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Show Laptop soils tapiressove By DAVE WIG HAM The boys basketball team at Layton High isn't the only surprise of the season. The gals at the Lancer school have turned a few heads of their own. GOING INTO this week's action the Lancer females were 1 1-2 for the season and a perfect 6-0 in league competition. com-petition. The two loses came in practice games against Clearfield and Viewmont. since then the Lancers have beaten both clubs in a tournament or league action. Thus far in region play the gals have beaten Roy twice, Clearfield. Weber, Sky View and Bonneville. COACHING THE club for his first season is Tom Perkins Per-kins who served as a graduate assistant at the University of Utah under Jerry Pimm. Coach Perkins is excited about his club noting that he approaches them the same way he does a boys team. As a club the gals are averaging 62 points per outing while only giving up 38 points each game. LEADING THE squad is junior forward Pebbles Hare who is averaging 17 points a game. Her biggest game came a couple of weeks ago when she poured in 32 points in the win against Weber. Another junior. April Hatch, is filling nets to the tune of 14 points per game and had a big night against Roy with 30 points. Senior Helena Townsend. a familiar name to Layton athletics, is scoring around eight points per outing as is junior Elyse Smith. The other two main stays of the club are senior Dona Duerden and sophomore Korynn Wiese. COACH PERKINS noted that he felt the girls program was definitely on the upswing but that they still needed more qualified coaches in the ranks. This year's club has been a surprise to themselves in some regards, "but we put in some new offenses that utilized the players' talents better and since we've started to win the gals really believe in themselves." State is in March and the Layton club could very well be a big factor, but with three juniors and a sophomore on the top six players the Lancers are going to be tough for a couple of seasons. |