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Show Cedar City, one of Utah top 3A teams will be in town tomorrow night as the American Ameri-can Fork Cavemen attempt to brek a three game losing streak, that threatens to drop them i'rom contension as Region Six Champions, a title that has belonged to AF for four years. Next Wednesday Payson will arrive in town fresh from a win over Carbon at Carbon and they will provide AF with stiff competition in league play. AF last week let a game get away from them as Carbon upset the Cavemen 64-65 here on the AF court. Also Pleasant Grove, the State's top rated 3A team beat AF at PG by a 69-58 final. You have to go back a very long ways to find out when AF lost three straight league games, and Coach Ingersoll and his team feel that poor shooting has been one of the problems. In the last games even "layups" have been hard to get in the hoop. The team has not lost "heart", they have had a week of good solid practice and hope that the "streak" is behind them. Against Carbon AF held a good lead most of the final half, and even with a minute left to play had a three point edge and that is when the poor shooting entered the game as a layup and a short missed jumper let Carbon get within one. Then AF missed a one and one chance and with 3 ticks left Carbon scored, and that cost AF dearly. Against PG the Cavemen got off very slowly and got behind ten points early and then played the Vikings even the rest of the way, but could not get back that ten points. Coach Ingersoll said that with the second half of league play about to begin the Cavemen Cave-men with some experience going for them should play much better this second half of play, and the team's enthu- Meet the Barton Barton Hawkins Caveman forward-guard is being introduced intro-duced to followers of AF basketball bas-ketball in "Meet the Caveman" Cave-man" series. Known to all of his friends as Bart the 6 foot 160 pounder is a senior on the team, who sees game time as a reserve. Bart, due to a ruling by the high school activities association, associa-tion, finds himself classed as a senior, and it hurt some as he was deprived of a year playing time. Bart and his parents, Briant and Jeanne, moved to American Ameri-can Fork in October, 1975, from Midvale, and the likeable young Bart has made a big impression in sports while being here. He was the starting split end in AF football last season, and played soph basketball last year, and in a hurry transferred trans-ferred it to varsity basketball this year. Coach Carl Ingersoll said of Bart, "We ask a lot of him, coming right off the sophomore sopho-more team. We have used him in situations where he has had to be a tough competitor. He is really pretty physical, and has a very good attitude, and due to his aggressiveness we have tagged him the "Badger." He is very versatile, a really fine young man that is very likable." lika-ble." Playing both guard and for-ward for-ward as the situation demands, Bart loves sports, and he really likes being on the team. He said, "We have good team spirit and everyone is great to get along with, and I'm just happy to be a part of it all." Bart is an outstanding student, carrying a 3.75 grade average, and he will possibly go to the Y after graduation and take some related courses in the electrical field. But he is somewhat undecided as yet. His hobbies include motorcycles, motorcy-cles, hunting, fishing, show-shoeing, show-shoeing, and the outdoors. A 2nd Warder, he has earned his Duty to God Award, has all the merit badges required for an Eagle Badge, and has plans of serving an LDS Church mission. mis-sion. The Hawkins family consists of Alice, Grant, a student at the U. of U., Spencer, a recently-returned Japan missionary, mis-sionary, Elizabeth at the Y, and Cyndia, a third grader. The Hawkins family moved from California to Midvale, and Dad Hawkins said that the standards at California are very different from what they are here. They are very happy siasm remains high despite the narrow losses. Against Carbon Brad Adam-son Adam-son led AF with 20 points, and Frankd Pulley hard working AF forward, led AF against the Vikings with 16, while Brad finished up with 14. Quarter scores at PI. Grove showed AF with 7, PG 14 first stop, AF, 28 PG 38 half; 43-53 PG third, and the final 69-58. Tomorrow night, AF versus Cedar gives fans a prevue of what to expect next year as the Redmen will then be regular regu-lar Region Six members. Already Al-ready there is a certain something going between the Redmen and Cavemen, and it could be called "a rivalry" since AF came from a mile back last year to beat Cedar down there and snap a long string of home court wins. The rivalry grew as they met in the state tournament and this game will go toward building the feelings between the two outstanding teams. Payson next Wednesday's opponents pulled some what of a surprise beating the Carbon club down at Price 60-56, with senior Craig Buys leading the upset. The Lions feature a tough man to man defense similar to the one AF uses, and that game on January 26 will wind up the first half with PG unbeaten on the top of league and Springville just a step behind with only one loss. The three league losses threaten to shake the Cavemen Cave-men from off the top rung that they have dominated for so long in Region Six. Four years ago AF lost two games but not consecutive and they went unbeaten un-beaten the next year and lost one each of the past two years for four losses in four years. This team still has not had many breaks going for them, and one point losses seem to be really due to lack of experience exper-ience and as the season wears along Coach Ingersoll said that the Cavemen will be a lot tougher the second half of play. Cavemen Hawkins at AF, where both Mom and Dad said all of the people here have been very good to us, both in school as well as in the church, and we are deeply grateful for that acceptance. Mom said as long as Bart enjoys sports we will support him, and we are very pleased with the rules that the players have to abide with, and we surfer through the painful experiences ex-periences and happily enjoy the other experiences. The Hawkins have been involved in-volved for 15 years in sports via the little league programs, and high school programs. Dad coached both basketball and baseball and still challenges chal-lenges the family in tennis matches. Bart, who would have played at Hillcrest High had he not come here, said of the recent setbacks by the team, "We just haven't put it together yet." He feels that experience was one factor, but he added, "We'll get going soon and then we will rip some of the teams that have beaten us." Against next week's AF opponent, op-ponent, Payson, Bart added, "We'll beat them; all of the teams are tough, but we have had good practice sessions and it is just a matter of all of us going together." Bart said of Cedar City, tomorrow's foes, "I do not know a thing about them except ex-cept it will be a very good teft." Bart, still growing and filling fill-ing out, wears number 22 and is a ball player who is just happy to be playing. "I love sports." he said. j r5 v - V Li' A.F. GUARD Mark Fornsworth puts up a shot while Pleasant Grove center Raymond Walker lurks under the basket for the rebound. Walker s rebounding was a key factor in the Caveman loss. II o By Jennifer Playing before an over capacity capa-city crowd in Pleasant Grove, the American Fork Cavemen had their hands full last Friday night as they fell before a potent Pleasant Grove squad, 69-50. The Cavemen led only once early in the first quarter. From then on it was the Vikings Vik-ings doing everything. Coach Carl Ingersoll called time with five seconds remaining in the first quarter after Pleasant Grove had mounted a 12-7 lead, following a cold streak in which the Cavemen had gone scoreless for over two minutes. min-utes. After the time out the lid still seemed to be on top of the American Fork basket. Not until guard Scott Rakeman put through a free throw with the clock showing 5:50 in the second quarter did American Fork break over seven points. Midway through the second quarter, American Fork began to show signs as if they might close the Viking lead, bringing the score within six points. Pleasant Grove sensing the threat became hot, matching American Fork hoops. By the end of the half they had resumed an eight point lead. Pleasant Grove came oul o! locker room with the momentum momen-tum that carried them in. Thirty seconds into the second half they opened their lead to 13 points, 43-30. From that point on the game was decided. decid-ed. The ensuing moments brought two technical fouls called on the American Fork coach after a fowl was called on an American Fork player. Pleasant Grove collected five points. It took one of the referees refer-ees to sit Coach Ingersoll on the bench to end the display that emotion combined with hopelessness had brought about. As the clock went down to two minutes remaining, Coach Keith Allred from Pleasant Grove emptied his bench to give everyone playing time. If one factor were named as a primary cause for American Fork's loss to the Vikings, it would be Pleasant Grove's superior power to man the backboards. Pleasant Grove out rebounded rebound-ed American Fork 40 to 24. While the Vikings gave the Cavemen seldom more than one shot at the basket, Pleasant Plea-sant Grove went up for the shot two and three times after collecting the offensive rebound. IIMI 5 . . 1 u y X Ml L' 1 1 If1? r' A' A rtM r3 J (m z& n n n mm mm Kirkham A good share of Pleasant Grove's rebound power was supplied by 6 foot 7-inch center Raymond Walker, who pulled down 16. Tom Strasberg, also of Pleasant Grove, had 13 rebounds. High point man for the Cavemen Cave-men was Frank Pulley who had 16 points, nine rebounds, and one assist. The only other Caveman in double figures was Brad Adamson who had 14 points, five rebounds and one assist. Gary E. Beck had four rebounds and one assist to go with his eight points. American Fork didn't fair much better in the Junior Varsity Var-sity contest as they dropped that one 72 to 52. As with the varsity game, Pleasant Grove mounted a big lead in the first half and returned in the second half to finish up the contest without challenge. Lewis had 20 points to lead the field and Larson followed with 15 points. A.F. Grapplers To Meet Springville Here Tonight Thursday night at 7 p.m. the American Fork Cavemen wrestlers will take on the Springville mat learn in a league lea-gue match here on the Cavemen's Cave-men's big Red Mat. American Fork Coach Tim Pontious is having a difficult time filling out all of the weight classifications as injuries injur-ies have hurt, along with several people dropping out of the sport. The Cavemen find themselves without some weights. Springville over the years has fielded a very good team and American Fork will have to be at full strength to come anywhere near them; but wrestling fans are insured of some close matches. Four flags, Spain. Mexico, Confederate and the U.S. have flown over Albuuucrque, N.M. During the Civil War, Gen. Robert E. Lee maintained his family residence at Richmond. Kentucky and Nebraska have the same state flower, the goldenrod. mm I .41 ...... .X..-. 'Jr Afcl u John Roberts Py 1 i M "ll I'll ('!' I.ii - In juliii Simlinn Modi'liiteh Gmajl m r f Am ' ) on - ly tell a t A k 1 3 w I - lun - ny how u new friend just won t do. ' p -H 1 -f-- ' p- ' 11 T f f 7 a (imaiT (iti , Kin , J Old j friends, vou're jiM old , , friends. And when Am 7 L)7susli D1 J friends me far a way, you still luive things to say, 'cause you can Z- p Colts, Cadets to Battle For Top Spot in Little League Play Last Saturday's action set the stage for the battle between Colts and the Cadets in Little League Basketball action. ac-tion. Both clubs will really be battling for the number one-spot one-spot this Saturday at the National Guard Armory. The Kings barely kept their top position in the Northern League as the Pistons just missed putting the league back in a three-way tie. The Cadets looked like they had the Hawks on the ropes as thy had everything their own way throughout the first half of the game. Their combination combina-tion of Greening, Edwards and Holman really shook the Hawks up for a while. Then in the second half of the game the Hawks' fine center, Eric Bennett, found the range and tied the game with 40 seconds left. Charles Edwards put the Cadets ahead with two foul pitches only to have Bennett again put one through the hoop to tie the game with only 10 seconds to go. But fate was not with the Hawks and Edwards tipped in a desperation shot with about a second to go giving the Cadets their win 30 to 28. The game was a barn burner and the same type of game should take place this coming Saturday when the Cadets meet the mighty Colts. The Alps had little problem disposing of the flat-looking Rams. The Rams just couldn't get anything going against the well coached and well disciplined disci-plined Alps club. The Lions finally got on the winning track as they outlasted outlast-ed the hard fighting Nets team. The Lions held a height advantage but the Nets made up for it with fast hustle and heads-up ball play. The Lions combination of Stowe and Johnson would move the Lions out to what appeared to be a commanding lead, then the Nets would come battling back to close the gap and take the lead. The Lions v,ith time on their side finally moved to a three-point lead when time ran Old Frieo iC'"W'i.''" I!':' hi'ii I'ii G6 fru-iuU . . you re f r f f an 1 f r , r ' D(sus4 G , uy(sus-i) o PpllIp33j ld friend what's newr II I old friend what's J. L - -C i r Tbnight,call a friend in Utah after 5 FM when Long Distance rates go down. ountain Bell out. The final -ore was Liuns 29, Nets 26. The Stars had no trouble handling the much shorter Utuhns. The Stars made a very exciting game of it as they played their shorter and younger ball players. Both teams played hard throughout the game, but the Stars pulled out to win. The Colts held the fired up Jets off to keep their unbeaten record. The Jets had hopes of upsetting the mighty Colts, but the Fraughton, Roper, Devitt and Edwards combination was just too much for the determined deter-mined Jets. The Jets, a young team with new coaches, are a very promising looking group and will bear watching in the future. A very tough Pistons team almost stopped the strong Kings team. The Piston press bothered the Kings and forced them into making many mistakes mis-takes even though they were in the lead throughout most of the game. They just couldn't shake the Pistons as they kept fighting back to close the gap. The Pistons double teamed Dan Smith and held him to 16 points, but that was enough when the Pistons missed two final second shots and the Kings had the ball game. Final was Kings 26, Pistons 25. The Bulls and Bees really went after each other in the meeting. The Bulls started out like a house afire, but the Bees quickly cooled the blaze and closed the gap to really pressure pres-sure the Bulls. The game was close until late in the final quarter when the Bulls caught fire again and moved the game out of reach of the Bees. Final: Bulls 32 and Bees 24. Action starts next Saturday at 8:00 a.m. at the National Guard Armory. Come out and watch the boys play ball. Some of last week's outstanding players were Eric Bennett with 21 points; Dan Smith with 16 points; Bud Swenson and the Star's defensive dynamo, 4-ft. Craig Durfey or "Dirty Durf" as the directors call him. simp mill Juhn Shvrhini i Em a jusi r- old f f D7(sus4i AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN - THURSDAY, JAN. 20. 1977 JayVee Remains Unbeaten by John Roberts Coach Bob Eckles and his American Fork JayVee teams continues rolling along, posting post-ing two wins last week to remain unbeaten. A big second quarter of play by the Cavemen saw them break away from Carbon and go on to defeat the Dino's 74-45 with Big Gary Beck ripping the nets for 21 points in leading the assault. Steve Larsen pumped in 10 points as ten Cavemen scored in the easy win and everyone suited saw game time. Against Pleasant Grove the Cavemen once again got everyone ever-yone in the game as they beat Pleasant Grove 72-52, with Jon Larson hitting 20 points and Jamie Burgess going for 15 points as nine AFers scored. Steve Larsen and Big Gary eacn lied 8 points in the again easy win as the JayVee and sophomores blend together in a high-scoring outfit. Sophs Post Win Over Carbon . The American Fork sophomores sopho-mores after a long layoff over the holidays returned to action with a 76-57 win over Carbon at Carbon. Score by quarters showed AFout in front 19-10, 34-23 at the half, 53-45 third, and a huge 23-point quarter by AF blew the young Price-Helper kids out of the game. Russ Devitt led the scoring with a 20-point output; Steve Larsen had 19, Scott Shumway tossed in 11 as AF won going away. Today the Sophs will travel over to Springville for another round, with the game starting at 4 p.m. For more than 40 years John L. Lewis was president of the United Mine Workers of America. Amer-ica. friends. , Ain't it i 3 f T D7 r |