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Show Davis County Tournament A Huge Success By DAVE WIGHAM Clearfield and Bountiful High schools had established a home floor advantage throughout the years in basketball basket-ball and people started to wonder what effect the new gymnasiums would have on that advantage. WELL FOLLOWING the completion of the first annual Davis County Holiday tournament it's safe to say that the Braves and Falcons are still going strong on their home floor. Clearfield won the initial event, the championship game was played on their home floor. The Falcons had won the four team event up in their new gym in overtime while the Bountiful five were using the home floor to win their little tournament. THEN ON Friday the two got together for the title with the Falcons winning by a single point in four overtimes. That's not a misprint, it took them four extra periods to decide the winner of this event. Viewmont, who dropped a game to Bountiful a night earlier, came back to nip Olympus for third place in the i tournament. ALL IN ALL it was a successful tournament with : interest in basketball up throughout the county. There were a lew surprises though. One has to wonder what the students at Layton High were doing while their basketball team was in the tournament. tour-nament. On the second night of action when the Lancers played Weber in the Bountiful gym you could count the ; number of Layton students in attendance on two hands. And then have fingers to spare. TRUE THE Lancers aren't setting new records with their record but they field a good ball club, one that is fun to watch. One that definitely deserves more support from the studentbody than it got in the tournament. Hopefully like the teams playing in high school the of-I of-I ficiating will get better as the year progresses. In the games this reporter saw there was a lot of room for improvement. But then one has to remember these guys l: are in preseason also. )r ONE THING that everyone agreed on though was the j! beauty of the two new facilities in the area. Both the ,,; Falcons and Braves can be proud of their new arenas, if Complete with racquetball courts, wrestling areas, in-u; in-u; door tennis facilities, a jogging track, weight rooms, an area for the basketball team to practice hitting these two ! gymnasiums are great. THE TOURNAMENT is a great idea and received good " support from the community. Next year will be bigger and better. |