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Show Emery County Progress Castle Dale Utah Tuesday February 11 2003 5A Emery County Point of View By GARY ARRINGTON Sports reporter liter opening tin season w nil straight ictones, the Spartans are 4 over the last three vuvks Their woes continued this past week with losses to North 1 1 -- Bowie Jeffs goes up against a block for two. Sanpete in Castle PaleoS-lOan- d the road in ehi o 71-5- 1 after the fter leading first quarter on Wednesday amunst the Hawks the Spartan's w'ere oulstored in each ol the next three quarters to lost' for the second time this season to the Hawks Curt Jensen led the Spartans ith points t Belli the Pioneers used their height advantage early and often to lead the Spartans after 14-- fi 1 thev "lost for the second Time last wo(k Hnuie letfs led the Sivir- tans vv ith 2S points. Emerv will be on the road 4 BY GARY ARRINGTON Sports Reporter Memorial iligh School in Salt oko Citv fnrihp brsi round ol state plavoffs. Judge Memorial I he fact that they play so dirty and talk trash throughout u hole game made this a must in for us Hunter Baumgartner, Lohl Iimeer center, in bo Sail Luke Tribune hat is a pretty bold statement lor a high school athlete to make and he made it about our Finery Spartans 'This reminds me of that old adage about throwing rocks when you live in a glass house, s nfJl1 though, certain Finery High players do talk trash ' and they seem to do it the entire ball game. But, to put this in perspective, so do certain Belli players and players from almost every other high school boy's basketball team out there So what is fWs lR1 H-- dya! , ,, hat oactl is the problem w ith this Spartan team? Again bo Sail Lake Tribune stated that these Emery Spartans seem to n,,t ,H ahk' lo sho,,t 1,10 l)a11 fast lnouf4h Wel1 thRt is our style, plays basically all guards We are not tall We have to outscore people, not out defend them Bv en though the Pioneers vv ere considerably taller than us, we could still have won that game if we simply had hit our shots at the same rate as vv e had done all season. The same is true for the game against North Sanpete Unofficially, I had the Spartans four for 27 on shots against the Haw ks and one for 18 against the Pioneers T he shots at 38 percent Spartans had been hitting their 12 If first ball the would have games. they through simply eontin-- l ued that trend last week, they would have hit six more 3s in each ame and vvon thtm both Do'the math It is a simple problem vv ith a simple answer. Take the shot the defense giv es and simply get back to scoring. Make the basket, win the ball game So vv ho vv ins 3- - basketball this y ear? The fav orite has to be the Pine View Panthers (17-4- ), they have the talent and the experience. The other contenders are the Dixie Flyers (17-4- ), the Judge Bulldogs (BT-o- ). the Behi Pioneers (1(5-- and the Emery Spartans (16-4-) 5) leah. that's right put the Spartans right there if they simply get back to playing the game Remember what got you to 0 and do it again Emery, you are good, be yourselves and good luck. 1 14-- In the heat of the game, Mike Truman calls for a time out. 1 tM i a,iti |