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Show -m-.-iWP&ar Weekend Play Marks Halfway Point For Garfield High School Baseball By John Yardley This week marks the halfway point for county-wide high school baseball teams as they finish up game four in the eight-game regular schedule. Bryce Valley, 2-1, takes on Escalante and Enterprise this week after stopping Valley 20-5 last week. Panguitch entertains Escalante this Friday, riding a perfect 3-0 record following their victory over Valley a week ago. The Moquis, meanwhile, are looking over their first win after dropping a game to tough Enterprise last week. In the Valley.Bryce Valley game, Wade Ramsay and Dallin Baugh combined to hold the Buffaloes to five runs, three of those coming on a three-run homer by Valley's Sorenson. Their teammates all hit well as they scored a whopping 20 runs themselves. George Thompson had one of the big blows with a home run. Coach Ramsay's team will have an excellent shot at the division title if they can get past Enterprise on the Wolves' home turf this Friday. Panguitch also got excellent pitching from lefty Nate Brinkerhoff as the Bobcats stopped Valley 8-2. Brinkerhoff only walked two and struck out 13 enroute to the win. Hitting the ball well for Panguitch was centerfielder Earl Jolley who had a long triple, second basemen Scott Simkins, and catcher Lawrence Orton, who had a perfect on-base average. With the return of Jody Davis (a different Jody than catches off the Chicago Cubs!) the Bobcats find themselves with an abundance of infield talent with seven players nip and tuck for five positions. New enrolee Stewart Reynolds also gives Panguitch another excellent cat cher. Should the Bobcats defeat Escalante this week, they will stand with a perfect record through the first half. Coaches Kay Engelstead and Pat Dix hope to have the team primed for the second half. Escalante coach Jim Smith must be wondering where to turn as his team, mostly sophs and freshmen, keeps running into teams that are hot to score runs. The Moquis will depend on more help from Galai, Durfey, and Porter to get things rolling. Girls volleyball games are underway with a match set this week pitting the girls from Escalante against Panguitch on the Bobcat floor. All three county high schools are intending to floor teams this season. In major league baseball, the Dodgers came from behind to nip the Braves in a crucial game in Los Angeles and up their lead to three games In the West. The Braves led 6-3 going to the bottom of the ninth, before bowing to the boys in blue. In the NL East, Montreal, St. Louis, Pittsburg and Philadelphia still have a chance. It looks like the AL has been decided as the Chisox and Baltimore are moving away. Most teams have between 15 and 18 regular season games remaining. Finally, in football last week, all Utah's major teams took it on the chin. Utah and Utah State both lost to Arizona and Arizonaa State while BYU lost the lead within the last two minutes to lose to Baylor 40-36. SUSC also lost badly to division two team Arizona northern at Flagstaff |