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Show IXf'H i ' -- J v-3 - s , ., 21, 1977 DESERET NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER p)CQ)Ir5S i ' . , ; vr. G; I J Business ' j defense no id Braves HRCK miLLGR SPURTS EDITOR Arizona State's Getting BYU itch "SW t By Linda Hamilton Deseret News sports writer Layton coach Gary Hansen got hugged so s hard by family friends fans and assistant coaches that he almost lost his balance Quarterback Ben Bubak lost his helmet But that was after the game The only thing the Lancers lost during the game was a couple of sure Bountiful touchdowns with a pair of goalline stands in the second half d Fourth ranked Layton handed Bountiful its first season loss, and assured itself of being the No 1 playoff seed from Region One In other league games Clearfield downed haidluck Bonneville 20 19, Roy dropped 29 6 and Sky View surprised Weber I know a couple of football fans who have divided for the upcoming loyalties BYU-Anzon- State a football game on Nov 12 at Tempe Rex Maughan once of Cache County, had attended RYU them went on an LDS mission, returned to Arizona State to finish his colege career Hes now vice president of the prestigious Del E ebb Coi pin a turn of Phoenix third-ranke- The other guy, Dave Johnson, works for Rex and the Webb company as man m charge of Lake Powell properties, which Webb corporation owns That includes Wahweep and all its facilites, Rainbow Bridge marina, Bullfiog Marina and the facilities at Hite 10-- 21 0 Total yaidage for the two league leaders close, Layton outmovmg But the Lancer defense the Braves continually bioke up long pass plays, blocked a kick and threw the Braves for three big second half losses Layton did its scoring in the second quarter, each following two long Bubak passes Usually an effective pitcher, Bubak was held to just six completions on 16 tries and one each by Scott Irwin two interceptions and Steve Toolson But Bubak was hot when the Lancers needed it although little Sam Gallegos had to luggle a pass tipped by Irwin for a gainer Dave Anderson followed with a snag to the B 9 Maurice Turner gobbled up the nine remaining yards, and Jim Smith's kick Passes of 18 and 24 provided the victory yards from Buoak to Rick Snow brought the field goal as time Lancers to a Smith's ran out following three incompletions Bountiful had crossed into Layton territory line to the in the first but once half, but Toolsons interception moved it all the way to the Layton 15 with 6 08 left in the third quarter The Braves got only to the six on four Deseret News photo by Linda Hamilton' downs and missed the first down by inches stiff-arin 10-- 6 loss. Maurice Turner on nine-yar- d Pendleton Bountiful's Scott Layton's gain Roughing the passer helped Bountiful to the Layton 35 following a Lancer punt, and this time no one could deny the Braves A Chris Scots used a Johnson kick that tripped Bonne The Lakers pass interception by Kent Roy and Clearfield each moved their Davies to John Luddington screen pass netted records a 44 yard Danny Moyes to Mike Sommers on and two a more had to safety with thought The they victories points Thursday !1 yards, and a thirddown reception by Scott Kunz TD pass at the end of the half to forge a Royals used two rushes by Jon Hansen and a when two officials signalled a score, but the Pendleton put them on the 13 Kyle McKay 25-lead The Wildcats came back with Jeff head official said Clearfield didnt have Kurt run and by pass reception caught the touchdown pass, but the kick was Bennington to down Viewmont The Vikings possession until it was m the endzone on a Ostler passing to Greg Tuttle and Taylor blocked World rushing for the third WC score fumbled punt catch a 10 yard pass from Kevin Simmons to Bountiful consumed 17 plays and much of got In other games, Dav is escaped Logan Richard Four Jessop Region the final period in reaching the Layton one but Box Elder held off Ogden 3 and South For Clearfield, it was Stew Beal's Woods Cross won the battle of statistics but lost the ball on fourth down there Bill Wernli Bear River 22 0 ripped a and Johnson score catch from touchdown lost to Ben mthe the war Bryan The four times tried Lomond, winning against punch was exceptionally 198-19- 6 d Dave also started at BYU, went on an LDS mission, returned to finish school at Arizona State And that will split ones loyalties I dined willi these two at Wahweap Marina the other night and we discoursed about the talents of the two teams They reported interest is so high for that game that you could take any kind of wager you wanted, if you weie the betting kind, and theie would be an Anzona State fan to finance it Thevre not the bettine brood But they say theie s never been a year when Tempe has been in such a tempest about a WAC football game Thats understandable BYU beat Anzona State last year to cut the Kushmen out of the championship BYU this year has been pretty high m national football affau s Anzona State is in its last round with the WAC and has cast its lot with the Pac-1- 0 Now it wouldnt look very handsome for Arizona State if, after all the talk and the torment with the switch into the Pacific Coast cult, BYU iced up the Sun Devils with a beating on that occasion After what BYU did to Colorado State last week, a team which Coach Frank Kush picked to be one of the league's best football forces, there is surely some concern in Tempe town Johnson and Maughan agreed on one thing Brigham Young will have its share of football fans on hand that day The Cougars wont suffer from total isolation And two of those fans, I have reason to believe, will be Maughan and Johnson 4-- 2 6 19-1- 23-1- 25-2- 0 4 I It's down to one game Oly, Skyline go By Jerry Johnston Deseret News sports wi iter Starting right now," said a our minds weary Louie Long are on Skyline We've been waiting all year for that one So spoke the Oly coach after the Titans ripped into West, to remain undfeated m Region Three The game, like the weather, was crisp and mean Turning point- Perhaps in that third quarter when Olympus came out of the lockers and ran six plays for 42 yards and a score The Titans had taken the lead earlier, 20 15, on a pair of Rob Ward touihdowns and a bomb from Mike Vanderhoof to Bob 26-1- - Hall Hall had an execeptional night, picking off five passes for 107 yards West scouts had been looking for a strong Oly ground attack, but Long came out thi owing Keeping the Panther defense off stride seemed the key to the win in fact We ran Hall deep, the pass blocking in the line was good, said Long, and our execution pulled us through " Olympus notched 304 yards to West's 177, with Rob Ward leading the charge with three TD's and 98 yards rushing The Olympus defense was as good as ever Tim Treseder, perhaps the best kept defensive secret in the league, came away with his shoulder in on 16 tackles of the first quarter, the Eagle defense was just too tall a wall tor the Farmers to get over at the Highland, trailing end ot the third quarter, showed what it takes to be a winner against East Poise Ram quarterback Steve Jones flipped an touchdown pass to Wade Smith under pressure, then Smith popped in for the winning tally midway through the fourth Highland was able to turn breaks into scoring drives late in the game, something that East was unable to do 10-- 0 REGION FOUR Up north. Woods Cross was losing, but showing a bit more spunk than in weeks past The Cross eleven forced Ben Lomond to string the score out to as 25-2- 0 Bingham's fumble 5-- 0 the Davis County juniors showed some offense Woods Cross actually won the battle of the stats, but lost the game as the Scots put together a pass interception by Kent Sommer and a 44 yard pass to lead 25-- at the half The Wildcats Jeff Ostler hit Greg Tuttle for a score and Taylor World rushed for another South won its second league game 22-- 0 by taking advantage of Bear River mistakes Nick Valles caught a 23 yard touchdown pass and tossed another for 30 yards to set up the runaway score on the year, had Davis, now 2 to battle Logan to get a wm, The Darts used the old double reverse pass play in the fourth fourth quarter to overcome a quarter deficit 6 6-- 0 19-1- 12-- 6 By Rick Hail Deseret News sports writer Binghams Miners missed a chance to be Region Twos spoiler for the second time Thursday by 4 contest to dropping a Granger, but the Miners had the Lancers up against the wall be28-1- fore division-leadinled it out Granger pul- g Two weeks knocked off Bingham leaders d field Brighton with a goal Yesterday, Bingham failed on a similar effort in the gamess final minutes 4 Down with six minutes left the Miners appeared to have been stopped but punter Jordan Jewkes hit Tom Bridgewater with a 20 yard pass, catching the Lancer defense off guard Half back Steve Wanless rumbled for another good gain leaving the ball just inches short of a first prior, last-secon- 20-1- down In an apparent effort to catch the Lancer defense off guard again, quarterback Steve East attempted a pass which fell incomplete With a third down and only inches needed for the first a Miner lineman jumped offsides With third and five, Bingham went with a slant into the line and fumbled Granger, still a little sore after last week's loss to Brighton completely dominated the first A"d how good is 01y? Nine school records good, including most wins m a season, most points in a game, most QB sacks and on and on half Early in the contest, the Lan cers sustained a drive which ended with Corey Jensen finding paydirt Only moments later quarterback Chad Van Orden took it across for another Granger score this one set up by a Van Orden to Wes Wilcken pass The Skyline game should be as good as they say it will be And speaking of the Eagles, Gramtp came back after getting stunned by Dave Weixlers 95 yard return of the opening kickoff Granite didn t buckle, getting some late scores, though the awesome Eagles proved too much for the gritty Granite effort Skyline won the game, Highland, in the meantime, was upending East, 13 10 Ken Wadsworth and Weixler keyed the win for the Eagles Each had well over a hundred yards rushing each had a pair of touchdonwns Granite the first team to chalk up points on Skyline in region play moved the ball well thiough the an with Kevin Walker doing most of the damage from his QB position With Skyline up 20 0 at ths end reprieves Lancers; Murray, Judge win Wile ken found himself on both of the passes Midway ends througth the through the second period Wilcken on an end pass, connected with Dave Harris for 311 yards A couple of plays later, Wilcken hauled in a Van Orden pass (whil e sui rounded by no less than three Binghams of secon dary ) for another six Bingham caught Granger as leep in the opening minutes of the second half Jeff Larsen took the opening kickoff to the Lancer two yard line, then found paydirt two plays Idter On the Mmeis next posses sion Larsen puked his wav through the Lancer line and with 26-1- 2, American Fork's Scott Rachman skirts the end with Cedar's Kendall Webster holding on tight. X XiX-- k A. - 4 the help of an East to Greg Gust pass, the Miners had another six Larsen taking it across again In other Region Two action Kearns got its first win by nipping and Brighton Hillcrest dumped Jordan 35-A two-poiconversion by quarterback Chris Jensen was the difference in the Hillcrest Kearns contest Kearns got touchdowns from Scott Harmon, Ben Heptme and Jensen with Jensen keeping for the PAT after the last TD Hillcrest got two scores from Craig Castillo and one from Bob Pena, but failed to convert on all three PATs Jordan, surprising Brighton in the first half, ran neck and neck halftime with the Bengals for a score But Brighton turned the trick m the second half getting four additional TDs wdule holding the Beetdiggers scoreless Matt Seeman got three TDs for the Bengals while Gay Dent added another A Todd Tovey to Pete Johnson pass accounted for the other 26 Miles In Color Country Letter from St George reads Dear Cousin, Heres a form to fill out which will enter you m the St George Frist Annual Pioneer Marathon Its going to be Sturday morning, Nov 5 That will give you time to get your distance legs m shape And heres a brochure describing the run It was signed by Shrm Miller, director of Parks and Recreation, City of St George Brochure points out the pain of the path to be taken the race starts at 8 a m two miles east of Central (5,500 feet high) Then is all downhill through the Baker Reservoir District, Veyo, Black Mountain, Diamond Valley, Snows Canyon, Twist Hollow and to St George 26 2 miles Brochure also brags you will see, along the way, some of the prettiest spots m Color Country Well, Sherm and I aren't cousins unless he comes from the Pine Mountain Gardners Looking once at the old family tree I found I was kinned to the Gardner kind nothing much for them to boast about None of us were runners Just couldnt wade Pine Creek w ithout cutting a wilier stick and fishing a lick So 1 11 have to turn Sherm down Just wasnt bred d and brought up as folk If you find one who can strut faster than a walking mule can stride he isnt from our tree I had to run once Back in the renaissance period at Granite High Coach Cecil Baker, who coached everything Rex Sutherland and Roy Hillam didnt, teamed me up with three good runners Stew Pendleton, Everett Wood and Lee Henroid They carried me through to a gold medal in the mile relay in the stale high school track meet f That day, when my eyes focused and my teeth j quit hurting and my lungs were normal, I quit J i running races fleet-foote- 20-1- 8 7 two-poi- 7 Region Five regional meeting decided thal if Murray, Judge and Cyprus tie for first, finish in a three-wa- y Muiray will be the first playoff seed. Judge second and the Pirates third Murray and Judge took a step closer to that reality with easy Thursday wins Murray racked up 530 yards of offense and got foiu touchdown passes from Steve Gehrke in mutialting Union 62 7 Jeff Rogers caught three touchdown passes and finished with 138 yards total offense Roc'ky Ulibarri rushed 17 times for 177 yards Mike Bobngbroke returned an mtei ception 30yaids Jav Sample had 10 unassisted tackles and Kev in Rohertson nine Judge also had an easv time, 0 Tooele defeating Carbon stopped Uintah 10 8 It was all over but the shouting after Judges first play from o Paul scrimmage, a scoring romp Paul added a second TD in the second period Others to score were Tom Eck-croon a foui yard run, Doug Vierra fiom the five and Dan Johnson who returned a punt 70 A ANY SIZE LISTED AR78-FET 1 3, BR78-13- , ER78-1- FR78-1- 4, $47.95. 2.38 to 3.20 and Exchange GR78-1- HR78-1- 5, LR78-1- 5. 5, 4, Plus GOODYEAR SNOW TIRES CF ODDS and ENDS Includes Blems, Belted and Radials 31-- d ft yaid TEXACO AND ALL BANX CARDS ACCEPTED (MHPM&I ivtt Vl?l ! 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