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Show DAVIS REFLEX JOURNAL, MARCH 27, 1985 Clearfield Finishes Seventh Falcons, Darts, And Lancers Put An End To March Madness5 By KEITH DUNCAN Journal Sports - SALT LAKE CITY Another tournament is history but not soojijorgotten are the accomplishments that all three northern Davis Courity schools employed there. 4- - CLEARFIELD, Layton and their regular records and all either tieif or won second place honors in thetrirespective leagues. Arid second place is certainly gooitenough to earn a ticket into the state playoffs, the dream of any higbischool athlete. Da9iS all finished 6-- 4 LAYTON coach Doug Moon, said it best. "Years down the road after people forget the games, the opponents, the scores and such things, the most important thine that Sticks out in their minds is that were in attendance." 's Craig Hansen ami Dayts" Mike Gardner probably havethe same kind of feelings. THOUGH these three teams didrit win a championship, none of then? were blown out in the nine games they participated in. They represented Davis County well and beiri-at the tournament gave juniors and sophomores on those respective squads a lot of inspira- tion 5o get back there again next season. Clearfields Eric West swats away a Davis shot. points in the win over Davis and more in the loss to Alta. That's nearly ten points above his season 14 13 average. CLEARFIELDS two big men, Eric West and Greg Boykin, also enjoyed great tournaments. It was they that kept Clearfield in most of their games as both of them rebounded and scored when it really Falcons enjoyed their year of participating la the tournament for four days and ihey also got a seventh place finisffout of it. CLEARFIELD beat East in the fifthround, lost to Skyline in the second, beat Davis in the third and lost on a last second shot to Alta in last Saturdays afternoon contest to decide fifth and seventh place. We played our best basketball of the year in the tournament, so what more can a coach ask for. We played especially well in those last two games against Davis and Alta." said Craig Hansen. Mike Call was the unsung quarall of the way and junior Darrell Hicks became a commonscoring ace in place double-figur- e nearly every game. Lancers because they felt the Layton team could have won some more in the tournament, but Doug Moons club made it to the tournament when most people in the beginning of the season didn't give this team a chance. The Lancers played their hearts out in every game this year and they were never blown out in any contest. Twice they played the eventual state champions, Bonneville, as close as anyone has. They lost to Brighton by just a single point. IN THE tournament, Layton lost in the opener to Davis but came back to play better but still lost to e Olympus in overtime. It was a stay, but a stay that the kids who participated won't forget. As a team we set some realistic goals in the beginning and one of them was to get to the tournament. And we did it, said Doug Moon. THE TOURNAMENT experience will help people like Dusty Perry, Rex Brimhall, Boyd Murray and Troy Johnson who will all come back to Layton next season. All of these players started for Layton in at least one game two-gam- ITS BEEN a great season for us," continued the coach, There was a question for awhile whether we'd even be going to state. But we got there and played all four nights." There were Clearfield players who rose above themselves to have sensational tournaments, players like Mark Adams in the opening game against East and Kenny Ashby in the final two games. Ashby, a reserve forward, canned e great players. The same goes for Dan Bankhead, Tom Dobbins, Craig Dahl who are seniors and wont ever play again in a Layton uniform. Darts terback MANY FOLKS would refute that TB$ for senior guard Darrell Martin who finished as one of Layton's counted. What a remarkable season for the Lancers. secttfUl straight throughout the course of Jhe year. Being in attendance at the tournament was the cap to a fine career It was Mike Gardners last state tournament as a coach and his players didnt know it. But the way the Darts battled through their three game stay, you would haye thought they knew Gardner was resigning to retirement. THE DAVIS veteran coach told his players after their loss to Clearfield on Friday night that he was to coaching. With saying good-by- e emotion he told them that they a group were a special bunch, that will never be forgotten. The Darts battled their way into event for the second the straight year and opened it up with a big win over Layton. They then 4-- A fell to a powerful Brighton team that should have won the tournament. Finally, Davis season came 0 to a close with a hard-foug- Davis David Kinard shoots 65-6- ht loss to Clearfield who went on to place seventh in the tournament. past Clearfields Greg Boykin as Darrl Hicks GETTING to the tournament looks on. was a memory upon memories for Fabulous Five Davis who made Gardners last year as enjoyable as it could be. Those fine included Scott Moon, Casey Lloyd, David Kinard, Brent Meier and Mike Taylor, five players all blessed with quickness and an ability to shoot the baksetball. These kids battled with intensity levels during the final at two games but sadly came up empty handed. In the Clearfield and Brighton duals they were outsized in both contests but had every fan in the Center keeping glued to their seat for a right to see the final few minutes. Soil and Water Testing CALI Its Mike aTaylor defending against Layton's Rex Davis Brimhall. 5448314 all-ti- Conti nued PROGRAMS AT Gardner Calls It Quits fun too because we were able to blend a great player with other good kids go to the state tournament. Going through the recruiting scene with Taylor was a fun experience too." said Gardner. COACHING is building kids and relationships," said Gardner. "And we built both through all my years as a coach. "I: think I was perhaps a very demanding basketball coach. I de- manded the kids to do it my way, I took a lot of choice out of it. But think they respected me over the years and the community never had it cross their minds that we didnt work hard. 1 "THE WINNING and losing is fun and sad, but seeing the kids mature with the discipline is what its all about." Gardner loved what he did while a basketball coach which is really where half the battle was won. He was himself both on and off the court. He himself was a great prep player at Davis High and later a great college player at BYU and it wasnt so bad that he tried to replay his days as a player, trying to recreate the success hed had. NATURALLY tried to recreate the success I'd had as a player. As a coach though, I had to put the time in to make things happen, have good assistants and have little bit of luck. We had to develop a total program from the ninth grade up, kids who wanted to work at it all year 'round. "I wasn't ever happy with medi-cor- e play and 1 demanded the kid's 1 best. WEBER STATE COLLEGE I ALSO understood that different kids would play different roles and 1 tried to get that point across over the years. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didnt. "Maybe 1 learned my demanding techniques from Grant Culli-mor- e who inspired me to be a coach. 1 also learned a lot from Stan Watts at BYU who worked for as a graduate assistant for one year. Later I learned from Jay which was a great asset to me. 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