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Show By DAVE WIGHAM This Saturday at 6 p.m. at the State Fairgrounds, View-mom View-mom High soccer team will play Orem High for the Utah High School soccer championship. cham-pionship. THIS MARKS the first time ever in the school's history that the soccer team from Viewmont will be playing in the final. For the past several years the Vikes have finished fifth in the state. This year they are guaranteed a higher finish than that. The Vikes earned the right to play for the championship the hard way. They won the -, region title outright, and then played Prove High in the state quarterfinals. PROVO scored a goal first and held on to that lead throughout the contest. It wasn't until there was only a minute left in the game that Viewmont's Joey Walls tied the score. Up to that point it looked like the one goal margin mar-gin that Provo enjoyed was going to be the final score. In the overtime periods Walls scored two more goals while the Viking defense shut Provo out. Final score was 3-1 in Viewmont's favor. LEADING the defense against Provo was Dave Fames, the Vikes super-soph. Dave received a lot of help from teammates Alan Rees and Curtis Romijn in keeping the Bulldogs away from the goal Offensively it was Walls who scored the goals but both overtime scores came on pinpoint pin-point passes from Kevin Peck, another super-soph, and one from Kris Romijn, a talented junior. LAST Tuesday, at the Fairgrounds, the Vikes came up against the lop ranked team in the state, West High. The Panthers started out strong, while the Vikes started slow, result was West leading 2-0 at halftime. But again the Vikes didn't know how to quit, they battled back with Walls and Peck scoring goals to send the game into overtime. The overtime period was all Viewmont, as the Vikes outran and outhustled the tired Panters. Walls scored what turned out to be the winner about five minutes into the overtime period on a perfect pass from Dave Fames. THE VIKING soccer squad is plaving the best ball of the season, to say they have peaked at the right time would be an understatement. All players on the squad are put-ling put-ling out a 110 percent effort, which is what it takes to become a state champ, dw |