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Show Wrestler, diver tabbed top athletes By TOM HARALDSEN Sports Editor Davis High's heavyweight wrestling state champion Sean Smith and Woods Cross High diver Kyndell Rowe have been selected as the Davis County Clipper-Little Caesar's Pizza Athletes of the Week. Smith captured the heavyweight title Saturday night at Brighton High, beating Rod Stone of Brighton Bright-on 3-2 for the crown. He joined with previous weekly winners Shandell Smoot of Viewmont and Aaron Kendrick of Bountiful as state champs. Other male nominees included both those wrestlers, along with wrestlers Jeff Black and Rick Eggett of Bountiful; basketballers Lance Evans of Woods Cross (previous (pre-vious winner), Bryan Emery of Davis (previous winner), Jeff Reynolds and Cory Sovereen of Bountiful, and Jared Blauer of Viewmont; plus swimmers Mike Hargroves of Bountiful, Chris Knolls of Viewmont and Dan Pace and Jeff Riley of Woods Cross. Rowe captured the diving championship cham-pionship of Region Four during action ac-tion at South High, and thus qualifies qual-ifies for this weekend's 4-A state Qneet at the University of Utah. TJer performance helped the Wildcat Wild-cat ladies to a second place finish behind champion East. Other female nominees included Rowe's swimmate Suzie Green of Woods Cross, Bountiful swimmer Julie Cole, and Viewmont swimmer swim-mer Holly Belnap; and basketballers basketbal-lers Heather Peel of Davis (previous (pre-vious winner); Mona Hibbert, Stephanie Reading and Lisa Wilkinson Wil-kinson of Bountiful; Melissa Eggett and Becky Yeates of Viewmont View-mont (both previous winners), and three Woods Cross athletes who have won previously, Amy Mason, Marci Heaps .and Carolyn Knight. Two weeks ago, a story outlining our February 3 winners was inadvertently in-advertently left out of our sports section. Winners that week were Davis High basketball players Brian Olsen and Heather Peel, both of whom had outstanding per-, formances that week. They re ceived certificates from the Clipper, Clip-per, as well as pizzas from Little Caesar's Pizza in Bountiful. In May, we will again be choosing choos-ing a Male and Female Athlete of the Year. Athletes from Davis, Bountiful, Viewmont and Woods Cross are eligible for our weekly award, and can only win once per sports season. |