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Show Wildcats Win, Vikings - Braves Drop Opening Basketball Games BASKETBALL SCHEDULE Wednesday, Dec. 2nd. West at Bountiful Friday, Dec. 4th Olympus at Viewmont Bountiful at Bonneville Classic Woods Cross at Bonneville Classic Saturday Dec. 5th Bountiful at Bonneville Classic Woods Cross at Bonneville Classic Tuesday Dec. 8th Woods Cross at Brighton By DAVE WIGHAM BOUNTIFUL - Basketball season is here, at least the preseason pre-season practice schedule. LAST WEEK the three local schools opened up their seasons sea-sons with Woods Cross winning win-ning and Viewmont and Bountiful Boun-tiful losing. In each case the game could have gone either way. Viewmont lost in overtime over-time to Kearns 62-58 while Bountiful lost to Clearfield 57-51 57-51 in a game that really wasn't decided until the final minutes. Woods Cross beat Layton 68-64 in a see-saw battle that either team could have won. In the first half the Wildcats got on top by as many as ten points but then the Lancers fought back and led by 1 4 in the fourth period. "IT WAS a great learning experience for us" noted head man Wayne Baker, "I was obviously ob-viously pleased with our comeback. com-eback. We really haven't had time to put much in yet and our kids showed a lot of composure compo-sure under adverse conditions." condi-tions." Seniors Richard Johnson and Bruce Bishop led the scoring scor-ing parade for the Cats with each one pouring in 19 points. Junior Gregg Housekeeper was in double figures with 16 and turd Gregg Gurr took some of the pressure off the big boys inside with 12 points from the guardline. GOING into the game with Kearns the Viking coaching staff realized they had a great frontline but that the question mark was at the guard positions. posi-tions. Things are still the same as Coach Ron Johansen is still searching for the right people. "We're very inexperienced and we showed it by making too many mistakes. We were looking for the right combination combina-tion at guard and by shuffling in people all the time we may have created some of the problems. prob-lems. We're still looking for the right combination but then that's what pre-season is for." BIG JOHN White led the Vikes with 19 points and a bundle bun-dle of rebounds while Scott Mabey was right behind with 15 points and plenty of boards. Junior Kevin Smith added 11 points in a strong showing. Bountiful and Clearfield displayed dis-played what everyone knew prior to their game. That both sides had a hard nosed club with plenty of talent. The lead changed hands on a regular basis but down the stretch a solid Falcon bunch came out on top. "WE GOT outhustled I know that" noted a disappointed dis-appointed Mike Hall. "We had some bright spots but also we showed we need work in other areas. We need to get more scoring from our other front-liners front-liners to take the pressure off of Danny Bell." Dan still managed to get 17 points in the game although he was the center of attention by the Clearfield defense. Juniors Gary Seljaas and Blake Izatt were next in line with 9 a piece while senior Richie Weight added 8. |