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Show I WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, NORTH DAVIS LEADER, FEBRUARY 18, 1981 Darkhorse Hats Off To All By couldnt ask for much KEITH DUNCAN situations." Coach Craig Hansen, who leads Clearfield's prep basketball team said recently the dvhorse is getting "lighter." Wrestlers! COOK PUMPED in 18 points last Friday evening in Clearfield's 6-- 1 s all shouldnt over again for another year but we let the season slip aw ay w ithout expressing some thoughts towards the wrestlers of the area. makes such a successful brew w rest-ler- began attending Clearfield High. He prefers to forget the past problems he endured at Layton and seems set on the optimistic future. Fred's father, William T, Cook, brought his family to Utah four years ago from the state of Kansas. The U.S. Air Force, of which Mr. Cook is a member, also had a lot to do with the move. followed the present Region One leaders. And many are more confused than when they began their quest. Hansens team isn't loaded with giants like Bingham has, neither is the team stalked with raw talent like East is. THE SIMPLE answ ers seem to be characteristic of what past Clearfield teams have answered by. It's pride in their defense, discipline, foul shooting and more defense. One follower of Region One basketball who runs up and down the court Friday nights in a white and black striped shirt, phrased the Clearfield situation better than anyone. ling isn't that big aiound these parts, although, it is getting better, and the crow ds just aren't that big. So these guys do it for the love of the sport, or more importantly for self satisfaction. The glory just isn't there, the girls at school like the football or basketball heroes more than these guys. But when it comes to earning respect these are right at the top of the heap. ? MANY HAVE tried to define the pattern of success that has ALL THIS for the right to meet some guy their ow n size from another school in front of maybe a couple oflriends but mainly in front of their families. Wrest- s "Its a discipline-minde- d coach put together with five or so better than average ball players, not superstars. HOW MANY athletes would pass up all those goodies around Christmas time? How many would go throughout the holidays to three hour workouts? For some the rewards were earned last week in the form of placing high in the state meet. Five local athletes won individual state crowns. At tops though there was about 20 local wrestlers that placed in the state meet. HANSENS REPLY to the comment he had five better than average players came when he said, "Matter of a fact, there is a whole bench full of Hansen says spectators and sports writers identified just about everything possible why his team brought down Bonneville a second time this season. "All they forgot to mention was the ability of our bench which has been a big strength to us this season. WHAT ABOUT all those others? There are 12 people on a varsity wrestling team and 12 more on the junior team, and they work just as hard. That makes 24 grapplers from each of the six county schools, or a grand total of 144 wrestlers. Twenty of them placed in state, so what; did the other 124 get out of participating in the sport that isnt that well supported by his own classmates? WEEK IN AND week out, Clearfield tallies up the final score only to find four or five of its players in double figures. The leading scorer never seems to make it twice in a row. Of the six region victories Clearfield has swept, at least three and many times four players have managed to get in the double figure column in scoring. THEY GET out of it self respect, for knowing they have the self discipline over their own bodies. They have the advantage of going one on one with another individual and testing himself. They get self satisfaction of knowing they gave it their best shot. Satisfaction of knowing they looked hard work right in the face and took it on square. DEDICATION IS a word that coaches throw around every locker room, but in the case of the wrestlers they are the tops in this department. They have to watch what they do and eat every day. More than anything though they earn respect from others. I tip my hat to all you wrestlers that are better people for your efforts this past season. No matter what your won-los- s record may be for the year, believe me, you are a better person for dedicating yourself to the sport. HANSEN WENT right down the roster in praise of each of his starters and those that pop off the bench to refresh . But he seemed to spend an extra minute in praise of his guard, Freddie Cook. "Fred has played extremely well for us in recent games," We just said Hansen. Local Wrestlers (Place By DAVE WIGHAM A total of ten from local high schools placed high in the state 3A meet held last weekend on the campus of Weber State College. The best team showing was a seventh place finish by Bountiful with the View-moteam right behind them in eighth spot. OGDEN wrestlers BOUNTIFUL AND View-moboth saw three of their wrestlers place in the top six while Davis and Woods Cross each placed two. Two local wrestlers made it into the finals on Saturday night only to fall a little short of the title. Rob Eggett of Bountiful was in the champions hep in the 185 pound class and big Keith Holgreen of Woods Cross made it into the heavyweight finals. ROB, ONLY ajunior, is one of the best grapplers around. He had a great season which included several tournament championships along with a region title. In the finals he ran into a senior from Mountain View that was undefeated all season. Rob will be back next year and will be the odds on favorite to win the title. Inligjlh) Chris Hansen of Viewmont came back from an arm injury and got into the semifinals before loosing a match. Chris dropped a one pointer to the Box Elder guy, a wrestler he had beaten this year already. He showed his poise though as he came back to totally dominate his next two opponents to claim third place in the 101 division. Chris is a junior and will be back. ANOTHER Viewmont junior, Tod Larkin, did about the same as Chris. He lost in the semifinals and then came back strong in the consolation bracket to claim third place in the 167 pound class. Todd will also return next season for the Vikes. A third Viking, senior Kevin Ball, came through the consolation bracket and dropped a one point decision in a dose match to Box Elder to earn fourth place in the 119 pound weight. Kevin finished up a great career at Viewmont w hich saw him place two years in a row at the state meet. CHRIS MERRILL of Bountiful came back in the consolation bracket to earn third spot in the 132 pound class. In the KEITH WAS fun to watch beagainst those bigger guys cause he used his head as well as his muscle. In the finals the Springville wrestler came year. tournament against bigger men. In the semifinals he beat the number one seed an undefeated man from Tooele, and along the way knocked off sev eral others that were supposed to beat him. , away with the title but Keith came away with the respect of everyone present. 1 1 FOl R YEARS in one place is the longest that we've ever been in one place," commented Freddie. And after last weekend at Weber State College, Fred agrees that his stay in Utah may be a little longer. That all came about last Saturday when the Weber State College football staff r offered Fred a full football scholarship to play with the big purple and white. four-yea- FRED SEEMS a little excited about the offer. If he decides to play in Ogden, he'll be the first in a while to play football at Weber from Clearfield. But before Fred gets too excited about football, his entire soul and mind seemed pinned of thoughts about this weeks Clearfield-Layto- n basketball clash in Clearfield. ITS ABOUT time that we beat them." said Fred. "Since I came to Clearfield, 1 just havent been able to beat them in a team sport. This may be my last chance." Fred appears to be a favorite among students on the Clearfield campus. As the battle wore down to the final minutes last Friday night. Fred was fouled and had a chance to put the game out of reach if he sank a couple of free throws. Weber-Clearfiel- d THE STUDENT cheering section went wild with chants of Freddie, Freddie, Fred"With all that die, Freddie. chanting, I knew there was only one thing to do, said Fred, "that was to make them free throws." Both free throws popped in and another victory was iced. FRED MIGHT stand at if you stretched and or doesn't weigh anything like a Herchel W'alker, but they don't call him "Fast Fred for nothing. His speed and jumping ability are awesome. Track coach, John Flint, has 6-- 1 By KEITH The Warriors battled back to within three points, after Kelly Johnson muscled one in and was fouled then scored on a jumper and topped off with a Mark Combe fast break DUNCAN 50-4- After most of the panorama of winning their sixth league game in seven tries had died down, Clearfield's Craig Hane sen wrapped up team talk with an apologv. post-gam- AOU KNOW guys. talking to his team, "A lot of people out there take me as a pretty quiet spoken coach, but think all of you know me different," said Hansen as a few chuckles followed. "1 guess in games like this I can get little extra excited and you may find me getting after a few ofyou. Maybe it's because know so well we ought to win these kind of games. We have no business losing. In a lough game that's up for grabs, might be calmer than in a game like tonight." 1 1 CONOLLY S TEAM could have pulled to within a point after Clearfield threw the ball away on a full court press put on by Weber But Pratt saved the day bv stealing the ball from Webei's Johnson the next time down. But with less than three minutes to go. Weber's Beus and Johnson finallv put together and brought the Warriors to within two with 45 remain- - the biggest surprise 6-- 1 THE FIRST half of play was nip and tuck all the way with neither team being able to hold any kind of wide maigin in the scoring column. The Falcons went up just before the first half ended as Dewey Pratt scored two then stole the ball on a full court press and fed fast Freddie Cook for a layup. Cookwas fouled but he missed the free throw. 30-2- CLEARFIFLD enjoyed their widest margin as the third period came to a close, it was Clearfield 46 and Weber 38. Entering the fourth and final quarter is a warning signal for those with heart pioblems, please get up and leave less you get too excited and pass out. At least that's been the case in several of the Falcon's past contests. WEBER BEGAN away at the Falcon from the start of the ter with Wade Beus first bucket of the period. whittling lead right final quar- hitting the eight-minut- e SO FOR THE seventh time since Coach Hansen took over as the head mentor at Clearfield High, Clearfield will be ing. A moment later, Johnson tipped one in that tied the score l. at MIKE JOHNSON put Clearfield back in front with a lay in but it didn't last long as Kelly Johnson muscled another one and was fouled His charity stnpe toss was good and Weber led for the first time since the game's beginning. With only seconds remaining in the contest, Pratt was fouled and went to the line for Clearfield He sank both ends of the one and one and gave Clearfield the lead back. IT W AS ALL in Weber's hands as the final seconds tick- - trying to defeat Lav ton in basketball There probably isn't two people that would like to see victory more than Cook and Coach Hansen himself ed away. Weber missed their chance and fouled Cook shortly after Cook also sank both ot his free throws to give the Falcons their final margin of victory Weber's Brian Coleman had the final shot foi Weber but missed fiom 22 feet out Cook rebounded the ball and sped down the sidelines to let the time tick out. IN OTHFR region action. Bonneville blisted ay ton 88-7to stay just one game awav from the Falcons, they are now Roy also staved close to w ith Clearfield, also another convincing victoiy over Sky View , 76-- 6 Region Four Features Basketball Tournament 1 THE FALCONS, probably in prep basketball this yeai, turned back Weber High last Friday evening to up their Region One record to and still maintain sole possession of first place. The win ovei Dick Conolly and the Warriors was Clearfields second in three tries this year. Weber was the one who finally ousted Clearfield from the Davis County Tournament but two Falcon victories during the regular season have been the big counters. listen to him. B fourth place club from Region DAVE WIGHAM Five. K AYS YILLF Davis now finds themselves in a dogfight for the championship of Region Four. The Darts put themselves in this predicament by getting upset by Bear River last week. IN ANY event the standings for the league find Ogden and Box Elder at the top with 6 2 records followed by Davis at Ben L omand has a and maik. Bear River is then Logan is at The big thing to remembei in this league is that only the first and sixth place finishers of their future. The league has adopted a post season tournament format to determine the seedings lor the state tournament. 4-- 4 6 ORIGINALLY it was setup this way. The first place team would automatically go to state as the top club. 1 he sixth place team would be eliminated. Then the second, third, fourth and fifth place teams would meet for a two day tournament next Tuesday and Wednesday. Second place would play fifth, third would play fourth. 1 he winners would meet the following night to determine which clubs went as second and third. Ihe losers of the first day would meet the second with the winner of that game getting fourth place and a state playoff berth with the HOW EYF.R, THEY found out last week that there could very well be a tie for either first or fifth place. In the case of the first place tie they would play-ot- l and the loser would enter the tournament as second place. Figure this out then. Following that format it's very possible for a team to play three games in four days for the right to play in the state event. Take any team, lets say Davis, for argument sake lets say they place third in the league. They enter the region tournament, loose the first night and then win the second night to claim fourth place. Those games took place on Tuesday and Wednesday. Then on Friday they would meet Region Five number lour IF THE Darts were to beat the fourth place team from the other region they would then open play in the state tournament on Monday to meet a team that has been sitting around waiting for all of this to take place. The best thing to do then would be to place first and avoid the region event. Davis can do just that since they take on the two clubs, Box Elder and Ogden, that are ahead of them. DAVIS HAS been awaiting this rematch, this Tuesday, with Box Elder for a couple of weeks. They want the same revenge for that earlier loss in which the Box Elder club pulled away for a relatively easy win. I hen on Friday they travel north to battle Ogden on the Tigers floor. The idles will he reversed in this outing since Davis won the first meeting between the two. Ogden has some fine talent in Greg Dockery, Rich Ayers, and Dave Hoggan while the Darts counter with Brian Taylor, Bient Hatch, Llyn Lloyd, Lance Hill, Dave Bock and Brad Caldwell. IN THE first meeting the Darts held Dockery scoreless in the second half to key the win. They used a vanety of defenses all of which seemed to work against the Ogden centei while tempting their guards and forwards to shoot outside. Ogden gives Davis a tough battle always, and this vear they have the dominant height factor over the smaller Darts. Rebounding is always a kev in any basketball game but this time it really does play a big factor in the Darts chances of winning. Bock and Caldwell will have to battle to get the boards to keep the game close and to give the Davis crew any shot at the win. THESE TWO games are important in the seeding aspect A sweep would give them the region title and they would avoid the region playoff tou- rnament. Something they would love to have happen. Dim 3--A finals for third place Chris knocked off a good wrestler from Box Elder, the same wrestler that had beaten him earlier in the tournament. It was just a case of Chris wanthe working the win more and ed hard to get it. This closed out a great career for Chris. Junior Chris Badger also had a great tournament for Bountiful as he fought his way through to claim fifth place in the tough 167 pound class. Chris is getting better with each match and should be ranked extremely high next Keith fought the odds all triumph COOK LEFT Layton High after his second term there and What's the mixture that THESE ARE the guys that have sacrificed so much for the past three months or so. They are the ones that never eat in the lunchroom, they are always weighing themselves somewhere to make sure they'll make weight. The workouts they go through would put any athlete to the supreme test. They have to run, hit the weights and beat up on each other every day in practice. 62-5- 9 sixth in the jump. He was also 200 meter race. "1 owe most of what have attained in athletes to my He knows dad. said Fred. and athletics bit about a quite capitalized on Fred's jumping ability in the spring by exhibiting him in track and field LAST SPRING Fred took fourth in the region in the 100 meter and second in the long over Weber, their second win over the Warriors this season. Cook himself tned to define his teams success by adding. "We got five guys that could lead in scoring on any one night and most of the time w ere all in double figures. THE FALCONS, who were selected as the darkhorse candidate before the season ever began, now stand out in front of the pack with a region mark. Everyone seems a little amazed, all except the Clearfield team itself. By DAVE WIGHAM It in game 9 9 66 RICHARD HATCH of Woods Cross should earn some sort of aw ard for his third place finish in the 138 pound class. In his final three matches he came from behind in the final five seconds to win each match by a single point. His poor coach put more grey hairs in this week than ever before. Richard should be congratulated though for never giving up in any match. Junior Robert Steed of Davis placed third in the 185 pound class for the second straight year. Last year as a sophomore Robert lost in the semifinals and came back to win third place. It was almost a duplicate effort this year as he lost in an early round but fought his way through the consolation bracket to claim third with a win over the Cedar wrestler. CARY BLOOD gave Davis their second state finisher as he fought against the odds to claim fourth place in the heaveyweight class. Cary was the smallest of the unlimited guys but he fought back in each match to advance to the consolation area. These wrestlers and all others that participated for their various schools should be congratulated on their efforts this past year. Helpful Hints Don't beat egg whites in minum. Eggs darken 6 alu- alu- minum. Use leftover wallpaper to decorate accessories in the same room. True Words Marriages may be made in heaven, but the maintenance work has to be done on earth. The Grit The Gold Diggers, Gold Dusters and Gold Ds Drill Teams from the Felt School of Dance in Kaysville, recently performed for a crowd at Disneyland, in California. The girLs on the teams range in age from and are directed by Reta Felt with Susan Neal as assistant. Manx of the families accompanied the girLs on the trip. The teams perforn ed first at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas for the annual UNLV tournament then proceeded to California to the Rose Parade Disneyland, Knoxberry Farm and many other sites including tlv ocean. The drill teams were formed in 1977. Since that time performed at many of the colleges, universities and high school in Utah, have traveled to Idaho to perform at the Intermountain High School Drill Competition, marched in many parades, performed on Hotel Balderdash and for a televised Utah Jazz halftime. They recently performed at a halftime for the University of Utah Other pertorm antes are being planned in the future. DELIGHT DISNEYLAND CROWDS . the---hav- |