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Show s Page IB South tdition Lakeside Review Wednesday, February 1, 1984 of Two Out of hoffi Do It Three Will Not Against The Leopards GARY HATCH son and Ed Petersen, both were fouled out with more than two minutes to go KAYSVILLE They say two out of in the game. three isn't bad, but you'll never be able, But the Leopards proved they are mor to convince Davis coach Mike Gardner than a as they hit seven of that. of eight foul shots in the last minute to Going into Fridays game against stay the Darts final comeback. East, Gardner said he wanted his team Hey, this was a blowout," East coach to do three things: control the tempo of Ed Palubinskas said. I told my team that anything more the game, get and shoot high percentage than a last second shot at the buzzer to shots, and make free throws. - The Darts played the first two parts of win will be a rout. Thats how tough I Gardners plan to perfection, but in the expected this game to be, he added. last five minutes of the fourth quarter Palubinskas said he expected Davis to Davis missed seven free throws in a shoot better from the line Friday berow, including the front ends of two cause the Darts missed key free throws to allow East a hard-earne- d late in the game the last time the two 42-3- 9 teams met to allow East a win at the victory Friday. I just feel bad that as hard as these buzzer. kids have played, they have to lose. All to Gardner said he expected those guys w,orked their butts off to- . shoot better from the line this time also, and he added that hes confident the night. 1 really admire our players, free throws will start to fall for his Gardner said. We did everything we wanted to do team. , Im not worried about these kids. I except make our foul shots. he added. And Gardner was right. His Darts did know theyll bounce back, Gardner control the tempo of the game with the said. . fast-breand transition game when The game was a close battle the entire . Review Sports Editor m one-and-on- his-tea- . , ak they had an opportunity, and when first half with neither team leading they couldnt get the quick bucket they more than four points. worked the ball inside. Davis travels to Bountiful to meet the . In fact, the Darts worked so well inside that Easts twin towers, Reid Mon- - Braves Friday at 7:30. Region Four Race Tightens Staff Photos by Robert Regan Girls Basketball Braves, Vikings Eek Out Wins GARY HATCH Review Sports Editor in recent Viking history as they made up a deficit in the final minute of regulation on the nt The Bountiful Braves Friday broke the hex that had bound them the previous five games, but they didnt rely on any black magic. Good shooting on offense and an aggressive defense lifted the Braves 4o a 7 win. . Meanwhile in Bountiful, View-mostaged the best comeback 49-4- nt 3 overtime win way to an over' Highland. Bountiful found a way to beat arch-rivWoods Cross, who had won the five of the previous six meetings, but had to fight the battling Wildcats the entire 'way. Neither team got more than .a 84-8- al - Braves Victorious, Viewmont Loses Bountiful coach Mike Hall declined to comment on his team's four point advantage during the entire contest, with the Braves up by one at the half, but with Woods Cross leading by four with just three minutes to play. The Braves cut the lead to two and then traded baskets with the Wildcats until Brent Bouvang put down two free throws in the final seconds to give the Braves the lead and the game. win. Woods Cross coach Clyde Jackson said the Braves played better than the first time the two teams met this season. They shot really, really well. And they played some good defense too, Jackson said. We didnt play very he continued. (Kevin) Van Uiterit and (Steve) Robinson only played 16 minutes a piece because of foul trouble. If they hadnt been in foul trouble it might have been a different Review Sports Editor Bountiful avenged an ear- the girls basketball team pulled away from Woods Cross in the third quarter to coast to., ly region loss Friday as 60-4- 4 win. In other Region Four action Viewmont fell to a tough Highland team." a Wildcat coach Deborah Peel said this was a differ- ent Bountiful team than Woods Cross played earlier this season. They really prepared for game. With a minute left in game against Highland, everyone expected a different outcome than they got everyone except maybe Viking guard Shane Thacker. I think everyone in the gym thought the game was over including Highlands players, Johansen said. Thacker didnt believe it was over, though. 1 think he got six of his 24 points in the last 56 View-mon- ts Everything the Vikings put up in that last minute went through the hoop, and they were aided in their comeback with some key steals and the Rams reluctance to sit on the ball. They just kept shooting the ball like they didnt know what the score was, Johansen said of Highland. When they were up by 10 they were fighting the clock, but they kept shooting. High point man for the Vikings was Thacker, followed by Troy Hanks with 18, Bill White had 13, and David Reese had ' WOODS CROSS' center Kevin Van Uiterit Wildcats have lost their last three games Wildcats by a total of five points. The Braves goes up for two Friday in the The', Braves. Bountiful 49-4- 7 snapped their losing streak with the win.' loss to the They played good game. It was really close, nip and tuck, the entire first half. Then, in the third quarter they pulled away from us, she added. Bountiful took command of the game when Teresa Laita started pumping in shots from the outside. I told my girls to get out , Roy SHELLY KANCITIS Review Correspondent ROY It is an athletic event that has brought grown men and women to their knees, crawling across the finish line in a state of almost complete physical colReferred to by some as the gruelathon, it is officially called the Ironman Triathlon. Seventeen punishing hours of biking, swimming, and running held annually in Kona, Hawaii. A testimony tp its difficulty is the fact that over five percent of the 850 highly trained professional and amateur athletes who entered the 1983 event failed to ironically. This time I think we'll try a little something different," he added without any specifics. The Wildcats travel to land Friday at 7:30. High- near-perfe- ct the previous Highland meeting. But this time things were different. We tried to press them, but they broke it so well we had to stop, said coach Vi Hillman. The Rams got off to a fast start in the game, hitting their first 12 shots in a row, and never looked back. Meanwhile, the Vikings were having their problems on offense. . Endures Iron man lapse. They did a great job of taking away our inside game. We shot pretty well from the outside, but they did too. They kept shooting and they were going had a streak where they in.'They didnt miss in about 2 shots, Johansen said. Ive never been through a game quite like that one, he added. Viewmont travels to Salt Lake City to meet East Friday at 7:30. East leads in Region Four play with a 1 league record. Johansen said even though his team has a big front line, the Vikings always have a tough time with Monson and Ed Easts Reid ' Peterson. We held Monson to just 36 points last time, Johansen said start missing. Peel said. Laita scored 22 points for the Braves, and Lisa Jones played and excellent inside game, according to Peel. Viewmonts Vikings knew they would have to play a game against the Rams to win. The Vikes went into the game with a pressure defense that had been bothersome to 16-Year-- Old Bret Cloward was held to nine points, all of them coming in the first half. 5-- Photo by Richard Lynch Ms. Peel said. 10. 1 . us well, he added. seconds. didn't. I guess they thought shed on hqr, but they GARY HATCH well,-thoug- - ' won a close game to stay in a cpmmanding lead of Region 4. Jeff Sampson is fouled by Easts Reid Monson Friday in Kaysville. The Leopards DAVIS CENTER . finish it. One who did finish is Rodkey Faust, 16, a sophomore at Roy High School. Not only has he completed three consecutive triathlons, he is the youngest participant. On February 11, ABC will air the October 1983 Ironman Triathlon at 3 p.m. Now closed to entrants under 18, Faust is allowed to enter because he successfully completed the triathlon before age limits were established. A native Utahn, Faust first learned about the event while watching television when he was twelve. I told my Mom to remember where it was held because someday I wanted to be in it. ' The following year Faust and his mother, Elizabeth, who decided to attend a Christian mis- training center in Hawaii, moved to Kailua-KonWhile walking down the street in his new town, Faust saw banners announcing the triathlon. It was too late to enter, but he decided he would be ready for next years competition. Getting ready for the triathlon could easily become a full time job and is for some professional entrants. After all, swimming 2.4 miles in ocean waves, biking 112 miles and waking or running a marathon of 26.2 miles in the required 17 hours is not your everyday ahtletic event. While most of his friends were asleep dreaming of Big Macs and surfing, Faust, then a seventh grader, was getting up at 5:30 a.m. to train. And while his classmates rode a bus up a six and one-hamile mountain road to school, Faust ran up or rode his bike. His total conditioning efforts included 40 miles of biking each day and eight miles of running, plus daily' swims. After months of training Faust was eager to compete, but on the day of his first triathlon his mother had second thoughts. Before the guns go off and youre standing on that pier. Continued on page 2B. sionary a. lf |