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Show A8 Sanpete Messenger/Gunnison Valley Edition Manti Templars fall to Delta and North Summit By Bob Bahlmann Staff writer COALVILLE—The Manti Templars took on a couple of tough competitors in last week’s basketball action and came up just short against Delta, 56-43, and North Summit, 51-40. Despite the losses, head coach Mark Hugentobler feels good about what the Templars learned last week. “It was great for us to see how physical and aggressive teams play, “ he said. “We need to learn to match that aggression.” The Delta Rabbits came to town last Wednesday and brought their A-game. The Rabbits used their athleticism to take a 12-4 lead early in the game, but the Templars matched the Rabbits point for point through the remainder of the first half to trail by seven. For the fourth time in five games, the Templars struggled in the third quarter, allowing Delta to add nine points to their lead. Fourth quarter action was intense, with the Templars cutting into the Delta lead. “We never backed down,” said Hugentobler. At one point the Templars trailed by only three points, but Delta hung on to win 56-43. Dave Hugentobler led the Templars with 16 points. Ned DeMill augmented his defensive game with 11, six of those points on a pair of treys. Griffin Aste added nine points, Wes Stilson had three and Tyler Thomson and Russ Hugentobler had two each. Things didn’t get any easier for Manti when they made the trip to Coalville to take on the North Summit Braves. “This is the best North Summit team we’ve ever played,” said Hugentobler. The Braves are currently ranked number two in 2A, their only loss to first-place Kanab. Manti outscored the Braves three out of four quarters, but got WWW.CLICK4SPORTS.NET The Templars’ Nede DeMill puts up a trey in action against the Delta Rabbits last week. Manti lost the contest 56-43 before falling to North Summit, 51-40. thumped in the second, only scoring nine points to North Summit’s 26. “We lost our concentration and gave up some easy buckets,” Hugentobler said.Defensive adjustments in the second half had Manti throwing a zone trap at the Braves that took away the transition game. Stilson and Te’o crashed the boards and Demill got hot from three-point land to pull Manti back to a single digit deficit, but an injury to Dave Hugentobler midway through the third quarter stymied the Templar comeback effort. North summit handed the Templars their third loss of the year 51-40. DeMill had five three pointers to lead Manti with 17 points. Dave Hugentobler left the game with a hip pointer after scoring nine points. Griffin Aste had five, Stilson scored three, and Thomson and Russ Hugentobler each had two. This week Manti will play a pair of road games, the first at Beaver before taking on Millard. Beaver leads Region 13 with a 4-1 record, their only loss a 6044 game against Delta. Millard is 3-2 with losses to Richfield and North Summit. Dave Hugentobler will likely miss both games, but that “might be a really good thing for us,” said coach Hugentobler. These contests will be a good opportunity for some of the other Templars to show they’ve learned how to be more aggressive offensively. Introducing as the Newest Member of the Gunnison Valley Hospital Medical Staff Dr. Young recently completed his family practice residency program at the Williamsport Hospital and Medical Center in Pennsylvania. Dr. Young is trained in the broad spectrum of family practice medicine, including obstetrics and pediatrics. He is also fluent in Spanish. Appointments can be made by calling (435) 528-2130. Dr. Young is seeing patients in the clinic located at 79 East Center in Gunnison. Extended clinic hours will include Thursdays until 8:00 p.m. and every other Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. Wednesday, December 13, 2006 Bulldogs out-hurried, out-worked in losses to South Summit, Beaver By Sean Hales Associate editor BEAVER—A young Gunnison Bulldog basketball team extended its losses to four on the season after falling to South Summit, 76-39, last Wednesday and to Beaver, 6444, last Friday. The Bulldogs got a workout Wednesday against South Summit as the speedy Wildcats turned turnovers and steals into fast-break points. South Summit (ranked second in 2A) generated a 22-14 lead in the first quarter, largely off turnovers. “Their defense gave us fits,” said first-year head coach Doug Birk, who added that if the Wildcats weren’t beating the Bulldogs with speed, “they just went over the top of our kids.” In the second quarter South Summit held the Gunnison squad to just two points as the Bulldogs could hardly keep the ball on their end of the court. A 5-foot jumper from Bulldog Kevin Nay in the final seconds gave Gunnison its only points of the quarter. “They are a terrific team,” said Birk. “They just outclassed us.” Birk said he told his kids South Summit would be one of the toughest teams they would face all year, and “all you can do is prepare them.” Taylor Newman led the Bulldogs with nine points followed by Nay with eight. On Friday, the Bulldogs traveled to Beaver where, according to Birk, the game was decided early on. “In the first six minutes of the game we got outworked,” he said. “I think the game was decided in the first half.” The Bulldogs took a 37-16 deficit into the half-time break, but came out with increased intensity in the second half. Gunnison outscored the Bea- vers 28-27 in the second half. Nay led the team in scoring with 11, followed by Taylor Ashton with nine and Carson Lund with five. Birk says he told the team (See “Gunnison” on A9) |