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Show r Sportstacular Page 10 Thursday. November 8, 1979' Channel Five sports per sonality Don Judd called Saturdays Bonneville-firighto- n state playoff football clash a truly exciting prep battle and Marion Tree, president of Utahs School Activities High Association added his opinion, they dont come more exciting. But for Bonneville coaches, players and fans last Saturday at Rice Stadium on the U. of U. campus, it was a nightmare of they forgot the heartbreaking 2 1979 state playoff loss to 15-1- Granger, theyd begin going Well, the Lakers started going, places early this season and had run up a 54) record before being knocked from the undefeated ranks. But it appeared after the blow Bonneville stunning received in Smithfleld from Sky View that the Lakers were riding dangerously in pretty rough nightmares. In a reality, it was a nightmare as Brightons Derek Emery threaded a field goal with waters. Despite clobbering lowly Roy, the Lakers patched up some holes and made their way into the seconds remaining to give his 4 come from team a thrilling behind victory over the Lakers and thus advance to the quarterfinals. Coach Tom Budge probably more than once reminded Region One as the third place team. Before last Saturdays contest and. with the Lakers holding a 14-- 0 lead over the Bengals in the second period, Laker faithfuls still had visions of their team fighting it out November 17th for the state championship. 25-ya- 11 16-1- returning from last seasons squad that the sooner state playoffs representing But Cory Sylvesters nine yard pass to Dean Delian and Ted Rickard's point after were the final points Bonneville would notch in 1979 a surprise to everyone including Brighton coach, Steve Dangerfield They were whipping us on offense and its surprising they didn't score the second half," said Dangerfield ' Slow Start Despite Bonnevilles giding up and down the field in sane parts of the game, the Bengal defense fa the most part kept up the pace. rt The Brighton offense was frustrated in the beginning of both halves and in fact it wasnt until the second slow-to-sta- quarter that the Bengals managed their first first down of the game. Meanwhile behind the running of Marvin Ellis, Steve Thomas and Mike Smith the Lakers were down. Rickards kick was again all-tigood. Emotions were at an Bonneville on the peak compiling big yardage. Late in the first quarter it appeared the Lakers had an easy one. With only inches to go for a touchdown, Ellis was stopped short of the goal line on fourth donwn, a goal line stance that would weigh heavily in the end of the ball game. sidelines. But the rest of the second quarter belonged completely to the Bengals. Kimball drove his team 35 yards in 4 plays before connecting with John Bourne on a scoring pass. That with the extra point made it 14-- 7 with 1:30 remaining in the first half. was The ensueing kick-of- f fumbled by the Lakers right into the hands of a waiting Bengal defender. Emery, who later became man of the hour for Brighton, booted a field goal after Brighton was unable to push the ball across for a TD. OnsideKick With just 30 seconds left, Brighton tried an onside kick, recovered it, then had Emery boot another field goal with no time remaining. The second field goal was from 43 yards out, which tied his longest shot this season. That made it 3 at the half. Brighton was driving down the field mid-wa- y through the final period but Mike Smith intercepted a pass that gave the ball back to the Lakers. So with 8:34 all the Lakers had to do was to continue to run the pigskin of which they were pretty successful in doing most of the afternoon. Senior Brent Cundick filled in for Ellis who had sustained a bruised shoulder and picked up sizeable chucks of yardage. But Bonneville fomd themselves in a third down and long situation. Budge sent in a pass play and except for the Bonneville player rd Hie next time Bonneville got the pigskin, well into the second period, Sylvester faked a handoff to Ellis up the middle but gave to Thomas who swept wide right and danced 11 yards along the sideline and into the endzone for the games first score. Rickards kick was good. The Lakers meant business cm defense too as Ellis tipped a Russ Kimball pass into the arms of Laker defensive end Neil Grover. Five plays later, Sylvester who was 10 of 16 for 81 yards in the game, threw a strike to Dean touch-- . Delion for a nine-yar- d 14-1- . dropping the ball, the pass pattern worked beautifully. Coach Budge took two or three roll on. the astro-tur- f after the dropped pass. That meant the ball had to go back. And back it did go. Brighton started 81 yards from its goal line. A QB sack by Bill Noker pinned the Bengals back even further. But oq a fourth down and two yards to go situation, Dangerfield elected to go for it. Handoff was to Phil Swan who chewed up three yards up the : V:. middle. The next play was the killer for Bonneville as Brightons Korey Rasmussen made a spectacular over the shoulder catch and , raced down the sidelines for a gain. After that the Bengals began running down the clock, grinding it out on the ground to get Emery in good position for a field goal. The Bengals worked the ball . down to the seven, where Emery had only to make a chip shot. Fingernails took a diewing as tension built in preparation for Emerys kick. Cries of Nock that kick, block that kick rang from'! the Bonneville bleachers. But after three successive time outs, one by Brighton and two by Bonneville, just enough time for Emery to think long and hard about .his boot, the ball was set down and after, the kick wobbled , rd ; , ' BONNEVILLE? MARVIN Bengals. Ell ELLIS turns the comar for big yardage in lost Saturday's frustrating dafaat to the Brighton islanded a good year for the Lakors. through the uprights giving Brighton the victory with only seconds remaining. 11 |