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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY MARCH 28, 2001 Sports Kanab Mens City Basketball League As the season is winding down the race for first in league play is close. Here are the scores of recent games. Tiffs 72, Valley 61 Mohave 91, Houstons 36 Rez 73, Kane Hospital 57 7th grade Cowboys place 4th in weekend Fillmore Tourney Kanab Mens League Tournament Saturday, March 31 Kanab 36, Millard O 2:00 pm 8-- 3rd Place 12:00 noon March 24 Championship Tiffs 68, Express 62 Mohave 59, Houstons 48 Valley 70, Rez 50 31 The Kanab 7th graders met Millard in their first game of the Fillmore tournament on March 17. The Cowboys started out with the jitters, allowing Millard to take an early 2 lead. Kanab came back to post a 10 - 8 lead by the end of the 1st quarter aided by improved defense and a big basket at the buzzer by Tanner Chamberlain. With the help of a number of steals by Caleb Vincent in the second quarter, Kanab surged ahead to a 20 14 halftime lead. In the 1st Place Bye March 21 6th Place Game -- League standings to date third,KanabslackedoffandMiliard came on to cut the Cowboys lead to 5:00 pm 2nd Place 1 1 Both teams turned the scora ing up notch in the fourth, but the Cowboys always stayed a few buckets ahead to win the game 36 - 31. Tyler Ramsay was the leading scorer for the Cowboys with 14 e pointers. points, with Tanner Chamberlain was close behind with 12, while Caleb Vincent and Jerace Glover had three each. Matt Livingston, Jeff Perkins and Keith Howell finished with two apiece. South Sevier 43, Kanab 39 After starting off on a 0 run, 23-2- 0. :00 am 7th Place 3:00 pm two-thre- played this Saturday, March 31, beginning at 11:00 a.m. at the old Kanab Middle School. 5th Place 6-- Come out and cheer your favorite team on this Saturday at the old middle school gym! Action starts at 11 a.m. Public Health Week April Greyhound Blur of Fur Run Saturday, April 28 at 9 a.m. youll find hounds and humans eompetingin the Blur of Fur Run. Its anobrainer thatthehounds will ", win, but in the watching there will be lots of laughter. The back of the elementary school will be fenced off to allow a grassy strip for running safely, and the Kanab Police will use radar to clock the hounds. Humans are too slow to appear on the sensors. Last yearf three dogs rah 38 raph. Greyhounds are known as 45 mph couch potatoes, as they prefer to grace your ' ' couch versus any race track. -- 2-- 8 - Americans are getting healthier, according to new government statistics released in late 997. In 1996, compared with 1995, significantly fewer patients died of AIDS, fewer teenagers gave birth, more women received low. care, and infant mortality dropped to an all-tiThe figures are included in a CDC report, Births and Deaths, United States: 1996. The following trends from the report can be used in support of Public Health Week campaigns: Life expectancy reached an high of 76.1 years in 1996, up from in 1995. 75.8 HIVA1DS mortality declined 26 percent between 1995 and 1996, falling from the leading to the second leading cause of death among 25 to 44 year olds. The teen birth rate declined for a fifth straight year. The teen birth rate for 15 to 19 year olds dropped from 56.8 (per 1,000 women) in 1995 to 54.7 (per 1 ,000 women) in 1 996. The teen birth rate has declined by 1 2 percent since 1991. homicide rate dropped an estimated 1 1 percent, from The homicides 9.4 per 100,000 population in 1995 to 8.4 in 1996. Infant mortality reached another new low of 7.2 deaths per 1 ,000 live births. An estimated 15 percent decline in mortality rates from sudden d of the decline in infant death syndrome (SIDS) explains about infant mortality. Please help us celebrate Public Health Week by entering our contest. Answer these four questions and bring the answers in to your local Public Health Dept. Your answers will then be put into a drawing for some neat prizes like a car seat, bike helmets and couple of days at a resort. Questions: 1 . Name three of the ten major accomplishments of Public Health over the past 100 years. 2. Name three things that Public Health does for you every day. 3. Where is your local Public Health Dept.? 4. Name something the Public Health Department has done for you . . . . , , personally the Cowboys found themselves tied at ten after one. They got hot in the second frame when Jerace Glover stole the ball and made a long pass to Tyler Ramsay, who drained a three. After two, the Cowboys led 17- 12. Things got tougher in the third quarter as the Sevier players went on an 0 run, and captured the lead for good. Jerace Glover stole, the ball again, and fed Caleb Vincent who made an Ill 8-- end-to-en- mi m pre-nat- al d, run, finishing with a three point play. Vincents effort brought the Cowboys back to within one, In the last 1:35, South Sevier got five points. Tanner Chamberlain sunk both free throws for the Cowboys last two points. Wilt netted 14, Jerace Glover sunk 13, Caleb Vincent and Tyler 37-3- 8. Ramsay added six each. This loss put South Sevier into the final, and sent the Cowboys to the A-si- de B-sid- e. Kanab over Delta Kanab played solid defense for three quarters, and had enough offense to hold on to a ten point lead and secure a win over Delta. Matt Livingston led the Cowboys with 12, including seven in the fourth period. Jerace Glover added eight, while Tanner came up big again with a nine point effort. Tyler Ramsay and Matt Livingston each sunk key three pointers in the fourth quarter. Manti 69, Kanab 32 The final started an hour late. The travel and the schedule took a toll and the Cowboys were flat. Manti ran away with a 2 victory. 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