Insurance, 72-6- 73-6- five-hitt- By WALT BORLA Sports writer Through the years very few Carbon High graduates have gone on to play major college basketball, but the past year has been an exception. The is John Nielson, son of Jim and Thelma Nielson of Spring Glen. John has been a member of the Oklahoma State basketball team in Stillwater, a transfer junior member from Cameron, Oklahoma State Junior College. He has been playing a reserve center role for the Cowboys this past season. wound up in Oklahoma as a missionary for the LDS Church after one year at CEU where he played for Coach Curt Jenson. Upon finishing his mission he found that he liked the Sooner State, accepted a basketball scholarship at Cameron State where he played one year and moved on to Oklahoma State. Nielson maintains a grade average in his major study of mathematics at er 6-- 2. CEU has brother Dino, No. 12, keeping an eye on big LaPotpourri won third 98-4- place by outlasting Nielsen in a tight enMeats, counter. of the This was a two teams that fought it out for the Helper league regular 86-6-3, ch season title. This time LaPotpourri, with the addition g of Jim Paletta, turned the tables on the league champs. Paletta tossed in 20 points in combining with Eric Sanders, Robbie Neilsen, John Sisneros and Dean Marchello to give LaPotpourri the edge. Steve Hansen had an outstanding game for Nielsens, high-scorin- taking game scoring honors points. Scott Yelonek, a tournament addition to the with 26 Nielsen lineup, scored 12 11 points, Scott Nielsen had and Bob Hyde 13 for the losers. The coveted Woodys Jewelry wrist watch given each year to the outstanding player of the tournament went to Matadores Rufus Ellington, the veteran former Carbon High and CEU standout from Helper. City Councilman Bryon Matsuda made the presentations. Joining Ellington on the all- tournament team were Holston and Mann of Zubal Gun Repair; Lond Wakefield of Service Insurance; Robbie Nielsen and Marchello of LaPotpourri; OShea and Johnson of the Matadore; Scott Nielsen of Nielsens Meats; and Burge and Martinez of UP&L. Woodys Jewelry, formerly of Helper but now located in the Creekview shopping area in Price, has been contributing a watch to the outstanding player of Helper tournaments for 25 years of the tournaments existence. past season usually is clogging the middle in the OSU 3 zone and adding strength on the boards. His best game of the year came in the 1 Cowboy win over Kansas when Nielson Oklahoma State. At Carbon High he played for Coach Evan Excell, lettered twice in basketball and was also a high hurdler in track. He was his senior named as in high school, averaging year 15 points and 13 rebounds per game. Before leaving for the mission he played one season for CEU where he was used sparingly. Nielson began his cage career as a grade school youngster in the Helper Junior High under Coach Harold Cunningham before entering Carbon High. Writing in an Oklahoma daily newspaper, sports writer Steve Harrison likens Nielson to Alan Alda, who portrayed Hawkeye Pierce on the hit television 2-- 71-6- all-regi- series MASH. Harrison wrote that Nielson seems to have found a role that The reserve fits him: basketball center said that although he would like to be a starter, he understands that one character does not make a hit, and it takes everyone combined to put on a good show. So, he said, he tries to keep his role in perspective with relation to the five points in 21 minutes of play and blocked two Kansas shots while picking off three rebounds. In commenting on his first year as a member of the OSU contributed cage squad, Nielson said, Where Im playing now is fine with me if I can help the team, not necessarily scoring that much but just helping the team. The gotten where he is because hes a rugged player and physical. He doesnt back down from anyone, Johns a role player. He comes in for say six minutes at a time and gives us the help we need. The help Nielson has contributed to the Cowboys this Frank Coach drive by Indiana the current NCAA tournament brings to mind another former CEU eager, Kohn Smith, who played two years for Coach Curt Jenson and finished up his college career at Southern Utah State in Cedar City. Kohn is an assistant coach of the Hoosier squad. The trail that led Smith to the post as an assistant to Coach Bobby Knight at Indiana is a (Continued on Page 2B) Julianos College of Eastern Utah baseball team is having difficulty getting its scheduled baseball games in this spring due to the inclement weather. The Eagles have completed only the four game series at home two weeks ago with the Brigham Young University junior varsity squad. A double-headin Logan with Utah State er University was canceled Saturday. Juliano takes his squad to Twin Falls, Idaho this week for action in the annual College of Southern Idaho preseason tournament, a meet that has become noted for the caliber of teams entered and an early season indicator of the relative strength of Utah, Idaho and Oregon junior college baseball teams. The Eagles play twice on Thursday in the tournament, taking on Ricks College at 11 a.m. and Dixie at 5 p.m. Snow College, Treasure Valley J.C. of Ontario, Ore. and the host CSI nine are the other entries in the tournament. The format for the meet calls on Thursday for a round-robi- n and Friday, each team playing every other team during the two days and on Saturday the teams will be matched according to the outcome of the first two days. CEU opens Intermountain Collegiate Athletic Conference play on April 6 at Snow College, travel on to St. George the next day for a pair with Dixie and on Saturday, April 8, the Eagles will stop off in Cedar City on the way home for two more nonconference games with the Thunderbirds of Southern Utah State College. The next home date is April 14 when the annual alumni game will be staged at Helper followed by a game under the lights with BYU junior varsity again. The alumni game is scheduled for 5 p.m. Lady Eagles open season - The College ST. GEORGE Eastern Utah lady Eagles had a chance to meet with some of the toughest womens softball teams in the state last weekend during the Dixie Tournament here Thursday, Friday and of Saturday. The preseason action gave coach Lori Woodland a chance to evaluate her teams abilities and while they came out of the Woodland tournament believes CEU has a very talented team. The tournament attracted a semi-pr- o team, the Brigham Young University varsity, Intermountain Collegiate Athletic Conference squads as well as city teams from all over the state. CEU was defeated in the first game against the Bountiful Blazers, Coveys of St. George also downed the lady Eagles, On Friday, however, an important victory came to CEU 4, University to the final eight of rest of the Cowboy cast. OSU assistant coach Darrel Johnson said of Nielson, Hes trouble with bad weather MVP award. On to bigger and better things Nielson 3-- A two-gam- HELPER The Matadore lounge came back from a 3 halftime deficit to go on and defeat Utah Power & Light Friday night in the finals of the 35th Annual Helper Invitational Basketball Tournament. exception ANGIE HYRE - Helper scoring Section B Wednesday, March 2Q, 1004 long-organiz- ed 8-- 2. 4-- 2. as they downed Dixie, rivals 9-- 8. Northwestern College pulled against CEU, conference Colorado Community out a victory and BYU 11-- 6, the Eagles, 104). According to Woodland, pitcher Brenda Sells of Ship shut-o- ut Rock, N.M., had an outstanding performance throughout the tournament and is looking for good things to come from her this season. The games were limited to one hour playing time. Woodland said the tournament was a good opportunity to take a look at this years competition. Weve got a very talented team and a good pitching staff, she said. But, we have to get together as a team. Thats my job and Ive got to do that. The lady Eagles will open the conference Friday in Provo against Utah Technical College. They will travel Saturday to St. George again and try to nab another victory there. |