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Show Lakers End Season For Woods Cross By DAVE WIG HA. VI SALT LAKE CITY This was simply one that got away. NO THIS isn't a fishing story of any kind. Truth is this is about a high school basketball basket-ball game played between Woods Cross and Bonneville. The winner of the game was set to play on Saturday for the consolation title and fifth place. The loser, since both lost opening round games, was to go home for another season. WOODS CROSS played a good ball game for three periods but then all of a sudden their bubble popped and the Bonneville club crept past them for a 52-47 victory. Woods Cross simply let this one slip away from theirgrasp. BOTH CLUBS were a little cautious and tentative in the opening period with neither one really gaining any momentum momen-tum or control. When the buzzer buz-zer Miunded the Bonneville five had a slight 12-11 advantage. advan-tage. Then senior Richard Johnson John-son went to work realizing this just might be his last game for the Wildcats. Biu Rich was a dominating figure under the boards as he enjoyed one of his finest games in scoring 19 points on the evening. THE CATS outscored their opponents 14-7 in the second period and when they went into the dressingrooms with a 25-19 lead many watching the battle thought they would be the winners. Bonneville though, came right back in the third period with junior Syd Moore doing most of the damage. Then the two sides settled back and just knocked heads with each other for a while. When the third quarter ended the Cats still held a one point lead. THEN SOMETHING went wrong in the fourth period, much as had happened to them on opening night against Clearfield. Clear-field. Soon the Cats were behind be-hind the fouling to catch up. all-in-all the Lakers made 13 trips to the foul line in the final eight minutes. Truth is it was the charity stripe that the Lakers were able to win this battle. They doubled the number of attempts (20-10) over the Wildcats Wild-cats and also doubled the number num-ber made (14-7). BESIDES the 19 point effort from the graduating Johnson, the Cats also got good performances per-formances from junior Greg Houskeeper who scored 1 1 more. Seniors Bruce Bishop, Greg Gurr, Matt Johnson, Blair Kent and Mike Egan closed out their career with the Wildcats Wild-cats in this heartbreaking loss. |
