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Show JANUARY 20, 19d7 Cats plan thwarted; Davis quiets WX 70-5- 6 By TOM If ARALDSEN The Woods WOODS CROSS Cross Wildcats had a plan. If they could defeat Davis in Region Four basketball Friday night, theyd be off to their best start in years. a But they ran into a major York Major problem. The backup guard, who performed well in but was held scoreless in the Darts league opener against Highland last week, came off the bench for 17 points in helpvictory. Davis ing Davis to a 70-5- 6 and Bountiful now sit alone atop the league standings, both at Woods Cross played the Darts on nearly even terms for most of the first three quarters. The Wildcats even took a 5 lead midway through the second period on a three-poishot from junior Bret Rogers. But the Darts intense defense, pressuring every inbounds pass, and their depth off the bench began to finally take over. 9 at the half, and Davis led increased that lead to 48-4- 1 after three periods. Each time Woods Cross made a run to pull close, the Darts put on the afterburners and pulled away again. Major began the fourth period with a quick hoop and free throw. Following a missed Wildcat shot, he scored again with 7:10 to go. And 20 seconds later, he added points six and seven of the period, with 6:50 left. and it was 55-4- 1 Woods Cross made a brief run at the Darts when Rogers hit a short jumper, and Spence Hansen added two quick hoops. But from there, prob-lem--- pre-seas- 2-- 0. their moments. Hansen led them in scoring with 12 points, but most came in the fourth period after the issue had been decided. Rogers added , but the other members of the cast didnt perform all that well. Perhaps most impressive for Woods Cross was Jerry Martineau, who came off the bench for 10 points and kept the Wildcats close. Following Pearson and Major in scoring were reserve center Mike Welling, who chipped in 10 for Davis. Brian Emery had nine and Curt Stoddard eight and Davis really seemed to dominate the boards. I think the depth of our people may be our best trait, Robison 1 1 said. "Weve got eight players who could start for us, and that had to help us tonight. But we still need to improve, and 1 think we could have rebounded even better than we did tonight. In the end, it seemed like the Dart defense, plus the play of its bench, was the difference. Davis, now 3 on the year, travels to n Viewmont for an important will then matchup tonight, host East on Friday. in league, has Woods Cross, important games as well at Bountiful tonight and then at home versus Highland on Friday. 9-- early-seaso- -1 f 27-2- nt 33-2- Davis Highs Brad Richins (11) drives around Woods Cross Highs Spence Hansen 6 Region Four victory. Friday night. Richins and his Davis during the Darts teammates moved to 0 with the win. 70-5- 2-- Lady Falcons explode in second half for win Davis calmly sank free throws, shot by Wildleaving a three-poicat sophomore Chad Rawlings as the only Woods Cross heroics left nt LAYTON For awhile on Friday afternoon, it looked like the Layton-Clearfiel- d girls basketball Guards Amber Poll and Kim Hill paced the Falcon attack, as Hill ended with 24 points and Poll 14. classic be would another Clearfield outscored Layton 26-- 6 game contest. Then in the third period to put the game the second half started. away early. The Falcons, who trailed 9 afPromise McIntosh added eight ter one period and were up just 9 points for the Falcons, Joy Trussel at the half, exploded offensively had five and Cathy Kelsey four. and defensively, eventually coast- The Falcons are now 1 on the ing to a 3 Region One victory. year, and will travel to Box Elder Clearfield is now 0 in league, tied for first with Weber, while Layton in the game. York really came through and gave us some spark, Davis coach John Robison said afterwards. We knew theyd be keying on (Jeff) Pearson. They were geared to stop him. Hes a very unselfish player who dished off when he had to, yet still was aggressive on the boards. Pearson led the Darts with 19 points but when you consider that hes been averaging nearly 25 a game, the Wildcat defense had a moral victory. Woods Cross is an excellent basketball team, Robison added. They deserve a lot more credit than what theyve been getting. I think we beat a pretty good team out here tonight. Indeed, the Wildcats did have down-to-the-wi- re 10-- 23-1- 11-- 55-3- (1-- 1 in league) Friday afternoon. The improving Lancers, who travel to Weber Friday, were led by junior Emily Ames with 11 points, sophomore Megyn Nimori with eight, and senior Kari Barnes with six. Also scoring for the Lancers were Robyn Fullerton, Susan Perry, Janice Woodruff and Lara Harvey, each scoring two points. 2-- fell to Clearfield pressed the Lancers for most of the game, but at half- This Friday's Action 1. PHOTOS BY East at Davis 7:30 Box Elder at Clearfield 7:30 Weber at Layton 7:30 time, coach Margo Jones made some adjustments in her defense. The result was a number of Layton turnovers, six in a row at one stretch, and some quick Falcon baskets. PAULA HUFF Curt Stoddard (44) of Davis muscles up this basket against the Wildcats, led on defense by Dennis Jackson (52), Bret Rogers (12), Tommy Angelos (20) and Spence Hansen. Lancers come prepared, end Falcon streak KEITH DUNCAN By CLEARFIELD Perhaps one item Stan Buchanan used with his Layton High basketball team in preparation to meet Clearfield last Friday, was the fact the Falcons had an impressive seven game winning streak against Layton basketball teams. Whether h- - used that to inspire his kids or just got them ready the old fashioned way, Layton put an end to the winning streak by dumpto improve ing Clearfield 74-6- 9 their record to 0 in Region One 2-- basketball. The Falcons mean- while, saw their record evened at 1. many problems with Laytons full court press at end of the first quarter and to start the second. A few minutes into the second stanza, especially after a spurt of points from Rod Dixon, Layton was holding a commanding lead, Just when it was looking like Layton might run away with it, Clearfields Bracken Larsen canned his teams first field goal of the second quarter with 4:44 left. The Larsen field goal started a run of 12 unanswered points and helped the Falcons close the gap to 33-1- 8. 33-3- 0. The Lancers got their act together prior to the end of the first half by scoring six unanswered points of their own to take a 0 lead. Bracken Larsen sank one more to make it 2 at halftime. 39-3- Craig Hansen, the veteran Clearfield coach, gave credit to his counterparts, calling the Layton victory Well earned. Stan (Buchanan) did a fine job in preparing his team. Hes a young coach in terms of head coaching, but did a great job in preparing his kids to play us. I was impressed. They played within themselves most of the night. Thats not saying we werent Besaid Hansen, cause I thought we were ready for prepared, them. But Layton played with a lot of poise and earned a good victory on our homecourt. The opening quarter could have been called the Albert Chappell Show as the junior Layton guard scored 12 of his team's final 14 points of the first eight minutes. Chappell did just about everything during that span, including some impresstwisting, driving ive assists and an occasional long outside shot. Layton led 6 at one point before Chappell took over and before he was done, Layton lead at the end of the took a quarter. Clearfield was just having too lay-up- s, 8-- 21-1- 3 two-point- er 39-3- It was certainly looking like a game of streaks as Clearfield came out roaring to start the second half, scoring eight unanswered points to take a 40-3- 9 lead, their first lead of the game. It was a Bill Spangenthal lay-u- p that gave Clearfield its first shots to keep the game close for Clearfield. Clearfield did close the gap to 3 with 1:51 left but thats when Dixon broke loose of a Clearfield trap and went the full length of the That was the court for a lead. key in the end, said Clearfields Robbie Trujillo cracked the Lan- - Hansen, We had Dixon, but he cer scoring jinx and finally scored broke loose and gave them another his teams first points of the third three point lead. Clearfield pulled to within one quarter with 3:51 left. Layton got ' one more time, but aggressive inside for a period of point, time as Stan Banks, Trujillo, Dixon ' Layton scored four more points to and Ngai Steverson helped take a 7 lead with only seconds Layton to a 8 lead at the end of remaining. three stops. d It could have been a Chappell hit two quick jumpers score, said Hansen, But our to start the final quarter but Clearkids battled back and kept it close. field played tough and never quite But you have to give Layton allowed Layton to slip totally credit, they played well and deaway. Brad Larsen mailed two served to win. three-poi- nt 64-6- lay-u- p. , 68-6- 7, 72-6- 52-4- . lop-side- Larsen brothers driven By KEITH DUNCAN Brad and CLEARFIELD Bracken Larsen have a lot in common which isnt hard to do when youre brothers. But one thing they share which has nothing to do with being in the same family, is a com- make a formitable challenge for their competition. Such was the case on Jan. 9th when the Clearfield Falcons opened league play at Roy. The Larsen brothers, the two starting guards, combined for 31 points and were instrumental in helping their team upset Roy on their home-cour- t. petitive drive that brings out the best in each of them. Their first week league performTheir best, which is usually disance some proved to be no fluke as last on a on Friday night played both netted 18 high school basketball gymnasium Friday night they even the team fell though One points is floor, beating other Region basketball teams with some heads short in its attempt to beat Layton. The two brothers, who get along up performances from the guard line they seem to have mastered well together and appear to support each other, just take what they well. Brad is the senior guard and get and arent selfish according Bracken, the junior, is his partner to their coach, Craig Hansen. "They compliment our team on the guardline. Together they well, said Hansen. They may be our two leading scorers after a couple of league games, but we didnt design it that way. They just have taken what has been given to them and made the best of it. Bracken, now averaging 20 points per game in league play and Brad, with a 13.5 average, have the ability to put in the long outside jumper which equals three points s. Both of them are nailthree point shot at least 50 ing the time. the of percent Bracken as a sophomore played some varsity basketball and today starts on the guardline with his old- now-a-day- Continued on next page tUPPERJIM Clearfields Derek Freeman battles against Laytons Rod Dixon and Stan Banks for two points. Layton won the game 74-6- f HASKETT 9. : i |