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Show POKTS SECTION ftaitg&Hcraiti SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, SPORTS EDITOR Darnell Dickson - 344-255- 5 2008 ddicksonheraldextra.com 5 A STATE SWIMMING UTAH JAZZ Lone Peak girls in third after Day 1 For Utah Valley teams like American Fork and Lone Peak, they had their work cut out for them. Trying to include themselves with caps and bleached white hair lined the the front running teams of Brighton, starting blocks of every event with the normal pizazz of a hyped-up- , Skyline and West Jordan, the Knights and Cavemen swam competitivley swim competition. Small groups of teammates camped Friday night both on the boys and out in every corner of the pool at girls side. The Skyline girls lead the team BYVs Richards building in Provo, huddled like groups of neighboring rankings after Day 1, with Brighton nomads proudly displaying their team and Lone Peak behind them. Americolors and touting their most talented can Fork is in fifth place. The boys' top three are West Jor swimmers. A.F. girls in fifth; Valley boys off to slow start Eric May HERALD -- CORRESPONDENT inter-scho- swim meet Day 1 of the te started off with well, a bang. OK, a weak pun from a poor pundit sounded loudly aside, the start-gufor the first eight races of the two-daevent for the boysand girls of numerous Utah high schools. 5A-sta- n y Freshly clean-shave- heads, swim n ol dan, Brighton and Skyline. But it was the girls that would shine for the Knights. Junior Taryn Toolson led the Lone Peak Knights and earned a third-plac- e finish in the freestyle with a time of 24.85, just inches short and seconds off the tied first place times of 24.84, while teammate Kimberry Welch finished second (156.20) in the 200 freestyle. For American Fork, Jamie Nebeker swam to a second-plac- e See 5A SWIM, C3 -- . x-- r Press Associated RICH PEDRONCELU Sacramento Kings guard Kevin Martin, right is fouled by Utah Jazz forward Carlos Boozer during the third quarter Friday. HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL o Kings bring end to Jazz's o ) Knights build big win streak THE lead to clinch share of Region 4 crown playing an unlikely fourth quarter role and Kevin 117 Martin scoring SACT0 UTAH 104 27 points, the Kings were able to pull away to beat Utah 4 Friday night, ending the Jazz's winning streak. A reserve guard averaging just under 12 minutes per game, Douby made three and scored 12 of his season-hig- h 15 points in the fourth quarter Jared Lloyd "." DAILY HERALD I Common sense dictates that whenever one thing isn't working, the logical thing to do is try something else. In the basketball game featuring Pleasant Grove visiting Lone Peak on Friday night, neither I H7-10- team was having much success with the jump shot early in the ft contest. .. The difference was that the Knights excelled by going inside lA JI w See and getting LONE PEAK 78 PL. GROVE 44 and fell further and further behind. J i heraldextra.com J Utes too tough for Cougars ) f going For video highlights of the J Knights' win over Pleasant Grove, go to ,., lone. Peak built a big lead in the second Jason Franchuk DAILY quarter and cruised to the 7844 win, u clinching at least a tie for the Region 4 crown. " "This builds confidence for ; us but now it's my job to make sure they know it's just a win," ..said Knight head coach Quincy Lewis. "It did give us the rjsgion title, which is nice. "I think what happened was they missed some shcgs early "and it snowballed on JhehC They ' got down and when jjpunjiss those long shots, if" allowsihe ; other team to start the fast , ' break." A pair of early lnePeak ' 0 -- "' I See KNIGHTS, :; " .S i i ?i f v C3 V 196.7-193.92- 5 win Friday at the Marriott Center in the Cougars' first home meet of the season. UTAH The divided 196.700 crowd of 3,739 responded well, as the Utes typically travel which hasn't well while BYU won a dual meet against its rival since 1998, and is overall felt some good support, if not as many good scores as it would like. BYU . transition opportunities res)ulted in Pleasant Grove junie? point ; ' guard LeSean Wilcox pickjng up HERALD Brad Cattermole, BYLTs gymnastics coach, could tell just by Utah that watching No. it was a little off. But he'd gladly swap ailments with the Utes, who were still superior in a ; ; JAZZ, C2 BYU GYMNASTICS out in transition, whereas the Vikings couldn't find anything to get them-selv- More online : A SACRAMENTO, Calif. late in the third quarter kept Quincy Douby in the game for Sacramento, and that turned out to be a good thing for the Kings. With Douby second-quarte- r V ASSOCIATED PRESS 193.925 1 ' t;f ASHLEY FRANSCELLDaily Herald Lone Peak's Josh Sharp, center, goes up for a layup as Pleasant Grove's Brady Thurgood, left, and CJ. Wilcox defend Friday pt Lone Peak High School. Sharp, with 18 points, was one of four Knights in double figures. JREGION H See GYMNASTICS, C4 REGION 7 WRESTLING WRESTLING Spanish Fork has little trouble Lion grapplers kings of Region 7 whining Region 4 wrestling title Russ Lyman DAILY Neil K. DAILY HERALD Warner HERALD Spanish Fork proved that it is the class of Region 4. 5A. Next up Spanish Fork racked up 258.5 points to win the Region 4 wrestling title at American Fork on Friday night. There's a new king of the Region 7 wrestling jungle. reign Springville's three-yeatop the local 4A wrestling landscape came to a close on Friday night as the youthful Payson Lions easily took the Region 7 e championship at Tiger in Qrem, outpacing sec- e Springville, "It was good. It's been a little while coming, but it feels good to get it," said Payson coach Chris Loveless. "The team as a whole really did what we asked them to." ar Field-hous- "We're taking 14 good kids who can score points at the state tournament. I don't know Jiow far we'll go. Viewmont won their region by a long ' ASHLEY FRANSCELLDaily Herald Jvays and they are in a tough and Jaese Lehi'i said bottom, Fork Meyer, Spanish Fork's Rodney Cox Spanish Region," wrestle in the weight class during the Region 4 See REGION 4, C3 wrestling tournament Friday at American Fork High School 312-25- ond-plac- 135-pou- See - MARIO during the d REGION 7, C3 championships Herald RUIZDaily Payson's Brock Brown, top, holds down Springville's Sac Steheli quarterfinal round at the Region at Orem High School on Friday. 7 |