Scorekeepers

NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner
Vance Downs (right) keeps score during the game between the Utah Jazz and Houston Rockets on Feb. 29 at EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City.

Teacher operates scoreboard for Jazz

LAYTON — At 6-feet, 7-inches tall, Vance Downs looks like he belongs courtside at the Utah Jazz basketball games at EnergySolutions Arena.

(JENNIFER GHAN/Special to the Standard-Examiner) Philip Michelsen and Curtis Christiansen, are basketball scorekeepers at Fruit Heights LDS Stake Center.

Twenty years' worth of controlling basketball games for two LDS men

FRUIT HEIGHTS — Many nights a month, Curtis Christiansen and Philip Michelsen sit at a table on the stage of the Fruit Heights Stake Center for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where they have kept score and managed the clock at church basketball games for 20 years.

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