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Show : I M. , r j - - r . - l X ' I- N (' Hi ly.ien Murphy of Bountiful hangs on to Mike Ericksen of Woods Cross en route to -ling an individual title for the Braves. t ;:. Viewmont's Shon Wilson escaped from Bountiful's Monty Dickerson and went on to pin his opponent to claim top honors at their region sophomore meet. j . ' ''.- -x "1 1; , :' I i j Kyle Foster of Viewmont appears to have Jeff Hammer of Davis in trouble but Hammer escaped and came back to win the match and the title to help Davis win the '-, team : Depth To Win 1 By DAVE WIGHAM WOODS CROSS Davis High placed in the top four in 1 1 weight classes to claim first place in the Region Four sophomore soph-omore wrestling tournament held at Woods Cross last week. THE DAVIS TEAM, which was the only school to field a full squad of 12 men, finished the meet with 155 points to easily win over Viewmont who had 140'2. Third place went to Bountiful with 102'2 followed by Woods Cross 69, Highland 68 Vi and East with 54'2 points. The individual honors were well distributed with Davis and Viewmont both claiming thee each, Bountiful and Highland each had two with Woods Cross and East one each. PUGH OF Highland started things off with a bang for the Ram team with a championship champion-ship in the 98 lbs. class. In the finals he nipped Jeff Olson of Bountiful 6-3. Shawn Moore of Viewmont was third with a win over Derrek Green of Davis who was fourth. It might be mentioned that Shaun Robinson Robin-son of Davis is the top seed in the varsity competion and is only a sophomore but he did not wrestle here at the sophomore sopho-more meet. Amad of East kept the titles in Salt Lake City early with a convincing win over Mike Ger-rard Ger-rard of Davis. Hall of Highland came back to win third with a win over Brett Gee of Viewmont. View-mont. JORGENSON of Highland then won the second title for the Rams with a win over Rodger Rod-ger Mann of Viewmont in the finals of the 1 14 lbs. class. Darren Dar-ren Hicks of Woods Cross -was third with Begay of East in Fourth. Chad Harward of Bountiful gave the Braves their first title with a win over Greg Johnson of Davis at 119 lbs. Jeff of Viewmont took an overtime victory from Anderson of Highland to claim third place in their weight. VIEWMONT THEN came on strong to claim the next three titles. First up, Rory Howard Ho-ward of the Vikes beat Paul Howard of Davis for the title at 126 lbs. then Jeremy Scott beat Darren Hammer of Bountiful at 132 lbs. and Shon Wilson pinned Monty Dickerson of Bountiful for the title at 138 lbs. In the 126 lbs. division Dave Bills of Bountiful beat Warren Bair of Woods Cross for third, at 132 Andy Coulter of Davis was third with a win over Anderson of Highland and finally fin-ally at 138 Jay Perkins of Davis beat Taylor of East for third. DAVIS GOT their first title at 145 lbs. where Jeff Hammer knocked off Kyle Foster of Viewmont. Duffy Williams of Woods Cross pinned Rich Wadsworth of Bountiful for third place. Darren Murphy then got the second championship for Bountiful with a win in the finals fin-als over Mike Erickson of Woods Cross. Gregg McNabb of Davis was third with a win over Craig Davies of Viewmont. View-mont. THE DARTS of Davis then claimed the next two titles with Todd Anderson at 167 lbs. and Shawn Kilgrow at 185 lbs. Anderson beat Mike Zesiger of Viewmont for the crown while Kilgrow pinned Shawn Smith of Bountiful for his title. Alan Teeples of Bountiful was fourth at 167 lbs. In the unlimited division Joe Gillespie of Woods Cross gave the host Cats their only champion cham-pion with a pin over Canderlia of East. Rody Meacham of Davis was third with a win over Tom Stone of Bountiful. GOING INTO the last two matches'of the-meet the-View-. mont Vikings were ahead but they didn't have a wrestler in those two weights and the Darts finished strong to claim the team title. Keep an eye on this group of sophomores from Davis. In a year or so the Dart coaches, Jim Dickson and Bruce Bitner, have a lot of talent for the varsity var-sity level. |