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Show Page 1C South Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, May 9, 1984 tSSMEx-1- W AjmW4 ' w f I ' SALT LAKE CITY Three Davis County teams last week won berths into the state baseball tournament, but all three lost opening round games at Ken Price Park Monday. Bountiful, Region 4s third-plafinisher won its tournament berth by downing an minded 6 Weber Friday, but dropped its tourney opener to Granger Davis downed Roy 3 Friday to make it to the state tournament, but lost its opener 1 to Talorsville, a team that most of the season has been rated in the top 50 teams in the nation by some services. Clearfield was the countys only team to win an automatic berth in the state tourney, which it did by winning Region 1. But the Falcons lost their opener 0 Monday night in a slugfest against Cottonwood. We played well, we just didnt hit, said Bountiful coach Phil Olsen. The Braves usually tough defense gave up just four hits be- $ 4-- A - ce offensive-- 14-- 2-- 1. 5-- 6-- 14-1- hind the pitching of Rob Thompson. Bountiful's offense was able to generate only one hit, however, a home run by Mike Laraby in the second inning. ' 'J 'W, fcAl ' - Photo by Rodney Wright finale Thursday in Clearfield. The Royals won the game ROYS FIRSTBASEMAN holds a Clear- field runner on base during the season 8-- 3. Granger got both its runs in the first inning. Davis laced 10 hits against Taylorsville but got them at all the wrong times, coach Kent Draayer said. We just couldnt push any runs across the plate. We made two pitching mistakes and they put them both out of the park Clearfield Boys and Girls Sweep CHRIS LARSEN Review Correspondent For the Clearfield Falcons, the Brigham Young University High School Invitational Track and Field meet, was a day of firsts. Although it was the second time both the Clearfield boys and girls won the team titles si- multaneously, it was the first time in the schools history that cither the boys or the girls won a BYU. invitional. It was a day of firsts for Falcon junior Stephanie Clemments. Clemments set a new State record in the 400 meters, breaking the 57.26 time of East highs record. Susan Devries 1982 Clemments clocked in at 57.12, which also broke the old meet record. Clemments also placed first in the 200 meters at 25.97, and anchored the relay team wins in the 400 meter (51.14), and 1600 meter (4:03.84) relays. The Falcon boys team also had a few firsts. Senior speedster Ricky Smith took first in the 400 meters with a time of 49.73. Smith also anchored the first place Falcon medley team. Because of the Falcons other placings in the meet, the boys 6 for team swept past Alta 4-- A 4-- A first-pla- ce 60-4- for two runs each. The Darts Wylc Carlson out in the sixth, ' The Darts allowed only one run, however, and in snuffing out the Royal rally ended Roys n tourchance for the nament. con- tinued his incredible offensive season by nailing the Taylorsville pitching staff for three hits. Carlson is hitting somewhere near .750 for the year, Draayer pbst-seaso- said. David Cole, Greg McNab and David Bush all had two hits apiece for the Darts. Davis meets Bountiful today at 2:15 in the second round of tournathe ment. Clearfield won a berth in the tournament by holding onto the top spot in the region despite losing to Roy 3 Thursday. The Braves and the Darts had to win playoff games with Weber and Roy, respectively, in order to qualify for the state tourney. At Pleasant View, Bountiful, a team which has lacked on offense at times near the end of this season, found little trouble slapping the ball through the Warrior defense, and took a four-ru- n lead after the first double-eliminati- 8-- Roy scored first in the game on a two-ru- n home run in the top of the first inning by Jeff Jorgensen, but, then the Roval offense stalled until the sixth inning. Davis scored .two runs of its bottom of the first and added three more in inning the third and hejd on in the late innings for the win. ' Oh Thursday, Roy earned the fight to its playoff against Davis with the. win Oyer the region's e Falcons. The win came much as a result of Roys Jeff Yoshimuras throwing six innings of one-h- own in the first-plac- it ball in relief. Yoshimura came into the game in the second inning after the Falcons had taken a 2 lead and completely shut them down until he tired in the seventh. n Travis Hirst stroked a in the third single inning to boost Roy into the lead that they never relinquished. Brent Crittenden had two hits, including a double, and scored three runs for the Royals, while Jeff Schultz added two more hits as Roy raised its final region record to 4 and 6 overall. Greg Folk laced a triple for Clearfield. The loss snapped a seven-gam- e winning streak for the Falcons, and gives them a 5 final 3-- g. Weber seemed to fall apart af-ter that and committed seven errors while allowing the Braves 14 runs to eight of their own. Marvin Price provided most of the offense punch of the Warriors, nailing a triple and two doubles and knocking in three RBIs. Both teams netted hits but the difference in the game was Webers poor defensive showing. At Davis 3 win over Roy in Kaysville, the Royals were behind 2 after five innings, but loaded the bases with just one two-ru- 1 1 6-- run-scori- 5-- 7-- 5-- BYU the championship. The Falcon field teams had strong showings by Craig Carter, Hal Schoefield, and James 9-- region record, 10-- 5 overall. Invitational ppyssi Moore. Carter took second in the shot put and fourth in the discus. Hal Schoefield placed third in the high jump, and James Moore placed third in the pole vault. Other Falcon supporters were 1600 meter relay e the v.V s jrT i t third-plac- team, fourth-plac- finisher e Duane Rock in the 800 meters, e Kim Thurgood in the Todd Davis shot put, in the 1600 meters, and Sterling Allen in the Javefifth-plac- fifth-pla- ce fifth-pla- ce lin. The Falcon girls were led by Clemments and Sharon Anderson. They squeaked by Alto 68-6- 1. Anderson placed first in the high hurdles in 15.52, intermediate and the hurdles in 46.40. 100-met- er 300-met- er Teammate Laura Zaugg swept first place in the heptathalon, DAVIS HIGHS Jeff Ohlwiler unleashes the discuss as breaking her own heptathalon part of the decathlon competition at the Brigham record, with 4,602 points. Falcon coach John Flint said about our character for this an outstanding job. The kids re- .meet. ally responded well and we hope his team felt good. We were really happy about that this will really get us We had a defeat over at the our performance. The girls did pumped up for region and Davis invitational and talked Photo by Rodney Wright , Young University invitational, which he won. Clear- - ' fields Laura Zaugg won the pentathlon for the girls. Flint said. The Viewmont Vikings placed fifth in the meet with 31 points. Viewmont had second-plac- e state, ' finishes by Troy Hanks in the ll high hurdles (51.03) and John Warner in the boys, dash (22.47). 200-met- er Coaches Lead The Davis County area has gotten for itself some great high school coaches. I mean some of them do more than teach their players the fun- Si damentals of sports, they teach their players lessons that should stay with them the rest of their jv s lives. ..A ' o ' s s' j Y-- And most importantly, they teach with their actions. Take for example, a confrontation that developed between Roy baseball coach Fred Thompson and the homeplate umpire at the , v s si' s s , v 7X'S-- Y' Y Mm ' ' Roy-Clearfie- ld game Friday. A Roy player was making his way toward home plate and a throw was coming in from left field. '0V''s - ."fKS fclltil SYi IvVsS r V- - & "S. ; ROY COACH Fred Gary L. Hatch Thompson stresses his point, though not abusively, in a dis- - Photo by Rodney Wright, cussion with a referee during Thursdays game at Clearfield. Both the catcher and the pitcher for Clearfield were lined the up waiting for the throw catcher was standing in the baseline in front of the plate and the pitcher was about ten feet behind the plate. The throw from the field was high and the catcher leaped for the ball but missed it, he landed again in the baseline right in the path of the baserunner, who had to dive over the catcher to try to make it to the plate. The pitcher, backing up the play, caught the ball and tagged the runner out because he Review Sports Editor missed the plate. Let me here say that the play ' was controversial. It could have been called either way, because the catcher had either nearly enough, or barely enough, time to get out of r. the way of the oncoming have happened then did. Thompson imrpediately ran out to the umpire to plead his case for his team. An action required of any coach worth his If the catcher had enough time to move, the runner should be ruled safe because of interfer- ciety. base-runne- ence. This was an if not for the Falcons, it at least for the Royals meant either the end of the season or a playoff game for a berth in the state tournament for Roy. The score was close and the situation was perfect for players and coaches to fly into the kind of rage weve all come to expect of the world's Billy Martins. But contrary to the vogue-in- . sports, the best thing that could game 1 spitballs. But Thompson didnt rant in expletives, redefining the umpire's status and function in soInstead, he - very animated- over the ruling with ly the umpire to make sure he didnt miss any t of the finer went points of the law. When he was , satisfied he could to nothing to disuadc the umpire, he went back to the dug-oand got on with the business of coaching. This was but a small incident in the course of an important game for those involved, yet it serves as a shining example of what coaching should be, and often is, in Davis County. ut |