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Show ihiumi ITTVf nrrrrTTFrr7TrTFTTTrFTm ' SaMvced IB Tuesday February 19, 2002 Iimothy and Minsie lead Carbon to high finish rect the problem. A good question needs to be asked of die officials at the 3A Slate high rlwnl wiwtlinj ; : I cham-pinwdu- p. Are any of them from Franoe7 Referring to the controversy oyer the scoring at the Olympic last week when the i team faced die Russian skaters and a French judge mitted a questionable call one could equate that analogy with this wrestling meet where a controversial decision by officials may have cost one of Carbons wresders an individual state championship and Carbon a much higher placement in St George over the weekend. ' Zack Burdick, a freshman, who wrestles at 103 lbs. was penalized a match point and his team lost a point because he did not have his.shoelaces taped down. The penalty was assessed with only 20 seconds to go in the final round of his semifinal match with Kaden King ofNorth Sanpete, whom he had beaten twice before this season. The assessment of the penalty came at that point, evra though the violation had been pointed out by the North Sanpete wrestling coach just before the end of the first ; . j i . - round. The penalty coining so late in the final round that he had no chance to make it up made Chrbons head wrestling coach Dave Smith fume. . id Dansie totally dominated his final match against Chris bbotf of Delta who many in the state felt was the best at his weight in almost two whole rounds to cor- By RICHARD SHAW Sports editor I have qo argument with the " said Smith in an in terview on Monday morning. What I do have a problem with is that even though the referee knew Zack was in violation in the first round he didnt call it or i penalty until toward the end when we had no chance to catchup. The rule, enactedafew years ago to keep wrestlers from delib- eratety untieing their shoes during a meet to gam some rest time, is under review. But in this years meet it was in fence. t Im not complaining about fire fact we were in violation, but I am mad about when the penalty was assessed, said Smith. We protested it after the match but that wont go anywheraltwas just a poor dung to do to the kid with only that much time left Smith said that Burdick had been wearing a shoe lace restraint all year, but that die restraint had broken earlier in the day and neither he nor the coaches had remembered to tape down the laces In the nett match on the mat, both wrestlers shoes were not taped and they did not do a thing about it," stated Smith. Its just hard to believe." Consequently Burdick finished third in his class when he defeated Justin Griffiths of Pine View in the runners up round. Nonetheless, Carbon did very well at the state championships as Cameron Dansie, wrestling at 135 lbs. arid Shea Timothy, peting at 145 lbs. both took home individual first place trophies. Another great performance was turned in by Tyson ONeil, who wrestles in the heavyweight division. He placed fourth. Cody Bunderson, also did an excellent job as be finished sixth in the 125 lb. class. The top 10 teams included Delta, who won the champion- ship with 235 points; Wasatch which took second with 192: Bear River which took third with 154,; Pine View placed fourth with 135; Iboele took fifth with 1335; North Sanpete which scored 120 to take sixth; Hurricane scored 99.5 to take seventh; Carbon at 99; Uintah which put up 91 points for ninth and Dixie which scored 88 points to take 10th 6--4. t - . vv-i.- r - . ' f- i ' - A- - $ T r J vij i' j X - i . y ways big athletes 4'. J... Tyson wrestled very well throughout die tournament, said Smith. We should have a good team next year too if we can get some more sophomores to come out We are losing Timothy, j if ft, , M Bunderson mid Keenan Atwood to graduation. Atwood will be missed, as much for his academics as he for his wrestling, which has improved all season. He was one of 10 players in the 3A ranks that was named Academic : All-Sta- te m . Lady Vikings first trip to state in years ends sooner than later this year. Keenaiihasbeengettingbet-te- r all season, said Smith. He may not have placed at state, but his work ethic and his growth this year has been phenomenal. toughest region in the state this By RICHARD SHAW Sports editor . year. Wiyne, a team that was lead by now BYU freshman Kali Try- lor last year was apparently hav- ing a down year this season; the reigning state champs had to face playoff with Green River be- - The smiling faces of the East Carbons girls basketball team turned into sad ones before the tournament was even over this fore coming to Cedar City and they werent happy even though they crushed the Lady Pirates in the game. They took out their frustration from that and their trailing Panguitch and Vhlley all season by doing everything they could to make the ladies from East Carbon miserable. The quarters read like baske- past weekend. Thats because after they travr elled all the way to Cedar City to face tournament foes and had just gotten settled into their lodging for what was hopefully a long weekend, they were headed home with two lasses and no placement at state to bring home. The shortening of their hopefully long stay in Southwestern tball points against baseball scores. In the firat quarter Wtyne out scored the Lady Vikes 11-- 1 Okay. The Vikes had seen this Utah began when Wfcyne High School camd into the Canyon View High gym on Wednesday afternoon and beat them However, even after such a lopsided loss there was still hopfe for redemption as they went in thefirst round losers bracket and thought they could still come out with at least a placement at the 5-- before; they knew they could come back. It couldnt get any 65-1- 7. worse. Butitdid. Unfortunately, it was one of those Salt Lake private schools from Region 17 that ended that dream chi Thursday with a 42-3- 1 victory over the Lady Vikes. In the first game on Wednesday, the East Carbon girls faced i Burdick, batting an opponent earlier last month, was very dose to pinning Kaden King of North Sanpete at the state tournament when the referee made a controversial cafl in die last 20 seconds of the final round. The call probably cost Bunfick the match and Carbon needed points to place higher in the final rankings. a team that has played in the In the next quarter Whyne put in 20 (mints. They held East Carbon to five. At the half the score had to remind the Lady Vikes of a game they played against the Meridian girls team earlier this year; except that instead of being ahead they were the ones that were fur , state game site. of eighth. S v. : ment broke a 5 tie, he would have gone on to meet Keaton Romero of Iboele, the eventual champion, whom he had also defeated earlier this year. That wbuldhave lead to some valuable extra points that would have brought Carbons team score up to the point where they would have finished fifth in the state inZack was near apin when the referee stopped die match and assessed the penalty, said Smith. It seemed odd to many at the meet that die referee would it at that time when he had . i afterward. , Had Burdick won the match, which he lost when dm assess- stead r. 9-- dace. Delta, Which has now won 26 state wrestling titles, comes from Carbons region. This was Deltas first 3A championship. The rest had come when they were a 2A school or a B class School before die dassificatians changed in die ibonhasi early 1970s. won a state wrestling championship since records began being kept in 1938, but die teams getting stronger every year. Timothy and Dansie had great matches all the way through the tournament and they kept the Dinos in it until the end. the state. Dansie took Abbott down twice and basically with the wrestler from Mi County, winning Cameron basically gave two of those points because he was trying to get into a different position to pin Abbott," said Smith. He led in the match from the start to the finish. Timothy, one of three seniors on the team, had a lot of pressure on him after finishing highly ery year at state since ninth grade but never winning the title match. Shea was down by four in the second round, but came back very strong and whipped the kid from Wasatch, said Smith. As for as I am concerned Shea is the best wrestler in the state, bar none. Timothy won 6 pulling away at the end of the match. ONeil also had a great match in his final against Bart Lovell of Snow Canyon. The heavyweight class (275 lbs. and over) gets a lot of attention because it seems everyone thinks wrestlers are al- , behind. The second half was ho better. The Lady Vikings scored only 10 points in the whole second half, while Wfcyne put in 34. It was the end of the East Car- bon team thinking a state chainpionship could be theirs. But hope springs eternal and they re-- a turned the next evening to face the Lions. They played much better against ICS, but Mill not good enough to brat the kids from Salt Lake. In the first period the Lady Lions came on scoring nine points to East Carbons six. Still, it was respectable quarter. The Lady Vikes had not scored too much, but they had also held ICS under 10. In the second period it looked good for East Carbon as they outscored ICS by one, nine to eight That put them only behind by two going into the half. Then came the disastrous third period. ICS came out hot cm both ends of the floor scoring 15 points and holding East Carbon to a score similar to.'what they had done the day before, two points. However, the Lady Vikings were not done for. They came back in the fourth period and began to catch the Lady Lions and actually did out score them but that third quarter.Iapse could not be made up, and that was the end of the season. The 1A championship round was dominated on Saturday by Region 17. Whyne did lose their but next game to Rich came back to win all the rest, including a 5 defeat of East Carbons main rival this year, West Desert, on Saturday to take 14-1-0, . lfclbs.' 1. Keaton Romero, Tboele 2. Kaden King, North Sanpete 3. Zack BUnficLCorhoR 4. Justin Griffiths Pine View 5. Bryce Jensen, Tboele v 112 Im.1. Andrew Hbckstrasser, Tboele 2. Cory Hacking, Uintah 3.-- Canon Goodwin, Dixie 4. Thrvis Fehrson, Delta 5. Brandon Silitoe, Canyon View 119 Dm. 1. Peter Rose, Wasatch 1; Tyler WhiteheacLSnowCan-yo- n 3. Chad, Young, Uintah 4. Adam Lovell Delta D. Jed 125 Lbs. 1. Cody Sweat, 2. Chad Clawson, Dixie 3. Simon Pence, Bear River 4. Garling, Mragan5. Pine View, 6. Qody Carbon. : 134 w-aSS- flSft: 1451bs. 1. Shea Timothy, Carbon 2. SkylerDistefano, Wasatch 3. Jared Palmer, Morgan 4. Dan Lake, Delta 5. Chris Boden, Ben . lomood. 152 lbs. 1. Zack Elliott, Bear ' River 2. Jake Abbott, Delta 3. 58-4- 9, 39-3- . Ledingham, North. Sanpete 4. Wayne 'Duncan, Uintah 5. Ross Brands, Wbsatch. 160 Bw.1. Matt Casperson, Pine View 2. Morgan Jeppeson, Bear River 3.TbshMsdSnstosh,Lehi 4. Danny Thomas, Tboele 5. fifth place, Adam ; ' " ' 4 .,4 s',' v J' .v ' . f.,W X : The championship was won byPanguitdi who beat Region 17 ' rival Valley 42-3- 4. " f rv'"V-K,- .r.-'f' ' I 5 . i- t '. ij .. . .1 '', ' J s VAsA''- - f iv, LMo , f Ryan Cfoward, Union. 171 lbs. L Colton Holmstead, Hunicane Chase Cooper, Lehi 3. Joel Harris, Bear River 4. , Chris Nelson, Ben Lomond 5. . Ryan Malin, Pine View. 189 lbs. 1. Gerard Habibian, Dhde 2. Cody Ballard, Hurricane 3. Sheldon Hoigreen,Nordi Sanpete 4. Zane Lee, Bear River r ; , - - - , . l Jordan Smith, Wasatch .Randy 5. 1 andon Callicoat, Tboele ' ' 5.2hchKymilDeim. , ; 215 Roseman,Lehi lbs; 1. Storm Singleton, !Blbs.CBsmi)lJkQDwr; '' Delta 2. Whnin Richins, kR 2. Chris Abbott, Dehl 1 Bret Jim Cheney, North Braegger, Bear River 14. Hoy Sanpete 4. Jon McNaughton, Oswald, Cedar City 5. Cody Wbsatch 5. Alex Garda, Bear Bowden, Vnion ;Y :Riverv 146 Bw.l.ChrifIfeterson, Delta 275 Dm. l.Tyrell Curtis, Delta 2. "L. tSaludr, Wasatch 3. TVler Lee 'North Sanoete 3. Pine View 4. IMin CpdeNe Norton, WaratchHwii Jared Morgan 5. Jake ffSieL Carbo 5 Bad LovelL ' '.V i'1 Vl ' ' '' ' & 'tA - i ; POOR COPY! Snow Canyon. 4UM4M 3 2 ' 2 2 1 pts. pts. pts. pts. pLi iJi A ytr. L Hurri-cane'- 3. River. 4pts. 3pts. Chelsey Timothy Alaena Preston Elizabeth Dansie Megan Clark Nicole Johnson Janet Lpwe Brittnie Leonard i I ' vt Wayns l ' ' I ' Chelsey Tlmotlty, near as effective as the Lady Badgers scored 65 points and held the Lady Vikings to single digits in everyiuartBr of fiw state playoff game last Wednesday afternoon at Canyon View x. HtySchool in Cedar City. r.. Elizabeth Dansie Alaena Preston ; Megan Clark UIM .MOptsl 9 pts. AS pts. . MistyVhldez .:V y.: ft n. 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