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Show I )' I Ben Lomond Beacon, Feb. 16, 1978, Page 6 Ho hum! I J. Weber loses number By Dave Cardwell Beacon Sports Weber Highs gym was packed to capacity with nothing less than standing room only fans chanting for their favorite team. But who was the favorite team?, the undefeated Weber Warriors whose record of 0 gave them the number one rating in Utah basketball? or the upset minded Roy Royals who were previously rated fourth in State and lost by one point to Weber earlier in the season? There was one thing contingent in everyones mind; it was to be a very hard fought, low scoring game with maybe even a few tempers giving way in the heat of the battle. Hard fought it was not and no tempers flew. The play by the Warriors was not that of a team rated in state, let alone rated first; while Roy appearing to make Weber look bad, only played, in my estimates, an average game. The first quarter of play was the only quarter the Warrior fans could cheer in. It was here that Steve Trawick, Webers forward, from 20 feet out, scored two of his 15 points giving Weber their only But it wasnt long before Roy regained the lead, never lead, again to relinquish it, on a layup shot by Roys Jeff Sholtec. At the first period stop it was Roy 15, Weber 12. The second period was Webers nightmare and Roys day dream come true. Weber only converting on one of seven shots for 15 per cent from the field and connected on four of seven from the line, was outscored by the Royals 20 points to six. At the half Roy had a commanding lead, The third period of play started by finding Roy in serious foul trouble. The Royals had two starters, Fred Fernandes, and Jeff Sholtec with three fouls against them and a third foul was called against Sindle with only 30 seconds expired into the period. Even with this advantage, Weber could only convert five of 13 shots for 38 per cent. Roy not doing much better from the field hit six for 15 for 40 per cent. The difference in the period came from the line, finding Weber connecting on eight of 10 shots, while Roy never made the trip. At the end of the third period, the Warriors managed to pull within 11, but Roy still had a comfortable lead 6 going into the final eight minutes of the contest. The final period again proved to be devastation for the Warriors. Not because they were out played by Roy, rather because they could only connect on three of 17 shots from the field for a dismal 18 per cent. Roy, only shooting eight times from the field, found the bucket on four of those shots for a 50 per cent average. The Warriors did muster up some concentration and managed to pull within seven points of the pesky Roy team and it appeared that Weber had some momentum going for them, but the Warriors committed some serious fouls and the Royals caught them flat footed and vaulted Roy back into a commanding lead as the clock finally ran down ending Webers self inflicted torture. The Weber loss by a score of revived both the Royals and the Falcons of Clearfield chances for a championship in Region one, but both teams still trail the Warriors by one game going into the final three games of the season before playoffs. Weber faces a critical test when they travel to take on Skyview Friday whose doesnt mean a thing when it comes to the home court record of needs to remember one thing, Skyview has Weber advantage. knocked off Roy and is very willing to do the same thing to already them. Roy should be victorious over the cellar dwelling Lakers of Bonneville High Friday, and if so, and the Warriors lose to Skyview and Clearfield gets by Layton, we could find a three way tie for first place in Region one between these three teams. After the Roy game I asked Weber coach Dick Conolly if the game with Roy was a mental loss or if his team was physically beaten. I think we were physically outplayed because of the mental part. In other words, we werent mentally intense so physically we were a step 10-- WEBER SCORING: Hall-2- , Scadden-2- . , TOTAL-45- . Trawick-15- Montgomery-14- Sindel-14- , ROY SCORING: Sholtec-16- , Nickerson-2- . TOTAL-61- . Manning-8- , , 1 , Thorpe-8- Fernandes-11- , Jensen-4- Nichols-10- , , 4-- A 8-- 2 8-- 7. 35-1- 8. 47-3- 61-4- 5, 5-- f IT APPEARS THAT Dale Stone (23) has his hand on the ball, but Brett Prevedel, left center and Bob Vanderwood right center, both Royal teammates wont give anyone else a chance for the rebound. Roy upset the Warriors late. 61-4- 5. The Warriors will again, ha,e to be at their best to defeat Skyview, because the Bobcats are always tough at home, but this shouldnt be any problem for Weber, now that the mental game with Roy is over. Now they can settle down and start playing basketball like we know they can. Wildlife report HOW ARE THEY DOING? Bighorn Transplant Resumed The Division of Wildlife Resources resumed desert bighorn sheep transplants on February 7, 1978, after poor weather conditions postponed the program in late January. This is the third and final year for this segment of a long-terprogram to introduce bighorn sheep into specific areas of the Escalante River drainage. The parent population inhabits areas on the east side of Lake Powell south of Canyonlands National Park. This stock is substantial, and taking individuals from it will not adversely affect the population. In Utah, desert bighorn sheep are found generally in bands of 5 to 30 animals along the Colorado and lower Green rivers and their drainages. This winter the sheep have been more scattered than normal; and this, along with heavy fog in the area, has extended the time Division personnel expected to spend on the project. Heavy snows and fog may continue to hamper operations. The program is a long-tercooperative effort by the Division, the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service. The program will eventually fill many areas of suitable habitat along the Colorado River and its tributaries with bighorn populations. In 1975 and 1976, 16 sheep were put into the Escalante River drainage. The 12 that will be introduced this year will complete this phase of the longterm program. Five sheep, four females and one male, had been relocated this year before conditions caused postponement of the project. Colored collars have been put on all the relocated animals. Some of these sheep were equipped with radic collars, a couple of which are still working. The collars help Division employees follow the movements and determine production of the animals in the new area. The animals transplanted in 1975 and 1976 have intermingled with one another. Ewes from both transplant segments have been seen traveling in the same bands, and both have had young. Two ewes have been lost this year; one died when the dart, containing the immobilizing drug, hit the animal in the flank penetrating the abdominal cavity; the other was stress related. This second ewe had been transported to the release site in the evening. The next morning when biologists checked the area, they found the sheep dead. An autopsy, by the veterinarian on the project, revealed she had severe pneumonia and emphysema ; the stress of capture had been fatal in her weakened condition. Transplants are made for various reasons. This transplant program will provide populations of bighorn sheep in habitat suitable to support them, but which is not presently being utilized by the species. Crapple and Walleye at W illard Bay The latest in crappie fishing is that one can never be sure when it will be the fishing success at Willard Bay became good. In mid- - to very sporadic. Some days it will be really good with a bucketful of fish as the prize; other days there will be no fish in the creel. There has been no ice at Willard Bay this year, and it will most likely remain ice free. Anglers have been catching crappie at both the north and south ends of the bay from boats and shore. Yellow, red, blue and green jigs used with a bubble work best to catch these panfish. The same lures, sans bubble, will catch small walleye in the south marina. The big walleye, familiar to seasoned anglers, are not being caught at this time; most of the harvested walleye are averaging less than f pound. Because there is no ice, it is hard to tell when the fish will be moving Into the area in great numbers. Biologists believe fishing will improve in early March when the temperature of the water rises. late-Januar- one-hal- 6 J.V. and sophomores The Bountiful Sophomore team and the Clearfield Junior Varsity team got back their winning ways last week and virtually assured themselves of the best league records for 1978. Weber High also won two sophomore games to improve in the standings as all the Junior Varsity teams posted 1 records in play last week. In sophomore action it was Bountiful by 10 over Bonneville and by 8 over Clearfield, Weber defeated Viewmont Layton by 15 and Roy defeated Roy by about 10 and will play a make-ugame this week with Layton; Clearfield won over SkyView and SkyView defeated Bonneville by about 10. In Junior Varsity 8 action on Tuesday it was Roy over Viewmont, SkyView over Clearfield, Layton 9 over Weber over Bonneville. and Bountiful over Friday it was Weber Roy, Bonneville over Sky View by about 10, Clearfield over Bountiful by 15 and Viewmont over Layton. (The scores are not easy to come by). In action this week, Friday, 17 February, has Viewmont at Bountiful, Weber at SkyView, Bonneville at Roy and Clearfield at Layton. Next Tuesday, February 21, has SkyView at Viewmont, Bonneville at Weber, Roy at Clearfield and Bountiful at Layton. The final league games next Friday has Viewmont at Bonneville, Gearfield at Weber, Bountiful at Roy and Layton at SkyView. The Utah State 4A tournament begins at the University of Utah Special Events Center on Monday, March 6, with sixteen teams of the 22 4A schools competing. First round bracketing would seem to favor the team finishing second in Region One as the first and third place teams are bracketed for second round action and will be in the satne bracket as Region Three second place and Region Two 75-4- 78-3- p 49-4- 8 64-4- 66-6- 4 73-5- 72-4- 0 64-5- 7 82-7- 6 first place. Region Three second place will probably b Olympus who recently Highland. defeated first place JEFF SCHOLTEC, Roy Highs premier center, got into foul trouble 16 but still Weber in of scored the High. points early Royals thrashing Scholtec is the leading scorer in Region One. photo by Glen Adams Viewmont wins mat title Warriors place third Viewmont High School racked up 2 points last Thursday evening to capture the 1978 Region One wrestling championship hosted by Layton High School. The two day meet which began on Wednesday, saw many outstanding performances turned in by the grapplers. The Vikings posted the victory with arch rival Bountiful finishing second with 126 points and the surprisingly tough Weber High team finishing close behind in third place with 122 Webers nothing but outpoints. standing Russ Campbell in the 160 1 138-pou- bracket, was named the tournaments most outstanding in- dividual Wrestler. Sky Views Rod Housley, won the meets sportsmanship award. Housley was the sixth place finisher in the division. Finishing in fourth position with 113 points, was Layton followed by Sky View with 77 points in fifth place. The rest of the meets finishers were, Bonneville with 53, followed by Clearfield 51 and Roy with 35'. Viewmont had one of its wrestlers finishing in the top five in virtually every weight category, but was pressured by the performances of Bountiful and Weber going into the finals thursday evening. The top five finishers in each weight meet division qualify for the State scheduled February 16 through the 18th at the University of Utah. The sixth place finishers at 98, 132, and 138 pounds and in the unlimited division from Region One also qualified for the tournament. State The individual winners in each of the weight divisions were: Rodney Merrill, Bountiful, 98 poinds; Shane Sweatfield, Viewmont, 105 pounds; Ned Jackson, Weber, 112 pounds; 4-- A Dave Shulberg, pounds; pounds; pounds; pounds; pounds; pounds; Viewmont, 119 Billy Dugmore, Layton, 126 Ron Merrill, Bountiful, 132 Russ Campbell, Weber, Gary Singleton, Weber, Paul Mower, Sky View, Wayne Kittrell, Layton, pounds; John 138 145 155 167 pounds 1. 2. -- (SV). ( 138 pounds - 1. Russ Campbell W) ; 2. Dave Bradshaw (Bonn.); 3. Rich Grindstaff (Bount.); 4. Mark Preece (V); 5. Mike Jones (C); 6. Gary Norman (SV). 145 pounds 1. Gary Singleton (W); 2. Todd Overton (V); 3. John (Bount.); 4. Herman Martinez (C); 5. Jim Anderson (SV). 155 pounds 1. Paul Mower (SV); 2. John Hansen (V); 3. Wade George (Bount.); 4. Brett Rhode (W); 5. Bill Schumcer (C). 167 pounds - 1. Wayne Kittrell (L); 2. Jay Shupe (W); 3. Ron Jensen (SV); 4. Ron Sanders (R); 5. Mike Warner (Bount.). 185 pounds 1. John Beddingfield (V); 2. Ron Hammer (Bount.); 3. Mark Storey (W); 4. Doug Littlefield (L); 5. Alex Jensen (SV). -- Lud-dmgt- -- Unlimited 1. Dean Layton (Bount.); 2. Clint Farmer (R); 3. Reed Smith (V); 4. Chuck Ehin (L); 5. Tracy Cartwright (SV); 6. Lanny Nelson (Bonn.). Beddingfield, Viewmont, 185 pounds; Dean Layton, Bountiful, unlimited. The Warriors will send nine of their grapplers to the State Meet along with Layton who qualified nine. Viewmont, Bountiful and Sky View will each send 10 of their best while Clearfield will send eight. Bonneville and Roy each qualified four men for the state meet. Weber High has had a very successful wrestling year in the Region and should do well in the state tournament. The top meet finishers in each weight division are as follows: 98 Kurt Gallegos (C); 3. Jay Lance Olsen (L); 5. Grant Ellis (W); 6. Van Crittenden (R). 105 pounds - 1. Shane Sweatfield (V)- ; 2. Kurt Gallegos (L) 3. Kelly Chambers (SV) ; 4. Greg Hipwell (R) ; 5. Peter Srisaad (C). 112 pounds 1. Ned Jackson (W); 2. Lowell Gunderson (Bonn.); 3. Larry Stott (L); 4. Brian Moore (V); 5. Alden Brunson (C). 119 pounds - 1. Dave Shulberg (V); 2. Mike Morris (W) ; 3. Byron Weaver (L); 4. Dale Lindley (SV); 5. Paul Lawrence (Bount.). 126 pounds - 1. Billy Dugmore (L); 2. Jim Shupe (SV); 3. Bruce Finch (W)- ; 4. Paul Taylor (Bount.) 5. Allen Reagan (C). 132 pounds-1- . Ron Merrill (Bount.) 2. Dave Klecker (C); 3. Tony Berger (V); 4. Kevin Brooks (Bonn.); 5. Kerry Hansen (L); 6. Rod Housley (Bount.); Snow (V); 4. Rodney Merrill RUSS CAMPBELL, was named the meets most outstanding wrestler. individual |