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Show graves Slip Past Hillcrest At Lin j(VE WIGHAM uKE CITY - In ,o only get three , , , lhc ball and if you ' ' ".(fii you can go sit V ;skelballthereisno jil's a good thing and their speedy , ji Lex Brown. LMES Lex went to ' wiih one and one , -jinst Hillcrest and -he missed. But V ' fifth time he re- M hitting both ends graves hold off a . 4ie bunch 46-44 to t ..je state semifinal .51 Roy- , Sl over four minutes (. .faille, and his club ;iex found himself at ;e. The night before hit eight of nine from -Vrjty stripe so the , rwasalreadytoput 'J points. But Lex , rvWITH 2:59 showing ! ' lock and the score a :(tat 42-39 Lex found Tik on the line . .Again - .j came up short and "icrest bunch claimed :,',ound. Hillcrest -1 score so they went "wlingand putting Mr. . jothe line. He missed -. j ile Huskies had the ball. The fourth time occurred with 1 :54 showing on the clock when Jeff Wilcox fouled out With just over a minute to Play the Hillcrest crew hit a fP111' w'thin one point at 42-41. At this time they figured fi-gured they'd try the old trick again, and Lex was fouled this time though, with 043 seconds left Lex calmly sank both shots to throw off the strategy. JUST FOR good measure, Gary Slejaas who played extremely ex-tremely well in the tournament, tourna-ment, sank a couple of insurance insur-ance free throws. Lex was joking about his four shooting following the game, "I guess it needs more pressure than three points for me. I made them when we were only up one point," he smiled. BOUNTIFUL Coach Mike Hall had nothing but praise for the Huskie club. "Their kids are quick for their size and it was extremely tough for us to penetrate. We needed to score from outside but just couldn't get the shots," he said. The Huskies were not impressed im-pressed by the lopsided win of the Braves in the opening round, or by their number one ranking, as the Salt Lake crew took the lead in the first period. After spotting the Huskies a 0-8 first quarter advantage, the Braves went to their big gun-Dan Bell. In the second Period Dan poured in nine points. He finished the night w'th 15, as the Braves took control 23-18. HILLCREST wasn't done though, as they scored four quick points to end the hold only down one point at 23-22. he Huskies tried a different approach in the third period as hey went to a slowdown pace It was more of an effort to slow up the Bountiful fast break as anything else. In any event, he move really didn't help as the Braves outscored their opponents 8-4 in that period to lead 31-26 after three. THE BRAVES seemed to have things their way when Bell tipped in a missed shot to give the Braves a 40-31 advantage advan-tage with just over five minutes teft to play. But it was then that Hillcrest went to the foul for profit routine. It almost worked. ' Besides Bell, who had 15, the only other Brave in double figures was Brown with 10. Almost lost in the game was the fact that Seljaas iced the game with two foul shots with 12 seconds left. The win moved the Braves into the semifianls to face Roy. |