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Show ' f CLEARFIELD COURIER, Bountiful Braves knock Falcons for a loop The Bountiful Braves could do no wrong in their homecoming game with Clearfield but everything went wrong for the Falcons. For Bountiful, it was the perfect ending of a beautiful homecoming. For Clearfield, it was 48 minutes of 0ct. 4, 1978, Pag 1 5 .12 Clearfield in the opening minutes of the game. The Falcons had placed the perfect punt on the Braves three yard line, but then the fortunes of war changed. The Braves mounted a touchdown drive and did it on the ground. That sustained drive seemed to ignite the Braves, and shatter the Falcons. In the third quarter, passing of Lynn Muir, riddled the Clearfield defensive secondary with every type of pass conceivable and scored three more first half touchdowns. The half time score favored Bountiful 28-TheClearfield coaches didnt discuss embarrassing football. The final at strategy and counter-strategscore was 41-- 8 for Bountiful. halftime; they just tried to settle their team down and close the flood-gate- s Bountiful, behind the Things had looked bright for of panic that had prevailed in the first 24 minutes of the game. But Bountiful wasnt through humiliating the Falcons. Momentum was on the Braves side of the field, and they scored a touchdown in the third and fourth quarter to run the score up to 41 points. Clearfield prevented a shut-owhen Larry Read hit Roger Vincent on a touchdown pass, late in the fourth quarter and hit him again for the conversion. A drive on the ground opened the door for the Bountiful drubbing of Clearfield, but Lynn Muirs passing game broke the Falcons back. Muir threw only one touchdown pass, but set up two second quarter T.D.s through the air. John Luddington rushed for three touchdowns, Muir passed to Blain Bernard for one, Mike Kramer ran one in from eight yards, and Page Bennett intercepted a Larry Read pass for the final score. Clearfield went home to lick its wounds and prepare for the Weber Warriors, whom they play Wednesday HARVEY SCHENCK is proud of the nine foot sail fish he landed in Mexico, The fish at home. weighed in at 138 pounds and took 50 minutes to land. pin-poi- to nt .J !A .12 ut A A w two-poi- Big fish Harvey Schenck got more than he had planned on when he went with a square-dancin- g group several years ago to Mexico City, Tasco and Acapulco. He went deep sea fishing and landed a nine foot, 138 pound sail fish, which now hangs on his front room wall. Harvey, with his wife Alice and another couple went out on a 35 foot boat, for what he calls The biggest sporting thrill of my life. It took most of an hour to land the big fish, and Harvey admits, Ive never been so tired in my life. Mr. and Mrs. Schenck estimate that the fish cost them $400, including landed d Scorpions defeat travel expense, boat fare, having the fish mounted and shipped to Utah and other odd expenses, but it is h well-wort- Roy SOCCER IS GAINING support in Clearfield and Davis County. Bovs and girls often play on the same teams as shown in this game between Hill Field Sand Ridge hopes to continue its undefeated football season in its game against North Ogden Junior Wednesday at 3 p.m. on the Scorpions How do you like a big fish in your front room? we asked Mrs. Schenck. It wasnt planned that way, she replied, but it is too big for the basement. But Mrs. Schenck did admit that she didnt mind having the trophy there because it made Harvey proud. field. Friday, they were victorious over rivals Roy Junior by a The winning touchdown score of for the Scorpions came in the third quarter with a run by Gary Ashley. The previous week, Sand Ridge slipped past Wahlquist Junior for a 0 win also. Some of the outstanding plays were made when Sand Ridge quarterback Brian Durbano threw two passes to tightend Bart Hadley, one for 30 yards and one for 45 yards and then a touchdown. Thursday saw action for the Sand cross-tow- n 6-- Harvey and Alice live at 1959 W. 4400 S. Roy. Stop by to see their prize catch. Harvey is more than happy to tell how he caught it. Bonnevilles Lakers came within six d inches of beating Layton on the Lancers field, but in a hectic final two minutes of play, the Lancers stopped the Lakers on the one-foline, quick kicked to the Bonneville 36 yard line and moments later caused a fumble that won the ball game for them. 3 The final score was for the Lancers. ' With two minutes to play in the fgctnte, "Bonneville was on the Lancers ' two-yarline, fourth and one and a half yard to make a first down. The play was so close that the chains had to be brought in to measure to determine who had poseession. Bonneville lost the measurement by six inches. The Lancers failed to punch the ball out on two drives up the middle, and on third down and eight to the ball clear to the go, quick-kicke- d line.-ThBonneville on a Lakers got back to mid-fiel- d but then Marv it Ellis, sweep by top-rate- 6-- .Ridge 20-1- Junio.,GirKuWWlJ4?m Junior at Sand Ridge Park. The Scorpions lost the who played rival Roy Teams ready 9o end season (0-5- ) Coach Geertgens team drew a bye this week, but scheduled a practice s. Lancers hold back Lakers, win game in final two minutes ballgame although some outstanding performances were turned in by Ranae Owens, Jill Belnap and Janice Corbridge. Clearfield teams won one, tied one, lost one and had a bye for this, the next to the last game of the season. 70 pounders Coach Larry Geertgens and Clearfield eight and it. ) V' i game with Syracuse, whom he had On this played earlier, and lost 85 38-- (3-3- occasion the score was only 21-if thats any consolation. The young Falcons face Farmington at Clearfield, Saturday, in their last game of the season. pounders-Coac- ) Clfd 7 - Kaysville 0 Clearfield blanked a team that was not only unbeaten this year, but unscored on. Andy Archulettas 50 yard T.D. run through the middle, was the first touchdown anyone has scored against the Kaysville club this year. I have never seen such a great effort in my 25 years of coaching little said Richard Cowan, league, coach of the Clearfield team. Defense was the key to the game, he continued. Those kids were fantastic. Clearfield set up the touchdown run with a series of wide plays, and then popped Archuletta through the middle. , 100 pounders - 1 Hernandez by the leg and shook the ball loose. An alert Layton tackle picked up the loose ball and raced toward the Bonneville end zone. The Lakers caught him at the eight, but that gave the Lancers new life with 21 seconds to play. Quarterback Mark Vigil faked into the line, then raced around the left end to scuttle the Lakers dream of an upset. The Lancers accumulated 160 yards rushing and eight yards passing for a total of 168 yards, while the Lakers ground out 70 yards on the ground and passed for another 56 yards for 126 total yards. ' Quarterback Coach Ray McMullin Meeting planned n , , (2-4- . . dead-locke- )ACH RICHARD COWAN gives last minute instruction to John Boyd, an the only team pounder, in the Kaysville game. Clearfield's team has been scor on the Kaysville team this year. ! ' . Sue Henderson, President of the Gearfield Little League Baseball Association is urging all interested players, parents, coaches and friends to attend a planning meeting Nov. 1 at the North Davis Library for next years baseball program, beginning at 7 p.m. Mrs. Henderson stressed that a good turnout is important to assure a good Little League Baseball program for next year. d Clearfield made a gallant effort to come back, but ran out of time on the 30 yard line. ; Hats off to the Clearfield 120 pounders. Heres a team that has been playing with only 12 and 13 players all, year long. They don't even have , enough men for a scrimmage. , Marco Hernandez completed five of his nine passes, but Clearfield 13 - Riverdale 13 Clearfield rushed for 203 yards, and passed for 14 to muster 15 first downs and 189 total yards, compared to 30 j rushing yards, 120 passing yards and q 11 first downs for the Riverdale bunch. Riverdale scored on two long passes, while we had to grind ours out-othe ground, moaned Coach, McMullin. Clearfield played a great defensive game. The' game, in the hard-fougteam scored in the final quarter and',' made a gutsy P.A.T. play to pull even for the tie. 120 pounders-Coac- h Kurt Stanger ) Washington Terrace 14- - Gearfield 7 Washington Terrace capitalized on a' fumble by Clearfield on its own 1$ yard line to get the first score Clearfield's Joey Cowley broke one up the middle for 20 yards and a touch' down to tie the game, and Rico; Trajillo made the extra point. The until the game remained fourth quarter, when the Terrace team scored from 15 yards out to win the game. Layton-Bonnevill- w hen the measurement was made at mid-fielthe first down mark came within six inches of the goal. Coach Tom Budge complained about the condition of the field before the game, as did one of the Layton coaches, but he would not mention that as a reason for losing the ball game, Bonneville must now regroup and prepare for a home game against the Bob Cats of Sky View. Skyview lost to winRoy and Clearfield; andhada-7-at home over Viewmont last week. down, but - happened. Laytons candidate, Chuck Ehin broke through the line, grabbed quarterback Marco Richard Cowan h three of his completions were interceptions by the Layton team. His two completions netted 70 yards. Layton completed only one of six passes, but had no interceptions. e The game summary would not be complete without mention of the poor condition of the field. Coaches on both benches commented on how rough the field was. Even the lines are out of proportion. The chains at the sidelines indicated that Bonnevilfe had V get within 18 inches of the goal for a first Read and use the want ads 825-166-6 A car-podiscussion triggered a survey I took last week to determine what percentage of little league football players go on to play high school football when they become of age Guestimates ranged from less than ten percent to not more than 25 percent. Everyone considered himself an expert, but the survey fooled us all. I chose the 70 pound leagues to do my survey because: They are the football beginners; This group includes eight, nine and ten year olds on a ratio similar to the 12th, 11th and 10th graders of the high school team ; and some kids play only one year, before deciding that football is not their bag. I wanted to include every boy who would participate in little league football. Mike Hein of Roy Recreation reported that 118 to 125 70 pounders suited up for little league football this year. I used the 125 figure to make my com- parison. I talked to 49 football players who are on the 1978 Roy High School football roster. Six of them confided that they had never played football below the junior high school level. This means that 41 of 49 or 83.7 percent of the high school varsity, had their beginning before they entered junior high school (There were one or two who began playing little league football after they were in the seventh grade). Most of the players played five or six years in little league. There was even one senior star, Dave Johnson, who had never before played football in any league before this season. On the negative side of my survey, I determined that six of every ten 70 pounders, presently playing W.F.F.L. football, will not be playing high school football, eight or ten years from now. It has been said that kids burn themselves out in little league sports and lose the competitive desire to play when they get older. The negative theory ' states that organized football fills a need when the boy is young and causes His moments him to lose interest before he gets to high school. He has had of glory, they proclaim, "and there are no more goals to be reached. I cant accept that theory. I would rather believe that little league sports wet the appetite for higher and more competitive sports. I maintain that kids find themselves in organized sports as youngsters, and pursue that course into adulthood. I credit the skills and talents theyy develop in childhood as the spring board which creates super stars in any sport. Everyone knows of talented kids who gave up sports in childhood, though they had all the tools of being good athletes. Dont blame little league sports, We had the same dilema in my day, But on a broader scope. I believe that the little leagues help prove to a lot of kids, that they can succeed In sports. Roy High School is the smallest 4 A school in Utah, yet is able to compets with the best, in all major sports. 1 attribute much of Roys success to ths fantastic programs of getting kids involved through recreation. West High School and Bountiful are two other schools who would qudLV for 3A status in Utah, but elected to remain as 4A. These schools, Lhs have been very competitive in baseball, basketball and footbilL Each active little league programs to train the athletes of tomorrow. In the W.F.F.L, youngsters learn the basic fundamcztrU cf Lcc!l. R execute prtrlra not uncommon to see 10 and 11 year-old- s 1va tz" ) c Ls L. .1' them call audiblss at the line of scrimm;s, puti zt t "3 ? sweeps, and work plays off the option. Is it any : U school teams play such sophisticated foothill? seniors are playing In their tenth year of organised VY Support your favorite httia league football team. Yen arty tit::4 j makings of tomorrows supewtars. ( , 1?, 0 r,'p. m'? Lf ' tlry :j n ' ' 4 lU' |