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Show S pt r tiki d f& $ l $ H 1-u i hP A - Op " 0 w l ( i IIy STATE BCI CHAMPS Davis County won the state basketball tournament this past week and will now represent Utah in the National event in August. Members of the team include (bottom row left to right) Brent Lang, Scot. Mabey, John White, Richard Johnson, Danny Bell. (Top row 1 to r), Coach Ron Johansen, Blake Izatt, Reed Fames, Richie Weight, Brian Taylor, Lex Brown and Coach Wayne Baker. Bell plays some excellent ball inside and at 6-5 plays some good defense. He attends Bountiful. WOODS CROSS is represented repre-sented by Johnson who is clearly one of the team's most solid rebounders. Standing at 6-8 he can also play good defense. de-fense. Taylor is the 6-4 lefthanded guard from Davis. Johansen calls him one of the finest gurards to come through Utah in quite some time. "When he handles the ball, he doesn't even think, he just does it," said Johansen. FARNES IS a scoring guard from Viewmont. This 6-0 star is an excellent passer. Weight won the 3-A state long jump crown last year and is a valuable asset when it com es time for offensive boards. BROWN OF Bountiful was known for those leaping leaning lean-ing 20 foot shots in the tournament. tourna-ment. This Brave guard is known for his extreme quickness. quick-ness. Lange at 6-4 comes from Davis. He was mainly selected to the squad because of his good outside shot and the good things he does at the small forward for-ward spot. Weight, Brian Taylor, Lex Brown, Brent Lange, Scott Mabey, John White, Rich Johnson and Dan Bell. Johansen's assistant coach was Wayne Baker of Woods Cross High. WHITE, MABEY, Isatt, Bell, Taylor and Johnson were then selected to play with Rob Thomas, Steve Sholtec, Reed Newey, Robert Maxwell, Darren Dar-ren Long and Brian Moore in the national tournament. Thomas, Sholtec and Newey represent Roy; Maxwell Max-well comes from Highland; Long is from Alta and Moore comes from Bonneville. THE CHAMPIONSHIP team won all four of their games by ten points or more. Opening night they destroyed a Heber Valley collection of kids by 52 points. Johansen says the win over the Alta-Jordan, Brighton group the next night was the toughest, but still they won by ten. A GATHERING of Weber-Bonneville Weber-Bonneville players then fell by 17 points to the Davis County bunch before the Rpy-Weber combo were dealt there blow in the title game. The other team to represent Utah will be a group of Utah Valley players, where a team always receives an automatic berth because the tournament is hosted by them. IN ORDER to secure the final fin-al Utah berth. 16 teams formulated formu-lated around the state and battled bat-tled for the spot. BYU's Frank Arnold had much to do with getting the tournament staged in Provo which also includes a slam dunk contest. By KEITH DUNCAN Even Goliath would have had a tough time with this crew. TEN OF Davis County's top prep basketball stars, who combined some towering strength under the basket and a lot of quickness there and everywhere else, blitzed a gathering of Roy and Weber players for the summer championship cham-pionship in the annual Basketball Basket-ball Congress International tournament. The championship squad then determined its six top players and combined them with six of the state's other elite to form the second of two Utah teams that will represent Utah in the national tournament tourna-ment held each year at BYU. This year's tourney will run from Aug. 4 to Aug. 8. FOUR BOUNTIFUL play-ers, play-ers, three from Viewmont, two from Davis and one from Woods Cross formed the tight-knit tight-knit group that won this year's state title. The next best ten in Davis County formed a "B" team which won two games and eventually played for the consolation con-solation championship RON JOHANSEN, the head mentor at Viewmont High, has coached BCI teams for three years now and considers con-siders this one to be one of the better Utah teams in years. "THIS MAY sound funny, but we might have a chance to take it this year," said Johansen about the national title. ti-tle. Utah players will be battling bat-tling some of the finest prep basketball talent in the country including teams from New ISATT IS a 5-10 point guard from Bountiful who is one of the only juniors on this team. White at 6-9 plays the forward for-ward high post spot. For the past two years he has been a starter at Viewmont. His 16-foot 16-foot jumper is getting deadlier all of the time. MABEY IS 6-8 and considered consi-dered the strong man of the bunch and probably the best leaper. The Viewmont senior will likely finish in the top 10 in the slam dunk contest. York and Los Angeles. It is estimated that 75 percent of the players who come to Provo in August will be higly recruited re-cruited by major universities. "Last year we had some good talent too, but just didn't quite click together. This year the kids have played more like a team and some even took away from their own games to help the team." commented the Viking coach. THE 1981 team consists of Blake Isatt. Reed Fames. Rich |