;l 'a-, ,. x ? rX IP ''" '''''''' -"'v''V. " I'lIlillSf - ,Wlall - I ' V':..i Mi t iV i m Dawn Britton of Woods Cross (11) got hammered as she drove for this shot by East High's Brooke Duran (21). Britton chipped in 13 points as Woods Cross beat East in the region-opener region-opener for both teams Thursday. ikes, 'Braids, Wilflcaf s win region hoop openers Braves with 19 points, while Julia Thomley added 16 and Stephanie Reading added 11. Davis was paced by Nicole Robinson with 10 points and Christy Jones with eight This Thursday, Highland visits Bountiful, Woods Cross faces Viewmont in a big showdown, and Davis travels to East All games be-. gin at 4 p.m. By TOM HARALDSEN Sports Editor - The three pre-season favorites each won their opening-day games as Region Four girls' basketball be-gan be-gan Thursday. Teams will return to the courts Thursday afternoon. WOODS CROSS 63 EAST 50 . At Woods Cross, the Lady Wildcats Wild-cats rushed to a 17-4 first quarter lead over East but had to fight off a sluggish second and third quarter to earn the win. ; Woods Cross seemed to have the game well in hand early, as Dawn Britton and Carolyn Knight led the scoring. By : halftime. East had crawled .back to within five at 26-21, but that lead shrank to 28-27 with 4:53 left in the third period. East could never grab the lead, however, as Knight Britton, Amy Turman and Andrea Wilcox all "scored, and Woods Cross built a 42-32 lead afterthree periods. f . Knight iced the game with 12 fourth-quarter points for the Wild-, cats. She led the scoring with 26 points, Britton added 13 and Tur-man Tur-man 12. East was led by Brooke Duran with 18 and Dclcree Magee with 12. . VIEWMONT 68 HIGHLAND 31 i I At Highland, the powerful Vik- jngs took off early, and coasted . home in a laugher over the Rams. ' Coach , Vi Hillman f emptied her bench early in this one, though four Vikings still; scored in double fig" ures. s ' ': Pacing the Vikes was sophomore ; center Jennifer "JJ." Jones with 18 ' points. Melissa Eggctt had' 14, : Jenny Siddoway 11, including two v three-pointers, and Kim Blackham had 10. Tiffany Twitchell added . JiineJor the Vikes.. BOUNTIFUL 57 DAVIS 40 v At Davis, the Braves broke away . from Davis in the second period and '4 ran off with a victory. Davis led t 1 1-8 after one period,- but scored ' just four points in the second quarter quar-ter and fell behind Bountiful 28-13 'atthehalf. . ' ' ' Junior Maegan MacKay led the r; , r".".-.: . '.- i. . - . ; ' . ' . -..at .-' ., , -"