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Show ..J I Ate! 6A Thursday July 19, 2001 I By RICHARD SHAW Sportswriter ;; As I watch local sports I have to ask myself why anyone would want to bc an official an the field during tnany of these games? Why dqc I; pete come to make decisions aboinruksOTgamesthqfhavej no connection wifh other than? the fact they are getting a few bucks for doing so? - .: v T ; : In big time.prdfessionat sports I understand the draw entirely. Theynotonly get patf ' very well, but in many cases ge to be celebrities in their own! right While MLB, NBA,NFU andNHLbffiridsarenoteom-- : ' In the' first inning 'Matt ' Kloepfer got on base and then was brought in for the first Iforic arrived tote at the game Helper score by a double from between the Helper and Mark Bailey. In the Second inning Blake Timparxigos squadson Monday that chance there isagexxj Wjlde hit a single and then a.' night, One missed the game. That Was .double by Kalen Parsons because the game was played so brought him into home base. ; In the third inning the batsgpt purely and the pitching was so good from both squads that lhc very hot for Hearer once again. entire length of the garii.e.was Martinez wasableto double in good scoring posi-- . only a total of one hour and 32 minutes, much short of some of tion almost no matter what type the three hour marathons served' of hit one of his teammates got. ' But Bailey splved the problem of up at Gardner Field this year. It was short and sweet, stiid Martinez getting to home enJeff Cisneros,, team manager, on tirely; by smacking a home run Tuesday afternoon, We had a over the scoreboard to complete gxxl game and so did they. It was the scoring for Helper. It was later in the third that really, clean;, the. way baseball ; should be played. 'Grundy hit his shot io the left ; But the shortened time.didnt field, but the ball hit one of the ; mean less thrills, nor did it mean trees and it bounced back onto Helper came up on the short end the field? of the stick; in fact they beat "Cisneros and coach Jeff And it could Jcwkes protested but to no avail. Timpanogos I don't think the officials easily been 3 if a lyter ' Grundy hit into the trees had not could even see that it went over bounced back out into the field the fence line first, Sdid. and become a double instead of Cisneros. I think when they saw ' ByRldlARDSHAW" . . ; . .Sports writer , .' . - p ; . . . -- . . -. monhousehc4dnmncs,theydcr getak4outoftheirpiofessioo . . . ; 4-- 3. 5-- haye-vci- Babe Ruth play brings Vernal and Roosevelt to town The playoffs for Bath Ruth baseball have been taking place at the college field north of Price this week. On 5 Tuesday night the Carbon year old team was knocked out of contention by a very good Vernal squad IT l: In the photo above Carbon pitcher Danny Davis ran to home after the bail got away from catcher Dusfy Moore and a Vernal runner tried to make it to home on a steal. - ahomerun it laying on the field they thought that is where it landed. . 14-1- they won the There was a bit of a to-d- o game. and now stand alone. in .fourth place with a KM record about the whole thing but the ofdue to a couple of losses in the ficials still ruled the hit only a Salt Lake Wley Legion League .double. on Monday night, coupled with . Hclpcr is now very close tb their defeat of Timpanogos where they wanted to be this time which wasone slot ahead of them of the season. With games, as of the date of this paper, with a 500 . in the standings. On this pleasant summer af-- . Skyline team on Friday and a terntxm, Brady Martinez once double header with an even again proved his worth as he weaker West team on Saturday ' pitched the whole seven innings, at home they should be in good ' batthe beother teams the once tournament dominating shape ters. That ability will come gins.in a couple of weeks when If the bats stay hot they could the legion playoffs begin. even meet West Jordan, in the , Helper scored four nujs on championship game in a couple eight hits with only one error. of weeks and. that would give By RICHARD SHAW ;; Timpanogos made three runs on them a chance to avenge an early Sportswriter season loss to the Jaguars. . eight hitsand had no errors.. Local Western Boys Baseball Association playoffs for a berth to the WBBA World Series in Washington Ttrrace continued this week with the Helper entrybeing surprised twice, and the Price National White team as if no one else in the fidd mattered. Dn Monday evening the Price .National Red team sent a strong Helper team reeling 3 in a dose game. Few expected the Retk to get by Helper, but it happened and that set up the championship bracket game for Tuesday night between the two Price .National teams., In the other game on Monday evening, pitting two first round losers from Saturday against each .Ntme-thc-le- ss . . Moore reacted quickly and threw it to Davisso be could tag , the Uintah County player out The inset $hows Carbons Johnny Dow nan! looking toward home plate accompanied make make mistakes while of-floating. It also doesnt mear they are always good at what by the Vernal third baseman. On the next play Downard was brought in by e single on a fielders choice, scoring the only run for Carton in the game. Now Roosevelt and Vernal will playoff for the region championship. ; terrible ones. I talked with offi- dais, some of whom. I know because they coach other sports in the area, some of which I. never knew before I saw them at the game. , y:--- . Some of t&roe people are thrown into a growmg gap that' all sports are experiencing; finding people who are willing Whites continue to roll r ticular stands. As Italk with these people, inost love itiie game they arc Many ydee the need far good officials and they feel a responsibility to the putid; pants, the community and the? particular sport with which they are working. Most are pres- ently, or have been, either play: ng . ; 14-1- : eis or coaches in that sport,. Most are competent; a few are not..'--'- ' The Carbon County Country Club has announced the winners of the mack Diamond Golf" Tournament the was held July 6--8 at the golf course,-- : The field consisted of 220 participants with 34 of them being professionals, from Utah, Colorado, Nevada and.Califor--- . ilia. .: , v .. As usual many locals participated as .x . : . A Flight Net 1st. 2nd 3rd 4th . Kim Thompson. 138(-2) ; 139 John Evans Brad Sutterfield 139: 1st ... . : 154. i 127 IbmKingSr ' 8-- 132 ; B Flight Gross . 1st - A1 Vogrinec 156 2nd Lon Strasbcrg 160 3rd ..Angelo Basso 162. ' . v ; John Douros ;4tb MarkOwen. .140 Shawn Andersdri 140 - - L. Hawkins 5th 162 163 , , 1st .S.Rothwell. . Champ Flight Gross 140 ;. 1st .Paul Murphy 2nd Tim Hawkins146 ' 147 3rd . Jed Milne 4th Greg Gust 148 w.5th Robert Evans 1 49 . Rafe Johnson .149 . 4th. 5th : into fci- . Helper-Northe- , KelseyCrippsl36 C Mortensen 138 C: RichRiggle 138;. . "ft? i j'T m ;u C Fliit Gross .Champ Flight Net . 1st - Mike CampbeU t 5th Cody Weddle BiHProbst 1st Gross Scott Brady :i?, '.ib- r - 435 2nd. Mike Nickas 138 3rd NickMarakis Jr 141 141 142 147 . C Flight Net 1st C. Anderson 130 Roy Wheeler 130 . 3rd 131 Rex Alger 4th . R.Regruto 132 5th , PhilHowa 135 D. Martinez 135 rn Heiitsgame, WstHunsaker and JX). Sherman each hit a bome run for Helper while Zac Jones of Northern Heights also drove one over the i sSv,-- r.r$ . . y-- " fair play. Tbere is nothing wnmg with being upset about a call; bad calls are made. Theft is noth-- : ing wrong with contending . fence. Play continues on Thursday night between one and two loss teams, while the Whites wait until Friday toface who suivives the dogfight between the teams try-- . ing to make it to the champion-shi- p game. That game oii Friday will be . the last one for everyone but the Whites ifthe Whites win. If they do lose to who emerges from the melee taking place at the North Price baseball complex, theywill then play again Saturday with the winner going to Washington Terrace on July 31 for the worid what cme considers a bad ded-skThere is somethingwrong when parents hunt down the game offidals who must hide m a locked room until police arrive, like during the 3Acham-pionshi- p game this year. There is something wrong when four tall adult coaches stand over a 17yearold ldd who agreed tooSdatealittle league game for literally nothing and yell and scream at him because of a decision he made. , There is somethingwrong when coaches can call officials anything they want during the game and then when they get thrown out the referee is the villain. . With this in mind, is it any m. - --. . on intimidation and threats than they should on skill and . : . people, dependingon what theii moral values are; but we seenf tohave come to believe that the games we play should rely more . . . out the best and worst in H - . 0 In the other game the Price . National White team went wild lost a game and have dominari-tb bade the second during inning , Us they scored a total of 14 tuns .the teams of the game against die Reds. . they have played.. and they won in 4 innings as they In that same inning Bradey Home runs by players played blanked their sister team in the a large part in all the games on .Wilde- and Kyle Asay of the championship bracket. It is ob- - Tuesday. Probably the most out- - Whites also hit two home runs vious that the Whites now have standing performance came from ' which helped the team fo driv-th- e inside trackon the berth to Marcus Zaccarfa of the Whites ingin 13 runs in the second in--, the World Series as they have not , when he hit two home runs back ning alone. . But runs Were not lim- home tSBUSTa?: 'I' j ited t"' the to Tbradtet championship F v KS0p4HfclmMUKt I on Tuesday evening. In the v .126 Tony Siapcras 134: R. Vsque 134 2nd 3-- -- ' B Flight Net n. ' Turcassobepn the game pitching for the . ... . Sr Pro Division' ' 1st Roy Giristensen 140 ' 2nd KeanRidd 150 153 j3rd Jim Fiala ; Tyler took a C . . . wonder athletic leagues are havingaharder and harder time se-ri- es Northern Heights celebrate their victory ;V-; - y mundane way. The things that make officiating a joy deteriorate a little more each year as parents and coaches get more threatening and more profane about calls ! they are unhappy with, The mass molia have glori--i tied the contention in sports. Competition of any kind brings Helper major league dub. Helper lead after the first toning, and was up 7-- 4 going info the sixth inning, but Norton) Heights managed to overtake tom bottom of the inning 8-. .. winning on a walk. 7t sixth inning; Justin Bcwone 128, BobSwartz 130 Shane Garcia' 132 . Clayton Ward 132 . , 'D. Swedson . Then on TUesday afternoon, . Helper, by virtue of their loss to the Reds on Monday played first: round loser Northern Heights. At the beginning of the game they still had a chance to play for the championship; but by the end, in , a game in which they had led from the first inning, they let it slip away as a Northern Heights pliyer walked into home making : thescore 7 in the bottom of the,, ; DlSntQQII riSSURS Pro Flight 2nd .Steve Adams,-15B, Watkins .."v smart and competent ernes get out and the mediocre ones remain, plugging afoaig, in their' . , .. 5th wcll..:. B2CI Pete Hauri ,. 148 NickMarakis Jr 141 Cody Weddle 141 2nd 3rd other. Green River downed 0 . If is a fact in aO endeavors that when a job is too messy or makes the people doing it unhappy most of the time, the; . 20-- 3. t tolaythemsdvesondielineand v make decisions about games that mean little in the overall scheme of things, but are very ; important to the kids on the field and the fans in those par- - r Sunnyside ; ... This all came to a head for; me in the last couple of weeksr as I have watched Babe Ruth, . American Legion and WBBA! , playoffgames. In all the games! 1 saw I did see some question-- ! ; able calls and I also saw somer Reds and Northern Black Diamond Tournament course : v; thtydo. . - ; and that is the difference: irix! most casro officiating is their' full time profession. , ; v Butwnataboutthesepeople who officiate at little league', games, junior high games and' :i ' high sdhod games. They obvU ously must love the Sport they are handling, because when yoi( -ccxisider what they put iqi withe This doesnt mean th don . - enn--petitio- ns, as to winning run conies in on Tuesday. I u SKI. teams from cree sports? 4. , ' |