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Show 2 - THE CITIZEN - THURSDAY, MAR. 21, 1S74 drives up the court and runs over View player who managed to hat Gunnell, who does the Academy the ball to another Bobcat who Award job to make sure the ref managed to keep the hall in the sees the foul. air, wasting valuable seconds Bona has immediately turned before a Kearns player could control. from a hero to a goat. The second jump ball came Kearns time out. Time in. Roger Low brings the after a rare Andersen miss, and ball up court with the special the ensuing tip found Gordon Gats Edge Downstate Teams, Take 4th Place by eight, by Vincent Saunders but Hillcrest 63-5- 5, 0, closed to within three, again. Roger Low, Jerry Rasmussen and Kim Hall tanked fielders to give the Cats a 69-lead final as they entered the frame. The final period was all Sky View as they outscored the Huskies 24-1- 1 and finished with a 93-win. GunneU led the Cat attack with 30 points. He had help from Hall, Speth and Rasmussen, with 18, 16 and 15, respectively. Lopez was high for Hillcrest with 25 points, while Wittenberg and Casper finished with 14 and 63-6- Guaranteed at least a seventh-plac- e finish, the Sky Vie High School Bobcats vent out and streaked (we use this word with caution) to wins over Hillcrest and Kearns enroute to capturing fourth place in the state AAAA basketball tournament. Not only do the Bobcats pick iq the fourth-sptrophy, but a stand good chance of they also winning the sportsmanship trophy issued annually to the team and school which demonstrates sportsmanlike qualities not only on court but in the cheering section as well. The Bobcats set out for their championship quest by defeating Ogden in the first night of action. Things werent so rosy two days later as Orem (a team Sky n) View edged in squashed the Cats title hopes with a controversial 79-5- 0 win. It was a game which found Orem receiving 37 foul pitches while Sky View fought for 24. Fouls were not the only thing wrong with the game. The general officiating leaned so hard toward Orem that a SALT LAKE TRIBUNE correspondent said, post-gam- e, that the refs should have put braces under the Orem players so that their influence wouldn't knock them down. Kim Hall, for instance, felt like a doormat because he was so often flattened. But not once did an official detect an offensive foul on the ot pre-seaso- 64 75 11 points, respectively. With a needed win tucked under their belts, the Cats faced a tough Kearns team. The day before the Cougars had eliminated Logan by a 75 to 61 score. This prompted some Loganites to proclaim that the Bobcats would never beat so "tough" a team play somewhere inside his brain. He sees Hall open and fires a pass underneath to the left. Hall fakes left, gets Pearce off the ground, and goes up for two while Pearce is caught with his hands in the cookie jar. Hall sinks the free throw, and its 6, when comes aKearns time out. secF ort jnsix thrill-packonds remain on the clock. Two jump balls and a Kearns turnover filled the last 46 ticks of the clock. It took about two minutes to play the last 40 seconds. Both jump balls found Roger Low taking on someone or taller, and both times Low managed to harass the Kearns player enough to cause him to tip it near a Sky 77-7- ed Burns tipping the ball out of bounds. With five seconds left on the clock, Hall's inbounds pass to Larry Matthews almost resulted in two more Cat points, but the lay-i- n attempt was too hard off first half. Rasmussen, Gunnell and Speth also had fine days and make the Cats look like shoo-ifor next tournament. The three years juniors combined for 42 points, with 18, 12 and 12, respectively. Hall also ended up as one of the top scorers in the tournament, with 76 points. Gunnell was next with 66. Andersen led Kearns with 33 points, and was followed distantly by Burns, with 15, and Pearce, with 19 points. ns foe glass. A desperation by Andersen was taken down five feet short by Rasmussen, and the Cats had themselves a fourth-plac- e trophy. Not bad for a team who, according to Salt Lake City newsmen, were sipposed to be killed every time out against the "Salt Lake Powers." Kim HaU once again led the Cat offense, which was one of teams in the highest-scoristate play. Hall ripped the nets for 23 points, 18 coming in the 70-foot- er ng Thus ends a Sky View career for six seniors. Absent from next years squad will be two-ye- ar lettermen Hall, Matthews and Tarbet. Also missing will be Howard Little, Roger Low and Scott Neilson. Ike will miss these Though players, he can look forward to next year-wh- en the likes of Steve Gunnell, Speth, Rasmussen, Dave Jensen, Dean Egbert and others return. for improving reasons. qc VoornG But for the third time this year the Bobcats proved that Logan is a bad judge of talent, as they captured fourth place in a thrilling 77-7- 6 win. An elated Ivan Christensen commented post-gathat fouland shooting poise won the game. "You have to keep your cool in a close one like this one or you'll lose it. We needed the foul shots and the kids stepped up and got them. They used their heads on offense as well as defense," Ike said proudly. The first quarter found Sky Orem culprit. View jumping to a 10-- 2 lead and Meanwhile Sky View couldnt completely dominating the rest buy a basket, and they did not of the quarter. dare travel inside for fear of an Behind Kim Halls shooting offesnive foul. and rebounding the Cats ran qp In Region Four they believe a 3M9 lead at the end of the in letting the players play, but first quarter, and they mainthis game was ridiculous. tained it all second quarter, The next day (Friday) would pulling into the pits at the halfbe crucial. If the Cats lost to way mark ahead by five, 44-3Hillcrest they would be eliminaBut the second half was not ted. The day before Hillcrest to be as easy as the first one had lost a heartbreaker to West, seemed to be. so it was likewise for the HusCourtney Andersen, leading scorer of Region Four, pumped kies: do or die. The game started with Sky in 27 second-ha- lf points, mainly on tips and second-effo- rt shots. View and Hillcrest playing to held six After Hillcrest got the first being points in the first half, Andersen's extwo points but Sky View countered with six in a row. From plosion was a little unexpected, and it took the Cats a while to then on it was pretty well matched, and the first quarter ended stop it. Such as halfway through the with the Cats holding a slim one-poi- nt fourth 1. quarter. advantage, With ValGunneU providing the Meanwhile, Kearns was grar offense, the Cats took it out of dually eating away the Bobcat lead. compound and put it in overTwo Dave Pearce jumpers drive in the second quarter, as the Cats coasted to a 52-gave the Cougars the first lead since the very earliest going. halftime lead. With 1:50 left in the game and Gunnell already had tanked 21 points while Kim Hall and Steve the Cats down by two, the inevitable happened: a turnover. AlSpeth brought up the rear. Chava Lopez was the only though the Cats would have only thing keeping Hillcrest in the 14 turnovers the whole game, it looked as if one might beat game, with help from them. Dean Casper and Mike WittenKearns quickly capitalized by berg. The third quarter opened with tanking two more, these from the Huskies trying to make a Dean Bona. Sky View time out. game of it, and they almost Time in. With the Bobcats succeeded. Gunnell Lopez, Region Fours leading down by four, 76-7-2, to scorer, led the attack with 11 drives the basket and is fouled thirdquarter points, as the Hus- by Bona, his fourth. Gunnell then skins both free kies closed to within two at 57-5-5. throws: 4. Bona takes the inbounds pass, Sky View went back out front me 9. run-and-g- un. 22-2- 37 off-and-- on 76-7- Carry a BankAmericardl For your own special reasons. V h. Sicarii, Mttmtv P Pm Pm M Mk IwiMy Sum Mmr M f Uh. H.A MM N A Mi Mi Ufa. Cm ml IMfc F B Utah M. WpA borii, Ium M 1 Pmhi Uu ... MA tl BrnmiUk Uuk. IhA Iminqr Mi ri I N A. N A. MrnAtr. P.D I.C. |