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Show Bruin Cagers take first region loss to Brighton Bengals 76-57 Friday By Cathe Owens It was a fiery battle Friday when the Bruins hosted Brighton in Region Two basketball play. Marred by rough play, the game turned toward the Bengals, who moved from a 32-20 lead at the half to 6042 going into the final quarter. The Bengals handed the Bruins their first region loss, dropping dropp-ing them to a 3-1 record. Mountain View was right in the game for the first half, trailing by just one at 16-15 after the first quarter, then after bouncing the lead back and forth in the second quarter, trailed 32-20 at the half. Fouling was a critical factor in the game, with Mountain View's two top scorers finishing the game with injuries. in-juries. Brad Gentry, who led the Bruins with 17 points, sprained an ankle in the third quarter. Ken Cooper, who added 13 for Mountain Bingham Miners edge tigers 74-72 dropping By Cathe Owens The Orem Tigers have had a rough start in basketball, with three consecutive losses, most recently to Bingham last Friday, 74-72. The Tigers rallied in the final quarter to trim the Bingham lead, but the attempt at-tempt ended short of the win. Kip Elison led Orem's attack, finishing with 32 points, nine in the fourth quarter. Bingham jumped out to a 9-6 lead early in the game, but the Tigers battled back to claim a 19-16 lead at the quarter. Bingham lunged forward again in the second period, but Elison tied the score at 29, and Orem went on to take a 36-31 half-time lead. Orem's height disadvantage was a problem, with Bingham doing some powerful rebounding. The Miners battled back throughout the third stanza to lead 53-52 going into the final period. Bingham poured on the heat, jumping jump-ing out to a 10-point lead, 68-58, with four minutes to play. With a 70-60 margin, Orem started their scoring spree, with Randy Rhees sinking both ends of one-and-one. Chatterley added add-ed a charity toss, followed by Elison, who converted two shots on a technical against the Miner bench. Elison hit a three-pointer to trim the lead to 71-68. Bingham's cold shooting from the line put the game in reach, but charity toss with twelve seconds to play gave Bingham a four-point four-point lead that Orem couldn't overcome. over-come. Randy Rhees hit a field goal as the clock ran out to end the game1 trailing by two, 74-72. Elison led Orem with 32 points while Chatterley added 13, and Rhees added 12. Tuesday at American Fork an early deficit chilled the Tigers, who trailed 20-12 at the end of the first quarter. The Cavemen added to the lead for a 29-20 half-time score, and continued the domination in the third, with the Tigers trailing 49-40 going in-, to the final period. American Fork's big men were a powerful weapon against the Tigers, virtually shutting down Orem's inside game. Scott Rasmussen, 6'8" and David Baldwin 6'7" were tough on the boards, keeping Orem's shorter Lady Tigers, By Cathe Owens Orem downed Bingham and American Fork last week to earn a 2-0 record in region action, 8-0 overall, getting a strong start on cage play. The Lady Bruins also started the - season with a perfect 2-0 record with wins against Brighton and Bingham. Hosting American Fork Tuesday, the Lady Tigers bounced the lead back and forth, with American Fork grabbing the advantage to lead 31-28 at the half. Orem came back in the second half, shutting down the Cavewoman inside game to race to the lead for a Orem High Qrem High wrestler Aaron Hoelzer was undefeated at the Brighton wrestling tournament last weekend, claiming the first place title in his weight class. Aaron was one of three Tiger wrestlers to bring home top honors. The Athlete of the Week receives free pizza from Little Caesar's Pizza. Sponsored By, and The Athlete of the Week is selected by the Orem High School athletic department. View ended up with some internal bruises from rough play under the basket. The injuries slowed the Bruins down, while Brighton seemed to be fueled by the steam. They sprinted away in the third quarter, taking advantage ad-vantage of a Mountain View cold streak to stretch out a 16 point lead, 56-40. Cooper added a Bruin bucket, but the Bengals answered with both ends of a one-and-one, and a bucket to end the third quarter with an 18-point lead at 60-42. Anthony Beutler hit a three-pointer three-pointer to start a six-point Bruin spree in the final quarter, but the lead and the momentum kept Brighton in the on top as they dashed to a 76-57 win. Earlier last week Mountain View was on the road against Bingham in a hard-fought contest. Accuracy from the charity stripe was a key factor in Orem to 1-3 m region players from the inside action. Kip Elison, who finished the game with 20 points, the Only Tiger in double figures, led the Tiger attack with his outside shooting, but with the 1 A W- I ip ' I nmn - In iti - . Adam Collier moves inside to put up a shot against the Bingham defense. The Miners edged Orem 74-72 in the Region Two contest. - Bruins claim 64-51 win. Jeanine Utley led the Tigers with 21 points while Kristen Tate and Kara Kennedy added 11 and 10 respectively. At Bingham Friday Orem led by a narrow margin 11-10 at the end of the first period, but ran away with the game 80-56. Four Lady Tigers scored in double figures. Kara Kennedy led the pack with 21, followed closely by Jeanine Utley with 20. Kristy Johnson poured in 16, and Rachelle Winn added add-ed 10. The Lady Bruins had closer games, but came out on top beating Brighton 49-46 and Bingham 65-61. Athlete of the Week V M 4 I I 1 AARON HOELZER the Bruin win, as they hit 13-for-13 from the line in the final minutes of the game. Mountain View trailed Bingham 46-52 going into the final quarter after three periods of neck-and-neck play. Bingham built a 57-50 lead before the Bruins turned on the heat with a three-point goal by Ken Cooper followed by a field goal and charity toss to bring Mountain View up to within three points. The Bruins trailed by just One at 66-67 with two minutes to play after Charlie Anderson and Scott Cusick converted four consecutive free throws. Mountain View took a 70-69 lead with a Brad Gentry bucket, then sharp free throw shooting iced the Bruin win, 76-71. The Bruins traveled to West Jordan Jor-dan Tuesday, and will host American Fork team Friday. . Caveman domination on the boards, American Fork finished with the 67-54 win. , Orem played at Alta Tuesday, and will host Brighton on Friday. 2-0 region records yyr.- : " ' n7 ' i t ? -. 1 " Qosely guarded by an American Fork1 defender, Rachelle Winn looks to pass off. Is the Cougar 11-0 basketball team for real? The biggest test of the year will come Friday night at 9:30 when they travel to Laramie to play the Wyoming Wyom-ing Cowboys who were ranked fifth in the polls last week until they lost to UTEP and New Mexico on the road Friday and Saturday nights. The game will be televised live nationally on ESPN and over KUTV, Channel 2, while KSL will carry the game live on radio. KBYU-TV, Channel Chan-nel 11, will not replay the game. The Cougars have played well on the road the past few years. Can they continue that during the WAC as they did in knocking off Utah State, Washington State and UCLA on the road already this year? Given the overall strenghts of this year's team, one could be safe in saying say-ing a resounding "yes" to the question. On the other hand, the Cowboys could be so mad at themselves for those first two losses of the season that they'll try extra hard NOT to lose to the Cougars. And that could make it tough on BYU. But the quality and character of this year's team will really show if they can win just one of the next three road games-at Wyoming Friday and at UTEP and New Mexico the following follow-ing Thursday and Saturday. It was really no surprise that Wyoming lost those two games. WAC fans know it's almost impossible to win in El Paso and Albuquerque. Ask HI ranked Arizona what it's like to play and lose in the Pit. After clobbering Hawaii 97-66 last Thursday and San Diego State 9245 Saturday night, the Cougars are now just one of three teams in the nation to remain undefeated. The other two are Oklahoma and Temple. The Cougars should be ranked in the top 20 with their current record, but would almost be a sure bet to be there if they can beat the Cowboys Friday before a sold-out auditorium of over 15,000 fans. The Cougars haven't been ranked rank-ed among the nation's top 20 since 1981, the year they would up 16th in WAC Conference tickets on sale Avoid long lines now and get below concourse seats in the Marriott Center for the upcoming Western Athletic, conference .basketball tournament. ' ' ' ,, BYU students, or students from any WAC school can purchase the eight-game, five-session package to the March 9-12 tournament for $22. Public tickets for the tournament are $45. ' "We are now sending out ticket allotments to the respective WAC schools. However, local fans still have an opportunity for selective seating in chair seats below concourse level before allotments to other schools are filled," says BYU Ticket Manager Larry Duffin. Tickets can be ordered by phone for credit card purchase at 378-BYU1 or from Salt Lake City at 363-BYU1. Orem-Geneva Times Wednesday January 13, 1988 Page 4 Cougar Commentary BYU's Jeff Chatman (24) blocks a shot by Utah's Cris Smith. the final AP poll and 17th in the UPI poll. Both Utah and Wyoming ended in the top 20 that year, too. The WAC has six very good teams this year and its teams sport the best non-conference win-loss record in the nation. BYU, New Mexico, UTEP and Utah are all 2-0 in the WAC with overall records of 11-0, 14-3, 13-2 and Ron Bybee, guest speaker at with Bart Day, past president of Kiwanis. Bybee thanks Kiwanis 1 for cross country Ron Bybee was the guest speaxer at the Kiwanis Club meeting held January 4, 1988. He became acquainted ac-quainted with the club through the Kiwanis sponsored cross country race held annually at Utah Valley Community Com-munity College in Orem. Ron's son and daughter, Chad and Becky Bybee, are distance runners for Mountain View High School. Ron expressed ex-pressed appreciation for the service Kiwanis renders to boys and girls in Utah Valley, and was pleased to respond res-pond to their invitation to speak to the group regarding his professional work at Brigham Young University. Bybee serves as the Academic Scheduling Officer in the Division of Admissions and Records at Brigham Young University. He explained his duties and responsibilities to the group, sharing his insights into class scheduling, curriculum management, and touch-tone registration. The university class schedule is produced three times a year. There are 6,500 c lasses scheduled for almost 27,000 students to select from each semester. The class schedule contains instructions for registration, General Education requirements, and a timetable of classes. Ron explained that the class instruction in-struction days this year at BYU have of Mountain View Kim Snarr, 6'0" center for the Lady Bruins scored 18 points against Bingham and 14 points against Brighton to help Mountain View to two region wins. Her defensive performance per-formance was strong, and was a key to the Bruin play. The Athlete of the Week receives free pizza from Little Caesar's. Sponsored by ... . rem The Athlete ol the the Mountain View department. . and Em 10-3, respectively. Colorado State has yet to play a WAC game but is 9-2 overall, followed follow-ed by Wyoming with an 0-2 WAC record and 12 overall. SDSU, Air Force and Hawaii also have 0-2 WAC records and 6-7, 54, and 1-12 overrall records, respectively. As evidenced in the Hawaii and SDSU games, BYU continues to get a good, balanced performance from the team. Coach Ladell Andersen singled out defense as the key to the win over the Aztecs. "I thought it was our best defensive effort of the year. It's kind'a fun to play the 'pressure' and come out of there with the ball. For a game like this against a well-coached club like Jim Brandenburg has, you have to feel pretty good about winning. This may have been our best overall game." : Brandenburg evaluated the Cougars this way: "I've watched them play several times, and I think BYU is an excellent basketball team. They have the sense as to when to shoot the ball and from where to shoot it. Their passing and spacing is the best I've seen in 11 years of playing against BYU." - iU-.v-.-.-. .: Can the Cougars get a sweep over the Cowboys as they did last year to add to their 69-57 series edge? And can the Cowboys repeat some history by bringing one of the best BYU win strings to a close? The Cowboys did just that in 1941-42 when the Cougars had a 13-game win streak end with a 45-34 loss to the Pokes. BYU's last loss was in the NCAA tournament last spring, an 83-79 loss to New Orleans which was coached by Benny Dees now the Cowboy coach. the recent Kiwanis Club meeting, been increased from 65 to 70 days. This has given the instructors and students more contact time and has resulted in a unique academic calendar. calen-dar. This winter Semester will be a new experience for both faculty and students as Monday classes are taught on Saturday January 9, and Tuesday, January 19, in order to balance the number of class day combinations. Bybee also presented a slide and sound show he photographed and produced pro-duced showing the team work, discipline and cooperation involved in building a championship cross country coun-try team at MVHS. The MVHS girls have been Utah State 4-A champions for four years, with the boys team placing number one in the 4-A region this year. In recent competition, as a Kiwanis-sponsored team at the Kin- ney Western Regional in Fresno, Calif. Dec. 5, 1987, the girls team plac- ed third out of all western states. Becky Bybee, the 1986 Utah State champion in cross country, and runner run-ner up in 1987, placed 16th out of 900 female participants in the Kinney championships, with her brother, Chad, placing 10th in the sophomore age division. Athlete the Week v i KIM SNARR 22 ettetoihne Week is selected by High School athletic . . |