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Show Page , THE LEADER-TH- E GARLAND TIMES, March 4, 1976 BOrg Falk Keeps M Tempers Iff. Cool V i ,1 ie)l(flnwi( The Bears are scheduled to meet the. winner "of the Uintah vs Tooele game on Wednesday at 8:10 p.m., assuming they win themselves. In their bracket, meanwhile, Davis goes against Spanish Fork at 6:30 p.m. Monday and Murray takes on Springville at 8:10 p.m. If things goes as predicted, the Bears could go up against Davis, probably, on Friday in the semi-fingame. a Anybody who thinks basketball berth in the 3-- A tournament starting Monday at Provo is a step down for the traditionaly Bears could be in for a big surprise. ' 4-- A David Falk is a gentleman basketball player. On a team that is surprisingly free of hot heads, discipline problems and the usual talented athlete coddling, the stumpy senior fits in well. "I usually get mad in practice," he said. "When you make a mistake in a game it's already happened.. .there's no sense getting made at yourself. It just flusters you." Perhaps more than anybody on the team, Falk plays the role of team mediator when others get hot. "I'm the type of person who, when the guys might be getting on each other, goes over and tells them to shut up," he said. "It doesn't happen much, but it's the first signs of a team breaking up." "A pat on the butt" and a calming word from Falk keep things under control. The guard, who doubles as student-bod- y president off the court, moved into the starting lineup for the first time when the season kicked off this year. "I haven't ever started in my life," he acknowledged. "I've always come in off the bench." His starting role must have given him In the opening game confidence. against Orem he tossed in 20 points. Falk says the starting berth makes it "a lot easier to make a mistake." "I'm not afraid to shoot this year even though I probably shoot less than anybody on the team," he added. Last year he would "hold back" when he came into the game as a sixth man for fear of making the mistake that could send him back to the bench. Falk takes last week's loss to Weber in stride. "We really shouldn't have had that much pressure on us," he said. Team members "didn't feel bad" afterwards he admitted. "I feel it might have strengthened us." The last few games the bears have gone into the halftime dressing room with a 8 point deficit and had to try and come back. "Once we get on the floor we've got to start right there." Falk said, instead of counting on coming back in the second " half. f" Falk admits he's had what he termed an "inside goal" since before the season started stemming from the roughing up he and team members took during football. "That's about all I've thought about," he said. "I thought at the first of the year that we ought to beat every team twice and we did except for Weber. And I don't feel bad about that because we played one of our best football games against Weber." He is adamant about the state tournament. "We're going down there to win." "A lot of the college coaches I talk to think the 3-- A tournament - the strongest tournament," Bear River Coach Paul said this week. Those sentiments are probably based on the overall competiveness of the tournament teams. " People think we're going to have an easy time but we're going to have to fight every game we play," he Jep-pes- en ( 4-- A 3-- A 4-- it Sponsored e ' tractor QUINNEY'S NAPA AUTO PARTS Game Sponsored YOU BUY ff ? loGHan SAVINGS & L0AN FOUR SEASONS SUPPLY CRUMP WHEATLEY MOTOR CO. N0RLUNDS Scoreboard ' Sponsored By -- LEE ALLEN REALTY Corner Coaches Sponsored By GEPHART'S From the Los Angeles Times, August 12, 1974 Reprinted courtesy of Ann Landers Publishers Field Newspaper Syndicate 3l i( . ! By- - TREMONTON YOUXPtOtlEMS BEFORE - 18o turtSpto hp mm SEE By 3-- A coaches." COMING SOON TO Pre-Gam- 68-5- 4. either. because they feel they can play ball with most teams. But they can still "get a chance" to prove themselves in both divisions by tournament and then taking the has in the playing the best the tournament of champions. Falk, who comes from a close-knfamily, gives credit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. DeWayne Falk of Tremonton. He gets no pressure and a lot of support regardless of how he plays. "They just leave it up to me and the 107.1 FM 66-5- 3-- A 3-- HAPPY DAY RADIO 800 AM 0-- 3-- A 4-- ,e" way-agai- 4-- He, said team members sometimes regret that they are going into the in basketball play rather than now 4-- A opponent. That depends on the outcome of games scheduled Wednesday evening. Carbon boasts a student--bod- y of around BOO students but has only a 9 record. It's arguable whether the Bears are at an added disadvantage in the tournament having played only Judge and Logan in the ranks. teams Then again, the haven't seen that much of the Bear's style of play , Fork seems to be the class of the other division. Logan, who also exercised the option, has to play Jordan at Clearfield this weekend inorder to earn their tournament bid. Had the Bears gone into the tournament as things stand now, they'd have had to battle through Granger, West or Skyline, Provo and probably Highland to get the job done- -a formiddable task. There is consolation for the diehards. All the Bears have to do is win the championship to get a shot at the winner in the tournament of champions. But the Bears still have one more Region One connst test in their Bonneville. It would be a mistake to look past them. The Lakers have put together some good moments record. inspite of their The Bears, meanwhile, "need to have a good performance" after a less than their best effort against Weber in which they picked The up their first loss JV's won The Lakers matched Weber for three quarters before getting blown out and were within a couple of points of Box Elder inside the two minute mark. The effect of spoiling a perfect record had the Bears "down a little on Monday," ' Jeppesen . admitted. But they were "hustling hard" Tuesday when the coach took them to Utah State to practice on the Spectrum floor. 3-- News" behind American Fork and Davis, lead off tournament action Monday at 2:30 p.m. in the BYU Events center Special against Carbon, most likely, with an outside chance that Spanish Fork will be their New football coach Bill Jacobsen has forwarded the Bear coaches a scouting report on Carbon; Jeppeseff said the southern crew appears to have one major player. He ranks Davis, the Bears, Cedar City and American Fork as all "pretty close," but adds, "I've never seen any of them play except Davis." For the doubters, consider the fact that Carbon lost to West by only about five points in preseason and tournBingham, another ey team, beat them as did Davis. to itie Mitt$ 4-- A 3-- A DAVID goes up for. a layup against the Lakers. Be sure to listen 3-- A 4-- A J FALK 10-fe- et Meanwhile, American added. Consider this fact. Of the 16 teams in the tournament, Bear River is the second smallest edged out only by Cedar with 625 students. On the other end of the scale there are seven of the 16 teams with studentbodies that total more than 1,000 students and three of those that are just shy of the 1,400 cutoff mark. The Bears, rated third in ranks by the "Deseret V against a team like Weber" which is big and physical, Jeppesen pointed out. "We have to finesse them." The Bears still need to put together a consistent team effort to peak. Against Weber they had some good individual moments "but not as a team," he said. "We don't play very good The Bears will be playing a college size court which is loneer than high school. Shooters have a tendency to throw it up short "until they get used to it," Jeppesen noted. on al 3-- A 7-- mm be will fetf S 1 lS ( v.VtViv;v;v.' Trying to Beat Train Can Be Deadly Game By Ann Dear Ann Landers: I am married to a railroad engineer. My husband loves his job except when he hits a car. Most railroaders know it's only a matter of time, because it happensto all of them sooner or later. My husband's time came yesterday. He is sick about it, but there was no way he could have avoided that accident. Two people died because the driver ignored the flashing signals and the whistles, took the gamble and lost. I hope every person who reads your column will ask himself if he has ever done the same thing. If he has, I hope it was the last time. 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