CARBON - The Salt Lake Tribune

3A baseball: Desert Hills blanks Carbon

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:48:32 MDT

3A baseball: Desert Hills blanks Carbon

By Kyle Goon The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 16, 2013 11:48PM MDT

Orem • The Thunder have won their fair share of games this season by slamming baseballs all over the field. But as Carbon found out Thursday, Desert Hills doesn’t need to be slugging well to come out on top. A 2-0 victory in the winners bracket of the Class 3A state tournament emphasized the Thunder’s ability to compete with small-ball tactics. The Region 9 champ, gaining only five hits on the day, combined effective base-running with shutout pitching to keep the Dinos at bay. “We realize this t...

Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Golf: Holes-in-one

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:48:31 MDT

Golf: Holes-in-one

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated May 16, 2013 11:48PM MDT

Carbon Country Club • Art Hunsaker. No. 6, 135 yards, 8-iron. With Josh Hunsaker. Stansbury • Ron Fisher. No. 7, 163 yards, 5-wood. With John Park, Tim Welch and Brad Gilson. Oakridge Country Club • Jay Ludwig. No. 13, 143 yards, 7-rion. With Lowell Leishman and Dallas Bradford.

Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

3A baseball: Relief not a problem in Carbon’s win over Dixie

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:30:34 MDT

3A baseball: Relief not a problem in Carbon’s win over Dixie

By Matt Ellis Special to The Tribune

Updated May 11, 2013 11:30PM MDT

Stansbury • The Carbon baseball team cruised to a 5-0 victory against Dixie in the Dinos’ second playoff game of the day Saturday, but it didn’t go off without a hitch. Starting pitcher Dakota Cisneros took himself out of the game after two innings with his team up 2-0 because of stomachaches attributed to food poisoning that made it difficult for him to even stand up. He took care of the first three hitters in succession, including a strikeout, and needed only four batters to get three outs in ...

Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

3A softball: Juan Diego cruises past Carbon

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:30:34 MDT

3A softball: Juan Diego cruises past Carbon

By Anthony Cusumano Special to The Tribune

Updated May 11, 2013 11:30PM MDT

Draper • The Juan Diego softball team learned two years ago how difficult it is losing your first playoff game and having to fight through consolations. The Soaring Eagle weren’t about to make the same mistake Saturday – even if it meant overcoming a 2-0 first-inning deficit to underdog Carbon. Paige Castro capped the scoring with a three-run home run in the fourth inning and drove in six runs to lift Juan Diego past visiting Carbon 12-2 in the first round of the Class 3A state softball tourname...

Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

CO2 levels are highest in human history, scientists say

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:08:09 MDT

CO2 levels are highest in human history, scientists say

By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press

Updated May 10, 2013 07:08PM MDT

Washington • Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said Friday. Carbon dioxide was measured at 400 parts per million at the oldest monitoring station which is in Hawaii sets the global benchmark. The last time the worldwide carbon level was probably that high was about 2 million years ago, said Pieter Tans of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That w...

Washington Post: Tax reform on the table

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:26:04 MDT

Washington Post: Tax reform on the table

By The Washington Post

Updated May 8, 2013 04:26PM MDT

The following editorial appeared in Wednesday’s Washington Post: Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Finance Committee, announced last month that he wants to spend the rest of his final term in office reforming the tax code, and there are signs that Republicans want an overhaul this year, too. Good. The tax code is an unruly, inefficient monstrosity that only tax attorneys could like. Congress has used it as a vehicle for interest-group giveaways and other forms of wasteful, underhanded...