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Show Vf'l V mm mm WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, FEBRUARY V 22, 1979 Davis County Wrestlers Perform TJell At State g " I ifiotiful Braves - Led SALT LAKE CITY by three individual state champions the Davis County high schools fared well in the past state wrestling tour- Din Boys Region Srataing Croran LOGAN Going into the Region One swimming and diving championships for boys, Clearfield High was picked to upend defending champion Bountiful. Things didnt work out like they should have on paper as the Braves won the title with a THESE View-num- the tough get going. tough. DAVIS the race with teammate Evan Fisher right behind him. The been HAD pound class rather easily. struggling through a midseason slump and things Vikings didnt stop here though as Robert Yancy placed tenth. Bountiful placed Henry Eyring at third and Tom Call at seventh to earn their points, while the Falcons saw Walter Jurek take fifth and Kent Palmer eighth. CLEARFIELD took top icnors in the 50 yard freestyle with Jeff Morley taking first and Mitch Drake earning Even in the final he won con the pack and fading near the bottom. Coach Mike Gardner must have reminded the troops about all the tradition that goes with the school in this sport, how a state tournament without the Darts is like the Superbowl Mark Moulton, a fifth at Hit; Gary Percial, a fifth at 167; and a sixth place finish in the 138 pound class from Ed Know It on. WOODS CROSS got points trom Curtis Knight who placed third in the 132 pound class, J elf Lewis, a fifth in the 155 pound class; and Andy Boehme, who placed sixth in the heavyweight. Boehme was m the semifinals bill had to default because of injury. He could very well have placed much higher. In the 4A ranks besides the two titles Clearfield gol a third place finish in the Hi! pound weight wilt Alan Ragan while Bountiful saw Mike Figgins place fifth at 138 and James McKinnon a lourth at 185. Layton placed Kurt Gallegos fifth at 112 and Wayne Mortinson sixth at 132 while Viewmont placed Brian Moore fifth at 119 and James Larkin fourth at 138. OF SEVERAL these athletes will return next year headed by Whitney which will make for a great season. As it was this past season was a great one, topped off by three individual titles for the local schools. By DAVE WIGHAM without Dallas. Whatever happened the Dart players took it upon themselves to get out of the pack and secure themselves a state berth. The topper was the victory last week over a very strong Ogden club when the Darts used their home floor to win and pull themselves above the crowd. WITH THE win, Davis is now a firm fourth place, two games ahead of the rest, two games behind the Tigers and Logan. Davis now has a date this Friday with the Box Elder club, which is one of the clubs two games behind the Darts. Box Elder nipped the Darts in round one on the Davis floor which set us up an interesting Rick Wortley at tenth. BILL HUBER then gave Bountiful their first title with a win in the 100 yard butterfly race while another Brave, Larry Hansen placed third. Clearfield stayed in the title race with a second place finish from Mitch Drake, a fifth from Kent Palmer and a sixth from Curtis Rampton. Jeff Waddoups of Viewmont was seventh. Robert Reeder then continued the Brave title hopes with a win in the 500 yard freestyle race while Larry Hansen picked up a tenth place spot for the Braves. Evan Fisher of Viewmont was second in the race, Mark Chicado of Clearfield sixth and Mike Tepe of Layton By DAVE WIGHAM - BOUNTIFUL Bountiful High basketball players are playing the best ball of the season right now but even at that the Braves need some outside help to get into the state tournament. GOING INTO this week the Braves have four wins and trail two clubs, Sky View and Weber by a single game. Even if the Bountiful club wins their remaining two games, against Layton on any ground. Sky View has Viewmont and Layton on their schedule while the Weber crew has to face an improved Bonneville team and then a mad Clearfield club. Bountiful needs the help from these clubs. Mathematically speaking, the Viewmont club isnt out of the woods yet either. The Vikes have six wins which means a couple of loses and Bountiful could catch them. Championship playing good ball. Davis cant afford to go to Box Elder still thinking about the Ogden win or theyll find themselves in trouble. Box LAYTON The Lancers from Layton are looking for a basketball title from Region One to go along with their football crown. Elder, the club that placed back-strok- competition. Bountiful continued to pile up the points with Matt Eiting (5th) and Todd Adair (6th). Clearfield stayed close to the Braves with Curtis Rampton placing third and Ray Gelhard and Russ Standforth taking ninth and tenth respectively. Viewmont was well represented also with a fourth place spot from Greg Evans and a seventh finish from Robert Yancy. Viewmont's Chuck Fisher then won his second title of the meet with the best time in the 100 yard breaststroke race. Teammate Jeff Waddoups placed ninth for the Vikes. Bountiful got points out of Henry Eyring (2nd) and Tom Call (4th) while Clearfield earned points with Walter Jurek (3rd) and Les Sparks (7th). Jeff Morley then won the crown in the 100 yard freestyle race but Bountiful took third, Mitch Eiting; fourth, Mike Quinn; and fifth, Mike Eiting, to stay with the Falcons. Scott Bly of Clearfield was eighth in the second a year ago in the state, was hit hard by graduation, yet they still have some great horses in their stable. LEADING THE club is 6 4 Mik McCarron who is carry- ing an 18 point scoring average around with him. The height or scoring doesnt stop here either. The Bees also have 6 4 Greg Heaton up front and 65 Robert Ash, a great rebounder. Guard Scott Hill is averaging 13 points a game while his running mate in the backcourt Eric West is pouring in 15 points an outing. Key to the Davis club continues to be the play of their big man Wes Coonradt. As Wes goes so go the Darts, they need him at both ends of the Wes is floor. Scoring-wis- e around the 13 point per game mark, teammate Jeff Emery is leading the Darts with a 14 point average. LAST WEEK in the Ogden win though, the Darts got balanced scoring from Mike Mounteer, Brad Petersen, Coonradt and Emery. The same type of balance will be needed this week in the Bee contest. Davis is getting tougher each week. They want to stay in the position of securing a state berth which means a win over the Bees. - LAYTON put themselves in to capture the league hoop title with a great great shape overtime win last week against rival Clearfield. The win pulled Layton up into a three way tie, with Clearfield and Roy, for the league lead. With two games left in the region action the Lancers are in good shape. Bountiful was the first obstacle to overcome in earning the roundball crown and the Braves are number one on the n list for the Lancers. In the first go round the Braves stunned the Lancers with a five point setback on the Lancer floor. THE BOUNTIFUL-Layto- n game was played Tuesday, which is a day after this article was written and a day after you read it. In any event that game is history. On Friday the Sky View club invades Lancer gym in a battle that is a must win for both clubs. Sky View must win to avoid being caught by the red hot Braves which would mean a playoff to determine the state berth, while Layton must win to stay even or ahead of Roy and Clearget-eve- might have thought the Lancers would have the IN KAYSVILIE Dont Cuss it - Bring It To C&S t "Your Briggs Stratton Headquarters" SALES- - SERVICE CHAIN SAWS TILLERS SNOW BLOWERS SHARPENING SERVICE 7661313 C&S SMALL ENGINE REPAIR NEW LOCATION 645 NORTH MAIN, KAYSVILLE A REPAIRING - MECHAM - DGOtN - 76 good guards who can handle the ball and shoot from the outside. They have a good big man in the middle who can score and then flanking that center is a power forward and a quick forward. Dave Burke, Tracy Chatwin and Willy Ferneau give Coach Doug Moon three guards who offer something special in their own right. Chatwin came through last week in the Clearfield win with a couple of pressure foul shots. FORWARDS Brandon Flint and Matt Stireman give the Layton crew a different look at each position. Flint is a powerful player who likes the physical contact under the boards and usually comes out on the winning end while Stireman is as quick a forward as there is in the state this year. Stireman is especially effective against a man to man defense, with his size, quickness and shooting touch, he is a handful for anyone. ad- games but both Bountiful and Sky View are playing good ball. Last week the Braves knocked over Viewmont while the Bobcats were beating a good Weber team on the Warriors floor. Most coaches around the league are pointing a finger at the Layton crew. They feel that the Lancers have the best team in the region. As one rival coach put it, Well play anyone in the region again except Layton, they are a great team. LAYTON HAS ingredients of a all the cham Braves Lancer a tough on the floor. At this writing the Layton game is a day Royals Layton IN THE middle for the Layton five is center Gordon Anderson who is the main1 plug in the title express this possible. SKY VIEW has a couple of good players in their corner but they lack the overall team talent of the Lancers. Guard Todd Stevens can bring clubs out of zones quicker than you can blink an eye and Lance Lindley is a power under the boards. A Lindley against Flint matchup underneath is something to watch since both like the contact and neither will back away from it. Anderson is the key to this win. If he stays out of foul trouble, he could be the sore spot in the Bobcats side. SKY VIEW needs the win to stay ahead of the Bountiful bunch, but Layton has a region title riding on the PETE FRITCHIE baseballers Bountiful owned them, led by 18 rebounds from senior Mike Nelson who is playing great basketball at this time. Not only did he go to the boards hard but he poured in 14 points, a season high for him. Blaine Benard suffered through an off night for him. He missed more than twice, yet the other players picked up the scoring slack. Jim Perkins was on the end of fast breaks to end with 16, Nelson had 14, Benard was at 14, Scott Stewart finished with 13 junior Clark Mabey added 12 to give the Bountiful club balanced has become an absurdly exclusive club. The latest selection, by the media, in which Willie Mays was the only player added, is another of many in- dictments of the present eligibility rules. SLAUGHTER, like Duke Snider, should have been an overwhelming choice. Year after year he missed. (Had he been a member of a minority group perhaps his chances would have been better-becau- se otherwise ugly accusations could have been made.) The continuing spectacle of only one player, or two, being voted into the Hall by the media cries for action to scoring. Sophomores Dan Bell and Alan Meldrum also got in the scoring parade as the Braves let their youngsters play in the closing minutes. IN THE first meeting with the Roy club, the Braves beat themselves. Roy starts three small guards and time after time in the first meeting the big people from Bountiful would pull down the rebounds only to see these three steal it from them for the easy bucket. Jon Nickerson hit a career high 21 for Roy against the Braves last time out. Roy has a good inside puck with Mark Sindle and their leader is guard Fred Fernandes who is at the top of the league in scoring. BOUNTIFUL HAS been playing strong the past few weeks, no one is surprised to see them win anymore. They want a state berth and will fight down to the last minute to get one. Also theyll keep a finger crossed for some outside help. I IN THE state tournament though the seeds are drawn up by region finishers. Before the event gets underway each region knows which winners will get the top seed in the state meet. An example of this was in the heavyweight division where Henry Williams of East was a participant. Henry lost only one match the entire year, a loss which placed him third in the region meet. Even so had this state meet been another tournament, Henry would have been the top seed, but not at state. AS A result of this method a lot of finals were between third and fifth place finishers. The true top seeds met early in the event. The state people should get together and decide which wrestlers should get the top seeds. They say it takes too long. Why take the time, its only the biggest event in these wrestlers lives. ANDY BOEHME of Woods Cross gets this years hard luck award as the likeable senior won his first two matches in the tough heavyweight division, but then had to withdraw from the event with an injury. Andy had been wrestling extremely well the past few weeks, taking second in the tough region event and then gaining the semifinals in the state meet. HAD HE been healthy no one won the title or not. He certainly knows if he could have worked hard enough and deserved at least the shot at the title. Helicopter Service Costs County $8,800 - Davis FARMINGTON County has been billed for $8,800 for services rendered by a private helicopter service during a chase of two armed men who were wanted for theft, kidnapping and attempted criminal homicide. SHERIFF BRANT Johnson informed Comm. Ernest Eberhard, who represents the commission over the Sheriffs Department, that the money to pay the bill is not included 2501 E. Gentile, Layton qual- ifications being voted in? Thats better than leaving out deserving piayers-- as today. is done ENOS Slaughter, not a spring chicken at the time, executed one of the great baseball plays in modern-da- y 1946 World Series with aggressive, exciting base ng from first to home plate on a single. That doesnt qualify him for Hall of Fame membership. His record does. Had he lived in New York, closer to media exposure, he would not likely running-goi- have again been overlooked-his last year oi eligibility. in ed in the Dec. 23 shooting spree. A second suspect later stole a pickup and is believed to have fled the state. He is still at large. DURING THE shooting spree, the helicopter, owned by Hosking Exploration Helicopters Service of Woods Cross, was shot down when a bullet fired from one of the fugitives passed through the helicopters fuel tank, grb 1 Restaurant (at the Golf Course). I Open Evenings Tues. thru Sat. for Dinner Salad Bar Sandwiches Steaks I Bring the whole family and save. when he won the key game of the in the departments budget. One person was apprehend- Come Dine with Us Valley Viera so more great players can be inducted. After all, whats the great harm in a player or two with change the rules The Hall of Fame for Major League GOING INTO the Viewmont game each team knew the outcome would rest heavily on who controlled the boards. game. Exclusive Club? By away yet. When you read it, its a day old. mainly from the foul line and season. Anderson is a smooth shooting center who has the ability to either shoot from the fifteen foot range or drive to the hole. At both ends of the floor, Anderson is probably the best center in the league. The bench is thin by their coaches own admission yet the Lancers play smart defense and keep their big people around for as long as . field. AT THE start of the second round in league action one Keep in mind the beat Layton on the floor and then played game against Roy This past weekend the top wrestlers in the state converged on the University of Utah campus to decide just who was the best in the and ranks. SEVERAL THINGS stood out in this reporters mind. First of all the state tournament is the only tournament in the state that doesn't have a true seeding meeting. Every tournament has a seeding meeting, a place where each coach goes in and brags up his wrestlers in order to get them a great seed. This way the top two men arent supposed to meet until the finals. 3-- n COACH MIKE Hall summed up his feelings when he noted, It would be a shame for these kids not to go to the tournament now .because they are playing such good ball. Indeed the Braves have come on strong to beat Clearfield and Viewmont in their past two games. On The Line Fop pionship team. They have By DAVE WIGHAM vantage in these last two LAWN KOWER REPAIRING cross-tow- 82-6- 2. Tuesday and then Roy on Friday, someone has to beat either the Bobcats or the Warriors for Bountiful to gain BOX ELDER is coming off an embarrasing loss to Woods Cross last week, a fete that many clubs in Region Four have in common. Prior to that outing the Bees had been The Bountiful Braves won an important victory last rivals on their home weekend, defeating their Photo by Lesa Stahle. floor, BRAVES WIN rematch. seventh. HUBER THEN came back to win his second crown with e a win in the 100 yard LAWN MOWERS - SHARPENING lost out in the end. Whitney, only a junior, established himself as the best in the state for next year. DAVIS PLACED higher as a team than the other local school taking fifth spot in the 3A race. The Darts were led by a couple of third places trom Kevin Crtddle at 185 and in the Warden Jon heavyweight. These two lost only one match in the tournament. Other Dart placers were Max Howard, a fifth at 112; of placed Mike Eiting third, Mike Quinn fourth and Todd Adair seventh. Viewmonts Greg Evans placed tenth in the race. In the diving competition, Clearfields Jeff Ruth took second while Teammate David Allred placed sixth. Bountiful also saw two men earn points with Mark Giatras at fifth and ) op- ponent from Uintah 17-Jason was a strong contender for outstanding wrestler but werent looking bright for the club at all. Several weeks ago the Darts were in the middle second. Bountiful wasnt far behind though as the Braves race. If you believe in that saying then you have to agree that the Davis basketball team is finish in Ludin the finals to beat Howell of Weber for the title. It was sweet revenge for John who had lost his bid to win the region crown the week before, Howell had won the region title. Luddington indicated he would give up the region crown in favor of his state title. Jason Whitney established himself as the first Wildcat to win a state wrestling title and he did it in great fashion. Jason won ail four of his matches in the tough 185 KAYSV1LLE A wise person, probably some high school coach, once said, "When the going gets tough individual medley. Chuck Fisher won CLEARFIELDS ponent from Skyline. dington then came on By DAVE WIGHAM Viewmont then stole the having his 14-- LUDDINGTON of Bountiful had to win his title the hard way going into overtime in the semifinals against Ins op- Winning event. o the match opponent on his back several times. To Keep On BOUNTIFUL GOT good points from the 200 yard freestyle race with Robert Reeder taking second, Mitch Kiting third and Matt Kiting a fifth place. Clearfield got points from an eighth place finish from Scott Bly. Mike lepe of Layton also placed well finishing ninth in the one-tw- and Davis Looks and Lavton. show with a the 200 yard Martinez was also named the Outstanding Wrestler in the 4A tournament en route to his title in the 155 pound classification. The finals in Ins weight was billed as a great matchup with another Martinez, this one from Cottonwood, his opponent. Like the other three mutches in the tournament though Herman had little trouble in winning i fifth, followed by Roy past weights. divers now go on to compete this week in the state-wid- e competition to be held this weekend at the University of Utah pool. tor second place with Sky taking fourth, RACERS this of HERMAN Martinez Clearfield, John Luddington of Bountiful and Jason Whitney of Woods Cross all earned state titles in their respective placed fifth. Bountiful placed second to the Falcons in the medley with Viewmont fourth and Lavton sixth. ONLY LAST week the Falcons had beaten Bountiful in a dual meet but the Braves rode the wave of three individual titles and a win in the relay to win the crown. Bonneville edged Clearfield held weekend at the University of Utah. Ireestyle race and Clearfield taking top honors in the medley race. Clearfield managed a fourth in the Ireestyle while Viewmont team total of 296 points. View nament The relay events were split between the two local schools with Bountiful winning the By DAVE WIGHAM vincingly beating his By DAVE WIGHAM I This Coupon worth 10 Discount on All Dinners PHONE FOR INFORMATION 766-064- 1 V & RESERVATIONS I J |