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Show Fee age nnn atere meee a tape enenna Boe ypemap c10* ei pheryey prea: The Salt Lake Tribune FOOTBALL Sunday, June 24, 2001 PREP ALL-STAR FOOTBALL GAMES Lightning — Trulock’s 2 TD passes propel 3-A Defensive score marks only points in strange win for 5-A All-Stars BY JAY DREW ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE BY JAY DREW WEST JORDAN — fierce lightning storm did not get Lehi quarterback Sam Trulock going Saturday night. The 30-minute delay the bolts caused did thetrick. ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE WEST JORDAN — After going against the 5-A’s defense all week in practice, Brighton running back Derek Smith figured that unit After throwing twofirst-half in- would score at least one touchdown in the annual Utah Football Coaches Association terceptions, Trulock used the weatherdelay to calm himself, and he threw a pair of second-half touch- All-Star football game Saturday night. Hejust did not figure he would be the guy scoring it, or that it would be the game's only down passes to lead the Class 3-A All-Stars to a 13-7 win overthe 2-A at touchdown. Smith, pressed into defensive duty for the West Jordan High. “T was little rattled atfirst, for some reason,”said Trulock, whowill first time since his junior season,int apass and stepped 3 yards into the end zone to give the 5-A All-Stars a 7-0 win overthe 4-A in play for Gavilan Junior College in Gilroy, Calif. “I had to settle down oneofthe strangest games in this long series. “Tt was awesome.I still can’t believe it happened that way,” Smith said. “I dropped and let my receivers make some plays.” Those would be Snow Canyon’s back in my coverage, andall of a sudden, the Kason Gubler and Union’s Kevin Blackwell. Gubler caught a 25-yard trike from Trulockto tie the score in ball is in my hands.Itis like he threw it right tome.” The score game with 11:28 remaining in the third quarter, and Blackwell caught the game-winner, a 44-yard touchdown pass on a fourth-down playwith 8:27 left in the game. “T told Blackwell, ‘Keep streaking, if | have time. They are not going to stop the streak because they will be looking for the outpattern,’ ” Trulock the fourth quarter after the 5-A had a fieldgoal attempt blocked, but managed to pin the 4-A onthe 5-yard line. Timpview quarterback le Cooper musthave never seen Smith on the screen pass. Smith’s interception was the fourth of the game for the 5-A defense. Later, Layton’s Jonny Adams gothis secondinterception and said. Class _5-A quarterback and offensive by«NeClntPayofPayoon 6 won the - 7-0 on a defensive’ 's ‘arty ayson. 5-i the defense’s sixth turnover. Blackwell got the 3-A defensive MVPaward(healso had an interception) and Lehi’s Chad Smith, The Salt Photos by Danny La/TheSalt Lake Tribune Neither Smith nor Adams got the defen- sive MVP award, however. That went to Class 3-A’s Dominic Lewis (85) of Carbongets drilled by 2-A’s Brett Northridge’s Jesse Johnson, who had an inLake Tribune 3-A MVP after leading Albrect of Beaver. The 3-A all-stars defeated 2-A 13-7 Saturdayat terception and some nice open-field tackles. the Pioneers to the state champion- WestJordan High School. Viewmont quarterback Travis Henderson, ship, got the 3-A offensive MVP whohas signed with Snow College, was the award, South Summit sweptthe 2-A MVP honors, as GaryRichinsgot the defensive player of the game award and quarterback Travis Miller was theoffensive MVP. Miller threw a beautiful 35-yard touchdownpassto Tribune 2-A MVP Travis Shumway to give the 2-A a 7-0 lead, and the smaller-schoolstars appeared ready to repeat the 18-6 whipping theylaid on the 3-A last year. But 3-A coach Steve Clements of Lehi delivered a relatively fiery halftimespeech, and his guys responded. “We ‘were playing patty-cakes with them, especially on theline,” Clements said. “But give 2-A credit. They had just 22 guys. We just happened to make one morebig play than they did.” Miller, 2-A’s only quarterback, drovehis club deep into 3-A territory games the 3-A has won thecontest that the 2-A has traditionally taken more seriously. The 3-A also won in 1996 and 1998. several timesin the secondhalf. Buta Class 3-A 13, Class 2-A7 coupleof turnovers,including a fumble on the 5-yard-line, doomed drives. Defensively, Granite’s Matthew against a stingy 4-A defense led by MVP Colt Sampson of Pleasant Grove and Reno Fonua of! Gessa 007ei 2-A—Travis Shumway 35 pass from Travis Miler (Cole -A—Kason Gubler 25 pass from Sam Thuock (Kevin Blackwell kick) 3-A—Blackwel 44 pas from Trulock (hickfaied) Byrd shined for the 3-A and San Juan’s Brett Burtenshaw made some outstandingplays on bothsides ofthe ball for the 2-A. 5-A’s offensive MVP. Henderson had some long runs and threw a long pass to Northridge’s Ali Prathan, but could never get the 5-A into the end zone ee thought it was going to be easy to score onthem,” Hendersonsaid. “Obviously,it was not.” Lightning and a suddenrain storm caused the 3-A/2-A gameto be delayed, but the 4A and5-A all-stars could not blamethe weather for the low-scoring game. By the time they kicked off at about 8:15 p.m., the field was “That was a tough game,” said Le- hi’s Smith, “The 2-A team wasbetter kins, Logan's Todd Nyman and West's Singe, Tlowall made big plays to stop drives. —~ “It is hard to make an offense click five. “I was not surprised by the score atall.” « Class 5-A7, Class 4-A0 Casa5A CasatA &-Ar-DerakSm9 interception retun (Wyatt KennahKick) than we expected them to be.” It was only the third time in eight SKYZ D aaf » | yourvoB is 2 YOUR CREDIT ROR eta EVERY APPLICATION ACCEPTED OF YOUR PAST CREDIT HISTO FTRaeAc FeLL Te eMaL All discounted with ie CT Eu ISK FOR JAY j| . SKYZ ene Err tari Camp |