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Show THE SENTINEL Begin state march with Miners stop pesky Bobcats 13 'it 4' The opening round cake-wal- k many fans expected for High School's Bingham basketball team in the state tournament against SkyView Monday evening simply failed to materialize. Even though the final Miner the margin ended up 11, Bobcats from up north gave a respectable showing against the state's top rated team. Fred Roberts, the Miner was the early spark in Bingham's offense, driving home the first seven points for the Miners an'd 11 of the first 13, leading up to a 15 8 first period bulge for Bingham. 56-4- 5, 4 big-ma- O C. t JS i From the very outset, SkyView went into a slowdown passing game, occasionally driving inside then pass off in an attempt to hit an open shooter. The strategy took some time for the Miners to decipher and in the s meantime 1 helped keep SkyView close. The Bobcats, in fact, trimmed the Bingham lead to one point, late in the second period and 21-2- at were behind by three the half. SkyView continued their motion game on into the third period and the resulting slowdown left the scoreboard idle until Bob Beers hit a lay-u- p for Bingham at the 5:20 mark. Bingham's watchful 26-2- 3 defense, man-to-ma- n became a little more sure of itself and however, Bingham began to slowly take charge, heading into the final period in front Four points was as close as the Bobcats could reach in Soft touch. Forward Brad Fullmer, 32, from Bingham sends off a shot in Monday's state tourney action against SkyView. Number 20 for the Miners is Dae Holt With the first round victory, Bingham will meet the challenge from Highland on Wednesday at 4:10 p.m. gymnasts Bingham by Bengals in handled Locals lose floor and gained seconds in the II beam, and former floor, and, bars; Julie Ward was first in the Class III bars and second in the III vault; Christin Williams had first in both the Class III vault and floor and was second in the III ; Tami Dykes scored a in the Class III first and was second in the Class III bars; Marie Marti was third in the III beam; and Sheryle Winger was third in both the Gass II and optional bars. Brighton took 55 of the 72 total places in the meet. in the optional 492.2 to 440.6. Once again Brighton was paced by the efforts of Kathy Kortier, who placed first in every Class II and optional event except the Class II floor captured exercise, earning another championship in both optional and Class II. Other top Brighton performers included Laural North, who was first in the Class II all-arou- nd in 70-5- 9 state opener . For the first half of Mon- day's state confrontation between Highland and Hillcrest High School, it looked quite possible that the Huskies, always a tough tournament team, could knock-of- f the Rams, making for the first major upset in the tournament. But in the second half, and especially the fourth period, Highland's experience began to be evidenced and Hillcrest slipped to a 9 loss. In spite of a super first half performance by the Rams' highly touted Mike Maxwell, 70-5- Hillcrest kept the pressure on the third rated Highland crew. Highland managed just lead by the a two point end of the first quarter, but Hillcrest was to even make it closer before the first half buzzer. Hillcrest pumped in points from all positions on the court through the second period and drew even with Highland then slipped in front by a at the half. single point, Highland came out in the third quarter and popped in the first four baskets, putting Hillcrest once more on the 18-1- 6 37-3- trail again. Hillcrest did pull late in the within three, quarter, but Highland turned 46-4- 3, them back this time and led with one period to play With just over half the fourth quarter yet to finish, Highland slowed things up a bit and went into more of a passing game. Slowly the Rams elongated their lead over the Huskies, who as time passed got more and more desperate with the usual resulting fouls. Jerry Hansen's 18 points was the best individual total for anyone on the Huskies' squad, although sophomore center Marc Brown fired in 17 more. Also for Hillcrest, Kelly Newbold scored 10, and Mike Bernardo and Bob DeMarco each added six. 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Fred Roberts ended up the contest with 22 points to lead the Miners and all scorers. Bob Beers contributed 12, Brad Fullmer eight, Dave Holt six, and Dave Kalmar four to round out Bingham's scoring. faces now Bingham another pick in Highland at 4:10 on Wednesday in the quarterfinals. Should Bingham defeat the Rams, they would next meet the winner of the Brighton Roy game Friday in the semis. y umps register tor softbali training Mountain The Rocky Regional Umpire's Clinic hosted by the Utah State Amateur Softball Association (ASA) will be held Saturday, Mar. 11, at the University of Utah. The clinic is designed to provide certification for all professional Softball umpires in the area, ASA officials said. The public, however, is invited to attend The clinic will begin at 9 a.m., Mar. 11 in room 206, east wing of the University of Utah's Health, Physical Education and Recreation Getting out of trouble. Bingham guard, Bob Beers, number 22, gains control of loose ball during second half action from Monday's first round action at the state basketball tournament. Bingham found it difficult to shake the dogged Bobcats of SkyView in this contest, but finally gained a win. 4-- 56-4- 5 Jordan nips (earns, gains state cage tournament berth Jordan High School's basketball team made it into this week's state tournament, but needed a herculean effort and just a little luck in the waning seconds to vicplay-of- f pull off a and over earn Kearns, tory the fifth place spot from Region Two. The game was necessitated loss to Orem by Jordan's 7 and Granger's win over a fifth intact Kearns, keeping between tie the place Diggers and the Cougars. Jordan looked like they had assumed control of the contest late in the third period, which ended with the leading by eight, But, Kearns burst out of the blocks early in the final period to catch and then take the lead on three separate occasions, the final one at 9 with 1 :09 left in the contest. Jordan was forced to foul with time running out, sending Kearns to the line to atKearns tempt a failed on the attempt and Jordan captured the rebound, sending the Digger's Doug Price steaking in for a lay-u- p for Jordan. to make it At the other end of the court, Kearns missed a shot with five seconds left, but managed to tie up Doug Price for the rebound. On the 4-- 63-6- 0 81-6- 5 71-5- Beet-digge- (HPER) complex. rs dan did trail for the first four minutes of the first period, but pushed in front and led 3 at the quarter's end. Kearns did manage to trim the Jordan lead to three at one point of the second, but Jordan managed to stem the tide and went to lockeroom leading Once again in the third period, Kearns made a run at Jordan, getting to within two, but with 1:46 left in the 17-2- 32-2- quarter, Jordan had Pi reboun- ded to an eight point, margin. Jordan held onto that same eight point bulge and went into the final fateful eight minutes of play leading 44-3- 48-4- Marc Peterson led Jordan with 17 points, while Mitch Swilor had 15. in scoring SENTINEL WM'T ADS WORK 36-3- m BETTER thru April 9. SkyView at 2:30 p.m. A second loss, of course,' eliminates a team from further competition, but the winner of the Hillcrest-SkyVie- w games goes against the winner of the Clearfield-Wes- t game on Friday. Jordan Valley baseball sets sign-up- for s March IS, 25 for Jordan Valley League baseball are slated to take place at the Sandy City Hall on Mar. 18 and 25 from 9 a.m. to noon both days. 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