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Show Jbocal&wrapup preseason contests By TOM H ARALDSEN 7 Sports Editor y BOtJNTEFUL-For most, of "the. ( first three quarters of Friday night's game between BoutMful and Hil-lcrest, Hil-lcrest, had you asked Braves' coach Mike Hall how he felt about his team's execution, he would probably proba-bly replied, "I'm all for it." The Braves were playing that badly. f Yet with a minute left in the third quarter, Hillcrest leading 55-35 and Bountiful looking deader than , disco, something happened. The ; Braves ran off the next 10 points, pulled to within 55-5 after three quarters, then just kept coming back' to earn a thrilling 68-66 preseason : win over a Hiiskie squad that isn't . very good. Hall began the game with a new i -lineup, trying to shake the Braves -out of the doldrums they'd fallen into with losses to Bingham and ; West Jordan. During the course of ; the game, several combinations v were employed by Bountiful, "but the Huskies seemed destine to win. v Hillcrest made nine of 11 shots from the field in the first quarter to " build a 18-16 lead; It cooled off . considerably in the second period, ; buf still led 44-33 at the break, . Bountiful rallied to be even that close just before intermission, but l as the third period began, all the , momentum shifted agaiiuo the visi-T V tors from Hillcrest..--I With just over a minute left in the z third quarter, the-Huskies took their . biggest lead at 55-35. Hall called a timeout . and replaced f- afl five players on ; the floofLHe also changed his defense, employing a press that Hillcrest never' figured out Baskets by Lance Evans (a r three pointer) and Brad Hartvigsen in the final seconds left it 55-45 after three. . a Baskets by Matt Walton and ' Jjartvigseh early in the fourth made ' it 5549. but Bountiful missed a - shot after a steal, and Hillcrest ended end-ed a M-point nnvwith a Ryan Syl v vies score. It was 59-53 until Troy Fuller canned a three-pointer at the 4:06 mark to make it 59-56.. Bountiful caught the Huskies at 62-all with 3:12 left. Fuller scored, then Steve Wilkinson stole a pass v and went in for two. Seconds later, .Hartvigsen took an ally-oop pass and scored to give Bountiful a 64-6? lead, and Wilkinson scored again to make it 662 with 1:55 left . ' c, o Hillcrest rallied for hoops from Sylvies to tie the game with 50 seconds se-conds left, but Walton was fouled -with nine seconds to go, and his free ' throws were the difference. ' Hartvigsen led Bountiful with 14 - points, Wilkinson added 13, Walton 10 and Evans nine for Bountiful, which finished preseason with a 6-4 mark. . DAVIS . The Darts of John Robison strug-gled strug-gled to a 3-7 preseason mark, finishing finish-ing witlj a. loss to Brighton on Friday. Fri-day. Davis overcame a 14-point halftime deficit to battle back against the Bengals, but fell short of catching them. -.. ' Robison has been getting cori sistent good play from Chad PoisonClark Poi-sonClark Caldwell, Tom Bartley, " Brad Gardner and Jon Rhodes. VIEWMONT Oyde Nelson's Vikings are now -2-8 on the year, but have shown good momentsr particularly in a-one-point loss to talented Bonneville. Bonnevi-lle. Viewmont also looked good in a loss to American Fork, and Nelson , hopes for the return of .senior Matt c Curtis before the first half of league . jlayends. i - Pacing Viewmont thus far- have been Kelly Bland and pave Chides--ter, along with Jason Smith. c -, WOODS CROSS , 3 The Wildcats finished their preseason with a game at Olympus Tuesday night, entering that contest with a 4-5 mark. Kevin Wilson's team got strong performances from a variety of players in an 11-point win over Jordan and an 81-66 win Over Granite. Dave Simon had 35 . points in those wins, Todd Fuller , added 28 and Kilt Rawlings had 16 against Jordan. Mike Wright-was r top scorer against Granite with 23. . , For a look at how teams shape up- t-entering t-entering region, plus predictions for the league race, see other stories in today's Clipper. |