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Show A6 The Emery County Review, Tuesday, December 2, 2008 SPORTS Lady Spartans crush Hawks in first basketball game of season C. Josie Luke The Emery Girl’s basketball game Nov. 25 against North Sevier at the Spartan Center marked their first game of the season, but you wouldn’t have known it by the way they executed, pummeling the Wolves 66-30. The Spartan’s sharp shooting, led by Frankie Komar, who didn’t miss a shot while scoring 11 points, coupled with tough defense made it a tough night for North Sevier. The effort of the Spartan players impressed their coach, who was hesitant earlier, as the girls began to practice together, to make Photos by C. Josie Luke any predictions of how his team would perform during the season. “I got to see a lot of the girls play during the games,” Steven Gordon said. “I feel a lot better than I did a couple of weeks ago. For a first game I thought we executed pretty well. All around, everybody that played, played well.” That statement was supported by Emery’s balanced scoring attack. In all, nine players scored for the Spartans, who shot 44 percent in the game. Jodie Robertson led the team with 14, Komar had 11, Jessica Murray added 10, ShiAnne Allred and Abbie Kay each had 9, Lacey Montgomery had 7, Courtney Tuttle had 3, Taylor Mann had 2, and Taylor Jewkes had 1. Emery jumped on the Hawks in the first quarter, frustrating their opponents with a full-court press, allowing them only 4 points, while scoring 19. Though they gave up the press in the second quarter, they stretched the lead to 40-15 at halftime. The Spartans didn’t let up in the second half, blasting two three pointers to start the third quarter to ensure that the Wolves would not get back into the game; and though Emery cooled off in the third, adding only 7 by the end of the quarter and scored fewer points in the last two quarters, they still blew out North Sevier by 36 points. The team had a great night from beyond the arc, hitting nine of 17 threepointers, one of which Jodi Robertson goes for a fast break. Abbie Kay goes for the jump ball. turned into a four-point play when Jessica Murray was fouled while shooting. Four Emery players hit threes in the game: Montgomery, Robertson, Murray and Komar. The hot shooting even blew away the coaches. Gordon revealed that his assistants joked with the girls afterward asking, “How’d you learn to shoot so well?” They were also impressed with how hard the players had worked to move the ball quickly up and down the court, especially in the JV and sophomore games, which also proved to be blowouts. “I think with all three teams we ran them to death,” Gordon commented. “We really got up and down the floor. It’s something we’ve focused on for the last few years, and I think they did really well for their first game.” The Spartans will play twice this week; Thursday against Canyon View in Cedar City and Friday against Richfield. Their next home game will be Dec. 9 against Cedar. Decker’s Bicycle is a Proud Sponsor of “Where’s Gabby?” Decker’s Bicycle Sales & Service 77 East Main St. Price 435-637-0086 Pat Jones was the first person to have his name drawn finding all three Gabbys. Pat won a $25 gift certificate from Decker’s Bicycle. Pat Jones Run for the Turkey REVIEW Emery County The Is proud to present BE PERS THE 1 ST O IN A N TO CA ND R L ECIEV L A $2 E 5 DO GIFT CERT LLAR IFICA TE! Where’s Gabby? The Game Now Playing! BBYS? ND ALL 3 GA DID YOU FI 2541 874 543 CALL Contest Rules: Look in the Display Ads of the newspaper to find either a picture of our dog Gabby or the name Gabby. There will be a total of 3 Gabbys located only in the display ads in each issue of the paper. 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