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Show Cards experience will last a - Its a Friday KAYSV1LLE afternoon and school has just let out. There is plenty of time to go home, catch a few hours of nap time and be ready for the big game that night. -- THE BIG game: Well that might be an understatement. Its time for hundreds of Bountifulites to converge upon Kaysville, not forClov-e- r Club chips but for another try at the Davis Dart football team. Practice has been grueling all week. Preparing for the Bountiful option has taken a lot of concentration. But theres nothing wrong with going home and resting a few hours before the field is taken. NOTHING wrong except when you oversleep that is. Youre devastated. You commit 15 traffic violations in getting to the gym. Its a quarter past six which is only an hour after you should have been there. WHAT WILL the coaches do? Im a team captain, surely this will screw up the other players minds that I could have the gall to oversleep on a game day. Is this a bad dream? YOU ARRIVE at the gym ready to take whatever awaits you. But what you walk into is nothing what you expected. INTO THE team room you walk and your teammates have neatly assist got your gear together. They you in anyway they can, just happy that you are there. It was an experience that Davis Chris Card will never forget. IT WAS special to me," said Card, "When 1 got here, everything was ready for me. They really didnt need to do it, but they thought enough of me. It was a pretty special experience. It could have derailed our train but somehow it didnt. 0 0 THIS IS a pretty close bunch of guys and 1 don't think there is a single thing that could pull us apart, said Card with sincerity. The Davis High running back and linebacker commented that he and his teammates are having fun these days. Winning 41-- 6 me he said. happen, Card, a senior, said a high school couldnt have a better group of coaches. Theyre wonderful, I couldnt play any place else, said Card who didnt start because of arriving late. over THE COACHES knew what they were doing. Theyre going to put you at your deserving level and see what you do from there, concluded Card. Bountiful is even more than fun. WE DO know that one stupid thing could derail our train but we as a team arent about to let that reflex-journ- al DAVIS OCTOBER 2, 1985 REFLEX-JOURNA- Falcons win over Lancers than we have in a long time. IT WAS a 7 game until midway through the third quarter when the Falcons put together their most impressive offensive series of the year. Perhaps the play of the defensive line spurred on the offensive linemen because their blocks were never cleaner than in that drive. Clearfield started from their own 22 yard line and it started with Craig Carter gaining a yard and with him finally breaking four separate tackles from 16 yards out for the winning and score. 7-- 13-- 7 BUT THE key in the game was the consistency of Barber and Folk on the Clearfield ends. For Barber, who is the younger brother to Troy Barber who played at Clearfield a few years back, it was perhaps his finest game ever in a Clearfield He should never forget that one, said Hancock, He was in on countless tackles including several unassisted and he even picked off his first interception. Cont. on next page ecoming go-ahe- activities undmv; BUT PERHAPS the key play in that winning drive was a play designed with quarterback Chris Garcia handing off to receiver Darrell Hicks and Hicks then connecting with Garcia. That play worked, but barely. As Brent Hancock put it, Darrell used his athletic ability to get rid of four would-b- e tacklers and still get the ball away. On that play, Hicks was nearly down but at the last possible second he found Garcia wide-ope- n for a 19 yard pick-u- p and a key first down on a third down play. HALFTINE Half time adjustments must have made the difference, as the Clearfield Falcons took it to the Lancers last Friday night. 13-- 7 HUSSLE . Its amazing CLEARFIELD what halftime adjustments can -- - make. IN AN emotional Region One outing last Friday night that pitted arch-rivaClearfield and Layton against each other, it may have been the Falcon coaches who got their message across the best. The defensive staff at Clearfield which saw its own defense allow the Lancers well over 100 yards in total offense in the first 24 minutes, made some adjustments along its front line and specifically with defensive ends Jeff Folk and Brett Barber which had a stunning affect on the Lancer offense. ls COMBINE that defensive move and the Falcons lone second half touchdown and it added up to a 13-- 7 victory in front of a huge homecoming crowd. It became the second straight year Clearfield has been victorious duals. over Layton in low-scori- in CLEARFIELD is now league play and will face the Weber Warriors this Friday night. Layton, now 2 in league, will finally come home to play as Box Elder invades Layton on Friday night. -1 0-- WHEN FOLK and Barber, two Clearfield seniors, were moved to the same side of the line, the Layton option offense did nothing but sputter. Richard Lovelace, who scored Laytons only touchdown of the game, worked hard for two Layton first downs as the third quarter opened. But with Folk and Barber getting used to their new assignment, Layton managed only one more first down the rest of the game and a meager 5 1 second half yards. Folk and Barber did a masterful job at stopping Laytons option, were the words of defense coordinator, Ken Hicks, We had a half to figure it out but when the light turned on, I thought we controlled the line of scrimmage better THE PLAY sparked Clearfield because on the very next play, Carter blew up the middle for a 40 yard gain that took the ball to the Layton 20 yard line. Even on the next play, Paul Taylor broke loose for 17 more yards to get it to the Lancer 3. An unsportsman-lik- e conduct penalty forced Clearfield back to the 16 a few moments later, but that set the stage for Carters winning score on the next play after the penalty. The Taylor kick was blocked and Clearfield led 13-- 7. FOR THE evening, Carter picked up 109 yards on 20 carries. It was the fourth time in five games that Carter has gained over 100 yards in a prep football game. Neither team could put any offense together the rest of the and members of the comm uSy.""'0' f Homecoming Royal) students nominated people! vo,ed 7 start in the schools main n -- SSE? bn CK' uom"ndgasseSly will Q the Wrestling T the sc f he,d u'Ubs in the nu samVSrasn rn'T'5' kA1 noon' he Hon The hSIi K sifpton Pm- - in thfSymlfcOTmOTs during lunch hours at ,he 6est dr Ounce j!"rodced int. Iiomecoming Parade t alumni are invited to th? football game BM 3S? lhe arnounc. er, Layton ?e JtomeconungyWeekWproS ?!! up of students wi l in this sporTwhkhTn compel field west of the soccer field s,u hcld Saturday at Tickets sell for or $7 a, the S I" game and the score was final at 13-- 7. No surprise with Darts win over Btfl. Braves - KAYSVILLE There is prise these days in Kaysville. sur- from getting a score on a fourth and situation. THEN WE have the ability to take the ball out of there and mount a fairly impressive drive. I tell ya, the confidence factor swung our way and never left us the rest of the night. one-fo- NO ONE at Davis High expected 41-- 6 rout that the Darts levied against the Bountiful Braves last Friday night. The Braves never had a chance as Davis defense held the talented Joey Covey to just two completions in six attempts and a meager total of 42 yards. the ot allowed. Coach Jim Dckson, the second year Davis coach who along with his staff have tasted defeat only once in 16 games over two years, thought his team would participate in a dogfight last Friday. DICKSON, a happy man needless to say, said all this with no smile but no frown either. It was delivered in the same manner as an armys general would tell an interested listener about his armys massacre of another. During that timeout just before we stopped them, I got into the huddle and the look in the kids eyes was one of the same looks Ive seen before. It was a look that had words written with it, something like, Coach, you dont need to tell us what to do, we know what to do. Were going to stop em right here. WE THOUGHT it would be a dogfight, we really did, said Dickson, "A runaway score was never in our minds. The turning point in the e though, was our goal line stand in the first quarter when we stopped them (Bountifuls offense) BOOM, THE confidence switched our way because of that stop, said Dickson. Bountiful tried for the score up the middle and was stopped by a host of Darts, maybe all eleven of them in on the play at the same time. FOR THE night, Davis had a heyday offensively as they racked up 476 total yards. That was a far cry from the 134 Bountiful was ball-gam- WE CANT single out any one player on defense, said Dickson, When you hold the opposition to 134 total yards and 40 offensive plays, its not just one or two kids that can do that. During the week, the Darts pre- pared thoroughly for the Braves and it showed on Friday night. But even though they were prepared, they expected more from the Braves. WE DISCIPLINED the kids all week that if Bountiful ran the option, they were to stay with their man until they knew for sure he didnt have the ball. And our kids did that, said Dickson. They did it exactly how we asked them to. Bountiful couldn't get it going, no matter how hard they tried. It was a difference because when the Braves do get it going, its On the other side of the coin, when Davis got the ball, it was double-wing time. Davis ran 65 offensive plays, 25 more than their opponents. They kept it on the ground mostly with Blake Hart leading the way with 173 yards on 17 carries. Chris Card had 58 more, 1 I PILE OF GRIDDERS Rob Warden totalled 31, Kurt Mounteer finished with 22 and Clay Singley had 19. DAVIS shocked everyone, in- cluding themselves, when the opening play from scrimmage saw It may appear as only a major pileup during any high school grid game, but this play was the stopper when line and then rallied Davis held Bountiful on the to a big 41-- 6 win over the Braves in Kaysville last Friday night. Photo by Gary R. Blodgett. one-fo- Hart streak 80 yards from the full- back position for a touchdown. "There were a lot of keys, but that goal line stand is where we controlled the game from that point. The line of scrimmage was ot ours alter that. OUR KIDS know one thing, you do what you have to do to get to the dance. And hard work gets you to the dance, concluded all Dickson. |