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Show Some Resolutions and Wishes for the New Year The end of a year generates almost as many lists as it does mixed drinks. You know, newspaper editors pick the Top Ten News Stories of The Year, local television give us lists of micro-secon- d glimpses of the years events and throw them at us like confetti. center who signed with Idaho State last spring find that he actually had one more year of high school eligibility just in time for Region Four play. ReFor Local Sports Broadcasters solve to create your own cute phrase and leave Leap and lean to Hot Rod Hundley of the Jazz. He says it enough For the 1983 Viewmont High School Cross-CountTeam Aw, cmon. Af- p.s. same goes for for everyone. ry ter two straight state championships, what could you guys want? And it also supposedly the time for resolutions, although Ive never known anyone who has made a resolution, much less kept it. For the Davis Senior Football Players Resolve to play college football and hope that some college coaches, particularly in the junior colleges, realize what you can do. Nevertheless, here are some suggestions for new years resolutions and wishes for the upcoming year in sports. For Viewmont Coach Warren Hatch Resolve to be as patient with referees calls as you were last year, and pray that a final decision will be made about which ref rules whether a field goal was good or not. For the Davis Darts Football Team Resolve not to play Alta again in the state tournament, and if you do, may the Hawks be declared ineligible for recruiting violations. i For All Golfers Resolve not do an imitation of the hammer throw with your putter, and pray that someone For the 1983-8- 4 Woods Cross High Basketball Team Resolve to start winning again, and if not, may a 9 leaves you a condo in St. George in his will. 6-- How bout that Jazz! For the Viewmont High Football Team No resolution, just a wish. May a family with triplets, each weighing 230 pounds, move in your area in September and ask, Uh, is it too late to try out for the team?" For Davis basketball Coach Mike Gardner, Roy Coach Ted Smith and Resolve to Layton's Doug Moon make it the state tournament with your short teams and then wish for descendants of the Ralph Sampson family to move west. Resolve to For all sportswriters never ask dumb, obvious questions, and may all your phone calls be For Sports Fans Resolve not to complain as much about listening to Howard Cosell, watching the Denver Broncos or wading through bowl game hype. And wish that you wont hear another story about cocaine, courts, contracts or carousing. Sweet dreams. For Davis Coach Ward Sawley For Any Future Professional Athletes Want more popularity? Resolve nev- er to renegotiate a contract and may you never be the subject of an FBI or a grand jury investigation. For Sports Officials Resolve to know your rule books as well as you know your social security numbers and hope that the only inadvertent whistles you blow are at girls on the beach. For Atlanta Braves Fans Wish that the Braves dont fold in August again and resolve not to cancel your subscription to the Braves Banner when they do. Add For Sports Fans Resolve to continue to be as fickle as a beautiful woman and wish that you didnt have to be. Resolve to continue being patient when asked about the Alta losses. And may your wish of playing the Hawks with an equally sized team be granted. For Myself Hope that I dont get too many complaints about the above comment. Page IB South Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, January 4, 1984 Region One Region Four Boys Teams Teams Set For Openers Set to Start KENT SOMERS KENT SOMERS Review Sports Editor Review Sports Editor Like children growing out of adolescence, local high school basketball teams will put away the toys preseason games and start playing for keeps this week. In Region One action Friday Clearfield travels to Roy and Layton hosts The waiting, the seemingly endless practices and the holidays are over. The games weve all been waiting for, the real games, will begin in Region Four this Friday when league action starts. In the first round, Davis will play at East, Bountiful will host county rival Woods Cross and Viewmont will travel to Highland. Bonneville in league openers. All three schools, however, need to recover from losses in the last preseason games of the year last week. LAYTON The Lancers suffered another dismal shooting night through at Brighton last Friday evening and lost the game, Layton was able to with the stay Bengals during the first half but was hammered in the second half by the taller, more talented Ben- The Wildcats WOODS CROSS pulled off the upset of the year thus far last Friday when they defeated Clear- 67-3- field, 66-6The win was only Woods Cross second this year in 10 preseason games, 1. and Wildcats Coach Clyde Jackson thought Clearfield, considered to be one of the best teams in the area, took Woods Cross for granted. 1 think they may have been looking past us because they have a good team. Jackson said he played several of his younger players more than he had in the past and they responded well to varsity action. Sophomore guard Taisi Avei replaced his brother. Junior, in the game and handled the ball well against Clearfields defense, said Jackson. He handled it, Jackson said. He didnt score a lot but he played a good floor game. They pressed us the entire game. Although the Wildcats finished the preseason with a dismal 8 record, Jackson said his team played well at times, especially in night games. Every time the Wildcats have .been blown out, it has been in an afternoon game, said Jackson. The three times weve played bad it has been in the af-temoon. The other games were respect- 9. gals. The Lancers, who have won only one game this year, now must face another tall and talented team in the Bonneville Lakers. They are big and are a good team, said Layton Coach Doug Moon about the 3 Lakers. Bonneville relies mostly on a strong inside game led by 5 Mike Watson. The Watson kid is 5 and is a very good jumper and player. In order to diminish Bonnevilles size 7-- 6-- 6-- advantage, Layton must play good, pressure defense, according to Moon. We are going to try and pressure people defensively, he said. We cant let them get down and set things up. We need to pick them up early and possibly force a few turnovers. The Lancers have had trouble with turnovers themselves this year. But in the Brighton game, breaking the press was not the problem making a base ket was. Layton had several opportunities but couldnt convert the shots. Obviously, to beat Bonneville theyll have to. 2-- three-on-on- , able." Luckily for Woods Cross, this weeks region opener at Bountiful will be played at 7:30 p.m. The bad news' is that the Braves again have a good basketball team, finishing the preseason with a 3 record. ROY Although his Royals lost to Ted Smith was Provo last Friday not disappointed with his teams perfor54-4- 5, mance. We were in the game until the last said Smith. They three minutes, spread it out and we fouled and they converted at the line and that was the 7-- They (the Braves) have a big, strong front line and the ability to bring two or three people off the bench, Jackson game. said. We hope we play well and theyre a little off, and we hope it will be a close game, Jackson concluded. UPSET of the basketball season, Woods Cross defeated Clearfield last Friday, IN THE Continued on page 2B The Royals led for a good share of the game, said Smith, but made a few turnovers with three minutes left in the game and fell behind. Continued on page 2B 66-6- 1. Prep Girls Teams Begin Region Play This Week The Royals have had trouble Seven area girls high school basketball teams will begin re- shooting from the foul line this year, according to Johnson, and gion games on this Friday afternoon and two games between that is one reason for the losing local rivals will headline the ac- preseason record. Were are lostion. ing at the foul line, Johnson In Region One, Roy will trav- said. We are shooting like eight el to Clearfield and Layton will for 22, eight for 24 or seven for play at Bonneville in the league's 20. Its really bad. Johnson said she has been getfirst games. ting good, solid play from three ROY AT CLEARFIELD seniors, Cheryl Jorgenson, Julie The Royals have suffered Taylor and Laureen Taylor. Tipoff time for Fridays game through a miserable 6 preseason, and Coach Radene Johnson is 4 p.m. said her teams main problem is LAYTON AT BONNEmental, not physical. Layton is starting They (the Royals) dont VILLE think they can win. They don't with an easy opponent, said believe they can do it, she said. Lancers Coach Brent Checketts ; One of the biggest problems jokingly. the Royals have is a lack of size, Actually Checketts believes according to Johnson. We dont that Bonneville could challenge have a tall center, Johnson for the region title and said his said. Our tallest girl is 9 and club will have to play well to or 3 girl beat the Lakers. teams with a They are very good," he said. hurt us inside and on the foul line. They have three big girls up 4-- ' 3-- , 5-- ot t 6-- t front plus Jeena Butters, who I good quarter and then a bad consider to be one of the pre- quarter. The Darts have received conmier players in the state. We will have our hands full. sistently good play from Diana Layton is 2 on the season Peterson, a senior who plays in and has received steady play the post, said Gilbert. from Julie Nelson and Kristi Against East on Friday, the Snarr, two players. That Darts will be facing the unsize allows the Lancers to match known, said Gilbert, who said she doesnt know much about up evenly with the Lakers. Size we match up O.K., said the Leopards. I havent seen Checketts. Im a little con- them, she said. They have a cerned about our shooting and new coach. And like most things that are we need to play better defense. The game will begin at 4 p.m. unknown, the game should be on Friday. interesting, said Gilbert. Tipoff time is 3:30 p.m. on EAST AT DAVIS The Friday. Darts have had only a mediocre HIGHLAND AT VIEWand heed preseason, going The Viewmont girls to become more consistent, ac- MONT basketball team starts off league cording to Coach Ann Gilbert. action at home Friday at 3:30 We cant hit the buckets p.m. against a tough Highland down the stretch, said Gilbert. squad. And the inconsistency is also apThe Vikings are 3 in preseaparent at other times in the son play including an important game, she said. We'll have a win ovef Bingham. . 5-- 4, 2-- "r l Jenny Miller, a sparkplug 5-- 8 center, is the of a small but scrappy Viewmont team, according to assistant coach Ralph Knudson. Jenny is a very agressive player. She is a good scorer and a good rebounder despite her height, Knudson said. The Vikings rely on quickness hard-nose- d defense. We will press a lot on defense and will switch 'from a and a man-to-m- an to zone, Knudson said. BOUNTIFUL AT WOODS CROSS Bountiful tips off Friday at 3:30 against the Wildcats at Woods Cross. The young Wildcat team hopes to avenge a preseason drubbing suffered at the hands of the Braves. I dont think tnings will be the same this time around," said I Woods Cross Coach Debbie Peel. We are a very, very young team and we just needed game experience. We got a big lift when we came from behind to beat Grantsville in our last preseason game, Peel said. Bountiful will begin league play with what some coaches around the region are calling the best Brave team in years. Bountiful is led by Lynn Burningham and Shana Knudsen pouring in buckets from the outside and a sometimes effective inside game with 1 center Lisa Jones. 6-- The Wildcats, with a 4 preseason record, must stop Bountifuls outside shooting to win Fridays league opener, Peelsaid. 3-- . Preseason for the Braves was highlighted by capturing the championship of the Davis County Invitational Tournament in December. |