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Show Free Press - Wednesday, February 5, 1997 - Page Sports TTTT IV Balance proves strength for more Pioneer wins By TRACY WILSON Although other teams in the Utah high school basketball circles have their singular stars, Lehi High School, top ranked 3A team in the state, continues to win with team balance and new surprises for each opponent. Last week the Pioneers smoked d the Wasatch Wasps 1 at Heber City with steady play and then came home for an 1 skinning of the visiting Union Cougars. Five different LHS players hit in double figures for the two contests. Always steady and dependable Braden Cooper continues to lead the Purple and White way with 12 and 17 for the two games, but he was joined in the point parade by Jason Yates, Mike Christofferson (in his finest offensive show this year), Luke Magnusson and Jason Childs. Christofferson had 16 against Union; the other three each scored 12 on their individual nights. Off the bench, Seth Sunderland was good for four and five; Andy Had field recorded nine and five. Kelton Butterfield, Scott Thayn, Grant Ellsworth and Bryan Glathar each contributed to the cause. Lehi led the Wasps by two at the quarter, six at the half, 14 at the three-quartmark and by 11 at the final buzzer. Even though upset-minde- 62-5- 81-7- er 11 Swimmers and divers set to mine state gold 'J g time. Jed Colledge, By TRACY WILSON Twenty Lehi High School swimBryson and Josh Robinson afe mers and divers are set to give close to state medaling in the 160 their all at the Utah State breaststroke. Cliff Worthington is also a vetand Swimming Diving Championships this weekend in eran at the state meet, haviag the Brigham Young University swum in the 500 last year; tlfcs Richards Building pools. time around he qualified for tjie Coming off a strong win in the 200 free and the 400 free relay. Lehi's girls' 200 medley reliy region championships, Lehi's boys team of Heidi Ferkovich, Jackie qualified 13 for the state finals. Lehi's girls, although not as deep Hadfield, Season Chamberlain aid as the boys will send seven to the Nicole Wycherley is four seconds e finahead of last year's prestigious meet. The boys finished third at state last year ish and they are holder of the behind Cedar City and Park City school record at 2:02.62. J and they should move up in the Hadfield and Wycherley are final standings this year. Lehi's usually big point winners for the girls were sixth last year but could Lady Pioneers. Hadfield's 5:42.32 do better this time around. is a school record and ahead of her e State contenders for the finish from last yer. Pioneers include defending state Wycherley's 26.62 in the 50 at champion diver Brad Savage. Troy region is slower than her 196 Koltermann's 1:56.75 200 yd fourth place, but strange things freestyle time is two seconds usually happen at state as she ahead of his fourth-plac- e finish dropped 410th of a second off last from last year at state. Kenny year's best time going into state. I Bryson will have to go some to beat She also qualified in the 100. his personal best of 2:11.41 set last Jennilyn Tucker is ahead of year at state. Doug Russell's 23.25 year's time with a 2:44.43 in the e and 52.26 in the 50 and individual medley, also a sprints are right on target to earn grueling race with four differejit some Pioneer points. In the butterfstrokes. . Newcomers to the state meet ly, Koltermann, Ethan Adams and Weston Adams all qualified for this year from Lehi are Matt Alva, state and each is ahead of his 1996 Ashton Hobbs and Dylon Young jn time. diving, Josh Krebs in relay, Marcte Freshman Brady Peterson carTaggart in relays and freestyfe, ries the Lehi colors into the most and Melissa Turner in relays. Trials will be held Friday with grueling race of the day, the 500-yfreestyle. His 5:54.87 is well finals set for Saturday at the BYU within striking distance of a pools. medal-earnin- coach Bill Farr went with his solid five, he couldn't hold the Purple and White down. Against Union it was a little closer as Jeff Davenport of the Cougars split the strings for 23 points, but the Lehi five led each quarter to squelch V Tig any thoughts of a Cat upset. Lehi's boys played at Emery last night in a battle for state ranking. The Spartans were going into the Tuesday match up. Seniors Brandon Burke and Evan Stilson are the mainstays for the Spartans. In comparable play Uintah lost to the Castledale five while Union beat them at Emery Pleasant Grove bowed at Emery Burke averages County 69-6three treys per game. Traveling Thursday to Uintah, and then hosting North Sanpete on Saturday will round out the busy week for the Pioneers. Uintah lost to the Pioneers in Lehi, but have Cory Kebert, Jeremy Pierce and McPeters to give them scoring strength. North Sanpete is 8 for the 3 season and in league play. Justin Nick Thompson, Christensen and Allen Jacobsen have been the top scorers for the Hawks. They were expected to challenge for their region crown but are third behind Richfield and Emery at the halfway mark. 8-- 8 fifth-plac- 1 iy i i 73-6- 7. fifth-plac- 7. lt 56-4- 4, 100-fre- 9-- 2-- Vnul' J I Photo by Scott Davis Understudies wait to make own mark Wrestlers take 13 to state tournament 200-yar- d Christofferson pushes through his two Union Mike opponents in last Friday's game. By TRACY WILSON Playing in the shadow of big "brothers," 21 sophomore and junior varsity basketball "would-be- " stars are putting in their time and going through the paces to learn the Lehi High School basketball system and they're mirroring the efforts of the varsity team. The JV team, with a mark, was going into last week's contests. They have wins over Bear River, Tooele, Springville and Carbon and losses to West, Box Elder, Payson and Pleasant Grove. In league play they defeated Union 6 and Uintah 42-2- 7 before facing Park City, Wasatch and Union 6-- 4 2-- 0 56-4- last week. different Individually, eight players have scored in double figures. Travis Colledge leads the point parade with six games in double digits and a 9.9 average. Andy Hadfield has recently been playing with the JV and has 34 points for four games including a high of 18. Jake Terry had a team season high of 23 against Bear River and is averaging 7.8. Byron Glathar and Grant Ellsworth stay in the thick of things with a 7.5 ppg average and a 7 point average, respectively. Mike Sunderland carries an 8.1 average for nine games with three games in double digits at 14, 14 and 12. James Jex rounds out the big scoring with three games in doubles and a personal average of 6.7. Garrett Soelberg, Joe Walker and Justin Libberton round out the JV regulars. Lehi's sophomores also have a 4 mark for the season with losses to Bear River and Box Elder up north and to Region 4 foes Springville and Pleasant Grove. They boast wins over West, Tooele, Payson (OT), Carbon, Uintah and Union. Libberton leads the tenth-grad- e squad in scoring with seven games over 10 points. His high is 19 and he averages 11.7 for ten games. He is followed closely by Micah 9.6 and Gunnar McKinnon's Clark's 7.4, including a performance against Payson. Trent Smith is carrying a 6.2 and Brock Cooper a 5.5. 6-- nt Other steady contributors to the sophomore quint include Adam Bateman, Sage Strasburg, Layth Christofferson, Jeremy Brown, Shane Cook, Jason Crowton, Shane Pickett, Clint McKell and Kolby Fisher. Coaches Lonnie Magnusson and Lynn Allan, JV and sophomore teams, respectively, although their role may seem like a minor one, instill skills and attitude into these young men. These characteristics and talents then help to make the head coach and the varsity program look as good as it does. By TRACY WILSON Wrestlers at Lehi High School may have met their toughest competition this year with last weekend's Region 10 meet, but the Pioneer grapplers are headed into the state tournament this weekend at UVSC with 13 matmen wearing the Purple and White. Although the Pioneers finished event third in the region two-daat Union High School, they came home with two gold, two silver, four bronze medals along with five fourth place ribbons. They finished with 132 points, behind Wasatch, 215; Uintah, 181; and ahead of Union with 128 and Park City with y just five. I isi iviomn iinprogramming EDCE r ivcc (with this ad); I Just Call: 1(800) 987 - 2567 Expires 21597 01 I -nr match was tied at four with only 25 seconds remaining and the talented Pioneer escaped from his Wasatch opponent, Lars Gardner, to gain the win. Silver medals were grabbed by freshman Coby Wilson at 160 and senior Tyson Boltz at 215. Third-plac- e finishers were Kevin Jeffery at 130, Nate Nelson at 140, Drew Wilson at 145 and Lance Ferguson at 152. Fourth-plac- e winners were Trent Bassett at 112, Ruston Southwick at 119, Shane Southwick at 125, Mark Cutler at 135 and Clayton Davis at 171. Davis was honored recently at a member of the Academic team with a 3.9 grade point averAll-Sta- The Wasatch Wasps and Uintah Utes are nationally ranked and very dominant in the Utah wrestling circles, no matter which division is competing. Individually Lehi's top prizes were won by undefeated Kyler 275 Fisher at heavyweight, pounds, and Steve Berendson, 189. Berendson pinned all of his opponents en route to the top medal. Fisher was challenged as he won a 4 decision in the finals. The age. State competition is scheduled at Friday and Saturday, Feb. Utah Valley State College in Orem. 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