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Show Weber wins WX tourney Ladv Braves claim second after loss to Warriors I V $ i ' i . v - i . . r' - X & ... r - - 1 1 J 1 Xi h -NX 17 i 'iff' 1 : ; . ft x:x I ; I 1 - 1 . ..-s By TOM HARALDSEN WOODS CROSS Weber High turned to its powerful inside game afternoon, crushing Bountiful 51-32 to win the championship of the Woods Cross High Holiday Invitational. In-vitational. The Warriors, who were the pre-toumament pre-toumament favorites, finally clicked click-ed offensively in the final, taking an early lead which they never relinquished. relin-quished. Weber led by margins of 12-6, 23-16 and 39-23 at the end of each quarter en route to the title. In other games on Saturday, all three other local schools were victorious. vic-torious. Viewmont took third place with a 36-29 win over Provo, Woods Cross won the consolation title with a 33-30 victory over Olympus, and Davis played its best game of the week with a 63-51 win over Olympus. Bountiful entered the final without starter Jenny Gardner, who suffered an injury in Friday's win over Provo. Her ball-handling ability abil-ity was missed, and the Warriors disrupted the Braves' steady inside game. Bountiful led briefly at 2-0 and 3-2, but six straight points from Weber gave the Warriors an early advantage.. Two quick baskets by Nikki Hanni and Lishelle Allen to start the second quarter brought the Braves to within two at 12-10, but Weber's tall sister tandem of Kathy and Jodi McKay scored six points and the Warriors built a 23-16 halftime advantage. ad-vantage. Bountiful hung close in the opening open-ing minutes of the third period, as a basket by point guard Elizabeth Larsen brought the score to 27-21. Weber then proceeded to score nine unanswered points, most of them inside from Jodi McKay and Marvett Dickamore. After that point, the verdict was not in doubt. Hanni led Bountiful with 11 points, Kim Reimann added six, and both Allen and Camille DuPaix scored four each. Dickamore and McKay scored 13 each for the Warriors. War-riors. VIEWMONT 36 PROVO 29 The battle for third place was defense dominated, Viewmont taking a 12-10 halftime lead. Provo fought back to lead 21-19 entering the final quarter, but the Vikes stifled stifl-ed Provo on defense and scored 17 points themselves for the win. Viewmont is now 3-2 on the year. Jennifer Jones led the Vikes with 13 points, while Shannon Morrow added 12. WOODS CROSS 33 OLYMPUS 30 The host Wildcats won an ex-citing ex-citing consolation final with Olympus, Olym-pus, as Woods Cross virtually blew a seven-point lead at the end, then hung on for the victory. Woods Cross led 28-21 entering the fourth period, but the determined Titans came back to pull within one at 31-30 31-30 with 40 seconds left. Olympus then fouled senior Ran-di Ran-di Rathmann, who calmly sank a pair of free throws for the win. Amy Turman and Heather Hall each scored 10 points for Woods Cross, and Noell Goodrich scored five. Woods Cross is now 3-1 on the season. DAVIS 63 CYPRUS 5 1 " The battle for seventh place went to the Lady Darts, who led 36-22 at half and kept on rolling. Davis captured cap-tured its first win of the year thanks to 14 points from Chauny Morgan, eight each from Jaquoy Castelli and Jodi Wimmer, and seven from Rebecca Heusser. The young Darts are 1-5 on the preseason. Named to the all -tournament team were Heusser of Davis, Maureen Newland and Turman of Woods Cross, Hanni of Bountiful and Mandy Miller and Jones of Viewmont. This week's schedule calls for Cottonwood to visit Bountiful on Thursday at 4, Bonneville to visit Woods Cross on Wednesday at 5, Davis traveling to East on Friday at 4, and Viewmont to host West Jordan Jor-dan this afternoon (Tuesday) at 4. In other girls action: Davis vs. Ogden KAYSVILLE The Ogden Tigers capitalized on the Lady Darts dismal, first-half shooting performance to wallop Davis by a 15 -point margin Dec. 4. Ogden stormed past Davis to a 50-35 preseason win in front of the Darts' home crowd. Davis only managed to shoot a regrettable 25-percent after two periods allowing the Lady Tigers a 12-point lead at halftime. By the final buzzer, the Darts did boost their shooting percentage to 38, but the improvement was not enough to stop the Tigers who finished the contest shooting well over 50 percent. per-cent. Davis coach Chimane Creer was forced to bench the majority of her starters opting to go with some of her younger players who had just finished a victorious junior varsity effort. Though the switch didn't result in a Davis victory, it did provide some consolation after an otherwise disappointing afternoon. "I wish I knew what the problem was," said Creer. "I'm impressed with the quality of younger players with whom I build the program. "One of our problems was the absence of sophomore Jodi Wimmer, who helps a lot with rebounding re-bounding and scoring, but our biggest big-gest problem was shooting. ' ' Wimmer has been out with a foot injury. Sophomore Regan Taylor came off the bench to lead the Darts with 10 points and 9 rebounds in varsity action adding to her earlier 17 against the Ogden J.V. squad which had boosted the Darts' junior team to a 48-42 win. Melissa McCarty followed Taylor with 9, and Rebecca Heusser added 2 points, 4 steals and 4 assists. . Creer said she felt that the key to Dart improvement will be developing develop-ing a more aggressive defense and learning to push the ball inside more effectively. r Bountiful's Nikki Hanni prepares to launch a shot over a Weber defender in Saturday's Wildcat Invitational finals. (Clipper photo by G. Brett Hart.) |