Abby Kochevar competes for Colorado in the Girls 13-14 100-meter freestyle during the 2012 Western Zone Age Group Championships on Saturday at El Pomar Natatorium.

Jonah Saya competes for Colorado in the Boys 13-14 200-meter individual medley final during the 2012 Western Zone Age Group Championships on Saturday at El Pomar Natatorium.

Delvis Morales of the Ogden Raptors slides safely back to first after a pickoff attempt in the Raptors’ victory Saturday over the Grand Junction Rockies at Lindquist Field.

Colorado swimmer Colby Allen wins the 11-12 50m breaststroke.

14-year-old Shelby Koontz with the Pacific Swimming with the Girls 13-14 LC meter Butterfly finals with a time of 1:04.9.

Colorado Mesa University football coach Russ Martin acts like a defensive lineman at the first practice of the CMU football team Thursday. In just three weeks the team will play its first game of the season at Humboldt State University. It is the first time in fourteen years that CMU will have a new head coach.

The evening session of the Western Zone Championships at the el Pomar Natatorium at CMU featuring the swimmers from the western U.S.

Swimmers are trading team pins like at the Olympics.

Logan Young swimming the 1500m free.

Owen Taylor throws to first as his dad Tony watches at State Champion Gene Taylor practice in preparation for regionals in California.

Bud Preuss heating his tires before the start of the Super Quick race at the Thunder Mountain Raceway.

Bob Mueller heats up hir tires before the start of the Super Quick race at the Thunder Mountain Raceway.

Orem’s Caleb Bushyhead tags Grand Junction’s David Dahl out at second base during the minor league baseball game between the Orem Owlz and the Grand Junction Rockies at Brent Brown Ballpark in Orem on Monday, August 6, 2012. SPENSER HEAPS/Daily Herald

Dave Grossman turns his bike around on a trail, which recently has been closed in the Jacob’s Ladder area on Glade Park.

Bob Mueller heats up his tires before the start of the Super Quick race at the Thunder Mountain Raceway.

Bud Preuss heating his tires before the start of the Super Quick race at the Thunder Mountain Raceway.

Ogden’s Eric Smith, left, was tagged out by Grand Junction third baseman Rockies Ashley Graeter Sunday in Ogden’s 15-11 win.

#25, Eric Smith , left from the Ogden Raptors is tagged out at 3rd base by Grand Junction Rockies 3rd baseman #5, Ashley Graeter.

Brian Kurzel, coordinator of the Colorado Natural Areas Program for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, sets a line to check land movement on a cliff side at the Oxy Research site near Parachute.

Volunteers set a line to check movement in the cliff side at the Oxy Research site.

Off-road bikers and other users of the North Fruita Desert will start paying a camping fee Sept. 1 to use the campground on 18 road.