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Show Reaches Midi Point By DAVE WIGHAM LAYTON This week marks the halfway point of region re-gion action for the clubs in Region Re-gion One and both Clearfield and Layton are fighting for a spot in the 4A state tournament. tourna-ment. CL'RRENTLY heading into Friday's action, Clearfield. Bonneville and Roy all find themselves on top of the standings stand-ings with 3-1 records. Weber is next in line at 2-2 with Layton hanging in there with a 1-3 mark with the Sky View club on the bottom with a 0-4 mark. This week will tell the story in regards to just who will be on top after the dust settles as the three tops clubs will get a shot at each other. Clearfield especially has their own hopes in their hands as they play the two clubs that they are tied with in the next six days. MEANWHILE THE Lancers Lan-cers play host to Sky View on Friday and then travel up to Roy to battle the Royals. The Falcons are now in full flight with their win over Sky View last Friday and they couldn't have picked a better time to play their best ball than right now. First on Friday the Falcons travel up to Roy and battle the same Royals that Clearfield finds themselves tied with. THEN ON Tuesday they head up to Bonneville to battle the Lakers, a team they beat at Clearfield earlier in league play. Roy is coming off their only loss of the year in region play and they aren't likely to want to drop two in a row. They 'II be fighting mad this week to regain re-gain sole possession of the top spot. THE ROYALS present numerous num-erous problems for the Clearfield Clear-field bunch . One of the biggest is their height advantage. Roy has a couple of players who are over the 6'5" range in Robb Thomas and Steve Scholtec, while the Falcons don't have a sole with that height. Roy also has some quickness quick-ness on their side w ith the likes of Kirkwood and Brad McAulley. CLEARFIELD though has a well balanced attack that looks for the good shots with their patient offense. Three Falcons are in double figures for league action with Troy Nye at 16.5. Dewey Pratt at 15.5 and Freddie Fred-die Cook at 14.5 per outing. Kyle Moosman. Mike Johnson and Greg Boren have all been playing well and are capable of big scoring nights. Defense is the name of the game and no one does it better than these Clearfield folks. Coach Craig Hansen has molded this group into a great team outfit. They know it takes all of them to dIuv well to win. BONNEVILLE is out for revenge re-venge against Clearfield since the Falcons won game one 55-46. 55-46. In that win Cory Sylvester saw limited action with illness. The Lakers are running hot right now but don't look for Clearfield to lie down. Layton will be after win number two this Friday with winless Sky View coming to town. Layne Sacked, averaging averag-ing 21.2 points per game, leads the way with Jeff Pearce at 19.0 and Dave Barney scoring at a 1 1.0 clip. The Lancers played well for three periods against Weber but then went cold with Sacked pouring in 29 points. THE LANCERS should knock off Sky View and then face Roy on Tuesday. The Royals beat Layton in game one by 1 1 points but the game was closer than that score would indicate. Tom Watson. Brian Cunningham and David Leach are also having good years for Coach Doug Moon. Layton has come close to beating the top guns on several occasions and this week could very well be their turn. CLEARFIELD needs the wins to stay in the hunt for the region title while Layton needs them to stay in the hunt for a state berth. |