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Show PG Firemen Win Steel Days Water Polo I - I I J ' I 1 st ,t ; -j! s . i ' i;n -v-v I Pleasant Grove's Fire Department Water Polo team won the championship cham-pionship at the American Fork Steel Days match held Saturday. The team was awarded the traveling trophy and the first place trophy. The traveling trophy can be theirs if they can win it three years in a row. Members of the water polo team are George Hallam, Dennis Carter, Wink Scoville, Frank Mills, Brent Smith, Ray Newman and Mark Hales. Teams participating in the match were American Fork, Pleasant Grove, Alpine and Lehi. Pleasant Grove beat American Fork first by a score of 4-0 and then defeated Lehi for the championship, 3-1. The teams play within an enclosure. en-closure. The ball is in a cage in the middle of the playing area. Each team is allowed five men, two nozzle men and two to drag the hoses and one on the line. The object is to push the ball out of the gate of the enclosure en-closure with water pressure. Players say it is a lot of fun although they get muddy and wet. Fire Chief Ray Newman said that Pleasant Grove's mayor, David Holdaway, was a referree and he managed to get wet also while having a lot of fun. The team will participate again in the Utah County Fair water polo contest. J PROUD WINNERS OF AMERICAN FORK STEEL DAYS WATER POLO |