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Show it DeQraw Leads Darts Past Brawas ;-: . By DAVE WIGHAM VV KAYSVILLE - Davis ; High scored two touchdowns ; in the last five minutes of play to hand Bountiful a 36-30 setback set-back in Region Four last week. THE DART win gives them and the Braves a co-championship co-championship in league play, but the Davis side goes to the state quarterfinals as the top team with the win. For the pure fan, this was one of the greatest football games seen in a long time. For Davis fans it was a fantastic finish while their counterparts from Bountiful could only look on with disappointment from the stands. BOUNTIFUL appeared to have the game won w hen Dave Wilson recovered an attempted attemp-ted onsides kick with just over four minutes left. Bountiful is known for their ability to hang on to the ball for long periods of time with their running attack. The Braves did pick up one first dow n on a pass from Phillip Schmutz to tight end Matt Thornley, but then the Dart defense put the clamps on. Big Rob Eggett ran for a couple cou-ple of yards and then Steve Hadley ran for three more giving giv-ing the Braves a third and five near mid-field. Coach Paul Waite called for a fake hand off to Eggett and Schmutz kept the ball around the end. The Darts weren't fooled though, and the Braves faced a fourth and six situation. ' SENIOR JAY McCaan got off a great kick putting the Darts in a deep hole on their own three yard line with just over a minute to play. After two incomplete passes the play came in from the sidelines, as Spence DeGraw explains. "It's called motion right 49 streak. When I went in motion I went too far from the rest of the line because I couldn't hear the quarterback. When I headed up field I looked back for the flags in case I had gone up too quick. I knew I had the halfback beat because, he moved up thinking we were throwing in the fiat to me again, we had done that a couple cou-ple of times during the night. Then I had to concentrate on catching the ball. I had dropped drop-ped a couple already and I'm not known for my pass receiving receiv-ing ability. As soon as I caught it 1 told myself there was no way anyone was going to catch me.' AND THEY didn't as the speedy senior rambled 97 yards for the winning score. It was DeGraw that set the tone of the battle on the very first play from scrimmage. Spence took the handoff from quarterback Ben Home around the right end and went 77 yards untouched for the first score with less than a minute gone in the game. "That play surprised me I remember thinking to myself it's not suppose sup-pose to be this easy." BOUNTIFUL wasted no time evening up the score as they scored on their first possession, pos-session, although, it came a bit harder than the Dart score. Davis actually held the Braves on their first three plays but then the Darts fumbled the punt with junior Art Miller falling fall-ing on it for the Braves on the Davis 16 yard line. Todd Smith ran a couple of times, then the Braves called a draw play to big Rob Eggett who rambled 14 yards for the score. BACK CAME the Darts with Drew Olson and DeGraw finding huge holes in the Bountiful Boun-tiful defense. When they got close it was fullback Troy Meacham who took the pigskin pigs-kin over the goahne. The kick was good and the Darts led 14- 7 with just over four minutes in the first period. The fireworks were just starting as neither team seemed able to stop the other from moving the football. Bountiful started a drive on their own 35 yard line and appeared to have things going their way when Schmutz overthrew over-threw a pass and Doug Wehrli, the move in from Bountiful, intercepted in-tercepted and returned the ball to mid-field. DAVIS WAS unable to move, mainly due to a holding penalty, and they punted back to the Braves. After a couple of first downs Rob Eggett fumbled fum-bled with Wehrli falling on the ball for Davis at the Bountiful 39 yard line. On the first play, Todd Beck of Bountiful made a fine interception at his own five yard line. At this point Coach Waite went to his ball controlled ground attack and the Braves took fifteen plays to go 59 yards for the touchdown. The drive was typical Bountiful with Eggett and Smith running the ball with an occasional short pass to Jay McCaan. Smith went th final two yards around the right end with about ab-out a minute remaining in the first half. Bountiful faked the kick with Eric Johnson run ning the ball in for two points and the Braves led at the half 15-14. THE THIRD period was more of the same. Bountiful took the ball and marched down the field only to have Wehrli intercept again by tight end Matt Thornley, who prevented pre-vented him from scoring. Davis went to their bread and butter with DeGraw and Meacham running, the key play was a third and twelve situation in which Ben Home hit DeGraw with a fine pass to the Braves three yard line and a first down. DeGraw then went around the end for the touchdown. The Darts ran a reverse to DeGraw who found the end zone again and Davis was on top 22-15. Bountiful put together the go ahead touchdown with another long drive. Twice the Braves went for the six points on fourth down opportunities and both times they succeeded. suc-ceeded. On a fourth and nine pass, interference was called on Davis giving the Braves a first down on the Dart's 15 yard line. THEN ON fourth and three from the five yard line Eggett bulled his way into the end zone. The play just before this one saw Bountiful lose Todd Smith to a knee injury for a couple of weeks. Schmutz then hit Dave Wilson in the end zone for the two point conversion conver-sion and the Braves led 23-22 with 11:56 left in the game. Davis went back to work on offense but safety Dave Wilson Wil-son picked off a Dart pass and gave his Brave team good field position near mid-field. Mike Gee had entered the game for the injured Smith and on his first carry he went around left end and found daylight and out ran everyone for the score. This time Steve Hadley kicked the extra point and the Braves led 30-22. THE DARTS weren't going to give up that easy as they came right back down the Braves throats. DeGraw and Meacham took turns running and catching the ball and soon found themselves inside the Bountiful ten yard line with a first down. DeGraw went around end for six yards. Then DeGraw again for two more and finally Meacham went over left tackle untouched for the touchdown. The attempt at the two points failed when DeGraw lost his footing and fell down behind tne line. AT THIS time the Darts tried the onsides kick but it didn't work. Little did they know they'd still pull it out. ..-.pry - v--v -'V- ":n |