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Show 17 n In Soccer Tourney By DAVE WIGHAM PROVO - This past week Orem High hosted the first annual soccer tournament that pitted teams from Utah County against teams from Davis County. WOODS CROSS, Bountiful and Viewmont all traveled to Provo last week to battle Provo, Orem and Timpview in a day long tournament. Each team from Davis County played the three clubs from the southern region two thirty-five minute halves with an hour rest in between. When the dust had settled the Davis County clubs had won seven of the nine games they played. Bountiful went through the event with a 3-0 record while both Viewmont and Woods Cross each finished with 2-1 marks losing only to Orem. BOUNTIFUL started out the day-long affair with a 5-0 drubbing of Timpview. Coach Paul Mitchell used his junior varsity for the first half saving sav-ing his troops for the big battle bat-tle with Orem. In their second outing the Braves had another easy game, this time handing Provo a 5-0 setback, again using the juniors much of the first half. Then the long awaited battle bat-tle with Orem. Many feel these two clubs are the best in the state, after spotting the Tigers in an early goal, the Bountiful club got going to win 3-1 with goals from Ray Parkhurst and Bart Steed. WOODS CROSS, considered one of the best 3A schools in the state, started out with Orem and lost a heartbreaking 1-0 decision to the Tigers. In their second outing the Cats downed Timpview 4-0 and then turned around and handed Provo a 5-0 setback. Viewmont started the tournament tour-nament out with a 1-0 victory with junior Kent Rozema getting get-ting the only goal with only five minutes left in the contest. con-test. Then the Vikes lost a controversial 3-1 decision to host Orem. In the final game the Vikings. overcame deficits twice to hand Timpview a 4-2 loss with four different Vikings getting the goals. THIS tournament was strictly for fun, the scores don't count for or against the teams but it served as a good measuring stick for the upcoming up-coming state tournaments. In past years the teams in the northern part of the state really didn't know how strong the clubs down south were, and vice versa. This year they know, and for now the northern Davis County clubs have the upper hand. |