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Show 3 THE GREEN SHEET Thursday, January 17, 1985 SpOEtO Bulldogs Down Murray, West; Await South Cougars Drop Key ;Test To Jaguars ; The Jags should be favored to make that 0 on their own court KEARNS. Although theres a lot of basketball left to be played, West ' Jordan may have taken a giant step J toward qualifying for the state ; basketball tournament for the first time. ' The Jaguars, playing with a great deal of intensity, stunned the Kearns 8 Cougars Friday night on the to improve to 0 in court Cougar Region Two. 3-- when 60-4- : they host struggling Taylorsville in a 7:30 test tomorrow (Friday). Kearns must try to rebound by traveling to Alta. The Cougars figured to be in a three-wa- y battle with West Jordan and Alta for one of the league's tourney playoff berths and the loss at home to the Jags makes the contest at Alta loom even larger for Coach Kenyon Clark and his troops. Alta has been idle since losing to West Jordan on Jan. County Softball Meet Slated Feb. 2 SALT LAKE. Judge Memorial puts its hopes for the Region Six cage title squarely on the line tomorrow (Friday) afternoon' when the Bulldogs travel to South to meet the Cubs. The Bulldogs defeated West Friday night and Murray 8 Tuesday to tune up for the test. Murray, a loser at South Friday, will travel to Jordan where the Beetdig-ger- s are off to a surprising league start. Tipoff is slated at 7:30. test looms as a The Judge-Soutclassic matchup of two of the states best teams. Last year both were laden with juniors and ended up as semi-finlosers in the state tourney, with Judge winning the battle for third place. Its Judges size and smart style of play against Souths incredible quickness. Tipoff 76-5- 4 68-4- 70-3- 9 8. West true test when the Jags invade Jordan will get a Tuesday Bingham. Kearns has the league bye that night. Kearns looked as if it was sufferloss to ing the effects of a Brighton in the early going. The Jags played with much more intensity, outrebounding the much-bigge- r Cougars and outplaying them in virtually every facet of the contest, a half-coutrap creating no end of problems for the Cougars. The visitors ran off to a 12-- lead, but Tim Martinez picked up his third foul in the first period and Kearns roared back to trail 4 before surrendering four quick points on a foul and a steal at the end of the period. Continued on page 8 TAYLORSVILLE. County Recrea-tio- n officials have announced that ' the annual organizational meeting for the 1985 softball season will be held on Saturday, Feb. 2. Representatives of new and returning teams will meet at 8 a.m. while womens teams will gather at 10 a.m. at Utah Technical College in Room 203 of the Calvin Rampton Building. It is mandatory that all teams have a representative present or be Soft-ba- ll penalized, a spokesman said. entry forms, rules and tournament information will be available. - Further information may be obtained by calling ; 0 h rt is3p..m. 33-1- 49-3- 4 nine. For Murray Greg Nicholes scored 9x10) and Tim Nevenner added 15 (3, 2 Judge 68, Murray . . Kearns high's Darren Atkinson (20) fires from outside BOMBER as teammate Jeff Pace (35) and Shawn Simpson (32) of West Jordan fight for rebound position. . 11(5, 1x2). 48 d The Bulldogs got off to a 4 start and never looked back, leading by as many as 29 before Coach Jim Yerkovich cleared his bench. 16-- 16-1- 483-547- The Bulldog big men dominated the contest which stood at 4 at half-timA 14-- 0 run ignited by sixth man Eric Veltri put the game in the bag for the Bulldogs early in the fourth period after Murray had gocome back within 13. It was ing into the final period. Jim Lytle played one of his best games ever for the Bulldogs, hitting 8x13 from the field and 2x2 from the line for 18 points. He led his team with 16 rebounds. Richard Holmes popped in 21 points (7x14, 7x8) and grabbed 13 caroms as the Bulldogs dominated the boards. Holmess sixth rebound broke the school record which now stands at 770 with half a season left. Tony Cordova ran a smart floor game and closed in on the school record for assists with his Judge first-perio- 76, West 54 "It may have been the best sixth man performance Ive seen from a Continued on page 8 Hues Romp Past Granite, GRANITE PARK. Cyprus launch8 ed Region Three play with a 92-4- victory over Granite here Friday night. A true test of how realistic the Pirate hopes for a region crown might be comes early - tomorrow the Pirates will host (Friday) Skyline while Granite travels to Olympus. Both contests are slated at 7:30p m. really dont know how good Skyline is. Weve heard theyre good and weve heard theyre excellent. I "We 92-3- 6 ble figures, paced by K. C. Smith with 14 (2, 10x14), and Mark Maeser and Jay Sorenson each with 10, all from the field. Bengals Top Warriors TAYLORSVILLE. Brighton high overcame a delay game on the part of Taylorsville and guess well find out, said Coach went on to post a victory over Mark Wilson. the Warriors here Friday. He added that he felt his team is The Bengals went to their halfready to break out of the .500 mold court not for trap defense to speed up the title. contend the Were and excellent yet, but the potential is tempo and In the process forced a total of 19 Taylorsville turnovers. there. On Friday night, Brighton will The Pirates jumped on the young after host Bingham, a team looking to reFarmers early, leading bound from its first loss of the at the half one period and season to Hillcrest. Then on TuesEveryone in uniform was in the conday, the Bengals will entertain the test. f at Huskies. Both games will 22 scorers with Cory Gust led all 7:30. The Warriors play at West Jorpoints (9, 4x4). Chad Sheppick added dan Friday and host Alta Tuesday. 14 (7, 0x2), Tom Ahlquist 12 (4, 4x5) Despite the delay game, Brighton and Craig Sudbury 11 (4, 3x4). lead at the Granite had three players in dou- - was able to post a conclusion of the first period and led at intermission. Both by 17, teams had a slow third quarter, however, each adding only five points to their totals. The scoring picked back up in the fourth period, but the Bengals were able to hang on e KEARNS. A tailgate to their comfortable lead. I was pleased with the way our party has been scheduled by the kids adjusted to their delay game, Kearns high booster club. The party is scheduled on Jan. 25 praised Brighton coach Duke Reid. Were used to a more upbeat kind at 6:30 p.m. Cost will be $1.50 for the ham dinner. The basketball team of action, but the kids showed a lot of will play Taylorsville that night. patience and took only good shots. for The club is also selling Taylorsville has a good young team, he added. Theyre going to $7.50. Proceeds go to support various activities at Kearns high, according get better as time goes on. Coach Dan Leatherwood admits hes using to Sterling Parker, president of the club. younger players in an effort to build for the future. John Beuchert led the scoring for Brighton with 12 points with Rich Saunders right behind at 11. Scott Sperry added eight and Todd Reid and Eddie McDaniels seven each. Coach Reid also took note of the play of Todd Coomes, Dave Stott and 51-3- 7 Todd Slyvester. Topping Taylorsvilles scoring HOLLADAY. Hindered by a 28 chart were Karl Michaelis with 14 percent shooting performance from points, Ryan Brown with nine and the floor, Cottonwood ended up dropDavid Houtz with six. Leading ping a 7 decision to Skyline Friscorer Toff Mitchell was ill and day night. played only eight minutes, and his to Blair Coach According back-uTodd Hailstone was also not the Colts had been averaging Leatherwood reported. well, feeling 50 percent as a team and he was at a loss as to explain the cause behind the sudden drop. Skylines defense wasnt bothering us all that much and we were getting shots inside the paint, he 7-- 5 said. They just werent falling for well-execut- 58-3- 9 24-1- 0 44-2- 7 tip-of- 20-1- 0 37-2- 0 Tailgater Set For Kearns Boosters pre-gam- 10 PIECE PIT GROUP OAK COFFEE & END TABLE SET $1 Lifetime on warranty frame I springe i-- : 3 PIECE USED 17 Cottonwood In Decision NEW Slightly Damaged RECLINER $459 Only (Similar ! Skyline Drops Ptrt) 51-3- BRASS COAT RACKS 22 NEW TWIN SIZE MATTRESS A Set & BOX $97 Slightly Uied DELUXE RECLINER Brown Velvet BRASS p PLANT STANDS Reg. 429 Only 264 Only 22 NEW VELVET OAK ROCKERS SWIVEL ROCKERS 97 Mar-tinea- Only PLUS TOO MANY ITEMS 189 TO LIST Murray Skates Over Altar us. Martineau and his charges hope to bring things back to normal for tomorrows (Friday) match at Granger. Tip-of- f is set for 7:30 p.m. The Colts trailed by seven, 14-- 7 at the end of the first quarter and by six at the half. Skyline made the by the end of the margin nine, third quarter then added to it in the final stanza with most of the points coming from the foul line. The Eagles had just three field goals in the fourth quarter, while attempting 14 free throws. Top scorers for Cottonwood included Greg Kloke with 14 points and Steve Cuthbert with 10. Cuthbert also had 12 rebounds. The Colts hit 12X44 shots from the field and 11X27 from the foul line. I felt we played well defensively and our rebounding was right up added coach there with theirs, Martineau. "The difference was simply our poor shooting from the 26-2- 0 37-2- STORE 1735 South Redwood Rd. Salt Lake City, Utah 84104 (801)972-620- 7 HOURS 9-- 7 Veekdays Saturday 9 - 6 field. t MURRAY. Team captain Paul Snow scored five goals in leading to a hardfought 5 victory over Alta in high school hockey action on Thurs7-- day. Four of Snows goals were unassisted and two came with the Spartans skating shorthanded. James Standley and Darren Wack scored the other two goals. Wack was also credited with two assists, while Jeff Anderson, Snow and Justin Hunter each had one. Matt Adams was the leading scorer for Alta with two goals with Matt Osborne, Brett Duckworth and Mike Sipsman adding one each. Murrays next game will be against Granite at Cottonwood Heights on Thursday, Jan. 17, at 5:30 p.m. Scores in other games Include Brighton 5, Taylorsville 4; Olympus 10, Cottonwood 4; Highland 4, East 1; end Ogden South 1, Valley North 0. |