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Show Woods Cross Awaits Brighton By DAVE WIGHAM WOODS CROSS - The way the Wildcats are winning with an ailing ballclub the coaches around Region Four are wondering won-dering what Woods Cross will be like when they get all their players healthy again. THE CATS have run into a barrage of injuries, some holdovers hold-overs from football, yet still seem to be able to beat most of their opponents. This week though the Cats will need everyone they can get in order to do battle with the Bengals of Brighton. Lynn Westergard has been hobbled for several weeks now with a bad ankle sprain, Jeff Ostler is still nursing a back injury he sustained while playing football. Mark McCleery really isn't at full speed with a bad ankle and several other Cats have been sick as of late. ALL THIS would lead some coaches down the path early but Wayne Baker seems to be able to keep things in perspective. per-spective. Despite having these problems the Woods Cross bunch downed Ben Lomond last week in the two clubs' opening round action of region war. The Scots came to town with high hopes of downing the ailing Cats but even a hurt Wildcat crew is better than the Scots. ALL YEAR the coaches for the Woods Cross club have pointed out that they don't feel they are a two man show anymore and the balanced scoring from the win over Ben Lomond would certainly prove point to that fact. In that win four Cats, count them, scored in the double figure category. McCleery led with 16, Ostler added 16, Mark LeCheminant 14 and the hobbling Westergard poured in 13 more points. As mentioned this coming week the Cats step out of league action to take on 4-A power Brighton, a club which downed Viewmont at the start of the season. Viewmont has been a common opponent for these two clubs. The Bengals had trouble with the Vikes winning by only four while the Cats made a laughter out of their contest with Viewmont. FOLLOWING THE game with the Bengals the Cats again get back into Region Four action with an away game with Bear River on Jan. 5. Brighton might be a good time to rest the injured, in which case the Bengals would be favorites, but again the coaches might use all the players available in preparation prepara-tion for the league encounter the next week. IF CERTAIN players are held out of the Brighton game there are a couple of reserves who can more than adequately ade-quately fill the gap. Senior Gregg Tuttle is starting to play well for Coach Baker in , the sixth man role while junior j Mark Earnshaw can come in J and spell people at both the forward and guard positions. Coach Baker is thinking more of the league than he is the Brighton game although he would like nothing better than to beat the Bengals. Considering a team doesn't make the state tournament by winning practice games it stands to reason why the coach might take this time to heal the wounded. |
