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DAVIS REFLEX JOURNAL, OCTOBER 31, 1984 Lund Mctwly Responsible Condition Tip-To- p By KEITH DUNCAN Journal Sports - The kids and CLEARFIELD coaches at Clearfield High have every reason to be llying high" these days after winning the 1984 Region One football crown. A 0 gutty win over Roy last Friday gave them at least a chance to share the crown w ith Box Elder as both teams finished league play with 1 records. It was a championship that perhaps wasnt supposed to be in the beginning. 6-- 4-- Raise em high guv s. Its been a number of years since Clearfield football players could officially raise their fingers to denote them No. , Clearfields team captains, Greg Bosman, Dean Porter and Kenny Stoker raise em. 1 CLEARFIELD opened the season with an embarrassment, losing to Viewmont and later by to Davis. No one in their right mind would have picked the Falcons to beat Layton, Bonneville, Weber and Roy all in the same 30-pl- 40-pl- season. Football Crown Ever . By KEITH DUNCAN We did a should have won. helluva job, but still came up short again. I love these kids for that effort and Ill never forget it, said Thompson with tears in his eyes. Journal Sports - CLEARFIELD Friday. Oct. 26 began just like any other normal day, but in the end at least a few hours of that day proved to be an emotional experience probably not to be forgotten by two prep football teams. THE victory, a tough and gritty one, brought a chorus of celebration cries from the Clearfield locker room. One all important drive to open the third quarter was all the offense it took to bring 6-- IT WAS Clearfield and Roy who tangled the afternoon of the 26th. a couple of teams w ho both would 0 home only the second region football championship in Clearfields have given their most personal prized possession to win that foot- 23 year history. Just one drive. Yes, thats what it was. The only difference in this game. Coach Brent Hancock gave his kids a memorable halftime discourse and above all else told his team to get something going in their first drive. ball game. Roy hadnt won all season long under the direction of first year head coach, Fred Thompson. Thompson and his kids wanted to gather some pride, and a win, and put it on the shelf for something to remember for the following JEFF FOLK, one of several season. juniors who start for the Falcons CLEARFIELD'S motivation for winning was spelled out in two words. Region Championship. The Falcon players were not about to now because with one go belly-umore victory they would win the first region championship this school has had since the days of drive. What a tough game again. Ever since the first quarter of the this season, remembered that Bountiful game (some seven quar- ters of football ago), our offensive line hasnt been firing off like we know we can. Somebody in our line helped us remember how long it had been since we had dug in together. I guess we got mad and made things happen in that one drive we scored, said Folk. p Robbie Richeson and his friends in the 1970s. The way the game was played, Thompson thought his kids take the Cats simply because they have too much speed for the Clipper Sports Lakers. Weber at Davis. These two have Some people just never learn once before with the Darts met Duncan Keith friend and my good killing Weber with ease. simply is one of them. Each year he tries to is Davis rolling along with a state the predict the outcome of on the year while the Warrecord football games and each year he at 2 in region play. were riors the gets put back in his place as USUALLY its tough to beat the second best guesser of this newssame team twice in a year but both paper. Keith and I agree its not that tough when you're Davis and the oppoWITHOUT ANY further fanfare is Weber. nent for is then here Keith's predictions the opening round games this Highland at Clearfield. The week, along with mine. First well Rams bring their wishbone to the give you some facts about each northern tip of county to battle a game and then the picks. strong defensive minded Falcon Viewmont at Box Elder. The bunch, they only gave up 40 points Bees won the region crown up in region play. Keith picks the record while the Rams simply because their wishnorth with a Vikes were fourth with a league bone will be too much for the Falmark. You have to keep in mind con defense while take the Highagainst land squad simply because they are though the Vikes were that region in the preseason. Keith much bigger and more physical. BRIGHTON at Olympus. Once says the Bees are tough to beat in them Ci1 takes he so again another matchup of two Brigham while I pick the Vikes because of clubs that have played each other their passing attack will be too already. This could be the best much for the Bees. game of the opening round since both schools have tradition. Keith BONNEVILLE at Woods Cross. likes Olympus because they were The Lakers would have avoided supposed to take state a year ago this matchup but they lost to Box and blew it so they are anxious while take the Titans due to their Elder last week. The Cats are at and second in their league while the passing game. mark up north. Lakers posted a Granger at Hillcrest. .Hillcrest record Bonneville doesnt put a lot of won their region with a into while to don't but board the on sjruggled get Granger they points give up many either. Keith figures the tournament. Keith likes the this is the best Woods Cross team Hillcrest team because they are in in memory so he picks them while I the same bracket as Davis and By DAVE WIGHAM 9-- 3-- 1 2-- 3 1 2-- 0 4-- 3-- 1 1 0 peo- playoffs where Clearfield will host THE DRIVE was given considerable motivation when Dean Porter returned the kickoff all the way to the Roy line. With Craig Carter and Greg Boseman taking Highland in one of eight interregion playoff games, this writer dug out one very good reason why Clearfield rose to the occasion in 84. 35-ya- over from there, the Falcons moved the pigskin to Roys one yard line where Boseman went over for Clearfields only score. The PAT attempt was blocked. Another junior, Vaun Waite commented, The defense played well all night and finally on offense we sucked it up in one drive and punched it in." COACH HANCOCK stated, wasnt pretty but well take As It it. Ive stated before, these kids didn't have a lot of success in the past but our coaching staff didnt give up on them. We chached the people we had and made the best of it. THIS GROUP has been a different kind of kids. If you yelled at them theyd pout and if youd compliment them they didn't know if they could win. The kids had never let themselves go and see what they could do because of their negative past. We still havent seen the best from this group. Hopefully Hancock can get the best from his kids when they host highland this week in the Falcon's first playoff game of 1984. Pick The Winners Dave-Keit- h 4-- But it did happen and now ples attention are turning to the want another shot at the Darts but Ill take Granger in the upset of the day. Like Keith says the Huskies might be looking for the Darts and Mike Wilding and company will sneak up on them. GRANITE at Alta. Alta tied with Hillcrest with a 1 mark and a cotitle in their region while Granite came in fourth in their region at Alta has put some points on the board, 133 in region play, while Granite has given up more than 5-- 2-- theyve scored. Keith picks Alta because of their tradition and Ill take Alta because of their talent. BINGHAM-Tayiorsvill- at e Cot- tonwood. The first two clubs have to playoff with each other early in the week for the rigTit to battle the strong Colts who won the Region Three title. Keith says Cottonwood due to the fact the Colts have a tough team and 1 say even if Bing- ham and Taylorsville combined teams, the Colts would still win. EVERY MORNING One thing about the speed of light, it gets here too early in the morning. Tribune, Chicago -- THE CLEARFIELD kids, af least the seniors, hadn't had much success as juniors and sophomores but they never stopped dreaming they could do the impossible. And thats one good reason why they because they did believe went deep down inside they could win. Jeff Folk, one of the talented juniors on the club noted, When we first started the season, the dream of winning the region title was there even though it was in the back of our minds. 4-- 1, VIEWMONT destroyed us and damper on things but we never stopped coming back, which we ended up doing all season long. it put a Greg, my older brother who played here last season and who has tried to see most of our games, said it wasnt this teams character to be ahead by 20 points. He agrees with me that weve always been a team. Maybe thats called character. hope it come-from-behi- know we haven't got any super-star- s on this team and it was Coach Lund who let us know during the summer that the only way we were going to be successful was to gut it out to the end with nearly every team we played. Of course he said we'd have to be in shape to do that and he motivated us to get in shape and stay in shape." WAITE WAS one who had to stay in shape because of the call to go both ways as a guard on offense and a tackle on defense. Lund, who came to Clearfield High from North Layton Junior High two seasons ago. has been a pleasant addition to the Clearfield football program. People say they enjoy his positive approach and hard work ethics. EVEN AS Clearfield prepared for Highland this week, a game that will surely test the Falcons. Lund commented. We can beat Highland. We beat Woods Cross and Woods Cross beat Highland." d But Lund is also enough and realistic. An example of that was in the beginning of the season when he noticed that he didn't think the Falcons could win more than two games all season. I REALLY thought that because of the seniors performance last year as junior varsity players. But, in the back of my mind. I was optimistic because of the way these kids got after our weight and conditioning program. In the end it paid off for them. All through the season they worked hard in the weight control room and when the last game of the season finally rolled around, everybody was healthy and ready to play. level-heade- THE KEY to the season was beating L aytop I thought. The kids had some memories of last season come back to them after the Davis loss but they gutted it up and beat the Lancers. From there we had enough emotion and drive to beat Weber and Bonneville. "This region isnt the toughest in the state but we proved we were the best ig it along with Box Elder. For that the kids can be mighty proud, no matter what happens from now on. There arent many football trophies in our case but now there is one. PERHAPS THIS group of kids have started something really positive here. Theyve taken advantage of one of the best weightroom facilities in the state and because they have theyre bigger, stronger and faster. In the last three or four minutes of our close games. believe the kids had the mental as well as physical toughness to get the job done. The kids really get after it in 1 there." Hancock loves the job Lund has done and stated it publicly, saying, "Since the season has begun, only one kid has quit on us. only one. Much of the credit for that goes to Coach Lund for his getting the kids involved in the conditioning program. don't think a kid on this didnt feel like he didn't belong because of the way Lund got them involved in weightlifting and conditioning. WEVE BEEN faithfully lifting since Day No. and now that we're into the 1th week of the season including the two weeks of were completely healthy. Weve lost some players at times but have seen them come back through Brents rehabilitation and conditioning program. With Brent taking over that part of the program ive been able to oversee other things. I REALLY believe that weve got something started here." 1 I two-a-day- s, WHAT DOES HARRY GERLACH BEUEVE? INFLATION-TAXATIO- Inflation increases the County Budget yearly. To combat this, the County Commission must guarantee that every Tax Dollar produces efficiency. 1 is. SO THERES one reason why Clearfield got the job done, good ole fashioned character and a willingness to never quit. In the five games Clearfield has won to this point, in three of them they had to come from behind to pull out victories. But my favorite investigative reason w hy Clearfield has been so competitive in the win column this year is something most of us have overlooked. And that's the physical condition this team has been in. HANCOCK gives much or all of the credit to his assistant coach Brent Lund. There has been no question about it, the Clearfield kids have hung tough in some gutty games this year and each time they were a little above their opponents when it came to physical conditioning. THE FALCONS survived two overtime games with victories and hung in tough in every other close game with the best of them. Coach Lund spent his entire and other summer in conditioning measures with his Clearfield kids. Even when the season got started the conditioning program moved ahead with great force. The conditioning program eventually helped players like Brad Weathers and Bruce Browning come back from injuries and play an important part in Clearfield's winning the region crow n. 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