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Show Hi John D'.liinger on his best day, never had a slicker "theft", than the Cavemen did last week in the league opener at Sp. Fork. With three minutes, 22 seconds left to p!ay the Cavemen Cave-men were a beaten ball team as the score stood at for the Dons. Then a rally started innocently inno-cently enough as Ryan Smith senior AF guard and apparent . floor leader hit a basket. SF missed the line, and Randy Rhodes pulled down the rebound, and with 2.53 left. Ryan calmly sank two charity tosses. Ryan, after another SF miss, hit a goal and with 1.42 left AF had closed the score to 57-59. Then the Dons kind of put the ball in the .'fridge" but with 1.01 left. SF went to the foul line and "missed again". Dave Ner-din Ner-din pulied down Use all Important Impor-tant rebound, and AF passed the bail around until Brian Hansen junior guard, getting his first start due to an illness, threw to Tony Anderson, who hit a soft 8 foot jumper to tie the game. On the inbound pass Brian '.'stole" the ball and scored on a Iayup. Seconds later Brian with another an-other "steal" hit another Iayup with 8 seconds left to go, and even though 1 saw "is" I still don't believe it, The final score read 63 AF and the Dons who went scoreless score-less nearly four minutes were still at 59. AF fans, and there were nearly near-ly as many there as their were Spanish Fork people went "beserk" at the gun, and in the changing room after the game, it was a "bedlam of happiness" as the "losers" suddenly ware still undefeated in Region Six, a carry over from last year. SF is an excellent team with good height, a couple of good shooters in Lynn Hawkins, and Pete Coombs. They were really "up" for the Cavemen, as will al! teams be in Region Six, and they wanted the win in the very , worst way. Except for those two "outlaws' Ryan Smith and Brian Hansen, they had their big victory. . -. The Cavemen started off well enough, breaking a 10-10 tie to take a lead of 18-13 at the break, with all five AF starters getting at least a goal, but at 24-a!l the . Dons took over and slowly built their 10 point lead into the final quarter, only to be "hit by a freight train", xhk The Dons shot a good percentage percen-tage during the game and up until they missed that foul shot, not a single thing had gone the Cavemen's way. But things have a way of balancing out and AF sure "stole" the win away from the Dons. It was not the best game that the Cavemen have played this season, but it is the one that counts. There were a few bright spots during the game and one of course was the fine play by Ryan and Brian in the back court. Ryan tied Mike Bond for scoring leadership for A F each with 16 points and Brian came in with 10, as the pair had a solid all-round game. Their steals in the closing minutes were due to exceptional "hustle" "hus-tle" and never say die pLy. Another real bright spot was Mike Bond, who tallied 13 big ones and played strong without committing very many fouls t , tf IF- J I M H M i i M ft tj - m n n it V f "A y ft3 n ' U " 11 fill A u vva im Dear Santa Ciaues I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I hope . j. i .4 ' jflfc time. from Richard Nord AMI-RICAN FORK CITIZEN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 3374 STav! Pres. Utah Safety Count! ?. diSsgffl p, S Bantam Basketball Season to Get ij. ju w . ijjfieiMwte i Uoderiysv Doc. 23 and that can only bring happiness happi-ness to the AF ouches. Randy Rhodes was colder than a "hu!a dancer" on top of old Timp at 20 below zero, he just could not "buy" a goal it seemed, but he scored nine, led AF in rebounding and did a good job on "D" so I would say he earned his keep. Kerry Webster had a very good game as he held his man in check, worked hard on the boards, and came up with 8 to be a sound asset in the win. Tony Anderson played briefly and hit 2. Dave Nerdin also in for a short stay, was a key and he had 2, Randy Thomas did not score but spelled Ryan and Brian at times. ' SF fan;; simply could not believe the outcome and it was a sort of sad loss as they played good enough to win 99 limes out of 100. Tomorrow night AF will entertain en-tertain the visiting Carbon Din-o's Din-o's who lost a spine lingler 81-80 to Pleasant Grove last week, on their own floor. 80 points is a lot of ens, so apparently the Dino's know where the basket is, and they were figured to be a good team. Last year the Dino's went to is. ma i ic . a w Irian Hansen- state for the first lime in a long time, and their coach, Evan Excel! Ex-cel! does a good job. The team runs their patterns well, and in Randy Ross, and Larry Newby have a pair cf veterans to build around. Saturday night AF hosts the Prove Bulldogs the AAAA defending champions, gone are many of the players of last year but still they are the Provo Bulldogs, and that is always a test, and they bring a good team into the Cavemen gym and it will take a good team to beat them. The Bantam Basketball season sea-son will get underway with the first game to be played on Salurday, December 29, at 7:00 a.m. in the Am. Fork Armory. This year should prove to be the best ever. The league has expanded ex-panded from 10 to 14 teams. The new teams arc the Jets coached by Steve Dean and Gary Giover; The Nets, coached by Randy DeSpain; The Kings, coached by Brad Deveraux; and the Bulls, coached by Craig Gardner and Mark McQuivey. In order to give the new IT J i I If 81 teams some floor experience, one 12 or 13 year old boy was drafted from each of the standard stan-dard teams. This will give each new team three boys who have played at least one previous year. These hoys who were drafted are: Troy Webster, Carl Durfey, Charles Magleby, Jeff Jensen, Scott John, Matt Dupass, Mark . Elton, Ken STrong, and David Jamiftan. Bantam directors placed these boys on one of the four teams. The league teams look as strong this year and maybe stronger than last. So far in the pre-season games with teams from Lehi and Salt Lake, the American Fork teams have a three win and one loss record. fin - tr tr'! a The Cavemen won their first league game last week, thanks to a whirlwind finish, and leading lead-ing that spree was Brian Hansen, Han-sen, this weeks "Meet the Cavemen" Cave-men" player. Erian, a junior guard who got his first start, and did he ever make the most of it, as he and his backcourt "pardner" Ryan Smith scored the last 12 AF points in the A F win. Brian, an outstanding athlete for the Cavemen, has high goals, an excellent physical body for sports, and extra good talents. He is a six footer and weighs 180 pounds and is stiil growing and hopes to weigh 200 next football season, and he is a second team All-State member as a junior in football as a linebacker on defense, and wingback on offense and is a strong baseball player for AF as a second baseman. Brian said of his fabulous game at SF, "It was just part of the game, it just seemed like I couid see everything, sort of like slow motion, and I could tell I could get the ball. I made a few mistakes," he added, "And I don't believe as an athlete I can ever be satisfied, I have got a long way to go." Brian, who has set some high goals, would tike to play on a state championship team, graduate, receive a scholarship, go to college for a year, go on a mission, keep in shape and , return to school. In school at present he maintains main-tains a 3.7 grade point average,' with sports his major interest. He is a member of the Four-, teenth Ward as a Priest, having earned three Individual .Awards. . His hobbies are hunting, especially espe-cially bow. He loves horses and all kinds of wildlife. Brian is the son of Wendall and LaVon Hansen with Candy, Randy, Cindy, Carla, Colleen, Camiile, Charee (a varsity cheerleader this year, Cheer, Bruce, Reagan, Troy and Travis, all cheering for Brian when he plays. All of the boys have been or will have been raised in the little league programs of AF, where dad is active as a coach. La Von, his mother, said about the SF game, "It is a "once in a lifetime" thrill, it vas a great raily, and we are just tickled to death that we won. It will give the team a big boost, but I look for a close and exciting season. We are very proud of Brian, and proud of the way he took it, and we are very happy that the team was able to come back so great." . "Brian sets a fine example for -his brothers, and he treats me just like gold, we just get along very well with him." she added. Coach Carl Ingersoll said of Brian, "He's a big strong player, he has really helped us so far. He has the ability to be explosive, a very good athlete, and a very good student of the game, who comes from a family of tradition. He is very coacha-ble, coacha-ble, just a real good player." ' Brian, who works very hard all year long to become efficient in sports at present can bench press 270 pounds and has set 300 pounds as a goal, and that gives " some ideas as to his dedication. He said that Carbon, tomorrow's tomor-row's Cavemen opponent, will be tough, "But I think we will beat them, they are a scrappy team that has said they will , beat us." Brian said of Provo Saturday nights opponents, "I'm really . looking forward to this game, they have some of the best guards in the state, this game makes all of the work worth while." Brian gets along very well w: h all of hir teammates, you could not ask for better teammates team-mates or better coaches he added. ad-ded. "I believe we have a lot of potential, and if we can reach our ability we should be a pretty good team, and if AF can maintain main-tain their play of the last three or four minutes at SF they are a pretty good team right now. Congressman Gunn McKay, in testimony submitted to the Joint Economic Commiliee of Congress, has called for environmental envir-onmental regulations to recognize recog-nize economic realities along with pollution controls. Mr, McKay told the Committee, which is investigating the economic econ-omic impact of environmental regulations, that "we need reasoned rea-soned environmental planning, taking into consideration the economic and employment impact im-pact of environmental alternatives." alterna-tives." "We should not falter in our efforts to clean our air and the rest of the environment," McKay said. "But in a time of high inflation, high unemployment, unemploy-ment, and recession, we must make certain that compliance with environmental requirements require-ments is being accomplished with the least possible disturbance distur-bance to the health of our economy," econ-omy," McKay contended. "Standards should not posed which are urn within the present technological and economic framework." Ultimately Ul-timately it is the consumer who will pay for the high cost of environmental clean-up," McKay added. The Utah Congressman pointed point-ed to Kennecott Copper as an illustration of the costs of environmental envir-onmental regulations. Kennecott Kenne-cott has committed $175 million, $65 mnlion more than their annual an-nual payroll, to a compliance program. Despit this large investment, in-vestment, EPA proposed new rules in October which would , require .substantial changes in Kennecott's compliance program. Kennecott has threatened threa-tened closure if compliance with the new rules is enforced. Some 30,000 employees and their families fami-lies are supported directly by Kennecott payrolls in Utah, and many more jobs are indirectly supported by Kennecott's economic econo-mic impact in the state. "The costs are borne not only by private enterprise, but also by government," McKay stated. He pointed out that much of the increased budgets for several departments, such as Interior, are for environmental analysis. The orange coloring in a prar-ie prar-ie dog's eyes permits him to withstand the intense glare of the sun on the treeless plains he calls home. Coyotes sometimes get into the water after fish, crayfish, frogs and tadpoles, and in winter may hunt through holes in the ice for trout. For the Christian world Christmas is one of the happiest seasons of the year. We gather together our families, we exchange ex-change gifts, celebrate at parties, par-ties, and generally more nearly practice good will toward other men. h may scund so, but nearly near-ly is not too great an extension of all these things to the field of safety. For example, what could be more appreciated by our famii.es than to have each of us consciously safeguard our own lives and ' limbs? . What better gift cou'd our families give us than to work and play safely? Christmas party celebrations these days seem to include: for at least a large number of the population, some drinking of alcoholic al-coholic beverages. With a little careful thutgit beforehand, it isn't too difficult for ihzm who do indulge to arrange for a non-drinktng non-drinktng driver to transport them to and from the party or to : utilize public transportation. This is a gift not only to our families and to ourselves but to other people who use our streets and highways. I As we travel about to parties, 'shopping centers, and the like, we should give consideration to weather cor.oitions and their impact im-pact on our driving. It might be worthwhile to mention too that it isn't possible to arrive at our destination on time unless we leave on time, and that excessive exces-sive speed or carelessness in bad weather is extremely hazardous... hazar-dous... Driving an automobile is, for most isf us. a common, everyday occurrence. Most people too subscribe to the philosophy that we should extend good will toward other men and that this is best done by way cf our sveryday activities. Wouldn't it be a nice sdea then to do so in our own driving habits; to observe ob-serve the ruses of the roati, a allow others to have their rights, to avoid exposing others to the hazards o our defective automobiles and our decreased driving aNSities resulting from vie of alccho'ic beverages or drugs. Certainly all cf this falls within with-in the spirit of the season. 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Fork Region Six wrestling got underway un-derway with the American Fork team losing to Carbon at Price by a 40-24 final score, and tonight ton-ight the task docs not seem much easier as AF will host Springville who beat Lehi by a lopsided 50-8 final score. Uintah established themselves them-selves as the team to beat as they defeated always tough PI. Grove by 33-21, and in the other match Payson nipped Sp. Fork 30-27. Scott Boley, AF sophomore, was pinned in the second round by Martinez, but Jeff Riems- A.F. JGyVcos Crush Sp. Fork American Fork's JayVee team "crushed" the Spanish Fork Don team bv an 84-53 final score as Dave Nerdin with 20 points and Jeff Barratt with 18 led the fast breaking AF team to the easy win. Coach Bub Fckles used I'vrr-yone I'vrr-yone who was suited In the lopsided lop-sided win, and AF jutnpt-d off to an early lead and won going away, to stretch the AF unbeaten unbea-ten record one more game In Region Six competition. Tomorrow the AF juniors will play Carbons JayW at 5:40 chiisscl got AF even with a pin over Kadden third period action. ac-tion. Garth Hyde put AF into the lead with a mcjor decision by a 12- 0 win over Atwood. Cota Wimmer had to default at 119 pounds and the Cavemen were never able to get back their momentum. , David FJton, AF soph, and Charles Featherstone suffered pins before Dan Larsen earned a second period pin that was matched by 145 pound Mike Iverson, AF senior, who used his experience to gain a first period iin. Wayna Shortt lost a M decision, deci-sion, and Dave Turner was pinned t 167 and Rick Nelson got AF's final points with a big 13- 3 decision at 185, and in unlimited unli-mited weight, former AFer Brad Harmon pinned Jim Lay-cock. Lay-cock. Tonight Springville, who lost but two decisions to Lehi, brings a fairly veteran team to AF and Coatli Tim Pontious who Is "bringing" his young AF team along wry good, as the team is getting stronger wirh each outing, out-ing, and it will not be a "wal-kon" "wal-kon" for the Devils. Coach Pontious said last weeks mutch was a lot closer than the fiaul score indicated, and he felt that a couple of decisiuns hurt the teams chdnces, but said the squad is iniS'iovinji, and added "We will be competitive". . Suor'.Mon' Sur ' V;' Sur Sun , i- Q iri I 7 1' jay v. '"If"5 V S. S H, 'ii; c V- C: -a . .Jay j.rday ;urdcy jrday ljrday irria . -cy ;;dcy -day . jida 5a Jv r i -run rvn n ft inc. tnwauuo i Wi rr:,,. . .. ' : " , r Wy, RV-: "CT 1 3UJ E 1793. 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