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Show cll The Salt Lake Tribune PREP FOOTBALL Sunday, November i, 1998 Hunter Continues to Roll PREP FOOTBALL PLAYOFF PAIRINGS No. 1 Wolverinespull awayfrom upset-minded Hawks BY KURT KRAGTHORPE THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE chanted “Eat inthe last couplele of minutes, even though coach John bourne said the Wol- WEST VALLEY CITy — larters verines were not especially afternoon, Alta motivated by the comments For nearly Saturday coach Mil your words!” of Lunak and Alta receiver Bennett Norton. “I don’t think that came junak seemed to know whathe was ao about. Having claimed that was “excited hel” a meet No. 1-1ranked Hunter into play,”said Lambourne, whose team lost to Alta in last November's guarterfi nals, “ ids have bi tapltations ‘tha that. yant more than just a i vengefactor." Leg of Lunak, meanwhile, would That was fore Hunter the same things again broke loose with two touch- say “I'm a winner, ann I want down in the final min- mykids to know I'm a damn winner,” he said. “We're going to be around ‘next year, maybe at Hunter. ie Wolverines have a week to take care of some ute of the third period, on aoasar victory. else, ae me oa caabng i esting & freon alhup of an undefeated 1 champion and a team had to win a ion le. breaker game, The avid newspaper readers among rarelasepenalties before facil Otherwise, thelrphyical, wearing ap- Sin £2gpaa quarter, Hunter drove 65 Hillcrest 6 35, Keams 16 Yardsina plays—ast — and irterbackJasonReilly hitRonald Tupea with an 18-yard touchdown pass. Having scored twofirst-half touchdowns, Hunter’s David Fiefia then intercepted a pass, leading to Reilly's 17-yard {7-3), TD passto Carson Driffill Northridge (9-4) at Jordon (9-4), TBA Alta was pretty much Da(05) ot Huan (100) done, having never found a CLASS 4-A PLAYORRS reliable way to move the ball, except for Eric Moyer's two TD passes to Chad Anderson. And Lunak was impressed. “What a good football team Hunter is," he said. the biggest and most physical I've seen,’ ‘Leading 14-7 in the third LEHI — Sick ofall the tricks Dix wae accaving in Saturday's nightmarish Class-A. football playoff game with Lehi, Flyers defensive back Brecken Cox > TRA Snow Canyon (8-2) at Bear River (7. decidedit was time to delivera treat. Dose (£8)ot Noth Sonpete 7-8) As Lehi running back Detta (6-3) at Cedar City (9-4) Coby Wilson was barrelling Emery (58)of Uriah (90) to the endzoneat the end of a 28-yard catch-and-run with just 1:20 remaining, Cox nailed the big fullback head on, causing a fumble. Dixie's T.J, Harper pounced on the loose ball at the 8yard-line, andthe Flyers escaped with a 14-8 win Happy Halloween, Pioneers “Yeah,I felt like I had to Dates, Times, TRA Mitord (8-2) at Grants(9-4) make a play, but that wasn't Kanab (8-2) at San Juan (10-0) the play of ‘the game. Hell Grand (6-4)at South Summit (7-3) no,” said Cox.“I just got my Mant (7-3) at Millard (10-0) helmeton theball. He had it Note — sticking out a bit, and it poppedoutofthere.” In all likelihood, however, At8) Bunter (10-0) t eet oreen 11 138 H-Fllmoesty run (Causing Wek) ‘Anderson 14 pass from Moyer (kick filed) MustangsTaketo the Air Clearfield Dominates West Jordan In Romp Over Leopards BY JAKE WHARTON THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE CLEARFIELD — The Clearfield Falcons slowly but Bowe e it up toa West Jorndelage jaguars AG West a Class 5-A contest Satury. The Falcons left little dete that for the playoffs, offense and defense Kicked it into high gear. Clearfield ru back Scott Jones seorea five times and r 109 yards. The Falcons oh up the offensive numbers of a ee . e ioe Clearfield lool form despite ne top injury to backike rojcie- Showa He return for et weak's game against Hillcrest to add to an already punishingbackfield Defensively, the Falcons shut down every Jaguar drive. Sacking the West Jordan quarterback four times and forcing four turnovers helped. Nick Anderson led the defensive unit with 11 tackles, two sacks and a fumble recovery. At the only point when West Jordanlooked to make a run,trailing 28-10, the Falcon defense removed all doubt. After Tyler Strain returned to openingkickoff of the second half the Clearfield 45-yard line, the Jaguar offense droveto the 10. Linebacker Micah Hendersonintercepted a Don Dunn pass on the 5. The 32-point deficit going into the fourth eetook the fight out of the Ja, “They cameout with a big drive to open the secon helf that we picked off. It may have been a whole differentballgameif we hadn't stopped them,” sald Clearfield coach Randy Johnson The next gameforthe Falcons against Hillcrest is a rematch of a gameearlier in the year, which the Huskies won. Clearfield left room for improvement Saturday with two early turnovers, which could be morecostly against Hillcrest. West Jordan 270 oe Seas WFO bao 34 idtucy WRG Jo s | rin Habs ct) arDen Soaact Gao : Sprague trom Donaline 4 pam (Hambio Cones 2 run ambit) Nebekar2 run15 rus ambi (Start Habis Kick Mountain View’s Defense Stops Viewmont BY SCOTT BELL SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE OREM — The panied of excellence has become awfu high at monatsis View e past few Utne Eesinrewii ped Viewmont 38-7 Saturday in ir Class 5-A first-round Divot game,but afterward anyone want sat was how poorly they layed. Of course, after rolling up more than 100 points and 1,000 yards in their lasttwo r-season games, Sat- urday's output of 296 yards Brawas subpar for the like we were kind of lackadaisical”* Bruin quarterback Casey Rehrer tai. "We still scored, but our reads weren't there. We'vegot to playa lot ron next week to beat Skyline Mountain View will play host to the three-time de- fending state championthis weekin a battle between two ofthe state's hottest teams. le the Bruin offense has been causing coaches around the state duress of late, the defense dominated this’ game. Mountain View limited the Vikings to 205 total yards, while picking off three passes and recovering a pair of fumbles. “The turnovers were definitely the key, because we didn’t have to go very far to score,” Mountain View coach RandyRehrersaid. "I don’t knowif we could have ay. The Vikings lost turnovers on four of their six first-half possessions and turned the ball over on downs on another. The farthest Mountain View had to drive for anyofits four firsttouchdowns was 56 While the Bruins’ offense BYJAY DREW THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE grisea| faacould carry them a ip 8 14 " Ryad) ‘Otc ai Cocke Cy44Tocobe ‘trom Reilly) om fe PLAYOFFS the Hunter student body Dixie Puts Big Hit on Lehi its defense, the Vikings were stuck in neutral. They only advanced into Mountain View territory twice in the first half and nevergotclose toscoring “We had a breakdown here andthere,but our defense really stepped up and controlled a really good backfield,” Randy Rehrer said Casey Rehrer did most of his damage on the ground, running nine times for 62 yards and three touchdowns. He completed 5-ofees 12 for 64 yards. es) 0601 Necautew Weta O38 MyRate8fun ct) Fairbanks 9 pes from Rebrer(Hendersoa Vere ra Gente bet MYSt ran ender Hooper | ra (Hansen bic) CLASS 4-A HYRUM — Travis Cox only threw 16 passes, but he connected on 12 of them for 302 passing yards and four touchdowns to lead Mounin Crest to a 44-3 firstroundClass 4-A playoff win Saturday over visiting East. ee of Cox's TD passes went to Dan Robinson, who had 6 catches for 176 yards. Jordan Perry had six carri for 86 yards,including a 68 yardse MikeRichardson had 16 fackles. to lead the Mus- Be aye eases Mesaancret st) 314-4 X Robin 1ps ton Cox Barats) MBM TG 4Mfeyun Hoi 6 from Coxd (Balin et) 4Olen rou Co(wae) Ae35 he Fawson returned an interception 70 yardsfor a touchdown and a punt 68 yards for another score as No. 2ranked Grantsville pummeled Duchesne43-0 in a 2A playoffgame. State career touchdown leader Alan Mouritsen upped his totalto 74 with three TDs,including a 71-yard punt return Grantsville had 212 yards in punt returns and held Duchesne to eight yards rushin; Mouritsen, who rushed nine for 58 yards and ae times didnt play in; thee second half, scoredon a 6-yard TD Tun after his brother, Karl Mouritsen, returned an interception 19 yards, Daehn. Coser ison ih aMt119 np eete San Juan 49 Beaver 0 BLANDING — Jimmy Johnson ran for a 3-yard touchdown and a two-point conversion, and threw a two-point conversion and had 178 as No. 1Fanked San Juan blew out Beaver 49-0 in a 2-A tourney e. Jason Lee also scored two TDs for San Juan, including oneon an 88-yardpass from Johnson. Bearer (3-6) San Juan 1 ‘Johnson South Summit 33 Parowan 7 KAMAS — Brody Lewis rushed six times for 135 yards and three touchdowns and caught a touchdown pass to pace South Summit to a 33-7 first-roundplayoff win over ParowanSaturday. South Summit, by a coin flip, earned the right to host Grand next week on Saturday at 1 p.m., barring bad weather. Lewis, a sophomore, was starting in place of Brock Johnson, who played sparingly. Parowaa (44) oor7 em2) fey ed to Hddhick Slane pom Baum ae) SLewis 3run (McEntire bik) 43 ‘Sew 25 run (Piper run) Duchesne 0 Powel 8 pam from Cody Oki (artey y GRANTSVILLE — Chris ru) ‘Laws 8 run (Palmer ict) it won the ugly, penaltyfilled gamefor Dixie (6-5), which moves on to play North Sanpete next week Lehi (7-3) had moved the ball and seemed poised to pull off a mild upset. “J feelpretty lucky,” said Dixie coach Mike Smith. “We finally got a break.” The breaks wereas plentiful as lolipops in a trick-ortreat bag in this contest — for both sides. Dixie had two touchdownscalled back because of penalties on one drive — directly after getting a controversial TD. Lehi’s Layth Christofferson appearedto have picked off Dixie quarterback Lance Pendleton in the end zone. However, Dixie's Josh Adams wrested part of the ball from Christofferson after the Lehi DB had fallen to the ground, andtheofficial signaled touchdown, ruling that simultaneous ‘possession goes to the offensive Player The TD and subsejuent two-point conversion — kicker Richard Hor- lacher's pass to Cox on a fake PAT — gave Dixiea 14. lea Iwad eliner outball or offensive pass interference,” said Lehi coach Steve Clements. ‘\ downwith the ball Lehi led 2-0 at halftime. thanks to Kolby Fisher’ sack of Pendleton, and held the Flyers to 61first-half yards Dixie's Pendleton, who leads the state in passing with 2,201 yards, was just 2for-8 for nine yards in the first half and fidished just6. of-15 for 97 yarda Lehi’s Justin Libberton fumbled on the second play of the second half, however, and Pendleton struck with a 35-yard TD pass to Cody \e state's fasterplayer.After a Lehi unt, Dixie got the disput yarder. {rom Pendleton (Cox past "(rex ps res Cooper (fed) Emery ‘No-Names’ Stun Morgan BY MEGANCROTTY Er THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE MORGAN — If football had nothing to do with heart, Emery probably wouldn't have beaten Morgan 26-21 Saturday on the sud in a Class 3-A playoff tle “We don't have the best Players in thestate,” coach y Jones said. dontfhave all the talent in the world. We're a bunch of no-names, We earned some respect today.” While Morgan (8-2) shined on the ground, rushing for two of its three touchdowns, the Spartans (5-5) succeeded with passing andtough defense. Quarterback Ben Luce was 13-for-22 for 245 yards. Brett Bennett caught 78 yards worth of passes, including a touchdownpass in the second quarter, had two long rushes (15 and 20 yards) and an interception. Brad Stilson caught passes for 69 yards and Emery’s final touchdownand threw a ‘TDpass ofhis own. The Spartans also were impressive on defense, ive a lotof credit to our defense in the second half,’ Jones said. ‘We stopped them, other than [pnel pass pla: ‘Alot of the| ors effort came from tackle Zac Sharpe, whohad a key sack in the third quarter. “He's the best player on ourteam,” Jones said, Emery moves on to play Uintah Saturday. "It doesn't matter who we Play, Jones said. aps the “no-names” a‘pull off anotherupset. rushing and 336 total offense. Ogden was held to 36 yards rushing and 144 passing, the bulk of which was picked up in the fourth quarter. wosy tt Ht “Tearsoat FeStae Henin ; me pteComme Uintah 28 Canyon View 21 VERNAL — Adam Madsen tossed a 25-yard scoring pass to Chris Bushin the final two minutes to lift the Delta 12 No.i-ranked Uintah Utes to Union 7 a 28-21 win overthe Canyon DELTA — Kris Peterson View Falcons Saturday in a ran for two touchdowns, inA Interregion playoff ciuding a 77-yarder on the gam play of the game, as Canyon View drove to the second held off Union 12-7 in Uintah 20 yard-line late in aDelta 3-A playoff game. Peterthe game, but Trevor Ri- son for an 11-yard chins’ intercepted a Rand TD romped run, also in the first Janes pass. Canyon View got quarter, finished with the ball back again after 187 yardsand on19 carries. forcing Uintah to punt. But a quarterback sack sealed Yanon e179 e7 theverdict for the Utes. Dela 3 ) Janes tossed a pair ‘D-Peteron 7 ru (kek oe et 1 run (pam fuled) of touchdown passes to UeD-Petera Berrett 5 run (Blackwell Ket) brother Ryan and also had an 81-yard TD throw. Beau Barker scored twice Bear River 21 for Uintah on runs of 1 and 5 Richfield 0 yards. GARLAND — Scott Chournos had 127 yardson on View (64) 113 22 carries and Brady had 113 yards a13 iSaries as Region 7 cham « beat Richfield BLODin‘‘ tourney game. Bear River V-Janes 20 pase (rom Janes (90 kick) ‘U-Bush 25 pass from Madson (Cranney Rick) hadsot ards of total offel Snow Canyon 27 Skyler Stevens ran for a touchdown and threw for den 6 ST. 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