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TTyYVyf w i 1 j Wednesday October 27 2004 Valley Edition SanpetTStessenger-Gunnlso- i'i $ xMmM v K a 7a a L ' £3 " 1424 'j1 ?NL BKMaaJ ffitKrt PHOTO MILLER LEAH COURTESY Justin Piep Chad Avery Garrett Childs Taylor Ashton 7 Jay Bartholomew 10 Ryan Frandsen 11 Guy Mellor 17 Dallin David Ha’o 22 Ross Peterson 24 Jared Williams 25 Dallen Caldwell 26 Chase Nelson 28 Taylor Stewart 30 Ben Dailey 32 55 Zack 41 45 50 Zack Winters Jake Childs Tyler James 51 Chad Satterfield 53 Travis Dyreng 54 Justin Woodmansee Omner Sorensen 34 Stuart Watson 36 Guy Zubia Sorensen 56 Jack Pay 62 Andy Bartholomew 63 Sye Bunnell 65 Justin Goble 66 Jaromy Allred 68 Garrett McKean 71 Mitch Heath 75 Brandon Olsen 79 Brandon Jensen Williams Nathan Hill Bartholomew Ha’o Josh Crane Darin Powell Shawn Trevor Assistant Coaches: 80 Sam Judd 88 Head Coach: Rhett Jackson Manager: Cody Dyreng Greg TEAM: 2004 GUNNISON BULLDOG FOOTBALL Anderson 18 Joey Crane 20 Frank Pike 21 2 5 3 Gunnison ends season on high note wins over Grand Sean Hales By Stall writer GRANIH’OUNT Hut when that is hindsight regards the most efficient use of a senior guard on a high school lootball team— and comes dining the last game of the season —it has little value Since the beginning of the season the Bulldogs’ running ollensive scheme has been fueled by the sie and speed of senior guard J I) Bay However Bay’s position at left guard limited Gunnison’s effective running to the right — the side Bay would pull to for blocking “We were finally able to run to the left for the first time this season ” said Gunnison Assistant Coach Shawn Crane about the Bulldogs’ win over the Grand County Red Devils last week In the game against Grand Gunnison Head Coach Rhett Jackson changed things and occasionally put Pay in the lineup as a blocking fullback According to Crane with Gunnison Bay in the backfield had the luxury of running to ther side of the field and still benefit from Pay’s ste and speed The Gunnison coaching staff also decided that Pay’s abilities made him the perfect candidate to rumble through the mass of humanity that generally makes up a play Afrun by Ben Dailey ter a at Grand's line Pay got the ball and rumbled into the end zone for the first scoie of his high school caieer Dailey produced set up backfield 167 yards on the ground on 23 over seven carries averaging yards per play Last week at Kanab Gunnison made three trips inside the 20 but was only able run by to score off a Joey Crane In the first half of the game Gunnison against The Bulldogs’ Manti Coaches don’t like to speculate too much on what could have been but Crane J was It was Gunnison’s defense that closed out the game against the Red Devils when Grand was moving the ball downfield toward the end of the game and Gunnison defensive back Joey Crane intercepted a pass That Gunnison D in the interception allowed Gunnison to run out the clock “The defense has been defense against teams that were billed to blow Gunnison away “We played stellar defense” said Crane about the win at Grand was in the red zone but came away “In hindsight made a in close able to keep games close three times said have would huge difference games” strong” said Crane “I don't think our defense lost games our offense couldn’t win them” Crane and the coaching staff are proud of the players especially the fact that the team showed up to play Grand even though the team’s season had ready been decided “They just wanted to win” said Crane and continued “The boys played ’til the end even if they struggled in region play” Templars lose homefield advantage with loss to Juab By Bob OUNTY Bahlmann Sports writer MAN! —Charlie Brown’s dog Snoopy begins all his great novels with the phi use “It was a daik and stormy night” 1 hat line certainly applied to last 1 hursday evening when the Manti Templars traveled to Neplti to take on the Juab Wasps It was a game that would determine which team would host San Juan in the first round of the playolts and which would Gunnison volleyball team ends season with loss By make the long road trip to Kanab The Templars watched their hopes of a second place region finish slip away in the cold rain as the Wasps took the victory Facing a their first possession game Manti went to After exchanging punts Juab took overdose to midfield and used Trevor Jones to dnvc line Three to the plays later Jade Grcenhalgh punched it in and then Matt Howard conveited for two ing the game at eight Defense dominated for the rest of half but the Templars got on the board again with 338 left in the first half Manti got good field position when a late hit penalty moved the ball to the 41 Salanoa sprinted for 32 connected with yards Devin Fnschknccht from 15 then yards out to give Manti a lead On their next possession Juab got great field position off cara penalty and Grcenhalgh ried twice the second taking him across the goal line The PAT was good and Juab took a lead into the locker room at the half The third quarter belonged - Gunnison might pull out of their funk as they won a convincing However the Lady match Templars were able to squeak by in the last game Despite some strong showings against some tough opponents the Gunnison Lady Bulldogs will not be heading to state this year North Sanpete cross countiy wrap up SALT LAKE CITY— High school cross country runners from all over Utah made their annual trek to Salt Lake City’s Sugar House Pat k for state cham- on ol the Kyle Hatch who ran for 43 yatds to move theTcmplais into scot ing position Taylor Salanoa got the Templars on the boaid first with a quaiterback keepei and then ran it in again for the conversion Karly in the first period the Templars led Patti Robertson The Gunnison GUNNISON Lady Bulldog’s volleyball team played their final game of the season against the Manti Lady Templars on Oct 14 and despite competing well lost and All the games were close and in the third game it appeared BOB pionships events 1A Wasatch Academy sent tw'o of Region 8’s top finishers to the starting line Tiger Reo Tahara second in Region 18 the week before edged his way into 16th place BAHLMANN Templar running back Tyler Tompson gets a little help from some friends against the Juab Wasps during a failed effort to maintain homefield advantage for the playoffs to the Wasps Juab took the opening kickoff of the second line half to their own Juab used Jones ten times to gain 53 yards on a dnve that ended with a run into the end one A BAT gave Juab lead a The Templars turned to their usually potent passing game in an efloit to get back in the game quickly Unfortunately the cold drizzle had turned into a duvmg ram and the Templars just couldn't make it happen on the season dropping to with the loss Manti just couldn’t find the answer to stopping Jones who had 70 yards on 29 carries to lead the Juab running attack The Wasps carried 52 times for 226 yards The passing game wasn’t needed and Juab only connected on one of four passes for five yards Manti rushed 20 times for 105 yards and Salanoa was eight of 18 passing for 113 yards lie was the leading s rusher w ith 58 yards on 2 followed by Hatch with 48 yards on five runs Brandon Puctt w ith 3 yards on two carries and Jace Moore who had one run for two yards In the air Frischknecht caught five passes for 83 yards and a TD Puctt caught one for 18 Hatch had one reception for seven yards and icgular season They will have to find the answer to their defensive problems if they hope to stay alive in the playoffs This Friday at 7 pm they will be in Kanab to play the Cowboys 0 (See RICHFIELD 1040 US HIGHWAY 89 available call (435) NOVEMBER 2 (Tuesday) FILLMORE MAIN 500 available call (435) ' NOVEMBER 3 (Wednesday) 35 Messenger Main Manti NO MORE PETS© is Everything" PRINTING COPIES BUSINESS FORMS BUS CARDS AND MORE! 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