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Show nrrr r n Section C Classifieds Obituaries San ffdvocate Carbon finishes season losing twice to Tooele by Ilayne Carr Sports Writer The Carbon High School baseball team lost a berth in the state play - offs and ended the season with two losses to Tooele and Thursday and Friday, 4-- 3 4-- The Dinos finished with a - loss record in Region Five play, with one loss in playoff action. 7-- 7 win Last Thursday, the Dinos traveled to Tooele High to play their final, regular season game, but ended up playing Tooele again on Friday in a try for a berth in the state tournament. The Buffaloes opened the first encounter with two quick runs in the bottom of the first to force the Dinos into a game of catch - up. The Dinos fought back in the fourth inning when third baseman Bent Jenson singled and drove in Dave Maynarich, who had advanced to second on a sacrifice by Mike Breitenstein. First baseman David Spencer then walked and Joe Keller hit a triple, driving in Jenson and Spencer. But the Buffs then retired the side. The game ended as Kevin Asay and Bill Kirkwood were inserted as pinch hitters and Jeff Murray as a pinch runner, but the Dinos failed to score. factor that made the difference was our outfielder. Brock Denny, became ill, and we were forced to make the trip without him, said Dino Coach Rich Hunter after the game. We had to put a player in his spot to fill the void, and it shifted our outfield around. One The loss overshadowed the fine game Jeff Bishop pitched. Of the 26 batters he faced, Bishop walked only one and struck out four. The average number of pitches he threw in his losing effort was 2.8 per batter. On Friday, Coaches Hunter and Tom Rabb recieved an invitation to try for a place in the state tournament. The team headed for Hillcrest High in Salt Lake City to play Tooele again. Bishop was on the mound for the Dinos, his second game in only two days. He had three earned runs scored on him before finally leaving the game in the 6th inning to be replaced by Kevin Asay. Hitting by the Dinos was spread out among eight batters. Singles were hit by Larry Jaramillo, Scott Nielson, Barry Powell, Dave Maynarich, David Spencer, Mike Breitenstein and Bent Jenson. Brock Denny hit a double in the 6th inning. Only three seniors, Asay, Maynarich and Spencer, leave the Carbon High squad at the end of the season. The Dinos finished with four hitters batting more than .400. They were Scott Nielson, .500 for 15 games; Bent Jenson, .560 for 11 games; Brock Denny, .439 for 15 games and Mike Breitsenstein, .400 for 15 games. Neilson led the team in stolen bases with Breitenstein, 16. Denny and Jeff Bishop followed with 10, 7 and 6. In runs batted in, Nielson led with 15, Breitenstein had 13, Denny and Maynarich, 12 each. In home runs, Breitenstein led with two. Maynarich and Denny hit three doubles each. Nielson led the team in triples with 3. Denny and Bishop both hit two triples during regular season play. Colorado clips Eagles Final statistics on the College of Eastern Utah baseball team show Larry Dawes as the leading pitcher with a 2 record and Tony Sperry as the teams leading hitter with a .391 average compiled in 29 games. The Eagles had their season cut short by 1 game to losing a tight Colorado Northwestern Com4-- 2-- munity College of Rangely, Colo, last week. A victory would have CEU into the sub - regional junior college tournament in Provo last weekend. CEU won six games and lost over Members of the Lehi High School baseball team hug each other and shout for joy after in a game played on a defeating Moab neutral field in Helper last weekend. Lehi 3-- Trap 2 advanced to the state finals in Salt Lake City, In other action. Carbon High was defeated by Tooele losing a berth in the playoffs, 4-- the 23 spring campaign, the other two mound victories not accounted for by Dawes going to Harry Hillas and Darrell Yarbrough. Hillas and Dawes are both sophomores while Yarbrough is just a freshman, coming to CEU out of South High in Salt Lake City. Soerry is also a sophomore from Juab High School in Nephi. He had 87 official appearances at the plate and 34 hits to compile the lofty .391 hitting mark. Sperry had eight extra base hits: three doubles, three triples and two home runs. He also had 13 runs batted - in and drew tour base on balls during the spring season. The Eagles had only one other regular player above the .300 mark in the hitting department, this being second baseman Steve Tapp. Tapp, a freshman from Brighton High in Salt Lake, hit .311 for the year. Like Sperry, Tapp appeared in every one of the Eagle games, batting 103 times and getting 32 hits, including four doubles, three home runs and 17 RBIs. Mark Everill was the teams leading run producer, getting 21 RBIs on a .298 average which included six doubles, a triple and three home runs. Yarbrough also had three home runs, Curt Jenson, Jr., hit two and Brett Beal, Dawes and Gary Huber each had one circuit smash. Defensively the outstanding players were Tapp, Everill and Beal, Everill and Beal committing only three errors all spring and Tapp nine from his busy infield position. Line score: CEU 000 001 00 1 5 0 CNCC 000 100 01 2 8 Dawes & Neabaurer. 1 Jarvis Jorgensen and (CNCC) (CEU) shoot Gun buffs gather for Helper competition Scatter - gun enthusiasts from throughout the State and Western Wyoming gathered at the Helper Gun Club high above Helper on Reservoir Hill this past Saturday and Sunday as the local club hosted the Coors chain shoot. The trap shoot in Helper was the first of nine meets being sponsored by Coors at various locations throughout the State this summer, the finals of which will be staged at the Heber Valley Gun Club in Heber City on Aug. Vernal will host the next one this coming weekend, The competition moves on to Spanish Salt Lake Fork, May Gun Club on June Ogden Gun Club, July 1; Beaver Gun Club Holladay Gun Club on July 22 and Magna Gun Club on July The final shoot off in Aug. Heber City is slated for Aug. 10, 8; 2-- 3; 7-- 8; 4-- Entrants must participate at least five of the shoots to be eligible for the final meet in 11-1- 2. in Heber. Approximately 90 shooters were entered in each of the four events staged at the Helper Gun Club over the weekend. The meet carried over $1200 in added prizes. A.T.A. Rules govern the shoot and all scores are entered in the official record. All shooters are classified according to their A.T.A. official average and known ability. Shooters with no established average are placed in lot less than Class B and not less Jian 20 yards. Shooting in the first event at Helper Saturday morning began at 9 am. in the Coors Light Singles. Joe Roach of Spanish Fork won Class A honors, winning a shoot - off with Jason Branson after they had each broken 100 targets in the competition. Third place in the class went to Carl Miller of Beaver. Another shoot - off was required to determine the winner of Class B in the first event, Kevin Farnsworth of Spanish Fork winning out over Harold Orton, Spanish Fork and Kent Pilling of Price. Each had 98 in the final tally necessitating the shoot - off. Brent Cochran of Mapleton won Gass C honors with 96; followed by Dick Bona, Springviile, 95; and George Lasley, Price, 89. A woman out shot the shooters in Class D as Shirley Olsen of Salt Lake City took this class with a 96 score, followed by Vern Wilson,. Price, 94; and Kevin Swanson, Price, 93. -- Saturdays second event, dubbed the Colorado Cool Aid Handicap consisting of 100 handicap targets. Joe Leavitt of Price was the Class A winner with a total of 95 breaks, Wally Trembath of Rock Springs, Wyo., was second with 94 and third place went to Chad Johnson, Beaver, with 93. Roland Orton, Spanish Fork, won out over Bevan Branson of Helper in Class B after each had 93. Gerald Shoup, Jr. Price; and Leon Isaacson, Provo, each had 91 in this class. Gail Herrmann of Vernal, John Gianini of Helper and Carl Miller of Beaver wound up in a tie for Class C, all with 93, I lerrmann winning the shoot - off. The first event Sunday morning, known as the Rocky Mountain Spring Water Singles, had yard targets. A tie in Class A in w hich a shoot - off could not be arranged saw Tonv 100-1- (nml murd mi p.i Scatter for gunners from around the intermountain area line up events in the Coors Chain Shoot at the Helper Gun Club. than $1,200 in prizes were awarded at the trapshoot Saturday and Sunday. Winners were competing in four main M ore events. 51 4 A A m 0 a m 0k j |