Show A12 Sanpete Wednesday September 29 2004 Valley Edition Messenger-Gunniso- n Hawks spear Spartans By Doug Johnson Sports writer MT PLEASANT - The North Sanpete Hawks celebrated homecoming Friday night with a win over the dominating Emery Spartans With the win the Hawks move to in league overplay with the win and all while Emety drops to and the Hawks totally on the scoreboard North Sanpete head coach Blake Turner was not satisfied with his team’s overall performance "Our defense stepped Although dominated the game up great” said the first year coach ‘‘But we have lot to do offensively” The North Sanpete offense scored three times but five trips into the red zone resulted in only BRUCE VAN DER riawk Kyle Poulsen (4) tries to beat an Emery defender game that saw the Hawks win an impressive 30-- victory in RIET MESSENGER PHOTO Friday night’s homecoming one touchdown The Hawk offense turned the ball over five times and was flagged 16 times for 153 yards The Hawks scored first on a end around by Tyler Christensen The score was set up by a Hawk fumble recovery by Tyson Church two plays earlier at the Emery 34 Bulldogs (Continued from All) up with us" says Jackson alniut the hilf Gunnison had some close opportunities but generally lost field position due to miscues and mistakes on the offensive side of the bail The Bulldogs were also cutely awaie of the absence of fcide receiver Chad Avery when (hey were threatening on the Juan line Gunnison Diego Quarterback Ryan Frandsen perfectly slipped a pass between two defenders but the receiver was ujiable to bring the ball in says that the pass would have gone to Avery had he been m the Juan Diego Gunnison 35 0 ego with a possession that netted four first downs off runs by Frandsen and receptions by Zubia Juan game and “in the same situation with Avery we w ould have caught that ball” Gunnison was also unable to capitalize on tw o Juan Diego turnovers in the fust half Then in the third Gunnison was able to restrain the Eagle but was unable to capitalize on an opportunity piovided by a big run by Guy Zubia and a pass interference call on Juan Diego Gunnison also showed the ability to drive the ball on Juan Di Diego continued to score two more in the fourth for the final score of Wilson scored four of Juan Diego’s five touchdowns and according to the Juan Diego announcer tied the 2A record for most career receptions for touchdowns Jackson says he is encouraged by his team’s performance against Juan Diego He emphasized that his team competed and held them scoreless for quarters He also noted that his team showed the ability to drive the ball downfield against them but just came up short Jasckson says the game proves “w e can play against anybody" but continues “We just have to clean up the mental side of it” to referring particularly several false start penalties that kept the team moving backward Gunnison faces the current 2A champions and second place Manti Templars this Friday in Manti and Jackson feels good about his team’s chances “We have to build upon what we did with Juan Diego and sustain it” says Jackson “We just have to do four quarters of that” As the opening quarter drew to a close wide receiver John Anderson got behind the Spartan secondary and Kyle Poulson hit him in full stride for an touchdown The last Hawk offensive score came on a scamper by Church with under three minutes left in the first half Church had his third consecutive game picking up yards on 16 carries and now 141 av- erages 973 yards per game Poulson had his best game of the season with 9 of 14 passfor 232 yards and a touching down raising his season completion average to 534 percent Junior running back Tyler Walker was impressive as he mopped up in the final period rushing three times for 53 dash yards including a on his first carry With as well as the Hawk defense played it was fitting that it recorded the final two scores Just before halftime Anderson leveled Spartan quarterback Joey Bernard on a safety blitz just as Bernard got rid of the ball Nathan Friday The dolphin’s grabbed the ball at the one However on the Spartans’ first play Hawk lineman Kevin Bean tackled Bernard in the end zone for a safety for the final scote of the night Turner was particularly pleased with the performance of Mecham The senior tight end (See Flag football results In Week four of the Gunnison youth NFL flag football the Jean Scene Dolphins fell to the Premier Financial Packers Mecham Bernaid's pass in the left flat and returned it 9 yards for the score North Sanpete took the second half kick off and marched from their own 35 to the Spartan two but the Hawks’ second of four fumbles gave the Spartans - “Hawks” on A13) Week 4 the game for the Seahawks The third game had the Lotsa Motsa Steelers beating the Gunnison Market Broncos Drayson Pickett caught a touchdown pass to tie the game but the Dolphins couldn’t stop big plays and lost the game The second game on the schedule featured the Jensen Drug Seahawks in a rematch with the Elkridge Financial 49ers The Seahawks won the game The first time these two teams met it was a defensive straggle but the rematch Saturday was an offensive show of the Tyler Bartholomew 49ers scored four touchdowns one of which went 48 yards for the longest run of the year The Seahawks did not have an answer for Bartholomew but a balanced scoring attack from the Seahawk’s Chad Boore Colby Caldwell and Braden Harris won The Bronco’s Travis Carlisle scored the team’s only touchdown ns their offense couldn’t get in sync against the Steelers defense The Steelers Rylan Anderson had two scores in the Steeler’s win The last game had the Subway Buccaneers losing a close battle to the Messenger Colts The Colt’s Jacob Hatch scored two touchdowns The Buc’s Drake Nielson scored on a 45 yard run then on the Bucs last possession Taylor Anderson scored a touchdown off of a reverse to put the Bucs within one The Bucs decided to go for two and the win but the Colt’s defense stopped the Bucs short BEGINS OCTOBER 1ST! 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