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Show Page 7A if North Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, May 9, 1984 u All Lose In First Found At 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. V Bountiful, Region 4s third-plafinisher won its tournament berth by downing an minded Weber 14-- 6 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 14-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 be4-- A ce offensive-- 2-- 1. 5-- 6-- 10 hind ' the pitching of Rob Thompson. Bountifuls offense was able to generate only one hit, however, a home run by Mike Laraby in the second in- ning. 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 . , , . . ' . ROYS FIRSTBASEMAN holds a Clear- field runner on base during the season Photo by Rodney Wright f , finale Thursday in Clearfield. The Royals won the Igame 8-- 3. for two runs each. ' The Darts Wyle Carlson continued his incredible offensive season by nailing the Taylorsville pitching staff for three hits. Carlson is hitting somewhere near .750 for the year, Draayer. 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. post-seaso- Roy scored first in the game n on a home run in the the first inning by .Jeff top of Jorgensen, but then the Roval said. two-ru- David Cole, Greg McNab and David Bush all had two hits apiece for the Darts. Davis meets Bountiful today offense stalled until the sixth inat 2:15 in the second round of ning. tournathe Davis scored two runs of its own in the bottom of the first ment Clearfield won a berth in the inning and added three more in tournament by holding onto the the third and held on in the late top spot in the region despite innings for the win. On Thursday Roy earned the losing to Roy 3 Thursday. The Braves and the Darts had right to its playoff against Davis to win playoff games with Weber with the win over the regions e and Roy, respectively, in order Falcons. to qualify for the state tourney. The win came much as a reAt Pleasant View, Bountiful, a sult of Roys Jeff Yoshimuras team which has lacked on of- throwing six innings of one-h- it fense at times near the end of ball in relief. this season, found little trouble Yoshimura came into the slapping the ball through the game in the second inning after Warrior defense, and took a the Falcons had taken a 2 lead four-ru- n lead after the first in- and completely shut them down until he tired in the seventh. ning. Weber seemed to fall apart afTravis Hirst stroked a two-ru-n ter that and committed seven er- single in the third inning to rors while allowing the Braves boost Roy into the lead that they 14 runs to eight of their own. never relinquished. i Brent Crittenden had two hits, Marvin Price provided most of the offense punch of the War- including a double, and scored riors, nailing a triple and two three runs for the Royals, while doubles and knocking in three Jeff Schultz added two more hits as Roy raised its final region reRBIs. hits but cord to 4 and 6 overall. Both teams netted the difference in the game was Greg Folk laced a Webers poor defensive showing. triple for Clearfield. The loss snapped a seven-gam- e At Davis 3 win over Roy in winning streak for the FalKaysville, the Royals were behind 2 after five innings, but cons, and gives them a 5 final loaded the bases with just one region record, 5 overall. double-eliminati- 8-- first-plac- 3-- 1 1 6-- 9-- run-scori- - 5-- 7-- 5-- 10-- Clearfield Boys and Girls Sweep' BYU Invitational CHRIS LARSEN Review Correspondent For the Clearfield Falcons, the Brigham Young University High School Invitational .Track and'Tield meet, was a day . of firsts. i ff . the championship. The Falcon field teams had strong showings by Craig Carter, Hal Schoefield, and James 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 Although it was the second time both the Clearfield boys and girls won the team titles simultaneously, it was the first time in the schools history that either the boys or the girls won a finisher team, fourth-plac- e BYU invitional. 800 meters, in the Rock Duane Falcon It was a day of firsts for e Kim Thurgood in the junior Stephanie Clemments. Todd Davis ' shot put, Clemments set a new State 1600 metefs, and record in the 400 meters, break- - in the Sterling Allen in the Javeing .the 57.26 time of East highs lin. record. Susan Devries 982 The Falcon girls were led by Clemments clocked in at old the and Sharon Anderbroke also which Clemments 57.12, son. They squeaked by Alto meet record. Clemments also placed first in the 200 meters at 25.97, and anAnderson placed first in the chored the relay team high hurdles in 15.52, wins in the 400 meter (51.14), and the intermediate and 1600 meter (4:03.84). relays. hurdles in 46.40. The Falcon boys team also had Teammate Laura Zaugg swept a few firsts. DAVIS HIGHS Jeff Ohlwiler unleashes the discuss as Senior speedster Ricky Smith first place in' the heptathalon, took first in the 400 meters with breaking her own heptathalon part of the decathlon competition at the Brigham a time of 49.73. Smith also an- record, with 4,602 points. chored the first place Falcon for this an outstanding job. The kids reFalcon coach John . Flint said about our character 4 team. meet. ally responded well and we hope medley his team felt good.that this will really get us about were Because of the Falcons other We really happy We had a defeat over at the placings in the meet, the boys Davis invitational and talked our performance. The girls did pumped up for region and for 6 team swept past Alta third-plac- fifth-plac- fifth-pla- ce 4-- A fifth-plac- e' 1 4-- A 68-6- 1. -, first-pla- ce 100-met- er 300-met- er . , Photo by Rodney Wright Young University invitational, which he won. Clearfields 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 finishes by Troy Hanks in the high hurdles (51.03) and John Warner in the boys, dash (22.47). state, 110-met- er 200-met- er 60-4- Coaches Lead By Example 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 fundamentals of sports, they teach their players lessons that should stay with them the rest of thqr Gary L. Hatch lives. And most importantly, Review Sports Editor they teach with their actions. Take for example, a confron- tation that developed between missed the plate. Roy baseball coach - Fred Let me here say that the play Thompson and the homeplate was controversial. ' umpire at the It could have been called ei. game Friday.' ther way, because the catcher A Roy player was making his had either nearly enough, or way toward home plate and a barely enough, time to get out of throw was coming in from left . the way of the oncoming base - , runner. field. If the catcher had enough time Both the catcher and the pitcher for Clearfield wire lined to move, the runner should be the ruled safe because of ihterfer- up waiting for the throw catcher was standing in the base-lin- e ente. This was an in front of the plate and the beif not for the Falcons, feet ten was about game pitcher it at least for the Royals hind the plate. The throw from the field was meant either the end of the sea- , " high and the catcher leaped for son or a playoff game for a berth the ball but- missed it, he landed in the state tournament for Roy. The score was close and the again in the baseline right in the was perfect for players situation had who the of baserunner, path to dive over the catcher to try to. and coaches to fly into the kind of rage weve all come to expect, make it to the plate.' The pitcher, backing up the of the worlds Billy Martins. But contrary to the vogue in play, caught the ball and tagged the runner out because he sports, the best thing that could Roy-Clearfie- ld - , , - - . , ROY COACH Fred Thompson stresses his point, though not abusively, in a dis- l ft . Photo by Rodney WrigK cussion with a referee during Thursdays game at Clearfield. have happened then did. Thompson immediately ran out to the umpire to plead his case for his team. An action required of any coach worth his spitballs. But Thompson didnt rant in expletives, redefining the urn pires status and function in society. Instead, he very animatedwent over 'the ruling with the umpire to make sure he didnt miss any of the finer points of the law. When he was satisfied he could to nothing to disuade the umpire, he went back to the dug-oand got on with the business ly ut 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. . |