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Friday, May 17, 2013

Best of Flyer Flash: Champions!

Students celebrate the victory of Dixie over Spanish Fork in the 3A State Championship Football Game.
Photo by Kirra Wilkinson, Flyer Flash

Champions!

by Arthur Anderson

Reporter, The Sports Hangar

This article appears in the special November 19, 2012 edition of the Flyer Flash.

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From humble beginnings to being on top of the world.

The Dixie Flyers were much less than an afterthought in most peoples opinions. Time and time again critics, teams, and fans, would only see Dixie as a bump in the road.

Unranked in the Region 9 playoff picture, projected to not even see a playoff game this season, much less the field at Rice Eccles Stadium, Dixie was essentially forgotten.

Projected to have a losing record rivaled only by Canyon View, there was no belief in the Underdog Flyers.

Many Region 9 “Experts” predicted the Flyers to be left with a 1 and 5 record in region play, only to be blown out of the way when the Flyers finished with a 4-2 record.

In short Dixie wasn’t even given a chance this year, nothing but an afterthought in Region 9... Underdogs.

Underdogs that were picked to narrowly slip by Springville early in the season, picked to be blown out of the their own stadium by what were considered “Powerhouse” teams such as Pine View and Desert Hills; but as it can be recalled, the Underdogs showed each team whose house this is.

From the beginning, the Dixie Flyers had something to prove, and they proved it.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Best of Flyer Flash: Super Great!

The Jetettes perform during halftime at a Boys Basketball Game against Snow Canyon High.
Photo by Kirra Wilkinson, Flyer Flash

Super Great!

by Skylie McArthur

Reporter, Flyer Flash

This article appears in the October 29, 2012 edition of the Flyer Flash.

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Everyone see’s the performance side of the Jetettes at football and basketball halftimes, but a lot of the time that’s the only side they see. They don’t realize how much really goes into being a Dixie High Jetette.

This could be due to the fact that they practice in the wee hours of the morning when no other students are on campus or even awake. Every single morning, April through June and August through March, the Jetettes are up and at ‘em and dancing in the main gym at six am.

They start out the morning by stretching in lines spread out across the floor, led by two of the officers, jamming out to pump up music. After about ten minutes, they’re all stretched and ready to do kicks.

“Shake it” by Metro Station blares through the speakers and the girls run to their kick line, tallest in the middle and descending height down the line. After a “5-6-7-8” and a slap, they’re kicking away any sense of sleepiness left in them.

After finishing the morning kicks, Mrs. P, the Jetette advisor, starts working through either the routine they’ll be performing that week or polishing their competition dances. They start out by cleaning the dances, which consists of straightening formations, matching arm and leg angles, and counting through the routine.

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Football Championship Pep Assembly

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Friday, November 16, 2012

Champions!

3A State Championship Football Game

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Friday, November 2, 2012

Dixie Breezes Past North Sanpete

by Arthur Anderson

Reporter, Flyer Flash

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Dixie was able to pull off their first playoff win in two years, against North Sanpete and in blowout fashion as they trounced over the unsuspecting Hawks.

The Flyers seemed to have a hard time making into the endzone in the first quarter as Blake Barney and the explosive Dixie offense had several drives that ended down close to the Hawks twenty or thirty yard line.

Dixie Football will be facing Stansbury tonight in the
second round of the State Playoffs.
Photo by Kirra Wilkinson, Flyer Flash

However that soon changed as the Flyers made their way into the endzone for the first time early in the second quarter as Blake Barney drove the Flyer Offense down the field ending in a 5 yard touchdown run by the #1 Ranked Quarterback in region 9. Though this score was a good momentum builder for the Flyers, the real explosion came when Andy Appel caught a pass from Barney for a 44 yard catch and run, just coming a yard short of the endzone.
This gave the Flyers the momentum they needed to pull off the rest of their 35-6 rout of the North Sanpete Hawks.

Mitch Wilkinson was incredibly tough throughout the game, both in the receiving game and the return game bringing two kicks past the 40 yard line and scoring a 10 yard touchdown through the air.

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Friday, October 26, 2012

Front Five

by Arthur Anderson

Reporter, Flyer Flash

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This years Football team is full of talent, evident by their high ranking and playoff berth.

So much talent beginning with Quarterback Blake Barney leading the league in passing yards and most rushing yards by a quarterback.

Drew Batchelor one of the leagues most electric receivers and Barneys favorite target, leading the league in receiving yards and tying Pine View running back Prentiss Miller for points scored this season.

Tanner Webster, fourth in the league in rushing yards.

The Flyers have more than enough talent this year.

But, have you ever thought about how these players became successful?

Dixie vs Desert Hills Football.
Photo by Kirra Wilkinson, Flyer Flash

Sure you might say these players worked hard and are incredibly talented, and that is true, but where would any of those guys be without the front five?

Front Five? While attending a Dixie High School football game, everyone is focused on the star players, everyone wants to see Blake Barney break a big run, or throw a touchdown pass, or see Taylor Berry pound a touchdown run into the end zone.

All of these plays people want to see couldn’t be possible without Dixies offensive line.
Though smaller by most Region 9 standards, these Offensive linemen no doubt are some of the best in region, Right Guard Kolten Hunter put it best saying, “It’s not the size of the line, it’s the size of the Heart.”

Lead by Jesse Lambert at Center, Gavin Graff at Left Tackle, Jaxon Davis at Left Guard, Kolten Hunter at Right Guard, and David Teaupa at Right Tackle, these players have allowed Barney and company to climb their ways up the Rankings and Stats.

This Offensive line has to be one of the best that Dixie has seen over the years, none of these players have ever backed down from a challenge, Defenses can’t seem to penetrate the solid Dixie front five, one of their best performances being against Pine View, where the Panther three man defensive line weighed more than four of the five Dixie offensive linemen put together, they held the Panthers pass rush to one sack, while the Pine View pass rush leads the league with an average four sacks a game.