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Show EteauGirs tip Sortta S9M by Mel Osborn Coach Al Marshall tucked another win away last Friday night using the simple basics of good football to hang on to a 17-14 victory, while his opponent resorted to fancy razzle-dazzle tactics to find ! the paydirt. The game was riddled with penalties and caused havoc I with both offenses erasing ; TD's and large gains. The first score of the evening ! came in the first quarter I on a well executed pass play from Williams toSmith, but a procedure call erased the six points and Beaver was forced to punt. With two minutes remaining remain-ing in the 1st quarter, Beaver's Bea-ver's defense forced South Sevier into a punting situation situa-tion deep in the Rams' territory. ter-ritory. A high snap from center forced 187 -pound Jim Burr to 'his own goal line; three Beaver defenders swarmed him, but he was able to maintain his balance long enough to flip the ball to Pat Hansen, who scampered for about 90 yeards. However, a clipping penalty at midfield nullified the long run. In the next series of downs, Daniel Robinson made a super sup-er defensive play to foil a potential TD. Bruce Carter went to work on defense and blocked his fourth punt of the season, giving the Beaver offense the ball on South Sevier's 45 yard line. Daniel Robinson scrambled for 12 yards only to cough up the ball to the Ram defenders. South Sevier QB Roger Farnsworth went to work im -mediately calling a screen pass play. Little Lory Gurr was waiting and on a good second effort picked off the attempted pass and gave the Beavers a chance to set up shop again. Beaver moved the ball to the Rams' 24 yard line with 15 seconds remaining until intermission. Beaver had no times out remaining, but quickly set up for a field goal attempt. Lory Gurr received re-ceived the snap from Theron Jessup and at the buzzer Chad Dalton had his toe into the pigskin for three crucial points. Beaver received to open the 3rd period and GaryGoff had an excellent return to mid-field. But the "yellow hanky" took precedence again and the play was returned re-turned to the Beaver 35 yard line. However, Gary Goff wasn't to be denied and he proved so on a 63 yard jaunt down the sideline to give Beaver a 10-0 margin. Farnsworth decided he would go to work for South Sevier and rushed from mid-field mid-field to Beaver's two -yard line before being brought down from behind. The next play, the Rams were nailed with a five -yard procedure call and moved the ball back to the seven -yard line. Farnsworth immediately went to the air and found Wes Taylor trotting all alone in the end zone for their first six points. The PAT was good and the 3rd quarter ended with Beaver nursing a 10-7 lead. . .'.;, With 8:05 remaining in the : game, Beaver was on the Ram 40 -yard line facing a fourth down and inches. Jeff Williams Wil-liams carried the ball on a keeper and picked up the first down plus more yardage down to the 35 yard line. The next play Daniel Robinson broke away for 30 yards down to the Ram 5 -yard line. QB Jeff Williams handed off to Gary Goff, who bolted across the end zone stripe, but a procedure call returned the compliment back five yards. Goff wasn't to be denied again and a good second effort punched across the left side for an official six more big points. With 5:56 showing on the clock, South Sevier immediately imme-diately hit the air with the pigskin, but Lory Gurr was in the area again and picked pick-ed off the pass and returned it for good yardage. Again the little yellow piece of cloth dictated the situation blocked punt in the end zone for two more in the third quarter. Robert Brown kicked kick-ed the extra points. The fourth quarter was a fiasco in the 48-0 game as the Cowboys scored a safety, safe-ty, on a 22 -yard pass, from McDonald to Ken Robinson, a 72 -yard run by Crosby and a 2-yard plunge. The win kept the Cowboys and the Wolves a game behind be-hind undefeated Beaver, but this week the Cowboys travel to Beaver, still smarting from the 7-0 loss in the rain last year. The only loss the state champoins had in the 1976 season. However,' and Beaver reversed their position 15 yards. Following that play Beaver ace punter and offensive guard, Don Atkin, was ejected eject-ed from the game on a controversial con-troversial spearing call (he was on offense) and the men in stripes miked off another 15 yards, forcing Beaver to ; punt with two m inutes re -maining in the game. Coach Rick Orr needed something fast and he called a double reverse option pass and Roger Farnsworth bul-leted bul-leted a beautiful pass to his teammate Tony Smith for a 73 yard pass play, followed by a two -point conversion, and all of a sudden it was 17-14, Beaver, with just under un-der two minutes left. Kelly Smith tucked away an on -side kick and Beaver ran the seconds off the clock picking up a crucial first down to maintain final possession. pos-session. The Kanab Cowboys broke the game open with a 47-yard 47-yard run by Dave Cosby and an 8-yard run by Steve Martin Mar-tin to take a 12-0 lead over Parowan in the second quarter. quar-ter. Kenford Davis ran four yards to score and Robert McDonald recovered a |