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Show Pleasant Grove Review New Utah! - Wednesday, March 7, 2001 - Page 10 Sports Vikings exit fourney in second round By Todd Veenker Sports Correspondent The basketball season ended for the Pleasant Grove Vikings two games short of their hopes and aspirations. For nine seniors sen-iors the 68-38 loss to Bountiful also ended their high school careers. For many of this year's senior class it' had been a three year building process. That process didn't end as they would have liked, but nothing noth-ing should diminish from a very good season. Bountiful proved to be the better team right from the opening tip. The Braves scored 17. points before Pleasant Grove could even blink. Going into the game, the Viking game plan was to shut down the inside scoring first and hope that the Bountiful outside game was not on target. On target tar-get might have been an understatement as the Braves poured in five three point buckets in the first quarter. Meanwhile, Pleasant Grove could not buy a basket. bas-ket. It wasn't until the four minute mark of the first quarter that a Colt Sampson basket pulled the I v i ; Kyle Anderson breaks away. Vikings to within 13 points at 17-4. The Pleasant Grove offense only managed two more points in the first quarter. To Bountiful's credit the Vikings could not get the offense flowing. With the start of the second sec-ond quarter, Pleasant Grove hoped to change the pace and momentum of the game. After Cameron Patch and Derrick Turley got three point buckets on consecutive con-secutive times down the court, the Vikings had pulled to within six points with only three minutes gone by in the quarter. Bountiful quickly end the Pleasant Grove run with a string of three straight baskets. bas-kets. As quickly as the Vikings had climbed back into the game, the Braves had rebuilt a 10 point advantage. At halftime Pleasant Grove trailed 25-16. 25-16. In the third quarter Bountiful established themselves them-selves quickly and proved to all in attendance that they warranted their number one seed. The Braves opened the second half on a 10-2 run keyed by the fast break and impressive defense. By the two minute mark of the third quarter, Pleasant Grove had fallen behind 42-24 and things would only get worse. Bountiful finally called off the dogs in the fourth quarter having built a 50-27 lead through three quarters of play. Pleasant Grove meanwhile turned the reins over to the juniors as the Viking seniors found their spots on the bench to ponder pon-der their careers and the season that ended short of the Saturday night championship champi-onship game. A telltale sign of the Pleasant Grove frustrations comes in looking at the boxes scores. No ViKing managed double figures m scoring. Cameron Patch finished fin-ished his three year varsity career with a team high nine points. Colt Sampson added eight points while Kyle Anderson and Seth Iorg contributed five points apiece. Pleasant Grove was not the fenly region team to fall short their personal expectations. expec-tations. Only Lone Peak managed to survive past the second round of the playoffs, and ultimately went on to win the championship. champi-onship. American Fork, Payson and Provo all lost in the first round, while Timpview and Pleasant Grove were eliminated in the second round. Next season will bring an entirely different basketball situation for Pleasant Grove. Not only will nine seniors from this year's team be gone, but so will many familiar faces from this year's Region Six makeup. Orem, Mountain View and Timpanogos will join the Vikings in a northern north-ern Utah County region with Lone Peak as the valley val-ley is split into two regions. .A s 1 V : n V H A Mi.. j ' it v . X 4 W ft I S5 1 f iff. ,V J. a v i - ' . J- ,4 ? "'J'(nw 4 Derek Hoke puts up a shot attempt against Bountiful. ) f ?G, man earns 'super fan ' award ; Pleasant Grove's Colt Sampson prepares to send a rebound to a waiting Seth iorg in Wednesday's game. By Kalyn Secretan Virgil "Grandpa" Turner, was named the Utah High School Activities Association "Super Fan for 2001" last week during the State Championship Basketball Tournament. He is proudly displaying two plaques at his home now. He received the Pleasant Grove High School Award Feb. 13. Local recipients recipi-ents were nominated by the different schools and he was selected to receive the State honor. Dr. Rulon Homer, Principal of Davis High School and a member of the UHSAA Board of Trustees, presented the Award. He said, "Tonight's honoree.is a person whose devotion to high school sports is without with-out peer. Turner's name is synonymous with sports in the Pleasant Grove area where he is affectionately known as 'Grandpa Turner' to everyone in the community. commu-nity. He has a passion for high school sports where he has been an avid supporter of activities at Pleasant Grove High School for an amazing span of nearly 40 years." Homer went on further to tell how high school LstJlo.. ..... Virgil Turner sports dominated the dinner din-ner table discussions in the Turner home where six children chil-dren were raised on a steady diet of football, soft-ball, soft-ball, basketball and baseball base-ball games. Turner's 18 grandchildren and 28 great grandchildren have carried on the tradition. Some of his ' family was on hand for the announcement. When he was asked why he enjoys high school sports so much he said, "I enjoy mingling with the kids and coaches. Professional sports are too expensive and the players too inaccessible. To me high school and college sports are more interesting to watch and I get more -.,; involved when I know tW'.' players personally." "-., It was also noted thai Virgil served in the infantrj;.'. in World War II and m T. wounded but finished serv! ing his country until thl .:J . war was over. After the war'" he played ball against thl French and Italian soldieri"'; while awaiting orders come home. I v ; When he received thj award, the Lone Peak students stu-dents who were playing an) 'V won the Championshi rr. Game started hollering" "Grandpa Turner, Grand? : Turner," and Virgil admitted admit-ted it brought tears to h eyes. He watched as thr whole studentbody stool '-; and cheered. j J - His Pleasant Grovi plaque read: Virgj;-' "Grandpa" Turner RG Viking Super Fan, 13 Feij 2001. It was presented dur- n ing the half time of tlj- Payson game. 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