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Show Braves edge Carbon, play for bracket title By G.BRETT HART Sports Editor MURRAY Though it's not the state championship champion-ship finals, it will have to dofor this year anyway. Bountiful High's Lady Braves slipped past the Carbon High Dinos Friday, 57-53 in overtime to earn the opportunity to battle Region 6 nemesis Judge today to-day in the 3A girls' state basketball consolation bracket finals. The two teams will square off at Murray High. Game time is 1:30 p.m. The winner of today's game will claim sixth place. The loser will finish the 1991 tournament in eighth. The Braves, down by 45-39 with just over five minutes remaining in the game, rallied to overtake the Dinos before regulation time expired. Bountiful's Camille DuPaix hit one of two from the line to cut the Carbon lead to five, 45-40. Bountiful's defense forced a Dino turnover, and t Hanni hit a baseline jumper to cut the Carbon lead to three, 45-42, with 2:54 remaining. Moments later Hanni collected one of her game-high game-high 14 rebounds and sank the follow-up to bring the Braves within a point, 45-44. Carbon's Misty Potochnik hit two bonus tosses from the line, giving the Dinos a three-point edge once again, 47-44, but the Braves had already forced a momentum shift in their direction. Jenny Gardner sank a bucket to cut the margin to one again. On the ensuing inbounds pass, Bountiful junior guard Kim Reimann came up with a steal and dished the ball to teammate Allison Drown, who raced for her only field goal of the afternoon, which coinciden-tally coinciden-tally put Bountiful ahead 48-47 with one minute left. Both teams had opportunities to score, but neither could muster a basket for the next 45 seconds. With 14 seconds on the clock, Hanni stepped to the line and hit the front end of the one-and-one, extending exten-ding the Bountiful lead to 2, 49-47. The Dinos brought the ball down the floor; Jenny Powell's three-point attempt sailed long, but the rebound re-bound fell in the hands of Dion Carlson, who barely beat the buzzer, tying the game at 49. The basket was Carlson's first of the game. Though regulation play was a nail-biting, seesaw battle, the three-minute overtime period belonged exclusively ex-clusively to Bountiful. Gardner and Reimann hit back-to-back buckets and put the Braves up 53-49 with 1 : 18 on the clock. Carbon's Karina Seybold brought the Dinos to within two, but Hanni stepped to the line sinking two more charity tosses to regain a Bountiful, 4-point lead. Hanni finished the day shooting 12 of 16 from the line Friday en route to an impressive 30 points and 14 rebounds. Finally, Reimann added two more from the line to clinch the four-point win. Reimann finished with 16 points followed by Gardner with 6 to round out Bountiful's top scorers. Though Camille DuPaix did not finish the game with a field goal, she added seven rebounds, many in critical situations. Powell led Carbon with 16 points and nine rebounds re-bounds followed by Seybold, who chipped in 13. Paula Madrid and Staci Myers each added 10. Bountiful led 16-12 after the first and extended the lead to 28-23 by the half. The Dinos gained the lead at the end of the third, 40-37 as Potochnik and Powell combined for a free throw and a bucket, respectively. "We expected a tough, aggressive battle with Carbon," Car-bon," said Bountiful coach Jill Avery. "They match up with us very well across the board. They're a big, aggressive team." Judge has defeated Bountiful twice this season, the last defeat coming in double overtime. "To beat Judge this time, we'll have to stick to our game," Avery explained. "They play aggressively. It should be a good game." |
