Correction:

The name of a Tooele High School JV cross country runner who finished fourth in the Region 6 JV meet in Thursday’s edition of the Tooele Transcript-Bulletin was incorrect. The Tooele runner is Kaylene Lemmon. The Transcript-Bulletin apologizes for this error.

Contest winner

In a week full of upsets in the Tooele Transcript-Bulletin football pick’em contest, Janice Jackson was able to win the picks with a 6-2 record. This week’s pick’em is already under way and entry forms can either delivered to the Transcript office or e-mailed to jgordon@tooeletranscript.com. Winners receive two tickets to a Utah Jazz game in November.

Coaching positions

The Jr. Jazz competition program is now requesting all coaches interested in coaching this season for the fifith-sixth grade boys, seventh-eighth grade boys and seventh-eighth grade girls travel teams to go online and submit their applications. Teams are available in the Stansbury, northern and southern Tooele, and Grantsville areas for each boys level along with both Stansbury and Tooele girls teams Please apply online at www.tooelejrjazz.org before midnight Oct. 13. Questions about the Jr. Jazz program should be sent to info@tooelejrjazz.org.

Tooele wrestling

Tooele youth wrestling sign-up will be held Oct. 13, 14, 20, 21, 27 and 28 from 6-7:30 p.m. in the Tooele High School wrestling room. The cost will be $65. Any questions please call Valerie Coffman at 435-830-7680.

Cougars, Utes in Top 25

The Utah Utes returned to the rankings Sunday at No. 24 while rival BYU stayed put at No. 18. Utah improved to 4-1 Saturday with a come-from-behind 24-17 win at Colorado State. The Utes had been out of the rankings since losing at Oregon on Sept. 19. BYU is 5-1 after routing UNLV 59-21 on Saturday, but the Cougars’ win over the struggling Rebels was not enough to bump BYU up in the poll. BYU visits San Diego State on Saturday. Utah is on the road at UNLV.

Jazz scrimmage

The Utah Jazz will hold an open intrasquad scrimmage tonight at 6:45 p.m. at EnergySolutions Arena. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. The event is free of charge and open to the public, and tickets are not required for admission.

Plenty of deer

You might see a few more deer when Utah’s rifle buck deer hunt starts on Saturday. The weather this past spring and winter was almost ideal for mule deer. More than 70,000 hunters, plus their family and friends, are expected afield for Utah’s most popular hunt. “The weather this past spring and winter was excellent for mule deer,” said Anis Aoude, big game coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources. “Last winter was really mild — the snow stayed up high, and the valleys and the winter ranges were warm,” Aoude said. “It’s difficult to determine exactly how many deer die each winter. But because this past winter was so mild, we think far fewer deer were lost than would have been lost during a normal winter.” Aoude says the mild winter was followed by a long, wet spring. “The state received plenty of rain clear into June,” he said. “That rain provided doe deer with a lot of good, nutritious vegetation. And that helped the does provide plenty of milk to the fawns they gave birth to earlier this summer.”

Carp removal

Commercial fishing crews have begun what’s believed to be the nation’s biggest carp removal project. Fishermen are expected to pull about 6 million pounds of the bottom-feeders out of Utah Lake this fall and winter. The work is aimed at helping an endangered fish called the June sucker that lives nowhere else but the lake and its tributaries. The effort has been buoyed by $1 million in federal stimulus funds. Fishing started Sept. 21. Utah June sucker recovery program director Reed Harris says about 160,000 pounds of carp have been removed so far. Most are being turned into compost or food for a Utah mink farm. State officials are looking at other proposals, including grinding them into fish meal or shipping them for human consumption.