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Show S I . - . By WALTBORLA Contributing writer Tuesday 'August 7, 2001 j. J.Huntergivingthe Utah County nine a9-f- i lead. Zaccaria hit another solo shot in the top of the For the third consecutive year fifth but that was the extent of the a WBBA team from Car-- Price National scoring. bon County fell victim to Alpine After the 12-- 1 shellacking of in the championship game of the Kearns American the first day of little world series' of Western ' the tournament, the Boys Baseball,The Alpine all- - This game took two days to out lasted the Price Na- - plete, a sudden rain storm in the tional team Saturday afternoon,. Ogdenareahattedplayafterthree in a slog fest at Washington complete innings of play with .fbrrace to claim its fourth Price National holding a 31-- 0 lead. The final fliree innings were Straight WBBA title, ; The 1999 tournament staged played cm Saturday morningwith at American Forksaw the Alpine Price National adding thiee more team edge Helper by a 1 score runs while holding American in' a classic g game, Fork to a single run. The following year jt was the. ' It tookfour Price National Northefft Heights team from ; pitchers to hold off the strong Prictrthat was overwhelmed in Washington Tfcrrace team in the the final game at Providence: V Wednesday, game, Moynier In the title game Saturday, hurled the first three innings, fol-Price National took a first inning lowed by Brett Johnson, thenA-- . 1 lead, scoring the three runs J. Mitchesorr and finally Kyle after two were ouC Kyle Asay, Asay.Asay gave the Price team third batter in the lineup, Wasted an early lead with a three-ru-n a solo homer. Then four straight homer inthe initjalframe.The singles by Jordan Moynier, Bret fOurth run came in the third A, J. Mitcheson and ning when J. J. Blue hit a home Marcus Zaccaria produced two run- - The final run came in the :: fifth frame, Moynier leadingpff nioreruns,':! d Price National extended the with a single and eventually td 1 in the top of the third ing on Willy Hill's fielder's . IB . . all-st- ar semi-final- T 3P V . By RICHARD SHAW Sports writer ; s. corn-sta- rs . People! sometimes view affilptes as seriuimaa Some- 9-- 7, times they go as far to view them as gods, By doing that we. sometimes forget that they are human and they make mistakes. We also forget that they do good things, and some bad , . 2-- .' : eight-innin- . . . dse.-."- : ! Week Lance Armstrong Woii the Tbur.de 4-a- st scor-lea- . Price National run coming on Assy's home run in the first inning, The winners added three more runs in the fiftbinning to put the game out of reach for the Idaho nine. A hit bats man, singles by Moynier andBlue, plus The bottom half of the fourth' an outfield error by Ammonac- proved to be disastrous. for the 'counted for the runs. Asay and. Carbon team. Alpine put four Johnson shared the mound du-- . Alpine battery . ; ed A grand slam by Zaccaria the fourth inning of the Thurs-t- o day game with . brokewhat had beenatight game '. . .' agraitlmnari, During brie of the middle sessions of the Tbur de France he was riding at the front of the p: . . . Price National's batters just couldn't quite keep up with the pace set by Alpine's hitters as the team lost the WBBA Championship at Washington Terrace on Satur-th-e . day. This is the third time in three years that a team tram. CarbonCounty took tire runner up position at this championship pack when the man in second place ran off a bridge right be hind him. He turned his bike around, went back and helped his competitor up and made sure he was okay! and then crossed the finish line with his riyal for that day hand in hand. What class this guy has. It is a far cry from many of the antics we see athletes, at both theamateur and professional, often portray. . While it is true Armstrong had a big pyerall lead in the race at the time how often is it that an athlete does such a noble thing, even if he has a tournament . more runs onthe board, another three run homer, this time by C : .yjxx.5 Price National took the 0 lead over American Fork late Friday afternoon before the rains came. A single run in the first inning came on a balk eommit- 3-- . ties in this game, limiting Ammon to just three hits, .iMing ; , - . - - . r . ;.s- u,' I- '. ; ' - . - slammed a two run homer, Brady Wilde being on base via a wal When play was resinned on Sat- - - - ted by the American Fork pitcher, reminiscent of the high school title game in t, George last May. Asay was on third base when he was waved home on fire balk and in the third inning he urday morning i;-- s' ls . : choice. of the third pine was a three Brenden Smith. !.'' , Price National assumed the' , lead again in the top of the fourth when J.J. Blue singled and. circledthe bases on a series of wild pitches and passed balls by back-to-ba- . . Womens golf tournament slated at Country club. The Carbon two womens best ball golf tournament will take place on August 21 There will be a breakfast heldattheCountiy dub before the 9 a.m. shotgun, start The tournament is being run d by the Carbon Ladies Golf . : . ck home runs by Moynier and Blue! put three moreruns onthe board for a 6--0 lead. Zac Laycock, the pitcher guilty of tbe balk, re- himself somewhat by hitting a home run in the final . inningfor American Fork. .. Mitcheson and Asay each hurled three innings in this game, the former allowing one hit and the latter two. A$so-deeme- dation. Entrants must have A commanding lead? handicap established to partid- Registration for the tournament began August 1 end will Continue until the field is lull. For more information contact Tom King at International Days race yields high school winners. The International Days 5K run was dominated by Carbon . 1 637-238- 8. High runners last week. GwfyBuf-overall race. Seth Mdrmg was five seconds behind kr won: the Championship game Alpine-- , ra? PriceNationaTT don Woodward also did well taking fifthoverall. .. In the girisAvomens division MeUuiie Madsen took first overall. Jesska Child took second in Third and Fourth place American Fork .16 Logan ; ' quite enough of these celebrations against Alpine in the WBBA World Series championship game on Saturday as the team playoffs here in eastern Utah. Unfortunately.lhere weren't . Consolation brackets South Ogden 7 Duchesne. 6 Salt Lake 5 Ida. Rills 0 W.Tbrrace : 6 Roosevelt 1 Amond . Kearns J16 . 'therace. All these runners are affiliated with the Carbon High crosscountry team which will soon begin 1 prep competition for the 2001-20- School year. . Isnt U great when we see a football player help someone from the opposing team up after a big hit Isnt it great when an athlete, even in a heated contest can go over to an opposing player laying on the court injured and laid words of encouragement ; ' Isnt it wonderful when baseball players congratulate someone from the opposing team for setting a milestone, even though at the time they aregettingrouted by the award winning payers squad. ; We always hear athletes say things like, I have to give them credit and Tliey didnt give up, about the opposing . patfe;'. ... The Price National team (then known as the Pries National .Whites) celebrated a number of home runs during the . France once again, breaking an : frame when Moynier jangled and Zaccaria hit a home run. Unfor-- tunately, Alpine came right back knot the score at 5-- 5 with four -- runs of theirown in the home half . American reond bywinning it three times; in a .row, Armstrongisnrobabiythe best example ofwnat is good about sports nctf onfy in this country, but in the world.. He has a lot of notoriety be cause of bis battle against cancer a few years ago and the subsequent victories since thini. But more dian his battle against cancer is his stature as . ' . months we have seen the very good in sports and some of die -very bad. .V; . 5-- . In the past couple of 3-- . , v things. .. They are just likeeveiyone . ; . 02 . .! . teams play. But in h sense these trite expressions are really meant to pat themselveson the back by saying that the other team put out their best and we still beat them. Actions mean a lot' more than words, especially when they take place in the heat of . , BMW ' i'.i competition. I once played basketball in : a league against a team that had a guy I knew who was the most mild mannered person one could meet; except on the court You didnt warn to be in "sr i," - v'. av, 4-- r V . a i . ?.! .f a ; .. .: the way of this guy when he got the ball; it was like facing Jekyll and Hyde. But the f, i f I k V '1 f 24-2- 8. ; the floor (where he had put you), and to congratulate you on your fine defense (which he had just shredded). He was a teal competitor and a real gentleman at the same time. His name wa Don. A couple of years after I initially met him, I got to play with hum instead of against him. Just like everyone,in the heat of battle, he would lose his cool and sometimes could be pretty ; hard on his teammates. But he never forgot to tell anyone whatagrcatefibrttheyhadput in; even if it wasnt up to his js ' ; j and Kadie Rhodes in breakaway roping Greenhalgh, above left and Rhodes. above right, took high places in their competition. Greenhalgh took second in the team roping category and Rhodes took third in the breakaway. Panguitch is the end of the high school competition for thisseason, but it will begin all over gaiw this fail. reaping h .' was the first to pickyou up off - Carbon High Rodeo Club brings home honors from the Panguitch Invitational Rodeo competition Carbon High R Qub sent a number of competitiors to the Panguitch Invitational that was held July Thmpetitors quahfied at the state meet to attend this prestigious event Local ccmtestents mduded Tfent and iy Young in team roping. Jake Pressett in team and calf roping, Chase Greenhalgh in calf and team minute the play was over, be ' personal standards. Athletics are about competition; competition with others and with ourselves. need more Lance Armstrong's.'We need people who are competitive, and are winners at all aspects of life, not just on the playing field. ' v--t |