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Show Covering what matters most orts SP $ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 1 , 2008 • B l \ Wiwomjjucking up Offers Chad Vest 46 receptions for nearly 700 yards, STAFF WRITER and scored eight touchdowns for the Dons. After football season, Senior to be football player he and a cousin began working Richard Wilson is ranked by countless hours to produce a scout.com as the twelfth best tight highlight reel of the burly tight end in the country which makes end's greatest plays. When the film him one of the most coveted high was complete, they sent multiple school prospects in the land. This copies to division one programs coming fall will mark the third all over in hopes of garnering consecutive year where this man more interest. Well, let's just say, among boys will compete for the he's hitting the jackpot. Today, red and gray. After his sophomore Wilson has six current offers and season, he began receiving interest more on the way. Two big time from local schools. BYU started offers come from BCS (Bowl showing much interest early Championship Series) schools on, and they are the first school that have sent numerous players to offer Wilson a scholarship. to the NFL. Ever heard of the Following the initial offer, Utah name Peyton Manning? Well, he became highly interested and is was a Tennessee product and the hot on the trail, as well as many Volunteers Coaches have already other big schools throughout the offered a full ride to the SF student/ land. athlete. The other SEC team who As a junior, Wilson hauled in also drools over Wilson's natural gifts (6'4" 220 lbs, 4.6 forty) has only won two national titles in the last five years. LSU Tigers offensive coordinator, a familiar face in former BYU Head Coach Gary Crowton, flew in and met with Wilson in his home to extend the offer. Many PAC-IO schools are showing a lot of interest but the lone school to offer is Arizona. By now, you must be thinking, 'how can it get any better?' Well, it does. Just last week, the Miami Hurricanes called his cell phone. Wilson chuckled when sharing this experience because he was on the fairway playing golf in SFFootball's annual booster tournament. The Canes have struggled in recent years but they are a national powerhouse See WILSON • B2 Salem Triathlon Andrew Wilson / Spanish Fork A'CUT,ATHLETES AND SCHOLARS: The Deseret Morning News recently announced recipients of 5A academic all-state honors. Spanish Fork High School athletes are as follows: baseball, Jacob Clark; boys soccer. Vallan Sherrod; boys track and field, Vallan Sherrod; girls track and field, Nachelle Stewart; and softball, Lindsee Thurgood. pictured above. MEN'S BASKETBALL SCORING LEADER WEEK SCORING LEADERS WEEK 8 POINTS PLAYER TEAM 32 Security Homes Broden Hughes 32 Kevin Swenson Madison Hotels 30 Cameron Catmull Moab Ford 28 Jason Steenstra Celtics 27 Jeff Taylor Madison Hotels Dave Heck 26 Carney's 28 Jeff Bailey Carney's 27 Mike Healey Zeeman Diesel 34 Jared Smithson Jensen Cabinets 1 THREE POINT SHARP SHOOTERS TEAM 1 PLAYER 1 Jeff Bailey Carney's | Cameron Catmull Moab Ford TREYS 6 4 MEN'S BASKETBALL SUMMER STANDINGS WEEK 2> •/• Christene Choate / Spanish Fork News EXTRA MILE: The annual Salem Triathlon took place on Saturday June 7. Due to inclement weather, the bike portion of the race was cancelled since the roads were wet and they didn't want to risk accident or injury to cyclists. Around 800 people signed up to do the race, and family and friends of the athletes came out to show support. See page A8 for more coverage. •*•• TEAM WIN Carney's 2 Celtics 2 Jensen Cabinets 2 Madison Hotels 2 Nike 2 Security Home Mortgage 2 Mud Rats 1 Zeeman's Diesel 1 Moab Ford 1 Gandolfo's 1 Trueplayers 1 Goyin 1 BD Warriors 0 Faith Baptist Church 0 Segway 0 SkyHawk Investments 0 Wolverines 0 ••*•••• - i i LOSS 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 |