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Show J. UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. July 29. 1997- - Page 15 State Tournament Roosevelt hopes dimmed at Babe Ruth Meet all-sta- rs By Aldon Rachele It was a Clint Eastwood type meet with Roosevelt suffering "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" vs. teams at the 1997 Utah Babe Ruth 13 Year Old State Tournament held in Rooeevelt The Roosevelt team dropped games to West Jordan and Taylorsvilles No. 2 squad. First, tha Good-Roose- velt owned a 0 lead after two and half innings, Monday night, July 21. Dylan Creamer was hit by the pitcher, and then scored on Joel Dubras Rooeevelt adsingle for a one-ru- n vantage. However, the inning ended when Dubray was caught in a run down between first and second. shutout More highly rated West Jordan through two innings with local starter, Mike Seeley striking out three batters and allowing sera hits. Additional Good Stuff-T- he Roosevelt team saw ita 0 lead disappear when eight West' Jordan batters paraded to the plate and scored three for a3--l lead. Roosevelt was still within two runs of a West Jordan team that went on to defeat Brighton, Murray to advance into the championship game. There were no hits inthe inning. Rooeevelt committed three errors, gave up two walks and hit a batter. Roosevelt left fielder, Coby Abegglen made a super catch close to the fence in the third to keep West Jordan from adding more runs. Scott Fenn, Roosevelt, turned in an excellent catch in right field earlier 1-- Good-Roose- TOP TEAM-Ju- dd Larsen, Roosevelt, right, just misses out on getting an out during a pickoff attempt of West Jordans Travis Jones, left West Jordan beat Roosevelt in the first round and went on to take the championship title in a State Babe Ruth Tournament held in Roosevelt last week. Zi by Aldon Rachele This week's column will deal with "Thing I Decided To Talk About, Write About Or Just Popped In My Only six teams, Altamont, Rich, Duchesne, Milford, Whitehorse and Monument Valley (ran out of players before the Heed! football last playoffs) played I covered a Western Boys two Duchesne and Altamont, year, ball Association first round game 2-teams thia upcoming between Green River and Altamont, will be season. end Green River had areally big football is a It appears that kid by the name of Michael of and the thus past Mayhall thing Mayhall (more like a huge guy) at might have to move to Castle Dale, first base, who was three-time- s er than most of the players on the Price or Roosevelt, etc., to play the pigskin sport. Of course he might field say Forget Football and become a Now if this huge baseball player Really, Really Large Green River continues to grow, I sure he will hoo pater if he can get down the Want to be an offensive lineman. of Unfortunately, Green River High court without the use a sundial One of the highlights of the School doesn't have a football team, WBBA tournament was female and since the Pirate are in the class where moat of the schools play baseball player on the Altamont-Tabion- a team by the name ofMarlee fall baseball it doesn't appear likely Mower. She led off with a single, school will ever pipy football . the 1-- A 1-- A A 1-- A 1-- A West Jordan knocks off Murray for crown up the game at 6 when Travis Jones scored on a perfect bunt, and then Derek Job got the job done by ahot in the' belting out a three-ruadvantop of the Smith for a 6-- By Aldon Rachele The championship game in the Utah Babe Ruth 13 Year Old State Tournament was a home run derby for two innings and when all the dust had cleared from the "Over Fence Action, West Jordan, which defeated Roosevelt in the first day of the meet, emerged as the title winner, Saturday in Roosevelt due to a 16-1-0 triumph. West Jordan went undefeated in the meet as they also beat Brighton, and Murray in a semi-fingame. Murray downed Castle Valley and Taylorsville's No. 1 team. The Murray team reached the champ1997 velt 1-- just barely avoided a tag at second base and then stole third base. She was stranded on the base paths, but she didn't get depressed over not scoring as she made a great super running catch from her center field position to take an extra base hit away from Mayhall. Maybe the Western Boys Baseball Association should consider changing its name to WGABA (Western Girls ft Boys Baseball Association)? in the first inning. Now the Bad-W- est Jordan scored two runs in the fourth for a 1 lead and then ended the contest with six in the fifth for an 11-- 1 win. Mark Dehaan and Derek Job got the job done with singles and Brandon Christiansen converted the basemen into runs with a hot shot single by the Roosevelt second baseman for a 1 edge. More replaced Seeley on the mound and West Jordan sealed up the win and unfortu5-- By the way I miss Chicago Cubs broadcaster and long-tim- e baseball fan, Hairy Carey, and especially his trade mark home run call ofi Tt could be, it might been Its !! I also missed his ainging the famous baseball song during the seventh inning stretch in vine covered Wrigley Field. I've never been to Chicago or Wrigley Field, but cable television channel, WGN enabled me to check out all tiie action from a front row seat that wasn't clear out in left field. It was the best seat in the house right in front of the TV. gone-e-e-e-e- 5-- Bad-Crea- . Unfortunately TCI cable company pulled the plug on WGN mid wiped out the Cub after more than ,15 years.. QccMionally.there' are some cubs 6n new channel Animal Planet, but its just not the samel mer nately for Roosevelt creamed Creamer with three walks, single and hit batter before new pitcher, Dubray entered the game. West Jordan went up by 1 and then Christiansen had his baseball prayers answered with a single that aent home Shad Bateman and Dehaan with a 10-- 1 lead. Andrew PITCHING MOVES-Mi- ke Seeley of the Roosevelt 13 year old team prepares to send the baseball on a mission Babe Ruth to home plate. all-st- ar Time" with the Rooeevelt team losing ita final game to Taylorsvilles No. 2 team, Tuesday, by the score of 22-22-2- ). (2 X 11-- 1 Roosevelt, which didn't have to play in a qualifying tournament due to hosting the state meet put up a good fight and did its best 2. In other first round games, Murray downed Castle Valley out of Price, Taylorsville No. 1 team beat Jordan Valley and Brighton downed Taylorsville No. 2 squad. Murray edged Taylorsville No. 1 and West Jordan downed Brighton in the second round. West Jordan beat Murray to reach the title game. Castle Valley eliminated Jordan Jick doubled with one out and scared Valley,' Tuesdays and then lost to TJ. Gale to end the game ll-- l. - Brighton. No. 1 knocked off No. 2 in for a battle between Taylorsville teams, Now the Roosevelt it was "Seeing Double and Brighton downed the No. 1 guys. 8-- Winner plays in state meet The winner of the Helper Roosevelt playoff game will battle host team West Jordan, Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the first round of the American Legion State Baseball Tournament The game will be played in Kearns. Roosevelt was scheduled to play Helper in Orem, Monday and if a third game is needed it will be played Tuesday . West Jordan finished second in Division IV in Salt Lake City area American Legion play at 15--6 behind 21-- 0 Taylorsville. Other top . teams are Bingham, Hillcrest, 18-- 3 and Viewmont, 16-- 5. n 9-- 6 tage. ' However, Murray came back to score two in the bottom ofthe fourth to narrow the lead to one run at 9-but West Jordan erupted for aix runs in the fifth to take a 15-- 8 lead. Included in the offensive explosion homer by Andrew was a two-ru- n Jack that hit the fence and bounced . 8, al ionship game when they beat Tayloreville No. 1 once again. The West Jordan team owned a 5--2 lead going into the bottom of the third, but Trevor Tate's three-ru- n blast shocked the Salt Lake County team and gave Murray a 6--5 advan- tage. . No problem-- it was West Jor- dans turn at bat in the home run derbyftitle game. West Jordan tied West Jordan added a run to take a 16--8 lead into the final inning, and then Murray made things interesting. Tate scored on a passed ball and Ryan Dial pushed all the right buttons as he was walked in tobring Murray within six runs. With the bases loaded Ryan McCann couldnt as be struck out andMurrays Brown Saw Red when the game ended when the West Jordan second baseman turned in a super catch in shallow right field with the ball just barely in his mitt Busy Tmni? 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