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Show Vikes. Win Cross Country IS . I aMWM J Hi uLL v.,IlL 1 111 L Viewmont Coach Lynn Dubois gets a ride from his succesful team after he guided the club to a region title. By DAVE WIGHAM SUGARHOUSE PARK --Alan --Alan Parker led his Viewmont team to the team title in Region Four cross country last week as the Vikes pulled away from second place Highland in relatively rela-tively easy fashion. "I HONESTLY thought it would be closer" noted Viking coach Lynn Dubois. "On paper pap-er Highland was close to us and we only beat them by one point in our dual meet." As it turned out the Vikings had 33 points compared to 46 for the second place Rams. INDIVIDUALLY this race was over after the first 100 yards as Parker simply left the field and ran on his own over the three mile course. He crossed cros-sed the finish line with a time of 16:23 to easily down second place finisher Rich Seegmiller of East by thirteen seconds. Mark Wallace of Highland was third but then the next three places went to the strong Viking squad. Sophomore Reese Kidman finished fourth, another sophomore Mike Allen was fifth while junior Brian Fuller was sixth. TONY RABBIT of Highland was seventh then came Brian Bacon of Davis followed by Larry Richardson of Woods Cross and Lex Brow n of Bountiful. Boun-tiful. All of these ten runners will be in the state meet to be held this week at the same course. ON THE race then the Vikings Vik-ings took I, 4, 5, 6, and 17 to take the top honors from the Rams who were 3, 7, 11, 12, and 13. Gather local runners who should be congratulated on their efforts are Viewmont runners Lee Nelson (17). Mikael Olofson (19) and Law-son Law-son Mahi (25). BOUNTIFUL had Chad Harward (16), Bruce Adams (20) , Dan Drumiller (31), Kerry Ker-ry Peart (35), and Kevin Arba-nas Arba-nas (38). After Bacon the Davis side had Troy Johnson (14), Matt Kimball (15), Del Espinosa (21) , Ken Hirschi (23), Gary Martinez (27) and Joe Hawkins (33). . - FROM THE Woods Cross team there were Frank Hen-drickson Hen-drickson (30), Mark Wager (36), Tracy Kirkham (37), Richard Paul (39), Mike Jordan (40), and Ned Penly (41). The Vikings closed out a great region by taking home a couple of trophies. Coach Lyn Dubois was awarded the dual meet championship trophy with the Vikes posting a 5-0 mark as well as the region meet trophy. WITH THE majority of their varsity runners returning next year along with a strong junior varsity team the Vikes appear to be favorites for several more |