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Show - ' - )) ' it. - .' Coach Rabb talks over 'uraovers By Cathe Owens Turnovers and penalties at crucial times spelled defeat for a tough Tiger team in Friday's game against Alta. The Tigers were well prepared to face the Region II powerhouse, and nearly blemished Alta's perfect season record, but ended end-ed the game down one touchdown 21-14. The scoreless first quarter of the game was sparked by Ben Brad-shaw's Brad-shaw's interception of an Alta pass on the four yard line, which he ran out to the 30, stopping the Hawk's offensive offen-sive drive and giving Orem control of the ball. The glory was short-lived, however, when five plays later a Bradshaw pass intended for Kevin Higley near the end zone, was intercepted in-tercepted by Alta's Thad DeHart, who ran almost the length of the field, to put Alta in potential scoring position at the Orem 12 yard line. Three short-gain runs moved the Hawks to 4-1 on the three yard line. Alta tried another rush play to edge them, over for a first down, but Orem's Nathan Harlow took the ballcarrier ball-carrier down behind the line of scrimmage, scrim-mage, and the Tigers took over on the five. A clipping penalty assessed against Alta early in the second quarter gave the Tigers some distance on their offensive drive, but incomplete passes, and a holding penalty which called back a completed com-pleted pass deep into Alta territory forced the Tigers to end the drive with a punt. The Hawks ran the punt to the Orem 46 yard line, but three incomplete in-complete passes left them at 4-10, and they punted. Orem recevied the punt on their own eight, and the hole was too deep to climb out. Alta took over again on a punt to the 45. Alta got two first downs moving the ball down the field to the 23 yard line in four plays, then an attempted touchdown pass connected with a blue jersey. Ed Chatterly broke up the Hawk drive and gave Orem control on the one yard line. Again the tides turned, and just three plays later, Alta's Brett Alvey intercepted a Tiger pass and ran into the end zone to put Alta on the scoreboard with just over two minutes remaining in the first half. The PAT was blocked and the score was 6-0. The kickoff went into the end zone and Orem took control on the 20. A fumble on the initial play was recovered by DeHart for the Hawks, and they took control in good scoring position. Alta capitalized on the turnover tur-nover and with only twenty seconds elapsed after the previous score, Trent Ogden snagged a pass for another Hawk touchdown. The PAT was good to give Alta a 13 point lead. Paul Peterson was first to put Orem on the board receiving the kickoff on the five yard line. The offensive of-fensive blocking was impressive as Peterson cleared all of the Alta defense and pranced into the end zone with 1:25 remaining in the half. Chris Stonick's PAT sailed through the posts to cut Alta's lead to 13-7. Seconds later a Hawk fumble, recovered by the Tigers was called back by a yellow flag for 12 men on the field, so Alta continued. Two plays later Tyler Anderson intercepted an Alta pass, but it was torn away on the tackle, and Alta recovered with only two seconds remaining. The first half ended with Alta leading 13-7. Alta received the kick to begin the third quarter of play, and ran it back to the 35. The Tiger defense stopped stop-ped the Hawks cold allowing only short-gain runs, and tackling for losses on two of the next six plays. The Hawks were stranded near mid-field at 4-12and were forced to punt. Chatterly received the ball on a fair catch at the 20. Steve Frame, Higley, and Bradshaw rushed to move the ball into Alta territory, but the drive again ended in a punt. In ten plays Alta marched from their own 22 to end up on the Orem 25 where they came up 4-7 with two minutes remaining in the quarter. An attempt to paste a field-goal on the Alta score was blocked and Orem recovered the ball and ran to the 30. 1 J JJU V . J - v -14 -4, game strategy during a timeout in the Alta game. Upset Tigers Friday A pass interference call against Alta made good a Bradshaw pass intended in-tended for Anderson to move the ball to mid-field, and an off-sides penalty moved the Tigers onto Alta turf. A beautiful Higley run inside the five yard line was called back for a penalty penal-ty and the Tigers continued from the 40. A 15-yard run on a hand-off to Frame gave Orem a needed first down, then Higley and Peterson combined com-bined short gains to set Orem at 1-10 on the Alta 12 yard line. Orem's ten play offensive drive ended with a Bradshaw pass to Frame in the end zone to tie the score at 13-13. Stonic's PAT put the Tigers in the lead at 14-13 with 8:42 remaining. The Tiger defense was still running runn-ing strong, and just three plays into Alta's drive, Vic Cram intercepted a Hawk pass which he ran back to Alta's "21 yard line. Following two short-gain runs, Alta's strong pass-rush pass-rush defense set Orem back sacking quarterback Bradshaw. At fourth down and 18 the Tigers set up for a i field goal, but Stonick's kick was y blocked and the Hawks ran the ball " back to the Orem 32. In four plays Alta iribved into scoring position and Alvey ran the ball into the end zone to dash Orem's narrow lead. A dive over the goal line for a two-point conversion made up for the earlier missed PAT, and the Hawks were again in the lead at 21-14. Springville Frosh rob Mountain View Frosh of win. Springville Robs MV Frosh In 4th Quarter In crisp morning air, the Mountain View Bruins faced the Springville Sundevils on Saturday in Springville. The first quarter went scoreless as both teams appeared to be evenly matched. In the second quarter, Bruin quarterback Scott Albrecht, gave a hands off to running back, Eddie Hills, on the Bruins 34 yard line. Eddie ran through tackles and then across the open field to the end zone, making a 66 yard touchdown run. Kevin Benson made a perfect extra point kick through the center of the uprights. The first half ended with a promising 7-0 score. The third quarter started when a Bruin cornerback incepted a Sundevil pass, but possession was returned to Springville by a pass interference call. The next Springville pass attempt-again resulted in a pass interference call against the Bruins. Springville took advantage of their 30 yard gain from Bruin penalties and took the ball in for a touchdown. They then succeeded in making a two point conversion, bringing the score to 8-7. Robert Bird had the ball stripped from his hands after fielding the kickoff and the Devils regained possession of the ball on their own 8 yd. line. They succeeded in moving the ball down field until, on a third down conversion attempt, Bruin lineman, Richard Beardall, caused a 15 yard loss, forcing the Devils to 1-1 s.s ,... . , - - . I j I o)o) - 'i 1 3 v m : "J. V 1 ;, L With just under three minutes remaining re-maining in the game the Tigers began moving the ball down the grid. A pass to Higley moved the ball from the 25 to the 40, where incomplete passes put the Tigers at 4-10. A "do-or-die" pass connected with Anderson for a first down just past the 50. With 1:30 remaining, re-maining, a Bradshaw pass fell into Alvey's arms, and the Hawks had another turnover that may have meant the game. Alta ran out the clock and the game ended in a heart-breaking 21-14 score. Hawk head coach, Doug Berry, was obviously happy about Alta's win, giving the team a 4-0 record. "We have a good pass rush," he commented, com-mented, "it puts a lot of pressure on the quarterbacks." $ Coach Rabb was less enthusiastic about the outcome. "It was a tough game to lose." he admitted. "I think the kids played an excellent game; they really came together." he continued. con-tinued. The team was well'prepared for this game with a different approach ap-proach on defense to stop Alta'stun-ninggame. Alta'stun-ninggame. ' " 'ri"' The Orem team played extremely extreme-ly well, and that's really what made the loss harder. The game was within reach, but Alta capitalized on a couple cou-ple of crucial turnovers to make the difference. Orem's record is now J-2 in region play, 2-2 for the season. Next Friday the Tigers will meet the Bingham Miners at Bingham. . try for a field goal. It proved unsuccessful. The next series of Bruin plays saw Spencer Pinegar catch a 22 yd. pass, Eddie Hills run for 15 yards and Blake Murray run for 11 more. Then Bruin quarterback, Scott Albrecht threw a 40 yd. pass that was intercepted by Springville on their own 30 yd. line and run all the way back to the Bruin 45 yd. line. The Devils brought it do wn to the 7 yd. line where it was stripped away and recovered by Bruin Matt Kallas. The Bruins kicked it on the fourth down. The next Springville drive included the completion of a 43 yd. pass to the Bruin 13 yd. line, but a late hit penalty against Mt. View brought the ball to the Bruin 3 yd. line. The strong Bruin defense was able to hold the Sundevils and keep them from scoring. Mt. View regained the ball n their own 3 yd. line. Quarterback Albrecht drew back into the endzone and threw a pass that was intercepted in the endzone by Springville for a heart-stopping T.D. The devils made it 15-7 with their extra point kick. With just minutes left on the clock, the next Bruin drive included an impressive carry by Robert Bird, and a QB option pitch to Blake Murray for a first down on the Springville 35 yd. line. Ryan Van Wagoner then caught a 20 yd. pass with a Sundevil wrapped around his legs.QB Scott Albrecht ran it himself from the 20 yd. line and was pushed Ken Willes (75) tackles gets tackled by Mart Withers (76). The Bruins won 26-10. Bingham Becomes 3rd Victim OS Mt. View Football Team By Eric Myers Thursday the 18th the sophomore team came off of a disappointing loss to Alta to beat the Bingham Miners 26-10. The Bruins struck quickly, three times in the 1st quarter to end the quarter 20.0. One of those touchdowns touch-downs was on an interception by Ron White who ran 40-yards for the TD and helped give MV a healthy lead in the 1st quarter. Lady By Cathe Owens The Lady Tigers have a strong start to a exciting volleyball season, highlighted by a hard-earned victory over Mountain View last week. "We came out excited and ready to win." commented Orem coach Debbie Zirbes, and they did just that. Orem's team controlled the ball well and built up a 5-0 lead before the lady Bruins hit the scoreboard, and went on to win the first game 15-9. . Mountain View pulled together and caught a lead over Orem early in the second game at 4-2, and dominated the scoring to finish the second se-cond game 15-5 for the Bruins. The tie-breaker game started strong for the Bruins, who pulled an early 5-0 lead, and stayed in the lead for most of the game. At 14-11 for Mountain View the Tigers took control con-trol and started gaining. Following several side-outs, and extended volleys, Orem took the lead, but still had to struggle to pull off the 17-15 victory vic-tory to win the match. Orem - Mountain View games have traditionally been close, and victories vic-tories are hard-earned. "It doesn't matter if one of us has a really good team and the other not so good," explained ex-plained Zirbes, "it's always close." This year though, both Orem and Mountain View have strong teams. According to Zirbes, the Utah Valley teams (Orem, Mountain View, and American Fork) are the strongest in the region, and possibly in the state. For pre-season playing experience, ex-perience, the Lady Tigers travelled to Brigham City for a tournament September 5 and 6. The extra "real game" experience was a big plus for the Tigers, and may have been a factor fac-tor in ttie victory over Mountain View. Orem won three of the six tournament tourna-ment games setting their over-all record at 5-4, 2-1 in region play. The one loss in region was against American Fork on September 11. The lady Cavemen downed Orem 14-16, and 11-15. "American Fork has a good team." stated coach Zirbes, "We'll have to play well to beat them." The other region victory was at West Jordan, where the Tigers dominated the court, winning in two games, 15-2, and 15-6. Thursday the Tigers host the , Hillcrest Huskies. The junior varsity team plays at 4:30, and the varsity at 6:00. out of bounds at the 9 yd. line. A facemask penalty against the Devils brought the Bruins to the 4 yd. line. With 22 seconds left on the clock, Eddie Hills pushed his way to the 1 yd. line. Then Blake Murray carried the ball into the endzone, fumbled it, and recovered it himself for a T.D., making the score 15-13. The Bruin crowd went crazy, forcing the Bruin huddle to signal for their parents to be quiet so they could hear the play for their 2 point conversion attempt. Scott Albrecht's pass was batted down by a Sundevil on the 1 yd. line, dashing any hopes for a tie score. The following Mt. View on-sides kick went straight into the arms' ofa Springville player and the Devils fell on the ball while the final 15 seconds ticked away on the clock. The fans could not help but feel that the disappointing outcome was the result of some heavy penalties called at critical points in the play. Oxem-Geneva Times Wednesday,. September 24,1986 Bingham star running back Brian Kalmar for a loss as he In the 2nd quarter the defense of M V held Bingham while Bingham in turn held MV. After Bingham scored in the 2nd quarter. MV turned around and scored on a 20-yard pass to Val Hyer. The play was set up by an interception in-terception that was caught by James Nelson. Bingham then marched downfield to score again on a field goal ending the half with a score of 26-10. Tigers Earn f Orem High girls volleyball players block a volley. Fitness Classes Available For Year-Round Schools The Orem Recreation Department Depart-ment continues to offer classes for Orchard Or-chard and Bonneville off-track students. Besides the successful swimming and Pee Wee Fitness classes offered last year, new classes are being offered this year including gymnastics, tennis, and racquetball. Excellent instruction is offered' in each of these areas. Registration is presently being taken at the Orem Fitness Center, 580 Women's Basketball Tryouts At UTC An open tryout for the Utah Technical College at ProvoOrem women's basketball team has been announced by coach Tom Perkins. The tryout will be Sept. 29 from 7 -10 p.m. in the Orem campus Activity Center. Perkins has announced that partial scholarships are available for those selected to play with the teams. Those needing more information can contact Perkins a t 226-C233. 1 . "'si The second half was a battle between bet-ween the defenses that was so fierce that both teams were held scoreless during the second half. The game ended end-ed just as the 1st half had with a score of 26-10. JUNIOR VARSITY The J.V.'s took it to the Miners on the Miners homefield where the Bruins dug the Miners into a pit with a score of 33-6. Victory West 165 South, with the first session registration ending September 24th. Classes begin Monday, September 29th and will begin again every three weeks. For additional information, call the Center at 224-7155. Fitness Center Announces Dances The Orem Fitness Center and sound system, Audio Visions, under the direction of Craig Conover announces a teen dance to be held on Saturday, September 27th from 9 a.m. to 12 midnight. Security Is maintained at all dances. Audio Visions provides music for high school dances through Utah and for BYU clubs and wards. Audio Visions feels that playing music is not enough. They try to make sure the kids are dancing and having a good time. Bring your friends and plan to dance at the Orem Fitness Center from 9 p.m. to 12 midnight, September 27th. Call 224-7155 for questions. 1 |