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Show 'I: -- v fi V ,v . i- - 6 Tuesday April 10, 2001 ii scores 3 By RICHARD SHAW Dino soccer team wins first game : t y t ' r I . v. , , " - . Ted Bianco, bead coach of the boys soccer team at Carbon High was philisophical before the game against Wasatch Academy on Friday afternoon. We have played hard and our.. team has Improved continually" he .. said. "We Bhould win this game today but you can never tell what is v going to happen. Blanco's soccer team bad not won s game this seasonuntil Fri- , duys contest But thingBdiangDd tbat afternoon in Dinoland as the team from Carbon beat the kids from that ; private school in Mount Pleasant 3--: 2,with all three goalsheing scored by Robert Mcevoy in driving runs that pushed theballintothenet One of the most iflterestlng things is that Mcevoy scored as many goals in this game as the team as a wfaole had scored In the first : four games of the league season. ' After the loss to Grand last week where the 1 Red Devils outscored ' the Dfoos 34), it would have been ' easy for theOnl Carbon team to get. down on themselves. But they didnt; in fact. they.arose from the ashes like the prottol Phoenix., J ..This Carbon soccer team has &. lot of heart; It takes alot of courage siren the season record is so dismal. But a spark of lifecame Into the teiun on Friday and they were able to prevail . v . In almost every game this sear ' son the opposing train has hlrnost ; camped on Carbons end of the fiekk making the Dinos play so much defense that offense was almost ' Impossible. But in this game the team was able to spend much more time on the Tigers end of the field,: making their goaly plvery hard protoctingthelr nets, . Defensively, the Dino soccer , players held the Tiger offense at bay much of the game, taking the ball away from them repeatedly and' sending than to their end of the field. V... WhUe Mcevoy may have been the obvioushero of the game, every player on the team worked hard to - ensure victory ;; "Everybody played well," said I felt : Biancoon Mondaymorning. we performed much better than in the past," He did have some pndse for individual players U. :.1: After Greg Palmer got hurt we had to put Pave Bryant in at andhedid very well considerhe ing hasnever played in that said Bianco. Keenon : Atwood aim did a great Job. One of the heros of every game is the goalie and Tyler King has done a good Job at goalie this year. The goalie is always under fire and he has prevented a lot of games ' from getting away from the team. The team now travels to Delta to face the league leading Rabbits on ' , . ' . S ' . '; ' . : f, . M .w "' i 'V'. , to think of the sporting world as being a place M . r . 1 . where everyone is valued for their worth to the team or the sport they participate in. Vfe also like to think that pahidpation in any sport is worthwhile and important Yet the realism of the sports world does not lend itself to this beUet That is because we constantly subjected to the. idea that there are minor sports and thra there ere major sports. Of course what is minor and mar jor depends on who you are and largdywfaereyoulive. you ask most Americana to niunft the three most important sporta they would imobaUty answer football baseball and , .. . . have-bee- . wH :W-'- j- zii v-rfZu- 7121'-- .. r i :: . j - $ ft W , - '--I "- v - ' '-- -- i. . 4 ' y y . e Robert Mcevoy oes m for a goal in Friday's game against Wasatch Academy as the Tigers goalie watdies him approach.. - : . . ; ; . .' - j -- g v Mfednesday . : ' . ..8td watching isnt emxigh as Mcevoy puts the bail in the net despite the horizontal attempts by the goalie to stop him. on, Reps! Uen: ; SOCCCP. Won 4 Ddtn; Grand 3 H. SUnpete 2 Carbon i Lost .: 0 . 1 to : Tbam WAcad, semi-avera-ge V" . .. . By RICHARD SHAW l orts writer 2 ! up another three squad ordered " runs, ;V In the fifth inning it looked as if the Carbon girts had a chance to come back as they held the Lady Rabbits Bcoreless once again, but were unable to score themselves. In the sixth and final inning the. ; . . : ".;-4-- In a reversal of games from the regular schedule; the Lady Dino softball team played Emery when they should have been playing Della and played Delta when they should have bera playing Emery last week. Unfortunately the change didn't do anythingto help than against Delta. In a game at the Rabbits home ; field the Lady Dinos were buried by an avalanche far from the mountains of central Utah as the Delta team scored 12 runs and the Carbon kids could muster one player across home base. The first two innings of the game were affaire for both teams, but in the third the bigbats of Delta let loose. , In that inning the Lady Rabbits scored raven runs led by Liz Hales who had three RBI's in the game. In the fourth inning the Delta ' - : non-scori- ng planet-Dieticia- Fifteen trams got together on Friday In Manti for the McDonalds InvitadonalTrackMeet. While team scores were not available at publication time, it appears that the Carbon girts track squad was in the top three teams in total points awarded. The Carbon girls runners did r very well. Melanie Madsen finished second in the girls 3200 meter run followed by Jessica Childs who was one second behind in third place. Stephanie Cox placed fifth in the 800 metra run while Ashley Liddell qualified for the finals in the 400 meters and then finished fifth in the : ; , Coach led Bianco has one of the happiest talks of the season with his team after their victory over Wasatch Academy on Friday evening. Eveiyones face had 1 smile on it except for the kids from Mount Pleasant who saw their record faff to 4. t i Delta players celebrated aa . MacKenzie Rich hit a bases loaded slne that drove In three runs, finishing off the Lady Dinos hopes of making a come back. The next game the Carbon team will play will be at home against - one-on-o- : North Sanpete on Wednesday evening, ne ? Rega 8 iffil feftp. Wion Tbam . N. Sanpete : 5 4 Emery 2 Carbon . Delta 1 Richfield 1 , Lost .1 1 : 4 j .: 3-- "- : i 4 vl: well in Manti meei : i ns pro-spor- ts J I l;- hockey hockey and hockey In a place like Indiana, basketball is king. In the many parts of the midwest and the south football is considered the only real sport any-on-e should play In other quarters hj the old confederacy thqr would list NASCAR as being the most important sport (d alL Othras love the horse racing sports. The Bchool 0 1 college one tendsalsohto alot to do withwhat sports may be important to any one individual Graduates of Nebraska and Oklahoma often conr: sider football number one, while those from North Carolina and Kentucky think basketball hi extremely Important. Few colleges value baseball In that same wy, but many northeastern and upper mldwestern sdxxds think bodqr Is very big. In the sdiools along Saturday there was an. ' the southern coast of California amazing eventlhad never been to bdwe mid was surprised by That volleyball 1b a very big deaL , ; For those interested in indi- was the bantam wrestling tourna- - ? vidual' sports, golf and tennis tnenL It Included kids from pre-would probably have the largest school up through ninth gradeU White the thrre to seven hundred". actual numbers that at tend partlcfoants expected didn't show ' events, NASCAR and the PGA do up (laiTgely due to the storm over have the biggest attendance of all the canyon) over onehundred dkL the spectator sports. That may be They brought in tow tiieir retar hard for some die hard football , lives, which made the hew gym fans to swallow, but the numbers noisey, but hot extremely ''.V-' crowded.' dont lie. ' ;V;V;Other than thrae sports, evmy-thin- : It was a great time watching else may seem minor, to a all tiiora youngmen grapple with I lot of people; that fs unless of each othet But the cmrnnunity course you are the one involved in support was nft, even though we Vthose sports. ran an announcement in the: Some people dont consider spprta section last week. Wre- certain sports sports eIlher.Fbr tUng is considered n minor instance, some people feel that tt sport even If everyone knows who the average or per- Rulon Gardner is and what he did. son cant participate in a sport ;; ... The point lam trying to make then it isnt truly a sport They is that there is more to the wwld would leave NASCAR, Skydiving; than pigskins, bateduboVackets mountain climbing; drag racing and balls and round rubber and other sports off the list spheres thru bounce. The Sports But If we follow the rule of av- world is as varied as any other erage people, then we would have aspect of the to leave almost all the and physicians tell off the ledger because how many 11s that we should eat a varied diet of us could have ever really played offoods to stay bealfoy Maybe the ' in the NFL or NBA? same is true of sports. There are For instance, 1 played high " qxxtsoutfhraetfaatweoouldflnd school basketball as a sophomore, that might pot replace our present yet even In my prime the ball boys loves, but might enhance our lives. for most of the NBA teams today People who participate in the could have beat me in a . so called minor sports certainly contest Let's face it, a sport is dont fed they are minor, maybe a sport, no matter who or when if we took a good look at these ' someone participates in it sports we would all feel differently Even our major sports publitoo. There are hundreds of sports, cations Beldom cover much about maybe over a thousand to enjoy t other sports than the few I have watching and participating in. I already mentioned. For instance . think we should all expand our in (he Sports Illustrated Almanac "diet a little.: ' Now table of contents they have baselets see, which sports did ? ball, pro and college football, pro I forget to mention.;. Oh well Im f. and college basketball, hockey, sure some readers will remind me j: tennis, golf and boxing. There is what I left out; you know howE ho mention of other sports, other people areabout their sports. Z - . ... evening:-- TTiat sports are they may answer 3-- po-slti- :y; could vary some dependon where the person ymi ask ing lives. For Instance; if you ask someone who lives in Mdine, for instance what the three major .; . mid-fie- ld ed ::- : . . - . ; - We often like j . thanaseetkm called NCAA sports which has some of the minor" 1 . Vsports listed.:,-we1' smaller ever In our world, . Amer101" aped to start thinking in terms of a world view about; many things, even about sports. c Cable television and its multiple sports channels have done a metty good Job of exposing those of us in the USA to new sports we mayhave heard of, bpt have selvV:" dom seen. Most Americans for instance have never seen a Rugby match or a game of Cricket Other than when theUSA plays in the Olym pics, fewAmericans are very in sooom; the largest at-i- f traded sport in the workLTTiat is evident in the failure of profes- rioiialsoooertomakettrraqybig in the states, draidtc many tries over tbe years. erf mathis idea Unfbrtunateiy jor sports spills over info how" many of us feel about the sports, we hare at ti high school and Juo- -; torhileveL ; ; ;; . .. This past weekend two events took place in our community that; were exciting and fun, yet few ' people attended them..;-X)nconcerns the headline oh this page. The hoys soccer team'; has been in existence for almost ' 20 years, with a short period of time in the 1990s when it was ; disbanded. While the tram this year has not had the glossiest of records, the players are still ex-- '! citing to watch and with Friday1 afternoons victory showed they;; are improving every week. Ifet few " fansGomeoutfowatchthistram. The largest watched sport in the world was befog played on the Carbon High footbaU .fidd and I counted less than 30 people sft-- f ting inthe stands during the garnet last week against Wuatch Acad: :y-emy . By RICHARD SHAW Sports writer Sports writer finals of that event ' ; The girls relay team did well, In 4X100 the and placing fifth fourth in the medley relay In the 4X400 relay Alyssa Thompson, Wendi Potter, Stephanie Cox and Alida Torres placed second overall.' In the other events the girls also-did great The high Jumpers for the team fought for top spots In that event Alida Torres was the teams top Jumper taking second place overall Jessica Serfustinl place fourth and Stephanie Cox took fifth in the sameevent i VfendifWtermadeoneofherbest jumps ever in the longjunq) and took ' second in that event the Flnally AIlysa Thompson ran 300 meter hurdles well and placed third place in the finals. The boys team was ted by Scott tfeny who took second place in the 400 meter finaL Terry was beat by a lean at the finish Bne. Terry then came back to run the 800 meters and took fourth place. In the relays the boys team took third place as Tferry Aaron Jensen, Cody Butler and Bryan Steward all contributed to the high finish Butler also placed sixth In the , 3200 meter run and fifth in the 1 meters. Other boys, track team partief pants who looked very good at thl meet were AndrayaNewbywhoi a great 200 and 400 meter ra Jacob Burrows who had a persona?: best time in the 800 meter run anjS ; Isaac Goodrich who was Just b- hind Butler in both the 3200 anC 1600 meter raise. All these at are Improving with each meet antj will soon be surprising some peopj in upcoming contests. j,. The next meet will be on Tuesf--j : day at Pleasant Giwe High In Utaj3; : ... County - . . i J |