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Show Sporfstacular Pag 14 Thursday December 3, ) 979 1 Tcgjsss cGonra ffipsti Prep basketball action con- tinuea to get hotter through the cold month of December as teams prime-u- for region races. Just concluded was the revived Laker Classic hosted by Bonneville High and Coach Gary Ahrerson. Assisting Coach Alver-so- n in die organization of the Weber County basketball event, was athletic director, Harry Bur-cbep -- Lakers to take the 1979 a furious by the Laker Calssic title. The Tigers, behind alltournament choices, ODis and Dockery, took a commanding 8 lead into the halftime lockerroom. With the score tied at 12 a piece at the end of one period, ODis Greg 33-1- Dockery started dropping everything in sight and in one stretch helped his Ogden team outscore Bonneville, and were up But the boat Lakers were not 27-1- 6. pkce m Lstop Oasrfc denied in die second half as they outscored Ogden 1 in die third quarter and 19 to 8 in the final stanza. This big surge was led by Cory Sylvester who scored a game high 22 points and was named to team along the with teammate Dan Call. OlDs Dockery, named die tournaments most valuable player, has 14 points for Ogden, while Greg Dockery added 14 more for the Tigers, who wer 34) on the season to that point. Marvin EDiB, whosuffereda cold first half of shooting, came on strong in die second half and ended the game with 13 for the Lakers. In Saturdays game for third place in the Laker Classic, Woods 14-1- 15-- 4 Ogden High held off second-hal- f comeback DAN CALL OUIS DOCKERY CORY SYLVESTER fflC68 Clearfield High turned back Bingham High last Friday on the Falcons new hardwoods The Falcons led by as much as 57-6- . 21 paints three different times in the game but had to douse a furious Miner comeback to take home the win. The scrappy Falcons plain ou thustied the mare talented Miners in die first three quarters of play. They were slapping far loose balk, denying Bingham any. offensive rebounds and playing a strict-typ- Drew Cross edged Weber Skeen notched 22 points for the Warriors while junior Kelly Johnson added 12 and Van Fuller chipped in 11 from outsidse shooting and free throw shooting. Joining the Dockery brothers, Call and Sylvester on the team was Mark of Woods Cross. 57-6- Ear-nsha- w In the tournaments first games, Ogden defeated Weber and Bonneville turned back 68-6- 0 Woods Cross Coach Dick Cooolly mentioned after die Woods dross game, Our team is typicaDy a young team who wll get better with more experience. Woods dross played a zooe defense and this early in the season, that is going to affect any 67-6- team. Were basically a man to man team so of course we play better against man to man because thats what we practice against" GREG DOCKERY Coach Wayne Baker of Woods Cross was elated over the win, The difference was our enthusiastic play and the fact we were so intense. If were not like that we will fall flat on our e defense that had all evening. Bingham Jeff Goringe, who the week before had threw in the winning shot to beat Logan at home, turned in an outstanding game and ended up with 19 points while Scott Wallace added 16 points. Clearfield lacks in height but are making up for it in quickness and speed. Layton beat West 70-6-1 after leading more than half of the game. MARK IARNSHAW |