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Show Sporfsfacular Thursday, November Jtej&Bm sunders by Bliss Fullmer Coach Ernie Jacklin was dejected as he made the long trek to the Roy locker room after a devastating defeat at the hands of the Bonneville Lakers his fifth loss in as many games in Region One play. The Royals lost six of their eight games this year. It was Coach Jacklins first losing season as a head coach in his illustrious coaching career. Bonneville bombed the Royals and did it without the services of superstar Marv Ellis who was injured. Ellis suffered a shoulder separation, but had mended sufficiently to day in the Roy game, but Coach Thom Budge wisely kept him out of the lineup. The Lakers had to prepare for their game against East High School, and figured they could beat Roy without kicking a 45 yard field goal, and then Sylvestor hit Gilbert Ballingham with a couple of touchdown passes to lead Roy 17-- 7 at halftime. The Lakers scored three times in the third quarter on touchdown jaunts of three and ten yards by Mike Smith and a one yard run by Brent Cundick. Junior Jeff Fowler capped of the Laker scoring with a 26 yard touchdown run in the final quarter. Rickard booted six 3 , 1979 Page 13 Hoshngj sqsjsodv sfit they scored in two plays to lead Hie Lakers moved on to meet East in a playoff game at Washington Terrace. The Royals turned in their uniforms with the 20--6. In the fourth quarter, quarterback Gary Anderson handed off to Paul Hansen, who rifled a pass to Ken Tulane for six. Again the Royals failed on the two point conversion and trailed Roy had a couple of opportunities for catchup football in the waning minutes, but credit the Laker defense for halting the Royals to preserve their unbeaten season. Roys sophomores rallied in the fourth quarter to score twice in a win over the challenge, WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR. 12 Bonneville J.V. 20-R- The Laker of Juniors Washington Terrace established 20-1- championship rights of Region One by turning back their counterparts from Roy with two touchdowns and two field goals, and won the game Bonneville scored on first consecutive P.A.T.S, and was credited with nine Laker points. Roy scored its first touchdowns possession, and scored from on passes to Brad McCaulley, eight yards out but Roy answered Mitch Brown and Chris Jensen, with a double pass from Ken who scored on a 75 yard pass play Huddleston to Paul Hansen from from quarterback Bert Rich. the Laker 30. The Lakers booted, Rich had good passing success the P.A.T., and led 6 at halftime in hitting McCualley with four because the Royals missed on a t aerials, Brown with six, Mike conversion attempt. Allison and Jim Bertagnolli with In the third quarter Bonneville Ellis. two each, and Willard Cragun drove deep but had to settle for a Cory Sylvester came up with and Ken Huddleston with one 30 yard field goal, and led 10-- In his best game of the season in each. the same period, the Lakers leading his Lakers to 395 total Cory Sylvestor completed 10 of intercepted a Roy pass on the 30 21 passes for 119 yards, and two yards and 45 big points. Bonyard line, and kicked another neville had 267 rushing yards, touchdowns. His favorite target field goal when the Royal defense was Gilbert Ballingham. Bonand passed for an additional stopped them on the 20 yard line. neville picked up 20 first downs in The last Bonneville score came yards to completely annihilate the Royals. The Lakers started passing and rushing, and made after the Lakers blocked a Roy out slowly, with Ted Rickard shambles of the Roy defense. punt on the four yard line, and 45-1- 1 20-1- come-from-behi- previously unbeaten tenth-grade- rs of Bonneville High. The 0 for the final score was Royals. Bonneville scored on a 31 yard field goal by Steve Draney in the first quarter, and Roy answered with a pass to Eric Aragon, coming out of the backfield to go Next the Lakers drove ahead from midfield and scored on an eight yard pass play to Kyle Bosgeiter to take a 10-- 6 lead at halftime for Bonneville. The third quarter proved to be a defensive standoff, with neither team able to punch the ball in. With 5:49 left to be played in 18-1- 7-- two-poin- 6-- the game, the Royals stopped Bonneville on the Roy 21 yard line, and moulted a surge that gave them a touchdown with 3:26 left to be played. The big gainer was a 30 yard pass to Lance Jorgenson, and Gary Ashley stutter stepped in from ten yards out fur the T.D. The Lakers tried desperately to get back in the ball game and went to the air. Bart Hadley ducked off a Laker pass in the flat and raced 27 yards for the clinching Royal touchdown. By beating Bonneville, the Royals captured a piece of the region championship. Sky View beat Roy last week, and had previously been beaten by Bonneville, which, until Tuesday, was undefeated. The three teams, in sharing the league title, gave a preview of things to come in the next two years of football in Region One. There were many Royal heroes in Tuesdays game, but Eric Aragon was credited with M. V.P. honors by his coaches and teammates. His second effort running, especially in the fourth quarter, kept the drive alive for Roys go ahead touchdown. MARVIN ELLIS bursts through big hole for valuable yardage against East last Saturday. The Lakers won the playoff game and now advance into the state quarterfinals at the University of Utah. BONNEVILLES 'jf. beat East High School in a playoff game at Washington Terrace, Saturday, Bonneville 17-1- 4 but had to come from behind to do it. The Lakers stalled on their initial series and missed on a field goal attempt, but on their second penetration, Ted Rickard chipped one through the uprights to take an early 0 lead over the Leopards. East came back in the 3-- second period and invaded Laker territory on a reverse pass back to the quarterback. The play gave the Leopards first and ten on the Bonneville twenty-thre- e and they scored on the next play on a pass into the corner of the end zone. East took a 3 lead to the halftime locker room. The Leopards scored again, early in the third quarter, when Nolan Maxfield intercepted one 7-- Sylvestors passes, and yards to give East a advantage. The Lakers scored their first touchdown with 3:13 left to be played in the third quarter, and went for a conversion and niissed. The touchdown was set up on an East fumble on the Leopards 23 yard line, and in five plays, the Lakers got their touchdown, with Marvin Ellis running of Cory romped 70 14-- 3 two-poi- the last three yards. Ellis scored again, on a 22 yard run, with 8:44 left in the game, and the Laker defense got stingy and protected its 4 lead to the gun. Bonneville should have won easily over the Leopards. The Lakers rushed for 171 yards on 42 17-1- r carries, while holding the Leopards to just 17 yards on 17 carries. East completed 7 of m passes for 81 yards, which computed to 98 total yards for the Leopards. Cory Sylvestor connected on 6 of 13 yards for 59 yards, and the Lakers registered 230 total yards. Bonneville, by virtue of its playoff win over East, will meet Brighton High! 'School, at the University of Utah in the state quarter finals. |