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Show 7- - 50 HOAG 17 ft SONS BOOKBInSpLT 013086 RRILROOD STREET ' INC' R SPRINGPORT y MI 49284 yol. 9, No. 21 Wednesday, June 3. 1987 50 cents a single copy Vikes bring home state 3--A trophy - ' ' ' - i" - ..' i By JACK HILL It takes three things to win a state championship - good players, good coaching and luck. Pleasant Grove had all three last week and came home with the State Baseball trophy after beating Dixie, 7-- in Saturday's championship game. Jeff Harris was one very good player who carried the Vikes in the championship game. Harris, whose arm was sore, told Coach Bahr, "There's no way you're going to keep me out of the final game." Harris struck out 11 Dixie Flyers while scattering 8 hits to become the winning pitcher. On offense, Harris went 2-- including a tremendous three-ru- n homerun over the wall in center at Derks Field. Harris' home run came in the third inning when the Vikes were leading 0 after Cody Bell's first inning sacrifice fly had scored Scott Jensen. In the fifth, Harris bounced a double off the left field wall to score Bell, who had singled. Wayne Joe Taylor drove in Harris and David Flinders got a hit to score Taylor, giving the Vikes a 0 lead after five innings. Dixie picked up lone runs in the sixth and seventh innings. After pitching Wednesday against Spanish Fork, a game the Vikes lost, 14-- Harris was not shaken. "I felt that the umpire just didn't give me any corners," said Harris. However, against Spanish Fork, the Vikes made far too many base running mistakes to have a chance at winning. Lady Luck and coaching came dramatically into play on Thursday as the Vikes battled Murray in a loser's bracket game. After falling behind 10-- PG was faced with a "do-or-di- seventh inning. Corey Carter walked, Jensen singled and Bell walked to load the bases. A strike out was followed by Mike Albrecht's RBI base-on-bal- ls making the score 10--7 with one out. Wayne Joe Taylor's sacrifice fly scored Jensen, but the Vikes still trailed by two runs asnd were down to their final out. Burke Watkins, PG's third baseman, who had pitched the entire game, singled in Bell to pull the Vikes to within a run. Then coaching came into play. With the game on the line, Coach Alan Bahr sent junior Shane Duvall in to pinch hit. Duvall looked at two strikes and worked the count to PG was one strike away from being eliminated when Duvall singled to socre Albrecht and tie the game. The Murray catcher, failing to get Albrecht at the plate, tried to get Watkins sliding into third, but the throw went into left field and Watkins raced home with the winning run. Adam Taylor, PG's winning pitcher in the opening day game against Pineview, 8-- took the mound Friday against Dixie, the tourney's only undefeated team. Taylor struck out 13 and held Dixie to four hits and the Vikes ran away with the win, 12-- Another stroke of coaching genius happened Saturday morning against Payson. The Lions had battered PG for 19 runs on May 12, so Coach Bahr elected to go with Shawn Young, a senior pitcher whose slow curves and "junk," proved to be too much for Payson. Young scattered five hits, struck out four and held the potent Payson offense to a single run as PG won 6--1 to advance into the championship game. "Young was just great," is the way Bahr summed up the per-formance by the lanky redhead. As the PG fans and players erupted onto the field following the final out, a fly ball to center caught by Jensen, Bahr was on a cloud as everyone celebrated the first ever PGHS State Baseball Crown. Bahr was very quick to point out that the title partly belonged to Jon Hoover, long time PG head coach who had taken the year off to help at BYU. "Jon (Hoover) deserves a lot of credit," said Bahr, as he fondly admired the gold state cham-pionship trophy. "Hoover coached these kids the last two years," Balir added. Bahr also had good words and praise for assistant coach John Wardenburg. "John (Wardenburg) has been a tremendous help," said Bahr. Darrin Henry, Viking sophomore catcher, caught every game of the tourney and did a great job for PG. With good players, good coaching and some luck, the Vikes were able to put the gold state trophy, the first ever in baseball, into the trophy case and, of course, a bundle of memories in reserve for all who follow PG High baseball. A time to give thanks is shared by the state championship team and coaches. "t ? " ; I . . , I it . u Ml 4 K Ax : ft.. --a r ' f Clint Kelly, Travis "Monk" Hansen and David Erickson yell encouragement during final game. Coach Alan Bahr admires the state trophy as assistant coach John War-denburg gives Bahr a pat on the back. PG City selects new auditors Squire Company will be the new auditors for Pleasant Grove City for the next four years, the city council decided last Tuesday night. Upon the suggestion of the State Auditors Office, the city council had asked for bids from auditors to do work for the city during that period of time. Squire Company had the lowest responsible bid, according to a committee made up of some of the councilmen and City Recorder K. A. Driggs. They recommended the city council accept this bid. The Squire Company offered a bid of $6,986 for what they estimated would be about 326 hours of auditing for the first year. The cost will go up slightly each year for the remaining three years. The auditing firm of Deloitte, Haskins and Sells, which has done the city's auditing for the last several years, submitted a bid of $9,800 for an estimated 450 hours of work. This was the only other bid, from those submitted, that the committee recommended to the council for consideration. The city spent about $18,000 last year for auditing the books. In other action, Deputy City Recorder Charmaine Childs told the council that several people who live in the Firwood Estates had indicated they would like their solid waste pickup service handled through the city. Mayor David Holdaway said that when that area was annexed one of the stipulations the residents in that area put on the annexation was that See City Council Page 2 Football Coach Bluth resigns Pleasant Grove High School foot-ball coach, Doug Bluth, has announced his resignation, according to school officials. Coach Bluth said he has accepted a coaching position at a junior college in Arizona. Applications for the position of football coach will be accepted at the Alpine School District offices. Pageant is largely volunteer effort It's called the Utah Pageant of the Arts, and there's only one other like it in the United States. In fact, Utah's version of the "living pictures" production is patterned after the long-runnin- g Pageant of the Masters in Laguna, Calif. One differenc is Laguna's is presented outdoors with a live or chestra, while Utah's is staged in the air conditioned auditorium at American Fork High School and uses recorded background music with an updated sound system. A bigger difference, though, is that Utah's production -- - going on 15 years now - is largely a volunteer effort. And it's an ongoing one. Almost as soon as one k run ends and the sets and costumes have been hauled back into storage, producing director David O. Brockbank begins selecting pain-tings and pieces of sculpture to be reproduced with live models in next summer's production. Months before the show opens, crew members put in around luo hours each constructing sets, backgrounds, and frames, then haul them on flatbed trucks from the Pageant Center to the back of the high school stage, two miles away. Then, the men spend an ad-ditional !00 hours moving the sets See I'ACKANTiiii pane :! Pageant office open The box office for tickets to the 1987 Utah Pageant of the Arts is now open from 10 a.m. to 6 P.m., Monday through Friday, in the basement of the Senior Citizens Center at 54 E. Main. Gov. Norman H. Bangeter is scheduled to attend the opening Performance June 10 at American Fork High School Theater, where fhe "living pictures" pageant has been presented for 15 years. Producing director David O. Brockbank said the production staff including scene construction workers, painters, and sculptors, casting director, costume and headgear designers, and technical crew - have spent months Preparing the show, which will feature 36 pieces never before shown in the Utah Pageant. They will be recreated onstage with live models in 21 scenes. A cast of nearly 230 volunteers will rotate shifts during the six-wee- k run, June 18. Performances are July "y at 8' except Sundays and Among this year's new selections are the intricate "Butterfly wooch," a gold and inlaid enamel P'ece of jewelry; the Folk Art, U.A. postage stamps; a bronze sculpture, "Shiva: The Lord of the ,.ance." the "Nereid" fountain; porcelains; John Singer argent's painting, "Carnation, "ly, Lily, R0se;" and a fareWell "'oute to Utah sculptor Avard Fairbanks. Three Van Gogh portraits will be eluded, as well as a selection of 'e-siz-e tin toys that will be animated. The Steuben Glass hrown of Oberon" will also be Old favorites, back by popular demand, include the Wedgwood piece, "The Choice of Hercules;" a sculpture with fountain, "Water Nymph and Triton"; and Winslow Homer's "Breezing Up," a piece of traditional art which wil be con-trasted with the contemporary painting "Goin' Surfin'," by California artist Robert Blumhagen. The program will close with DaVinci's "The Last Supper." Pre-sho- seminars at 7 p.m. will feature Mountain West Ballet, demonstrations of Pageant costumes and headgear, musical performances, Salt Lake sculptor Dee Jay Bawden, singersongwriter Marvin Payne, violinist Conrad Dunn, and the Pageant Youth Symphony Orchestra, on a rotating schedule. A Pageant ticket admits the patron to the seminar and to both professional and student art exhibits as well as the stage production. Tickets are on sale at the Pageant box office or may be ordered by sending a check to Box 111, American Fork, Utah 84003. Seats are $9 for center and $7 for side section. A $2 discount for side seats applies for each Monday per-formance. Group discounts of up to $2 per ticket are also available. Phone orders are being taken at 756-350- .and Visa and Mastercharge will be accepted. Since the Pageant began with four performances in 1973, it has grown to a six-wee- k run that draws an audience of up to 23,000 each year. Approximately 400 volunteers -- staff and cast - are involved each year in making the Pageant a success. Graduation moved to Marriott The last several years have seen an overflow crowd in the gym, crowded onto straight hard benches, sweltering in the late May heat. With a full scale construction still going on at the high school and a big, 230, graduating class, the decision to go to the Marriott Center was made. American Fork High had the 5:30 p.m. session followed by Pleasant Grove at 8 p.m. In addition to an air conditioned hall, the Marriott Center has plenty of individual seats for everyone who wants to attend, and offers a terrific sound system. BYU Security Officers deter any would be disrup-ters and a new dignity to the program was made possible. An angry mother refused to let her daughter go through the exercises with the class, saying, "She doesn't have a ride over there." Repeated offers of a ride were turned down and the daughter in question was seen during the exer-cises sitting in the crowd longingly looking at what she had missed. With next year's senior class numbering over 300, the move to a bigger and more confortable graduation site appears to have been a wise choice. By JACK HILL When the Pleasant Grove High School administration announced that the annual graduation exercises would be held in the Marriott Center in Provo, reactions ran from "no way" to "it's a good move." Most students had an initial negative reaction but by the time the event rolled around last Friday, all but a handful were enthusiastic about the change. "One grandfather said I was going to Hell for moving it over there," Principal Tom Carlile said. Carlile added that most parents and relatives he talked to agreed that it was a good move. Those opposed to the move were a very small percentage of the total. Since the early 1960's, graduation has been held, first in the auditorium and then in the boys gym, after the auditorium proved to be too small. " ' 7 ' , " ? f ''' s ' $ v ' u i '"' V, ; ' .. j : --s & i?i-:w.- ' I . I , -- -4 i . , t Valene Taylor gets some last mini te help from mom and dad before the program started. Marijuana arrest made Pleasant Grove Police Officer Lonnie Wilson arrested a male on May 31 for possession of marijuana. The arrest was made on 200 South in Lindon. Ronald H. Olson, 351 E. 140 North, Lindon, reported that a BMX black dirt bike valued at $150 had been taken in April. Officer Jim Taufer investigated. Ed Kresser, 460 E. 1100 North, reported that his newspaper box had been smashed with a blunt object. The box was valued at $15. There are no suspects. |