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Sports News for May 22, 1997
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Area track teams at North Section Championship, May 30, West Valley High School

Ą Braves dominate in SCL track, field championship
Ą Cardinals win EL championship
Ą Christensen MVP in All-star tourney
Ą Ranch rodeo kicks off weekend
Ą Super Bull riding set in June
Ą 3-on-3 hoop tourney during July
Ą Modoc has All-league softballers
The Braves track teams absolutely dominated the Shasta Cascade League meet Friday, winning the girls varsity and boys varsity with ease and taking the junior varsity girls in a closer race.

Modoc's varsity girls team has won the SCL track championship 20 of the past 22 years. When that record was broadcast over the loudspeaker, it prompted a Weed High School fan to quip, "Now, that's what you call a program." Modoc's varsity boys have won the league title for four straight years and have a lot of talent in the younger grades.

The Program (girls) is heavily favored to win the small schools section title today at Shasta College in Redding and the varsity boys have an excellent chance of winning that title as well.

Varsity girls SCL results

The Braves just destroyed the competition at the SCL meet, winning 11 of 16 events out right and taking seconds and thirds in those they didn't win. Modoc won the meet with an amazing 250 points, followed by Trinity with 75, Etna with 45, Weed with 28, Mt. Shasta with 22, Burney with 15 and Fall River with 2.

Harness won the 1600 meters in 5:.47.3, the 800 meters in 2:32.5, the 3200 meters in 14:31 and anchored the winning 1600 meter relay.

Christensen won the 100 meter hurdles in 16.2, her best of the season, with Miceli run ning 16.4. She also won the shot out at 32 feet and was on the winning 400 meter relay team.

Ginny Greene won the 400 meters in a great race at 60.2, clipping Miceli who ran 60.4. Julia Greene, a freshman, ran third at 63.9 and Lake was fourth at 68.

Andrea Knox, a freshman, won the high jump with a 5-0 effort. Leah Siegel won the long jump with a 15 feet leap. Knox was third at 13-9. Kate Burshem, a freshman, won the pole vault at 6-6.

Modoc's 4x100 meter relay team of Candi Marymee, Ginny Greene, Julia Greene and Christensen won at 52.8. The 4x400 meter team of Greene, George, Lake and Harness won at 4:39.6.

Marymee took a second in the 100 meters at 13.2 and Julia Greene was third at 13.4. Lake was sixth at 13.8.

Siegel was second in the high jump at 4-10 with Christensen third at 4-10.

Christensen took a second in the 300 hur dles at 51.7, Knox was third at 52.6 and George fourth at 53.

Julia Greene, a freshman, was second in the 800 at 2:47.1 edging sister Ginny Greene at 2:47.2. Ginny Greene was second in the 200 meters at 26.9 with Marymee third at 27.8.

Marymee was second in the triple jump at 32-3, Siegel was third at 32-1. Brandy Cravens was second in the 3200 at 16:22. Rebecca Richert, a freshman, was third in discus at 86-1 and Amie Ambers was fourth at 80-0. Ambers was fifth in the shot at 28-5.

George took a third in the 100 hurdles at 18.8 and Knox was fourth at 18.9. Cravens was fourth in the 1600 at 7:01 and Richert sixth at 7:14.

Varsity boys SCL results

Modoc's varsity boys also dominated the SCL meet at Yreka Friday, winning with 192 points, followed at a distance by Trinity with 83, Fall River with 80, Mt. Shasta with 65, Weed with 28, Etna with 15 and Burney with 10.

Josh Keyes did his job well, winning the 1600 meters at 4:42.9, the 800 meters at 2:05.8 and the 3200 meters in 10:47.

Jeremy Favia won the 100 meters at 11.8, just nipping Matt Carroll at 11.9. Favia also nipped Carroll in the 200 meters, wining at 23.69 to Carroll's 23.7.

Carroll returned the favor in the 400 me ters winning at 53.3, beating Favia's 53.9 and third place Billy Wilson's 53.9.

James Drennan won the shot at 39-7. Modoc's 4x100 meter relay ran a 47.3 for the win. That relay had two freshmen, Kaylon Benson and Cody Holloway, joining regu lars Billy Wilson and Joe Duran.

The 4x400 meter relay team of Jess Wills, Wilson, Adam Bailey and Duran ran a winning time of 3:51.9.

Holloway took a second in the long jump at 18-10 and Benson placed fourth at 18-3 1/2. Duran placed second in the high jump at 5-8, with Carroll taking third at 5-6 and Evan Utter fourth at 5-4.

Holloway placed third in the triple jump with a 38-9 1/4 leap. Jed Tate was third in the shot at 35-5. Drennan tossed the discus 112 feet for third. Wills was third in the pole vault at 9-6. Freshmen Chris Lauppe was fourth at 8-6 and Aaron Wishart fifth at 8-6.

Lauppe was fifth in the 110 hurdles at 19.7. Holloway took a fifth in the 100 meters at 12.2. Utter was fifth in the triple jump at 36-11. Wishart was sixth in the hurdles at 19.8. Joe Savino was sixth in the 1600 at 5:32 and in the 3200 at 12:03.9. Bailey was sixth in the triple jump at 32 feet, Lauppe was sixth in the 300 hurdles at 50.5 and Benson was sixth in the 800 at 2:18.5.

Modoc JV girls win

Modoc's junior varsity girls won the league meet, even with some of their crew moved up to the varsity level. Modoc had 88 points, followed by Etna with 84, Trinity with 78, Mt. Shasta with 74, Fall River with 36 and Weed with 12.

The top performance was turned in by freshman Billie Geldreich, who won the 100 hurdles and set a new league record of 17.7 in the process. Geldreich also won the 300 meter hurdles in 57.8 and the pole vault at 6-0. She also ran with Amber Knauss, Christy Cartner and Susanna Wise on the winning 400 meter relay team.

Knauss took a second in the long jump, go ing 11-2 1/2 and Wise was third at 11-1/2. Knauss was third in the 100 meters at 14.9, Cartner was third in the triple jump at 26-9. April Dorton was third in the discus at 52-9 1/2 . Jodie Roberts was fourth in the discus at 51-1/2 and Wise was fourth in the high jump at 3-8. Dorton placed fourth in the shot at 18-9 and Roberts fifth at 15-10. Knauss was fifth in the 200 at 32.7.

For the junior varsity boys, Greg Buck took a second in the shot at 39-7 and third in the discus at 97-11. Daniel Toatolu was fourth in the 800 at 2:48 and sixth in the 100 meters at 13.8.

Cardinals cruise to Evergreen title

The Big Valley boys track team now has a string going. The Cardinals took their sec ond straight Evergreen League Title last Saturday. BV actually cruised to the win, posting 76 points on the day, nearly doubling up their nearest competitor, Butte Val ley, who finished with 41.

Cardinals Vance Bidwell and Cameron McGarr ran one-two in the 110 hurdles with times of 16.89 and 17.83 respectively. The two ran almost in reverse in the 300 hurdles as McGarr won the race in 43.76 while Bidwell took third.

In the sprints, Wes Break field took a second in the 100 at 11.73 while Tim Valdez and Rendon Ellenberger flew across the line at fourth and fifth. Valdez also took a sec ond in the 200 while Heath Urey was fifth.

In the middle distances, McGarr took second in the 400 at 53.26 while Reid Urey took third. Urey was also third in the 800 with Ellenberger grab bing a fifth spot.

Joe Haury led the way in the distance events, winning the 1600 ad taking second in the 3200. Valdez also took a fifth in the 1600.

In the field events, Russ Carpenter continued his domination of the shot-put. He threw the 12 pound metal ball 45-3, over three-and-one-half feet ahead of his nearest competitor. Ellenberger was third in the event. Carpenter also took third in the discus.

Bidwell and Valdez were jumping all over the place. Bidwell won the triple jump while Valdez took the long jump. The pair also took sec ond and fourth in the high jump as Valdez cleared 6-0 and Bidwell jumped 5-8. Also picking up Cardinal points in the jumps were Patrick Mc Cauley (fourth in the triple) and Michael McLain (fifth in the high jump).

Breakfield won the pole vault by clearing a height of 13-3 and one-half.

Girls track: Big Valley's big three of Jessica Saltzman, Ileah Jackson and Nicole Silva won eight of the 14 indi vidual events contested, but the Cardinals still finished just 7.5 points behind Butte Valley for the league title with a final score of 64-56.5.

Saltzman and Jackson both set new meet records in the triple jump and high jump. Saltzman traveled 35-4 and one-half in the triple while Jackson sailed 16-9 and one-half in the long jump. Saltz man also won the high jump and Silva took the pole vault win. Carly Nordell also earned points for the Cardi nals in the jumps by taking fifth in both the high jump and long jump.

Jackson and Saltzman were the first two across the line in the 100 hurdles, Jack son getting the win with a time of 16.71. Saltzman was second in the 300 hurdles and Nordell grabbed a fourth in the race.

Jackson won the 100 dash with a time of 13.45 and Silva was right behind her in sec ond with a time of 13.9. Silva then went on to win the 200 with Nordell taking third.

In the middle distance, the 400 looked a lot like the 100 as it was Jackson and Silva go ing one-two across the finish line again.

Those who finished in the top three in any of the events now move on to the Sectional Single "A" Championships being held tomorrow at West Valley High in Redding.

In assessing his team's chances in Redding, Big Val ley coach Gary Bennett said he thinks Saltzman, Jackson and Silva can continue to dominate their events but he's not sure if that will mean enough points for a team title.

The boys team might be a different story.

"We have a good shot with the boys," Bennett said. "I think we'll be the team to beat, but you know, things don't always go right either."

Those who do well this week will move on to the Northern Section meet on May 30, also held at West Val ley.

Christensen is MVP in All-star hoop tourney

Modoc High School junior Kayte Christensen was named the Most Valuable Player in a girls High School All-Star Basketball tournament in Gridley over the weekend.

Christensen, who led the Braves to a second place fin ish in the north state last year, is joined by teammates Jennifer Kern, Andrea Knox and Leah Siegel on the Sierra Cascaders, a team made up of northern California high school stars. Siegel didn't play in last weekend's event, but will join the team for future tournaments.

Modoc Coach Mike Martin and the Westwood coach share the coaching duties of the team.

Last weekend the Sierra Cascaders lost their opening game to the Jam-on-it from Reno, in overtime, and lost their second game to the Redding Jayhawks. The next day, they beat the Jayhawks by eight and lost in the title game to Jam-on-it by seven in a very close game.

Martin said Christensen dominated the tourney and said that Kern and Knox both played very well. Jessica Kern also filled in.

This weekend the team heads to Sacramento for an other tough tournament.

A real highlight for Modoc is an All-Star tournament in Alturas on June 21. In addition to the Sierra Cascaders, two teams from Reno, the Redding Jayhawks and Gridley Dogs will play in the tourney. According to Martin, local basketball fans will get to see how Modoc's girls stack up against some of the best in the west. And he, said, Modoc fans will be impressed.

More information on the local tournament will be com ing out soon.

High Desert Ranch Rodeo opens excitement Friday for weekend

The Second Annual High Desert Ranch Rodeo expands to two days and increases the number of three person ranch teams to 20 this year to open for a more exciting event Friday and Saturday, May 23 and 24 at the Modoc Dis trict Fairgrounds, Cedarville. A mixed team branding com petition has been added.

Held over the Memorial Day weekend, the first go-round will begin on Friday, May 23 at 2 p.m. This will include the ranch horse class, ranch doctoring and cattle sorting. Fol lowing the slack events, a kick-off Chuck Wagon barbecue will be held.

The rodeo continues on Saturday, May 24 at 9 a.m. com pleting the first go-round with calf roping, saddle bronc, and calf branding. At 1 p.m. a mixed team brand ing event will be held. The teams for the mixed branding will be com prised of two men and two women per team with no team limit.

Immediately following the mixed branding, the finals of the ranch rodeo will begin. The top six teams from the first go-round will compete again in all six ranch-related events.

Friday's events will be open-gate with free admission. Saturday the gates open at 8:30 a.m. with admission for adult's $5, children under 14, $3 and children under six, free. An all day family pass is $15.

The High Desert Ranch Rodeo is a joint effort of the Mas ten Ramsey Memorial and the Surprise Valley Rotary Club with all proceeds going to community projects and scholar ships. Seventy percent of the purse is jackpotted back to the first five teams in both the ranch rodeo and mixed team branding competitions. Last year over $2,000 was awarded to the winning team. With the addition of five more teams, the purse is expected to increase this year.

Preceding a number of the events, Cal cutta's will be held which will al low the spectators to bid on their favorite teams.

For further information contact John McQuarrie at (916) 233-4304 during the day or (916) 233-3946 in the evening.

Modoc Super Bull set for June 21 at Fair

The Modoc Super Bull is set for June 21 at the Cedarville Fairgrounds arena.

According to event president Louis Arreche, the Modoc Super Bull will be a Wrangler Pro Bull Riders affiliated event and should attract some of the top pro bull riders in the region.

A $7,000 purse will be the big drawing card for the riders and there is a 35 rider limit. They'll all compete in the long go round and the top eight will move to the short go. Prize money will be paid to the top four in each round as well as the four average winners.

Bull riding will start at 7 p.m. June 21. Tickets are $10 each with children six and under free. Tickets are available at Arreche Enterprises, Pages Market or Western Irrigation in Cedarville; L&B Ranch Supply and Jay's Mens Store in Alturas. For tickets or more information call 916-279-2272.

In addition to the bull riding, fans can "purchase" a bull in competition at $135 with the chance of winning $1,225 if the bull places first.

According to Arreche, the pro bull riding circuit is doing well across the nation and he feels this event will be a good chance for Modoc fans to see some of the best riders and stock available.

Contestants have a one-day entry period, June 3, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Entry fee is $150 money order. Phone (916) 279-2272 or write P.O. Box 132, Cedarville, Ca. 96104.

Think you're bad? Sign up now for Modoc's 3-3

The deadline to sign up of the Modoc 3-on-3 Basketball Championships is July 1. The tournament is scheduled July 5 in the Griswold Gym, following the Fandango Parade and the Great Pit River Duck Race.

The event is open for basketball players ele mentary school age through adult. There are divisions for male and female players.

The event is sponsored by the Modoc Record, Pizza and Pasta Place and Coast to Coast. Proceeds from the event will go to the Modoc High School basketball program.

There is a $30 entry fee per team, and teams may have four players. Three players will be on the court and sub stitutions will be allowed during dead balls. Sponsors are available for teams.

The age groups for the tourney are as follows: grades 1-3; grades 4-5; grades 6-8; grades 9-10; grades 11-12; and an open division.

Younger players can move up a division, but older play ers cannot move down.

The winning team in each division will receive half the division entry fee, plus winning t-shirts.

Games will be seven minute running halves with one minute halftime. There will be a five minute warm up pe riod.

For more information contact Rick Holloway at the Modoc Record, 233-2632. Fill out and mail in the entry form in this week's Record or call for registration forms.

Modoc has All-Leaguers

Three members of the Modoc softball squad played their way onto the Shasta-Cascade All-League Team. Jessica Lauppe, Wendy Stafford and Cheyenne Menkee earned the honors for a Braves squad that went 9-3 in the SCL, (15-4 overall) finishing just one game out of first place tie.

Stafford a junior center-fielder, led the team in batting average, hitting over .400 for the year. Lauppe, a senior first-baseman, and Menkee, a sophomore catcher, were also among Modoc's leading hitters and were also outstanding on defense throughout the season.

Sports summaries for May 29, 1997

Ą Modoc girls win section track
Ą Cardinals top 'A' section
Ą Modoc's girls class of north state
Ą 3-on-3 baketabll championship coming
Girls claim section track title; boys run to third place

Modoc's girls track team continued its decades-long dominance of the north section track and field scene by eas ily winning the North Section AA title at Redding's Shasta College May 22.

Modoc's boys varsity team competed well and placed third in the north section. Only the winners in each event move on to the North Section Large School finals at West Valley Friday.

Team scores for the girls were: Modoc 160; East Nicolaus 74; Durham, 52; Trinity 44; Capital Christian 43; Delta, 21; Weed, 20; Portola, 15; Etna, 11; Burney, 10; Mt. Shasta 2. One of the highlights, said Geldreich, was the winning 4x400 boys relay team which clocked the fastest time in 19 years at the section meet of 3:35.3. Jeremy Favia, Billy Wilson, Joe Duran and Matt Carroll ran the relay, clipping their former best time by more than 10 seconds.

Harness led the girls team with first in the 1600 meters at 5:45.3, in the 800 meters at 2:29.7; And the 3200 meters at 13:12.9. Harness also ran on the winning 4x400 meter relay team with Lynda Lake, Courtney George and Julia Greene, which ran a 4:28.8.

Andrea Knox, a freshman, won the high jump with a 5-0 effort. Kayte Christensen placed second with a 5-0 and Leah Siegel was third at 4-10.

Kate Burshem, also a freshman, won the pole vault at 7-6, tying the section mark set last year.

Christensen took a second in the 100 meter hurdles at 17.1 with George sixth at 18.1

Ginny Greene ran second in the 400 meters at 62.3, in the 200 meters at 27.0 and in the 800 meters at 2:36. Greene also ran with Lake, George and Candi Marymee on the second-place 4x100 meter team. Siegel long-jumped 15-3 to take a second place.

Marymee placed third in the 100 meters in 13.2 and in the triple jump with a 32-11-1/2 leap. Siegel was fifth at 32-0. Christensen placed third in the 300 hurdles in 50.3 and fourth in the shot put at 30-7-1/2.

Julia Greene, a freshman, placed fourth in the 400 at 64.1 and in the 800 at 2:42.2. Marymee placed fourth in the 200 at 27.8. J. Greene took a sixth in the 100 at 13.3, Aimee Ambers was sixth in the shot at 29 feet, Knox took sixth in the 300 hur dles at 53.4. Rebecca Richert was sixth in discus at 83-11 and Brandy Cravens was sixth in the 3200 meters in 15:30.1.

Boys results:

East Nicolaus won the boys division with 98 points fol lowed in order by: Delta, 73; Modoc 64; Live Oak 54; Durham 47; Portola 32; Capital Christian 28; Trinity 27; Fall River 26; Pierce 15; Burney 10; Etna 8; Mt. Shasta 7; Weed 6.

Jeremy Favia led the Braves by winning the 200 meters in 24.4 and was on the winning 4x400 meter team.

Josh Keyes ran a 4:30.1 to take second in the 1600 meters. He also took a second in the 800 meters at 2:05.4. In both races he was just off the winning time. He became ill and didn't run the 3200 meters. He did qualify for the large school meet this week.

The 4x100 meter relay team of Duran, Cody Holloway, Wilson and Favia took a third place with a 46.5 time.

James Drennan was fifth in the shot at 39-9 1/2, Favia took a fifth in the 100 meters at 12.1 and Holloway was sixth at 12.1. Duran was fifth in the high jump at 5-8 and Carroll was sixth at 5-4. Carroll tied for fourth in the 400 meters at 54.0 and Wilson was sixth at 54.7. Jess Wills took a fifth in the pole vault at 9-6. Freshman Chris Lauppe was sixth at 9-6 and James Drennan took a sixth in the discus at 108-4-1/2.

JV girls results:

Team scores for the junior varsity girls were as follows: Durham 90; Portola 79; East Nicolaus 72; Mt. Shasta 54; Etna 54; Trinity 38; Modoc 29; Live Oak 29; Fall River 20; Pierce 8; Weed 1.

Billie Geldreich led the Modoc girls with wins in the 100 meter hurdles at 17.4 and in the 300 meter hurdles at 55.3. She set a new section record in the 100 meter hurdles, break ing the old mark of 17.6.

The 4x100 meter relay team of Christy Cartner, Amber Knauss, Susanna Wise and Geldreich placed third at 58.3. Cartner took a fifth in the triple jump at 25-11 and Knauss was fifth in the long jump at 12-2 1/4.

Cardinals dominate in small school's track championship

Big Valley was the domi nant school at the 1A Section Track Championships in Redding last Thursday. The boys team won easily, for the second year in a row, after scoring nearly twice as many points as second place Her long. The girls squad was a close second to Butte Valley. All in all, somebody for the Cardinals won 15 of the 32 events contested on the day.

Those who won events get to move on to the All-Division North Section Championships tomorrow at West Valley High in Redding. Including the relay teams, a grand total of 12 Big Valley athletes will compete.

We've never had a group this big go down for the meet," Cardinal coach Gary Bennett said. "It'll be a busy day. It's just an honor to go compete in it."

Boys Team: The Big Val ley boys posted 146 team points on the day. Their nearest competitor, Herlong, had 76.

Perhaps the biggest sur prise of the day was that sophomore West Breakfield won two events -- the pole vault and the 100 meters.

Just a couple of weeks ago, Bennett had entered Break field in the 100 at the Ever green League Meet hoping he would finish somewhere in the top five and get a couple of more points for the Cardinals. Breakfield ended up taking second and qualifying for Sectionals. In Redding he clocked an 11.42 to win the race.

Other individual champi ons on the day included Vance Bidwell in the 100 hur dles, Cameron McGarr in the 300 hurdles, Tim Valdez in the long jump and Russ Car penter in the shot put. Carpen ter's throw of 47 feet was more than seven feet longer than his nearest competitor, team mate Rendon Ellenberger.

The Cardinals also won both relays. The 4x100 team was Breakfield, Ellenberger, Heath Urey and Valdez. The 4x400 team was McGarr, Piere Reldin, Heath Urey and Reid Urey.

The Cardinals also picked up many points by having people place second through sixth. Valdez and Bidwell in particular were scoring points all over the place. Valdez was third in the 1600, second in the 200, and third in the high jump. Bidwell was second in the high jump and triple jump.

Other placers included: McGarr, third in the 100; Robert Haury, second in the 1600 and fifth in the 3200; Urey, fourth in the 400 and third in the 800; Ellenberger, second in the shot; Patrick McCauley, sixth in the long jump and Carpenter, fifth in the discus.

As for tomorrow's champi onships, after reviewing the top marks from the other North Section class championships, Bennett feels that Valdez may have a shot at winning in the long jump. His personal best leap of 22-0 is just three inches behind the top mark in the Section this year.

Girls Team: Jessica Saltzman, Ileah Jackson and Nicole Silva combined to earn over 100 points for the Cardi nals, but still ended up finish ing just behind Butte Valley by a score of 130-105.

Jackson pulled the Jesse Owens-Carl Lewis type feat of winning four events; the 100 hurdles, the 100 dash, the 400 and the long jump.

Saltzman won the high jump and tied a meet record in the triple jump with a mark of 35-8. Silva won the pole vault.

Saltzman and Silva also registered four second place finishes on the day, three of them behind Jackson. Saltz man was second in the 100 hurdles and 300 hurdles. Silva was second in the 100 and 400.

In this Friday's Open Di vision Meet, Bennett predicts that Jackson will be competi tive in her events but feels that Saltzman may have the best chance of winning an event in the high jump. Her per sonal best of 5-6 is the third best in the Section this year with the top mark being just one inch higher at 5-7.

Modoc girls dominate section sports scene

Modoc's varsity girls teams this year have dominated the Shasta Cascade League and the North Section California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) sports pic ture, and don't look for things to change much next year.

Modoc girls won this year's league and north section titles in Cross Country, Volleyball, Basketball, and Track and Field. The only sport they didn't win was soft ball. The girls only loss in the state basketball tourna ment was to eventual state champion Rincon Christian in the North State title game at Sacramento.

Last year, the girls won the section and league titles in volleyball, basketball and track and field.

With the core of those teams returning for next season, look for titles in at least three sports.

Think you're bad? Sign up now for Modoc's 3-3

The deadline to sign up of the Modoc 3-on-3 Basketball Championships is July 1. The tournament is scheduled July 5 in the Griswold Gym, following the Fandango Parade and the Great Pit River Duck Race.

There is a $30 entry fee per team, and teams may have four players. Three players will be on the court and sub stitutions will be allowed during dead balls. Sponsors are available for teams.

The age groups for the tourney are as follows: grades 1-3; grades 4-5; grades 6-8; grades 9-10; grades 11-12; and an open division.

Younger players can move up a division, but older play ers cannot move down.

The winning team in each division will receive half the division entry fee, plus winning t-shirts.

Games will be seven minute running halves with one minute halftime. There will be a five minute warm up pe riod.

For more information contact Rick Holloway at the Modoc Record, 233-2632. Fill out and mail in the entry form in this week's Record or call for registration forms.

JUNE SPORTS

Sports summaries for week of June 5, 1997

Ą Modoc thinclads wrap up season
Ą Card do well in section finals
Ą Plenty of Bull in Modoc
Ą Duck Race builds parks
Ą Get ready for Father's Day golf
Keyes is third, Harness fourth in Section finals

Modoc's Josh Keyes placed third and Stacy Harness fourth at the CIF North Section Finals in West Valley last Friday, capping off a good year for Modoc track. Only the winners of each event qualify for the state finals.

Modoc coach John Geldreich said the performances of Modoc's runners may have been hampered by the heat.

"Our kids are really tough, they run in snow, rain and cold, but the hot weather bothers us," said Geldreich. "It was hot in West Valley, but we did have some good performances and overall it was an excellent season."

Keyes took a third in the 1600 meters when he clocked a 4:31.53. The winner of the event, Ryan Wade of Central Valley, ran a 4:28.09. Keyes also took a sixth in the 800 me ters with a time of 2:14.06. The winning time was 1:59.2, run by Brian Nichols of Paradise.

Harness placed fourth in the 1600 meters clocking a 5:39.47. The winner was West Valley's Jenee Erickson, who ran a 5:23.65. Harness took a fourth in the 80 when she ran a 2:32.61. The winner, Nicole Ruff of Las Plumas, ran a 2:21.98.

Modoc's boys 4 x 400 meter relay team of Joe Duran, Jeremy Favia, Bill Wilson and Matt Carroll clocked a 3:34.06 to take sixth in the event. The winning team from Red Bluff ran a 3:25.84.

Modoc's Ginny Greene placed fifth in the 400 meters, running a 61.34. The winner, Heather Otter, Enterprise clocked a 58.85. Greene also took a fifth in the 220 by run ning a 26.94. The winning time of 25.61 was turned in by Macklin Harris of Enterprise.

Julia Greene, Harness, Kayte Christensen and Ginny Greene took a fifth in the 4x400 meter relay when they ran a 4:18.95. West Valley won the relay in 4:02.27.

Two freshmen girls did well competing at the varsity level. Andrea Knox took a fifth in the high jump by going 5-0. The winning jump was by Susan Schaap, Yreka, at 5-8. And Kate Burshem took fifth in the pole vault at 7-0. The winning vault was 10-0 by Traci Garmen of Yreka.

Cardinals shine at section meet

Big Valley had a good day at the CIF Northern Section Championships last Friday in Redding. Jessica Saltzman, Ileah Jackson and Wes Brakefield all managed to finish in the top three in their events and coach Gary Ben nett was named the 1997 Boys Honored Coach.

However, it was also somewhat of a frustrating day for the Cardinals since only the winner of the section gets to go on to the State Meet. Therefore, no Big Valley ath lete will be at the State Meet. That's not unheard of, but it is unusual since the Cardinals have had Section winners in four of the last six years.

Saltzman, a senior, had gone to State the last two years as the North State's best in the high jump. Saltzman was unable to equal her personal best of 5-6. Even if she had, it might not have mattered since Susan Schapp of Yreka regis tered a 5-8, higher than any body had cleared in the Sec tion this year. Saltzman wound up second with a leap of 5-4. She also took sixth in the triple jump with a mark of 35-0.

Jackson, a sophomore, grabbed a second in the long jump with a personal best of 17-1 and one-quarter. Mack lin Harris of Enterprise launched herself 18-7 to take the title. Jackson also took fourth in the 100 high hurdles with a time of 16.15.

Brakefield, also a soph, took a third in the pole vault at 12-6. Another BV soph-vaulter, Nichole Silva, was sixth in the girls pole vault.

Tim Valdez was sixth in the boys long jump at 21-1.

Bulls, cowboys get it on in Cedarville June 21

Don't miss the Modoc Super Bull June 21 at the Modoc County fairgrounds Arena is Cedarville. It's going to be ex citing.

The Modoc Super Bull will be a Wrangler Pro Bull Riders affiliated event and should attract some of the top pro bull riders in the region.

Bull riding will start at 7 p.m. June 21. Tickets are $10 each with children six and under free. Tickets are available at Arreche Enterprises, Pages Market or Western Irrigation in Cedarville; L&B Ranch Supply and Jay's Mens Store in Alturas. For tickets or more information call 916-279-2272.

In addition to the bull riding, fans can "purchase" a bull in competition at $135 with the chance of winning $1,225 if the bull places first.

A $7,000 purse will be the big drawing card for the riders and there is a 35 rider limit. They'll all compete in the long go round and the top eight will move to the short go. Prize money will be paid to the top four in each round as well as the four average winners.

Some of the top bullriders in the west will be on hand to try their skills in this first-time Modoc event.

Work moving along on new ball parks at the Youth Park

Plans and drawings are in the works for construction of the new ballfields at the Youth Park, and things are moving along well even if they're not visible.

The city has agreed to help fund part of the planning costs, including an aerial photograph of the city block, which will be used in the overall en gineering design.

Alturas Rotary Club repre sentatives and County Planner Scott Kessler and Engineer Kip Lybarger are currently working out the de tails for the plan. Ed Disario will draw up the plans and once the details are in, actual construction will begin in earnest.

"It's important that people realize this project is long term and will be done in phases," said Rotary's Roger Dorris. "This year our plans are to get the sprinklers in and grass planted. Next year we'll get fencing and bleach ers and so on."

Dorris said the main water line will be installed in the very near future and pre lim inary ground work will also start soon. Odds are there are still some large concrete foot ings in the fields, which once held up the Alturas Rodeo Arena grandstands. Those footings must be found and removed before land leveling starts.

The construction phase of the ballparks got a slowdown last month when the City of Alturas ordered a drainage and grading plan on the area. The City then decided to get involved with the project by funding a portion of the plan ning costs from its Community Projects fund. The County of Modoc is also getting involved in the pro ject, since the parks are used by kids from throughout the county.

The new ballfields and parks are being constructed with funding raised from the Great Pit River Duck Race. Last year the first Duck Race raised over $30,000 for the pro ject and ticket sales for this year's July 5 race are going well. Rotary hopes to raise at least $30,000 more this time around. According to Rotary's Billy Madison, more than half the tickets have been sold.

The grand prize for the Duck Race, a 1997 full size Chevy 4x4, three-door pickup is parked north of Plumas Bank on Main Street.

Arrowhead set for Father's Day event

The annual Father's Day Golf Tournament will be held at Arrowhead Golf Course in Alturas , June 15, with an 11 a.m. tee-time.

The event is sponsored by the Arrowhead Ladies Club. Men play for free in the tour ney and women have a $10 fee. Tournament golfers have dinner free that night with non-golfers paying $5.

The tournament is a scratch and scramble affair with four places guaranteed, There will also be awards for men and women for closest to the pin, accuracy drive and other various tests of skill.

Sign up at the Arrowhead Clubhouse or call 233-3404 to register.

Men's Club meets

The Men's Club meeting and dinner will be held June 17, 7 p.m. at the Arrowhead clubhouse. The topic for the evening will be the Men's Club Invitational.

Register for the meeting at the clubhouse.

Record sports summaries June 12, 1997

Summer camps need some players
Local kids in Cal-high rodeo finals
Junior shows goes along in rain

Hurry to sign up for summer sport camps
Kids interested in basketball and volleyball camps through Lassen College must sign up by Friday, June 13, 5 p.m.

The basketball camp meets 6 to 9 p.m. at the Modoc High School Gym, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays with Modoc High School head basketball coach Lane Bates as the instructor. The emphasis is on less than full court games and is open for students grades nine through 12. Fee for the camp is $16.50.

The co-ed volleyball camp meets Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Modoc High Gym with head volleyball coach Harold Montague instructing. Volleyball skill improvement is the emphasis. Fee for the camp is $11.

Registration will remain open for Shaun Wood's weight training class for ages nine through adult. The class meets Monday through Thursday, 6 to 8 p.m. at the weight room at Modoc High School. Emphasis is on total body conditioning. The fee is $16.50.

Registration is also open through July 25 for the soccer camp, which runs July 21 through July 25 in Modoc. The camp is open to separate divisions of kids ages six to 12 and ages 13 to 17. Joe Arminas of Lassen College is the instructor. Fee for the camp is $25 and includes a t-shirt and soccer ball.

According to New Directors Director Ramona Delmas, an art camp is in the planning stages for this summer, and more details will be released at a later date.

Other activities available for youth this summer in clude: the Library summer reading program from June 9 through August 15, call Chris at 233-6358; Blue Lake Youth Camp, 7th and 8th grade, July 21-25; 5th and 6th grades, July 28-Aug.1, call Joan Barclay 233-3355; Summer Bible School, call 233-2015 or 233-2251; Womens' Slowpitch soft ball, grades ninth and up, Call Susie Philpott. 233-5801; 3-on-3 basketball tourney July 5, all ages, call Rick Holloway, 233-2632; junior bowling, call Deanna Olsen, 233-3012. Jazzercise, call Kimber Bethel, 233-2824; model building and ceramics, call Lucy's Ceramics, 233-6789; American Cancer Society, run, bike, rollerblade, horse back ride, walk-a-thon, July 26, 8 Am.. Alturas City Park. Call Jay Eppler, 233-4686.

For more information on youth activities this summer, or to help, call the Peer Project at 233-7124.

Cal State rodeo finals has local kids

Several local competitors will be competing in the California High School Rodeo Association State Finals June 16-21 in Red Bluff.

Cedarville's Nathan Moore will compete in bareback rid ing and Zack Bunyard will be in the saddle bronc event. Also in the saddle bronc is Spencer Smith of Ft. Bidwell. Jenifer Lemke, Adin, will compete in pole bending.

The top four winners in each event qualify for the National High School Rodeo finals in Pueblo, Co. July 14-20. The Silver State International Rodeo is set for Fallon, Nevada, July 2-6, for fifth through eighth place finishers.

Sunny attitudes prevail despite stormy weather

The 49th Annual Modoc Jr. Livestock Show and Sale started off with lots of rain, but nasty weather didn't discour age the dedicated 4-H and FFA showmen.

Despite the heave rain, members turned out for the horse show Monday and can be commended for their fine attitudes and performance.

For the Performance divi sion the following individu als took home buckles and a trophy: Laurie Nelson (Senior) from Big Valley, Elizabeth (Junior) of Alturas, and Andrew Ford (Novice) of Alturas.

The two Gymkhana buck les were awarded to the Cock rell sisters of Surprise Val ley. Cassie Cockrell won the Senior buckle and Ashley Cockrell earned the Junior buckle.

In the Showmanship divi sion the winners were: An drea Colesworthy - Senior 4-H, Corey McBride - Junior 4-H and Wade Frutuozo - Novice 4-H.

Tuesday the weather held nicely until everyone was loading their rabbits in their vehicles to go home. The day moved along quickly with members starting the morn ing off with the market classes.

Casey Joiner of Lookout 4-H won the Grand Champion Fryer Pen with Ashley Thompson of Bieber 4-H win ning Reserve Champion. Courtney Wood of Providence 4-H earned Grand Champion Single Fryer with Michael Bates of New Pioneer 4-H tak ing home Reserve Champion.

Earning Best of Show was Candy Stevenson of Provi dence 4-H and Reserve in Show and High Point went to Ashley Thompson of Bieber 4-H.

Showmanship awards went to Andrea Colesworthy - FFA; Candy Stevenson - Senior 4-H; Shannon Ochs - Junior 4-H; and Ashley Thompson - Novice 4-H. "Congratula tions to all the members, lead ers, parents and Junior Show Board members for all their hard work in keeping the show running smoothly," of fers Valerie Coe, 4-H County Advisor.

On Thursday members will show their animals in market and breeding classes and on Friday the show will conclude with showmanship, the barbecue, an awards cer emony and then the Sale at 5:30 p.m.

Record news summaries, June 26, 1997 edition

Ą City street repairs are reality
Ą Lion sighted in ranch back yard
Ą Modoc Elk tour is this weekend
Ą Duck race ducks swimming quickly
City Street project split, bid awarded for start

The repair of Alturas City Streets has been split into two phases because of some difficulties with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) guidelines.

According to City Public Works Director Stacy Chase, bids for the first phase of the project were awarded to Hutchins Paving and Engineering, Inc. Wednesday morn ing in the amount of $1,209,599. That phase covers flood damage from winter storms of 1993 and 1995. The city re ceived three bids for the project, from J.F. Shea, Fitch Sand and Gravel and Hutchins Paving and Engineering.

Construction on phase one of the repair project is to start July 25 and is to be completed by October 17.

"Due to some technical difficulties with the FEMA, the re pairs have had to be split into two phases," said Chase. "The first phase will be to repair all the streets that are to be scari fied and overlaid. This is approximately 75 percent of the re pairs. The second phase will be the streets that are planned for overlay only. Individuals desiring to know if their street is in the first phase to be completed this summer, or the sec ond phase of the project should contact the public works de partment at 233-2377."

According to Chase, the project was split into phases be cause of conditions imposed by FEMA. FEMA's conditions, said Chase, were too costly for the city to undertake. The city is appealing the conditions and requesting that FEMA either pay the additional costs created or allow the city to proceed in a manner that the city believes is acceptable.

"The appeal process will take a considerable amount of time," said Chase. "Rather than delay the repair of all the streets, the city decided to proceed with part of the repairs now and the remainder in the summer of 1998."

Young lion sighted southeast of Alturas

Mary Gilmore is still a little shaky during the night after seeing a mountain lion in her backyard last Saturday about midnight. Gilmore resides on a ranch about five miles southeast of Alturas, a couple miles south of the Modoc National Wildlife reuge.

Gilmore's sighting comes just after a sighting of a cat at California Pines Lodge last week that attacked a man as he went to the trash area. The man Nick Shadursky, was not seriously hurt,.

Mountain lion teams were called in to investigate the California Pines incident and while they found no conclu sive evidence of a lion or the individual lion, they did not doubt the incident took place. The DFG reminds area resi dents to be careful. The DFG spent a day traversing the Cal Pines area and interviewed Shadursky, who recounted the same story he'd told the Record and DFG Warden Cal Albright earlier.

For Gilmore, the sight of a mountain lion in her back yard last Saturday was an unnerving experience.

She said she was in bed and heard her yellow lab barking outside. She went to look, but didn't see anything. But when she returned to the bedroom, the lab starting growling with more intensity. She looked out the bathroom window and saw what she first thought was a dog, but as it moved, very deliberately toward her porch, she saw it was a lion.

"It was obvious to me that the lion and the dog were star ing at each other," said Gilmore. "It was moving very delib er ately towards my back porch. It actually got to within 12 feet of the porch. The dog took off for the front door."

Gilmore said she turned and called to her husband, but by the time she turned around again, the lion had disappeared.

"I was shaken, and I think I shook all night," said Gilmore. "I know I didn't get much sleep, and I still am a little nervous at night. I'd never seen a mountain lion in the wild before."

Gilmore figures the lion was rather young, as compared to lions she has seen in zoos and so on. The lion involved with Shadursky at Cal Pines was also considered a young ani mal.

"My husband has warned me about hiking alone up around the rim rock," said Gilmore. "I thought he was just being over protective, but I take him a lot more seriously now."

The DFG advises people to be aware that there are moun tain lions in this area and that they may very well be becom ing less fearful of human contact.

Modoc Elk group takes a look at the herd habitat

The success of Rocky Mountain Elk herds in Modoc is spawning some real interest from the public, and the overall management is one of key issues.

Elk have established themselves in the Fandango Pass area in the Warner Mountains, the Crowder Mountain Area on Devil's Garden and the Egg Lake area near Lookout. While exact numbers aren't known, more than 250 elk are felt to be in the county on a permanent basis.

The Modoc Elk Working Group is holding an Elk Day, Saturday June 28 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the public is invited and en couraged to attend.

The tour will meet at the Davis Creek Grange Hall, 9:30 a.m. and then car pool to tour elk habitat. The tour returns to Davis Creek mid-afternoon for a barbecue and dis cussion. Items to be discussed include ra dio/telemetry studies, sea son migrations, benefits of elk and other wildlife on private lands, elk/livestock use of winter range, elk/livestock use of private lands and elk impacts to private lands.

Areas the tour will hit include Lassen Creek, Little Bear Valley, Fandango Valley, and the Cloud property.

According to Tom Ratcliff, U.S. Forest Service Biologist, these elk have been in Modoc County since the mid-1970s but sight ings then were usu ally single animals or very small groups. The sightings were spo radic, usually one or two an nually.

California Fish and Game and Modoc National Forest personnel recently com bined sightings data bases and since 1990 over 200 sightings have been made in the county. Elk are being seen more fre quently and in larger groups these days.

According to reports, in March, 1997, 50 head of bulls, cows and calves were seen in a large group. Several sight ings of over 20 head of elk have been recorded in the past five years.

According to Ratcliff, sightings of bulls, cows and calves indicate resident ani mals, not just random wan derings of a few elk. Sightings are also accumulat ing to indicate a year-round occupancy of several areas within the county. There have been winter sightings in the Fandango Valley-Lassen Creek drainage in the Warner Mountains and on private lands thereabouts; winter and early spring sightings in the Crowder Mountain-Fletcher Creek vicinity on Devil's Garden. Another group of elk is less fre quently sighted, but is known to be very ac tive in the Egg Lake area north of Lookout. In that area, more than 30 elk have been sighted, including bulls, cows and calves.

In 1992-94, California DFG and Modoc National Forest personnel cooperated with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Prescott College from Arizona, in doc u ment ing movements and habitat use by five radio-col lared elk in the Fandango-Lassen Creek area. Extensive sight ings indicate a pattern of year-round use in that area and studies are continuing to document habitat preference, movement patterns and pre ferred habitat.

Ratcliff said the Modoc area is well suited for elk and the groups seem to be thriving.

There are some anticipated management situations that will come into play as the elk herd grows. In an effort to meet the situation head-on, a local group of agency, private and local governments people meet about every three months, or more often if needed, to share elk informa tion. The Elk Working Group is part of the national Seeking Common Ground working group and tries to address issues prior to crisis. The working group will be the leader of the Elk Day Saturday.

Ratcliff believes the elk are here to stay and will do well in the county as they con tinue a south ward move.

For more information on the tour, call 233--6400.

Get tick ets quick or the quackers may be a memory

The Alturas Rotary Club is out to sell the final 500 racing ducks for the Great Pit River Duck race set July 5 during Fandango Days on the Pit River in Alturas. And the ducks are finding homes quicker than duck l'orange in France.

According to Rotary's Billy Madison, duck sales are go ing great guns and Rotary is nearing the 3,000 total ducks sold. Madison said Rotary is extremely pleased with the amount of support shown by the community towards im prov ing youth facilities. Once the 3,000 ducks are sold, that's it, there are no more.

New ballfields and parks are being constructed at the Alturas Youth Park with funding raised from the duck race. Last year the first Duck Race raised over $30,000 for the pro ject and ticket sales for this year's race should near that to tal. The total price for needed improvements to the Youth Park is estimated at about $100,000 and the Duck Race funds are all ear marked for that purpose.

"I think things are going along very well and we can't express our appreciation loudly enough to the commu nity of Modoc for its support," said Madison. "We are ex cited about this effort, but it's all made possible through the communi ty's generosity and the community has once again proven it supports its youth. We just need to sell the remaining ducks and we're working on that as we speak."

Racing ducks are still available but going quickly. In addition, there are Duck Race souvenirs available at the Alturas Chamber of Commerce Office in Veteran's Park. Those sou venirs include ducks, t-shirts and Frisbees.

The grand prize for the Duck Race, a 1997 full size Chevy 4x4, on display at Holiday Market. It has a re tail value of over $31,000.

The pickup is donated by Rotary and supported by Carstens Chevrolet. The first little yellow duck across the line wins the truck.

Something new this year is a category for Gold Crown Sponsors. Those are folks who buy at least 10 ducks.

Gold Crown Sponsors will have a little more incentive to buy the 10 ducks. Offered as a special prize for Gold Crown Sponsors only is a $6,000 4x4 Polaris four-wheeler donated by Rotary and supported by Valley Hardware of Fall River. That 4-wheeler is on display at Alturas Tire.

The Gold Crown sponsors will get a special blue duck in addition to their 10 yellow rac ing ducks. The blue ducks will be dropped into the Pit River with the yellow ducks and the first blue duck across the line wins the 4-wheeler. The blue ducks do not qualify for any of the other prizes and the 4-wheeler can only be won by a blue duck.

Alturas Rotary figures it will take about $100,000 to com plete the park, and they are well on their way to that goal. This year's Duck Race funding will be combined with money raised from pre vious Youth Park Radio Auctions.

The plan to build the parks started in the late 1980s. In June, 1991, the City Council of ficially designated the area for baseball and soccer fields. The new parks will complete the entire block between Fourth and Eighth, West C and Nagle Streets.

Final plans for the area in clude new baseball fields for Little League, a new baseball field for senior league and high school ball, and soccer field areas in the outfield of the baseball fields. The area currently has one Senior League field, one Little League field, one Softball field, an outdoor basketball court, concession stands and restrooms and the junior livestock facilities. Somewhere down the line a play ground near the basket ball courts is in the works.

JULY SPORTS

Record sports summaries 7-3-97 edition

Modoc hosts Little League district tourney
Modoc Little League to
host District tournament

Modoc County Little League is hosting the District 48 Junior and Senior All Star tourney July 7 through July 14 in Alturas. Modoc's Senior All-Stars will play in the first game of the tournament against Intermountain 5 p.m. July 7.
The teams involved in the senior league tournament are Quincy, Susanville, Burney, Westwood and Feather River of Portola. All of those games will be played at the senior field at the corner of 8th and West C Streets.

Games will begin at 5 p.m. weekdays and at 11 a.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.

Modoc and Susanville are the only teams in the junior tournament for 13-year-old players. It begins Saturday July 12 and is the first game of a triple header. Sunday the junior stars will play the first game of the day at 1 p.m. If the teams have split the first two games, a final game will be played Sunday at 3:30 p.m..

Both tournaments are double elimination, meaning two loses is disqualification. The championship game for the senior tournament will either be on July 14 or 15.

The winner of the junior title will advance to section play in Marysville and the winner of the senior title heads to sections at Arcata.

The local major league baseball All-Stars will play in McArthur with their first game on July 8 against the win ner of the Burney-Intermountain game.

Both the major and senior softball All-Star teams will play in Burney. Both teams will play their first game against Feather River. .

The majors softball team has its first game on July 11 at 5:30 p.m.

The public is invited to attend the local tourna ments. There will be at least 16 games throughout the week, with eight senior teams and two junior teams competing for the right to ad vance to sectional play.

3-3 hoop tourney is Saturday

The Modoc 3-on-3 basket ball championships are set for 2:30 p.m Saturday afternoon at the Griswold Gym, follow ing the Great Pit River Duck race.

The actual starting time may be a little later, depend ing upon what time the Duck Race ends.

Teams have signed up and there will be games for teams in grades 1-3; 4-5; 6-8; 9-10; 11-12 and the open divi sion. The open division has the most teams with some out standing local basketball players participating.

Admission to the event is free. Teams paid a $30 entry fee, of which the winning team per division gets half and the remaining funds go to the Modoc High School Basketball program.

Sunday is Fandango Golf event

Sunday, July 6, is the day to set aside for a fun day of golf as Arrowhead Golf Course hosts the annual Fandango Golf Tournament.

There are divisions in gross, net and Calloway divi sions so an established handicap is not necessary. The entry fee for the event is $15 and 25 percent of the proceeds go to the hospital benefit for a new X-ray machine.

There is a $7 additional fee for non-members of the club. The tee-time is 9 a.m. All golfers are encouraged to play.

Keyes trots 40 miles Tuesday

Alturas' Josh Keyes, Modoc High School's top male dis tance runner, trotted 40 miles Tuesday in a fund raising ef fort to pay for track camps.

Keyes earned enough to pay for his camps after getting pledges from local organiza tions, folks and businesses.

Keyes ran from Alturas to Likely and back. Modoc Middle School runner Ricky Scott accompanied Keyes and ran 28 miles. For Keyes, the entire 40 miles took a little over six hours. His feet were sorely blistered, but on Wednesday he was walking around collecting on his pledges still smil ing, so it wasn't too bad.

Record sports summaries edition of July 10

Ą Modoc All stars start play
Ą 3-on-3 winner were hot
Ą 4-way tie in Fandango Golf
Ą Russell sets speedway record
Modoc Little League All Stars began play this week with the Senior and major baseball teams seeing action against the Intermountain All Stars.

The Senior Baseball All Stars beat Intermountain 9 to 5 behind the strong pitching of Blake Wilson. Wilson pitched 5 innings and struck out seven Intermountain bat ters. Modoc had 14 hits in the game with David Duncan and Kris Server going 3 for 4, and Anthony Northrup was 2 for 4.

The Major Baseball All Stars beat Intermountain 10 to 1. Jack Britton pitched a com plete game striking out 6 In termountain batters. Key hits were provided by Robert Flournoy with a 2 run double, Logan Wilson with a 2 run double, and Shay Farmer had a 2 run single. The Major All Stars played their second game Wednesday.

The Senior Baseball All Stars are back in action today against a strong Susanville squad. The game begins at 5 p.m. at the Senior baseball field.

The Senior Softball All Stars are in action today against Feather River in Burney. The Major Softball All Stars play their first game Friday against Feather River in Burney.

Saturday there will be three games at our Senior baseball field with the Modoc Junior Baseball All Stars starting off the day at 1 a.m. against Su sanville.

Close games mark 3 on 3 hoop tourney

Several close games marked the first Modoc 3-on-3 Basketball Championships held July 5 at the Griswold Gym in Alturas.

There were 21 teams competing in the event in several di visions, with seven teams in the open division for men. The event is expected to grow next year and it will be held on the Saturday of the Fandango (July 4th) weekend.

Winners of the open division was the team of Shane Estes, Collin Richardson, Zack Richardson and Brian Slinkard. The beat the team of Ricky Simmons, Calvin Albright and Lawrence Harlan for the title.

In the 9-10 grade boys, the team of Cody Holloway, Kaylon Benson and Aaron Wishart won the title in two straight over Glenn Christensen, Kris Server and Ramon Molina.

In the 9-10 grade girls, a Susanville squad of Tatum Dunn, Ashley Stanford, Rene Robbins and Christine Urbanac topped an Alturas team of Jessica Kern, Stephanie McMasters, Katelyn Tate and Michelle Wheeler winning the best of three, 2-1.

A Susanville team of Tanneria Johnson, Tenley DeKock, Karen Kalfas and Haley Trevino won the 6-8 grade girls, beating an Alturas team of Stacie Wells, Shay Farmer, Jodie Freeman, and Charlene Roberts.

The team of Matt Krauel, Blake Thorn and Eric Miller won the 6-8 grade boys division.

The team of Micah Eppler, Justin Mason and Travis Wood topped three other teams in the grades 1-3 boys for the win.

Fandango golf ends in tie

There was a four-way tie for low net at 63 in the Fandango Days golf tournament at Arrowhead Golf Course.

The winners were Jim Porter, Fritz Barclay, Rex Northrup and Tom Orner.

Taking second with a 65 was Larry Flournoy and third in low net went to Monty Wheeler with a 66.

The loss gross winners, Earl Lovenguth and Millard Porter, tied with a score of 75.

The women's winner with a 68 net was Pat Kerr. The Calloway division winner was Phil Gloster.

Men's club meets

The Arrowhead Men's Club will meet July 15. The agenda includes the Spyglass qualification and the tourna ment with Lakeview. Sign up at the clubhouse if you plan to have dinner.

The Arrowhead Invitational will be held September 5-7 and is limited to the first 32 paid teams. Entry fee is $200 per team. The fee includes practice round Friday, green fees, honeypot on Sunday, refreshments on the course, mulligans each day and a banquet Saturday night.

Russell sets new track record at Cedarville

Alturas' Gordon Russell pushed his number 68 stock car to a new track record for the Cedarville Speedway, cir cling the oval in 20.75 seconds during the Fandango Races July 7.

The next race is July 19 with gates opening at 5 p.m., time trials at 6 p.m. and rac ing starts at 7 p.m.

Russell also won the A tro phy dash, over Doug Fletcher and Gene Cain.

Walt Vanderheyden won the B trophy dash over Kelly Nolan and Curtis Leslie.

Cain won the A main with Russell second and Fletcher, third. Vanderheyden won the B main with Leslie second and Danny Northrup, third.

In the heat races, the results were as follows: heat one, 1. Zach Bunyard, 2. Curtis Leslie, 3. Danny Northrup; heat two, 1. Vanderheyden,2. Blaine Hill, 3. Nolan; heat three, 1. Russell, 2. Fletcher, 3. Cain; Pitman's Race, 1. Fudd Russell, 2. Rick Breeze.

Record sports summaries for July 17 issue

Modoc All-stars do well in tournament
Colleges have eyes on Modoc's hoopsters
Autop to roar in Cedarville Saturday

Senior stars . . .
MODOC'S SENIOR STARS made it to the championship game of the District 48 tournament before being eliminated by a strong Susanville squad. They are, front, left to right, Anthony Northrup, Brandon Wood, Kris Server, Ramon Molina, C.J. Straub, David Duncan; back, coach Brad Server, Aaron Ford, Mike Northrup, Glenn Christensen, Lucas Tramontanas, Kaylon Benson, Blake Wilson and coach Dave Duncan.

Modoc Junior Stars in Sec tions

Modoc's Junior baseball All-Stars advance to Section play this Saturday, July 19 at 6 p.m. at Bryant's Field in Marysville. The Junior base ball team beat the Susanville All-Stars in two games to win the District 48 Championship.

In the first game the Modoc Juniors beat Susanville in eight innings, 10-9, when Danny Cervantes scored on a wild pitch. The second game was won by Modoc 7-3 with Sheldon Benson pitching the whole game and supported by excellent defense.

The Senior baseball All-Stars reached the champi onship game, but came up short against a strong Su sanville squad losing 14-0. The Senior All-Stars beat Westwood 17-7 Feather River 6-03 and Burney 10-7 in a thriller on their way to the championship game. The Burney game went eight in nings with both teams coming up with key hits and defensive plays. The highlight for Modoc was Anthony Northrup's game saving div ing catch in short centerfield.

The Major baseball All-Stars also reached the cham pionship game before losing to Quincy 13-3. Modoc beat Su sanville 4-0 on their march through the tournament. Modoc scored all four runs in the first inning and then played tough defense support ing Logan Wilson who pitched the whole game. Modoc knocked Burney out of the tournament in an eight inning battle. Robby Rupe got the winning run with a home run in the eighth. Robert Flournoy and Jack Britton also hit homeruns in the game.

The Senior softball All-Stars lost their first game to Feather River, 16-9 after ral lying to pull within one run in the sixth inning. Modoc was knocked out of the tournament by a good Quincy team losing 10-8 in their second game.

The Major softball All-Stars lost to Feather River in their two tournament games, 14-3 and 20-10. Modoc played well, but was unable to keep pace with the Feather River squad.

Colleges have eyes on Modoc High's Christensen, Kern

Modoc's girls playing on the Sierra Cascaders summer basketball team are getting plenty of serious notice from college coaches throughout the nation, according to Modoc head girls coach Mike Martin.

Martin and Westwood's Jeff Miller coach the Sierra Cascaders which includes Modoc's Kayte Christensen, Jennifer Kern, Leah Siegel and Andrea Knox. Siegel in jured her elbow and will miss the last couple of tourna ments.

Last week the team participated in a 64-team tourna ment in Oregon City, and came away winning three and losing just two games against some powerful ballclubs.

Martin said, for example, that teams in their 32 team bracket came from Virginia, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Pennsylvania, California, Oregon, Utah, Minnesota, Idaho and Alberta, Canada.

"It was impressive and our girls played really well," said Martin. "Most of the top 10 high school senior recruits for next season were there. And Kayte is definitely going to be one of the top 10 recruits nationwide. She impressed the college coaches and scouts there."

Martin said Kern also got plenty of attention from ma jor college coaches and scouts and both girls will be highly recruited.

"Kayte had an outstanding tournament and played the best five games I've seen her play," aid Martin. "Jennifer had three really good games, and played fine the other two. It was exciting, and I tell you, they got people's atten tion. Coaches were stopping me to ask about them after ev ery game."

The Sierra Cascaders head to Sacramento today for a 56-team tournament over four days and on Monday go to University of San Francisco for a 72-team tournament for another four days. They'll play 14 games in eight days.

"We're in the big time and it's very exciting for us as well as the girls," said Martin. "We'll be seeing and playing against the best high school ballplayers in the nation, and our kids are right there."

Stockhorse Jubilee celebrates 14th year

The 14th annual Masten Ramsey Stockhorse Jubilee hopes to attract crowds Fri day through Sunday, July 18, 19 and 20 at the Junior Live stock Grounds in Alturas for the three-day event.

Sponsored by the Alturas Elks Lodge 1756 as a benefit for the developmentally challenged of Modoc County, the event draws horses and owners from a tri-state area, including Nevada, Oregon, Idaho as well as California.

This year's purse and prizes will total $25,000 to be given away along with 22 silver buckles. A silver bit and headstall will be warded to the high money winner.

Classes will include trail horse, equitation, gymkhana, sorting, stock horse, three-person team events; Western Pleasure, Dummy Roping for chil dren; mixed team brand ing, women's penning, ranch horse class, double mug ging, mixed team branding, junior penning, cutting and open penning.

Concessions will be available during the three-day event. The M bar P Horsemanship for the Chal lenged will offer a Tack Sale in a booth to be located between the arenas on Sat ur day morning starting at 8:00 a.m. Spectating is wel comed. For further informa tion please call (916) 233-4967 (eves) or 233-5888 or 233-3471.

Auto races Saturday night

Saturday night's all right for racing and that's just fine for the Modoc Street Stocks, who will race beginning at 6:30 p.m.

The Modoc Fairgrounds Speedway gates in Cedarville open at 5:30 p.m. with time trials at 6:30 and racing be gins at 7:30 p.m.

Admission is free for kids six and under and $3 for se niors and kids 7 thorugh 13. Adult admission is $5.

Record sports summaries for July 24 issue:

Ą Modoc junior stars eliminated
Ą Football players need to get physicals
Ą Sheepdog trials at the Fair
Ą MHA Horse Show a real workout
Junior ball stars eliminated

Modoc Junior Boys All-star team of 13-year-olds was eliminated in the regional tournament last week.

They lost to Chico Central in the first game 19-14, after spotting Chico 17 runs in the first inning. Modoc outscored Chico 10-2 the rest of the way, but it was too much too early.

McKinleyville whipped Modoc 20-5 in the second game to drop the Modoc boys from the tournament. The score was 6-3 at one point, but the Modoc pitching cooled and McKinleyville's hitters got hot.

Brave football gearing up

Modoc High School students planning to play football for the 1997 season should schedule physicals in the very near future, said Modoc Coach Shaun Wood.

Players must have physicals and sports cards filled out and turned in before they are allowed to practice. Practice will start August 11, 6 p.m. Pick up necessary cards and forms from Modoc High School.

Varsity gear handout will be August 8, 5 to 7 p.m. and ju nior varsity gear handout will be August 9, 2 to 4 p.m.

Practice times from August 11 until school starts is 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. School starts August 25 and practice will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The first varsity game is at Burns August 29. The junior varsity's first game is at Lakeview Sept. 5.

Sheep Dog Trails to be held at Fair

The Seventh Annual Mark Walgenbach Sheep Dog Trials will be held in the Modoc Fair arena, Cedarville on Thursday, August 14 at 7 p.m.

The trials consist of two classes, Novice/Novice, which is a dog that has never shown with the handler being able to help the dog; the Novice/Ranch is an experienced dog that is expected to handle sheep alone. It is a timed event where the dog handles three sheep. The dog moves the sheep across several gates, moves the sheep down a chute where they are penned.

Points are given for each step the dog successfully completes. A buckle will be given for each Champion Dog, along with trophies and ribbons. A special ribbon will be given to the dog with slowest points, reading "Baaad Dog".

Interested dog handlers may enter the day of the show at the Livestock Office or call the Fair Office 279-2315 for an application.

Sara Junker is big winner at MHA Show

Many, many, hours of do nated time went into making the Modoc Horseman's Asso ciation three-day Horse Show and Gymkana Show a success at the Junior Livestock Show grounds in Alturas on July 11, 12 and 13th.

Friday was "Gymkana" day, Saturday featured "Western" event and Sunday was devoted to English classes. Alan Cain was the announcer, Gilbert Brown managed the "In" gate and the M Bar P organization was in charge of the concession stand.

Sara Junker and her horse Reveille Bar Smoke were the big winners of this three day event capturing first place in six High Point Divisions (Age group 13 through 17 years, Junior Horse under 5 years, English Horse/Rider, Western Horse/Rider, M.H.A. Horse/Rider, and Overall High Point Horse/Rider.) These accom plishments for Sara and her horse were quite an accom plishment as she is only 14 years of age and was compet ing against adults. Also, Reveille Bar Smoke is only four years old.

Pat Weekly of Lakeview riding Easy Chex won the High Point Division of the over 18 Age Group. Pat also won the Reserve Overall High Point Horse/Rider. Deidra Jeppson of Adin riding Crackers won the High Point Division of the 12 and Under Age Group.

Gymkana event placing:

Cloverleaf Barrels 10 & under: 1st, Jessica Hemphill/Junior; 2nd, Kayla Metzger/Lightning; 3rd, Kendra Hemphill/Shawna.

Cloverleaf Barrels 11 - 17: 1st, Jamie Harris/Baby Doc Smoke; 2nd, Jodie Jones/ Little Bit of Country; 3rd, Sara Junker/Zan.

Cloverleaf Barrels 18 & over: 1st, Wendy Easley/Ms. T; 2nd, Laurie Veverka/Doc Dartanian.

Cloverleaf Barrels (Winner take all): Rhonda Hemphill/Newt.

Pole Bending 10 & under: 1st, Jessica Hemphill/Junior; 2nd, Kendra Hemphill/ Shawna; 3rd, Jackson Nay/ Suzy.

Pole Bending 11 - 17: 1st, Jodie Jones/Little Bit of Country; 2nd, Jes sica Nay/Shady; 3rd, Sara Junker/Zan.

Pole Bending 18 & over: 1st, Laurie Veverka/Doc Dar tanian; 2nd, Wendy Easley/Ms. T; 3rd, Wendy Easley/Cheyanne.

Pole Bending Jackpot (Winner take all): Rhonda Hemphill/Newt.

Bi-Rangle 10 & under: 1st, Jes sica Hemphill/Junior; 2nd, Kendra Hemphill/Shawna; 3rd Kayla Met zger/Lightning.

Bi-Rangle 11 - 17: 1st, Jami Har ris/Baby Doc Smoke, 2nd, Sara Junker/Zan; 3rd, Jodie Jones/Little Bit of Country.

Bi-Rangle 18 & over: 1st Laurie Veverka/Doc Darta nian; 2nd, Wendy Easley/Cheyanne.

Single Stake 10 & under: 1st, Jessica Hemphill/Junior; 2nd, Kayla Met zger/Lightning; 3rd, Kendra Hemphill/Shawna.

Single Stake 11 - 17: 1st, Sara Junker/Zan; 2nd, Jami Harris/Baby Doc Smoke; 3rd, Jessica Nay/Shady.

Single Stake 18 & over: 1st, Wendy Easley/Ms. T; 2nd, Laurie Vev erka/Doc Dartanian.

Potato Race 10 & under: 1st, Jessica Hemphill/Buckwheat; 2nd, Jackson Nay/Suzy; 3rd Jes sica Hemphill/Junior.

Potato Race 11 - 17: 1st, Jodie Jones/Little Bit of Country; 2nd Jes sica Nay/Shady.

Potato Race 18 & over: 1st, Wendy Easley/Ms. T; 2nd, Laurie Vev erka/Doc Darta nian.

Western event placings:

Showmanship 12 & under: 1st, Deidra Jeppson/Crackers; 2nd, Lorissa Harris Elli son/Blue Luke; 3rd, Elizabeth Younger/Smokin' Freckle snic.

Showmanship 13 - 17: 1st, Erin Hawn/Justa Flash; 2nd, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 3rd, Emily Kelly/Easter's Belle.

Showmanship 18 & over: 1st, Kris Staebler/Executive Tiger; 2nd, Vicki Jepp son/Hesa Hot Affair, 3rd, Linda Ellison/Blue Luke.

Foals of 1996 & 1997: 1st, Roberta Jordon/Liz's Laced N' Dia mond; 2nd, Larry Junker/Ima Smoke Doc Joe.

Fillies 2 to 4 Years: 1st, Teri Brown/Amriss Pearletta; 2nd, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 3rd, Carmen Ander son/Zweeta Mia.

Geldings/Stallions 2 to 4 years: 1st, Kris Stae bler/Executive Tiger; 2nd, Nikki Nelson/Mi Caballo Loco; 3rd, Jon Hill/Bandit.

Mares 5 years & over: 1st, Pat Weekly/Easy Chex; 2nd, Emily Kelly/Easter's Bells; 3rd, Cassie Weaver/C.J.'s Popcorn.

Geldings/Stallions 5 years & over: 1st, Julie Miller/Pepper Bar Lad; 2nd, Cindy Fulfer/Zeyn's Destiny; 3rd, Erin Hawn/Justa Flash.

Champion Mare: 1st, Pat Weekly, Easy Chex, 2nd, Emily Kelly/Easter's Belle.

Champion Geld ing/Stallion: 1st, Kris Stae bler/Executive Tiger; 2nd, Julie Miller/Pepper Bar Lad.

Colored Mares: 1st, Roberta Jor don/Liz's Laces N' Dia mond; 2nd, Cassie Weaver/C.J.'s Popcorn; 3rd, Jodie Jones/Little Bit Of Country.

Colored Gelding/Stallions: 1st, Kris Staebler/Executive Tiger; 2nd, Erin Hawn/Justa Flash; 3rd, Linda El li son/Blue Luke.

Trail Junior Horse: 1st, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 2nd, Marisa Brooke/Freckles Chexcal ibar; 3rd, Erin Hawn/Justa Flash.

Trail 12 & under: 1st, Dei dra Jeppson/Crackers; 2nd, Elizabeth Younger/Smokin' Frecklesnic; 3rd, Cindy An derson/Flying Burdeck.

Trail 13 - 17: 1st, Erin Hawn/Justa Flash; 2nd, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 3rd, Emily Kelly/Shadow.

Trail 18 & over: 1st, Pat Weekly/Easy Chex; 2nd, Julie Miller/Pepper Bar Lad; 3rd, Linda El lison/Blue Luke.

Western Pleasure Walk/Trot Junior Horse: 1st, Kelly Larsen/Buck An' A Quarter; 2nd, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 3rd, Kris Staebler/Executive Tiger.

Western Pleasure Walk/Trot 12 & under: 1st, Deidra Jepp son/Crackers, 2nd. Lorissa Harris El li son/Dreamy; 3rd, Cindy An der son/Flying Burdeck.

Western Pleasure Walk/Trot 13 - 17: 1st, Emily Kelly/Easter's Belle, 2nd, Kate Hill/A Funny Joke; 3rd, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke.

Western Pleasure Walk/Trot 18 & over: 1st, Kris Staebler/Executive Tiger; 2nd, Pat Weekly/Easy Chex, 3rd, Linda Ellison/Blue Luke.

Western Equitation 12 & under: 1st, Deidra Jepp son/Crackers; 2nd, Cindy Anderson/Flying Burdeck; 3rd, Elizabeth Younger/Smokin' Freck lesnic.

Western Equitation 13 - 17: 1st, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 2nd, Erin Hawn/Justa Flash; 3rd, Emily Kelly/Shadow.

Western Equitation 18 & over: 1st, Vicki Jeppson/Hesa Hot Affair; 2nd, Julie Bolton/Dandy's Lucky Lady; 3rd, Roberta Jordon/Combed Honey.

Western Equitation M.H.A. Members: 1st, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 2nd, Roberta Jor don/Combed Homey; 3rd, Pat Weekly/Easy Chex.

Western Equitation Medal Class: 1st, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 2nd, Vicki Jeppson/Hesa Hot Af fair; 3rd, Roberta Jor don/Combed Honey.

Western Pleasure 12 & under: 1st, Cindy Ander son/Flying Burdeck; 2nd, Deidra Jeppson/Crackers; 3rd, Elizabeth Younger/Smokin' Freck lesnic.

Western Pleasure 13 - 17: 1st, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke, 2nd, Erin Hawn/Justa Flash; 3rd, Emily Kelly/Shadow.

Western Pleasure 18 & over: 1st, Kris Stae bler/Executive Tiger; 2nd, Pat Weekly/Easy Chex; 3rd, Sherry Junker/Jo Jo Stardust.

Western Pleasure M.H.A. Mem bers: 1st, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 2nd, Pat Weekly/Easy Chex; 3rd, Dei dra Jeppson/Crackers.

Western Pleasure Junior Horse: 1st, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 2nd, Erin Hawn/Justa Flash; 3rd, Marisa Brooke/Freckles Chexcalibar.

Western Pleasure $100.00 Stake: 1st, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 2nd, Kris Staebler/Executive Tiger; 3rd, Erin Hawn/Justa Flash.

Western Pleasure Super Senior Horse: 1st, Onalea Sweeney/Kyrin.

Western Pleasure Jack Benney (Bonnie Stanford Perpetual Tro phy): 1st, Pat Weekly, East Chex; 2nd, Onalea Sweeney/Kyrin; 3rd, Louisa Wistos/Magnum Opus III.

Western Pleasure Cham pi onship 17 & under: 1st, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 2nd, Emily Kelly/Easter's Belle; 3rd, Eliz abeth Younger/Smokin' Frecklesnic.

Western Pleasure Cham pi onship 18 & over: 1st, Pat Weekly/Easy Chex; 2nd, Kris Stae bler/Executive Tiger; 3rd, Julie Bolton/Dandy's Lucky Lady.

English event placings:

Hunter Back 17 & under: 1st, Heidi Yates/Easy Does It; 2nd, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 3rd, Cindy An derson/Flying Burdeck.

Hunter Hack 18 & over: 1st, Julie Miller/Pepper Bar Lad; 2nd, Sheila With erell/Pepper Summer Wine; 3rd, Julie Bolton/Dandy's Lucky Lady.

Mini Jumper Open: 1st, (tie) Sheila Witherell/Pepper Summer Wine & Julie Miller/Pepper Bar Lad; 2nd, Heidi Yates/Easy Does It; 3rd, Julie Miller/Smokin' Freck lesnic.

Beginning Jumper Open: 1st, Sheila Witherell/Pepper Summer Wine; 2nd, Julie Miller/Pepper Bar Lad; 3rd, Heidi Yates/Easy Does It.

Hunter Over Fences Open: 1st, Heidi Yates/Easy Does It; 2nd, Julie Miller/Pepper Bar Lad; 3rd, Sheila With erell/Pepper Summer Wine.

Intermediate Jumper Open: 1st, Sheila With erell/Pepper Summer Wine; 2nd, Robin Buck/Moses; 3rd, Wendy Easley/Cheyanne.

English Pleasure Walk/Trot Ju nior Horse: 1st, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 2nd, Erin Hawn/Justa Flash; 3rd, Kris Staebler/Executive Tiger.

English Pleasure Walk/Trot 12 & under: 1st, Cindy Anderson/Flying Bur deck; 2nd, Elizabeth Younger/Smokin' Freck lesnic; 3rd, Deidra Jepp son/Crackers.

English Equitation 13 - 17: 1st, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 2nd, Carmen Ander son/Boe; 3rd, Kate Hill/A Funny Joke.

English Equitation 18 & over: 1st, Julie Miller/Pepper Bar Lad; 2nd, Pat Weekly/Easy Chex; 3rd, Sheila Witherell/Pepper Summer Wine.

English Equitation M.H.A. Members: 1st, Julie Miller/Pepper Bar Lad; 2nd, Cindy Fulfer/Zeyn's Destiny; 3rd, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke.

English Equitation Medal Class: 1st, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 2nd, Pat Weekly/Easy Chex; 3rd, Julie Bolton/Dandy's Lucky Lady.

Dressage Suitability: 1st, Cindy Fulfer/Zeyn's Destiny; 2nd, Robin Buck/Moses; 3rd, Cindy Ander son/Flying Bur deck.

English Pleasure Junior Horse: 1st, Erin Hawn/Justa Flash; 2nd, Sara Hun ker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 3rd, Kris Staebler/Executive Tiger.

English Pleasure 12 & un der: 1st, Cindy Ander son/Flying Burdeck; 2nd, Deidra Jeppson/Crackers; 3rd, Sheila Wilcox/Little Britches.

English Pleasure 13 - 17: 1st, Erin Hawn/Justa Flash; 2nd, Kate Hill/A Funny Joke; 3rd, Emily Kelly/Easter's Belle.

English Pleasure 18 & over: 1st, Kris Stae bler/Executive Tiger; 2nd, Cindy Fulfer/Zeyn's Destiny; 3rd, Pat Weekly/Easy Chex.

English Pleasure $100.00 Stake: 1st, Erin Hawn/Justa Flash; 2nd, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 3rd, Cindy Fulfer/Zeyn's Destiny.

English Pleasure M.H.A. Mem bers: 1st, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 2nd, Cindy Fulfer/Zeyn's Des tiny; 3rd, Julie Miller/Pepper Bar Lad.

English Pleasure Champi onship 17 & under: 1st, Sara Junker/Reveille Bar Smoke; 2nd, Kate Hill/A Funny Joke; 3rd, Erin Hawn/Justa Flash.

English Pleasure Champi onship 18 & over: 1st, Kris Stae bler/Executive Tiger; 2nd, Pat Weekly/Easy Chex; 3rd, Julie Bolton/Dandy's Lucky Lady.

The Modoc Horsemen's Associa tion will be present ing one more show this fall, in September. If you would like to receive a pro gram/entry form, please contact Pat Gaylord (916) 299-3310.

Record sports summaries for July 31, 1997

Ą Modoc girls do well in summer hoops
Ą Football gears up for season
Ą Volleyball tryouts are set
Ą Deer hunters look for more of same
Modoc stars. . .

MODOC'S MAJOR BOYS ALL STARS had a good outing before being eliminated in the Little League tournament. Thre are, front left tor ight, Mike Main, Robby Rupe. Jack britton, Bo Davis, Doug Wellemeyer, Logan Wilson and Adam Server; back, coachBill farmer, Shay Farmer, Zeb Thorne, Cameron Jeffers, Robert Flournoy, Marty Stevens, Michael Bates, Jeremy Price, assistant coach Colby Farmer.

Sierra Cascaders finish on good note

The Sierra Cascaders high school girls basketball team finished the summer season in good fashion, going 8-5 in the final two tournaments.

According to coach Mike Martin, the girls went 4-3 in a huge Sacramento tournament and then 4-2, getting into the top eight teams (out of 40) in the San Francisco tour nament. Both tournaments were held last week.

The Sierra Cascaders are a summer basketball AAU program made up of girls from around the north state. Modoc High was well represented with Kayte Christensen, Jennifer Kern, Leah Siegel and Andrea Knox. The other players were Kelly and Lexie Miller, Westwood; Camie Gray, Mt,. Shasta; Holly Howard, Weed; and Mary Jane Krueger, Quincy.

Martin, Modoc's High's head girls basketball coach, and Westwood's coach Jeff Miller manage the team which was supported buy local contributors and parents.

The summer program was instrumental in getting the girls noticed and actively scouted by college scouts and according to Martin, the scouts and coaches were very im pressed with Modoc's girls. Christensen is expected to be one of the top recruited high school seniors nationally this year and Kern will not be far behind. Martin says both girls will be going to college on basketball scholarships. And they both will have choices to make.

According to Martin, more than 25 colleges have ex pressed sincere interest in Christensen and nearly 10 are interested in Kern.

Martin said Christensen and Kern had excellent summer season and really made their marks.

Both will be seniors next year and Martin said their improvement this summer will make them even more dominant than they were on last year's team they led to second place in the north state finals, losing only to the eventual state champion.

In addition, Martin said Siegel got to play early before injuring her elbow and will remain the dominant guard. Knox, who will be a sophomore this coming season, im proved every tournament.

"I'm really looking forward to this year," said Martin. "I'll tell you, these girls worked hard this summer and they are going to be something special to watch during the season."

But first the girls will play volleyball -- also favored to win another league and section title -- and Martin will coach the junior varsity football team.

Duran plays in Lion's North-South star game

Modoc High School's Joe Duran will be playing for the north team in the Lion's High School All Star football game this weekend in Redding at Shasta College.

Duran, a running back/defensive back was selected to the team by all-star head coach Bob Hall of Corning, who once coached the Modoc Braves.

Students planning to play football for the 1997 season should schedule physicals soon, said Modoc Coach Shaun Wood.

Players must have physicals and sports cards filled out and turned in before they are allowed to practice. The physi cal cards must be in before Wood will issue equipment. Also, any player with eligibility concerns should contact Jim McLaughlin at the high school, 233-7301. Practice will start August 11, 6 p.m. Pick up necessary cards and forms from Modoc High School.

Varsity gear handout will be August 8, 5 to 7 p.m. and ju nior varsity gear handout will be August 9, 2 to 4 p.m.

Practice times from August 11 until school starts is 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. School starts August 25 and practice will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The first varsity game is at Burns August 29. The junior varsity's first game is at Lakeview Sept. 5.

Modoc gets vol leyball under way

Modoc High School stu dents interested in playing volley ball must complete the athletic information card and get a physical prior to try-outs and practice. Without a phys ical, players will not be al lowed to try-out.

Tryouts for varsity are August 13-15, 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Practice will be August 18-22 6 a.m. to 8 am. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Tryouts for the junior var sity are August 18-19, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and practice August 20-22, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Once school starts August 25, varsity will practice 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. and junior var sity will practice 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Pick up athletic informa tion cards at Modoc High School.

Deer season nearing

North state hunters this fall likely will experience a re peat of last year's improved deer hunting, the Department of Fish and Game's Region 1 office predicted today as archery and rifle seasons ap proached.

Archers begin their sport August 16 in the north's re maining B and C zones and zones X1-X6b. Special "area-specific" archery tags are re quired for zones C1, C4 and the northern X zones.

Rifle hunters take to the field August 23 in B4; Septem ber 20 in zone X1 and the other B and C zones; and, October 4 in the northeastern area's zones X2-X6b. A later, addi tional buck hunt designated G1, the second period buck hunt in zone C4, opens October 18.

Several smaller, special deer hunts are scattered throughout the fall period, the DFG said.

Karen Madrigal, DFG big game license coordinator in Sacramento, said sale of deer tags have been running smoothly, the usual tight-quota X zones and many spe cial deer hunts having been filled in the June drawings. At the other extreme, Madri gal said Friday, more than 45,000 tags remain available for the giant six-zone north western area accessible through purchase of a generic "B" tag.

Tags for area-specific archery hunts in zone X4 could still be purchased Fri day. Fish and Game biolo gists across the north state say two successive years of gen erally mild winters and timely rains have improved forage and water sites for most deer herds, carrying a good percentage of bucks for ward to this year. Most deer look to be in excellent shape, they say.

Hunters might find a few more deer in the C zones, but are still looking for the long-awaited comeback of Rocky Mountain mule deer of the X zones that were hit hard by the killing winter of 1992-93.

Regardless, biologists point out, deer numbers in the north state, and throughout western states, continue to slide downward as their habitat shrinks. The DFG said an absence of "distur bance" by such things as fire and logging from the Cascade Range west is allowing conifer trees to crowd out shrubs that deer eat.

"We're growing ourselves out of optimum deer habitat," said Tim Burton, senior wildlife biologist in Siskiyou County.

Dave Smith, biologist in Shasta County, echoed Bur ton's feelings, saying, "Less and less sunlight is reaching the forest floor because of the closing canopy of trees in the forest."

Studies have shown, Smith said, that trees blocking as little as 40 percent of a vertical view of the forest floor can ef fectively reduce low-growing plant life by 90 percent be cause of the shad cast by the "moving" sun.

East of the Cascades, the DFG said, a complicated man-caused plant evolution that first boosted deer num bers earlier their century and now is sending them plung ing is making the future of the Rocky Mountain mule deer herds look, as one biologist said, "Grim."

For the 1997 seasons, DFG deer specialists are quick to point out that weather this fall will play a large role in hunter success, as it always does.

Cool, wet weather will tend to make deer active and trig ger migrations from higher summer ranges toward lower winter ranges. Hot, dry weather, conditions that archers often face, tends to makes deer less active and more reliant on watering sites.

Hunting hours are from a half hour before sunrise to a half hour after sunset. Legal bucks are those with forked antlers or better. Hunters must posses a current hunting license and appropriate deer tag for the area they hunt.

Game wardens, the DFG said, will be out in force dur ing the deer seasons, looking for hunters in vehicles who il legally carry loaded firearms. guns with a round in the chamber, and for those who fail to complete tags and attach them to buck antlers after a kill.

To the north, Burton said western Siskiyou County's zone B6, greatly improved by large forest fires 10 years ago, is "clunking along" as the habitat grows thicker and less nutritious. In central Siskiyou, Burton said, zone C1 could provide good hunting and zone X1, in the doldrums for several years now, could show improvement.

"There are unsubstanti ated rumors that X1 has more deer this year," Burton com mented.

On the east side, biologists Bob Schaefer in Modoc County and Frank Hall in Lassen County say that Great Basin's mule deer remain at rela tively low numbers, but sport some very large bucks.

"Last fall the average buck in X5b was as good as I've ever seen," said Hall.

Schaefer described his first few days on his new Modoc job by saying he had been in the field a couple of times, but that "it seemed that every buck I saw was a four pointer."

AUGUST SPORTS

Record sports summaries for August 7, 1997
Ą Conner in top three at Nationals time trial
Ą 10 teams compete in Ladies' golf invite
Ą Football
Ą MHS Voleyball
Ą Hornet volleyball, soccer
Conner in top 3 in time trial at Nationals race

Alturas' bicycle racer Josh Conner, a sophomore this year at Modoc High School, who's been in serious training in Colorado all summer placed second in the time trial of the U.S. Nationals for 15 year olds, held at Yale University last week.

Conner placed 16th overall in the time trial, taking two minutes off his best time trial and he beat the former U.S. National Champion in the process.

Conner has shown so much improvement this year that he has been asked to join the regional team and will participate in a regional camp this fall. He is in line to break the U.S. record for the time trial next year and challenge very seri ously in the road races.

This year, he placed 25th in the Nationals Road race at Yale (out of 98 riders) and was third in the 15-year-old group. A massive wreck at the start slowed him down early and he couldn't quite catch up to the leaders after getting around the wrecked bicyclists. He didn't wreck, but had to maneuver though the masses. He led the chase group through most of the race.

In the criterium he placed 35th, but came in with the lead pack. A sore ankle slowed his start, and he got surrounded by the pack and could not break out, he said.

Overall, it was a very successful outing for Conner, who has proved himself throughout the Colorado area this year in road races.

10 teams play in Ladies' invite

There were 10 four-person teams participating in the Arrowhead Women's Golf Club Invitational July 31 in Alturas.

The winning team with a score of 121 was Doris Lindsay, Lakeview, Louise Camacho, Susanville; Helen Allen and Kate Bucher, Alturas.

In second place with a score of 122 was the team of Ruth Hale, Lakeview; Carolyn Genasci, Susanville; Leslie Chace and Laura McManus, Alturas.

Also in with a score of 122 was the team of Ann Tracy, Lakeview; Sally Maxwell, Lakeview; Sue Caughey and Evie Younger, Alturas.

Finishing with a score of 123 was the team of Barbara Theiler, Susanville; Lillian McKenzie, Alturas; Wendy Benner, Surprise Valley.

Finishing with a score of 125 was the team of Judy Graham, Lakeview; Sharon Smith and Dolly Grover, Alturas.

The longest drive in the first flight went to Kathy Widby, to Rose Boulade in the second flight and to Wendy Benner in the third flight.

Closest to the pin in the first flight was Kathy Widby, Kate Bucher was closest in the sec ond flight and Barbara Heryford was closest in the third flight.

Sara Campbell won the ac curacy drive in the first flight; Sherry Jacob won in the second flight and Wendy Benner won in the third flight.

The 10 teams, with 17 visi tors, played four-person, two best ball.

Football practice starts, players need physicals

Modoc High School football practice begins Monday and players must have physicals and sports cards turned in before they're allowed to practice.

The physi cal cards must be in before coach Shaun Wood will issue equipment. Also, any player with eligibility concerns should contact Jim McLaughlin at the high school, 233-7301. Practice will start August 11, 6 p.m. Pick up necessary cards and forms from Modoc High School.

Varsity gear handout will be August 8, 5 to 7 p.m. and ju nior varsity gear handout will be August 9, 2 to 4 p.m.

Practice times from August 11 until school starts is 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. School starts August 25 and practice will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The first varsity game is at Burns August 29. The junior varsity's first game is at Lakeview Sept. 5.

Modoc volleyball ready

Want to play high school volleyball? Then get a sports in formation card and a physical before tryouts next week.

Tryouts for varsity are August 13-15, 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Practice will be August 18-22 6 a.m. to 8 am. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Tryouts for the junior var sity are August 18-19, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and practice August 20-22, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Once school starts August 25, varsity will practice 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. and junior var sity will practice 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Pick up athletic informa tion cards at Modoc High School.

Hornet volleyball gears up

Surprise Valley High School volleyball begins August 18 and soccer practice will also begin August 18.

Athletes must have physicals before starting the sport pro grams. Sports physicals are being offered at Surprise Valley Health Clinic for a discounted rate until August 13. Call the clinic to make an appointment.

Varsity volleyball practice will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and junior varsity will be from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

The soccer team will start practice August 18, 3:30 p.m.

The volleyball team starts the season at Fall River Sept. 2 and hosts the Hornet Invitational Sept. 4-6.

Record Sports summaries August 14, 1997

Ą Fair softball tourney starts Friday
Ą Football opens up with good numbers
Ą Ash Creek hosts Junior Pheasant Hunt
Ą Fair Auto racers ready to spin
Fair softball tournament gets going

The Styx and Modoc Pepsi/4 Corners take their top league records into action Friday nigh during the Modoc Fair's annual softball tour nament, which runs August 15-17 at the Cedarville field.

Opening up will be Modoc Pepsi against Win-R Insulation at 7 p.m. followed by a Styx against Basin Potato at 9 p.m.

Action resumes with in first round on Saturday at 8 a.m. The championship game is scheduled for 2:30 Sunday afternoon. Other teams in the tourney include Burney Auto, Stronghold Aces and Shasta Stingers. The annual home run derby is set for 5 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

Final standings in the Alturas Men's Fastpitch league are as follows: Styx, 13-2; Modoc Pepsi 12-3; Brass Rail 7-8; Warriors 6-9; Lakeview 6-9; Rattlers 1-14.

Modoc High starts football practice with good numbers

Modoc High School started football practice Monday with good numbers on both the junior varsity and varsity squads. Head coach Shaun Wood expects the turnout to improve by next week when the upper classmen return from summer jobs and vacation.

Wood said about 30 players are out for junior varsity and 27 have signed up for the varsity squad.

Mike Martin is the head JV coach. Wood is assisted by coaches Jim Burrows, Joe Moreo, John West and Eric Burrows.

Practice times from now until school starts is 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. School starts August 25 and practice will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The first varsity game is at Burns August 29. The junior varsity's first game is at Lakeview Sept. 5.

Junior pheasant hunt planned for Ash Creek

The Ash Creek Wildlife Area in Big Valley is holding a Junior Pheasant Hunt September 13. There will be 25 permits issued for each of two sessions: a morning session from 8 a.m. to noon and an afternoon session from 1 p.m. to sunset.

To apply for the permit, submit the following infor ma tion on a 3x5 index card: name and address, phone number, age and birth date, 1997-98 junior hunting li cense number, and a choice of the morning or afternoon hunt.

Two or more hunters may apply as a party, and include all information for each party on separate 3x5 cards and en close in a single envelope.

Applications must be re ceived in the Ash Creek Wildlife Office by 4 p.m. August 29. Incomplete or late applications will be rejected.

The successful applicants will be selected by random drawing, if necessary, August 29, 4 p.m. For more in formation call 916-294-5824.

Street stockers all set for fair races Friday

Modoc street stockers are ready for the an nual Modoc Fair auto races, with the action starting at 7:30 p.m. Friday night on the Cedarville speedway.

Admission is $7 for adults, seniors and children get in for $4 and those under six are admitted free.

The results of the July 19, Modoc Street Stock Racing Association are as follows:

A Main: 1st, Gordon Russell; 2nd Walt Vanderheyden.

B Main: 1st, Bill Miller; 2nd, Jeremy Benner; 3rd, Curtis Leslie; 4th, John Herndon.

A Trophy dash: 1st Scooter Voth; 2nd Gordon Russell.

B Trophy dash: 1st, Bill Miller; 2nd, Dillon Monte.

Heat 1: 1st, Bill Miller; 2nd John Herndon.

Heat 2: 1st Gene Cain; 2nd, Curtis Leslie.

Heat 3, 1st Gordon Russell; 2nd, Walt Vanderheyden.

The point leaders so far this season are as follows: Gordon Russell 109; Walt Vanderheyden 73; Curtis Leslie 41; Bill Miller 25; John Herndon 18; Scooter Voth 17; North, Benner, tie 15; Blaine Hill 11; Kelly Nolan 9; James Perry 3.

Record sports summaries for August 21, 1997

Ą Big Valley has powerhouse in football
Ą Soccer Jamboree set for season
Ą Ash Creek hosts pheasant hunt
Big Valley Cards expect great things this season

The toughest opponent the Big Valley football team may face this year could be their own expectations.

Calling the 1997 Cardinals a team with a lot of potential would be an understatement. They've already proven themselves. The juniors and seniors that make up this year's varsity went an im pressive 16-0 in JV ball the past two years. Most of those wins weren't 10-7 affairs ei ther. The vast majority were of the 49-7 blowout variety. To top it all off, the Cards have eight players back from the team that went to the CIF Divi sion VI Championship Game last year.

"I think we're going to be a tough team to beat this year," Big Valley coach Matt Hun saker said. "There are big expectations in the commu nity. We've got some big shoes to fill."

There are eight seniors returning from last year's squad. Pat McCulley, Chris Clark, Russ Carpenter and John Saltzman will anchor the line on both offense and defense. Tim Valdez will be at halfback and Chris Click will be at fullback while Kasey Criss will line up at wide re ceiver. Those three will also play in linebacker and defen sive back slots on the defense. Corado Reginatto, who played halfback last year and led the league in misspellings and mispronunciations of his name (including some by this reporter), will run the team from the quarterback posi tion.

Six juniors will move up from the JV. All of them played on the varsity during the playoffs last year. The line will get help from Colton Jeppson, Wyatt Harbert and Jess Cockley. Joe Haury will line up at tight end while Wes Brakefield will provide speed at halfback and defensive back. Renden Ellenberger will play fullback and linebacker.

In terms of the Evergreen League, Hunsaker predicts that Dunsmuir "will be the team for us to beat to win league."

Dunsmuir is a Division V team so the Cardinals won't have to worry about them in the Division VI playoffs. As for those playoffs, Hunsaker thinks that Maxwell may have a very strong team when the post-season rolls around.

To prepare Big Valley for October and November, Hun saker has scheduled a mur derous September non-league schedule. The Cardinals will take on two Division IV Shasta-Cascade League schools, Modoc and Weed, along with Division V Hay fork. The only Division VI opponent will be a private school - Bishop Quinn.

1997 BV Football Schedule

Date Opponent Place

Sept. 5 Weed Big Valley

Sept. 12 Hayfork Hayfork

Sept. 19 Modoc Modoc

Sept. 26 Bishop Quinn Big Valley

Oct. 10 Dunsmuir Dunsmuir

Oct. 17 Happy Camp Big Valley

Oct. 24 McCloud McCloud (JV only)

Nov. 1 Butte Valley Butte Valley

Nov. 7 Tulelake Big Valley

Check into soccer for fall; Jamboree slated for Sept. 6

Young people interested in playing soccer, whether new at the sport or experienced, are welcome to obtain registra tion forms at Alturas Chevron, Coast to Coast and Sports Hut, where applications may also be returned.

The next MYSL meeting will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 27 at 7 p.m. at the Modoc County Office of Education Conference Room. Prospective coaches are welcome to attend.

The Modoc Youth Soccer League would like to hear from the Under 12, Under 14 and Under age 18 youths who may be interested in playing with traveling squads in games against Burney, Susanville and Fall River soccer leagues.

There is still a need for coaches for all age divisions as well.

On September 6, the elementary and middle school fields in Alturas will be filled with ongoing 20-minute scrimmages as the 1997 season teams come together for a Soccer Jamboree to kick off the season from 9:00 a.m. until 12 noon.

Alan Hopkins is 1997 MYSL President and can be con tacted at the Modoc County Office of Education for further information.

Cost to register players is $25 per player or $45 for two or more players per family.

Junior pheasant hunt planned for Ash Creek

The Ash Creek Wildlife Area in Big Valley is holding a Junior Pheasant Hunt September 13 and time is running out to make application.

There will be 25 permits issued for each of two sessions: a morning session from 8 a.m. to noon and an afternoon session from 1 p.m. to sunset.

To apply for the permit, submit the following infor ma tion on a 3x5 index card: name and address, phone number, age and birth date, 1997-98 junior hunting li cense number, and a choice of the morning or afternoon hunt.

Two or more hunters may apply as a party, and include all information for each party on separate 3x5 cards and en close in a single envelope.

Applications must be re ceived in the Ash Creek Wildlife Office by 4 p.m. August 29. Incomplete or late applications will be rejected.

The successful applicants will be selected by random drawing, if necessary, August 29, 4 p.m. For more in formation call 916-294-5824.

Record sports summaries for August 28, 1997

Ą Modoc Braves open against Burns Friday
Ą Volleyball teams will be chasing Modoc
Ą Hornet soccer team opens season
Ą Cross country team has top runners
Ą Men's big golf tourney coming soon
Braves open '97 foot ball season at Burns Friday

With two weeks of practice under their belts, Modoc High's varsity football team opens against Burns, there, Friday night. What to expect? Good question.

The Braves travel again September 5 to Lakeview (for ju nior varsity and varsity) and open the home season against a strong Big Valley squad on September 19.

Coach Shaun Wood sees some real bright spots in his team this year, primarily in a strong defensive squad and solid line. Burns, said Wood, will be strong, but he ex pects the Braves to do well.

"Up until last Friday's inner-squad scrimmage, I was a little concerned," said Wood. "But, there were some real good things happening, and I think we'll be fine. We still have a ways to go in some areas, but it's early and it's al ways good to get a game under our belts."

Wood expects his pre-season with Burns, Lakeview and Big Valley to be very tough. Last year Modoc beat Burns 16-15 in Alturas to open the season. Wood would not be sur prised to see another close game.

"It could be a defensive battle, and we're prepared for that," said Wood. "The defense is always a bit more in tune than the offense early in the season. Overall, I'd say it will be pretty similar to last year's opener." Wood is pleased with his line, anchored by Matt Hamilton at center and solidified by Greg Jacques, James Drennan, Ted Lewis, Jed Tate, Dan Flournoy, Doug Waterman, Greg Buck, Phil Weed and Robert Oliver. The complete starting line is not yet decided, said Wood.

In the backfield on offense, Wood has re turning quarter back Eric Lancaster, and running backs Chris Sherer and Matt Carroll. Jeremy Favia, Bradley Ray, Andy Nowak and Alonzo Quesada are also out for the backfield. Larry Cavasso and Jimmy Lloyd are on the ends with Sergio Molina, Billy Wilson and Teddy Simmons split.

"We'll know more after the Burns game, but I expect our defense to play well and our offense to sputter a little early," said Wood. "At last Friday's scrimmage the offense started slowly, but came along very well. We'll be running more play-action passes this year and if our backs come through, we'll have plenty of options."

Last year's Braves were in the thick of things up until the final two games of the sea son. In those two, they lost to Etna and fell to Trinity to finish the season at 3-3 in Shasta Cascade League and 5-5 overall. Wood ex pects to improve on that mark this year.

The SCL early season picks will probably find Modoc in the middle with Trinity and Mt. Shasta both among the fa vorites. Both Trinity and Mt. Shasta had solid, sopho more-filled junior varsity squads last sea son and the move up to varsity should im prove their chances. Trinity won the league last year while Mt. Shasta struggled.

Netters gear up for new vol leyball season

With school getting un derway and Labor Day com ing soon on the calendar, vol leyball teams are busy getting ready for the season at Modoc, Surprise Valley and Big Val ley high schools. All three schools open their seasons in tournaments that begin the weekend of September 6.

Modoc: The Braves have won the CIF North Section Championship the last two years and there is no reason to think that they can't do it again this year. There's certainly a chance that some body besides Modoc will win the CIF Title. There's also certainly a chance that "George of the Jungle" will win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Braves are held in such high esteem by their opponents that Modoc coach Harold Montague is having a hard time getting a full slate of teams to come to Alturas for the Modoc Invita tional on September 19 & 20.

"Nobody wants to come play us," Montague lamented. "Some schools don't want to hurt their record and their chances at the play offs."

The main reason Modoc's dance card is looking empty is because the Braves return 6-3 Kayte Christensen and 6-1 Jennifer Kern to patrol the net. You can pretty much pen cil in both seniors for all-any-team-you-can-think-of hon ors throughout the season.

To make matters worse for those across the net, the Braves also have a third six-footer, sophomore Andrea Knox, to put in the lineup.

Also back from last year's championship squad are Veronica Coates, Tessa Siegel and Wendy Stafford.

Juniors getting their first year of varsity experience are Christy Cartner, Amber Fuller, Lindsay Lieurance, Stephanie Northrup and Leah Siegel, who will handle the setting duties.

"The kids are eager," Montague said of the team. "Their attitude is great. This is the most focused group of kids I've had in about three years."

Montague said the team is right now concentrating on goals they have set for pre-season and the Shasta-Cas cade League. As for Section and State playoffs, "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it."

Although Montague admits that Modoc is certainly the "team to beat" in the SCL, he also maintains that "our league isn't going to be a cake walk." He points out that schools like Mt. Shasta, Etna and Weed have strong pro grams year-in and year-out and would love nothing better than to knock the Braves off their current pedestal.

The Braves will start the season with tough competition at the Basin Best Tournament in Klamath Falls on Septem ber 6. The Division V Braves will get to go up against all of the top Division I and II teams from the area like Shasta, Henley and Klamath Union. Modoc took second in the tournament last year, losing to Henley in the finals.

Numbers are up in the Modoc JV program. Over 20 girls showed up for try-outs, and as a result, the Braves will have both JV and fresh man teams.

Surprise Valley: The play ers on this year's Hornet Var sity have won the last two Ev ergreen League JV Titles. Therefore, things are looking up in Cedarville this fall.

"I think there will be some good schools out there in our league, but we've got a pretty good shot at it," Hornet coach John Christie said of winning the league championship.

Leading the way for SV will be setter Stacey DePaul and middle-blocker Megan Konz. Both seniors were All-Evergreen League selections last year.

Other seniors on the squad include: Brooke Beeman, Stacy Cook, Danielle Odgers and Nicole Robinett. The ju niors on the team will be: Nicole Young, Julie Bordwell, Jeanne Bunyard, Heather Tufts, Cara Pearce, Jennifer Reeves and Erin Hawn.

The Hornet JV team is comprised of: Alida Fax, Juana Sanchez, Tammy Small, Traci Reeves, Meghan Darst, Megan Farschon, Cassie Cockrell, Ashlynn Dolcini, Tammy Montre, Shawna Laxague and Araceli Rangel.

Surprise Valley certainly gets the award the highest per centage of students participat ing. The total enrollment at the school is 72, which means there are about 36 girls. Twenty-four of them are in the volleyball program and three more are playing on the co-ed soccer team. Therefore, 75 percent of the females at the school are playing sports.

SV starts the season on September 4, when they host their own Hornet Invita tional. Teams visiting Cedarville will include Greenville, Trinity, Big Val ley, Lassen and Westwood. Surprise Valley won the tour nament last year.

Big Valley: The Cardinals went undefeated in the Ever green League behind MVP Jessica Saltzman. Unfortu nately, she graduated last year. But while BV won't have a big star this fall, they may in fact have more experi ence and depth than last year's championship squad.

"Our level on the whole is a lot higher this year," Cardi nals coach Paul Silva said. "I expect a lot from the se niors. I think we'll be more consistent than last year and we'll be using more hitters."

Seniors Carrie Schwebach and Baley Thomas will be team captains. The Cardi nals also get experience from returning seniors Alicia Far ber and Naomi Seeger and returning juniors Ileah Jack son and Amy Kresge.

Three new players on the team are Amy Plemons, Don ica McGarr and Anita Bab cock.

The Cardinals will start the season on September 5 at the Surprise Valley Hornet Invitational.

Big Valley has a new JV coach this year - Cheryl Jones.

Surprise Valley soccer team heads into action

In Surprise Valley, leaves falling to the ground and weather cooling off doesn't mean it's time for football, but it does herald the start of the futbol season.

Surprise Valley will field a co-ed soccer team for the third straight year. The team plays a non-CIF independent schedule mostly against Mc Cloud, Tulelake and Liberty Christian.

SV coach Henry Bietz said that the soccer team came about because, "Some of the boys really wanted a fall sport to help them get in shape for basketball."

To that end, Bietz's coach ing style is, "The old German approach. We do no awful lot of running. We're not a fi nesse team. We want to have two guys on every ball."

The strategy of trying to outrun the opposition works well for the Hornets given the fact that they train at an alti tude of around 4,500 feet above sea level. When they go to lower elevations like Red ding, the Hornets don't get winded. On the other hand, teams traveling to the height of Cedarville tend to feel like their lungs aren't working by the time the game gets to the second half.

Members of the team are: Jessica Bietz, Craig Carpen ter, Dan Carpenter, Zach Collinson, Brian Darst, Nick Fenske, John Geaney, Josh Harder, Chris Harris, Tom Harris, Craig Hymer, Dillon Montre, Mike Northrup, Avon Ray, Anthony Shultz, Caity Wimer, Tim Wood and J.T. Espil.

The team is sponsored by Tony Darst Construction and Bruce and Cynthia Klassen of Hempfields Natural Goods of Surprise Valley.

SV will travel to Quincy tomorrow and Saturday for a season opening tournament. They then travel to McCloud next Tuesday.

Modoc cross-country team is strongest yet

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