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Show S Sun TfanM, February i, 1910, Pag dnarftnld Cauriar, Fabruoryi. 190.fogn I Sun Chronkla, February 9, 1900. Pag prep Region One basketball couldnt be any tighter with only four games remaining, three teams tied for first place and another only a game back. Two league leaders, Clearfield and Weber will battle it out this Friday at Weber High School while Layton travels to Bonneville and Sky View comes back south to play host to Roy. Coach Craig Hansen and his Clearfield Falcons have enjoyed quite a successful series over Coach Dick Conollys Weber squad since Hansen made his debut as a head coach last season. In three meetings between the two clubs, the Falcons have dominated nearly every game including the one played earlier this year in Clearfield. The Falcons maintained control of the final two quarters back on January 4 vic11th to come away with a tory. But the Warriors have improved vastly since the first meeting between these two leaders. That skyrocketing improvement includes a 3 beating of Sky View in Smithfield last week. The Warriors broke a lot of records with that win but more importantly kept their attitudes at all time highs. Both teams now stand at 2 in Region One and winner could possibly take over sole possession of first place in the region. w as also in double digits with 10 points and Cory Sylvester and Kevin Hill hit eight points apiece for the Lakers. Kerry Gambles came in off the bench to also play a very vital role in the Lakers victory down the stretch. Brook Hicks hit 15 points, nine of those during the first quarter, to pace Clearfields balanced scoring attack; while Danny Perkins and Troy Nye netted 12 points apiece for the Falcons. lineup Bonnevilles talent-ladehas given the Lakers an r ride thus far this season; but here Friday night, they n roller-coaste- may have finally emerged from the shadows and showed that they are capable of challenging for a high rung on this years league ladder by picking up the vital victory on the Falcons floor. Forged Out in Front Ellis and Snell shot the Lakers out to an early lead, but Hicks and Nye combined forces for all but two of Clearfields points as the Falcons 4 at the end of forged out in front the first frame. Bonneville outscored Clearfield by a 16-margin during the first 5 minutes of the second stanza to open and spread, up a seven-ppoiafter the Falcons battled back within bomb at one, Ellis fogged in a the halftime buzzer to boost Bonneville back out to a 1 edge at intermission. 57-4- 8-- 2 94-7- 17-1- 6 4-- 30-2- 3; 25-fo- Lakers Came Alive Bonneville High, a talented team which has had trouble getting it all together in this years Region One basketball race, got its game in high gear here Friday night to spring a 4 34-3- nt 46-3- 63-5- surprise on Clearfields frustrated Falcons. The win lifts the Lakers right back into solid contention with a 3 Region One record; while Clearfield now finds itself deadlocked for the league lead with both Layton and Weber, all with 2 records. Dwayne Snell, a brawny 1 junior forward, led the Lakers to victory by 20 points, banging in a game-hig- h 51-4- 3-- 55-5- 4-- 6-- including eight crucial counters during the 4th quarter to help turn back Clearfields comeback bid, and sweeping both backboards with i authority. Marvin Ellis added 15 important points for Bonneville, while Dan Call jis '( t't.' ii, hjym.ii fxii f r.'.i Q yob flu) A I .a ii q iJ-- " i. !. Bonneville bolted to a nine-poimidway through the third bulge, period; but Clearfield again came back behind the scoring of Perkins, Hicks and Cory Schofield to trail by entering the final just four, frame. Clearfield pulled within three points at 2 w ith 4:15 remaining to play on a pair of free throws by Jeff Gorringe; but Snell banged in two big buckets and pulled down a pair of crucial rebounds following Clearfield misses. Then Gambles came up with a key steal and sandwiched a pair of pressurized free throws around yet another basket by Snell, and Bonneville put away the win as Clearfields lineup couldnt the stretch before down basket a buy time finally ran out on the Falcons. g I i RoyaDs finally By Bliss Fullmer Roy High School came of age in basketball Friday night at Layton. After going winless in five games in league play, the injury Riddles Royals asserted themselves against the top team of Region One and spanked the lancers by ten points. In posting the 4 Victory, Roy showed the basketball world that it can play ball. They have been in every game to the last quarter, except the fiasco at Sky View , m which they were blown off the court. With a few breaks the Royals could very well be at least 2 in league play. Roy played in spurts against the confident Lancers. They took an early first quarter lead, but fell behind by two as the quarter ended. Layton n oved out to lead by six in the second quarter, but Bob Kirkwood hit a 25 footer at the buzzer and the halftime score was 2 for Layton. The Royals began one of several rallies, early in the third quarter, but committed miscues to allow the Lancers to stay close. The Royals 0 at the three-quartwere ahead, the Lanrest but then cers 21 to 14 in the last frame and won by en. Junior Bob Kirkwood, in his first 54-4- 4-- 26-2- 33-3- do if role as a starting Royal, spearheaded the drive that took Roy to its upset win on the Layton hardwoods. He scored 13 points, including 7 of 9 from the foul line. Best of the Royal scorers was big Rylan Weidemeir, who muscled up five field goals, and hit 4 of 5 from the stripe for 14 points. 68 Robb Thomas got nine points, but his board work was superb. Cort Murdock went scoreless, and Bert Rich scored only five points, but their guard-lin- e play was excellent. Coach Smith is seasoning three sophomores, as the league enters the second half. Robb Thomas and Steve Seholtec have gained starting roles, and Bart Hadley scored five points for the Royals. Roy shut off Laytons inside attack, and the Lancers couldnt hit from outside, and thats what won for the Royals Mark Lee, the Lancer super-sta- r was held to a single field goal, and six total points, by the rugged Roy defense In other Region One action, Bonneville knocked off Clearfield, and Weber bombed Sky View. Clearfield, layton and Weber are now tied for first place, ahead of Bonneville, Sky View and Roy, in that order, with four games to be played. JEFF GORRINGE, with right ankle bandage showing, shuffles off pass to a teammate in mid-ai- r as Norm Haney of Bonneville applies some extra pressure. It was Gorringes first start in three games after suffering a sprained ankle in a practice session. The Lakers defeated Clearfield 63-5- 4 to close within one game of first place. SCOTT WALLACE (34) tries in Weber Stale, which hoped to keep ranking in tact and claim an early championship in the Big Sky, can move its Big Sky record to 10-- 1 this week with three games left and with wins over Montana Thursday at the Dee Events Center and Saturday against Montana State at the same place. Weber is now 19-- 2 overall. The Wildcats were 15h in both and UPI last week for the schools and San Diego State at Laramie with Charles Bradley getting 60 points in the two games. The Pokes, rounding With the nations longest OGDEN inning streak gone at 18 straight, the Weber State Wildcats can now set its sights on wrapping up the schools 11th Big Sky Conference basketball championship, hosting the University ol Montana Grizzlies on Thursday night (Feb. 7) and the Bobcats from Montana State University on Saturday (Feb 9). Both games begin at 7 30 p m. in the Dee Events Center. With two wins over the Montana schools, coupled with a Boise State victory over Idaho in Boise on Saturday, the Wildcats would math-atically win the conference title with one loss and three games left. Idaho and Montana, both with records and tied for second, would each have live losses. State game is The Montana-Webe- r always a grudge match no matter where its played or what is at stake. ( thviously, the Grizzlies must win in Ogden in order to have any chance of winning the conference title. In four tries at thq.Dee Center, Montana is wlm$M one victory more than any other, coherence team, except for n 4 3-- I. State., Earlier this season in Missoula, Weber escaped with a win, the Cats first regular season win in Missoula since 1972. Montana led at Boise 51-4- 8 half but Weber kept picking away and finally won it with some 25-2- clutch free throw shooting and rebounding down the stretch. David Johnson was Webers only double figure scorer with 11. The Grizzlies are led by Big John Stroeder who scored the first 13 of the points game for Montana against Weber, but end with 19 points after getting into foul trouble. Stroeder is averaging 11.8 points and 6 9 rebounds a contest. guard, is the Craig Zanon, a leading scorer with 15.3 a game. Zanon had just three points in the first encounter, a statistic that was certainly in favor for the Wildcat cause. Blaine Taylor, the other guard, also is in double figures at 10.2. The Grizzlies are currently 12-- 8 overall, after a 1 start, and are 4 in the Big Sky race, tied with Idaho for second. Montana State got themselves back into the playoff picture, with two wins over Reno and Northern Arizona last weekend, raising its Big Sky record to 5 and overall to For both the e Bobcats and Grizzlies, the swing to Idaho State and Weber are their only two road games In the second half, with the exception of Montana which has to travel to (6-1- 6-- 6 5-- 7-- 4-- 11-- two-gam- Friday Cory night in Sylvester in Clearfield. ,1 'Cats, Cougars, Mgs still m command its national n Bozeman for an intra-stat- e rematch. Last Saturday against Nevada-RenFour Bobcats scored 20 points or more, so they are capable of shooting the ball. Burly sophomore is the teams Doug Hashley, scoring leader with 17.0 a game, followed closely by fellow forward at 16.3. Harry Arnold McDowell, Heineken, a 5 guard, is averaging o. 6-- 6-- 6-- 12.6. The real key to the Bobcats success has been the play of guard Mick senior, Durham had a Durham, a of 32 free throws consecutive string snapped against NAU, but still scored 47 points in the two games. As was it was with Zanon in Missoula, so it was with Durham in Bozeman as the Wildcats limited him to just four points, all from the field. McDowell and Hashley had 17 and 12 points respectively against Weber, in the first outing, with Heineken chipping in with 11. It was a game that saw MSU shoot just 37 per cent from and even worse, 38 per the field (26-6cent from the charity stripe Weber on the other hand hit from the field and 4 from the line. Next week, the Wildcats take their final road trip of the regular season with games at Nevada-Ren- o (Feb. 14) and Northern Arizona (Feb. 16). 5-- ). 32-5- 6 13-2- highest perch of all time. The Wildcats got pinched by the slowdown game at Moscow' where Idaho escaped with a 5 win Thursday, but the Cats regrouped at Boise, even though it was an overtime, coach Neil McCarthys troops had the road moxie to pull through. Utah State Splits Coach Rod Tueller saw his Aggies hopes of winning the PCAA regular-seasotitle suffer a key jolt Thursday with the homecourt loss to Fullerton, but the comeback on Saturday left the Ags in position to go on the road even with Long Beach in the conference. WAC Conference Brigham Young University and Utah command the Western Athletic Conference basketball spotlight this week with a showdown in Salt Lake City. Weber State seeks to clinch at least a tic for the 1980 Big Sky Conference title in two home games and league-leadinUtah State tests the perils of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association road in Beehivei State cage action. BYU and Utah set the stage for their second meeting of the WAC campaign with twin wins over New Mexico and UTEP last week while Weber Saw its win streak snapped by Idaho before winning over BoiSe on Saturday in overtime. 8 Utah State suffered a stunning, PCAA loss at home to Fullerton Thursday (the first Aggie home loss ever in the PCAA), but rebounded That Saturday to dump split left USU tied for the PCAA lead with Long- - Beach State, each team i with a log. 17-e BYU, 4 overall, takes a lead into the Utah fracas Saturday the Cougars standing in the WAC and Utah, with five wins in its last six games, second at Wyoming is still in the thick of things after scoring wins over Hawaii 51-4- 'Cats can claim title at home w neville's desperation to put up shot over Bonthe Laker's triumph over the Falcons last g 96-8- 6-- 2 one-gam- 8-- 1 7-- i into shape under coach Jim Branin the WAC, but they denburg, are find out what theyre made of this week with a venture into UTEP and 3 New Mexico Thats territory. why the eyes of the league will be on Salt Lake City. If the Utes cant derail the Cougar express, then pretty much a second consecutive WAC crown for BYU and Coach Frank its Arnold. If the Cougars win in Salt Lake, where theybll be favored by some three to five points, it would take just a pair of home wins over Hawaii and San Diego State the last weekend of the season for BYU to clinch at least a tie for the crown regardless of what happens on the swing Feb. And, thats figuring Utah and Wyoming win all their remaining games. The prospect of playing Utah in Salt Lake had Arnold all pumped up CSU-Wyomi- 21-2- Were looking forward to it. have a heckuva club and we respect them. They are a much better team now than when we played them in Provo earlier (a 2 BYU win). I saw them play UTEP Saturday night, Arnold revealed, and their (Utahs) defense was superb. Utah has, easily, the best talent theyve had in my five years at BYU. They have the premier forward in the WAC in Danny Vranes and Tom Chambers doesn't have to take a backseat to anyone. Jerry (Ute coach Pimm) is getting outstanding guard play from (Leonard) Johnson and (Donnie) Rice and (Karl) Bankowski can shoot with the best of them." But Arnold concedes his club is a lot better than at this time last year and improved over the last meeting with Utah. "I think were hitting on five Sunday. We know they 89-7- cylinders more consistently now than we were a month ago. Were playing 40 minutes of good basketball. The Cougars have won three runaway encounters in a row against Utah and anyone remotely concerned with the longtime rivalry knows Utah pride will be on the line Saturday in the Special Events Center where over 15,000 fans are expected. Utah was paced by the scoring and rebounding of Chambers in Saturday nights win while sophomore Fred Huberts scored a season-hig25 points to power BYU bv New Mexico. h Lancers breeze past Royals By Bliss Fullmer was no contest w hen the powerful Lady Lancers of Layton breezed into Roy and blew the Royals clear off the basketball court. The final score read but that tells only part of the 3 story. Layton spurted out tq a lead at halftime, when the coach Tom Perkins called off the dogs, and let his junior varsity players finish the game. The Royal gals out scored Uiyton 7 in the last half to make the game somewhat respectable, but 27 of those counters came in' the last quarter on four field goals and 19 foul It 43-1- 35-2- shots. ' Caroline Smith paced the Royals with four field goals and 7 for 8 from the line, while Nykele Gagon converted 10 of 11 from the stripe to get 14 total points. Kathy Ewing tossed in six field goals and made a foul shot for 13 points. Big gun of the game was April Hatch, who got 30 points, before leaving the game in the third frame. Pebbles Hare added 14 points to the Lancer runaway. . Layton the Royals 38 31. |