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Show Bonneville's power proves too much for Vikes to overcome By GARY R. BLODGETT VIEWMONT Bonneville High Lakers continued to show their prowess in 4-A football ranks Friday with a 21-6 victory over defensive-minded Viewmont on the Vikings' field. It was a hard-fought battle in which the Vikings were still in the running until the Lakers scored a touchdown with just over eight minutes mi-nutes to play in the fourth period. In fact, the Vikings played-tit-for-tat with the number four ranked visitors from Ogden throughout Qnost of the game, trailing by only ne point midway in the second - jveriod and 14-6 at halftime. It was the third straight win for Bonneville and the second loss in three games for the Vikings. Bonneville scored with 6:43 left in the first quarter after gaining a first down by less than one inch on their own 33-yard-line. "That was a turning point of the game," said Bonneville head coach Tom Budge. "It gave us a second chance to get things rolling." And that's exactly what happened. hap-pened. On the next play, a long pass to speedster Steve Hermadez resulted re-sulted in a touchdown. Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly the fastest player in a Laker, uniform, the little scafback . gathered in the oval near midfield and raced unmolested down the left sideline. The point after was good and Bonneville was on top 7-0. Then the opposite happened for Viewmont. Instead of having the "Luck of the Irish" like Bonneville's Bonnevil-le's first down by an inch, the Vikings Vik-ings drew a penalty from the officials offi-cials that nullified a touchdown. Viewmont's Matt Gomm, who plays both wide receiver and defensive de-fensive back, picked off a Bonneville Bonne-ville pass and raced nearly 70 yards down the right sideline to paydirt. But the penalty flags flew and the play was brought back to the Bonneville Bon-neville 46 yard line. After that, the Lakers' offense stalled and they were forced to punt to the Vikings' 28. From there, Viewmont's offense put on its best show of the evening by rushing and passing 72 yards in 12 plays, with the touchdown coming com-ing on a two-yard plunge by running run-ning back Sean Ihler. Most of the rushing yardage on the sustained drive was garnered by Ihler and Blake Hills. A nifty pass from quarterback Gary Leatham to Ben Higby netted about 15 yards to help keep the drive going. Bonneville managed to score again in the last 13 seconds of the first half after the Lakers recovered reco-vered a Viewmont fumble on the Vikings' 33-yard line. A series of rush plays moved the ball to the 10-yard line, where a pass from Scott Kee to tight end Jason Horgesheimer resulted in the score and gave the Lakers a 14-6 lead and the momentum going into the locker lock-er room at intermission. Both defenses tightened in the final minutest of the game when the Vikings held the Lakers on fourth down and inches on the Viking six. A few minutes later, Bonneville did the same to Viewmont when the Vikes attempted a fourth down and one-foot on their own 14 with about nine minutes to play and trailing 14-6. Bonneville capitalized on the missed first down and Jason Cooper Coop-er hauled in a pass on the one-yard line. Scott Samples dove over for the Lakers' third score and put the game out of reach for the Vikings at 21-6 with 8:09 left on the clock. Defensive stalwarts for the Vikings Vik-ings included Jared Hedburg, Troy Solomon, Brad Burnett, Alan Freestone, Mike Westland, Jeremy Galloway, Greg Clark, Jeff Robbins and Matt Gomm. .... 2 U ) - .. &k d I (ft-- X- f ft y-' rC rMi v. : I ' , ' ' ' " ' " ! - i y " , Photo by ROGER TUTTLE Bahr, Ogden and Todd Passey (32) of Bountiful put the rush on the Roy punter on this effort, which was partially deflected by Bahr. The Brave defense was a large factor in earning Bountiful its first win of the year. |