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Show I Deer range rides scheduled in Utah Spring deer range rides are scheduled for Northern Utah. These range rides are organized by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to examine deer winter ranges. The public is welcome to take part in these investigations The majority of these studies are made by riding across prime winter ranges Several areas, however, are horseback scheduled to be studied by hiking Generally these studies involve estimating big game use at an area, the general range conditions, and estimating winter mortality. Ml ride schedules are tentative, pondmg weather, snow cover, and gioimd conditions. All interested in jw i tic i pa ting in these rides, should cot. 'ait the officer in charge several das U lore the rule to confer the schedule said John Kimball n Regional Game Manager for the Nor-the- ? Div ismn r w ho veteran of base' In Washington Terrace there is a just last month decided to call it quits. Now, ten years is a long i .the big mneville leagues, but the man of whom I speak, is a 17 year old junior . High School. Rex Coleman was introduced to baseball through the midget league of Washington Terrace, and starred for five years in the Western Boys Baseball Association (WBB A). He became a legend at T H. Bell Junior High School, before playing varsity baseball as a sophomore at Bonneville On advice from doctors, he bowed out of baseball at the beginning of the 1978 season. Rex was born in Ogden on August 3, 1960 to Mr. and Mrs. Delmar and at the tender age of seven, Coleman. He was always sports-mindeshowed promise as a baseball pitcher. When he was eight years old. coaches year old WBBA league, and they uysed arranged for him to play in the was August first, he was allowed to him as a pitcher. Because the age-limRex pitched his program As a play five years in the four-yea- r team to a fistful of victories, including a third place finish in the WBBA World Series in 1972. When Rex enrolled at T.H. Bell, he made the iunior high baseball team, and pitched everyother game. As an 8th grader, he pitched ail eight games and averaged 12 strikeouts per game. He faced 167 batters that year and struck 110 of them out, while giving up only 15 hits. Rex's trouble began in the summer following his fantastic season in the lay-ofhe was called to pitch eighth grade at junior high. After a three-weefor a team of make-ufor summer Rex was given only recreation. players five minutes to warm up, before taking the mound, and soon began feeling pain in his elbow. He brushed off the pain as only temporary, and continued with his summers activity. But in every game, thereafter, the pain would return after only three or four innings and his parents took him to a doctor. The first doctor labeled the soreness as tendonitis, but it persisted. Another doctor Dr Haslam found bone chips in the elbow, and determined that the tissue between the bones had worn out, and the bones were flaking off. Doctor Haslam was an intern in Los Angeles who helped examine Sandy Colfax, of the Dodgers, for the same ailment years ago. Colfax was forced to give up baseball . For a time, they gave Sandy injections to ease the pain, and allow him to continue, but in time, even the pain deterrent failed. Quitting baseball was hard to accept for young Coleman. It had been his life for ten years of fame and glory. He had been the for a lot of coaches, and led his teams to a lot of victories. Even as a sophomore, Rex held the Utah State 4A champs scoreless for six innings, in a state high Bonneville was leading Cottonwood school play-of- f. going into the last inning, when Rex was pulled out. The Lakers lost the ball game Why did Rex Coleman quit baseball? Why was he unable to continue? What was the cause of his ailment? Who. if anybody, was to blame? These are all questions that Rex and his parents have pondered for a year now. The Doctors state that his arm simply wore out. He is said to have the elbow of a thirty year old man and Rex is only 17. Delmar Coleman hints that Rexs troubles may have begun between the eighth and ninth grade. He finished strong from the eighth grade, but then the long lay-ofand lack of warm-u- p time seemed to trigger his problems. The WBBA has a pitching rule that prohibits any player from pitching more than six innings in any one week. But they cant know how many pitches it will take to pitch through an inning. Rex was a fast bailer, and even, that isn't taken into account by the What about the practice sessions between games? How many innings will a coach assign his young player for team batting practice? e Hex did a lot of pitching in the summers after the regular WBBA schedule and the junior high season. It was common for him to pitch two games a week, when the coaches had to rules committee to answer to. ten-yea- . n r A f 2 it little-league- All-St- CRAIG MANNING of Roy High participates in the broad jump Wednesday in the track meet which found the Royals victorious with a Layton against score of 76-7. SUN CHRONICLE, April 6, 1 ' $yoD flirsNsIk 1 978, Page 1 3 Roy Eleventh Ward team wins in softball The Roy 11th Ward Explorers repeated their last summer per- formance when they won all the marbles in the LDS Intermountain softball tournament Area slow-pitcin Salt Lake City. Friday night the same young men won first place in the Intermountain, Northern Utah Area basketball finals. The Roy team went one step further this year, and won the coveted Sportsmanship Trophy. In the eight team tournament, Roy defeated Taylor First Ward, pretourney favorite Layton 15th Ward and then Plain View Second Ward 1 for the championship. k Ward in Division, but put it all together to win the big one in the area championship game. h By Brent Taylor .1 Uhronide Sports Writer Roy Highs track team defeated the Layton Lancers in a meet at Roy by a slim score of For the second time in a row, Dale Lyman claimed four first places. He took a first in the high hurdles with a time of 14.85 seconds. His second first place was in the 440 relay. Kevin Dale, Fred Fernandes, Christiansen and Kurt Bennington s of a second with a came time of 43.9. Dales third first place was in the d hurdles. Dale swept first place easy with a 41.6. Dales final race was the Mile relay. Dale, along with Malone, Harris and Bradford gained their team five points with a time of 3:33.5. Other outstanding races were Kevin Christiansen who ran the 100 yard 76-7- i 120-yar- d four-tenth- k 330-yar- ' dash in a surprising 9.8, one tenth of a second from the school record of 9.7. Mark Bradford claimed a first in d the dash with a 51.4, and Matt Malone did the same in the 880 with a 440-yar- 2:11. In field events, Roy had two second places in the long jump. Both Manning and Westmorland jumped the same distance. Roy took another second in the high jump with Mark Sindle. In the pole vault, Roy placed first and second. Brad Vaughn was Roys first place with a vault of 116. Scott McLennan made three points for his team by capturing second. Maurie Blau is Roys top weight man. He took first in the discus with a throw of 1297' 2. He also placed second in the shot put. Coach Dan Sheffer said that he was proud of some of the peoples effort in this meet and said that if the team tries, they will improve. 50-4- I program dates registrations May 6, at 9 a.m. at the Roy Recreation Building (behind the fire station) will be the site of summer recreation registration. Teams are to organize themselves and have an adult or coach. Rosters have been placed in each Elementary, Junior High and High School. People registering are asked to follow the procedure stated on the roster. Teams organized must stay within Elementary School boundaries in the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades. The fee is $3 per player and should be turned in on May 6. Rosters are available at the schools and the Roy City BBuilding. ITie Leagues for Boys Baseball and Girls' Softball are as follows: 2nd, 3rd grade (Youth interested should register on May 6 at 10 a m. Teams should not be organized ) Boys & Girls' Baseball and Soft The 11th Warders had taken first place in the Roy North Stake, then lost to Roy First Ward in the Region finals. They lost again to the First 5-- workshop Participants will have the opportunity to learn Aikido techniques and philosophy. Following the vwotkshops therewill be a free public demonstration and lecture from 5 to 6 p m. Mr. Kobayashi will explain how the principles of Aikido can be beneficially applied to daily life. Mr. Kobayashi, a student of Aikido fo 21 years, is the Managing Director for the Aikido Institute of America. He has been a featured contributer to Black Belt magazine, and is the director and chief instructor of the Aikido program at the Aspen Academy of Martial Arts. Aikidois unique among martial arts because it does not depend upon Students of strength for Aikido are taught to redirect their opponents agressive energies. They are taught, through philosophy and technique, to never harm their attacker. Through Aikido they learn to live in harmony with their environment. (Aikido means the way of harmony with the universe). Mr. Kobayashis visit is sponsored by the Wasachi Aikikai, an Aikido dub that has been in the Salt Lake area for two years. Anyone wanting more information should contact the dubs instructor, Dale Gillilan, at A $5 registration fee will be to for workshop participants charged cover expenses e. year. ll 0 Rod Kobayashi, 6th dan (degree) blackbelt in Aikido will be visiting Salt Lake City to conduct public workshops and a free demonstration in Aikido on Saturday. The workshops will be held in the Mt. Jordan Junior High School Gymnasium, 9360 South 400 East, Sandy at noon to 2 p.m. and 3 to 5 p.m. The workshops are open to the public. ball-Mi- dget C 4th grade and under this school year; Midget B 5th grade and under this school year; Midget A 6th grade and under this school Girls Softball Jr. BC 7th and 8th grade and under this school year; Jr. B 9th grade and under this school year; Jr. A 10th, 11th and 12th grade and under this school year. Boys Baseball Jr. C 7th grade and under this school year; Jr. B 8th grade and under this school year; Jr. A 9th and 10th grade and under this school year. We will attempt to divide Junior B League into separate 7th and 8th grade leagues. (In case there are not sufficient teams, it will be combined.) A League will be held for young boys and girls in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades if enough register. The teams will be organized by elementary school areas, by the recreation department and by experience and Blackbelt conducts BOX SCORE FOR FINAL GAME In the same tournament, Roy First Ward lost to Logan 5th Ward in overtime for consolation honors The score was the Logan. team. COACH FRED Thompson of Roy High piloted his Royals to a victory over Sky View Friday. 3-- 0 Let us print your school sports news 825-- 1 666 f, p f, -- rules-maker- free-lanc- Rex Coleman is an example of what can happen to a young athlete, when on the limbs he has poaches who know very little of the dangers of over-wor- k of young growing athletes.. In tjaeir quest for .victory, some coaches are willing to take chances. No one would intentionally hurt a young man, but it is being done every year in the baseball world, and often in thj little league programs. Roy Recreation has no pitching restrictions in its baseball program. The directors leave it up to the good judgement of their many coaches. Too many n teams in Roy are a tourteam, and that includes naments. I reported from this corner last year, an incident where one twelve-yea- r old pitched 11 innings in a three-da- y period . one-pitch- post-seaso- Too often the coaches ask the boy how his arm feels, and then send him to the mound. Rex Coleman never did have a sore arm, until after his eighth grade season. He felt fine, going into that first game of the summer vacation. Clearfield is associated with the Little League Baseball franchise. Little League has similar pitching rules to those of the WBBA. While the six inning per week restriction is honored at Clearfield, there are other ways that a boy can hurt his arm. A good coach will take measures to protect his pitcher by keeping his arm warm between innings, and jerking him as soon as there is any hint of injury, but there are a lot of ambitious fathers who accept coaching assignments with little or no experience. From this corner, I relayed an offer from the Orthopedic Association for a free clinic for coaches of baseball, football and basketball. No one from Clearfield or Roy Recreation accepted the offer. No one knows for sure, if and when the injury to Rex Coleman could have been prevented, but a promising career in baseball has apparently ended prematurely at Washington Terrace. Lets be sure it isnt happening again this season to another baseball youngster in any community. jt Two Roy teams in tourney Two Roy teams played for the d championship of the Morgan basketball tournament for eighth graders at Morgan. Roy Junior to High School beat Sandridge take first place. Special awards were given to Roy Juniors Steve Scholtec for MVP of the tournament, to Robb Thomas for scoring the most points, and to Mike Reske of Sandridge for his accurate Lions-sponsore- 37-3- 0 Roy Junior opened the tournament 4 with a win over a Hennefer-Nort- h Summit team, and defeated Bear River 43 to 33 in the second round. In the title match, Roy Junior erupted from a 5 tie in the third quarter to win by seven points. Steve Scholtec was high point man with 14 points for Roy. Members of the champion Roy Junior High team are: Eric Aragon, Albert Garcia, Kerwin Jensen, Jed Jones, Lance Jorgensen, Scott Miller, Steve Scholtec, Todd Taylor, Robb Thomas, Jason Wheelwright, and Coaches Jim Okroy and La Moyne 56-2- 25-2- t David DELOSS CONNOR, Scout Executive at Camp Kiesel, exchanges scout hand shakes with Scout Master Ed Sam Frank, Doug Fowers, Larry Bowman, Roger Fowers, Frank of Roy Troop 778, Others in the picture are Steve Skidmore, Kent Skidmore, Kenneth Barlow, Durbano, Brian Lennie Bowman, TayL. Fullmer, Gary and Niel Lewis. Doug Colvell, Gi eg Lewis, Brett Christensen , Jensen. 44 - --TV ,1 ! this picture was token of Rex Coleman, three years ago, he injured his elbow. Now at 17, his baseball career has apparently ended. The 63" Bonneville High junior was the roge of Washington Terrace. SHORTLY AFTER I i i I 1 b. |