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Show B1 The Emery County Review, Tuesday, September 30, 2008 SPORTS Spartans Rout Dinos to Keep the Coal Bucket in Emery Josie Luke As expected, the coal bucket will stay at Emery High. The Emery football team came into their rivalry game Friday night against the Carbon Dinos as the huge favorite to win, so when the Spartans scored their first seven points within the first minute of the game, their confidence was sky high. The Dinos dampened it somewhat, also scoring on their first drive, but Emery took control from that point, crushing their rival 41-7. The Spartans blazed their way into the end zone on their first possession, culminated by a 69-yard touchdown run by Running Back Colby Snow. After such an exhilarating possession, the Emery defense faltered, being called off-sides several times and making silly mistakes to allow Carbon to tie. Emery’s offense, again buoyed by a huge play quickly rectified the situation, scoring another touchdown on the following possession. After a 40-yard pass completion from Gatlan Huntington to Cameron Hansen, Chance Ariotti ran four yards for the touchdown. Emery then went on to bury the Dinos with touchdowns by Ariotti, 4-yard run; Tanner Procarione, 43yard reception; Hansen, 28yard reception; and Dalton Judd, 21-yard run. The Spartan running game came alive in the game. They finished with a total of 293 yards rushing. Snow led the team with 117 yards, Ariotti rushed for 81, and despite having touchdown runs of 30 and 65 yards negated by holding calls, JT Noyes had a total of 81. In the Spartans loss against Uintah, Coach Jones expressed frustration at the lack of execution on offense. He was much more satisfied this week with the way his team’s offense played, though still pushing for improvement. “I thought our execution was better than it has been,” he said. “We still have times when our timing and blocking need some work, but we did pretty well.” Much of the improvement can be attributed to the Emery Quarterback, Huntington. Jones explained that he holds much of the Derrick Allred responds to Coach Jones’ defensive call in the game against Carbon. responsibility for the “timing and execution of our offense.” Huntington went 6-for-10 in the game for a total of 151 yards and two touchdown passes. Jones also praised the offensive line, Drew Bohn, Kameron Stilson, Sheridan Oviatt, Josey Johnson and Greg Howes. “I thought those guys really played well in the game,” he said. On Defense, the coach pointed to Nick Stoddard, who he said “had a really good game,” along with Arriotti and Derrick Allred. This week the Spartans face an undefeated Juan Diego team who the the Deseret News ranks as the number one 3A team in the state. Jones reported the team is deserving of the ranking. They score an average of 38 points a game and have only allowed their opponents to score an average of 4 points a game. Photo by Josie Luke He said there is “no question” the team will be ready to play. He hopes the success the Spartans have had in the past in beating such teams at home will continue. The game against Juan Diego will be at on Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. Golf team competes in final season meet Casey Wood Emery traveled to Carbon Country Club to compete with the other Region 8 teams in the final seasonal golf tournament of the year on Sept. 25. After all the golfers had returned to the club house there was an awards ceremony and a dinner. After the scores were tallied, Emery ended up in fifth place. The school rankings and scores were: Carbon in first, shooting 310; Juan Diego in second, with a 315; shooting a 334 was Delta in third; in fourth place was Salem Hills, shooting a 340; Emery shot 347, taking fifth place; and in last place was North Sanpete with a 368. Emery’s top four were: junior Mark Guymon, who shot a 78; senior Jason Giles, with a 79; sophomore Andrew Terry with a 92; and senior Tayler Tanner, shooting a 98. Mark Guymon and Jason Giles total season scores were low enough to place them in the region’s top 10, qualifying them for the state golf tournament at Soldier Hollow Golf Course on Oct. 8-9. On a side note the Emery Golf team had five out of the 10 3A Academic All-State Golfers on their team this year. Those golfers were Jason Giles, Tayler Tanner, Addison Collard, Justin Cox, and Casey Wood. Photos by Glen Jensen Keera Allred sends the ball back over the net against Carbon. Volleyball Team Struggles Against Delta, Carbon The Spartan Volleyball team struggled last week as they faced off against Delta on Sept. 23 and then against Carbon on Sept. 25. Against Delta the Varsity Spartans were swept in three, losing to Delta 25-23, 25-20, 25-16. Junior Garielle Guymon returns the ball. Photo by Rebecca Lofley Tennis team plays well against N. Sanpete, Salem Rebecca Lofley This past week the Emery High tennis team faced North Sanpete on Sept. 23 at home and Salem Hills on the Sept. 25 at Salem Hills. At both matches the first and second doubles teams won. As a result Adriane Weihing and Melanie Frisbee are now tied for second place in region for first doubles with North Sanpete. Kaitlin Potter and Courtney Sitterud are undefeated and are first in region for second doubles. At region tennis on Oct. 3 at Snow College, the two teams, first and second doubles, will compete for their official placing along with the varsity singles. All three singles players: Whitney Saupan, first singles; Stevie Feuers, second singles; and Katie Turner, third singles, played very well at their matches last week. Whitney had close losses in both matches, and Katie fought hard according to Coach Hansen. With only one more region match against Juan Diego left on Sept. 30, aong with region and state tennis tournaments, the high school tennis season has nearly concluded. Sierra Bridgewater prepares to spike the ball against Carbon County. varsity fell to Delta in five games, with Delta winning the first and second game 25-21, 25-18, Emery taking the next two 15-9, 17-16 and then falling in the fifth 16-14. Against arch rival Carbon the Dinos swept the varsity team in three, 25-18, 25-15, 25-22 in a frustrating series of games. “It was disappointing. They didn’t play like they should have,” said varsity coach Kris Bell. The junior varsity team was able to defeat Carbon in five games. Carbon took the first game 25-10 and Emery won the next two, 25-17 and 15-11. Carbon fought back in the fourth to win 15-11 and the Spartans clinched the fifth game 17-15. This week Emery travels to North Sanpete on Sept. 30 and is at home against Juan Diego on Oct. 2. Kristiann Grange tips the ball in JV play against Carbon. Emery rodeo team travels to Richfield Four new members joined the Emery High Rodeo Club as they traveled to Richfield this weekend to compete: AnnDee Adams, Kyann Kofford, Chans Hansen and Sheridan Oviatt. The club also participat- ed in the Cedar City Rodeo on Sept. 19-20. • Erin Gordon came in third in Breakaway at the Cedar City Rodeo with a time of 3:34 seconds, giving her eight more points to put her in 4th place in state finals qualifying. She is also in 29th in girl’s all- around and 28th in goat tying. • Jacob Marshall is currently in 24th place in bull riding, qualifying for state finals. • MacKenzie Grange has also qualified for the state finals in Breakaway. Club members will take a well deserved month off before the next rodeo, which will be held the second weekend in November. |