We lost to Wahlquist by the slaughter rule in ninth grade, but not before they tallied twenty- something runs. I was the pitcher that day unfortunately. But that wasn't Snowcrests' worst loss to Wahlquist. No, there was one even worse than that. My younger sister recounts losing to Wahlquist 42-1. They must have made 32 runs in one inning before the slaughter rule kicked in. Poor Snowcrest. The softball team has never been able to win more than a few games at the most. When I was there we won one game in three years. Oddly enough that game was against Wahlquist my eighth grade year. The year before we had some close games, but couldn't pull 'em off in the end.
I guess now at Snowcrest on the morning announcements they just give the highlights of the game and leave out the fact that they didn't win. They should have done that when we were there. That would have saved us a bunch of teasing from some of the boys. It was hard to go out every time giving it everything you had just to lose in the end. That is part of the problem in the valley. If you don't win, you don't know how to win.
Maybe they should score the games like they do in Coed soccer. Girls get two points for a goal and boys get one. Snowcrest would get double the points to make it even. I guess that wouldn't have helped in the game on Tuesday. Snowcrest would have still lost by 14 points. Oh well.
Valley teams do a lot of losing because of the disadvantages, but there has been success from time to time and there is and has been some great athletes who call the valley home.
When searching through an old Valley scrapbook from the 50's and 60's I found a success story. The volleyball team at Valley Jr. High in 1960 and '61 won the county volleyball championship two years in a row. There in the middle of the team photo that I was unable to upload, was the small coach, a woman by the name of Ms. Stallings. Amazing! This same lady lives down the road from my parents. All my life I never knew I had a legend living a short distance from my home.
If you go to Snowcrest you'll see a few trophies in the trophy case. Along with the sportsmanship awards you'll see a girls basketball championship trophy from 1996 and two more girls basketball second place trophies from 2000 and 2002. The boys track team also won a second place trophy in I think 1999. Steven Shepherd from Eden was on this team and is now running and doing well for Weber State.
I'd like to think our basketball team planted some seeds. Our ninth grade year we won six games and lost three. This was Snowcrest's and maybe Valley's first winning season in girls' basketball. Ever since then they've done good especially under current coach Cindy Baker.
This first picture is of a proud moment for our fifth grade rec team. We made it to the county championships and eventually lost to North. We invited Miss Kartchner, our first bball coach, and our current teacher, Mrs. Gayle Anderson to come see us play. Pictured is my madre, Melissa Cazier, Jill Anderson, Tasha Hunsaker, Michelle Brown, Kathy Anderson. Bottom row: Kelli Carver, Sharon Brown, Me
Here's a picture of us playing in ninth grade. Sandridge is one of the two teams we lost to and you can see why. This girl was at least a head taller than Lindsay who is trying to get the tipoff.
I love this other picture because it shows "Terry Tanker." She's the redhead in the background. She didn't give us much trouble in basketball, but soccer was another story. She got her name because she was big and you just couldn't get past her. She was the last man on Roy's team and any time you'd get near her she would boot the ball or head the ball way out of sight. She was our "Goliath". In about the last game we played against her, we beat her just like David beat Goliath. It was in a tournament in Sandy in the summer after sixth grade. It was the championship game and the score was tied. Somehow in the last remaining minutes I snuck past her after a pass from Kelli Carver and barely put it in the near corner of the net. That goalie probably didn't get much practice thanks to Terry and luckily she missed. We won 2-1. It was a great moment for our little valley team.
Most people will remember valley for being the team that always lost, but the players will never forget the times when they faced impossible odds and came out winners. Go Valley!
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