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Show I THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1979 PLEASANT GROVE REVIEW. PLEASANT GROVE, UTAH THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1979 Swim-A-Lon- g Will Raise Pool Money The Pleasant Grove Swimming Team will be sponsoring the third annual Swim-A-Lon- g on Saturday, july 21 at the Pleasant Grove Veterans Memorial Swimming Pool. This activity is held yearly to raise funds for the community swimming program. The money is used to purchase equipment needed for the team and pool. For example, the $1600 raised in 1977 went for the purchase of new kickboards and lane lines. The $3800 raised in 1978 was used to build an additional room to the swimming pool complex used for meetings and storage. In addition to buying new equipment the funds subsidized the swim team's entry fees for meets, pays registration fees for the summer swimming league, pays for the awards given at the an-nual swim team banquet held in August, and most im-portantly establishes a fund for the swimming team's contribution to a pool covering which will extend the use of the pool for all com-munity members to 12 months a year. Your support as in-dividuals and businesses will greatly help the efforts of these youngsters. Next wekk the Review will give the specifics of how a Swim-A-Lon- g works and how you can help. fn Nevada . . . Kazco Wins Elko Tournament by Jack Hill Kazco of Pleasant Grove won the annual Elko, Nevada, softball tourney last weekend. . . the hard way. In a Saturday semi-final game, Kazco dropped a 2-- 1 decision to Tingeys of Lehi but came back to edge the Salt Lake Rebels, 3-- 2 to earn the right for another shot at un defeated Tingeys. Alan Hardy, MVP in the three day tourney, turned in five tough innings and Keith Heber finished. Wes Duvall and Mike Shoell hit home-run- s for Kaz-co while Tingeys Hatch had a three run shot. Kazco won 6-- 3 to force a final game in the double elimination tournament. Named to the team were Clint Nielson, (MPV cher) Dave Hatch and Woody Carter of Tingeys. In addition to Hardy, Mike Shoell of Kazco and Mark Barraclough of Wil's were named. It took Kazco seven games in three days to win the tourney in-volving teams from Nevada, Utah and Idaho. Shoell lead off with a triple, scored on an overthrow and b efore Tingeys could get the P.G. team out, Jan Hoover had singled and Steve Francom ripped one over the fence for a 3-- 0 lead. Kazco went on to win 4-- ... .MfcWJrt COACH-PITC- H Steve Chipman pitches to his player Travis Prestwich ( 1 1 ) in nine year old league. Travis singled up the middle and Valley View won 20-- 1 6 over Grovecrest in Pleasant Grove City league. Pole Is Best Spot At Races Once again the star-ting position proved a good place to begin a race. Pete Campbell, Teen Stock, Steve Tur-ner, Limited and Larry Park, Stock class, all earned the pole spot by turning the fastest times for the day, and they all earned the ex-tra reward of the trophy dash win and troDhv. bv stavine in MODIFIED Marty West, above, leads coming out of the turn and below, went on to capture checkered flag in all three modified events. front all the way. Marty West proved the exception to the rule as he began the Modified Trophy Dash in the outside back position. He jumped in-to the lead early and stayed for the win. Kriss Sweat made a flying dash to front spot in the Teen Heat race. Rod Mitani was hot on his heels but couldn't quite get around him. Steve Turner decided to try driving brother Kent's car in the Limited Heat, so he loaned his own car to Spencer behind the wheel. Don Willingham just took it slow and easy and worked his way to the front in the Stock Heat race! Once he got there he stayed for the win. When Marty West put the pedal down there was no one able to pass as he took his second win in one day in the Modified Heat. Pete Campbell was doing some pretty fan-cy driving as he worked his way through the pack in the Stock Main event. When Kirk Frampton lost a wheel in turn No. 3 Pete took over front spot and stayed to the finish. Kriss Sweat followed for 2nd and Hal Leonard took 3rd. Joe Remmes was trying so hard to pass Liz Willingham that he spun around on turn No. 4. Larry Park and Don Willingham were busy spinning each other out and Kay Mitani was just waiting for the right moment. When Kay found Liz doesn't give an inch on the inside of the track, he had to change his tactics and go around her on the outside. He had the power and know how and he made it in time for the win. Liz tgood 2nd and LeAlma Rhodes 3rd. Marty West held the lead all the way in the Modified Main. He took i 3 wins in one day. Bill Davis took 2nd and Larry Brown 3rd. Bike winners this week were Sheryl Park, Jan Powell, Greg Mitani, Chad Peacock, Robert Welker, Kyle Peterson, Larry Amby, and Steve Covington. Shayne Frampton won the Wheetie. "Coach-Pitch- " Is Exciting Valley View is on top of the 9 year old league. "Coach-pitch- " gets my vote for the way baseball should be played for kids. I would like to see it ex-tended up to at least age 12 and maybe fur-ther. by Jack Hill Little League baseball has had its critics, not the least of which is this writer. (Pticher catcher dominated, lack of ac-tion and a general spoiling of kids desire to play by having fan-cy uniforms plus yelling coaches, paren-ts and something less I than hustle charac-terizing games.) far to many While at the ball park Monday to take some pictures,- I became aware of the yelling, cheering and activity taking place on another diamond. There a bearded adult (see photo this page) was pitching to the kids. "He's to old for little league," I half said aloud. Inquiring further I was told that this was a nine year old league, sometimes called "coach-pitch.- " Here's how it works. Ten players take the field on defense. Coach of the team at bat pitches to his own players, who get 4 strikes, swinging or called, and the pitching coach calls those not swung at. (can't get on himself for "missing a call" so there's no blamming the umpire - a big plus!) All players of the team at bat hit! That's all, 15, 16 or 20 if there are that many. Another plus! No kid sitting in the dugout for the whole game. Each player is in-volved. While I watched, no player from either team (Valley View or Grovecrest) struck out and none walked. (Hate that idea that a "walk is as good as a hit." Never was and never will be. Walks are determined by the um-pire, hits by the player. There's a big difference even though both result in getting on base. A walk is as good as a hit only when winning is the sole ob-jective of the game. In little league, winning should be second, even third to FUN and PARTICIPATION. Most hit first or second pitch. Runners were running, sliding and having fun. Fielders were fielding (most of the time), cat-ching and throwing. Valley View turned a nice double play and there were lots of hits, runs and action. Valley View won this third game with Grovecrest, 20-1- The two teams had split the first two and now HEAD FIRST SLIDE Shawn Chipman dives into third and ball gets by into left field during nine year old game. Chipman came home to score in action filled coach-pitc- h baseball contest held recently. TRIPLE Chad Nielsen rounds on waY ftriple ' as CardsrJ ; beat Cubs26-1- 6 w flj jRjjjw f CONFERNENCE Coach Nyal Richens talks things over with Card players during Little League game. Cards have 10-- 1 record, best in city league. Hunter Safety Class Hunters between the ages of 12 and 21 who are looking forward to the coming hunting seasons are reminded that they must have a Utah hunter's safety certificate to obtain a hunting license. A qualifying course for the certificate is being offered at BYU begin-ning July 10. The course consists of five two hour classes and a sixth session on the rifle range. Each participant will need to earn a passing score of 150 of a possible 300 with a .22 caliber rifle to receive his cer-tificate. Instructor Wayne Rudy said, "The students will learn safe control of a gun and understand all of its functions. They also will learn to identify game properly, in-cluding deer, elk, moose, caribou, as well as pheasant, duck and quail." The class will be held from July 10 to 26, Tuesdays and Thur-sdays, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Those in-terested in taking the course can contact Conferences and Workshops, 242 Herald R. Clark Building, or call 374-121- extension 3817, according to Scott P. Trotter, administrator for the program. Last Week Results of Little League The Giants won over the Utes and Wasps, the Pirates beat the mets with Jerry Adam-so- n pitching well for the Pirates last week. The Tigers downed the Braves, the Phillies won over the Timps and Tigers, and the Braves beat the Mets despite Dean Bezzant's home run. The Pirates also downed the Timps. Crossover games start tonight with Fridays big gameI looking to be the Giants and the Mets. Steel Days Golf Tournament Is Set The Steel Days Amateur Golf Tour-nament will be held July 13, 14, 15 at the Tri-Cit- y course in American Fork. The two-ma- n team tourney must be en-tered by July 12 with the '60.00 per team fee. Mail to Jimmy Thom-pson, PO Box 216, American Fork, Utah 84003. '"VPARTOF YOUR J " h '?C GAME PLAN! lv jT k I AyA LET US HELP YOU GET THIN v rZ ( k 7 i AND STAY THAT WAY! LOSE 17 TO 25 POUNDS CENTERy IN JUST 6 WEEKS! Call Truma 785-322- 9 IT'S FAST IT'S SAFE IT'S INEXPENSIVE You provide the Will . 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