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Show Davio High Tracltstcrs Are Surprise By DAVE WIGHAM Davis High boys probably surprised everyone this season with their strong showing at dual and the region (rack and field meets. Well the Darts continued to surprise people as they walked away with fourth place honors in the 3A state meet. AT THE beginning of the track season very few, if any, of the so-called track and field experts would have given the Darts a chance at even finishing in the top four at the region meet, let alone the top four in the state meet. A couple of youngsters, Wayne Pinto and Mark Davenport, have become household names to Region Five and 3A state coaches and these two have been almost an automatic twenty tsam points in every meet they enter. THE REAL surprising rhing about these two athletes is their age. Pinto is only a freshman while Davenport is the old man of the two, being a sophomore. Pinto literally ran away from the rest of the field at the state meet to capture the mile title in a time of 4:39.37, second place was about ten seconds behind Wayne at the finish line. DAVENPORT jumped away from the rest of the field with a leap of 6-6 in the high jump- Second place finisher could only manage to go 6-4. Mark has gone higher this year but cold, windy weather conditions prevented him from higher heights. With these two getting the individual titles and the 20 team points the Darts were in the race for a top spot in the meet. THE DARTS picked, up seven more points in the shot put with John Borski placing third and Keith Malnar sixth. Nine more team points were picked up in the discus with Russell Purdy finishing third, John Wood fifth and Borski sixth. The pole vault was also good for the Darts as they picked up more team points with a third place finish from Bruce Brand and a fourth place spot by Lee Stenquist. OTHER DART point-getters were Dean Jensen, sixth in the 330 hurdles, Dave Hilton Hil-ton fifth in the 880 yard dash and Dave Drysdale who leaped six feet to tie for third in the high jump. The final Davis points came in the medley relay where the Kaysville group placed fifth. FINISHING ahead of Davis at the meet were champions Cedar City, Dixie and Jordan. All three are hit hard this season by graduation, the Darts are loaded with underclassmen; un-derclassmen; that could only mean one thing, the Davis High group will be back next year to claim the championship cham-pionship outright. In 1973 through 1975 the Darts claimed the state crown. With youngsters like Pinto and Davenport they would like to claim that supremacy again. |