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Show Spencer Leads Vikes Past E5Hnates xv : 'J ' f'" 1 Tiiii-ZI ' i k"!. 'X """ .r "Ptf' '";,,fv'; ' ' c fx 3 ' ' - ; By DAVE WIGHA.M BOUNTIFUL Often limes high school students will wager with other schools about ab-out the strength of their athletic athle-tic teams. Rarely, though, is the argument settled. LAST TUESDAY, however, Brian Spence of Viewmont and Danny Bulloch of Cedar had the opportunity to settle their bet of which school has the strongest wrestling team. A couple of years ago Brian uas a sophomore in high school and wrestling varsity 1.12 lbs. for the Redman of ("cdar. Following his junior vear of football the Spencer family moved to Centcrville and Brian began his athletic career as a Viking. OVER THE Fourth of July this past summer Brian went hack to Cedar City to visit family and friends. It was at this time that Brian and Mr. Bulloch got into the conversation conversa-tion about the strength of each others wrestling program. "Me said that Cedar would wipe us out on the mats, and that they would even spot up ten points and still whip us," Brian laughed. Another topic of the conversation conver-sation was centered around Todd Larkin, the great Viking wrestler in the 167 class. "Danny indicated that he wrestled Todd in a freestyle meet and they had a very close match with Todd beating him by one point. He went on to say that in a regular high school match he could beat Todd, Brian explained. IN RESPONSE to this charge Larkin notes, "I wrestled wres-tled in the same weight as he did but never wrestled him. A guy beat him by one point and then I beat that guy by 12 points. In the competition he placed fifth and I was second." In any event the SIO wager was made and both parties went about the job of convincing convinc-ing their respective coaches that Cedar and Viewmont should wrestle each other. "1 KEPT bugging Coach Sanderson to get a match with them," Brian noted. "Every day I saw him I'd ask if he had set it up yet." The only response re-sponse that Brian could get was that his coach had no desire de-sire to travel all the way to Cedar for a match. Then one day at a coaches clinic the Cedar coach talked to Sanderson via the phone and the match was set up. ONE BET that was settled was the team strength as the Vikes completely dominated their southern foes 42-16. The other matter is still unsettled though as Larkin pinned his opponent in the 167 class and Bulloch won his with a 6-2 decision de-cision over Craig Roberts in the 185 lbs. class. After the match Sanderson was to the point that he almost wished he had moved Larkin up to settle the score. "From what I saw it wouldn't have been much of a match. Larkin looked the better wrestler by far, he confessed. Remember, though, those are biased remarks. re-marks. THE HIGHLIGHT of the match had to be the 155 lbs. division where Spencer got some sweet feelings with a convincing win over his opponent. oppo-nent. "I would have loved to pin him but I'm happy I won." The big bet was settled, however, but Brian never saw the green. Actually Brian could have played football for the Vikings last year but he opted to stay and play for the Cedar club. "At first when Cedar was undefeated and the Vikings were something like 1-5, 1-5, it looked like I made the right choice. Then all of a sud den we got knocked out of state by Cyprus and the Viewmont View-mont team was in the state fin-als. fin-als. That bugged me for awhile." UNTIL HE learned of the move to Centerville, Brian confessed to the fact he had never heard of Viewmont. "I knew nothing about their athletic programs or anything." any-thing." His father was transferred to Salt Lake City and the Spencers soon found themselves them-selves with the task of finding a suitable place to live. "Dad hates crowded areas so Salt Lake City itself was out. He ruled out living in the south end of the Salt Lake City because be-cause he didn't want to fight the traffic every day. He headed north and like the area especially the fact that the pollution pol-lution wasn't a big factor here." AT FIRST the move was hard on Brian. He came from a school which had 700 students for four grades to Viewmont which had 1200 for three. "I know that schools up here look at Cedar as a hick school or something, but we could compete com-pete with most of them I think. Athletically, I know their not intimidated by so called big schools." Moving to a new area and school is tough on anyone and the fact that no one who lived near him wrestled last year didn't help matters. Now, though, Brian is simply one of the guys to the rest of the Vikes. HE IS one of the reasons the Vikings have their goals set on the region title this year in wrestling. His own goals are the place high in both region and state. Indeed the move was a hard one, but as Brian explains "I'm glad I moved. I was mad about it at first but things just seem to get better all the time here," he smiled. J BRIAN SPENCER sen, Sonya Rees, and Angie Norris. The Darts will play Friday against Orem at the Special Events Center. Ther next home contest is slated for Dec. 22 against Hillcrest. AVONDET ISN'T hesitant about favoring Viewmont or Highland to battle it out for the Region Four basketball crown. She claims the league will be much more competitive than what volleyball turned out to be. When talking about her philosophy, phi-losophy, Avondet says she wants to provide a program where the kids can get as much as possible out of it. "BASICALLY I want to give the kids a chance to become be-come better basketball players. play-ers. But I will admit that I think of winning a state championship champion-ship like everyone else dots. In order for that to happen I've got to teach a bunch of fundamentals fun-damentals and get a little lucky," she said. puts in a good workout every-time every-time one is held. Julie is also a team captain. One of her talents is her jumping jump-ing ability. She has a jump shot that most of the time she can put over people. n k ' ANOTHER STARTER on the team is Teri Hartley, a junior. She can also shoot the ball with accuracy and leads the team in assists. Tracie Belt is Davis' strong inside player. Avondet says she is the team's best rebound-er rebound-er and knows what to do with the ball once she gets it. At 5'9" she is the team's tallest player. "But despite her lack of height on the basketball court she has the ability to dominate inside and intimidate people," said Ann. A SURPRISE for Avondet has been the emergence of Diana Di-ana Peterson who has rose to fill the fifth starting spot. She is the little sister to Julie. At 5'6", she has earned the starting position as a sophomore. sopho-more. "Her mother told me that once Julie and Diana started in the game it had fulfilled fulfil-led a dream for her to see her two daughters start on the same team," said the Davis High coach. THE REST of the Dart roster ros-ter includes Horsley, Smuin, Gwen Greenhalgh, Cheri Baxter, Bax-ter, Tammy Duke, Jodi Gardner, Gard-ner, Laura Billy, Lori Jorgen- |