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Show Page The Dixie Sun 6 May 16, Li Trash Talk Sports Editor: David West Rebs take region in Brent C. Wintch Dixie rides grand slams to win crown ! i ! s Utah's bid for 2002 Olympics By DAVID WEST THE DIXIE SUN Sounds like the Fnergier Bunny, but the Rebel baseball team keeps going and going and winning Over the weekend, the Rebs won the Region 18 tournament soundly defeating Ricks College in the final game Saturday Dixie opened the tourney loss to Thuisdav with a College of Southern Idaho, and it looked like the Rebels might be the hist team eliminated Dixie avoided that fate b beating Snow 14-- 3 Thuisdav afternoon and eliminating CSI 0 Fi idav morning Reb pitcheis Lance ambert and Mason Fox earned compl2 6-- 1 . V 11-- 1 j sporting events pay their I low e er, the . If i a no of it s often means mote to the than money from piofes-sioncai lers Athletes tiam for most of their lives for this oppm tunitv. In the past, both the summer and winter games would take place the same year lowever, 1992 was the last year that that happened As of now, the v ete-game ' ictories, each going five innings m games shortened by the n rule Fi iday 's win ov er CSI set up an afternoon showdown with win-nei- Ricks. The Vikings hadn't lost in n the tournament, so Dixie needed to win two consecutive games against the SWAC Northern Division champs to claim the title By the fourth, Dixie lead double-eliminatio- y I r games aie staggered every two years. The next summer Olympics will take place in Atlanta in 1996. The next winter-gamewill take place in northern Japan two years later. Every four years, the win 8-- 2 i E very four vcais, the biggest, most anticipated sportNo, it's not ing event occurs the C lippeis winning a game, it's the Olympics Dm mg the Oh mpics, coun-tue- s tiom all over the win Id compete to take home the gold the "gold" being ust a simple metal medalion, not the millions of clollais that other 19&; FRED MOESINGERFI DIVING TO SAFETY: Dixie College first baseman Cale Shepherd reaches out to put Mike Gonzales (4), who dives into the bag ahead of Mason Foxs pickoff throw. The tournament opener 6-- International Olympic Committee meets to decide the next location of the Olympics Four years ago, Salt Lake Citv was one ot the finalists. This year. Salt a he's Oh mpic 1 to CSI on Thursday, came back to spank the Eagles IE DIXIE SUN the tag on CSI's Rebels, who lost the 11-- 0 Friday. but added two more runs on douScott Sudbury's two-ru- n d ble to the fence The next batter. Brad Parker, hit a two-ru- n homer, giving Dixie a Please see CHAMPS on page 7 left-fiel- f L bid is back. Ot comse, v ith the cam- paign, theie aie pros and cons thatanse. Some lesidents don't want to see the Oh mpics come to Utah because of environmental and economic reasons. Many believe that the thousands of tom ist that will come to Salt Lake would be bad I think it would be great All the tom ism would bring money, and lesidents will look back vv ith pi ide Salt ake City, the w odd's choice toi 2002 Bicnl C lolwiinit IViIims n spmts foi Vic Dixie Sun FRED MOESINGERTHE DIXIE SI HUBBA HUBBA: Dixie catcher Brad Thorne discusses strategy with pitcher Aaron McArthur between innings of Friday afternoon's victory over Ricks College McArthur, a Dixie High graduate, pitched into the sixth inning to earn the victory, while Cale Shepherd relieved to pics 12-win over Ricks. The win forced a championship game on Saturday, which Dixie also won, up the save, in a 8 8-- |