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Show DAVIS REFLEX JOURNAL, DECEMBER 5, 1984 Falcons Surprise With Second Place In Lavton Tourney By KEITH DUNCAN Journal Sports LAYTON -- - Besides turning out to be another successful prep wrestling tournament, the 1984 Layton High Invitational proved to be an eye-open- NEARLY everyone of the 17 head coaches who brought their teams to this years tourney voiced publicly that Mike Hansen and his crew had done it again in maka ing the Layton tournament the new great way to kick-of- f season. And, as stated, there were some s. SPANISH Fork indeed, opened a lot of peoples eyes as the Utah County team placed nine wrestlers in the Top Six to win this years tournament with 178 points. Spanish Fork was the champ last season and again looks like the team to beat. was the perAnother formance put forth by a scrappy and respectable Clearfield High team. Scott Tennis crew piled up I54'2 points to place second in the tournament for the second straight year. That made Clearfield the top 4-finisher and left many with the opinion that Tennis team could be a power to reckon with this winter. 3-- A eye-open- er A STILL ANOTHER surprise in thedoumament was thesuperb job that the team from Wasatch High did. Coached by Steve Sanderson, . the former Viewmont coach, Wasatch as a school finished y third in the tournament. Wasatch finished ahead of such notables as Granger High, West and Jordan, Pleasant Grove of also ahead of Layton, Davis and Viewmont. After Spanish Fork, Clearfield and Wasatch, the rest of the pack finished as follows. Granger had 142 points, West Jordan 139, Pleasant Grove 109l2, Layton 106, Davis 82, Morgan 75'2, Viewmont 69, Box Elder 65 Vi, Weber 54, Orem 50, Ben Lomond 38, Bountiful 3312, Emery 14 and Roy with 8. 2-- A two-da- SHAWN SHINES Layton resident, Shawn Campbell, was one of the princes of Webers Purple Reigri last Saturday night as the Wildcats beat Utah 22 points in the imState Campbell scored a career-hig- h pressive win. He also had 9 rebounds, tops for the Wildcats. Campbell said he wanted to make his senior year something to remember and hes already off to a great start. 77-7- 0. Cage 3-- A GETTING back to it was a bit of a surprise that Box Elder, last years champ, did so Round-U- p eye-opene- disappointing. The Bees finished 11th which comes as a surprise when you look at what this school has done in wrestling year after year. Will the Bees come back? When it comes to individual performances, at least locally, there were a number of big surprises. TAKE FOR instance the impressive showing of kids like Davis Justin Julander who captured first place at 98. Justin is just a junior who is ready to embark on what appears to be a great season. The Kaysville athlete didnt have a close match, winning over Clearfields and John Walters in the finals. Even though 105 was said to have been one of the weaker weights, Gene Smith of Clearfield won it ail. It was simply a matter of Smith dominating it as he got two win and an victory pins, a 1 over Laytons Ron Zimmerman in the finals. 12-- 7, 12-- 0, 15-- 8 11-- 4 1 -5 -1 IF YOU know the kind of determination that Clearfields Merrill Johnson has, then it wasnt much of a surprise to see him win the class. His journey to the championship included an imwin pressive over Davis Bruce Hinckley. Johnson eventually won that match in overtime and then went on to beat Morgans Clay Thompson in the title match, di- They say that the vision could be one of the most competitive in the state this year. The big surprise however, was that Laytons Brian Bailey failed to even place. Bailey of course, is one of the kids who makes this weight such a tough one. He lost to Rusty Foster of Viewmont in the first round and never untracked after that. But something tells me that we havent heard the last of Brian 132-pou- come-from-behi- 7-- 2. 138-pou- Bailey. TODD KOPECKY of Clearfield did make it into the finals in this division and even though he lost to that is the Grangers Jay Simon closest that Kopecky has come to beating Simon in the five or six 6-- 5, times theyve met. Brent Higgs opened a few more eyes with his trot to the championclass. The ship in the 145-pou- Layton High senior had a tough match with Clearfield's Mark Martinez but got by that one and finally beat Mike Jensen of Wasatch in the finals, 3-- 2. BOUNTIFULS Kirk Shepherd off to a bang by beating three opponents and making it into the finals against Paul Sweat of Wasatch. He lost there however, got '84-8- 5 9-- 2. One more big was eye-open- er the job that Dennis Langford of Clearfield did in winning the heavyweight division. Langford looked very impressive after being seeded second in the tournament. He gained a couple of pin victories in the and also won 2 and finals over Ernie Mankin of Box Elder. It was a disappointment to the Davis coaches and Rody Meacham, himself, that he didnt place any higher than fourth place. 16-- 13-- 1 THE COACHES that I talked to said they really enjoyed coming up, said Hansen, who is the veteran mentor of the Layton team and the organizer of this early-birtournament. I was impressed with the conditioning of most of the kids in the tournament. Usually this time of the year a lot of kids are sucking for air. d AS FAR as the teams went, Spanish Fork proved theyll be strong again and Clearfield proved to us and Box Elder that we've got a long ways to go before we can catch them in Region One, continued Hansen. Hansen had two brothers that led high school teams last weekend, both Brad Hansen of Spanish Fork and Mark Hansen of Emery High. Hansen is in his first year at Spanish Fork and did a splendid job in leading his team to the title. THERE WERE just a bunch of great coaches who came last weekend who are super to work with, said Hansen. The outstanding wrestlers in this years tournament were Chauncy category Ripple in the from Wasatch and Ted Casto of West Jordan at 167. Casto is just a junior and looks awfully tough. 112-pou- Smaller Guys Get Job Done By KEITH DUNCAN Journal Sports Laytons Darrell Martin, Clearfield's Troy Markham and Davis Mike Taylor basically proved last Friday in their respective basketball openers that it may be a year where the guards. will carry much of the weight. OF COURSE you dont win many games and state tournament berths without the big guys, but its probably one of those years in which the little guy is going to do all the damage to the opposition. All three of Davis Countys northern-mos- t schools opened their seasons last Friday night and in all three games it was a guard who was the leading scorer. Martin tossed in 18 as Layton toppled Markham netted 16 Murray, in Clearfields impressive win over Bountiful and Mike Taylors 24 points was the tops for Davis even though Judge beat then 53-5- 0; 67-5- 8 78-6- 6. Darts - Bountiful's ideas of stopping Clearfields Greg Boykin may have worked to a certain extent, but overall Clearfield proved to be the better team and beat the Braves 67-5- 8. KAYSV1LLE This Friday the Darts will host the Cottonwood Colts, a team many observers say Cont. next in Rody Meacham, Davis respectable heavyweight wrestler, may have still been basking the news of liked as he he would have weekend of kind the football team because he didn't have making the finished fourth at the Layton High Tournament. all-sta- te page |