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Show Bonneville Leads Region 1 In Baseball; Schools Follow By DAVE WIGHAM Heading down the home stretch in Region One baseball finds the clubs chasing chas-ing Bonneville who pulled away slightly this past week following a full week of action including several makeup games. BONNEVILLE started the week out in a tie for first with the Braves from Bountiful but they took care of that with a 6-1 win over the Braves on Tuesday. Bountiful only managed four hits in the outing out-ing while the Lakers were picking up ten hits of their own. The Braves didn't help much as they committed three costly errors. Bonneville then came, back on Friday to hand Roy a 5-1 setback to bring their league record up to 8-1. VIEWMONT turned in a confusing week but still came out in second place with a 6-2 record. The Vikings lost on Tuesday to winless Sky View 3-2, when the Bobcats pulled off three runs in the top of the seventh on bunts. Viewmont regrouped by the end of the week though as they handed Bountiful two losses in a row. On Thursday the Vikings exploded on the Bountiful field to hand Bountiful a 17-3 setback. Brave Coach Phil Olsen called the game "the longest of my coaching career." Then on Friday the Vikes handed Bountiful a 4-0 loss despite only picking up four hits. Again it was Boun-tiful's Boun-tiful's own errors that aided the Viking cause. WITH THE three losses in this past week, the defending champion Bountiful club still finds itself in contention with a 6-4 mark. Clearfield upped their record to 5-4 with a couple of wins this past week as the Falcons looked to pitching to win one outing and then hitting hit-ting to win the other. Brad Muir threw a one-hitter at the Roy club on Tuesday while Brook Hicks and Larry Read supplied the hitting as Clearfield Clear-field beat Roy 8-1. THEN ON Friday the Falcon Fal-con bats came to life as they handed Layton a 12 setback. Leading the attack at the plate was Mike Arrant who finished with five hits. Roy entered the week in contention but with the losses to Clearfield and Bonneville the Royals have fallen off the pace and find themselves with a 4-5 mark. WEBER LOST on Tuesday to Layton and then to Sky View on Friday to drop their record to 3-6. Layton got their first win of the frustrating season as they, handed Weber an 11-4 loss. Layton exploded for 17 hits with four from Kerry Roberts and three each from Scott Call and Jim McGuire. Then the Lancers dropped a game to Clearfield to come out of the week with a 1-7 record. Sky View won a couple this week, their first of the year, to push their record to 2-6. |