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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - Page 10 Monticello gains berth in 1 A title game with Saturday 1 A November 15 State football championship: by Scott Boyle the excited players got over the Ruse rus, ruz n: a wily subterfuge. I would hate to be the Enterprise Wolves this week. Which Monticello Buckaroo football team do you prepare for: the crushing offensive running machine, the and a cloud of dust bunch, the a play roadrunner crowd (beep, beep!), a stifling defense that scores points, the jitters, things got moving southeast Utah passing offense, or the special teams sible moment. The Bucks returned the fad Casen vor on a Eldredge sweep, led by the irrepressible Zach Higgins and the rest of the Buckaroo offensive line: Tom Adams, Josh Gritz, Scott Toomey, and Jeremy Redd. Monticello took a lead when Antonio Mus- 80-yar- Monticello vs. Enterprise, 11 a.m. Southern Utah University, Cedar City. Coaching news Art Burtenshaw had a successful year in his first year at Ben Lomond High School as coach of the Ben Lomond football team. Burtenshaw left San Juan High School this year after building a football dynasty over 16 years in Blanding. He faced an uphill challenge taking a team with very little previous success in the 3A ranks in northern Utah. After sufering through a 1-- 9 record in 2002, Ben Lomond record and finished with a lost a play-igame that would have allowed them to qualify for the state playoffs. The biggest win of the year was a victory over defending 4-- 6 n state champion Tooele. In St. George, the Pine View freshman football team, under the direction of Head Coach, R.D. Sharp (a 1988 graduate of Monticello High) finished its second straight undefeated season. Since 1996, the freshman football team at Pine View, in which R.D. has been involved as an assistant or currently as the head coach, has amassed an impressive 53-- 5 record with three undefeated seasons in seven years. scoring machine? The Buckaroos showed all of that plus a little bit of Siegfried and Roy in Price, Utah last Saturday, finally subduing the determined Duchesne Eagles, 38-2before a large crowd in a 1A State semifinal football contest. The Wolves from Enterprise devoured the Altamont Longhorns, 28-- in the other semifinal, setting up a meet in Cedar City this Saturday at 11 AM between Monticello and Enterprise to determine the 1A state champion for 2003. u ch es n e Th e Mo n t i ce game took a minute to warm up (there were three turnovers in the first six plays), but once William Howard Taft in 1910. WILLIAM L. SCHULTZ Attorney At Law 317 S. Main, Suite 3 Monticello Crminal law DUI 43-yar- 0, 7-- 1 1 s o-- D Parry s 'PoWcr 6 tache added the extra point kick.. Duchesne effectively shut down Monlicellos vaunted running game, so the Bucks 7 turned to a little trickery themselves. Aided by a PA announcer who helped keep Duchesne off balance all day by referring to Shade Christensen, Sack Higgins, Coach Mike Bowring, and Coach John Doewell, the Citiibc Utah High School Football State Playoffs Week Ending November 15, 2003 Diff. Favored Team Rating Rating Underdog 42.7 Monticello 2A Final Juan Diego 1 A Final 44.3 Enterprise Post season record: 39-- 9 1.6 81 .2 Season record 79.9 343-8- 6 Copyright 2003 by Noland Parry win over Duchesne Bucks used a play I have never seen before and am not even sure what to call. Facing a 4th and goal on line, the Bucks called on a little subterfuge, running, uh, well call it: Fake defensive stop, lets get nine, on two. As far as I can tell, Fake defensive stop, lets get nine, on two calls for the quarterback to pretend to be stopped on a 4th down play at h the line, so the Buck defense can smother the next play for a safety, followed by a kickoff return for a touchdown. The Bucks seemingly lost seven points, only to quickly end up with nine two plays later. This is a play that involves the entire team, using the offense, defense and special teams. The Bucks ran the play to perfection, Matt Torres getting stopped on the quarterback h sneak at the line, the line entire defensive stuffing offensive the first Duchesne play five yards deep in the end zone, then Casen Eldredge returning the kickoff 60 yards for Duchesnes two-yar- d six-inc- six-inc- a touchdown. Actually, the Bucks kickoff team added a little cunning of their own, with Sack Higgins grabbing the Duchesne squib kick, and executing a Misdirection, fake reverse, upside down lateral (my term) to a streaking Eldredge, who was escorted to the end zone by the rest of the team. Just like that, the Bucks But Duchesne were up 16-was not dead, scoring a touchdown late in the second quarter and nearly scoring another just before half, until Buck de6. . fensive end Shade Christensen eclipsed the quarterback with a sack to end the threat. U season began under Duchesne scored first on a three yard run set up by a little Duchesne deception by the quarterback. He simply turned a play the Buck defense had stuffed into an 80 yard run. It was only kept from being a touchdown by the speed of Scott Frost, who lassoed the Duchesne QB at the last pos- ds Blanding The presidential custom of throwing out the first ball of the baseball quickly. 38-2- 0 678-278- 1 Monticello 587-230- 2 SAN JUAN PHARMACY AI D Duchesne fumble on the kick- off. However, despite suddenly by 17 points, Duchesne showed their character by scoring again, and forcing the Bucks into their last bit of chicanery. It was on a fourth down play that the Bucks ran the Fake fumble, on one by half back shot-puShade to Eldredge. This play caught the Eagles completely unawares and clinched the win for the Bucks. So, which team will show up trailing t, Saturday? can play all four quarters, an optimistic Coach I hope we Bowring says. We didnt tackle well. We played about two quarters against Duchesne. More hoodwinking? Have you ever seen Sack Higgins not tackle? You should have seen him and all the Bucks, fans and players alike, tackle the bratwurst after the game. That was no illusory Tailgate party in the parking lot, on two. Will the tailgate party be a celebration or a dismal affair this Saturday? Find out in Cedar City. I hope well run the play, Bucks, 1A State Football Champions, on two! usii 30 IS THE NOVEMBER WINNER OF OUR RED STAR CUSTOMER APPRECIATION PROMOTION Customers with a Red Star on their monthly Black Oil statement receive a $150 credit to their account DU Call for 587-280- 8 Rafael Ibarra recovered a Watch For The Star Drug Possascion DomesticDi vorce Custody Appointment In the second half, the Bucks turned to the pass. Torres was eight for eight at one point, scoring on two beautiful back to back passes to Nathan Freestone of 10 and 34 yards. No bamboozling there, unless you count the decaffeinating fake Freestone put on the defensive back. He was so open he had time to stop and drink a Pepsi Free. 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