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Show The Payson Chronicle, December 13, 1989, Page 5 tempt, leaving the score Lions. 24-2- for the 2 Chad Knapps close decision over Spanishs Brad Huff at 17 1 made it 2 Payson. The two wrestlers were tied at the end of the first period, with 27-2- 2-- 2, Knapp getting the initial takedown and Huff re versing at the buzzer. Knapp went ahead with an escape in the second period and the 3-- 2 score held for the rest of the match. Leading by five, the Lions had to win at least one of the final two matches. Brandon Limb, wrestling up a weight (as had all the Payson wrestlers from Cham berlain on due to the situation regarding forfeits), lost a narrow decision to Spanish Forks Eric Lyman at 189. Lyman took a 2 lead after one period, but Limb tied it up with a neutral in the second. With just 20 seconds left in the match, Lyman gained the victory, with an escape to narrow the team score 3-- 3-- 2, to 27-2Tom Garlick, who usually wrestles 1 89, met Aaron Stephens in the unlimited take all. The larger winner category, Stephens gained a pin in the first period to snatch away the match 31-2- 7. 5. Lions Fall to Orem Tigers in OT, Give Timpview Thunderbirds a Run Their for Money In the of two losses, spite Payson High School basketball team continued to impress last week, especially in the overtime game against Orem on Friday night. The game ended 69-7- 0 in the Orem gym. The Wednesday night game at Timpview ended with a wider but the Lions were never out of the game, and against Timpview, thats spread, 67-5unusual. The Orem game brought out some hidden qualities in the Payson attack. The Lions two-ma- n attack as shooting attack (Rowley and DeGraffenried) became a three-ma- n 4, for the evening, matching junior Travis Parry plunked in six DeGraffenrieds 22 points, while Rowley added sixteen. DeGraffenried also three-pointe- rs demonstrated that he can hit consistently from anywhere, canning four himself when Orem effectively defended the paint. Junior Jerry Beck gets better and better with experience. He scored seven points, scoring and drawing fouls at crucial points in the game, and Brett Moody showed grit under the basket against a very strong inside game at Orem. In fact, the whole team played well again with no let up on defense and relatively few ball handling and passing errors against the aggressive Tiger defense. Orem s tenacity put DeGraffenried in foul trouble for the first time this year and caused Moody to foul out in overtime. The game was nip and tuck all the way. Orem went ahead at the end of the first half, 35-3after Rowley had put the Lions ahead with an inside bucket. with a three-poiPaysons only lead in the third quarter came when Parry hit one of his six but Orems inside game proved stronger, and the Tigers moved to a 53-4- 7 to make it 38-3- 7, lead at the end of the period. Both teams were pressing hard in the fourth quarter, and the Lions, forced to the outside, managed to score and draw fouls to stay in the game. Parry started the quarter with three-pointe- 3, Sophomore wrestler Sam Ford, left, came through at 160 with a 2 decision agaisnt Jim Riddle, shown here attempting an escape. 5-- 31-2- 7. 4-- 0. 9-- first-peri- od 9-- 6. Then Chris Loveless evened the score at when he gained a close decision over Spanish Forks Scott Colledge at 125. Colledge took the early lead in that exciting match, ahead 0 after the first period by means of a takedown and near-fal- l. Both wrestlers scored well in the second period with Loveless edging to within a point at 8 when the period ended, scoring three nearfall points as time ran out. In the third period, Colledge went ahead by three with a takedown, but Loveless scored a reversal and nearfall points to take the match at 9-- 9 4-- 7-- 12-1- 0. nt three-pointe- Lion Grapplers Fall to Spanish in Exciting Dual Meet Nobody left the Spanish Fork gym till the last match was over. Thats for sure. But the Lions lost a close team decision to Spanish Fork, Spanish Fork took the initial lead when Kurt Swalburg, wrestling at 103, won a 13-- 0 major decision over Paysons Jeremy Whicker, making the team score Spanish Forks Layne Argyle increased the team lead to 0 when he won a technical fall against Matt Carter of the Lions at Johnny Loveless, at 1 19, put the Lions on the scoreboard with a pin of Spanishs Weston Youd, making it rs rs continued on next page At 130, Jake Mellen pinned Zane Evans in the third period to give the Lions the lead, 15-He was leading 1 at the 9-- 9. time of the fall. Derek Lafferty lost a very close decision to Spanish Forks Tyler Marrott at 135. The two were tied at the end of one, 3, then Lafferty took a one-poilead in the second period when an illegal hold penalty was called against Marrott. Marrott managed a neutral and takedown in the third period to go ahead 6-- 4, then Lafferty managed an escape with 28 seconds on the clock. Lafferty had Marrott in his grasp for a near takedown as time ran out. He was seconds away from a victory, but the loss put the Lions behind again, 15-1A Spanish Fork forfeit gave Reed Staheli a win at 140 and Payson the lead, 3-- nt 2. But Jim Marziales major Jason Chamberlain, 14-over decision 21-1- 2. 3, at 145, moved the score closer: and a Payson forfeit to Lance Harmon at for Spanish 152 made the score 22-2- 1 Fork. Sam Ford gave Payson the lead again shortly thereafter with a 2 decision over Spanish Forks Jim Riddle at 160. Ford was going for a pin near the end of the final period, but Riddle weathered the at 21-1- 6, 5-- Curtis Rowley goes up for two against Timvpiew. He scored eight against the Thunderbirds and 16 against Orem. |