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Show I id " I - t - . V . i - m Jf a a Ltd. ,. - ..... MAGIC ACT: Despite every trick in the book, West was no match for Bountiful Thursday. The Lady Braves are now headed to the 3A state tournament along with rival Woods Cross. (Clipper photo by Roger Tuttle) 3A girls open state tourney play By TOM HARALDSEN Clipper Correspondent MURRAY Bountiful and Woods Cross began play today (Tuesday) in the 3A girls' state basketball tournament at Murray High. Each has hopes of doing something they couldn't do in regular seasonstop the freight train ride of top-ranked Tooele, which enters the tourney 19-1 and a co-favorite along with Logan, Bear River and Emery. Monday's play began with the Buffaloes taking on Springville. Logan hosted Uintah afterward, set- Oting up a possible Tooele-Logan second se-cond round game Wednesday among teams with the best records in the state. Others playing in the upper bracket Monday included Cedar City-Murray and Emery-Box t 1 means that the lower ; T!f JSSot in which both Bountiful and Woocft Cross are placed is the "easier" of the two record-wise. However, state tournaments are never easy. Bear River took on Jordan at 2:30 p.m. today, while Bountiful will play Dixie at 4:10 p.m. The Braves of coaches Jill Avery and Dave Wigham are 16-4 overall, while Dixie finished 6-4 in Region Eight and is 8-1 1 overall. Bountiful will go with perhaps the best front court in the league, led by senior Camille Dupaix and juniors Jenny Gardner and Amanda Walton. The guardline of seniors Kim Reimann and Katie Johnson is also formidable. If the Braves have a weakness, it remains their bench, with only senior Amy Lewis and -juniors Liz Larsen and Jenny Thomell seeing any real playing time this year. Woods Cross plays tonight at 8:10 versus Region Eight champ Pine View, which usually boasts at least a couple of tall, strong inside people. Pine View only finished 10-10 10-10 overall, compared to Woods Cross 9-11 record, but the Wildcats have struggled since mid-season league losses to Bountiful and Tooele seemed to stop their momentum. Wildcat starters include senior Alisa Smith at center; seniors Maureen Newland, Becka Lamb and Jeness Jones on the outside; and junior Meridee Nielsen at forward. Coaches Debbie Peel, Marsha Greiner and Dawn Britton have the luxury of a solid bench, with Kandi Savage, Rosemary Bearnson, Patrice Newland, Molly Mason and Joe Leong all seeing plenty of action. ac-tion. The other game in that bracket is a 6:30 p.m. matchup of Carbon and Ogden. Winners play on Thursday at 4:10 and 8:10 p.m. Losers play at 2:30 and 6:30 p.m. Thursday. First game prognosis: Bountiful should be able to handle Dixie, while Woods Cross will probably struggle with Pineview. If both teams continue con-tinue to either win or lose together, they would match up on Friday in either consolation or the winners' bracket. The tournament favorite, however, has to be Tooele. The Buffs' only loss was to a 4A team in preseason, and only a tall team like Emery or Bear River, or the fast Logan Grizzlies, are likely to have any chance of stopping Tooele. MONDAY WEDNESDAY JaHSi& WEDNESDAY i 2'30 I FRIPAY I Springville I FRIDAY 6:30 6:10 7:10 Logan . . 4:10 1 SATURDAY 1 11:50AM 700 I Cedar Cilv . Murray J 1st : ' 1 2:30 Fmnrv 4:10 1 I I 2nd I 8:!0 I I 6th I B Eldef I 3rd ; 3:is 1992 3A Girls State Basketball Tournament 1:30 Feb. 24-29 at Murray HiKh School 5th I TUESDAY Thursday i Bear Riysr Thursday FRIDAY Jordan I FRIDAY 6:30 RQuntih,. 8:10 8:50 1 1 I 4:10 1 I 3:10 I e!5!S 1 5:30 . Carbon 6:30 1 Ogden ' 2:30 Pme View 4:10 1 8:10 I WOODS CROSS I s |